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[00:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Reduces JPEG File Size by 35% - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:26] <exec> 08└─Compare a PNG and a JPG that have both been compressed to the same size ... the PNG will be essentially garbage.
[00:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Google Reduces JPEG File Size by 35% - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:27] <exec> 08└─For the love of FSM, why is JPEG compression still a thing in this millennium?
[00:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Reduces JPEG File Size by 35% - 1633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:29] <exec> 08└─Because size still matters? JPEG is better for one reason only as far as I know and that reason is File Size. It's all about the size. A small file size and still producing an okay result. A compressed PNG is still going to be many times larger then a compressed JPEG. Unless you use some really wonk...
[00:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oral Fecal Pill Could Treat Clostridium Difficile - 828 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:41] <exec> 08└─Does it really matter? It's not like you are going to lick shit (literally) as it is now - I'm sure they'll have one of them gel-capsules around it so the fecal goodness doesn't enter your system until it reaches the stomach and beyond/below. Suppository should or could be an option, it just might n...
[00:15:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Tango Means You'll Never Get Lost in a Store Again - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:22] <exec> 08└─The (dystopian) future is now, it seems: https://youtu.be [youtu.be]
[00:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03caffeine [249] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:46] <exec> 08└─Perhaps you should reread my original post. Was excited to see discussions of engineering and scientific solutions to climate change.
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[01:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Failed Fertility Therapy Linked to Slightly Increased Risk of Cardiac Disease - 708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:05] <exec> 08└─Correlation is not causation. The alternative hypothesis is that certain women with medical risk factors that could lead to a higher likelihood of cardiovascular disease also respond less well to fertility treatment. The quote is telling: "These findings are consistent with the hypothesis that ferti...
[01:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Google Reduces JPEG File Size by 35% - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:27] <exec> 08└─He's saying that a 50KB JPEG will look a hell of a lot better than a 50KB PNG of the same image, in general. (Say, a 480p original image with 16-bit or higher color depth.) Try a little experiment for yourself and see!
[01:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Reduces JPEG File Size by 35% - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:28] <exec> 08└─What baffles me even more is the obsession with using compressed JPEGs in an era of data bloat and excess. In just about every other electronic situation, we see data bloating more and more. From the size of basic desktop applications to the fact that more and more people have entire archives of aud...
[01:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Reduces JPEG File Size by 35% - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:30] <exec> 08└─In an era where most people are streaming HQ video all the time
[01:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03ese002 [5306] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oral Fecal Pill Could Treat Clostridium Difficile - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:43] <exec> 08└─Does it really matter? It's not like you are going to lick shit (literally) as it is now - I'm sure they'll have one of them gel-capsules around it so the fecal goodness doesn't enter your system until it reaches the stomach and beyond/below.
[01:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oral Fecal Pill Could Treat Clostridium Difficile - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:44] <exec> 08└─Or, eat shit and don't die!
[01:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oral Fecal Pill Could Treat Clostridium Difficile - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:46] <exec> 08└─It intrigues, disgusts, and amuses me in equal proportions whenever it comes up. / Here's hoping my doc never prescribes one of these for me // then again, if it helps me lose weight, I could prolly do 1 pill /// maybe 2, but I'd have to lose a lotta weight
[01:15:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Closure of Moscow's Library of Ukrainian Literature - 852 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:44] <exec> 08└─Stalin Ate My Homework and Thatcher Stole My Trousers I missed those. There are rumors about the title of his next book. Apparently, all self-censored. [google.com] Alexander Nevsky. A fine piece of Soviet propaganda, apparently Wikipedia says that by at least 1 count, that's a top 100 flick. Consid...
[01:15:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Closure of Moscow's Library of Ukrainian Literature - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:45] <exec> 08└─soon europe will be surrounded by a huge crack of peace ...
[01:16:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Gives a Thumbs-Down to its Old Star Rating System - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:16:12] <exec> 08└─It doesn't mention that the two events are related (e.g. a "something must be done" situation), just that she happened to gripe about alt-right trolls sabotaging the ratings. I don't care either way about Schumer, but there's so many unfounded assumptions of this type on both sides of the political...
[01:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score: 2) 02 - 0617_02 Latest Bug Fixes: UPDATED - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:46] <exec> 08└─paulej72: My mistake thinking TMB was responsible for the icons. The new ones are looking quite good. Both on the red bar and in the gray page background. Not as "crisp" as what I was imagining but these heavy outlines may actually be better, especially for smaller screens. Well done. I'll now test...
[01:20:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:50] <exec> 08└─is this for real? people who buy the high end new stuff do not know how to troubleshoot it? And so the instructions are "use a pcie USB3 card" or ps2 connectors? The rest is for integrated graphics that few actual geeks would use since even discrete video costs $25 for something usually better? i gu...
[01:20:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 2345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:51] <exec> 08└─Gnome 3.x, and to a lesser extent KDE 4.x (and 5.x, though that's FINALLY usable...) have badly damaged the "brand," not to mention the corrosive drain-bamage that is Unity. I don't know what the hell happened, but I remember a few years after starting Linux in 2004, suddenly things that worked were...
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[02:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Kills Windows Vista On April 11: No Security Patches, No Hot Fixes, No Support, Nada - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:28] <exec> 08└─”Windows ME is difficult to beat on that front”? Well, we may have a winner with Windows 10, though. We just had a vague idea before that Windows was really owned by its master in Redmond and served our purposes only at their sufferance, but Windows 10 was when they finally pulled out all the st...
[02:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Kills Windows Vista On April 11: No Security Patches, No Hot Fixes, No Support, Nada - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:30] <exec> 08└─For both people still running Windows Vista!
[02:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06Microsoft Kills Windows Vista On April 11: No Security Patches, No Hot Fixes, No Support, Nada - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:32] <exec> 08└─And nothing of value was lost.
[02:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Kills Windows Vista On April 11: No Security Patches, No Hot Fixes, No Support, Nada - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:34] <exec> 08└─Windows 7 is a Windows Vista point release. (NT 6.1 IIRC, Vista was 6.0). All of the bad things with respect to DRM are still in Windows 7. What happened was that vendors had time to debug their drivers, even accounting for the Protected Media Path.
[02:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Kills Windows Vista On April 11: No Security Patches, No Hot Fixes, No Support, Nada - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:36] <exec> 08└─I went from Win98 to Linux, then Linux to Win 8, Win 8.1, Win10. Why? Games. Linux sux if you like games.
[02:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Kills Windows Vista On April 11: No Security Patches, No Hot Fixes, No Support, Nada - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:38] <exec> 08└─I still have a soft spot for Windows Vista. It's the release that pushed me to be a full-time Linux user. I think the final push was catching their desktop search utility sending anything that looked like a URL back to Microsoft.
[02:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Kills Windows Vista On April 11: No Security Patches, No Hot Fixes, No Support, Nada - 654 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:40] <exec> 08└─Great care was taken to keep backwards compatibility in Windows 7 (compared to Vista), and the number 6.1 was chosen because of apps doing version checks, and not to scare developers away. Actually a lot of the core was heavily refactored in Windows 7, tasks scheduled to fire off at the same time to...
[02:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Kills Windows Vista On April 11: No Security Patches, No Hot Fixes, No Support, Nada - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:43] <exec> 08└─Well, there was the GWX thing chewing up bandwidth and doing an install behind your back. There's the privacy thing as well. ...but once it's installed has anyone had large -breakage- problems with Redmond's latest? -That- was the thing about LoseME. Numerous times at the other site, Hairyfeet descr...
[02:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Reduces JPEG File Size by 35% - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:15] <exec> 08└─As much as I dislike Google for their privacy invasive products, they do great stuff sometimes. Make jpeg better, and open source it. That's great. Also their webP,webM, vp9, etc. Good things. Still don't like their products though.. So they do some evil, but give back a bit too.
[02:15:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oral Fecal Pill Could Treat Clostridium Difficile - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:32] <exec> 08└─The burps, however...
[02:15:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oral Fecal Pill Could Treat Clostridium Difficile - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:33] <exec> 08└─Yay! [ageofshitlords.com]
[02:15:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oral Fecal Pill Could Treat Clostridium Difficile - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:35] <exec> 08└─why can't they just make a suppository?
[02:16:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Closure of Moscow's Library of Ukrainian Literature - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:35] <exec> 08└─I really don't think you can repair the popular definition of socialism, by posting on SN...
[02:18:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 0617_02 Latest Bug Fixes: UPDATED - 765 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:37] <exec> 08└─I've had quite a few times now where I got partway through a page of comments, then either decided to reply to something or quickly check a link someone posted, then came back only to find the text all of the comments I hadn't gotten to yet have been marked "read" and thus dimmed to gray. When there...
[02:18:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0617_02 Latest Bug Fixes: UPDATED - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:38] <exec> 08└─I'm assuming this bug was named: Redirect returns to correct article.pl page after moderating. It's fixed now, Thanks!!
[02:18:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Transparent Ceramics Make Super-Hard Windows - 1098 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:56] <exec> 08└─In reviewing the week, CounterPunch editor Jeffrey St. Clair noted [counterpunch.org] The most edifying takeaway from Trump’s big interview with Tucker Carlson on FoxNews this week concerned his reading habits, which weigh-in at about half-a-Palin. Of course, he’d read a little more, if he didn...
[02:20:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Facebook, Fake News and Friends Are Warping Your Memory - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:02] <exec> 08└─Karma can be rephrased as "don't piss in you own pool". (Not that I am Buddhist myself) You do have an effect on those around you. If you believe in reincarnation, there is a good chance you will eventually experience both the good and bad vibes you put out (behaviour seems to be at least somewhat c...
[02:21:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:52] <exec> 08└─I kinda of miss running Debian Potato on a VLB 486. Sure it took some configuring, but stuff didn't break on you either.
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[03:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Kills Windows Vista On April 11: No Security Patches, No Hot Fixes, No Support, Nada - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:20] <exec> 08└─About 10 years too late, to be precise.
[03:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Kills Windows Vista On April 11: No Security Patches, No Hot Fixes, No Support, Nada - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:21] <exec> 08└─I guess that is true if you want crappy "Triple A" games. But sometimes those don't work on Windows either. Me, I have more games on Linux than I can possibly ever finish. I now have the same problems as most Windows users WRT games: I installed the Linux native "Aliens: insurrection", but my ancien...
[03:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Failed Fertility Therapy Linked to Slightly Increased Risk of Cardiac Disease - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:30] <exec> 08└─Seems to me that desperate wannabe mothers who still can't conceive or carry to term might suffer depression perhaps leading to overeating. That seems far more likely than fertility therapy having any long term effect.
[03:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Google Reduces JPEG File Size by 35% - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:56] <exec> 08└─Few people or organizations are pure evil.
[03:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Reduces JPEG File Size by 35% - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:58] <exec> 08└─For the love of FSM, why is JPEG compression still a thing in this millennium?
[03:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Reduces JPEG File Size by 35% - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:00] <exec> 08└─Not all websites are serving HD videos. Compression is not done for the client, it is done for the server. A compressed file of 50% decrease in size can mean total number of users going up by 200%.
[03:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Reduces JPEG File Size by 35% - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:02] <exec> 08└─why are we still compressing lossy JPEGs on a standard basis?
[03:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Reduces JPEG File Size by 35% - 910 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:04] <exec> 08└─We don't all have endless bandwidth, at home I connect at 26.4 kb/s and I'm not that far out of town. Data is also very expensive here in Canada, actually makes the States look cheap. On my pay as you go account it is a dollar for 20 mbs or about half a dozen web pages based on the average page bein...
[03:15:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oral Fecal Pill Could Treat Clostridium Difficile - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:24] <exec> 08└─It's a bit nutty [youtube.com]? (Someone had to do it.)
[03:15:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oral Fecal Pill Could Treat Clostridium Difficile - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:25] <exec> 08└─Suboptimal reference - no IT. Consider the relevant BOFH episode [theregister.co.uk]
[03:16:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Tango Means You'll Never Get Lost in a Store Again - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:09] <exec> 08└─Isn't it easier to just click a couple times at amazon and not have to drive to the store and wait in line and argue with the cashier about extended warranties etc?
[03:16:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Tango Means You'll Never Get Lost in a Store Again - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:10] <exec> 08└─And Google gets to know your shopping list.
[03:16:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Tango Means You'll Never Get Lost in a Store Again - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:12] <exec> 08└─When will we domesticate this technology (and technology companies) and make them work for us instead of for someone else.
[03:16:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Tango Means You'll Never Get Lost in a Store Again - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:14] <exec> 08└─I kind of like the social interaction....
[03:16:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Closure of Moscow's Library of Ukrainian Literature - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:34] <exec> 08└─It appears that for you propaganda == popular. I'll bet that you also believe that USA is "a force for good" rather than an an imperialist aggressor. (USAians are now seeing first-hand what an empire in decline looks like.) -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[03:16:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Closure of Moscow's Library of Ukrainian Literature - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:35] <exec> 08└─that collectivization was forced and unwanted by the farm workers
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[04:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03ben_white [5531] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Lyft Pays $27M to Settle Driver Classification Suit - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:18] <exec> 08└─With lower operating costs and venture funding, they are able to offer transportation at a price that's often below what taxi companies can afford to charge.
[04:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lyft Pays $27M to Settle Driver Classification Suit - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:20] <exec> 08└─US District Judge Vince Chhabria gave final approval on [March 16] to a $27 million settlement
[04:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Kills Windows Vista On April 11: No Security Patches, No Hot Fixes, No Support, Nada - 1568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:38] <exec> 08└─Vista wasn't bad after the second Service Pack. I first tried it in early 2006 and it made my laptop slow to a crawl. Completely unusable, even for simple tasks like file copies. By 2010, Vista had improved to be a somewhat decent Operating System, at least as stable as Windows 7. I used Vista until...
[04:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Microsoft Kills Windows Vista On April 11: No Security Patches, No Hot Fixes, No Support, Nada - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:39] <exec> 08└─Really? Most people seem to really like it, it's actually usable, fast and stable. I've heard a handful of neckbeards rant about privacy occasionally.
[04:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Google Reduces JPEG File Size by 35% - 1009 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:18] <exec> 08└─Maybe it's for Google's benefit? How many times have you downloaded the internet? =) But seriously, Google indexes the web, provides an image search, and also provides e-mail (with attachments)... and I'm sure there is more that I am forgetting. Every byte they can persuade YOU to compress out of...
[04:15:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Reduces JPEG File Size by 35% - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:20] <exec> 08└─Yes, I get all that, which is why I specifically said in my post that good (and lossy, if necessary) compression should exist FOR SPECIFIC APPLICATIONS, like web optimization. The question I asked, yet again (and which I think the OP was concerned with) is why lossy JPEG is still default for a lot o...
[04:15:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Reduces JPEG File Size by 35% - 1541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:22] <exec> 08└─Choice is good. No argument there. At no point am I advocating that lossy JPEG should be abolished completely. But its ubiquity as default, particularly in use for camera devices, is weird these days. And actually, regarding phone as camera, I have a close friend who is actually a kinda artsy photog...
[04:16:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Tango Means You'll Never Get Lost in a Store Again - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:16:31] <exec> 08└─You deserve Google. They make products exactly for people like you...
[04:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:01] <exec> 08└─And they have no driver issues, no upgrade treadmill, and no bullshit like systemd which Linux has in spades again making Linux absolutely pointless on the desktop. BTW if you are gonna claim Android, a proprietary OS owned by Google [arstechnica.com] then you might as well claim all those other pro...
[04:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:03] <exec> 08└─You are the one complaining about the Linux desktop. If you were worried about the four freedoms [gnu.org], you should have specified GNU/Linux. Or, given your specific complaint, Systemd/Linux (not sure how much of the GNU userland systemd tries to replace).
[04:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 2242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:05] <exec> 08└─The answer to why Linux turned to dogshit is actually really simple...Red Hat. You trace the guys that have shit all over Linux, from the guys that pushed SystemD onto Debian to the UX guys that crapped all over Gnome and KDE to old Larry Potter himself? It ALL comes back to Red Hat. And the reason...
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[05:14:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alleged Epilepsy-Triggering Troll Arrested by the FBI - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:00] <exec> 08└─If sending flashing images to people who knowingly have epilepsy is a crime, then why isn't every spammer who uses those annoying strobe ads doing life in jail? They spam everybody, knowing that a certain percentage of the population has that condition.
[05:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alleged Epilepsy-Triggering Troll Arrested by the FBI - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:01] <exec> 08└─Because they spam everybody. They may be careless, but they do not mean to harm anyone - dead customer is of no use to them. However this guy was specifically targeting a vulnerable person with intent to cause his death. Intent is everything in criminal court.
[05:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Kills Windows Vista On April 11: No Security Patches, No Hot Fixes, No Support, Nada - 910 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:28] <exec> 08└─As Microsoft releases go, win 7 was actually a pretty good OS. Probably the last decent OS they've made. (Again, with the caveat that we are talking only about windows here). Some would go so far as to say that Window 7 is the best OS Microsoft has ever delivered. Its relatively light weight, wit wi...
[05:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Microsoft Kills Windows Vista On April 11: No Security Patches, No Hot Fixes, No Support, Nada - 702 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:29] <exec> 08└─I'm not a gamer, so maybe I'm way off here. It sounds like 1) you are stuck on a tiny number of games. or 2) you haven't really investigated what is actually available. (Roy Schestowitz's daily news digest at TechRights.org invariable has new Linux-compatible gaming items.) This place has had a b...
[05:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Reduces JPEG File Size by 35% - 1786 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:11] <exec> 08└─Easy: filesize. Disk is cheap and getting cheaper all the time, but it's neither free nor infinite, and PNG compression gets awful rates with photos with the quality difference not mattering to most people. JPEGs are fairly small, and that matters a bunch to more than 90% of people taking pictures w...
[05:19:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Technology Reveals 16th Century Edinburgh - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:09] <exec> 08└─You will have more choices than just app. From the actual article: "The reconstruction will be available on a number of digital platforms (including a mobile app, a 3-D virtual experience, and more traditional web-based resources) from 1 May 2017."
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[06:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alleged Epilepsy-Triggering Troll Arrested by the FBI - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:18] <exec> 08└─Everybody who's ever had a Geocities site should be arrested too then.
[06:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alleged Epilepsy-Triggering Troll Arrested by the FBI - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:20] <exec> 08└─On Friday, Eichenwald said that more than 40 people sent him strobes once they found out that they could trigger seizures Message to all my enemies: I have a deadly disease: I might have a heart attack if I see videos of naked top models making out. Please try to kill me.
[06:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alleged Epilepsy-Triggering Troll Arrested by the FBI - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:22] <exec> 08└─Please try to kill me.
[06:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Alleged Epilepsy-Triggering Troll Arrested by the FBI - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:24] <exec> 08└─This sounds like a real-life Snow Crash. Someone gets a bitmap data file named ‘Snow Crash’, containing a virus that not only affects machines but causes brain damage.
[06:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Alleged Epilepsy-Triggering Troll Arrested by the FBI - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:26] <exec> 08└─BLIT [wikipedia.org]
[06:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alleged Epilepsy-Triggering Troll Arrested by the FBI - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:28] <exec> 08└─I got your "mens rea" right here!
[06:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Lyft Pays $27M to Settle Driver Classification Suit - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:39] <exec> 08└─In most markets Uber is 10-30% more expensive than comparable taxi service.
[06:15:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Kills Windows Vista On April 11: No Security Patches, No Hot Fixes, No Support, Nada - 1089 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:00] <exec> 08└─Technically Windows 10 is much better than Windows 7, and worth upgrading to--at least the Pro or Enterprise versions. Just the security improvements are worthwhile, but it's actually lighter on resources than Windows 7. MS doesn't seem to backport their kernel improvements, so Windows 7 is pretty o...
[06:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Closure of Moscow's Library of Ukrainian Literature - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:14] <exec> 08└─A fine piece of Soviet propaganda, apparently.
[06:20:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Detect the Universe's Earliest Stars by Looking for Blue Supernovae - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:20:46] <exec> 08└─Various estimates of the redshifts for the first stars formed range from 20, 30, or 50 (180 million, 100 million, or 44 million years after the Big Bang respectively, or 36 billion, 38 or 40 billion light years away respectively in comoving distance). At those distances, 465 nm blue light would be r...
[06:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:34] <exec> 08└─Alright, Bison. I don't have enough time to drive to San Diego on this trip. Maybe next time.
[06:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:35] <exec> 08└─Too tired now, i'll look into it later, but quickly looking i don't see any buffalo/bison in their menu.
[06:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chromium_One [4574] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:37] <exec> 08└─Redhat Sux
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[07:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alleged Epilepsy-Triggering Troll Arrested by the FBI - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:29] <exec> 08└─Flashing images in tweets? sounds like the solution is a crappy old "feature phone", preferably with less than 280x480 resolution.. Or just don't use twitter (not sure this is realistic for a journalist)
[07:15:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Reduces JPEG File Size by 35% - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:44] <exec> 08└─For the love of FSM, why is JPEG compression still a thing in this millennium? PNG is more than two decades old now, provides flawless (lossless) compression, and is not patent-encumbered. I'm not aware of any technical reason why JPEG is better, leaving momentum and ignorance as possible explanatio...
[07:16:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oral Fecal Pill Could Treat Clostridium Difficile - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:16:05] <exec> 08└─A tablet could slowly dissolve. Note: do not chew the tablet.
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[08:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Whole-Body Vibration Combats Some Effects of Obesity in Mice - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:21] <exec> 08└─Sick pervs like me are wondering if the marketing for this amazing new vibrator will be targeted at the modern, independent woman on the go. I can see the desk chair model being especially popular.
[08:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Whole-Body Vibration Combats Some Effects of Obesity in Mice - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:23] <exec> 08└─Sounds as a good ad for soylent consuming yuppies [robrhinehart.com] who would hate wasting time in sexual encounters.
[08:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Whole-Body Vibration Combats Some Effects of Obesity in Mice - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:25] <exec> 08└─this amazing new vibrator will be targeted at the modern, independent woman on the go.
[08:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Whole-Body Vibration Combats Some Effects of Obesity in Mice - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:27] <exec> 08└─They don't say it doesn't work on female mice, they just say they tested it on males. Given that it doesn't involve sex-specific parts of the body, I'd expect it to work just as well on female mice. Of course only the experiment can tell for sure, but the probability is pretty high. I also note that...
[08:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Whole-Body Vibration Combats Some Effects of Obesity in Mice - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:29] <exec> 08└─Go, moobies , Go! [youtube.com]
[08:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Whole-Body Vibration Combats Some Effects of Obesity in Mice - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:32] <exec> 08└─The passive exerciser machines [buzzfeed.com] have been around most of a century. [starling-fitness.com] There's a belt that is worked by an eccentric drive. [buzzfeed.com] Apparently, you feel if afterwards. [starling-fitness.com] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[08:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alleged Epilepsy-Triggering Troll Arrested by the FBI - 613 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:47] <exec> 08└─If I walk into most stores, smoking a cigarette, I'm likely to get arrested, despite any lack of intent to harm anyone. The nanny state has decided that it must protect everyone from my smoke, no matter they want it or not. If I'm speeding through a school zone, I can expect to be arrested, despite...
[08:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Alleged Epilepsy-Triggering Troll Arrested by the FBI - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:49] <exec> 08└─f I'm speeding through a school zone, I can expect to be arrested, despite any lack of intent to harm anyone.
[08:15:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zyx Abacab [3701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Kills Windows Vista On April 11: No Security Patches, No Hot Fixes, No Support, Nada - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:21] <exec> 08└─I guess that is true if you want crappy "Triple A" games.
[08:15:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Kills Windows Vista On April 11: No Security Patches, No Hot Fixes, No Support, Nada - 1007 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:23] <exec> 08└─Games are similar to TV series and perhaps music in the sense that they are not really commodities. By this I mean to say that if you are currently obsessed with this one specific game, then any other game simply will not do. We all know how incredibly frustrating it is when that show you like never...
[08:17:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Tango Means You'll Never Get Lost in a Store Again - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:16] <exec> 08└─All I need to find what I need is clear and correct labels on the shelves and a halfway logical ordering of the products in the shop. No privacy invasion required.
[08:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Tango Means You'll Never Get Lost in a Store Again - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:17] <exec> 08└─Bad tango partner, bad! Google is upset you don't want to tango with it!! (grin)
[08:20:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Chrome 57 Restricts Activity of Background Tabs - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:20:29] <exec> 08└─Mozilla could probably save a good bit of money by not renting prime office space in major cities. I noticed their Taibei office right across from Taipei 101, other tenants are big finance outfits.
[08:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 643 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:02] <exec> 08└─I have to point out that most tablets are Linux. Well, Android, but Android uses the Linux kernel. Basically it's open source. Except, what few people realize is, your phone/tablet/whatever running Android generally belongs to the telco or whoever provided it. Unless the device is rooted, the device...
[08:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1 - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:04] <exec> 08└─"We can and will look at anything on your computer or visible on your network for any reason we see fit" It only recently crossed my mind: If there are fully updated Windows machines on my network, how much can Microsoft deduce about my Linux machines? Anything I make visible is shared with Microsof...
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[09:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Whole-Body Vibration Combats Some Effects of Obesity in Mice - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:14] <exec> 08└─I also note that you took it as given that the result translates to male humans,
[09:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Whole-Body Vibration Combats Some Effects of Obesity in Mice - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:15] <exec> 08└─Definitely does not work for modern women [buzzfeed.com]
[09:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Soylentbob [6519] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Whole-Body Vibration Combats Some Effects of Obesity in Mice - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:17] <exec> 08└─Not only pervy, but also an attention deficient mind. TFA titlw: "Whole-body Vibration Mimics the Metabolic Effects of Exercise in Male Leptin Receptor Deficient Mice"
[09:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Whole-Body Vibration Combats Some Effects of Obesity in Mice - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:20] <exec> 08└─Not the old vibration belts again. Here's how the new incarnation looks like [google.com]. The new ones may provide some benefit: * making regular exercises harder [lww.com] * improving muscular strength and bone density for menopausal women [wiley.com] but doesn't (yet) benefit from comprehensive r...
[09:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Whole-Body Vibration Combats Some Effects of Obesity in Mice - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:22] <exec> 08└─Hehe... When I saw this topic, I remembered those old machines. Even to this day, I see technologies using vibrational technology for fat dispersal. And it probably works nearly as well as a good walk. Incidentally, thanks for BLIT on the other forum. That was an interesting foray into some science...
[09:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Whole-Body Vibration Combats Some Effects of Obesity in Mice - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:24] <exec> 08└─BTW: Looking ad the average truck driver, considering that the truck should offer plenty of vibrations, I wonder...
[09:14:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Alleged Epilepsy-Triggering Troll Arrested by the FBI - 20 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:37] <exec> 08└─BLIT [wikipedia.org]
[09:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alleged Epilepsy-Triggering Troll Arrested by the FBI - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:42] <exec> 08└─Runaway has the whole thing bass ackwards yet again! If I put a harmless chemical into a municipal water suppy thinking it is a deadly poison, I should be arrested. If I pull the trigger whilst aiming at another human being with intent to kill, and the gun happens to be unloaded, still attempted mur...
[09:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alleged Epilepsy-Triggering Troll Arrested by the FBI - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:44] <exec> 08└─right, so what's the punchline?
[09:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alleged Epilepsy-Triggering Troll Arrested by the FBI - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:46] <exec> 08└─what probably happened: > troll sends seizure gif > guy receives it, the gif makes for less then 10% of his FOV > guy reads caption where troll openly admits malfeasance > guy eyes are now like $.$ > "honey come here, we hit jackpot" and they all lived happily ever after
[09:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lyft Pays $27M to Settle Driver Classification Suit - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:58] <exec> 08└─The $27M was NOT a fine from a criminal court. CA.gov or USA.gov got none of the money. It was a settlement to a tort. The money went to the 200,000 drivers. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[09:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lyft Pays $27M to Settle Driver Classification Suit - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:15:00] <exec> 08└─Perhaps ben_white is always dialing a ride at peak hours (when the gig economy jacks up its prices). -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[09:16:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Reduces JPEG File Size by 35% - 1906 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:16:07] <exec> 08└─A JPEG quantization table is just an array of 64 bytes. After you've run an 8x8 block of pixels through a Discrete Cosine Transform then you divide each coefficient by the corresponding value in the quantization table. Since you're doing integer math, dividing by a larger number is basically throwin...
[09:16:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Reduces JPEG File Size by 35% - 704 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:16:09] <exec> 08└─1) JPEG is plenty old enough to not be patent-encumbered anymore 2) PNG's compression algorithm is "run it through PKZip." Not terribly innovative or ideal. 3) It's true that camera makers like to brag about pixels, but your allegation that the images are over-compressed is baloney. The fact is, cam...
[09:16:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kawumpa [1187] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Oral Fecal Pill Could Treat Clostridium Difficile - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:16:32] <exec> 08└─Trust me, when you have a proper, antibiotic resistant C.diff infection, you've lost quite a lot of weight already and will gladly do anything, and I really mean anything to make it stop.
[09:16:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stem Cell Therapy for Macular Degeneration: Conflicting Reports - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:16:41] <exec> 08└─tRump
[09:16:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LHCb Observes an Exceptionally Large Group of Particles - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:16:49] <exec> 08└─Does anyone really care about these particles if they are unstable and non-fundamental?
[09:16:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LHCb Observes an Exceptionally Large Group of Particles - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:16:51] <exec> 08└─Fundamentalist particles tend to be even more unstable, especially near airports.
[09:16:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LHCb Observes an Exceptionally Large Group of Particles - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:16:54] <exec> 08└─Im not kidding though, this sounds like "physicists create new matierial that seems likely to be totally useless." Why is this interesting to the public?
[09:17:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Tango Means You'll Never Get Lost in a Store Again - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:30] <exec> 08└─I can't name a single time that a shop assistant ever assisted. At best, they walk to the same shelves as I did, look at the same products as I did, then determine that they "don't have any", as I already did. I honestly just wave them away when they start on their "Can I help you, sir?" bit. Becaus...
[09:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Tango Means You'll Never Get Lost in a Store Again - 996 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:31] <exec> 08└─Have you not used Amazon? Hey, you bought this, what about this? Other people who bought this also bought this? Why not buy these three related things together for a slightly reduced price? You added this to your basket? Others also bought this? And, besides that, Amazon is the most dangerous place...
[09:20:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Transparent Ceramics Make Super-Hard Windows - 1126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:20:13] <exec> 08└─I have no concept of the numbers, so I went looking for things using those kinds of pressures: "The researchers noted that the material underwent a structural transition at 16 gigapascal (GPa)—near the pressure needed to commercially synthesize diamond—followed by a volume collapse at 30 GPa" If...
[09:21:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zyx Abacab [3701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Facebook, Fake News and Friends Are Warping Your Memory - 1076 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:21] <exec> 08└─Buddhism is a complex religion, with an enormous number of schools and branches, some of which have radical departures from mainstream Buddhism—such as Zen Buddhism. I can't accurately speak for such schools, but my knowledge of the Four Noble Truths consists of: Dukkha: pain and dissatisfaction....
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[10:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Whole-Body Vibration Combats Some Effects of Obesity in Mice - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:33] <exec> 08└─Incidentally, thanks for BLIT on the other forum.
[10:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Whole-Body Vibration Combats Some Effects of Obesity in Mice - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:34] <exec> 08└─Sorry, I haven't uploaded any of my stuff yet... I sure ought to, though. I have not developed the presentation technologies needed.
[10:15:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Kills Windows Vista On April 11: No Security Patches, No Hot Fixes, No Support, Nada - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:15:31] <exec> 08└─I think the final push was catching their desktop search utility sending anything that looked like a URL back to Microsoft.
[10:15:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Kills Windows Vista On April 11: No Security Patches, No Hot Fixes, No Support, Nada - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:15:33] <exec> 08└─Yep. At least they fixed it eventually and didn't actively fight disabling it. Their mistake was defaulting it to "on".
[10:16:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Reduces JPEG File Size by 35% - 708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:16:20] <exec> 08└─I just tried it. While I usually create JPEGs with a quality of 75 (the default for cjpeg) for my web pages, guetzli will refuse to create JPEGs with a quality of less than 84, unless you tweak the source, claiming that using a lower quality will introduce artifacts. Thus, while guetzli does produce...
[10:17:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LHCb Observes an Exceptionally Large Group of Particles - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:02] <exec> 08└─I was just out looking for Blue Supernovae, and now this? "Omega-c-zero", Ωc0, and it has quarks, they say. Do you know how much it hurts the head to go from massive cosmic events, although admittedly metal-poor and billions of lightyears away, to really, really, really small transient particles? A...
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[11:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Escape to Another World - 1186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:26] <exec> 08└─First, videogame were so limited that players needed some imagination to make sense of them. This is a ball, this is a paddle. Then the golden age, playability was key in arcade games who had to grab you quickly and let you have fun and not let you stay too much with a quarter. Then tech advanced an...
[11:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Escape to Another World - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:27] <exec> 08└─After 15 years, USA will pay Mexicans immigrants to come. Yea hear me, eth_fuelled, wanna bet you'll be happy to have someone, anyone, even a Mexican jew, to take care of you in that retirement home? Will yea 'ave enough money to pay him?
[11:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Escape to Another World - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:29] <exec> 08└─If I look back on the hours spent memorizing unverified claims, producing data for NHST, and torturing rats for what turned out to be no reason (not to mention the joys of dealing with government bureaucracy every day), it was time spent less productively than if Id been gaming. Of course, neither a...
[11:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Escape to Another World - 2439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:31] <exec> 08└─Never believe the unemployment rates released by the government. Each of the past 3 administrations have manipulated the methods by which those numbers are arrived at. I know that much for sure, and I suspect that preceding administrations have done the same. There is some magic associated with 10%...
[11:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Escape to Another World - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:34] <exec> 08└─End welfare benefits, and we'll have so many people fighting for the job of caring for EF in his retirement home, you won't believe your eyes. The real fight won't be caring for EF though, it will be for jobs picking tomatoes and lettuce. Just end welfare. We don't need workers, we need HUNGRY WORKE...
[11:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Escape to Another World - 2575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:36] <exec> 08└─You're expecting someone called Ethanol_fuelled to live long enough to see retirement? You're deftly daft. There's too many reasons to fully list why men would rather be teen-men than full men. Middle class and above looks down on any sort of manual labor.Women's dating expectations about income and...
[11:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Escape to Another World - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:38] <exec> 08└─Mmmm... improvisation on a given theme. Problem is: if you drive them in agriculture, they'll soon find pitchforks. Perhaps NRA will find a post-abundance opportunity to sell them some semi-autos on loan - they'll have to do something to stay in business. Plus, they do have re-spawning as a reflex -...
[11:15:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alleged Epilepsy-Triggering Troll Arrested by the FBI - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:15:25] <exec> 08└─Poor idiot - Runaway has pointed out that you can be imprisoned for a variety of actions, despite the lack of any intent to harm anyone. That should apply to advertisers who induce seizures.
[11:20:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 0617_02 Latest Bug Fixes: UPDATED - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:20:31] <exec> 08└─I think what we've got slated is to not actually mark any comments "read" until you explicitly hit the button to do so and only dim the title bars of the ones you've read so the text stays as visible as ever. That work?
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[12:14:25] <exec> 08└─"On the Internet, no one knows I'm actually a dog." Now we do.
[12:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Escape to Another World - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:27] <exec> 08└─Add one more to your list: * consumerist marketdroids conditioned the millennials to regard fantasy escapism as not only OK but providing a "geeky" status; not only video-games, but also movies (Transformers trash), sitcoms ("Big Bang theory", I'm including you too) and comicons. A child-like mindse...
[12:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Escape to Another World - 888 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:29] <exec> 08└─Before video games, people whose real life didn't go well spent their time in the alternate realities provided by TV shows, movies, books, (non-digital) role-playing games, watching sports, … In other words, if your real life doesn't go well, you're going to find a substitute. And now video games...
[12:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Escape to Another World - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:31] <exec> 08└─After 15 years, USA will pay Mexicans immigrants to come.
[12:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Escape to Another World - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:33] <exec> 08└─You don't discount any group - you have to count prisoners, military, people who have quit looking for work, adult college students, everyone between 18 and 63 years of age. People permanently removed from the work force due to disability, old age, retirement, senility/dementia need not be counted.
[12:16:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Kills Windows Vista On April 11: No Security Patches, No Hot Fixes, No Support, Nada - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:16:02] <exec> 08└─Linux game coverage sucks compared to the same for Windows, no doubt about it. But that's why I have 2 PS/3's in my house. The gaming fix is easily handled. Linux is awesome, and Windows is terrible, for everything else, though. Linux is especially awesome, and Windows is especially bad, for preserv...
[12:16:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheReaperD [5556] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Kills Windows Vista On April 11: No Security Patches, No Hot Fixes, No Support, Nada - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:16:03] <exec> 08└─You have to install a tool such as Spybot anti-beacon in order to keep the ads out of Windows 10 (running it myself). Otherwise, forget it.
[12:16:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Reduces JPEG File Size by 35% - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:16:50] <exec> 08└─Is there a good reason no-one uses modern image compression algorithms and JavaScript decoders? It's not like it's impossible -- even video decoding can be done in JavaScript. [brionv.com] I imagine sites like Flickr and Imgur could save countless terabytes of bandwidth if they did.
[12:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LHCb Observes an Exceptionally Large Group of Particles - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:34] <exec> 08└─Maybe not interesting for you, but owing to the fact that this is basic research, it is interesting to an educated public. These experiments are probing our fundamental models of physics. The collaborations for these experiments also have very tangible geopolitical impacts. No, they won't directly g...
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[13:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Tool for Optogenetics: Photocleavable Proteins - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:18] <exec> 08└─This is a rather complicated title. 2 words I don't understand, never mind that most people can't even come up with a definition of "proteins". So in reality, we have a title like, New Tool for blarg: foobar stuff Not to distract from the article, but this is rather common in specialized f...
[13:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03EEMac [6423] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Tool for Optogenetics: Photocleavable Proteins - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:20] <exec> 08└─Cue creation of vampires in 5 . . . 4 . . . 3 . . .
[13:14:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Escape to Another World - 2439 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:35] <exec> 08└─Never believe the unemployment rates released by the government. Each of the past 3 administrations have manipulated the methods by which those numbers are arrived at. I know that much for sure, and I suspect that preceding administrations have done the same. There is some magic associated with 10%...
[13:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Escape to Another World - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:46] <exec> 08└─I wish I could rate the submission as well; in the absence of this functionality, a sincere "thank you" to the submitter!
[13:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Escape to Another World - 1071 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:47] <exec> 08└─Well yes, predictable, but unsustainable. I mean, for all someone may live in a virtual world, their mind and body are a physical presence, and will need shelter, sustenance and nutrition, not to mention the cost of hardware and net connection to interface to the virtual world. All this requires phy...
[13:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03J_Darnley [5679] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Escape to Another World - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:49] <exec> 08└─> the open ended world is not policed in any way by anyone external I'm not so sure about that. Politicians and police in the US seem to be policing that game externally.
[13:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Escape to Another World - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:51] <exec> 08└─That is what I have in mind - but the point is, the currently used figure is meaningless. As pointed out, each administration changes the methodology, counting fewer and fewer people in the workforce. Welfare recipients, for example, many of them healthy, working age adults, are not counted. They ar...
[13:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Escape to Another World - 832 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:54] <exec> 08└─I agree with the logic behind shadowstats but over the years he's gone weak and just keeps pushing the official stats plus 4 points. Seriously dude? 4.00000 points into eternity unchanging? For the last decade? For hard real data I like data.bls.gov and =fred.stlouisfed.org. Ignore the political per...
[13:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Escape to Another World - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:56] <exec> 08└─disability
[13:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Escape to Another World - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:58] <exec> 08└─I guess you can have them live of benefits/welfare, but that only works as long as there is enough welfare to support all of them (and their immersion, which isn't cheap. I remember gamers spending large sums on rigs).
[13:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Escape to Another World - 1608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:00] <exec> 08└─Speaking of hungry Mexicans the reason why a quarter of Mexico's population is in the USA is because of NAFTA replacing Mexican corn farmers with Iowa corn farmers. There's literally no jobs in Mexico that aren't corrupt as hell pemex and those are going away because Mexico is pumped out, and weed f...
[13:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Escape to Another World - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:02] <exec> 08└─The USA needs Mexican immigration about as much as Israel needs arab immigration, or as much as China and Japan need immigration. Maybe after they open their borders we should follow suit. Until then I think we should copy the policies of Israel (our greatest ally) and China and Japan.
[13:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Escape to Another World - 1559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:05] <exec> 08└─TFA lists a whole bunch of reasons for video-game escapism. One reason for "pseudo-"escapism its a very dangerous idea for "capitalism as the summit of civilization" - the realization that education, money, employment/jobs, etc. are means not ends.. If a person chooses to ignore the "american dream"...
[13:15:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alleged Epilepsy-Triggering Troll Arrested by the FBI - 668 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:54] <exec> 08└─or even display drivers/codecs/image libraries/players? perhaps some quick alogirithm to checks successive frames in advance before displaying if something is quickly flashing, then posting a warning, before the user agrees to view the content, or just simply disabling the maliscious frames (if it w...
[13:15:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alleged Epilepsy-Triggering Troll Arrested by the FBI - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:56] <exec> 08└─on a similar note, something for audio would also be good. sudden jumps in loudness had always been an unpleasant experience when using youtube with headphones.
[13:16:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Kills Windows Vista On April 11: No Security Patches, No Hot Fixes, No Support, Nada - 3407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:16:37] <exec> 08└─Its even worse in that in public "computer gaming" or "video gaming" is exclusively the "FPS sequel of the month". Absolutely nothing but FPS is gaming and gaming is nothing but FPS. Reality is weirder. I have no problems with dwarf fortress and heavily modified minecraft (playing the latest DW20 FT...
[13:16:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Kills Windows Vista On April 11: No Security Patches, No Hot Fixes, No Support, Nada - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:16:38] <exec> 08└─Only ignorant idiots recommend Windows 10 for anything but may be games. It is the same idiots that buy consoles. No flavor of Windows 10 has a place in a business environment nor should it be used just for surfing the internet. Spyware and adware simply has no place on any device. Nobody should rec...
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[13:16:41] <exec> 08└─Is that the same windows 8 and 10 that cripples DirectX 9 games VRAM usage you are talking about?
[13:18:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Tango Means You'll Never Get Lost in a Store Again - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:51] <exec> 08└─Once you've done a job a few times, you can predict most of these things, but a lot of times you're changing out something you'll only do once or twice during your ownership of that home. This is the reason why most skilled trades folks (plumbers, electricians, etc.) that come by your house have lar...
[13:22:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06How Facebook, Fake News and Friends Are Warping Your Memory - 48 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:18] <exec> 08└─A democracy did the holocaust without this tech.
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[14:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 U.S. Drone Strikes Have Gone Up 332% Since Trump Took Office - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:25] <exec> 08└─Why exactly are attacks by UAVs worth mentioning as opposed to attacks via other means? There's nothing special about using a UAV vs. any other death delivery method.
[14:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Tool for Optogenetics: Photocleavable Proteins - 618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:41] <exec> 08└─The several related headlines and info in the blockquote should give you an idea of what optogenetics is. Light can cause biology stuff to turn on and off. "Photocleavable" can be easily broken down into "photo" (light) and "cleave" (cut). But the first sentence of the summary spells it out: "protei...
[14:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Escape to Another World - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:12] <exec> 08└─Can't hear your logical and sound point over my She lost! Get over it! Trump! Trump! Trump!
[14:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Escape to Another World - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:14] <exec> 08└─"The ONLY honest way to figure unemployment is to divide the number of adults who are actually employed, by the number of healthy, working age adults. Note that you won't get an "unemployment rate" but an "employment rate"." I disagree, that leaves too many loopholes for adjustment. How about : the...
[14:15:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Escape to Another World - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:16] <exec> 08└─The USA needs Mexican immigration about as much as Israel needs arab immigration,
[14:15:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Escape to Another World - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:18] <exec> 08└─American Dream 2.0 came out and flopped. Too many unkillable NPCs taking away all your progress, too much grinding for too little progress, too many glitches and lfor leveling up, the random number generator has much more effect than skill or grinding. It's no wonder players are rage quitting.
[14:16:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alleged Epilepsy-Triggering Troll Arrested by the FBI - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:16:10] <exec> 08└─If sending flashing images to people who knowingly have epilepsy is a crime, then why isn't every spammer who uses those annoying strobe ads doing life in jail?
[14:16:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Kills Windows Vista On April 11: No Security Patches, No Hot Fixes, No Support, Nada - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:16:54] <exec> 08└─Technically Windows 10 is much better than Windows 7, and worth upgrading to
[14:16:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Kills Windows Vista On April 11: No Security Patches, No Hot Fixes, No Support, Nada - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:16:56] <exec> 08└─Agreed. The Tyranny of the Default [pagefair.com] in action.
[14:16:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Kills Windows Vista On April 11: No Security Patches, No Hot Fixes, No Support, Nada - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:16:58] <exec> 08└─However unlike Windows, with Linux you have the option to just use another distribution, without completely changing the OS.
[14:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Reduces JPEG File Size by 35% - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:47] <exec> 08└─They tune the quantization table to the image, instead of using the same quantization table for all images. This is slower.
[14:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Reduces JPEG File Size by 35% - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:48] <exec> 08└─In an era where most people are streaming HQ video all the time,
[14:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Reduces JPEG File Size by 35% - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:50] <exec> 08└─JavaScript decoders? You like maxing out your CPU, don't you? Note that on your phone, video is typically not even decoded by machine code running on the CPU, but on specialized hardware included for just that purpose. Guess why. Not to mention that there are already too many sites which require Jav...
[14:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Tango Means You'll Never Get Lost in a Store Again - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:12] <exec> 08└─large vans full of all sorts of junk
[14:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Tango Means You'll Never Get Lost in a Store Again - 728 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:14] <exec> 08└─Amazon's prices for food are legendarily bad, for that specific example I'd use Peapod which wasn't that bad of a deal a decade ago. If you buy a hungry families week worth of food the extra cost of peapod is about six months of food price inflation, so if you intend to eat food in six months the ad...
[14:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Tango Means You'll Never Get Lost in a Store Again - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:16] <exec> 08└─That's the purpose of grocery store loyalty cards. A decade ago "they" already knew everything you bought. We're in a weird era where privacy is dead and has been dead for a long time and only exists between general public neighbors. You and my next door neighbor are the only group in the world who...
[14:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Tango Means You'll Never Get Lost in a Store Again - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:18] <exec> 08└─That's the purpose of grocery store loyalty cards. A decade ago "they" already knew everything you bought.
[14:19:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Tango Means You'll Never Get Lost in a Store Again - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:20] <exec> 08└─Have you heard of dynamic pricing and "finding your customer's price point"? If I know what that is, I can ride the price I'm offering you as close to the highest number of dollars you'll pay for the item; and then I do the same for another customer. THIS is how this is used against you.
[14:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Tango Means You'll Never Get Lost in a Store Again - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:22] <exec> 08└─Amazon's prices for food are legendarily bad, for that specific example I'd use Peapod which wasn't that bad of a deal a decade ago.
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[15:14:35] <exec> 08└─It's a disproportionate use of force. You can spam as many drone attacks as you want without risking American lives (unless you are killing American citizens with them). That's why the Chair Force is now the Drone Force [reuters.com]. Drones could be equipped with some nonlethal means of subduing ta...
[15:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 U.S. Drone Strikes Have Gone Up 332% Since Trump Took Office - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:36] <exec> 08└─332 or 432? Much confused.
[15:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 U.S. Drone Strikes Have Gone Up 332% Since Trump Took Office - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:38] <exec> 08└─It's a disproportionate use of force.
[15:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 U.S. Drone Strikes Have Gone Up 332% Since Trump Took Office - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:41] <exec> 08└─It may well be a "stock-take sale". The old stock must go, the numbers for "last quarter sales" need to be there to justify the increased budget for the next financial year. (grin - a cynical one)
[15:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06 U.S. Drone Strikes Have Gone Up 332% Since Trump Took Office - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:43] <exec> 08└─Why exactly are attacks by UAVs worth mentioning as opposed to attacks via other means? There's nothing special about using a UAV vs. any other death delivery method.
[15:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 U.S. Drone Strikes Have Gone Up 332% Since Trump Took Office - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:45] <exec> 08└─It's a disproportionate use of force. You can spam as many drone attacks as you want without risking American lives
[15:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 U.S. Drone Strikes Have Gone Up 332% Since Trump Took Office - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:47] <exec> 08└─It's the usual air power-only problem.
[15:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 U.S. Drone Strikes Have Gone Up 332% Since Trump Took Office - 626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:49] <exec> 08└─http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1382011/Bin-Ladens-great-escape-How-worlds-wanted-man-fools-elite-troops-whod-trapped-mountain-lair.html [dailymail.co.uk] After he had escaped, Bin Laden crowed about how the U.S. had let him go. ‘The Americans exhausted all efforts to blow up and annihilat...
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[15:14:51] <exec> 08└─Exactly. So why single out UAVs?
[15:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 U.S. Drone Strikes Have Gone Up 332% Since Trump Took Office - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:54] <exec> 08└─Without ground-side intelligence, what exactly is the US hitting? It's the usual air power-only problem. There's not much point to what you can destroy, if you don't know what you are hitting.
[15:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 U.S. Drone Strikes Have Gone Up 332% Since Trump Took Office - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:56] <exec> 08└─I think he prefers general carpet bombing and leveling the city as a whole. It is more fair to people because they all have an equal shot of getting it. With drones, the civilians who hang around high value targets have unfair odds.
[15:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chemists Are First in Line for Quantum Computing’s Benefits - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:04] <exec> 08└─Nah, the first use of quantum computers ought to be to really bring clean coal to market.
[15:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chemists Are First in Line for Quantum Computing’s Benefits - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:06] <exec> 08└─Richard Feynman [berkeley.edu] is generally recognised as one of the first people to conceptualise a quantum computer. From a talk he gave back in 1982: And I’m not happy with all the analyses that go with just the classical theory, because nature isn’t classical, dammit, and if you want to make...
[15:15:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] 02 - 06Escape to Another World - 2575 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:29] <exec> 08└─You're expecting someone called Ethanol_fuelled to live long enough to see retirement? You're deftly daft. There's too many reasons to fully list why men would rather be teen-men than full men. Middle class and above looks down on any sort of manual labor.Women's dating expectations about income and...
[15:15:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Escape to Another World - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:52] <exec> 08└─How will you impulse buy if your money ain't there? :)
[15:15:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Escape to Another World - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:53] <exec> 08└─How will you impulse buy if your money ain't there? :)
[15:15:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Escape to Another World - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:55] <exec> 08└─Marry little girls.
[15:15:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03rondon [5167] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Escape to Another World - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:57] <exec> 08└─I read your title, but I have a question - if this was a check yourself in/out at will type of facility, would it be a bad thing? I'm leaning towards yes, but I'd love to hear arguments for both sides. Again, nothing is mandatory, and the facility is free to those who would like to check in. I guess...
[15:15:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Escape to Another World - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:59] <exec> 08└─I think we should copy the policies of Israel (our greatest ally)
[15:16:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Escape to Another World - 746 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:02] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure what you're saying here. People who are disabled, either short term, or long term, are not eligible for unemployment benefits. There are a number of other benefits which any individual may or may not be eligible for, but he is most certainly not eligible for unemployment benefits. Not i...
[15:16:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Escape to Another World - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:04] <exec> 08└─Speaking of hungry Mexicans the reason why a quarter of Mexico's population is in the USA is because of NAFTA replacing Mexican corn farmers with Iowa corn farmers.
[15:16:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alleged Epilepsy-Triggering Troll Arrested by the FBI - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:57] <exec> 08└─Jackpot of what? A basement-dwelling twitter troll isn't all that likely to be flush with cash and real estate...
[15:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Failed Fertility Therapy Linked to Slightly Increased Risk of Cardiac Disease - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:53] <exec> 08└─It's also consistent with a psychological/lifestyle based hypothesis: "Women who wanted children but could not have them are more prone to make lifestyle choices which lead to significant cardiovascular disease." http://tylervigen.com [tylervigen.com]
[15:20:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain_nifty [4252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Tango Means You'll Never Get Lost in a Store Again - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:05] <exec> 08└─The stores want you to travel to all the different sections of the store, that way you are more likely to find something that you will buy that you had not intended to get. To get around this the store just needs to periodically restock/rearrange the store layout, how often can Google economically s...
[15:20:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Tango Means You'll Never Get Lost in a Store Again - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:06] <exec> 08└─I'll admit, finding a particular item at someplace like Lowes or Home Depot can be a pain. But I've noticed that both stores have aisle and bin numbers on their website for specific items, and clearly marked aisle and bin numbers. I used this just last week to find a specific item I was looking for....
[15:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Transparent Ceramics Make Super-Hard Windows - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:56] <exec> 08└─the say at the end of the article they can currently make a window a maxim size of 5 mm ... so not usefull for actual house/car/plain windows atm
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[16:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:28] <exec> 08└─Now I'm curious...
[16:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:30] <exec> 08└─Saved for NCommander to post a story So, is this the -1'st post, then?
[16:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 U.S. Drone Strikes Have Gone Up 332% Since Trump Took Office - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:57] <exec> 08└─The article says 432%. The URL for the article says 432. You get 432 by dividing 5.4 by 1.25. The editor seems to have taken it upon himself to say (5.4 - 1.25)/1.25 = 332% and is insisting that "increase of" is pedantically correct; then he went and changed the article submission title. I think tha...
[16:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 U.S. Drone Strikes Have Gone Up 332% Since Trump Took Office - 683 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:59] <exec> 08└─There is no such thing a "disproportionate force". Any Marine can tell you, "A fair fight is a fight you come home from." Meet force with overwhelming force. Anything else is just chickenshit. If you have a thousand troops, and I show up with ten thousand troops, I offer you a chance to surrender. T...
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[16:15:01] <exec> 08└─"Exactly. So why single out UAVs?" At least an air crew puts their asses on the line. Whether the craft has one, or ten men aboard, the crew takes some risk, however minimal that risk might be. UAV's are pretty chicken.
[16:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 U.S. Drone Strikes Have Gone Up 332% Since Trump Took Office - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:03] <exec> 08└─I'm neither proud nor ashamed of them. They're just a weapon. They're no more cowardly than wearing body armor or using artillery though. Using them where they can keep a human from being killed is just common sense.
[16:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 U.S. Drone Strikes Have Gone Up 332% Since Trump Took Office - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:05] <exec> 08└─I guess so are body armor, night vision, artillery, missiles, and anything else that isn't an absolutely equal fight then...
[16:15:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 U.S. Drone Strikes Have Gone Up 332% Since Trump Took Office - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:07] <exec> 08└─Don't complain when they bite back at you! Or do you think that eventualy won't?
[16:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 U.S. Drone Strikes Have Gone Up 332% Since Trump Took Office - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:09] <exec> 08└─Please... That's any weapon ever.
[16:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06 U.S. Drone Strikes Have Gone Up 332% Since Trump Took Office - 995 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:12] <exec> 08└─It's early days yet in the Trump administration - I'm as interested as anyone in seeing what direction he will take. However, precisely because it is early days, it is too early to see any changes in policy - these may well be underway, but they will not yet have trickled down to daily operations. I...
[16:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjwt [2826] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 U.S. Drone Strikes Have Gone Up 332% Since Trump Took Office - 711 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:14] <exec> 08└─Wow, Im sure I could find a few days here or there that Obama's strike rate is much higher and Trumps is much lower.. First off, is this Trump acting on advice, or just his own off the cuff call.. What is the comparison rate of "Request for a strike" VS "approval" What has prompted such an increase,...
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[16:15:16] <exec> 08└─Not MacArthur, dammit. I meant SecDef McNamara.
[16:15:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 U.S. Drone Strikes Have Gone Up 332% Since Trump Took Office - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:18] <exec> 08└─> Exactly. So why single out UAVs? What is exactly is your point? You seem to be implying that this increase is not worth reporting because of something that was left out of the reporting. So what exactly should have been reported?
[16:15:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 U.S. Drone Strikes Have Gone Up 332% Since Trump Took Office - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:20] <exec> 08└─Men in armor die, men with goggles die, artillery men die. Missiles - ehhh. No drone operator is going to die as a result of enemy action. And, BTW, I didn't call for a "fair fight". There is no such thing as a "fair fight". The fight you win is "fair".
[16:15:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 U.S. Drone Strikes Have Gone Up 332% Since Trump Took Office - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:22] <exec> 08└─Because UAVs defeat the the whole point of modern warfare being your poor people killing and getting killed by their poor people. Why, UAVs are almost as bad as terrorists targeting rich stock brokers in their ivory towered work places.
[16:15:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03BananaPhone [2488] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 U.S. Drone Strikes Have Gone Up 332% Since Trump Took Office - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:25] <exec> 08└─We let Obama get away with playing with drones. Now, Trump can take that to the next level. This is what someone called "Turn-Key Tyranny"
[16:15:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 U.S. Drone Strikes Have Gone Up 332% Since Trump Took Office - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:27] <exec> 08└─Agreed. Or if they all stayed in a couple of buildings: you know, towers or such. Two towers, looking much the same, like...oh... yeah! Twin towers. You could planes into those twin looking towers, and if you kill a few civilians, well.... what is the problem. FUCK!!! It doesn't matter if innocents...
[16:15:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 U.S. Drone Strikes Have Gone Up 332% Since Trump Took Office - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:29] <exec> 08└─First off, is this Trump acting on advice, or just his own off the cuff call..
[16:16:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02 - 06Escape to Another World - 294 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:22] <exec> 08└─American Dream 2.0 came out and flopped. Too many unkillable NPCs taking away all your progress, too much grinding for too little progress, too many glitches and lfor leveling up, the random number generator has much more effect than skill or grinding. It's no wonder players are rage quitting.
[16:16:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Escape to Another World - 1277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:31] <exec> 08└─Complicated, with no real gain. For purposes of determining how many people are employed, we don't care how much they make, or how many hours they work, or much of anything else. Those things help to determine economic health, and worker's relative wealth, but those things are pretty much irrelevant...
[16:16:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Escape to Another World - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:33] <exec> 08└─Mary a little lamb had.
[16:16:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03i286NiNJA [2768] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Escape to Another World - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:35] <exec> 08└─Look at your soft feelings get hurt when someone compares you to hitler. You elected trump you dumb fuck I can call you whatever I want, the age of PC niceness is over and you're a fucking fascist. But not even a cool hardass fascist with hugo boss jackboots you're a pepe humping incel with a hipste...
[16:17:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Whole-Body Vibration Combats Some Effects of Obesity in Mice - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:02] <exec> 08└─Definitely does not work for modern women
[16:18:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Kills Windows Vista On April 11: No Security Patches, No Hot Fixes, No Support, Nada - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:17] <exec> 08└─NT version numbers mean nothing these days. Windows 10 claimed to be version "6.4" for most of the beta then became "10.0" right before release.
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[17:14:39] <exec> 08└─Saved for a future insightful comment.
[17:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:40] <exec> 08└─Modded insightful for said insightful comment.
[17:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 654 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:42] <exec> 08└─On March 20th 2017 a small website used primarily by people with glasses was the recipient of yet another example of what we are calling "The POTUS Effect". All over leaders small and large are emulating the latest US president by using their position of power for personal gain. We are getting repor...
[17:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:44] <exec> 08└─Saved for future comment with witty retort.
[17:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:47] <exec> 08└─Saved for AC "worthless" comment.
[17:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:49] <exec> 08└─Saved for future obvious rebuttal comment.
[17:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:51] <exec> 08└─It's a story about the power of marketing teasers.
[17:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:53] <exec> 08└─It is real [youtube.com].
[17:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:55] <exec> 08└─Hehe, no humorous sarcasm goes unpunished!
[17:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:57] <exec> 08└─Jenny, is that you?
[17:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:00] <exec> 08└─So, is this the -1'st post, then?
[17:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:02] <exec> 08└─But is it just the same old story?
[17:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:04] <exec> 08└─Can still collect valuable karma: Shouldda used Lorem Ipsum https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[17:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:06] <exec> 08└─This is the shortest NCommander story ever!
[17:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:08] <exec> 08└─It's the same old song and dance.
[17:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spreadtrum Smartphone SoC Uses 8 Intel Airmont Cores - 1938 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:17] <exec> 08└─If x86 couldn't succeed in phones with Intel's marketing and incentives behind it, how do you think it will fare without that support? X86 only has a distinct advantage when you need compatibility with existing x86 binaries or assembly code. How many people want to run Skype, or Windows apps with wi...
[17:15:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03https [5248] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 U.S. Drone Strikes Have Gone Up 332% Since Trump Took Office - 606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:55] <exec> 08└─In the last couple of months President Bannon has made it very clear what direction this is going. Inflame hostility against Muslims, dismantle all government programs that aid poor people (making enlisting seem a rational choice), start a war with a predominantly Muslim country by dint of a false-f...
[17:15:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 U.S. Drone Strikes Have Gone Up 332% Since Trump Took Office - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:56] <exec> 08└─Just as well the USA didn't elect a warmongering fascist. Think how bad things could have been. We had a lucky escape there!
[17:15:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 U.S. Drone Strikes Have Gone Up 332% Since Trump Took Office - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:58] <exec> 08└─And how exactly are you supposed to go after the terrorists? Massive ground campaign like was done before? Ignore them and hope they don't spread like they've shown they did? So if these drone strikes are so evil, and they get stopped, then what? Compare the unfortunate civilian deaths from drone st...
[17:15:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06 U.S. Drone Strikes Have Gone Up 332% Since Trump Took Office - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:00] <exec> 08└─Agreed. Or if they all stayed in a couple of buildings: you know, towers or such [blah blah blah]
[17:16:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03StarryEyed [2888] (Score: 1) 02 - 06 U.S. Drone Strikes Have Gone Up 332% Since Trump Took Office - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:03] <exec> 08└─What's scary is this is like the "Enemy of the State" film, except the guy in charge of all that technology is the crazy crook who runs a restaurant.
[17:16:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 U.S. Drone Strikes Have Gone Up 332% Since Trump Took Office - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:05] <exec> 08└─That's not an answer to the question. Feel free to try again.
[17:16:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 U.S. Drone Strikes Have Gone Up 332% Since Trump Took Office - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:07] <exec> 08└─Then you seem to be begging your own question. Personally if I'm guessing where you're coming from, I think I agree with you. Maybe. TMB seems to be getting to the crux of the question. I'll have to review the arc of Gundam Wing where mobile dolls [wikia.com] were important. I think what Gundam Wing...
[17:16:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 U.S. Drone Strikes Have Gone Up 332% Since Trump Took Office - 969 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:09] <exec> 08└─I mostly voted to avoid a corrupt felon and to resist a future with my grandchildren under rapefugee-induced sharia. I thought Trump wouldn't be much into drone strikes. It turns out he's good at that too! Sweet. He really is the best president. Obama may have gotten a peace prize, but he didn't des...
[17:16:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 U.S. Drone Strikes Have Gone Up 332% Since Trump Took Office - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:11] <exec> 08└─I'm outright stating that it is not worth reporting specifically any more than the number of rounds fired by soldiers is worth reporting. It's irrelevant trivia. It was only reported because "drone" is a scary word.
[17:16:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 U.S. Drone Strikes Have Gone Up 332% Since Trump Took Office - 717 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:13] <exec> 08└─The difference here is that we don't desire to annex land or otherwise work with the population. It wouldn't be possible even with boots on the ground. We just need them dead, so air war is fine. I guess in theory you could subdue them, but you'd have to run the place like North Korea or worse. You'...
[17:17:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Escape to Another World - 1048 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:17] <exec> 08└─Why is it Democrats and certain others are waxing hysterical about Trump's wall when they have said nada about Israel's mega-wall for the last decade? They are an order of magnitude more awful to people who want to cross their borders than America is. If what Trump wants to do is facism, then what d...
[17:17:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Escape to Another World - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:18] <exec> 08└─Me, I think both Israel and Trump are wrong on these matters. Building walls on borders is ineffective and contrary to freedom and democracy and the open societies those require.
[17:17:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Escape to Another World - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:20] <exec> 08└─In an ideal world we'd turn Mexico and Canada into states.
[17:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Escape to Another World - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:22] <exec> 08└─Welcome to the TV age, cOlo.
[17:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Escape to Another World - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:25] <exec> 08└─I guess the idea is that disability benefits are the long term unemployment benefits.
[17:17:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Escape to Another World - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:27] <exec> 08└─Perhaps we could reduce the level of narco violence down the mere level of Baltimore or Chicago. That would be a considerable improvement. Its also an interesting political hack on illegals not having to either kick them out or amnesty them, merely take their country. As for taking the Canadians tha...
[17:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Whole-Body Vibration Combats Some Effects of Obesity in Mice - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:56] <exec> 08└─The point of the new ones is that there isn't a cumbersome belt, so they can be used by two people together. Dedicated fixtures providing similar effects have to be put back in the closet. This is a fitness tool which just happens to be in one's bedroom for convenience.
[17:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alleged Epilepsy-Triggering Troll Arrested by the FBI - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:25] <exec> 08└─And here we have an excellent example of exactly why we need those laws.
[17:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alleged Epilepsy-Triggering Troll Arrested by the FBI - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:26] <exec> 08└─You don't get money from criminal proceedings.
[17:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alleged Epilepsy-Triggering Troll Arrested by the FBI - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:28] <exec> 08└─Poor idiot - Runaway
[17:18:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alleged Epilepsy-Triggering Troll Arrested by the FBI - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:31] <exec> 08└─thass racissss
[17:18:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alleged Epilepsy-Triggering Troll Arrested by the FBI - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:33] <exec> 08└─Look at the hypocrites trying to defend this guy. These are the same people who scream censorship when Reddit doesn't want white supremacists on their site. Actually trying to kill someone for an opinion you disagree with is perfectly fine though. WTF!!
[17:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Tango Means You'll Never Get Lost in a Store Again - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:46] <exec> 08└─Oh, how little ye understands about "Big Data". It's no effort at all to make that match.
[17:21:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Tango Means You'll Never Get Lost in a Store Again - 804 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:47] <exec> 08└─Having worked as one of those people, I can tell you lots of people needed help. Sometimes it was only in finding products, but other times it was more, "how do I use this" and so forth. When it was more advanced than that, I was just step 1, and directed people where to get good information (becaus...
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[18:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Review Finds That Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pills Would be Safe for Teens - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:30] <exec> 08└─And there I thought that blowing that 18th candle changed women's bodies completely... That's what my parole officers tell me.
[18:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Review Finds That Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pills Would be Safe for Teens - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:31] <exec> 08└─If you think that birth control pills would be beneficial to YOU, then YOU pay for it. Get it, yet?
[18:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Review Finds That Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pills Would be Safe for Teens - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:33] <exec> 08└─I have a 14 year old daughter. As far as I can tell she's not interested in boys much, but, like probably all fathers, I am dreading the day she is. Even so, I'd much rather she be open with me and tell me she needs birth control than sneak around having sex without it. Seems like there's no reason...
[18:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Review Finds That Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pills Would be Safe for Teens - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:35] <exec> 08└─Purchases made without a prescription would almost certainly not be covered by any insurance anyway. Over-the-counter availability is likely to mean fewer people paying for others' birth control, not more.
[18:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Review Finds That Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pills Would be Safe for Teens - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:38] <exec> 08└─Get it, yet?
[18:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Review Finds That Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pills Would be Safe for Teens - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:40] <exec> 08└─OK, if the ED pill whose name I cannot write because of the spam filter gets the same treatment. And comes only by prescription after a prostate exam.
[18:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Review Finds That Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pills Would be Safe for Teens - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:42] <exec> 08└─YOU are the fucking parent, you FAGGOT. YOU buy her birth control, and YOU start the conversation about sex yourself. Goddamnit. "I dread the day she likes boys." FUCK YOU. You don't deserve to be a parent.
[18:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Review Finds That Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pills Would be Safe for Teens - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:44] <exec> 08└─There's a third option in there which over-the-counter availability would open up: her sneaking around having sex with it. Which is still better than the likely alternative, especially considering the finding of "no evidence linking the use of oral contraceptives to increased or riskier sex". And to...
[18:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Review Finds That Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pills Would be Safe for Teens - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:46] <exec> 08└─And if you're overweight, you pay for your bypass. And if you're a smoker, you pay for all your diseases. And if you like sports, you pay for your injuries. And if you're an angry selfish idiot who doesn't understand civilization and insurance markets, you pay for your ticket to the jungle, desert i...
[18:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Review Finds That Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pills Would be Safe for Teens - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:49] <exec> 08└─I...guess I don't?
[18:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Review Finds That Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pills Would be Safe for Teens - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:51] <exec> 08└─That's the whole point of insurance: Risk management. I'm not your SLAVE. If you keep trying to get someone to suck your dick against his will, don't be surprised when he lashes out. Get it, yet?
[18:15:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fishscene [4361] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:17] <exec> 08└─It needs more content and probably shouldn't have been posted before being filled out. Editors (if we have any), please resolve!
[18:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:18] <exec> 08└─Hi Curious, any reason you felt the need to tell us twice?
[18:15:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:20] <exec> 08└─Saved for NCommander to post a story
[18:15:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:23] <exec> 08└─Saved for long winded explanation of how editors do their job and why parent is wrong.
[18:15:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:25] <exec> 08└─Burma Shave
[18:15:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:27] <exec> 08└─Saved for the sharped tounge, ad hominem, strawman rebuttal.
[18:15:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:29] <exec> 08└─Just doing my part to make this the most highly-commented article of the week!
[18:15:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:31] <exec> 08└─Xenix 386 is still rebooting About 5 words depending how you count it. Its an interesting series. If I was taking bets I'd bet he thought he'd get eth0 up and running and make a triumphant post to SN from inside Xenix, but here we are, xenix-less once again. Or perhaps he took the red pill and found...
[18:15:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:33] <exec> 08└─He's gonna need a separate post ... Nothing could live up to this hype, now.
[18:15:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:36] <exec> 08└─This post and resulting score should be archived for later reference by mankind. Also is it topical if we talk about the non-topical post posted by the topicer-in-chief.
[18:15:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:38] <exec> 08└─Now, sir, you better deliver! The people demand a story! Make it a good one too!
[18:15:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:40] <exec> 08└─Hemmingway... short story in only 6 words... NCommaner 7.
[18:15:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:42] <exec> 08└─you better deliver...The people demand a story
[18:15:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:44] <exec> 08└─Its a haiku post, I kew it all along.
[18:15:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:46] <exec> 08└─I saw it when it had been running for a half hour already, and went to undisplay it, but then decided the comments were so good we'd just let it go... Hopefully we don't make a habit of it, but it was kind of fun this one time.
[18:16:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] 02 - 06 U.S. Drone Strikes Have Gone Up 332% Since Trump Took Office - 192 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:13] <exec> 08└─Without ground-side intelligence, what exactly is the US hitting? It's the usual air power-only problem. There's not much point to what you can destroy, if you don't know what you are hitting.
[18:16:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 U.S. Drone Strikes Have Gone Up 332% Since Trump Took Office - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:42] <exec> 08└─> If that means use of wildly disproportionate force, then so be it. Nuke the whole Middle-East! Nobody will ever be resentful for collateral damage.
[18:16:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06 U.S. Drone Strikes Have Gone Up 332% Since Trump Took Office - 839 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:43] <exec> 08└─No, it's not just a case of whether force but used. It is a matter of what kind of force. If drones kill 49 civilians for every 1 legitimate target, well that seems like a pretty shitty way of doing it. Are there ways of reducing the number of innocent victims? Probably. Boots on the ground might do...
[18:16:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score: 1) 02 - 06 U.S. Drone Strikes Have Gone Up 332% Since Trump Took Office - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:45] <exec> 08└─Overreach? Wow. If the article had said "432% of previous amount" that would have been correct. Since it says "increase," the amount increased is 332%. Words mean things. Correcting authorial errors is what an editor does.
[18:16:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 U.S. Drone Strikes Have Gone Up 332% Since Trump Took Office - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:48] <exec> 08└─Oh, that's an easy one! You go after terrorists by demonstrating the lack of legitimacy of the cause, and fixing the conditions that allow them to fester. If someone is in the "fuck this shitty life, I'd rather die gloriously" mode, blowing up their associates, a wedding, or some religiously-related...
[18:16:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 U.S. Drone Strikes Have Gone Up 332% Since Trump Took Office - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:50] <exec> 08└─Depends on your point of view. For the people on those dusty roads the drones are shooting at, the USA is considered the terrorists. Imagine that an explosive device goes off in your neighborhood targeting some "enemy of ". I think you would be a little upset, and you would certainly be calling who...
[18:16:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 U.S. Drone Strikes Have Gone Up 332% Since Trump Took Office - 603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:52] <exec> 08└─those programs don't aid the poor. they are political tools to further enslave people and to garner votes by catering to people's ignorance. Furthermore a high percentage of what the feral government does it out of scope and should be eliminated. People are so brainwashed they think that things have...
[18:16:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 U.S. Drone Strikes Have Gone Up 332% Since Trump Took Office - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:54] <exec> 08└─Why exactly are attacks by UAVs worth mentioning as opposed to attacks via other means?
[18:16:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 U.S. Drone Strikes Have Gone Up 332% Since Trump Took Office - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:56] <exec> 08└─It is sad, you don't even realize Islam isn't the real problem. That religion is being used as a distraction, an easy target for people to hate. The "mind virus" isn't Islam, it is the collective fascist policies being pushed by corporate interests. Advocating genocide? Do you ever stop and think ab...
[18:16:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jiro [3176] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 U.S. Drone Strikes Have Gone Up 332% Since Trump Took Office - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:58] <exec> 08└─Drones could be equipped with some nonlethal means of subduing targets for later pickup
[18:17:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snospar [5366] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06 U.S. Drone Strikes Have Gone Up 332% Since Trump Took Office - 723 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:01] <exec> 08└─Perhaps it's just terminology but I definitely think these drone strikes represent "disproportionate civilian casualties". Remember, we are not at war with these countries and all those civilian casualties are non-combatants so your drone is murdering 49 innocents in the hope of hitting one bad guy....
[18:17:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 U.S. Drone Strikes Have Gone Up 332% Since Trump Took Office - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:03] <exec> 08└─You lost me. Are you still on the need to sterilize blacks and idiots, or did you switch to the Irish invading with their Catholicism? I don't think you'd still be on those evil Jews drinking blood, so I must have drifted off while you were complaining about the Latinos crossing the border and/or ha...
[18:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Escape to Another World - 2130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:13] <exec> 08└─huh, when I read it, it just reminded me of the Matrix. Except it being some nightmare dystopian enslavement scenario, there may well be people who would willingly sit and be hooked up to virtual worlds like that for their lifetime. If you can emulate sensory inputs well enough, some people might be...
[18:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Escape to Another World - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:15] <exec> 08└─We need to sponsor this. It's a solution to Islamic terrorism and fertility.
[18:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Escape to Another World - 1046 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:17] <exec> 08└─Let me say that shadowstats is BAD. Like, REALLY BAD. EconoMonitor posted a pretty damning deconstruction of their numbers (no one ever re-enters the workforce after being unemployed? Really?). Similarly, I want the unemployment numbers to be about the _workforce_. Some people are not in the workfor...
[18:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Escape to Another World - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:19] <exec> 08└─Why in the heck would we need Mexico for lebensraum?
[18:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Escape to Another World - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:21] <exec> 08└─A classic example of what they actually are vs what they're supposed to be. With a side dish of the disabling lower back pain involves taking your now free medicare to the "pain care specialist clinic" for your weekly giant bottle of oxy which you don't need because you're unemployed not disabled, b...
[18:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Escape to Another World - 820 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:23] <exec> 08└─Immigration of like-minded people isn't bad, at least as long as the numbers don't let them section themselves off with their own language. Like-minded people can integrate. With the Mexicans, the "like-minded" aspect is questionable, and the numbers have already created Spanish-only areas. We need...
[18:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Escape to Another World - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:26] <exec> 08└─I suppose you imply that corn production went up in Mexico. OK, but what about the jobs? If we bankrupted the farmers (like USA a century ago) and that caused the creation of large mechanized farms, there is still an unemployment issue.
[18:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Escape to Another World - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:28] <exec> 08└─watching sports
[18:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Escape to Another World - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:30] <exec> 08└─During much of our country's history, that calculation would put employment under 50% due to women. Today it would put employment over 100% due to part-time jobs. Two better ways: What portion of families have a person who works full-time? What portion of families are self-supporting? We can sort of...
[18:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Escape to Another World - 751 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:32] <exec> 08└─The White House (and Runaway) Takes Its Attacks On Jobs Data To A New (And Dangerous) Level [fivethirtyeight.com] President Trump’s budget director on Sunday accused the Obama administration of “manipulating” economic data to make the unemployment rate look lower than it really was. That claim...
[18:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Whole-Body Vibration Combats Some Effects of Obesity in Mice - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:02] <exec> 08└─I wonder if this has applications for space travel. Maintaining bone density is very difficult in space, so even if it isn't an effective exercise if it can help keep your bones strong it could still serve a purpose.
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[19:14:31] <exec> 08└─Hilariously, proponents of systemic hormones seem to have some mental blockage, preventing them from recognizing the existence of an ancient technology called the condom. Not only does it work well by itself, but when combined with the pull-out method, or non-penitrative sex, it is extremely effecti...
[19:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Review Finds That Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pills Would be Safe for Teens - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:32] <exec> 08└─You make a good point. But condoms have been over the counter forever, but how many boys find the gumption to go buy some? I think the embarassment factor would probably work the same way if the pill were OTC. And yes, of course I am not expecting her to confide everything in me and/or her mother. I...
[19:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Review Finds That Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pills Would be Safe for Teens - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:34] <exec> 08└─Condoms are great. When they are there. And used. And not broken. And not taken off by a boy who whines about how they feel.
[19:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Review Finds That Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pills Would be Safe for Teens - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:36] <exec> 08└─You just sit around, twiddling your thumbs, "dreading" the day your child gets horny. FUCK YOU, faggot.
[19:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Review Finds That Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pills Would be Safe for Teens - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:39] <exec> 08└─... maybe then they won't "whine" about even less sensation from their disrupted sexual organs.
[19:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Review Finds That Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pills Would be Safe for Teens - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:41] <exec> 08└─Speak of the devil!
[19:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Review Finds That Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pills Would be Safe for Teens - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:43] <exec> 08└─I'm going to fill her tight pussy with my venom.
[19:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Review Finds That Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pills Would be Safe for Teens - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:45] <exec> 08└─If you think that birth control pills would be beneficial to YOU, then YOU pay for it. Get it, yet? You pay for my health insurance? Great news! I'll let HR know to stop withholding for that.
[19:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Review Finds That Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pills Would be Safe for Teens - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:47] <exec> 08└─YOU buy her birth control, and YOU start the conversation about sex yourself. Goddamnit. "I dread the day she likes boys." FUCK YOU. You don't deserve to be a parent. YOU are the fucking parent, you FAGGOT.
[19:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Review Finds That Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pills Would be Safe for Teens - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:50] <exec> 08└─Insurance pays for that catastrophe which happens to an individual despite the individual doing everything possible to prevent that catastrophe. It is NOT meant for everyday payments that a semi-sentient being should handle for himself; insurance is NOT a payment network.
[19:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Review Finds That Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pills Would be Safe for Teens - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:52] <exec> 08└─I will buy condoms for my girls and make sure they know how to check them. I will let them do it in my house, preferably when we're around. I will tell them that, but encourage them to wait until they're mature enough to deal with it. There are enough things to be worried about. A parent's job is to...
[19:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Review Finds That Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pills Would be Safe for Teens - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:54] <exec> 08└─That's the whole point of insurance: Risk management. I'm not your slave. Insurance pays for that catastrophe which happens to an individual despite the individual doing everything possible to prevent that catastrophe. It is NOT meant for everyday payments that a semi-sentient being should handle fo...
[19:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Review Finds That Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pills Would be Safe for Teens - 1536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:56] <exec> 08└─She will never need birth control. Fertility is a feature, not a defect. Look, I'm not even religious and I know to avoid sex until I believe that I will be with somebody until death. I in fact did that, as did my wife, at ages 22 and 19. Over 20 years later, I'm still with her. I have never had to...
[19:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Review Finds That Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pills Would be Safe for Teens - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:58] <exec> 08└─Get it, yet?
[19:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Review Finds That Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pills Would be Safe for Teens - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:00] <exec> 08└─YOU decided to create a new human being; teach that person how to responsibly handle the sexual instinct. YOU buy her birth control, and YOU start the conversation about sex yourself. Goddamnit. "I dread the day she likes boys." FUCK YOU. You don't deserve to be a parent. YOU are the fucking parent.
[19:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Review Finds That Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pills Would be Safe for Teens - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:03] <exec> 08└─Insurance pays for that catastrophe which happens to an individual despite the individual doing everything possible to prevent that catastrophe. The obesity rate in the US disproves that hypothesis.
[19:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Review Finds That Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pills Would be Safe for Teens - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:05] <exec> 08└─Insurance companies like the Pill: a second-layer insurance against having to pay a lot of OB bills. Pregnancy is insured, and extremely costly. Preventing that risk at minimal cost is the insurance's job. Paying for the pill is essentially a savings for them. What's the link to slavery, especially...
[19:15:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Review Finds That Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pills Would be Safe for Teens - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:07] <exec> 08└─Maybe there could be an insurance policy for people who agree never to have children.
[19:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Review Finds That Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pills Would be Safe for Teens - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:09] <exec> 08└─Apparently there isn't a universal age of consent across the U.S. Everybody just uses 18 as the rule of thumb because that will cover everything without having to look it up. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[19:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Review Finds That Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pills Would be Safe for Teens - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:11] <exec> 08└─Who paid for all the studies being reviewed? Any that were done by, or paid for by, any pharmaceutical company need to be thrown out as biased. Pharmaceutical companies will tell any lie, and fake any study, to sell more drugs.
[19:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Review Finds That Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pills Would be Safe for Teens - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:13] <exec> 08└─"Get it yet" guy. I don't want memes on here, but can someone post one elsewhere and see if it gets traction? I'm no good at it or I'd do it myself.
[19:15:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Review Finds That Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pills Would be Safe for Teens - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:16] <exec> 08└─And if you're overweight, you pay for your bypass. And if you're a smoker, you pay for all your diseases. And if you like sports, you pay for your injuries. And if you're an angry selfish idiot who doesn't understand civilization and insurance markets, you pay for your ticket to the jungle, desert i...
[19:15:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:57] <exec> 08└─Saved for future flamebait reply laden with generous use of the word "fuck".
[19:15:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:58] <exec> 08└─Saved for offtopic obvious troll comment that will eventually be modded to -1.
[19:16:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:00] <exec> 08└─Anonymous demonstration for the right to have an honorable name.
[19:16:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:03] <exec> 08└─Optimization of Xenix 386 - How not to do it!
[19:16:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:05] <exec> 08└─But I thought only Jesus Saves.
[19:16:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:07] <exec> 08└─Filter error: Comment too short
[19:16:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:09] <exec> 08└─Well, what do you expect when stories are selected by a violently imposed monopoly?
[19:16:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:11] <exec> 08└─Hi Curious, any reason you felt the need to tell us twice?
[19:16:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03GlennC [3656] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:13] <exec> 08└─Saved for GlennC to post a comment
[19:17:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 U.S. Drone Strikes Have Gone Up 332% Since Trump Took Office - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:19] <exec> 08└─Are you sure that painting all Muslims with the same brush isn't the mind virus? Give that some solid thought.
[19:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 U.S. Drone Strikes Have Gone Up 332% Since Trump Took Office - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:20] <exec> 08└─Not that I have any ethical issue with the current situation, but sniper drones are way more affordable. A gun the size of an M-16 mounted like the cannons on the AC-130 would be great. It could even be buried in the wing for aerodynamics. If we got it down to a 3-foot wingspan, it could be dirt che...
[19:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 U.S. Drone Strikes Have Gone Up 332% Since Trump Took Office - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:22] <exec> 08└─We're human. Genocide is in our past and in our future. We wouldn't be human without genocide. Genocide features in ancient history, and we can reasonably assume it to be part of pre-history. Genocide doesn't even need religion; Rwanda and Cambodia have shown that in the not-to-distant past. Genocid...
[19:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chemists Are First in Line for Quantum Computing’s Benefits - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:33] <exec> 08└─They're just failed physicists.
[19:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Escape to Another World - 768 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:44] <exec> 08└─Mexico is four times as large as Iraq was in population and almost five times as large in land area. And it has a large narco/guerilla population which has already had plenty of opportunity to practice hiding and waging war against Mexico's military forces. The US won't be able to take over the coun...
[19:18:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Escape to Another World - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:46] <exec> 08└─It would be simple for Trump to extend this alleged more accurate measure of unemployment into the past and public revised figures for say, the Bush and Obama administrations to get a baseline for comparison. Then we could decide the merits of his claims on a basis other than his word.
[19:18:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Escape to Another World - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:48] <exec> 08└─* As more tasks can be automated, the value of labor will approach zero, and we're going to keep automating everything as fast as we can.
[19:19:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alleged Epilepsy-Triggering Troll Arrested by the FBI - 2532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:49] <exec> 08└─(This post is UK-centric because that's what's easily found on the web. The rules probably differ under, say, the US's FCC, or equivalent bodies elsewhere.) There are appliances that do just that, known as "Harding boxes"; a list of them is in this PDF [amazonaws.com], and you're required to have a...
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[20:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06President of Uber Quits - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:21] <exec> 08└─Sounds like it's time to starting betting on when Uber will fold.
[20:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Review Finds That Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pills Would be Safe for Teens - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:03] <exec> 08└─Don't let logic, reason, or evidence inform your thinking. It would be bad. *cough sarcasm*
[20:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Review Finds That Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pills Would be Safe for Teens - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:04] <exec> 08└─It's been destroyed through decades of government meddling, which has transformed the "insurance" industry into a generalized payment network for health care, one which tends to transfer wealth to special interests.
[20:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Review Finds That Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pills Would be Safe for Teens - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:06] <exec> 08└─YOU decided to create a new human being; teach that person how to responsibly handle the sexual instinct. YOU buy her birth control, and YOU start the conversation about sex yourself. Dreading the natural development of your child suggests that you do not deserve to be a parent.
[20:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Review Finds That Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pills Would be Safe for Teens - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:08] <exec> 08└─Sheesh. We get it already. Not everybody can be as enlightened as parents in the Netherlands. Thought I admit, it does take special talent to see the rate of incidence of teenage pregnancy in the Netherlands, see the rate of incidence of the same in the USA, and conclude that the USA has the right a...
[20:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03compro01 [2515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Review Finds That Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pills Would be Safe for Teens - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:11] <exec> 08└─Everybody just uses 18 as the rule of thumb because that will cover everything without having to look it up.
[20:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03compro01 [2515] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Review Finds That Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pills Would be Safe for Teens - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:13] <exec> 08└─Condom...Not only does it work well by itself
[20:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Review Finds That Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pills Would be Safe for Teens - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:15] <exec> 08└─If you believe you have a better solution for yourself, then YOU PAY FOR IT. I'm not your slave.
[20:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Review Finds That Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pills Would be Safe for Teens - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:17] <exec> 08└─You can't argue with people who find their truth between the covers of a single book.
[20:16:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:10] <exec> 08└─Saved for obligatory xkcd link.
[20:16:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:12] <exec> 08└─Perhaps he's "bi-curious"
[20:16:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:14] <exec> 08└─*gurgling noises and wailing*
[20:16:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 651 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:16] <exec> 08└─Needs more bacon [baconipsum.com]! Bacon ipsum dolor amet strip steak spare ribs short ribs meatball, turkey sausage ground round beef short loin bacon rump tri-tip pig. Cow beef ribs fatback, tongue porchetta bacon kielbasa sausage tri-tip spare ribs pastrami corned beef chuck filet mignon hamburge...
[20:16:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:18] <exec> 08└─Given the Xenix 386 theme lately, I guess that would be "Xe Curious" So if a unix is a eunuch then a XEnix is a xe nix which is a ...?
[20:16:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:20] <exec> 08└─No surprise. After all, it's a topic everyone here is familiar with.
[20:16:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:23] <exec> 08└─Saved for future Soylent drinking game comment. Everybody save a drink!
[20:16:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:25] <exec> 08└─I'm feeling like this [xkcd.com] right now.
[20:16:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:27] <exec> 08└─No, its not Trump's fault.
[20:16:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:29] <exec> 08└─A quick how-to guide for aspiring actors that will need to play the roles of successful autistic savants? If they're lucky they can just be like Ben Affleck, let a little kid do the autistic wailing and he can just play the socially awkward super soldier.
[20:16:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:31] <exec> 08└─I can't help but notice the offset between Julian and Gregorian calendar is the 12 days necessary to make this an april fools day post. I suppose there's something SN about being 12 days off and nobody noticing. Personally I hope we have another "Saved for NCommander to post a story" on the 1st just...
[20:16:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:33] <exec> 08└─Saved for, Ah Screw it.
[20:16:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:35] <exec> 08└─Dear NC: I keep pressing the pellet dispenser lever bar, but pellets aren't dispensing. plzfixkthxbye.
[20:16:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:38] <exec> 08└─Hey, I understood that sentence! Your aides must be making some serious progress. I can see the next story now: "VLM learns to tie his shoes!"
[20:16:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:40] <exec> 08└─Nicely done.
[20:16:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:42] <exec> 08└─"The obvious rebuttal".
[20:16:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 1221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:44] <exec> 08└─Hes probably still compiling. Contemporary with the recent Xenix theme, way back in '93 I had a 40 MHz 386DX with 4 one meg SIMMs. You see back then each SIMM only provided 8 bits and 386 being a 32 bit bus, yeah, so SIMMs were installed in quads not pairs like today. Now 4 megs of ram could either...
[20:16:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:46] <exec> 08└─Screw the week, we need to make this the most highly commented article EVER. 1000 COMMENTS, HERE WE COME!
[20:16:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:49] <exec> 08└─It would be hilarious if it were so. Alas, two problems: (1) the error is now 13 days, and (2) the error goes the other way: today is March 7 [wikipedia.org] in the Julian calendar, not April 1st.
[20:16:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:51] <exec> 08└─Maybe this [xkcd.com] is more on-topic. :-)
[20:16:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:53] <exec> 08└─But in keeping with this being the "Seinfeld" thread about nothing, keep em all tweet size.
[20:16:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:55] <exec> 08└─NCommander posts The story has no content Comments overflow
[20:16:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:57] <exec> 08└─Is obvious
[20:16:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:59] <exec> 08└─It's also currently the story on the front page with the most comments, which probably says something unflattering about the rest of the submissions...
[20:17:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:02] <exec> 08└─Get the comments first, then find the news story to fit!
[20:17:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:04] <exec> 08└─This video [youtube.com] will change your life.
[20:17:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:06] <exec> 08└─And by change your life, I mean you'll be almost 5 minutes older.
[20:17:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:08] <exec> 08└─"We've changed our name to Exxon, but it's still the same old gas."
[20:17:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:10] <exec> 08└─They've made contact at last!
[20:17:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:12] <exec> 08└─Sorry, wrong stick figure comic. The story currently has a picture taken from the last panel of this Cyanide and Happiness strip [explosm.net].
[20:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:15] <exec> 08└─*drinks*
[20:18:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] 02 - 06 U.S. Drone Strikes Have Gone Up 332% Since Trump Took Office - 839 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:11] <exec> 08└─No, it's not just a case of whether force but used. It is a matter of what kind of force. If drones kill 49 civilians for every 1 legitimate target, well that seems like a pretty shitty way of doing it. Are there ways of reducing the number of innocent victims? Probably. Boots on the ground might do...
[20:18:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 U.S. Drone Strikes Have Gone Up 332% Since Trump Took Office - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:24] <exec> 08└─We just need them dead, so air war is fine.
[20:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 U.S. Drone Strikes Have Gone Up 332% Since Trump Took Office - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:25] <exec> 08└─Sounds like somebody drank the military's kool-aid. https://www.theguardian.com [theguardian.com] https://www.justsecurity.org [justsecurity.org] https://www.theguardian.com
[20:19:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Escape to Another World - 1849 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:51] <exec> 08└─Thought experiment, send in the M1A1 tanks AND legalize. Hmm. You can fight on the front lines and lose, or you can try guerrilla work but it'll be completely unfunded due to legalization. A significant fraction of their population is here. I'm not sure if that would help or hinder, but its certainl...
[20:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03termigator [4271] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alleged Epilepsy-Triggering Troll Arrested by the FBI - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:56] <exec> 08└─http://chuck-nbc.wikia.com/wiki/Human_Intersect [wikia.com]
[20:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alleged Epilepsy-Triggering Troll Arrested by the FBI - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:58] <exec> 08└─I've been using Discord [discordapp.com] more often since some friends started hanging out on a "server" there. It does something that's really quite amazing. GIFs don't animate unless you mouse over them, and videos don't play unless you click the play button. As everybody here knows, there's nothi...
[20:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Reduces JPEG File Size by 35% - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:37] <exec> 08└─Because the Flying Spaghetti Monster demands all feature films are encoded with 12bit JPEG 2000 for theatrical release?
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[21:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Celestial [4891] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President of Uber Quits - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:17] <exec> 08└─As long as either Uber or Lyft stick around. If they both go, I'm screwed.
[21:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President of Uber Quits - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:18] <exec> 08└─Well, there doesn't seem to be the constant stream of negative stories about Lyft, so they are probably fine. If they both go, I expect another service will fill the vacuum, though perhaps not quite as cheap.
[21:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President of Uber Quits - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:20] <exec> 08└─Out of the corner of my eye that looked like "President of USA quits"! Imagine my disappointment when I re-read the title . . .
[21:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Review Finds That Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pills Would be Safe for Teens - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:12] <exec> 08└─> If you think that birth control pills would be beneficial to YOU, then YOU pay for it. Get it, yet? If you think that poor people should not have access to inexpensive birth control pills, then YOU pay for the unwanted pregnancies. Get it, yet? Why should the rest of us have to pay when it is so i...
[21:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Review Finds That Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pills Would be Safe for Teens - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:13] <exec> 08└─Look! The American Taliban post on this site :-)
[21:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Review Finds That Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pills Would be Safe for Teens - 1492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:15] <exec> 08└─I'm fairly certain I comprehend the point you're trying to make. The problem here is that (wo)men are not angels. In this case, there's another thing compounding the problem. Men are not devils, either. Now, I can be a cruel, heartless bitch. I'm perfectly ok with letting a woman and children she ma...
[21:15:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Review Finds That Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pills Would be Safe for Teens - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:17] <exec> 08└─Straw man, much?
[21:15:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Review Finds That Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pills Would be Safe for Teens - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:20] <exec> 08└─"Steal their stuff." That is indeed your position.
[21:15:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Review Finds That Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pills Would be Safe for Teens - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:22] <exec> 08└─And if you're overweight, you pay for your bypass. And if you're a smoker, you pay for all your diseases. And if you like sports, you pay for your injuries.
[21:15:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Review Finds That Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pills Would be Safe for Teens - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:24] <exec> 08└─Do you get it, yet?
[21:15:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Review Finds That Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pills Would be Safe for Teens - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:26] <exec> 08└─Note: not even religious This is just wanting a stable life that isn't fucked up and broken. Even w/o the god stuff, those old morals have a reason.
[21:15:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Review Finds That Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pills Would be Safe for Teens - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:28] <exec> 08└─They will live up to your expectations or, as is the case here, down to your expectations. The condoms will break. Just once is enough for a permanent disease. If you try out lots of people but don't end up with the best one you've tried, life is going to suck.
[21:15:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Review Finds That Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pills Would be Safe for Teens - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:30] <exec> 08└─Does the math still work since evermore=-expensive doctors are getting better at saving the unhealthy?
[21:16:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:53] <exec> 08└─Your cheese supply was moved to another depot. Several authors have written about how various groups of rodents and Lilliputian lab assistants have dealt with similar events in fictional Rat Park replication attempts: "Who Moved My Cheese?" by Spencer Johnson, "Who Cut the Cheese?" by Stilton Jarlsb...
[21:16:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03zafiro17 [234] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 1123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:54] <exec> 08└─Saved for long-ass diatribe about how the Green Site never would have posted something like this, or about how they had this first, or about how it doesn't matter when the Green Site posted it because this is more about horrific-looking kneecap photoshop COMMUNITY and if you don't like it then you c...
[21:16:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:56] <exec> 08└─what the heck i don't even
[21:16:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03zafiro17 [234] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:59] <exec> 08└─... and the best one ever! Far better than the usual stuff.
[21:17:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03gawdonblue [412] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:01] <exec> 08└─Is a Mercedes.
[21:17:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:03] <exec> 08└─Fuck Beta!
[21:17:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DmT [6439] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:05] <exec> 08└─Is this the famous internet everyone keep talking about?
[21:17:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:07] <exec> 08└─We have a few select warlordseditors because men are not angels. I mean, we could do it like Kuro5hin, and some people really liked that place, and I'm sure it would have worked really well too, er, if men were angels.
[21:17:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fishscene [4361] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:09] <exec> 08└─Well hey, that makes perfect sense. Thanks for commenting back and explaining! I actually really do appreciate it. :)
[21:17:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:11] <exec> 08└─Fallen angels are angels, too!
[21:17:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] 02 - 06 U.S. Drone Strikes Have Gone Up 332% Since Trump Took Office - 78 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:54] <exec> 08└─First off, is this Trump acting on advice, or just his own off the cuff call..
[21:17:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03turgid [4318] 02 - 06 U.S. Drone Strikes Have Gone Up 332% Since Trump Took Office - 124 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:56] <exec> 08└─Just as well the USA didn't elect a warmongering fascist. Think how bad things could have been. We had a lucky escape there!
[21:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 U.S. Drone Strikes Have Gone Up 332% Since Trump Took Office - 1444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:22] <exec> 08└─While I have no problem with the edit, I think it's still a poor way to discuss the data. As the summary notes, Obama ordered over 500 drone strikes. Trump so far has ordered 45. Claiming that "U.S. drone strikes have gone up 332%" still doesn't make much sense. The assumption is that drone strikes...
[21:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 U.S. Drone Strikes Have Gone Up 332% Since Trump Took Office - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:23] <exec> 08└─So, what you're saying is, if someone walks up to you and starts punching you, you should either completely ignore it, or go on a rampage and kill every living thing within 50 miles. Got it.
[21:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 U.S. Drone Strikes Have Gone Up 332% Since Trump Took Office - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:25] <exec> 08└─A tip of the hat to you! I don't think I could have typed that past the first comma, before I exploded in laughter. That had to be more distracting than shitting your pants and typing. Maybe in a few more months with the Orange Clown-in-Chief still in charge, I'll find out for myself. *fingers, toes...
[21:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 U.S. Drone Strikes Have Gone Up 332% Since Trump Took Office - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:28] <exec> 08└─A century of the Good Guy killing countless Bad Guys and being rewarded by Getting The Girl will warp people's perception of what's appropriate. The other side is worthless evil wasteland. Our soldiers are Heroes. Why risk even one Hero on the odd chance that he would save a few anonymous people? Th...
[21:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 U.S. Drone Strikes Have Gone Up 332% Since Trump Took Office - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:30] <exec> 08└─Well, soldiers firing their weapons in anger in a foreign country typically do it with the close collaboration of at least one of the local parties, or we have an international incident. For example, when Israel or Russia go around raiding their neighbors, there are formal -if useless- protests. US...
[21:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 U.S. Drone Strikes Have Gone Up 332% Since Trump Took Office - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:32] <exec> 08└─Nuke the whole Middle-East!
[21:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 U.S. Drone Strikes Have Gone Up 332% Since Trump Took Office - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:34] <exec> 08└─Sender won't say sorry. Never admit guilt or confirm involvement in anything that could bring lawsuits.
[21:18:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 U.S. Drone Strikes Have Gone Up 332% Since Trump Took Office - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:36] <exec> 08└─The attacks, yes. Singling out a method of attack, like TFA, is the irrelevant bit.
[21:18:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 U.S. Drone Strikes Have Gone Up 332% Since Trump Took Office - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:38] <exec> 08└─It's not genocide in the sense as people would make normal use of that word, as Islam is not a genetic production. Islam is a socio-political system that has cultivated a horrific culture that not only is terrible to live within (not the USA's business) but also literally seeks to wage war against t...
[21:20:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06A Big Day for the ESA: Sentinel Snaps and Exomars Brakes - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:09] <exec> 08└─Thank you for the story. Please keep them coming. I love space exploration.
[21:21:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alleged Epilepsy-Triggering Troll Arrested by the FBI - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:09] <exec> 08└─Criminal proceedings don't rule out civil action, and it can be easier to win a civil case (see OJ). The FBI already did the hard work of identifying a meatbag to sue.
[21:21:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Kills Windows Vista On April 11: No Security Patches, No Hot Fixes, No Support, Nada - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:57] <exec> 08└─> Microsoft Kills Windows So far so good.
[21:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Tango Means You'll Never Get Lost in a Store Again - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:23] <exec> 08└─I pay my groceries in cash, so no information via bank card either.
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[22:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New MagikPOS Malware Targets Point-of-Sale Systems in US & Canada - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:25] <exec> 08└─For any person that reads this story, the number one question is always "Which businesses? Ones that I frequent?" And invariably that's the one thing that isn't mentioned. Maybe there's an argument that the businesses deserve some lead time to clean up their act, but surely customers also deserve to...
[22:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New MagikPOS Malware Targets Point-of-Sale Systems in US & Canada - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:26] <exec> 08└─I have been trying to reproduce to PIN pad for my coin laundry not taking the PIN correctly. Assumed it was just a firmware bug. No, I will not name them until I know more.
[22:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New MagikPOS Malware Targets Point-of-Sale Systems in US & Canada - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:28] <exec> 08└─Update: The Trendmicro article [soylentnews.org] mostly rules out the laundry card reader. Properly configured chip-and-pin credit cards with end-to-end encryption (EMVs) should be unaffected by this threat. Unfortunately, terminals that don’t support them are at risk to threats like MajikPOS.
[22:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President of Uber Quits - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:39] <exec> 08└─Most cities still have something called "taxis".
[22:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President of Uber Quits - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:40] <exec> 08└─Maybe they're a driver?
[22:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President of Uber Quits - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:42] <exec> 08└─The lack of negative stories is mostly due to the lack of users... Put enough people through anything and some of them will complain, regardless of the actual experience.
[22:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Celestial [4891] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President of Uber Quits - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:45] <exec> 08└─Yes, but at nearly twice the price of Uber and Lyft.
[22:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President of Uber Quits - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:47] <exec> 08└─Today would have been a good day for him to do it too. What with the FBI director, under oath, testifying that grump lied about obama eavesdropping on him. And with the FBI director, under oath, testifying that there is a criminal investigation into his campaign's links to russia. His shit is starti...
[22:15:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Review Finds That Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pills Would be Safe for Teens - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:48] <exec> 08└─Can you just move to some desert island already and save us your anti-society rants?
[22:15:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Review Finds That Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pills Would be Safe for Teens - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:49] <exec> 08└─The question about safety actually goes the other direction. It's not that its surprising that it's safer for the teenagers, its actually known to be safer for teenagers than for the general population mainly because teenagers tend to have fewer cardiovascular risk factors (high blood pressure, high...
[22:15:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Review Finds That Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pills Would be Safe for Teens - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:51] <exec> 08└─In addition to the obligatory comment that paucity of data (on juvenile use of hormone therapies) does not equate to a lower risk, it is a warning sign on its own. Compared to mature women, teens are are nearly certain to be clueless about hormone risks in general and their own sensitivities in part...
[22:15:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Review Finds That Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pills Would be Safe for Teens - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:54] <exec> 08└─The smart choice for your future! [youtube.com].
[22:15:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Review Finds That Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pills Would be Safe for Teens - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:56] <exec> 08└─Those pills are cheaper than the welfare/section 8/WIC/CHIP you're already paying on young single mothers.
[22:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03chucky [3309] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:31] <exec> 08└─Yes, it is.
[22:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:33] <exec> 08└─But I thought only Jesus Saves.
[22:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:35] <exec> 08└─Is NCommander Lady Cassandra's husband? She must have married for the money.
[22:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:37] <exec> 08└─Fake news, alternative facts, and stuff I made up and put on twitter. Who am I?
[22:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:39] <exec> 08└─Your magic sky daddy is not real, and jebus was just a run of the mill nut. The only reason people still believe this stuff is so they can justify molesting children.
[22:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:41] <exec> 08└─Riveting story. Can't wait for the follow up and that image can't be unseen ...
[22:17:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:43] <exec> 08└─"This song's just six words long."
[22:17:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:46] <exec> 08└─But.... NCommander is real. I read his stories. He apparently Saves. Oh, I get it, you want me to know that NCommander is the Savior then. Yeah, I can get behind that. How do you want me to fuck off, my lord?
[22:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:48] <exec> 08└─You found it! But when you come off your ayahuasca trip it isn't going to be nearly as interesting.
[22:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03petecox [3228] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Spreadtrum Smartphone SoC Uses 8 Intel Airmont Cores - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:57] <exec> 08└─The article says phones but it's more likely to be in $200 "Wifi + Cellular" Windows 10 tablets. (Unless MS is still clinging to the Surface Phone vaporware - they are emulating x86 on Snapdragon 835 for lack of a suitable Atom)
[22:19:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 U.S. Drone Strikes Have Gone Up 332% Since Trump Took Office - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:10] <exec> 08└─No, I am saying you should beat them so badly that they never consider doing it again though.
[22:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 U.S. Drone Strikes Have Gone Up 332% Since Trump Took Office - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:11] <exec> 08└─So, before it would have been worth mentioning how many rifle attacks happened per day? No? Quit deliberately misunderstanding me then.
[22:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 U.S. Drone Strikes Have Gone Up 332% Since Trump Took Office - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:13] <exec> 08└─Pretty sure. The problem with Islam is not the people, but its fundamental "perfect" written documents (Quran, Hadith, Sura) which are the source of the vile evil found in Islam, the culture it breeds, and the vile actions encouraged by the words which some Muslims are motivated by.
[22:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 U.S. Drone Strikes Have Gone Up 332% Since Trump Took Office - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:15] <exec> 08└─Not disproportionate, indiscriminate. Puts targets and innocents into the same bin.
[22:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 U.S. Drone Strikes Have Gone Up 332% Since Trump Took Office - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:18] <exec> 08└─hoping for impeachment
[22:19:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 U.S. Drone Strikes Have Gone Up 332% Since Trump Took Office - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:20] <exec> 08└─the look on his face when, convicted
[22:20:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Escape to Another World - 2234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:45] <exec> 08└─The Soviets had to guard the borders to keep people from escaping; the USA has to guard the medicine cabinets. As joblessness increases from automation, one can also expect working conditions to continue to deteriorate as more people compete for fewer jobs and employers can offer less pay and expect...
[22:20:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Escape to Another World - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:46] <exec> 08└─Trump is a Republican? Well, since he is the President and he ran under the R-brand, I guess he is by definition . . .
[22:21:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] 02 - 06Alleged Epilepsy-Triggering Troll Arrested by the FBI - 70 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:27] <exec> 08└─Everybody who's ever had a Geocities site should be arrested too then.
[22:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alleged Epilepsy-Triggering Troll Arrested by the FBI - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:53] <exec> 08└─Poor idiot - Runaway
[22:21:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alleged Epilepsy-Triggering Troll Arrested by the FBI - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:55] <exec> 08└─Criminal proceedings don't rule out civil action, and it can be easier to win a civil case (see OJ). The FBI already did the hard work of identifying a meatbag to sue.
[22:21:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alleged Epilepsy-Triggering Troll Arrested by the FBI - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:57] <exec> 08└─Battling Seizure Robots [youtube.com], FTW!
[22:21:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alleged Epilepsy-Triggering Troll Arrested by the FBI - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:59] <exec> 08└─That's not how it works. You have to be incredibly obnoxious, and start suing people to activate the Eichenwald effect.
[22:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Kills Windows Vista On April 11: No Security Patches, No Hot Fixes, No Support, Nada - 722 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:47] <exec> 08└─Vista wasn't so bad - a lot like ME, if you just took a couple of hours to scour the internet and find a "how to make your Windows Vista/ME work just like XP/98" guide, you could type all those configurations in by hand (mostly registry settings) and then your newly crippled computer would have 97.4...
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[23:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Beauty is in the Eye of the (Robo)Beholder - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:06] <exec> 08└─Beauty is racist, either conventional or politically correct. Beauty depends on the sex of the viewer. (for example, men are less likely to prefer women to be just skin and bones) What is the sex of a computer? There is raw beauty and age-adjusted beauty. Some like the plastic Barbie look. Some like...
[23:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New MagikPOS Malware Targets Point-of-Sale Systems in US & Canada - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:16] <exec> 08└─This is what the POS vendors get for selling system which they themselves advertise as Pieces Of Shit.
[23:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President of Uber Quits - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:33] <exec> 08└─Why don't those drivers eat dirt, use their kids to clean and repair the cars, and sell their organs to pay the license fees? Why don't cities stop regulating taxis and just let anyone with a car grab anyone hailing on the side of the wannabe-taxi-clogged streets? They can stop bus/train services to...
[23:15:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Review Finds That Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pills Would be Safe for Teens - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:40] <exec> 08└─In Soviet Amerika even Taliban is secular!
[23:15:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Review Finds That Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pills Would be Safe for Teens - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:42] <exec> 08└─It isn't DannyB that thinks it is beneficial, it is the historical data we have on the topic. We should ignore the data which indicates how to improve society just because you can't comprehend that you live in (and vastly benefit from) a society that takes care of it's members?
[23:15:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Review Finds That Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pills Would be Safe for Teens - 876 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:44] <exec> 08└─I would like you to repay every cent of public money you've used. That includes any public schooling, calls to the police/fire department, paying for however many years (how old are you?) of lower food prices due to government subsidies. Oh, you owe a lot for all the gasoline you've used, those chea...
[23:15:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Review Finds That Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pills Would be Safe for Teens - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:46] <exec> 08└─> catastrophe Ah, your hang up is with the word "insurance." If we stop calling it health insurance and start calling it health care all your arguments go away. Well, no they won't because inside your head you keep thinking "insurance" but if you weren't hung up on it, they would.
[23:15:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Review Finds That Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pills Would be Safe for Teens - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:48] <exec> 08└─Don't just teach them about condoms, get them IUDs. IUD usage is not correlated with increased rates of STDs which was the only significant argument for condoms over any other form of contraception.
[23:15:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Review Finds That Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pills Would be Safe for Teens - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:50] <exec> 08└─> I'm sure I've left something out Roads. Bridges and every consumer good shipped across them. The internet, the web and everything else developed with public money.
[23:15:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nobuddy [1626] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Review Finds That Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pills Would be Safe for Teens - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:53] <exec> 08└─Anonymous posting has SO improved the quality of content here.
[23:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:35] <exec> 08└─But NCommander has better backups: no 3-day downtime.
[23:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:36] <exec> 08└─Muahahahahaha
[23:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:38] <exec> 08└─Was that done with the new Google JPEG algorithm?
[23:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saved for NCommander to post a story - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:40] <exec> 08└─Everyone here's been smoking reefer, obviously. Now, who has the munchies (it's din-din time on the east coast).
[23:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 U.S. Drone Strikes Have Gone Up 332% Since Trump Took Office - 1187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:06] <exec> 08└─No, actually many people who actually follow the news know that in the Obama administration there were many (most) cases where drone strike authorization must come directly from an NSC member level or higher. Drone strikes had to be approved even if a high value target was confirmed. Whether Trump a...
[23:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 U.S. Drone Strikes Have Gone Up 332% Since Trump Took Office - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:08] <exec> 08└─> any more than the number of rounds fired by soldiers is worth reporting. If we quadrupled the number of rounds used that would be worth reporting because it too would indicate a significant change in conditions.
[23:19:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 U.S. Drone Strikes Have Gone Up 332% Since Trump Took Office - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:10] <exec> 08└─Compassion comes from the soul of a willing human; it is not extracted at gunpoint by government tax collectors as you seem to believe.
[23:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 U.S. Drone Strikes Have Gone Up 332% Since Trump Took Office - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:12] <exec> 08└─Compassion comez from the soul of a willing human being; it is not extracted at gunpoint by government tax collectors as you seem to believe.
[23:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 U.S. Drone Strikes Have Gone Up 332% Since Trump Took Office - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:14] <exec> 08└─I agree. A number of years back I wrote a retrospective on the anniversary of the publication of Ray Bradbury's classic Fahrenheit 451, but I had to keep referring to it has Fahrenheit 480, except when I quoted other people referring to it because there I had to write Fahrenheit 451 (sic). You see,...
[23:20:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Big Day for the ESA: Sentinel Snaps and Exomars Brakes - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:47] <exec> 08└─Hey I got out of bed ten minutes before my alarm clock was due to ring.
[23:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Whole-Body Vibration Combats Some Effects of Obesity in Mice - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:12] <exec> 08└─1. Buy a Harley-Davidson. 2. Ride it around (it's designed to shake). . . 5. Profit from selling your tight ass?
[23:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Kills Windows Vista On April 11: No Security Patches, No Hot Fixes, No Support, Nada - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:40] <exec> 08└─I must have llucked out. I've only every had pronlem with one computer aout of 18 so far. It was an RTLink wireless crd that I neede to manually rebuild a driver for. Still worked, but very inconvenient, especially for a newb. In general, a better hardware support record than I've had with Windows,...
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