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[00:45:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Geeks v Government: the Battle Over Public Key Cryptography - 708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:44] <exec> 08└─The content listed on the front page for this article does not mention when this was. While I like the engaging writing style, its not what I'm looking for here. I'm very interested in new cases about cryptography, but having to click though to this page and read to the end to determine this was not...
[00:45:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Geeks v Government: the Battle Over Public Key Cryptography - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:46] <exec> 08└─Get over it. If you wanted DJB to win, if you wanted freedom, well then you assholes shouldn't have voted for Bush. American asshole voters, you people are the problem. FUCK. YOU.
[00:45:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Geeks v Government: the Battle Over Public Key Cryptography - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:48] <exec> 08└─Nope. Government is by The People for The People and YOU are The People. FUCK THE PEOPLE FUCK YOU
[00:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan Made Secret Deals With the NSA That Expanded Global Surveillance - 657 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:57] <exec> 08└─The Reports of General MacArthur goes into detail the fears the Japanese had with communist infiltration. Here you just had the Americans promised not to rip out the monarchy that symbolized Japan itself, all the while brainwashed POWs from WW2 were being "returned" from Manchurian and Korean camps...
[00:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Open Source Remote Access Trojan Targets Telegram Users - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:23] <exec> 08└─They went out of business when it was discovered that ascii dick pics all looked alike.
[00:52:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's a Plan to Send a Spacecraft to Venus, and Make It Last - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:09] <exec> 08└─Very dense atmosphere, strong winds ... Can't we power the probe an its A/C using a windmill? An anemometer with scoops the size of a ping-pong racquet (but made of really, really strong stuff) would probably generate a decent amount of power already...
[00:53:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung and Amazon Announce HDR10+ Standard for High Dynamic Range Video - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:20] <exec> 08└─That one was far too obvious for the Editor to pass on. See the Dept: line ...
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[00:53:21] <exec> 08└─If it wasn't so dark/chopped/muted, wouldn't you notice that they haven't come up with many original ideas in a few decades?
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[01:45:37] <exec> 08└─I stabbed a Dutch woman to death and peeled off her face and I wear her skin as a mask on nights and weekends. Is it Fair Use or no?
[01:45:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dutch Court Rules Fan Subtitling is Illegal - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:39] <exec> 08└─Oh no the Keystone Korps are after me!!
[01:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Geeks v Government: the Battle Over Public Key Cryptography - 1045 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:50] <exec> 08└─No -- Fuck you. The Government is no longer, if it ever was, "for the people, of the people, or by the people." Most people are of course ruled BY the government, but there is a tiny minority which owns, directs, and controls our government. I'm not talking conspiracy BS -- no grand plan, just indiv...
[01:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Geeks v Government: the Battle Over Public Key Cryptography - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:51] <exec> 08└─DJB lost... ... you people are the problem. FUCK. YOU.
[01:45:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Geeks v Government: the Battle Over Public Key Cryptography - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:54] <exec> 08└─Dude! You got the number for MDC's which docter? I hear the pills the pills the happy pills are the calling. Modern pharmaceutical miracle wankers can fix existential dissatisfaction right right right right??? Bro.
[01:48:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK PM Calls for Election, Backed by Parliament - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:39] <exec> 08└─Pfft, everyone's a Nazi, that makes her the Nazi we need right now in troubled times.
[01:48:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK PM Calls for Election, Backed by Parliament - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:40] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry to have to tell you: Someone stabbed Caesar...
[01:55:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Male American Airlines Flight Attendant Hits Mother of Twins with Stroller - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:55:45] <exec> 08└─President T disapproves of male-to-female spacing trending towards zero without going negative.
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[02:45:36] <exec> 08└─See subject.
[02:45:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dutch Court Rules Fan Subtitling is Illegal - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:45] <exec> 08└─Depends. Are you of the peasant class, or an invader? If it's the first one, then you're a horrible monster who hurt someone. If you're the second, then you're a shining example of what makes the people who celebrate their status as defenseless prey just so 'with it' nowadays. Expect the NYT to call...
[02:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Geeks v Government: the Battle Over Public Key Cryptography - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:59] <exec> 08└─This happened in 1977 from what I could gather after going through the article. I think it would have been nice to see that in the summary. Not that it would make it irrelevant but it would have helped set my expectations. The actual article also fails to do that early on until one scrolls past the...
[02:46:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Geeks v Government: the Battle Over Public Key Cryptography - 1181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:01] <exec> 08└─> The Government is no longer, if it ever was, "for the people, of the people, or by the people." > ... > compared to the S&L crisis where 1000 did time in Fed. prison By your own criteria you just proved that it was "for the people" and pretty recently too. Its intellectually lazy to cherry-pick ou...
[02:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Geeks v Government: the Battle Over Public Key Cryptography - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:03] <exec> 08└─Nope. Government is by The People for The People and YOU are The People. FUCK THE PEOPLE FUCK YOU
[02:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Geeks v Government: the Battle Over Public Key Cryptography - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:05] <exec> 08└─I think there are still part-time editor jobs available at SN. I'm sure you can help improve the site enough that it will be to your liking.
[02:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03its_gonna_be_yuge! [6454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Open Source Remote Access Trojan Targets Telegram Users - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:40] <exec> 08└─Telegram (2013) is supported by Russian entrepreneur Pavel Durov - it doesn't seem to have much relationship to the original Telegram They claim billions of transactions per day. Beeellions.
[02:47:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 063D Printed House for Cheap in 24 Hours - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:17] <exec> 08└─Agreed [google.com] [NSFW]
[02:47:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03kaszz [4211] 02 - 06Solarcoaster: Workers Very Unhappy with Elon Musk-Owned SolarCity - 1042 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:48] <exec> 08└─SolarCity founded in 2006 designs, manufactures, permits, finances, sells, installs, maintains, and monitors solar energy systems and panels for residential, commercial and government applications. It's run by CEO, Lyndon Rive a cousin of Chairman, Elon Musk. Quick guess, rocket science needs attent...
[02:48:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solarcoaster: Workers Very Unhappy with Elon Musk-Owned SolarCity - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:16] <exec> 08└─I'm not saying we need to go back to sweat shops
[02:48:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Solarcoaster: Workers Very Unhappy with Elon Musk-Owned SolarCity - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:18] <exec> 08└─Union organizing and complaints of substandard compensation at Tesla. Elon's response was that the workers get stock options in leu of competitive pay. The workers pointed out that unvested stock options don't pay the rent. Elon also responded that he wants to build a roller coaster at the plant to...
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[03:45:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apache Foundation Hails Metron as New Top Level Project for Cybersecurity - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:36] <exec> 08└─Heavens, not more stuff on top of that HBase monstrosity! Out of all the newfandangled map/reduce and nosql stuff, HBase and Hadoop are the ones I really can't stand to work on/with. "Just" spin up at least three VMs, further bog it down by running within a JVM, and then watch silent data corruption...
[03:45:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apache Foundation Hails Metron as New Top Level Project for Cybersecurity - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:38] <exec> 08└─I thought SourceForge was the homeless shelter for abandoned software? I guess SourceForge is more like a graveyard for dead projects.
[03:45:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dutch Court Rules Fan Subtitling is Illegal - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:48] <exec> 08└─I am poor Turkish boy and I work in donut shop and woman was white as powdered sugar and when I wear her face so am I.
[03:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06Dutch Court Rules Fan Subtitling is Illegal - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:49] <exec> 08└─"BREIN wasn't unsympathetic" That's the best one I've heard all day.
[03:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Geeks v Government: the Battle Over Public Key Cryptography - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:08] <exec> 08└─Instead they should form a society out of voluntary... they voluntarily give up the power that they have
[03:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Geeks v Government: the Battle Over Public Key Cryptography - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:09] <exec> 08└─That law to enable ISP spying was a direct response to the government previously making ISP spying illegal.
[03:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Geeks v Government: the Battle Over Public Key Cryptography - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:11] <exec> 08└─Mod up. Regurgitating Diffie-Hellman paper as if it's a breaking news. WTF.
[03:46:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Geeks v Government: the Battle Over Public Key Cryptography - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:14] <exec> 08└─> Actually, it was a direct response to the government saying it wouldn't be legal much longer. At no point did it actually become illegal. Gee, a distinction without a difference. The very best kind of distinction! > The S&L crisis was 30 years ago. The country is 240 years old, your implication th...
[03:49:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Power Struggle at Huntsman Cancer Institute in Utah - 231 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:49:12] <exec> 08└─My guess? It's not the scientist squabbling over the money. More likely, it's an MBA graduate in the administration of the university trying to take the cash from the institute... because he learnt that "Greed is good" lesson well.
[03:54:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top-Ranked Programming Web Tutorials Introduce Vulnerabilities Into Software - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:40] <exec> 08└─This study was done for PHP repositories. In other words, this is not news. PHP practically encourages you to format strings using user input and use their broken password hashing implementations.
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[04:45:43] <exec> 08└─Finally, a fully functional FOSS replacement for Windows!
[04:45:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Hartree [195] 02 - 06Dutch Court Rules Fan Subtitling is Illegal - 68 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:55] <exec> 08└─"BREIN wasn't unsympathetic" That's the best one I've heard all day.
[04:46:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hemocyanin [186] 02 - 06Geeks v Government: the Battle Over Public Key Cryptography - 1045 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:06] <exec> 08└─No -- Fuck you. The Government is no longer, if it ever was, "for the people, of the people, or by the people." Most people are of course ruled BY the government, but there is a tiny minority which owns, directs, and controls our government. I'm not talking conspiracy BS -- no grand plan, just indiv...
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[04:47:31] <exec> 08└─Communities composed entirely of Styrofoam™ are already a reality in progressively minded Japan. [...] models tested by the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) did not merely meet earthquake standards; they remained fully intact after being shaken harder than the strongest earthquakes ever rec...
[04:47:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Imitating People's Speech Patterns Precisely Could Bring Trouble - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:56] <exec> 08└─I recall hearing about IBM doing something like this (probably with looser specs, more input data) a decade ago. I guess society doesn't debate things until they have been mass produced at low cost. Too bad.
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[04:52:05] <exec> 08└─The Islamic terror angle is perfectly believable.
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[05:45:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Trial Set for UK Motorways in 2019 - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:37] <exec> 08└─When the accidents starts to happen. Will the insurance cover both missed income and cover hospital costs fully? Can't trust NHS to be funded properly so private care is a must. And the insurance payout better be funded separately, not dependent on corporate psychopaths. Btw, congratulations to be u...
[05:45:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apache Foundation Hails Metron as New Top Level Project for Cybersecurity - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:48] <exec> 08└─Cisco is a corporation that has let the alphabet soup backdoor their products. So if this source code shall be used it better be scrutinized deeply.
[05:47:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 063D Printed House for Cheap in 24 Hours - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:37] <exec> 08└─There's a reason one installs small tubes into buildings instead of cables. Once a specific cabling standard is obsolete. Another one can just be pulled straight through. 10GBASE-T using Category 6a goes 100 meter and 40GBASE-T goes 30 meter using Category 8. So this is indeed a moving target.
[05:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03tedd [1691] (Score: 1) 02 - 063D Printed House for Cheap in 24 Hours - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:38] <exec> 08└─So: 3D printing the palace would save over a HALF BILLION DOLLARS!
[05:48:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Imitating People's Speech Patterns Precisely Could Bring Trouble - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:48:04] <exec> 08└─http://www.festvox.org/download.html [festvox.org]
[05:49:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Power Struggle at Huntsman Cancer Institute in Utah - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:49:59] <exec> 08└─So we should probably add that to the model.
[05:50:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Power Struggle at Huntsman Cancer Institute in Utah - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:50:01] <exec> 08└─At our local University Medical School Super-Duper Cancer Research Center for the Win!, our tyrannical out of touch one-trick academic researcher boss was Italian! Blew up big time. So it is not ethnic, it is what happens to people who have been through graduate (or, medical, not the same, but worse...
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[06:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Elon Musk Urged to Dump Trump - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:35] <exec> 08└─…if the President isn’t going to listen to it and just do whatever the hell he wants?
[06:45:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Elon Musk Urged to Dump Trump - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:37] <exec> 08└─What an ass. This guy puts the mental in environmentalist.
[06:45:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Urged to Dump Trump - 674 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:39] <exec> 08└─Just like the Dixie Chicks dumped Bush. Really worked out well for the Dixie Chicks. They enjoyed that hiatus after the boycotts. As a matter of fact, dumping Bush worked really well for me too. I met fellow protesters at my trial, the prosecutor wanted to make examples of all of us dirty terrorists...
[06:45:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Urged to Dump Trump - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:41] <exec> 08└─What's wrong with being a prop for the president's photo-ops?
[06:45:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Urged to Dump Trump - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:43] <exec> 08└─You call that mental? Take this: I swear that, if Elon doesn't dump Trump, I'll vote with my wallet: I'll buy and drive a Chinese electric bus [soylentnews.org] instead a Tesla car (yuuuuge grin)
[06:45:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Urged to Dump Trump - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:45] <exec> 08└─Just like the Dixie Chicks dumped Bush... They enjoyed that hiatus after the boycotts.
[06:46:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03goodie [1877] 02 - 06Geeks v Government: the Battle Over Public Key Cryptography - 318 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:46:28] <exec> 08└─This happened in 1977 from what I could gather after going through the article. I think it would have been nice to see that in the summary. Not that it would make it irrelevant but it would have helped set my expectations. The actual article also fails to do that early on until one scrolls past the...
[06:47:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 063D Printed House for Cheap in 24 Hours - 1035 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:53] <exec> 08└─The problem is usually access to willing funding capital. And investors have money otherwise they would not be able to invest. And with plenty of money they can live a good life even in crowded cities. So these circumstances won't affect them enough. But this setup also leaves the boonies without in...
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[06:47:54] <exec> 08└─Architecture got bad reputation because all too often they design houses that look like concrete boxes and is hostile to their inhabitants. Complete lack of reality connect (just like some other professions).
[06:47:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 063D Printed House for Cheap in 24 Hours - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:56] <exec> 08└─It seems the cost is less than 10 000 US$ for the actual 3D printing of concrete: Foundation - 277 US$ Walls - 1624 US$ It totals at 1901 US$. I wonder if that's concrete + machine rent or just concrete. Anyway. What is missing is what the roof is made of. Is that concrete too?...
[06:47:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 063D Printed House for Cheap in 24 Hours - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:59] <exec> 08└─Don't worry, the Chinese will probably make one just for fun.. Complete with guards.
[06:53:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's a Plan to Send a Spacecraft to Venus, and Make It Last - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:53:17] <exec> 08└─Well, actually the atmosphere is dense at the bottom, and has strong winds at the top. But maybe the density is enough that, even with the low wind speeds at the surface, a wind-powered lander is feasible. It's an interesting idea, anyhow.
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[07:45:43] <exec> 08└─Lady Gaia
[07:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Urged to Dump Trump - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:56] <exec> 08└─Elon no longer needs a boyfriend in the White house, he's hangin' wid the Amber! WooHooo! All fun and games, until someone throws a Manhattan glass at the hyperloop vacuum enclosure. http://www.businessinsider.com [businessinsid...
[07:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Urged to Dump Trump - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:58] <exec> 08└─What's wrong with being a prop for the president's photo-ops?
[07:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Urged to Dump Trump - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:46:00] <exec> 08└─And there was also something about Kim Kardash's butt, but I really do not pay any attention to this ridiculous stuff.
[07:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Urged to Dump Trump - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:46:02] <exec> 08└─Good thing a Trumper boycott of Tesla is meaningless because Trumpers don't drive gay cars. Musk is safe! On a related note I strolled across the tracks today and saw both sides of American exceptionalism. On one side, Asians tending shops and Blacks begging for change. On the other side, White hips...
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[07:46:04] <exec> 08└─Doug Derwin born 1957 in Hollywood. 1980 University of California with Bachelor of Arts. 1983 Harvard University with Juris Doctor. Phi Beta Kappa. 1983 Began practicing law in Silicon Valley, concentrating on high technology intellectual property issues. So what we got here is a honest lawyer that...
[07:46:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Urged to Dump Trump - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:46:07] <exec> 08└─So you tailor your advice to be whatever the president wants to do. Once you've made yourself into an echo chamber, you quickly become one of his most trusted advisors.
[07:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Urged to Dump Trump - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:46:09] <exec> 08└─On one side, Asians tending shops and Blacks begging for change. On the other side, White hipsters buying condos and Gay Lesbians walking dogs.
[07:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Urged to Dump Trump - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:46:11] <exec> 08└─Yes they're still begging and they're still talking mushmouthed as ever. Spring is in the air and my ears are filling with wax so I had to ask the kind gentleman to say again when I wasn't quite sure whether he was asking for directions or asking for change. It was change he wanted so I emptied my p...
[07:46:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dutch Court Rules Fan Subtitling is Illegal - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:46:41] <exec> 08└─That's not how dead skin masks work, they turn a rather unpleasent color really quickly.
[07:47:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Geeks v Government: the Battle Over Public Key Cryptography - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:47:04] <exec> 08└─The content listed on the front page for this article does not mention when this was.
[07:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Geeks v Government: the Battle Over Public Key Cryptography - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:47:05] <exec> 08└─It's also pretty melodramatic, "exporting nuclear arms to a hostile foreign power", what a load of nonsense. Firstly you can't export nuclear arms, at least not commercially (you can if you're the military and you're deploying them). Secondly, ITAR could just as easily have been described as "postin...
[07:47:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Open Source Remote Access Trojan Targets Telegram Users - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:47:43] <exec> 08└─Polaroid cameras are back [wsj.com], so why not. Uber horses next up?
[07:47:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Open Source Remote Access Trojan Targets Telegram Users - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:47:44] <exec> 08└─Indeed. FUD, or an advertisement for that RATattack tool, or both.
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[08:45:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Atmospheric Phenomenon Named "Steve" - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:39] <exec> 08└─Let's name it "atmospheric plasma flow" or some other more descriptive name!
[08:45:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Atmospheric Phenomenon Named "Steve" - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:40] <exec> 08└─But there's a Stevie Wonder joke in there somewhere.
[08:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Elon Musk Urged to Dump Trump - 1342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:02] <exec> 08└─You don't make the world a better place by sitting around huddling in safe spaces with approved people with approved views. That's how you create wars as you become more radicalized and your 'opposition', now devoid of neutralizing forces comparably radicalizes themselves. If you want positive chang...
[08:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Urged to Dump Trump - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:04] <exec> 08└─Environassalist. A word totally needed in our future Idiocracy ;-) The problem is that some environmentalists are blind to other systematic effects and insight into objectives of others.
[08:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Urged to Dump Trump - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:06] <exec> 08└─wooooosh! Dude, when has anyone ever considered being someone's prop a good thing?
[08:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Urged to Dump Trump - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:08] <exec> 08└─How do you know he tailors his advice?
[08:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Trial Set for UK Motorways in 2019 - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:17] <exec> 08└─Meh, the UK's a major car manufacturing nation, so supporting automotive-sector R&D with favourable legislation does make sense.
[08:46:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dutch Court Rules Fan Subtitling is Illegal - 609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:40] <exec> 08└─Can we get a line on exactly why they say they can't "allow fansubbers to continue doing what they're doing". We've heard their arguments as to why pirating the whole movie denies them of potential revenue (which is up for debate, I know). But why the subtitle track? Is it because you can only use a...
[08:47:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Japan Made Secret Deals With the NSA That Expanded Global Surveillance - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:47:13] <exec> 08└─Given the kind of power, immunity, and honoring of their "classified" status on documents, nothing they do will surprise me.
[08:48:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 063D Printed House for Cheap in 24 Hours - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:48:29] <exec> 08└─No one expects a house to last 20 years, let alone 100, so why over-engineer?
[08:48:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Imitating People's Speech Patterns Precisely Could Bring Trouble - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:48:56] <exec> 08└─Download our software package. Set up a sex-talk line. Watch the dollars flow. Now, you too can be making $2.99 to $4.99 per minute as callers talk to your server! Yessir. There are people out there with money to spend, and here's your chance to get your share of it! Just call (548kIksbe*4KmsY^n...
[08:49:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solarcoaster: Workers Very Unhappy with Elon Musk-Owned SolarCity - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:49:35] <exec> 08└─SpaceX got 6000 employees so no private space program will go forward then. Your idea might be useful but you have to rethink it. Another approach is free education and basic income to people that have the skills for a startup such that there always is a lot of competition.
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[08:49:36] <exec> 08└─good luck installing cabinets from 12,000 miles away
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[09:45:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Radioactive Boy Scout" David Charles Hahn was Regularly Visited by FBI - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:41] <exec> 08└─As the cause of death is alcohol poisoning it's easy to think that not being able to explore his science interests or starting a relevant career took the soul out of him.
[09:45:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Radioactive Boy Scout" David Charles Hahn was Regularly Visited by FBI - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:42] <exec> 08└─Cause of death sounds bullshit. (BAC was "404". Right.) From what I heard, He had a massive inoperable tumor surrounding his heart.
[09:45:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Radioactive Boy Scout" David Charles Hahn was Regularly Visited by FBI - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:45] <exec> 08└─Impossible. If a dead end life could be soul crushing, Dick-Hard Bathroom Stall-Man should have died when Linux destroyed any hope of ever finishing GNU.
[09:45:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Radioactive Boy Scout" David Charles Hahn was Regularly Visited by FBI - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:47] <exec> 08└─The father confirmed the cause of death [arstechnica.com]. Yes, the BAC was 0.404. No reason to suppose he would like about this. The guy was a vet; maybe he had PTSD, or some other psychological problem. Having the FBI regularly popping up on your doorstep can't have helped. One wonders at their ab...
[09:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Atmospheric Phenomenon Named "Steve" - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:58] <exec> 08└─I wonder where't may be?
[09:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Urged to Dump Trump - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:23] <exec> 08└─It was change he wanted so I emptied my pockets and gave all that I had for the good lord said give all that you have to the poor.
[09:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Urged to Dump Trump - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:25] <exec> 08└─Dude, when has anyone ever considered being someone's prop a good thing?
[09:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dutch Court Rules Fan Subtitling is Illegal - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:58] <exec> 08└─That we can sue them for not releasing subtitles in my language? Where does this madness end? Why do they even care? This is like suing people for putting song lyrics on a website. Wtf. Absolute BS. My subtitles are a derivitive work. Sue me.
[09:47:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ilsa [6082] 02 - 06Open Source Remote Access Trojan Targets Telegram Users - 642 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:47:56] <exec> 08└─All these people have done is create a trojan vehicle that happens to use Telegram as the underlying protocol. From the article: Distributing this open source remote access Trojan is a bit of a challenge, though. The assailants first need to create their own proprietary telegram bot, which is relati...
[09:48:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 063D Printed House for Cheap in 24 Hours - 727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:48:48] <exec> 08└─most houses being built on estates in Australia (and likely, in many other places) are timber-framed, brick veneer, usually built after a knock-down of a house built sometime between 1922 and 1990. Massive building boom after WWI AND WWII, but mostly the WWI houses have already been extensively modi...
[09:48:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 063D Printed House for Cheap in 24 Hours - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:48:50] <exec> 08└─I wonder if you could make a bunch of these in close proximity and link them together to make a larger house. And I'm certain you can make them in a variety of shapes, or make part, then move the printer, and make more, to get an overall larger structure. This is how much they made in a day. Give th...
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[09:49:56] <exec> 08└─These illegals and visa abusers are there to do the bidding as an instrument of the capitalist oligarchy. Therefore they can't run around uncontrolled. And to build a future the people of the country needs to have some constructive behavioral patterns and education to contribute with high productivi...
[09:50:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK PM Calls for Election, Backed by Parliament - 1192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:50:36] <exec> 08└─It is, and it's really good when electing a single person. Not quite STV, but it has benefits that STV or AV or instant run-off doesn't have (and it has drawbacks - namely a second round) Its a way to keep extremeists out of power, something we used to take seriously in Europe. You could have prefer...
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[10:45:40] <exec> 08└─Anyone who has to declare themselves a "fact checker" is probably anything but, particularly if they're trying to shout down any opposition to their assertions.
[10:45:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Fight 'Fake News' in a Post-Truth Environment - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:41] <exec> 08└─Amen AC. Don't trust anyone with a name.
[10:45:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Fight 'Fake News' in a Post-Truth Environment - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:43] <exec> 08└─So you have to check the checkers that check checkers? ;-) Reminds me of.. Monitor monitors [youtube.com] (video)
[10:45:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Fight 'Fake News' in a Post-Truth Environment - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:45] <exec> 08└─It's checkers all the way down. Now king me.
[10:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Radioactive Boy Scout" David Charles Hahn was Regularly Visited by FBI - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:56] <exec> 08└─Maybe he should moved to another country?
[10:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Radioactive Boy Scout" David Charles Hahn was Regularly Visited by FBI - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:57] <exec> 08└─His goal was likely open and free software. If it happened to be GNU or Linux was of less importance. Besides more projects enables even more projects. So it wasn't hopeless. It just took a new direction.
[10:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06"Radioactive Boy Scout" David Charles Hahn was Regularly Visited by FBI - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:59] <exec> 08└─No country is safe from meddling Americans.
[10:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Radioactive Boy Scout" David Charles Hahn was Regularly Visited by FBI - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:02] <exec> 08└─Sure then why are his panties all twisted about GNU/Linux. And have you seen stallman.org. What's bad about: Airbnb | Amazon | Amtrak | Apple | Ebooks | Eventbrite | Evernote | Facebook | Google | Intel | LinkedIn | Lyft | Meetup | Microsoft | Netflix | Pay Toilets | Skype | Spotify | Twitter | Uber...
[10:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Radioactive Boy Scout" David Charles Hahn was Regularly Visited by FBI - 801 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:04] <exec> 08└─[This entire post is NSFV (Not Safe For Viewing)!] Hahn [xvideos.com] was being harassed for exercising his 2nd Amendment rights! [redtube.com] Breeder reactors [pornhub.com] are necessary to protect ourselves from the authoritarian [xnxx.com] government! We must never forget those [pornhub.com] who...
[10:46:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Urged to Dump Trump - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:41] <exec> 08└─$SUBJ. Either that or I need more coffee today.
[10:46:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Trial Set for UK Motorways in 2019 - 857 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:50] <exec> 08└─> When the accidents starts to happen. [sic] They already do - every single day. https://images.duckduckgo.com [duckduckgo.com] https://images.duckduckgo.co...
[10:47:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dutch Court Rules Fan Subtitling is Illegal - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:47:16] <exec> 08└─BREIN courted all right, I guess.
[10:47:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dutch Court Rules Fan Subtitling is Illegal - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:47:17] <exec> 08└─Is not dead skin I made her pretty face into the finest leather mask.
[10:50:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK PM Calls for Election, Backed by Parliament - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:50:53] <exec> 08└─I hope so, but statistically they probably won't.
[10:50:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK PM Calls for Election, Backed by Parliament - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:50:54] <exec> 08└─The simplest thing is for England and Wales to leave the UK. The UK then remains in Europe and the parts of England that wanted to stay (i.e. the parts with a functioning economy) can apply for membership of the UK.
[10:50:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK PM Calls for Election, Backed by Parliament - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:50:56] <exec> 08└─However the 2 largest parties, May's Conservatives and Corbyn's Labour are both angling for a hard brexit
[10:50:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK PM Calls for Election, Backed by Parliament - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:50:59] <exec> 08└─The problem for the remain campaign was that they included a lot of MPs and so couldn't use the most compelling arguments for remaining in the EU: that the EU has blocked the most egregious abuses of power by Westminster and that the worst policies from the EU were pushed by British Prime Ministers...
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[11:45:37] <exec> 08└─director of the European Federation of Journalists [..] we need to invest in journalism
[11:45:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Fight 'Fake News' in a Post-Truth Environment - 1138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:39] <exec> 08└─Depends on what they do, and how open they are about their methodology and acceptance of feedback. There's a huge difference between just putting a label on something that says "True", "False" or "Debatable" vs. doing the same and linking to multiple credible sources that back up the assertion for a...
[11:45:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Radioactive Boy Scout" David Charles Hahn was Regularly Visited by FBI - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:56] <exec> 08└─Cause of death not found.
[11:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Radioactive Boy Scout" David Charles Hahn was Regularly Visited by FBI - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:57] <exec> 08└─Doesn't help that he never learned who his accusers were. They redacted all the name of people who made accusations about him. I wonder if he really stole those smoke detectors in 2007?
[11:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Radioactive Boy Scout" David Charles Hahn was Regularly Visited by FBI - 972 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:59] <exec> 08└─In a alternative world those services would run some mutant Xenix-MS-Embedded that would require you to take certification X,Y,Z and pay corporate license to even test the software so you could apply for a job that provided these services. And only devices approved by the emperor may run and only ha...
[11:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Trial Set for UK Motorways in 2019 - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:46] <exec> 08└─The new ones may be more frequent and in particular extraordinary.
[11:47:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan Made Secret Deals With the NSA That Expanded Global Surveillance - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:47:46] <exec> 08└─... but ... but... we *are* accountable. We have an ombudsman!
[11:50:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK PM Calls for Election, Backed by Parliament - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:50:56] <exec> 08└─Actions speak louder than words, and so far they've been backing May to the hilt. The massive increase in support for the Lib Dems since the referendum - including 30% swings to Lib Dems in remain constituencies, and even in Copeland which Labour lost in a near-unprecedented failure, there was a 9 p...
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[11:51:40] <exec> 08└─Why not?
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[12:45:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drivers Look at their Phones on 88 Percent of Trips - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:48] <exec> 08└─The third link map by state, in the spirit of the famous xkcd comic where most maps are just population maps, appear to be the same as http://www.censusscope.org [censusscope.org]
[12:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drivers Look at their Phones on 88 Percent of Trips - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:49] <exec> 08└─My phone stays in a cubby hole next to the radio while I'm moving. There is nothing you can possibly impart to me through speech or written word that is worth smashing up my vehicle to find out; especially with me inside it.
[12:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DavePolaschek [6129] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Drivers Look at their Phones on 88 Percent of Trips - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:51] <exec> 08└─Which is interesting, because while I see an awful lot of people staring at their phones while on the roads, I also see people reading books, applying mascara and eye-liner, etc. I guess the 2/3 of the states where people are more distracted than here must be real Death Race 2000 zones.
[12:45:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Drivers Look at their Phones on 88 Percent of Trips - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:54] <exec> 08└─Some people know how to judge when it's safe to look at their phones, just like some people know when it's still safe to drive with a little alcohol in the system. Life sucks, because the rest of us have to pretend to be as stupid as your ilk.
[12:45:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drivers Look at their Phones on 88 Percent of Trips - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:56] <exec> 08└─Competent people are capable of performing complex tasks successfully. [soylentnews.org] Minnesotans have a large Scandinavian and German population, right? Well, those are some of the smartest people on the planet.
[12:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Drivers Look at their Phones on 88 Percent of Trips - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:58] <exec> 08└─Time for some reasonable pitpicks of the article: Zendrive’s uses the technology built into smartphones to measure driving, so by virtue of running on a smartphone, Zendrive can measure phone use while driving. Use is detected when the driver handles the phone for a certain period of time for var...
[12:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06How to Fight 'Fake News' in a Post-Truth Environment - 1943 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:11] <exec> 08└─Published procedures for handling mis-reported stories combined with a clear willingness to admit errors and correct them would be a good start, as would providing links to critical sources/supporting evidence wherever possible - directly online, or via a private URL shortener in print would be usef...
[12:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06How to Fight 'Fake News' in a Post-Truth Environment - 963 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:13] <exec> 08└─He seems to have had it right with "I think there is a fundamental problem that fake news became a catch-all term to mean anything that we don't particularly like to read". At the same time it's hardly surprising that the trust in media has been in a sharp and rapid decline for a long time now. Turn...
[12:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Fight 'Fake News' in a Post-Truth Environment - 1484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:15] <exec> 08└─You just basically described the academic publishing process. Swamp them in hundreds of supporting info points/citations while leaving out the one or two crucial points that would lead to totally different conclusions. For example: Here I take the conservative view that only textbooks published in 2...
[12:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Fight 'Fake News' in a Post-Truth Environment - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:17] <exec> 08└─It sounds like in your eyes most mainstream "news" is even lesser than "fake news". It is not even news, just blatant opinion presented as if it was news that doesn't fool anyone?
[12:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Fight 'Fake News' in a Post-Truth Environment - 1529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:19] <exec> 08└─Science and the news have a lot in common - in their purest forms they are essentially about applying the available data to get as close as possible to the facts, then evolving those facts as further data becomes available. In that light, it's perhaps inevitable that they would share similar process...
[12:46:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Atmospheric Phenomenon Named "Steve" - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:48] <exec> 08└─I wonder if Earth's magnetic field is still a requirement for this, as they are for Aurora's... or that this can also be observed at lower latitudes.
[12:47:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03its_gonna_be_yuge! [6454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Urged to Dump Trump - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:17] <exec> 08└─What I admire about Elon Musk is that he rarely gets caught up in petty politics and just focuses on the deliverables. As much as I dislike Trump, telling people not to talk to him just puts him further into his mirrored bubble. So good on Elon Musk for putting up with the OvalOffice Turdy.
[12:47:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Urged to Dump Trump - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:18] <exec> 08└─Your mental issues seem to stem from your particular eating habits. Might I suggest you switch dog food brands?
[12:50:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Solarcoaster: Workers Very Unhappy with Elon Musk-Owned SolarCity - 168 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:50:24] <exec> 08└─The company did not provide its workers access to bathrooms during worktime, requiring them to urinate in bottles or buckets while on the job, according to the lawsuit.
[12:51:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK PM Calls for Election, Backed by Parliament - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:51:41] <exec> 08└─Putin, Farage, Trump, Wilders, Le Pen... The dirty fascist dog keeps pooping them out. Le Pen is particularly nasty. She's a Holocaust/history denier. She's a Nazi.
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[13:45:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03its_gonna_be_yuge! [6454] (Score: 2) 02 - 063D-Printing of Glass Now Possible - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:43] <exec> 08└─This all makes sense. One thing they don't mention though is the toxicity of nano-glasses: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[13:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03BenJeremy [6392] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drivers Look at their Phones on 88 Percent of Trips - 813 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:57] <exec> 08└─Seriously, just back away from the keyboard before typing nonsense like that. Glancing at your phone isn't causing "all those" accidents. There are lots of factors. Inattentiveness caused by distractions like phones are certainly a factor, but if you are driving in an open stretch of road, with reas...
[13:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drivers Look at their Phones on 88 Percent of Trips - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:59] <exec> 08└─A little alcohol in the Mr. Fusion will produce 1.21 gigawatts.
[13:46:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drivers Look at their Phones on 88 Percent of Trips - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:01] <exec> 08└─But that does not mean that a person who texts and drives is an inattentive driver. Causation versus Correlation. How does it work?
[13:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drivers Look at their Phones on 88 Percent of Trips - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:03] <exec> 08└─See also: http://www.businessinsider.my [businessinsider.my] So there's some correlation of driver phone usage with road fatalities. However there appear to be significant exceptions too.
[13:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drivers Look at their Phones on 88 Percent of Trips - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:05] <exec> 08└─My phone stays in a cubby hole next to the radio while I'm moving. There is nothing you can possibly impart to me through speech So you don't listen to the radio then?
[13:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Drivers Look at their Phones on 88 Percent of Trips - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:07] <exec> 08└─My phone stays in a cubby hole next to the radio while I'm moving.
[13:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Fight 'Fake News' in a Post-Truth Environment - 1919 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:25] <exec> 08└─If so, then Looorg has a valid point. There's a place for opinion in the media, and it's under a big banner that says "Editorial", and ideally accompanied by a disclaimer about being solely the views of the author as well. MSM has been blurring the line between pure journalism (the facts of a story)...
[13:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06How to Fight 'Fake News' in a Post-Truth Environment - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:27] <exec> 08└─Anyone who has to declare themselves a "fact checker" is probably anything but, particularly if they're trying to shout down any opposition to their assertions.
[13:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Fight 'Fake News' in a Post-Truth Environment - 834 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:29] <exec> 08└─Here's the thing - we've had "fake news" for a long time now. Ever go to the supermarket and take a look at the tabloids? Look at your newspaper stand and see the "Free Take One" ? Your college newspaper? The "problem" is that people *want* to read fake news. "Trump Tells All About Secret Affairs!"...
[13:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Fight 'Fake News' in a Post-Truth Environment - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:31] <exec> 08└─Turns out this whole "offering opinions" instead of, or as a replacement of, news was really REALLY bad for your reputation and the public trust in your organization(s).
[13:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Fight 'Fake News' in a Post-Truth Environment - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:34] <exec> 08└─Combating "hate speech?" Get the fuck out of here you left control freak. We are seeing Freedom of Speech under attack like we have never seen before.
[13:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Fight 'Fake News' in a Post-Truth Environment - 2783 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:36] <exec> 08└─The first thing everyone should bear in mind when reading anything that claims to be non-fiction is "This could be a bunch of malarkey." That's why you look for independent corroboration, ways of verifying facts, logical fallacies, and so forth. Training people in these techniques used to be a stand...
[13:46:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Radioactive Boy Scout" David Charles Hahn was Regularly Visited by FBI - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:55] <exec> 08└─> Maybe he should moved to another country? Its hard to tell if you are being serious. Surely no educated adult is that naive, right? Life isn't that simple, especially for people without means. Nevermind that the same notoriety which caused the FBI to show up regularly would deter most countries fr...
[13:46:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Radioactive Boy Scout" David Charles Hahn was Regularly Visited by FBI - 742 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:56] <exec> 08└─He did get the last laugh in that the FBI is famous for running entrapment schemes so they tried over and over for years to get the guy into some semi-false-flag op where they either make some prosecuter's career OR they let him do a dirty bomb and then clamp down on civil rights as a response, eith...
[13:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Urged to Dump Trump - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:39] <exec> 08└─Tell that to the guy who spent $400k on a letter entitled "Elon: Dump Trump".
[13:47:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Urged to Dump Trump - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:40] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the Amber Heard post so I didn't have to.
[13:47:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Urged to Dump Trump - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:42] <exec> 08└─Derwin said he caught wind of Uber CEO Travis Kalanick's decision to walk away from Trump's business advisory council
[13:47:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Urged to Dump Trump - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:44] <exec> 08└─Abandoning Trump would be short sited. (Even for a political enemy.) The man is the President. If he is lacking, it's especially useful the he get good advice.
[13:47:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Urged to Dump Trump - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:47] <exec> 08└─propping craze mad props, you might say
[13:47:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Urged to Dump Trump - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:49] <exec> 08└─And? You really think Elon's success is linked to whether or not he supports Trump?
[13:47:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Urged to Dump Trump - 1078 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:51] <exec> 08└─What are the odds that these ads will work, and if they do, that it matters? If the odds of either are low, it seems an awful waste of $400K. I've known for some time that the super rich don't live in the same world as the rest of us. I cut coupons, watch and wait for sales, make sure I get correct...
[13:47:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Urged to Dump Trump - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:53] <exec> 08└─Nope, sorry, your side went too far when it started religious objectioning to providing health care. Not all of us are lesbians who sleep with guys for kids and have sympathetic stories that make great fake news. Some of us are SOL when you go "religious objection" out of the blue when 2 YEARS AGO Y...
[13:47:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Urged to Dump Trump - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:56] <exec> 08└─Ah, but haven't you noticed that he does appear to change his mind about lots of stuff? For example he now doesn't think NATO is obsolete. You can change his mind if you frame things the right way. He's not exactly a hard working, hard thinking president, so you should be able to get much of what yo...
[13:47:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Urged to Dump Trump - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:58] <exec> 08└─I can live very comfortably for 30 years with that amount, assuming no health care. $400,000 to waste everybody's goddamn time with his poisonous idea. Kill me now.
[13:48:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dutch Court Rules Fan Subtitling is Illegal - 672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:36] <exec> 08└─>Does it not fall under the same category as people playing their own version/cover of a song? Pretty much. Playing a cover (publicly) is also generally illegal without a license. There's a whole legal racket, at least in the US, that shakes down bars and other music venues for "protection money" in...
[13:48:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dutch Court Rules Fan Subtitling is Illegal - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:37] <exec> 08└─Dear Dutch court: no one cares.
[13:48:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dutch Court Rules Fan Subtitling is Illegal - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:39] <exec> 08└─>This is like suing people for putting song lyrics on a website. Wtf. Yep. And that's almost certainly illegal too, if the copyright holder decides to make an issue of it. >Absolute BS. My subtitles are a derivitive work. Sue me. That's the idea...
[13:49:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Geeks v Government: the Battle Over Public Key Cryptography - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:03] <exec> 08└─A lot of things can change in 30 years, and they certainly did. You're safe and sound up till today and you're still safe tonight if I strap a bomb to you? You're being stupid. And that's not an insult but a statement of fact based on your retarded reasoning.
[13:50:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 063D Printed House for Cheap in 24 Hours - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:33] <exec> 08└─You could probably even coordinate multiple adjacent arms working simultaneously so that the walls all went up at the same speed and there would be no "intersection issues" where the support arm printing the base of section 2 needs to pass through the space already occupied by the upper portions of...
[13:50:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 063D Printed House for Cheap in 24 Hours - 728 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:35] <exec> 08└─Except the printed home is well insulated, including the windows and doors, fairly sound-proof, far more solid, and it sounds like that $10k might include the TV, counters, etc, etc, etc, inside as well. There's also no inherent impediment for "pre-stamped engineering drawings" with printed construc...
[13:50:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 063D Printed House for Cheap in 24 Hours - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:37] <exec> 08└─Ah - ok. Not straw. Sticks ;) Everything in Britain is built from bricks, and is built to last. And not even any big bad wolves here! Houses in britain are sold as either freehold (normal, own the house) or leasehold (you own a mostly-rent-free right to live in the house for X years). X used to be a...
[13:51:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Imitating People's Speech Patterns Precisely Could Bring Trouble - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:51:05] <exec> 08└─You don't need a cryptographic hash - DNA is varied enough, that it's pretty much guaranteed that nobody except identical twins has the same thing. And even they may have different mutations. The problem with using it for forensics is that nobody spends the money to exhaustively sequence it for comp...
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[14:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 063D-Printing of Glass Now Possible - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:54] <exec> 08└─Could rubbing traditional glass against an abrasive create toxic nano-glasses?
[14:45:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 063D-Printing of Glass Now Possible - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:55] <exec> 08└─They don't use the word sintering although the written description is very close. My guess is patent issues.
[14:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 063D-Printing of Glass Now Possible - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:58] <exec> 08└─When do I get glass guns and cannons? :)
[14:46:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Drivers Look at their Phones on 88 Percent of Trips - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:17] <exec> 08└─Its interesting that the ham radio people have been talking on the radio for 50 years while driving while supposedly not being a risk
[14:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drivers Look at their Phones on 88 Percent of Trips - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:18] <exec> 08└─And yet they keep making vehicles with large touch screen interfaces. I keep wondering: how is that considered safe and why is it so different than using your phone when driving?
[14:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drivers Look at their Phones on 88 Percent of Trips - 747 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:21] <exec> 08└─Yes but sadly not everybody is smart enough to keep their focus on the road. I don't use my phone while driving, other than answering occasional calls via bluetooth. I had an interesting experience once, when I was in a car at speeds up to 150 mph for about a 2 hour very fast drive. The driver regul...
[14:46:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03looorg [578] 02 - 06How to Fight 'Fake News' in a Post-Truth Environment - 963 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:35] <exec> 08└─He seems to have had it right with "I think there is a fundamental problem that fake news became a catch-all term to mean anything that we don't particularly like to read". At the same time it's hardly surprising that the trust in media has been in a sharp and rapid decline for a long time now. Turn...
[14:46:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How to Fight 'Fake News' in a Post-Truth Environment - 2114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:45] <exec> 08└─Inasmuch as the news is, for the most part, a for-profit business, one has to realize that they are in the business of fetching eyes. Everything else is in pursuit of this; if they fail at it, they will go away, so it's always very high up on the list of priorities, and I would suggest it's actually...
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[14:46:46] <exec> 08└─That might just as well be caused by many of those who also check other sources to quickly stop including Fox News in their sources because they come to the conclusion that it provides nothing of value.
[14:46:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Fight 'Fake News' in a Post-Truth Environment - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:49] <exec> 08└─Your theory does not account for the fact that Fox News is the most watched 24-hours news network in the country and has been for like a decade. What they are doing works. In total contradiction to the theory that "offering opinions" erodes trust, it not only has it built immense trust in Fox, it al...
[14:47:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Atmospheric Phenomenon Named "Steve" - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:21] <exec> 08└─I've seen what you had done here.
[14:48:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Disagree) 02 - 06Elon Musk Urged to Dump Trump - 1715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:02] <exec> 08└─8 years ago, we had our first black president elected. There WAS some crazy shit happening then. Some idiots said they would move to Canada if the black guy was elected - but they didn't move. Other assholes predicted all sorts of stupid stuff. The black guy was going to destroy the country, blah, b...
[14:48:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Urged to Dump Trump - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:04] <exec> 08└─Elonikous Koward Clickbaitus.
[14:48:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Trial Set for UK Motorways in 2019 - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:15] <exec> 08└─This is turning into a horror show...
[14:48:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03r_a_trip [5276] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Dutch Court Rules Fan Subtitling is Illegal - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:47] <exec> 08└─This is a move to curtail the convenience of "illegal" copies as much as possible. I don't think it will make much difference. Subtitlers already handle "contraband" to do what they do. Now their own work is "contraband". They will become more careful. Sources will shift. Everybody will keep on gett...
[14:49:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Open Source Remote Access Trojan Targets Telegram Users - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:53] <exec> 08└─I think we've won.
[14:50:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 063D Printed House for Cheap in 24 Hours - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:47] <exec> 08└─-- MAFIAA
[14:51:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Imitating People's Speech Patterns Precisely Could Bring Trouble - 414 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:04] <exec> 08└─Today I learned: VLM wants us to think he's married. That he used to own a modem. That he thinks serial line ip has something to do with the post office protocol. That he lets amazon spy on him with alexa. I did not learn what any of that has to do with forging voice prints. But that wasn't really t...
[14:52:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK PM Calls for Election, Backed by Parliament - 824 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:41] <exec> 08└─No they're not. Labour wants to remain in the single market and retain all of the worker protection that the EU provides. They've seen the massive support that the Lib Dems are getting and want in. However according to Kier Starmer, Labour wants the free movement of people would end. Therefore labou...
[14:54:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK NCA: Hacking Ensnaring Teenagers into Crime - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:01] <exec> 08└─Yes, the whiz-kid hacker archetype is now mostly only limited to action movies which, to their defense, also show heroes committing murder and avoiding police. I think the problem is now just limited to 'cultural gap'. Technology is moving so fast, that very literate journalists and geeky writers st...
[14:55:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Users Will Only be Able to View Patents via HTTP; HTTPS will no Longer Work - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:12] <exec> 08└─No. Laws don't solve technical problems. Only politicians and idiots (but I repeat myself) believe that.
[14:55:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Users Will Only be Able to View Patents via HTTP; HTTPS will no Longer Work - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:13] <exec> 08└─And what does [inserting advertisements into pages delivered through cleartext HTTP] have to do with someone subtly modifying claims in patent documents as the OP suggested?
[14:55:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Users Will Only be Able to View Patents via HTTP; HTTPS will no Longer Work - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:15] <exec> 08└─Your ISP does not need to support HTTPS, it only needs to support faithfully transporting packets according to the internet protocol specification.
[14:55:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Users Will Only be Able to View Patents via HTTP; HTTPS will no Longer Work - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:17] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't it be cheaper to pass laws that ISP's cannot mess with and sell the traffic so that everybody and their dog don't have to buy and manage friggen certificates for "read only" websites?
[14:55:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Users Will Only be Able to View Patents via HTTP; HTTPS will no Longer Work - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:20] <exec> 08└─Yes. One reason why it is better to stay with https, since the login already requires https.
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[15:45:51] <exec> 08└─Very interesting and long story. Iran's journey to nukes won't go nearly as well as North Korea's has. They have too many enemies, more access to the outside world (and Israeli assassins), and China and Russia won't protect Iran from U.S. strikes. Obama may have scuttled counterproliferation efforts...
[15:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Obama Administration Undermined Iranian Counterproliferation - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:52] <exec> 08└─A: You make it wildly profitable for them not to bomb you. Profitable interaction is the only way to bring peace to this world.
[15:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 063D-Printing of Glass Now Possible - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:04] <exec> 08└─Glass cannons are easy. Just fire up any MMORPG.
[15:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drivers Look at their Phones on 88 Percent of Trips - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:27] <exec> 08└─Its difficult to kill people while "driving" at zero MPH
[15:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drivers Look at their Phones on 88 Percent of Trips - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:28] <exec> 08└─The headline tells me that 88% of drivers are witless morons.
[15:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drivers Look at their Phones on 88 Percent of Trips - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:31] <exec> 08└─Taking your eyes off the road any time you're moving is dangerously idiotic. Stop doing it!
[15:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drivers Look at their Phones on 88 Percent of Trips - 774 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:33] <exec> 08└─There seems to be several problems with the methodology. All of the participants of this study are smartphone users, because the study was conducted using smartphone apps. So extrapolating to all drivers (which the study authors do) is fallacious.In particular, even among smartphone users, if the dr...
[15:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03tekk [5704] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drivers Look at their Phones on 88 Percent of Trips - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:35] <exec> 08└─I 'look at' my phone when driving; I drive across the state every so often and I occasionally have to reach down and shift my phone (sits by the gear shift) to make sure that google maps is visible in case the text to speech marblemouths the directions. I also might change songs at a stop light, are...
[15:47:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Fight 'Fake News' in a Post-Truth Environment - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:03] <exec> 08└─"I've been saying all along the hard disk is bad." "Why is X focusing on bad hard disk when we could have faulty RAM?" "If we didn't spend so much on X we could have good hard disks for everyone." With so many variables to consider, I'm surprised that after centuries of governing someone hasn't come...
[15:47:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Fight 'Fake News' in a Post-Truth Environment - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:04] <exec> 08└─All those headlines and most media failed to mention that the ship was heading to Australia anyway. And when it does eventually get to NK it's replacing another carrier thats leaving the area, not an extra one anyway. So MSM need to pull their collective heads out from their asses.
[15:47:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Fight 'Fake News' in a Post-Truth Environment - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:06] <exec> 08└─Fake news: "The disk sounds bad, so we need to do something about the sound card" Hate speech: "Western Digital disks all suck and kill puppies. The disk needs to be replaced by a Seagate" FTFY
[15:47:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Fight 'Fake News' in a Post-Truth Environment - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:09] <exec> 08└─They know how to work right-wing authoritarians. I can't give Altemeyer credit since The Authoritarians came after Faux News had been going for a while, but somebody must have figured it out. Then they went, "How do we build a media empire pandering to right-wing authoritarian followers?" Once you'v...
[15:47:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Fight 'Fake News' in a Post-Truth Environment - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:11] <exec> 08└─Going further, a Wiki-style update history of evolving stories might be useful too; having a change log of how additional facts coming to light caused the story to evolve would serve both as a validation for the change in position and a demonstration of openness.
[15:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Radioactive Boy Scout" David Charles Hahn was Regularly Visited by FBI - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:32] <exec> 08└─"Regular" visits from 2005 to 2015, but it then goes on and says there were three visits between 2007 and 2010 instigated from people filing reports. So how is this "regular" when they only came out when they got a report to investigate, and how is 2007 to 2010 stretched into "nearly a decade"? Are...
[15:48:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Urged to Dump Trump - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:27] <exec> 08└─Except that the president keeps spouting childish bullshit, so it's just speaking to his level. I'd hoped that Obama would actually be a liberal, and he wasn't, but he never lowered the tone of the conversation.
[15:48:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Urged to Dump Trump - 1591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:28] <exec> 08└─"1. wadda hell has politics to do with the job?" You serious? You are well and truly serious? Let me give you a couple hints. What was happening, in politics, specifically, when the "Great Recession" hit? It was an important time in American politics. Do you really think that the political scene was...
[15:48:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Urged to Dump Trump - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:31] <exec> 08└─Case in point. Because my views aren't the standard groupthink, I'm immediately labeled as the 'other side.' You seemingly can't even conceive of somebody wanting to work with Trump or thinking what Reddit is doing is bad unless I'm a Alex Jones listening, Fox News watching, bible thumping 'good ole...
[15:48:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Urged to Dump Trump - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:33] <exec> 08└─I think I'll save this to repost in 8 years when Democrats are in power. "It's fine when I do it, but when you do it, you need to grow up."
[15:48:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Urged to Dump Trump - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:35] <exec> 08└─The "president" is acting like an emperor, saying and doing stupid shit, and you want us to give him respect? Ha! He doesn't deserve the slightest bit of it. Just because he is president?? How about we go back in time and see all the shit you talked about obama? You authoritarian side is peeking out...
[15:48:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Urged to Dump Trump - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:37] <exec> 08└─Right. He could be advising his tailor.
[15:48:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Urged to Dump Trump - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:39] <exec> 08└─Do we assume that this would necessarily be good advice because we like Musk, being the modern-age Howard Hughes? What about the very rich and successful Goldman Sachs people Trump is surrounded by? They are very successful and motivated people, but we assume they give bad, self-serving advice becau...
[15:49:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Geeks v Government: the Battle Over Public Key Cryptography - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:48] <exec> 08└─And for most of us it's certainly not our tax dollars at work (not even when restricting to those of us who actually pay their taxes in US dollars). Maybe our parents' tax dollars. (And yes, I'm making a guess about the age structure here, but I'd expect the number of SN readers who already had a ta...
[15:52:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solarcoaster: Workers Very Unhappy with Elon Musk-Owned SolarCity - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:34] <exec> 08└─He already DID quit and go find a better job. But he's still trying to get SolarCity to actually fulfill the terms of the contract they agreed to and pay him what he's owed. So what exactly is your point? Are you saying he should have demanded payment in full up-front or something? Good luck with th...
[15:54:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Power Struggle at Huntsman Cancer Institute in Utah - 803 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:05] <exec> 08└─Are you using the same definition of NHST and do you accept that the authors did not run a significance test for the data in 9B? I meant an example of a research article that meets your ideal of no bias. Your analysis of the data does help me see where you are comming from, though. What you are doin...
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[16:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:52] <exec> 08└─Is it because of economic recession, or stagnant middle-class wages and growing income inequality? Or has the death of these malls been hastened by the rapid growth of online shopping?
[16:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03AssCork [6255] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:54] <exec> 08└─As an Army-brat, while moving from place to place every few months, I came to the realization that massive coin-operated video-game areas ("arcades") inside malls were shrinking (then became virtually non-existent). Perhaps it was the areas we moved to, however I suspect otherwise. With the dawn of...
[16:45:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:56] <exec> 08└─What time is it? No time to look back. [youtube.com]
[16:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Obama Administration Undermined Iranian Counterproliferation - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:06] <exec> 08└─But if you make it too profitable, they'll engage in leisure bombings. Like bin Laden.
[16:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Obama Administration Undermined Iranian Counterproliferation - 1092 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:08] <exec> 08└─Maybe I'm not a boomer so I can't understand, but I do not see a problem with Iran having the bomb. Right now Iran is a constrictor, they do not look all that powerful but when push comes to shove they will wear you down. Let them become a rattlesnake and they are less likely to be tread on. A nucle...
[16:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Obama Administration Undermined Iranian Counterproliferation - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:10] <exec> 08└─Not if the profit is at your expense, you don't. Paying someone not to threaten you is no way to go through life or to run a nation.
[16:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Obama Administration Undermined Iranian Counterproliferation - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:13] <exec> 08└─Regional proliferation is perhaps the biggest concern. If they build them, Saudi Arabia has suggested they'll also build to counter. Their neighbors then may want to join the club to protect themselves.
[16:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 2) 02 - 063D-Printing of Glass Now Possible - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:24] <exec> 08└─From the linked article: Silicosis (previously miner's phthisis, grinder's asthma, potter's rot and other occupation-related names)...
[16:46:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Drivers Look at their Phones on 88 Percent of Trips - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:52] <exec> 08└─We'll see how competent you feel after you've killed some kids with your vehicle.
[16:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drivers Look at their Phones on 88 Percent of Trips - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:54] <exec> 08└─[Are] they making sure that the vehicle is moving when they count it as use?
[16:46:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Drivers Look at their Phones on 88 Percent of Trips - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:56] <exec> 08└─Yup. Idiots think they are the "special one". Alcohol and drugs don't affect them in the same way as everyone else. Only they know the secret to mastering distracted driving. Heck, some snowflakes think even gravity is something that they control.
[16:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drivers Look at their Phones on 88 Percent of Trips - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:58] <exec> 08└─The sooner the better.
[16:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drivers Look at their Phones on 88 Percent of Trips - 1805 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:01] <exec> 08└─So basically, this study is complete and utter bullshit. Here's some good reasons someone might be using their smartphone in a vehicle: 1) Using a GPS navigation program like Google Maps or Waze. Do you really want people to go back to the days of trying to read paper maps while driving? 2) Person i...
[16:47:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drivers Look at their Phones on 88 Percent of Trips - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:03] <exec> 08└─The radio doesn't demand your attention like a conversation does; you don't have to spare attention from driving to think of how you're going to reply.
[16:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Fight 'Fake News' in a Post-Truth Environment - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:36] <exec> 08└─"Combating" hate-speech and "censoring/silencing" hate-speech are two entirely different things. The former is pointing out how much of an idiot you are with facts, reason, and empathy. The latter is sticking your fingers in your ears or covering someone's mouth and hoping the problem goes away. The...
[16:47:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Fight 'Fake News' in a Post-Truth Environment - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:37] <exec> 08└─Have to admit that I am not really sure what you were trying to say. My on memory of the events regarding the Vinson carrier group is that POTUS declared he was sending a "huge armada" to North Korea. A day or so later it was MSM that revealed that the carrier group was on a standard rotation of the...
[16:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Fight 'Fake News' in a Post-Truth Environment - 1009 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:39] <exec> 08└─Maybe the theory needs a slight rework. For those that are interested in getting actual news (defined here as actual facts about what is going on in the world), watching Fox will erode trust in Fox as so much of what Fox calls "news" is non-factual tabloid crap. For those that like tabloid crap, Fox...
[16:47:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Fight 'Fake News' in a Post-Truth Environment - 915 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:41] <exec> 08└─I'd love to side with you, but my cynicism is tingling. I'm 100% sure they will not make that distinction, they will only tell you they are making that distinction. Under the hood it's the same BS. Because even if they start out trying to just counter it with their own arguments, as soon as that doe...
[16:47:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Weasley [6421] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How to Fight 'Fake News' in a Post-Truth Environment - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:44] <exec> 08└─The ruling class seems to have taken a lessen from the Bible here. The people can't discuss your decisions if they can't even agree on the language to use while discussing them. So our moron-in-chief has us, somehow...bafflingly, debating about what is real and what isn't.
[16:48:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Radioactive Boy Scout" David Charles Hahn was Regularly Visited by FBI - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:06] <exec> 08└─Cow Palace!
[16:49:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Uncle_Al [1108] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Urged to Dump Trump - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:10] <exec> 08└─There was a "Elon: Dump Trump" billboard cycling through the Clear Channel board at 880 and Dixon Landing Road heading towards the Tesla factory for a few months. I haven't seen it recently. I had wondered who ponied up the coin for that.
[16:49:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Urged to Dump Trump - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:12] <exec> 08└─Just so you know, I've been making fun of presidents from both parties, for over 30 years. But, no matter which one was in charge, he was MY president.
[16:49:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03arulatas [3600] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Urged to Dump Trump - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:14] <exec> 08└─I think the ad had the desired effect. Did you know who this guy was before this ad campaign? I didn't.
[16:49:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Urged to Dump Trump - 2690 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:16] <exec> 08└─Fine - go back in time. Dredge up all the shit I've talked about Obama. Or, O'Bummer. But, be sure to use that time machine to go back to when I was badmouthing Herr Bush. You will find few people who argued harder AGAINST invading Iraq. You will find that I laughed maniacally at some of the picture...
[16:49:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Urged to Dump Trump - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:19] <exec> 08└─Huh. Where have I heard that "the president is acting like an emperor" before? http://www.solidprinciples.com [solidprinciples.com] https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com
[16:54:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Power Struggle at Huntsman Cancer Institute in Utah - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:46] <exec> 08└─So psychopathy is merely powerful people? I don't see the point of using the label. Earlier, kaszz referred to a "delayed gratification" test. But what's the point of such a test when near instant gratification is a reasonable expectation of power? Name one Fortune 500 CEO or first-world head of sta...
[16:54:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Power Struggle at Huntsman Cancer Institute in Utah - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:47] <exec> 08└─Are you using the same definition of NHST and do you accept that the authors did not run a significance test for the data in 9B?
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[17:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 1334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:52] <exec> 08└─People shopping at Amazon is one thing, but where are people going to just hang out? When I was a teenager, my friends and I frequently went to the mall to hang out, because there really wasn't much else to do, especially if the weather was lousy. We never bought much, except food at the food court,...
[17:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 1197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:54] <exec> 08└─Malls weren't quite "new" in the early sixties. There were two of them near my hometown. One to the west, and one to the north-east. Downtown had begun to die a slow death, because the malls were attracting so much business. Late sixties, the "Towne Mall" was built over the grave of the old Johnson...
[17:45:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 826 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:56] <exec> 08└─I'll tell you why you should bother going to a mall: 1) So you can see products in-person, instead of just looking at a photo. You don't need to actually buy them, just check them out at the mall, and then buy them online (someplace other than Amazon, so you can save on sales tax). 2) So you can wal...
[17:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:58] <exec> 08└─I have heard that open air malls are doing well. Get a clothing store, theater, restaurants, etc. Into one area. Lower operating costs than an air conditioned mall.
[17:46:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:01] <exec> 08└─Somehow, I never fell in love with malls.
[17:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:03] <exec> 08└─How are malls "scary places"? The roads in-between, sure, but that's true any time you leave your home, and there's other places you surely go besides the mall. Browsing on your computer works well for some things, less so for others. You can't see a physical item up-close on your computer; you have...
[17:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:05] <exec> 08└─Where did you "hear" this? From the companies pushing these things? They're nice enough when the weather is nice. What about when it's below freezing, or when it's over 90F? What about when it's raining? There's a reason we humans invented the "roof".
[17:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:07] <exec> 08└─You drive around in malls?
[17:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03StarryEyed [2888] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:10] <exec> 08└─The new Oldsmobiles are in early this year!
[17:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03tekk [5704] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:12] <exec> 08└─1: seeing the products in person isn't as much of a pull as the malls thought it was. I don't think I've ever looked at something and gone "You know, this might interest me, but I'd really prefer to be able to see it physically first." Maybe I'm weird. 2: There are probably better places to be. Wher...
[17:46:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:14] <exec> 08└─letting you see and feel things in-person before you go online to buy the exact same thing at a lower price, and hopefully without any sales tax.
[17:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 674 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:16] <exec> 08└─>Where I live has a nice climate so people tend to be, you know, outside. Where's that? In the north-central US, it's below freezing for much of the year. In the northeast US, it's below freezing for part of the year, and generally chilly for much of the year, and it rains a lot. In the southeast US...
[17:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:19] <exec> 08└─Maybe it's related to what was described in the text making up the rest of the paragraph whose first sentence you quoted?
[17:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03tekk [5704] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:21] <exec> 08└─Mountains in the southeast :) Course it does get around freezing a lot of the time in january/february, but then there are also days in the 60's/70's those months.
[17:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 6932 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:23] <exec> 08└─1) When I was a kid "hanging out at the mall then getting chased out by security" was a thing. There were entire teen movies about this stuff. Everyone in my generation has some kind of story about being legit kicked out a couple times as a teen and finally getting illegitimately kicked out as a gen...
[17:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:25] <exec> 08└─What exactly are you trying to tell us with your comment title?
[17:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 698 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:28] <exec> 08└─You can have cover to block rain and provide shade. And if it's cold outside, you just enter a shop/restaurant/pub/whatever. http://www.motherjones.com [motherjones.com] https://newrepublic.com
[17:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:30] <exec> 08└─So you can walk around in a climate-controlled place around other humans, instead of just staying at home alone.
[17:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:32] <exec> 08└─You forgot the midwest, it's generally pretty nice here if you're a native.
[17:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:34] <exec> 08└─Only at night while wearing sunglasses.
[17:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:37] <exec> 08└─So you can see products in-person
[17:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:39] <exec> 08└─Really? You're bringing tornadoes into this? "Hey hon, looks like a tornado might be coming." "TO THE MALL!"
[17:46:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:41] <exec> 08└─Right?
[17:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:43] <exec> 08└─Amazon is partially to blame but the die off happens when the mall is on a bus line and the blacks start taking over. White people quit going there and the revenue drops. Eventually it becomes nothing stores selling shoes, cell phones, and hair extensions. If you see an instant check cashing store o...
[17:46:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 1080 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:46] <exec> 08└─There was a time when i went to the mall: there was a computer and game store there. Now there is women's shopping stores, Sears (womens shopping) and the Bay (womens shopping). There was a store outside the mall i used to go to, but it stopped selling computers without an O/S: they cozied up with M...
[17:46:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:49] <exec> 08└─I think lack of product variety is also a major issue for the longterm success of shopping malls. Except for food areas, the shopping malls around where I live dedicate at least 90% of their retail floor space to women's fashion items. The food areas by themselves are usually not a compelling reason...
[17:46:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:52] <exec> 08└─Malls in general are pretty depressing and sterile
[17:46:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 748 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:54] <exec> 08└─If you're a teenager, the mall was an attractive place to go. Not these days. They have a loud high-pitched screeching noise playing that only teenagers are supposed to hear. So anybody under the age of 50 without a hearing problem. If you can hear it, it's proof you're a teenager and up to no good,...
[17:46:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:57] <exec> 08└─To be a good consumer, you have to check the price in about 3 different places. That is how competition is supposed to work. What Amazon has done is under-cut bricks & mortar when you need an item immediately.
[17:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:59] <exec> 08└─Not to mention mall owners charge EXTORTIONATE rent. Some even go to the extent of telling you what you can and cannot do/sell in your store. Way back when the mall was the "hip" place to go and it was where all the traffic was, they could get away with this. Nowadays not so much. Why should I bothe...
[17:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 819 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:02] <exec> 08└─I have ancestors and relatives in Wisconsin in the center of the state (like Wausau ha ha see I'm legit I know the funny names) and when I visit the weather is really nice for about one month in the spring and one in the fall. The rest of the year its the end of the world. Also being east of the mis...
[17:47:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Obama Administration Undermined Iranian Counterproliferation - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:15] <exec> 08└─Not necessarily too young but definitely too ill-informed about middle-eastern politics. If Iran gets The Bomb, they will use it. Most likely on Israel. Israel knows this and will not under any circumstances allow a nuclear Iran. The two attitudes reinforce each other into a feedback loop all but gu...
[17:47:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Obama Administration Undermined Iranian Counterproliferation - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:17] <exec> 08└─Saudi Arabia has said that they would get the bomb if Iran does. It's possible that Saudi Arabia's government may fall, leaving the bomb in the hands of somebody worse. Next up might be Egypt (would need to accept loss of US aid) or, after shit gets repaired, possibly Iraq. Each time a country gets...
[17:47:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03fnj [1654] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Obama Administration Undermined Iranian Counterproliferation - 919 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:19] <exec> 08└─Those who fail to inform themselves of and recognize evil are simple dupes at best. The power structure in Iran is as nuts, around the bend, and warped with one track hatred as that in North Korea. And in both cases the masses are completely and utterly brainwashed. Pretty much identical to what hap...
[17:47:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Obama Administration Undermined Iranian Counterproliferation - 2131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:22] <exec> 08└─You are a fool who buys into the insane notion that 'they are people just like us', that diversity doesn't really exist since everybody is exactly alike, you aren't religious and can't imagine that anyone else in $current_year -really- believes any of those old fairy tales. Well they aren't like you...
[17:47:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03justinb_76 [4362] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Obama Administration Undermined Iranian Counterproliferation - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:24] <exec> 08└─If Iran gets The Bomb, they will use it. Most likely on Israel. and nothing of value would be lost - call me antisemitic all you want, wouldn't be the first time and probably won't be the last...
[17:48:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drivers Look at their Phones on 88 Percent of Trips - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:10] <exec> 08└─Kind of by definition, yes, yes it does. Next you'll claim that it's possible that someone can be shitfaced drunk and still driving safely.
[17:48:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drivers Look at their Phones on 88 Percent of Trips - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:12] <exec> 08└─At least some vehicles lock out the interface while the vehicle is in motion.
[17:48:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drivers Look at their Phones on 88 Percent of Trips - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:14] <exec> 08└─So you have a HUD to tell you what your speed is, then? Or would refocusing on the windshield layer technically count as "eyes off the road" anyway.
[17:48:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drivers Look at their Phones on 88 Percent of Trips - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:16] <exec> 08└─So you never look in your mirrors?
[17:48:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drivers Look at their Phones on 88 Percent of Trips - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:18] <exec> 08└─speeds up to 150 mph
[17:48:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drivers Look at their Phones on 88 Percent of Trips - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:20] <exec> 08└─1) Using a GPS navigation program like Google Maps or Waze. Do you really want people to go back to the days of trying to read paper maps while driving?
[17:48:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03zocalo [302] 02 - 06How to Fight 'Fake News' in a Post-Truth Environment - 1919 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:39] <exec> 08└─If so, then Looorg has a valid point. There's a place for opinion in the media, and it's under a big banner that says "Editorial", and ideally accompanied by a disclaimer about being solely the views of the author as well. MSM has been blurring the line between pure journalism (the facts of a story)...
[17:48:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06How to Fight 'Fake News' in a Post-Truth Environment - 2783 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:44] <exec> 08└─The first thing everyone should bear in mind when reading anything that claims to be non-fiction is "This could be a bunch of malarkey." That's why you look for independent corroboration, ways of verifying facts, logical fallacies, and so forth. Training people in these techniques used to be a stand...
[17:48:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Fight 'Fake News' in a Post-Truth Environment - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:59] <exec> 08└─"It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is." — Bill Clinton lying about a question of paramount national importance “The leaks are absolutely real. The news is fake.” — Donald Trump brushing off trivial news reports that should concern nobody
[17:49:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Fight 'Fake News' in a Post-Truth Environment - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:01] <exec> 08└─Anyone who has to declare themselves a "fact checker" is probably anything but, particularly if they're trying to shout down any opposition to their assertions.
[17:49:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Fight 'Fake News' in a Post-Truth Environment - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:03] <exec> 08└─3. Dishonest editors: The reporter did their job well and wrote a good story solidly based on evidence. The editor then changed the story to be dishonest to match the editors' own biases. Here's an example from the New York Times [salon.com].
[17:49:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Fight 'Fake News' in a Post-Truth Environment - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:05] <exec> 08└─Dishonest organizations: In this case, not only are none of the reporters honest, the editors / managers know it and expect it. Reporters who attempt to actually write honest reports get stifled and/or fired. That sort of thing is standard practice for Cosmopolitan, for example.
[17:49:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Fight 'Fake News' in a Post-Truth Environment - 708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:07] <exec> 08└─The clue's in the title; "Opinions are not news". It was an example of how a given journalistic fact that's currently getting a lot of coverage - the routine redeployment of the Vinson carrier group - could be spun into any number of opinions via the introduction of editorial bias into the (theoreti...
[17:49:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Fight 'Fake News' in a Post-Truth Environment - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:09] <exec> 08└─Bernie Sanders says something and it is "Mostly True". Later, when Donald Trump says it, it is "Mostly False". http://www.zerohedge.com [zerohedge.com] There is a damn good reason why Hillary Clinton was adve...
[17:49:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Fight 'Fake News' in a Post-Truth Environment - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:11] <exec> 08└─If you use TV for news, and you don't want a liberal bias, Fox is your only choice. In terms of bias as measured against the views of an average American, a media study has shown: Fox: mildly conservative ABC and CBS: mildly to moderately liberal NBC and CNN: absurdly liberal If you happen to want s...
[17:49:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Fight 'Fake News' in a Post-Truth Environment - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:14] <exec> 08└─So your complaint is that people analyze the news? I don't know about you, but I am not an expert in anything outside of my profession. News reporting that goes no further than the bare facts is about as meaningful to me as reading scientific research papers on anerobic nitrogen fixing by legumes.
[17:49:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Fight 'Fake News' in a Post-Truth Environment - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:16] <exec> 08└─Fox: mildly conservative ABC and CBS: mildly to moderately liberal NBC and CNN: absurdly liberal
[17:49:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Fight 'Fake News' in a Post-Truth Environment - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:18] <exec> 08└─> In terms of bias as measured against the views of an average American, a media study has shown: You mean that "media study" produced by fox news? The fact is, your very framing of the issue reveals the problem with fox news. Its a standard trope that the media is untruthful because it is "liberal....
[17:49:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Radioactive Boy Scout" David Charles Hahn was Regularly Visited by FBI - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:41] <exec> 08└─That's virtually impossible even for people of middle class means. Expatriating is a luxury of the rich, and those with highly desired technical skills (doctors, engineers) which usually coincides with being "rich" enough anyway. Poor? Middle class? You're stuck where you were planted.
[17:50:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Urged to Dump Trump - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:48] <exec> 08└─False equivalence. Trump isn't a legitimate President, just technically a legal one--for now.
[17:51:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dutch Court Rules Fan Subtitling is Illegal - 822 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:33] <exec> 08└─Pretty much. Going after subtitles is exceptionally stupid though. They can be applied to perfectly legal backup copies of your own library. Considering that I already receive subtitles from the same sources I'm receiving pirated material, I expect nothing to change. What the industry does not under...
[17:51:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03drussell [2678] 02 - 06Geeks v Government: the Battle Over Public Key Cryptography - 85 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:56] <exec> 08└─The content listed on the front page for this article does not mention when this was.
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[18:45:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bacteria's DNA Fingerprint Suggests it Could be Spreading via Food Distribution - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:55] <exec> 08└─Every major hospital should be built in duplicate; for a period of 10 years, one of the hospitals is sealed off, and cleansed from top to bottom with the most toxic chemicals possible, and then left to sit undisturbed under penalty of life in prison. After 10 years, a transition is made: New patient...
[18:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bacteria's DNA Fingerprint Suggests it Could be Spreading via Food Distribution - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:57] <exec> 08└─See subject line.
[18:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bacteria's DNA Fingerprint Suggests it Could be Spreading via Food Distribution - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:59] <exec> 08└─"My house is dirty; buy me a clean one." Krusty the Klown is on SN?
[18:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:42] <exec> 08└─Bet your wife/mom buys your clothes at the mall though.
[18:46:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:43] <exec> 08└─is still around [sears.com] The Canadian version [wikipedia.org] is still going (losing money according to the wiki).
[18:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:45] <exec> 08└─Top Gear does. [youtu.be]
[18:46:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:47] <exec> 08└─In the 1980's people wrote about malls as cultural centers, as temples to shopping. Now, they're dying.
[18:46:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Techwolf [87] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:50] <exec> 08└─I knew a couple folks that had store in a mall. The lease prices was insane, like $10 per FOOT of space per month. Once the recession hit and a few stores moved out, the malls was less of an attraction and mall traffic went down. The greedy owners did not relise this until it was too late to reduce...
[18:46:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:53] <exec> 08└─I think lack of product variety is also a major issue for the longterm success of shopping malls.
[18:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:55] <exec> 08└─If Radio Shack was like a mini best buy then you missed out. I remember when they were like a mini DigiKey.
[18:46:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:57] <exec> 08└─Is digital toothpaste meant to be applied with your fingers? :-)
[18:46:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Oakenshield [4900] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:00] <exec> 08└─The fancy open air mall near me is doing great. It's the "trendy" place to go with lots of high end stores. Most evenings and weekends, the parking is near impossible. Heat, humidity, rain, snow, or freezing temperatures don't seem to deter the masses. I've dropped my kids off at the theater in bad...
[18:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03tekk [5704] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:02] <exec> 08└─Dunno, you've probably got a good 10 or 20 years on me so maybe there was some shift in malls between then. I've been in a couple which weren't quite so bad, but those were in the larger cities in the US as a rule. Most malls are pretty bad.
[18:47:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:04] <exec> 08└─I only use Crest White IMAX DBOX.
[18:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Techwolf [87] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:06] <exec> 08└─While the parent was probably trolling, it hits very close to the truth as a friend of mine literally watch the above played out a few times at the local malls.
[18:47:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 762 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:09] <exec> 08└─Reminds me of a tale I heard some time ago, could be fiction but I found it interesting. A local car dealership that sold expensive sports cars was successful while many rival dealerships in the same area were failing. The owner attributed his success to the fact that his business never shunned anyo...
[18:47:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:11] <exec> 08└─Going to the mall requires wearing clothing and some minimum level of personal hygiene. Worse is having to experience being outdoors. But intolerable is sunlight. Why go to the mall when I can stay in the comfort of the basement, and experience the excitement of tracking my shipment. In a mall you h...
[18:47:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 2024 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:13] <exec> 08└─My experience parallels this and the earlier comment by Runaway1956. Malls at one point were nice places to go and even to shop. For-real bookstores and specialty shops run by their owners. The mall itself was typically managed locally too, maybe even by the developer. They provided handy services a...
[18:47:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:15] <exec> 08└─>>> I don't think I've ever looked at something and gone "You know, this might interest me, but I'd really prefer to be able to see it physically first." Once upon a time, seeing things physically was pretty much the way you did it. Sure, there were advertising brochures in the newspaper - maybe tho...
[18:47:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:18] <exec> 08└─People are using the service they offer (providing the physical item for you to see and test) without paying for it (by paying the higher price, which includes the cost of providing you exactly that experience).
[18:47:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:20] <exec> 08└─Amazon is partially to blame but the die off happens when the mall is on a bus line and the blacks start taking over. White people quit going there and the revenue drops. Eventually it becomes nothing stores selling shoes, cell phones, and hair extensions. If you see an instant check cashing store o...
[18:47:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:22] <exec> 08└─Not to mention mall owners charge EXTORTIONATE rent. Some even go to the extent of telling you what you can and cannot do/sell in your store. Way back when the mall was the "hip" place to go and it was where all the traffic was, they could get away with this. Nowadays not so much. Why should I bothe...
[18:47:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:24] <exec> 08└─you just enter a shop/restaurant/pub/whatever.
[18:47:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:27] <exec> 08└─1: seeing the products in person isn't as much of a pull as the malls thought it was. I don't think I've ever looked at something and gone "You know, this might interest me, but I'd really prefer to be able to see it physically first." Maybe I'm weird.
[18:47:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:29] <exec> 08└─If Radio Shack was like a mini best buy then you missed out. I remember when they were like a mini DigiKey.
[18:47:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:31] <exec> 08└─A lot of them no longer allow the teens to hang out.
[18:47:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:33] <exec> 08└─Busted! I just wanted to read more of Runaway's scintillating prose! Such deep insight! Such vast opinions! He is the only reason I read SN! Please! Don't take this away from me!
[18:47:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Obama Administration Undermined Iranian Counterproliferation - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:52] <exec> 08└─ot necessarily too young but definitely too ill-informed about middle-eastern politics. If Iran gets The Bomb, they will use it. Most likely on Israel.
[18:47:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Obama Administration Undermined Iranian Counterproliferation - 1169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:54] <exec> 08└─A: Being stronger than they. Or at least strong enough to deter them from bombing you. That is why North Corea and Iran want nukes, to deter USA from bombing them. And that is why USA don't want them to have nukes, so USA can bomb them whenever USA's geostrategic agenda demands it, or just because U...
[18:48:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxim [2543] (Score: 1) 02 - 063D-Printing of Glass Now Possible - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:07] <exec> 08└─You mean this cannon [bhphotovideo.com] (well yeah, its not made fully of glass, but has plenty of it)
[18:48:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03YeaWhatevs [5623] (Score: 2) 02 - 063D-Printing of Glass Now Possible - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:09] <exec> 08└─I thought it said it used a combination of glass particles and polymer. Basically glass-like glue some together, so not really glass but looks impressive. I'll be really impressed when they use vapor deposition of silicon tetrachloride to directly do quartz glass printing
[18:48:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drivers Look at their Phones on 88 Percent of Trips - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:49] <exec> 08└─I can't drive in rain without corrective lenses for that reason (focusing on the wind-shield). Corrective lenses let me see "though" the rain by focusing on the far distance. I briefly tried a speedometer HUD app on my phone. Found I probably spent too much time looking at it. That, and without usin...
[18:49:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Fight 'Fake News' in a Post-Truth Environment - 813 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:38] <exec> 08└─Differences between trump's and sanders's claims: 1) Sanders July 2015, Trump June 2016 - numbers change as time passes 2) Sanders specified ages 17-20, Trump said "youth" 3) Sanders provided a citation, Trump refused to provide a source leaving people to guess #3 is a fundamental problem with trump...
[18:49:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Fight 'Fake News' in a Post-Truth Environment - 692 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:40] <exec> 08└─Your idea of the "average American" gets severely mis-calibrated if you are surrounded by liberals. Actual conservatives are not happy that Fox was at best lukewarm about Trump, and yes they did elect him. Trump is your president. A huge portion of the country consists of "people you would never spe...
[18:49:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Fight 'Fake News' in a Post-Truth Environment - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:42] <exec> 08└─None of those differences is significant. There is no material difference. The bias is obvious.
[18:49:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06How to Fight 'Fake News' in a Post-Truth Environment - 1459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:44] <exec> 08└─You just proved the point. The 'fact checkers' begin with a presumption like yours, that Trump is Literally Hitler, a liar and too stupid to even know what a fact is. So the same basic claim is reversed from "mostly true" to "mostly false", mostly because Trump said it. Trump can say black youth une...
[18:50:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06"Radioactive Boy Scout" David Charles Hahn was Regularly Visited by FBI - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:09] <exec> 08└─Re-founded Kekistan will be free of the Imperial influence.
[18:50:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Radioactive Boy Scout" David Charles Hahn was Regularly Visited by FBI - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:10] <exec> 08└─Summary is not contradictory. Your pedantic reading of the summary is contradictory. If you want to know why your pedantry is wrong, RTFA.
[18:50:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Radioactive Boy Scout" David Charles Hahn was Regularly Visited by FBI - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:12] <exec> 08└─Mod Parent KEK
[18:51:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Urged to Dump Trump - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:21] <exec> 08└─He Heard you
[18:51:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Urged to Dump Trump - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:23] <exec> 08└─Fertility is not a disease. Birth control is not medical care. Get your own damn birth control, have a kid, or just stop fucking. Pregnancy is not a disease. You're a sick fuck if you want to kill your own baby. The least you can do is pay the hit-man (murderous supposed "doctor") yourself.
[18:51:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apache Foundation Hails Metron as New Top Level Project for Cybersecurity - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:47] <exec> 08└─With several technologies that run arbitrary code, strapped to a file system that's slow and also runs arbitrary code, and is incredibly complex to secure.
[18:54:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 063D Printed House for Cheap in 24 Hours - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:15] <exec> 08└─'Cause why would we want to print a copy of YOU?
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[19:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robert M. Pirsig, Author of “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,” Dies at 88 - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:03] <exec> 08└─Definitely one of those books that I feel had a very influential and profound effect upon me when I first read it. I heartily recommend it to anyone who like to read things.
[19:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Robert M. Pirsig, Author of “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,” Dies at 88 - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:04] <exec> 08└─Q: What did the washed-up hippie say while reading Zen and the art of Motorcycle Maintenance after his drugs wore off? A: "This book sucks."
[19:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03migz [1807] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robert M. Pirsig, Author of “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,” Dies at 88 - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:06] <exec> 08└─I've read it 3 times about 10 years apart. It reads very differently as you get older.
[19:46:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bacteria's DNA Fingerprint Suggests it Could be Spreading via Food Distribution - 970 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:18] <exec> 08└─I remember when the antibacterial soap-fad started to go into full-swing, before its side-effects were known. Of course, I was smart enough even back then to avoid the shit. And look what happened -- necrotizing fasciitis, aka flesh-eating bacteria. Turns out the shit was killing off all of the bene...
[19:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bacteria's DNA Fingerprint Suggests it Could be Spreading via Food Distribution - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:20] <exec> 08└─Tell us more about your childhood as a poor nigger boy when you swam in raw sewage and you felt clean because you were clean.
[19:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Bacteria's DNA Fingerprint Suggests it Could be Spreading via Food Distribution - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:22] <exec> 08└─When I was of single-digit age, we were allowed to play in the mud like pigs, including at an excavation site for construction purposes. Our parents were in support of this, well, except afterward when they had to wash the rocks out of our hair. A few years later we played in a creek that had those...
[19:47:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03fubari [4551] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:30] <exec> 08└─Could say Amazon is partly to thank. Amazon makes my life easier vs. going to malls. Amazon should remind us "disruptors" have a long history. For example, excerpt from Sears(history) [wikipedia.org]: Before the Sears catalog, farmers typically bought supplies (often at high prices and on credit) fr...
[19:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:31] <exec> 08└─I gave up on Radio Shack forever when the clerk refused to complete the sale unless I gave him my full address
[19:47:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:34] <exec> 08└─When I was a kid there was a fad of running water river like ponds down the middle of hallways where those ugly cellphone kiosks are today. It was like walking down a river kinda weirdly cool.
[19:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:36] <exec> 08└─Another store type right before the mall closes is "ethnic urban clothing"
[19:47:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 957 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:38] <exec> 08└─Yes, and even in places like New York commercial rents are so extortionate that more and more spaces are lying fallow. Here's an excerpt from an interview of a chef, regarding New York City Rents: Doesn't having a good rent have something to do with it? That's why most restaurants go out of busines...
[19:47:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:40] <exec> 08└─It may be that the people were already in their 50s when they wrote that stuff.
[19:47:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 872 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:43] <exec> 08└─An empty spot is just a temporary blemish, but if you reduce rent you can run that thru a simple equation if the new price of the real estate drops below some cutoff on the mortgage, the bank forecloses the next day due to "risk" ratios. Even if the mortgage is being paid, even if the owners are run...
[19:47:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:45] <exec> 08└─Have you ever visited a "diverse urban" public library? Its a daycare for non-white kids who run wild, pushing everyone out who isn't a kid enjoying free daycare. The same thing happens at the malls. "See, we're not racist, we don't allow any unaccompanied under age people of any race or color" One...
[19:47:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 743 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:47] <exec> 08└─Your post is rather a thumbnail sketch of the decline of the American middle class over the last 30 years. It rings true. I note that on the rare occasion I visit a mall in Long Island, there are few Americans there, only recently arrived Indians and Chinese who seem not to have gotten the memo that...
[19:47:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Oakenshield [4900] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:49] <exec> 08└─That shit's been gone for years and years. Malls these days have no space for "events." The interiors are filled with cart/kiosk obstacles selling sunglasses, watches, cell phone plans, perfumes, ugly jewelry, and trendy made-in-China junk. At Christmas, there are even more. If you're lucky, they MI...
[19:47:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:52] <exec> 08└─Don't forget to stop by the Disco Pants and Haircuts.
[19:47:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:54] <exec> 08└─Online I can order a 50lb bag of Bachelor Chow delivered to my door.
[19:47:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 1354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:56] <exec> 08└─I know this deals in stereotypes, but I think malls likely cater to women because women are more likely to actually "shop." I put that in quotes to differentiate between simply buying and the more extended wandering that constitutes shopping. Typical guy back in the day if he had to go to the mall t...
[19:47:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 747 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:58] <exec> 08└─I've been thinking about where I shop now, and if I go anyplace in person it's to the used and second-hand places. The reason is you can't get quality stuff new anymore. Everything is made in China and instantly breaks, no matter how formerly prestigious the label on it was. But you can go to the an...
[19:48:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:01] <exec> 08└─Actually, it doesn't make a lot of sense. The bank gets NOTHING unless they can sell the place off. And if they're already having trouble getting tenants in, there aren't a lot of people who will cough up the billion dollars they want. More likely it will become a weed ridden eyesore worth even less...
[19:48:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:03] <exec> 08└─because there really wasn't much else to do
[19:48:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Obama Administration Undermined Iranian Counterproliferation - 645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:23] <exec> 08└─Iran is not after nukes. At least as first priority. Iran has a problem, the only thing that can export is oil, and the trending is self-consuming more and more oil, so it is trying to move energy production to other sources instead of burning its only exportable commodity. Iran was obeying all the...
[19:48:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Obama Administration Undermined Iranian Counterproliferation - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:25] <exec> 08└─Profitable interaction is the only way to bring peace to this world.
[19:48:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Obama Administration Undermined Iranian Counterproliferation - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:27] <exec> 08└─Then we stomp their fucking guts out. Iran won't use nukes, they're actually pretty civilized. Who we should be worried about, is Pakistan. Those treacherous pieces of shit are even more violent and inbred than the Saudis. Of course, I have the perfect solution to this problem. " What's that, Ethano...
[19:48:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Obama Administration Undermined Iranian Counterproliferation - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:29] <exec> 08└─This is doubtful, because to launch is to ensure their own destruction. I am an authority on these matters because I played Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker.
[19:49:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mcgrew [701] 02 - 06Drivers Look at their Phones on 88 Percent of Trips - 61 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:07] <exec> 08└─The headline tells me that 88% of drivers are witless morons.
[19:49:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drivers Look at their Phones on 88 Percent of Trips - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:25] <exec> 08└─How do they know you are driving or just a passenger in the car ? If my phone rings I hand it to my GF who answers it for me, thus neither points to my paying attention to the dang thing while driving. I do have it Bluetooth connected but find that that is as distracting as talking on it by hand so...
[19:50:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Fight 'Fake News' in a Post-Truth Environment - 981 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:17] <exec> 08└─Fox News? Fun to pick on them, sure, because they do this. biasing stories toward the right. Most other news organizations do exactly the same thing, only in the opposite direction. Here's an example that most people will know: Remember Trayvon Martin [biography.com]. Follow that link, look at the p...
[19:50:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06How to Fight 'Fake News' in a Post-Truth Environment - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:19] <exec> 08└─The 'fact checkers' begin with a presumption like yours, that Trump is Literally Hitler, a liar and too stupid to even know what a fact is.
[19:50:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How to Fight 'Fake News' in a Post-Truth Environment - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:21] <exec> 08└─Science and the news have a lot in common -- they present a vague possibly-factual statement based on a few statistics and spend the rest of the time presenting political opinions about it. The recent "marches for science," for example, were just another anti-Trump circle-jerk -- albeit a more thinl...
[19:50:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Fight 'Fake News' in a Post-Truth Environment - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:23] <exec> 08└─You are complaining about the one time a black victim doesn't get the least flattering photo used in all the reporting about him. Just how fragile in your whiteness are you? [twitter.com] > Virtually the entire MSM was united in their effort to drum up sympathy for Trayvon, and using a picture of hi...
[19:50:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Fight 'Fake News' in a Post-Truth Environment - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:26] <exec> 08└─If you look at the two poltifact articles you will see something on the upper right corner of each page: (1) Different reporters (2) Different editors Even if you dismiss the fact that the claims being fact-checked themselves were different, the fact is that two entirely different sets of people wer...
[19:50:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Fight 'Fake News' in a Post-Truth Environment - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:28] <exec> 08└─> I'd love to side with you, but my cynicism is tingling. I'm 100% sure they will not make that distinction, they will only tell you they are making that distinction. Well, if what they say doesn't count, why do you even believe they care at all? Why don't you assume they are secretly promoting hate...
[19:52:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Urged to Dump Trump - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:04] <exec> 08└─Or tailing his advisor.
[19:52:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Trial Set for UK Motorways in 2019 - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:17] <exec> 08└─This is turning into a horror show...
[19:52:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Geeks v Government: the Battle Over Public Key Cryptography - 708 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:59] <exec> 08└─The content listed on the front page for this article does not mention when this was. While I like the engaging writing style, its not what I'm looking for here. I'm very interested in new cases about cryptography, but having to click though to this page and read to the end to determine this was not...
[19:53:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD Radeon RX500 Series Video Cards Released - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:38] <exec> 08└─what about making it to where we can fully control our cards in linux with the non "pro" amdgpu? command line is fine. thank you. also, i don't think so many SKUs are necessary. how about better performance, full control without slaveware and less bullshit?
[19:54:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03steveha [4100] (Score: 2) 02 - 063D Printed House for Cheap in 24 Hours - 2276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:53] <exec> 08└─I read through several of their web pages and watched their YouTube video. The house is round basically so they can show off. It can build a square house just as easily. They built it during the winter. The concrete needs a certain minimum temperature to set properly, and winter is colder than that,...
[19:56:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Solarcoaster: Workers Very Unhappy with Elon Musk-Owned SolarCity - 3786 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:03] <exec> 08└─Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III just announced that he would be going after those who harbor undocumented people. Now, let's see if he actually does that and starts arresting the employers. My bet is that it's all bluff and bluster. they [mustn't] run around uncontrolled "Vher are your papers?" Ti...
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[20:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robert M. Pirsig, Author of “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,” Dies at 88 - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:57] <exec> 08└─Q: What one would think of a book that Ethanol-fueled said it sucks? A: It must be great, then!
[20:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Robert M. Pirsig, Author of “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,” Dies at 88 - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:58] <exec> 08└─And lo! does Ethanol's lack of aptitude for philosophy influence his perception of the quality a book on such a thing. Such revelations never beheld for all to see! Never I say! Oh, how genuinely novel.
[20:46:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robert M. Pirsig, Author of “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,” Dies at 88 - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:00] <exec> 08└─I read it when I was 19, had forgotten most of it twenty years later, but when reading it again last year, I noticed that I had absorbed many of the ideas in the book. It's a shame that the second half drags on and on. Still haven't gotten around to read Lila.
[20:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robert M. Pirsig, Author of “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,” Dies at 88 - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:03] <exec> 08└─Q: Why is Ethanol-fueled so salty? A: His drugs wore off.
[20:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Robert M. Pirsig, Author of “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,” Dies at 88 - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:05] <exec> 08└─I never read it, but that was always one of those books that struck me as being on a top ten list of books that most people claim to have read but never did.
[20:46:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robert M. Pirsig, Author of “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,” Dies at 88 - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:07] <exec> 08└─That's why? I thought it was the improbable, nay, incredible amount of RWNJ dicks he's got crammed into every orifice, pocket, and pore...
[20:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Robert M. Pirsig, Author of “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,” Dies at 88 - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:09] <exec> 08└─A philosophy text which remained relevant during that one magical decade between the invention of Unix and the invention of AIDS. What a failure. It's such a shame Robert M Penising didn't die of the gay cancer. Now that would have been poetic justice.
[20:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bacteria's DNA Fingerprint Suggests it Could be Spreading via Food Distribution - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:22] <exec> 08└─Complications may include pseudomembranous colitis, toxic megacolon, perforation of the colon, and sepsis
[20:47:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:47] <exec> 08└─The 80s were really a wonderful time compared to now. The dystopias predicted back then have come true.
[20:47:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:49] <exec> 08└─I forgot to mention the mosquitoes, that's a pretty important point in the South or anywhere near it.
[20:47:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:51] <exec> 08└─Why should I bother giving someone a wad of cash every month so I can have a store in their empty mall, when I could spend the same amount of money on web design, driving traffic to my website and a small logistical operation and do the whole thing offline?
[20:47:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 690 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:53] <exec> 08└─Without early foreclosure, its like 3B, 1B, 500M, 100M finally the landlord can't make a payment and the bank gets 100M back on their 2B loan With early forclosure its like 3B, 1B whoopsie the bank forecloses and gets 1B back on their 2B loan. Its a difference of some 900M bucks in this made up exam...
[20:47:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:55] <exec> 08└─i quit going to the mall about 20 years ago. the malls in my area were where you went to get jumped/stabbed/shot or to shoot mexicans/blacks (depending on mall) who try to jump/stab you. gangs tried to claim malls as territory so one simply did not "go to the mall". As the arms race got to that poin...
[20:47:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:58] <exec> 08└─Now that you point it out, it is true that almost everything good that I mentioned was from the 80s. That seems to have been the glory decade of the mall. The only cool thing I've seen in a mall in the last 20 years is a traveling lego exhibition of Washington DC monuments. Vs all that stuff I saw i...
[20:47:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:00] <exec> 08└─My ex-wife buys clothes at Walmart and Bass Pro. My girlfriend buys clothes online. My mom I think buys clothes at fancy "lifestyle center" shops.
[20:48:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03migz [1807] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 1484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:02] <exec> 08└─Yup. All these malls are bust, and the banks are stopping them from being used productively because then they would have to admit they were too greedy in the first place, and take the losses. If the banks did that then they would be bust (see sub-prime loans). This garbage is possible because of the...
[20:48:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:04] <exec> 08└─but I'm old enough to recall the difference between going to the mall with male friends (usually something only teenagers did -- and spent time at the arcade or eating mall food or whatever) vs. going to the mall with girlfriends. Yep, that describes my teenage years pretty well: going to the mall w...
[20:48:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:07] <exec> 08└─The reason is you can't get quality stuff new anymore. Everything is made in China and instantly breaks, no matter how formerly prestigious the label on it was. This is hyperbole. There's still a lot of good stuff, but it'll cost you. But you can go to the antique stores and buy a claw hammer forged...
[20:48:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:09] <exec> 08└─find his size
[20:48:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:11] <exec> 08└─>Amazon makes my life easier vs. going to malls. Sure, if you like buying counterfeit goods. Not only have malls gone down the tubes these days, so has Amazon.
[20:48:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03quacking duck [1395] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:13] <exec> 08└─Interestingly, a major mall in my city recently finished a years-long renovation and expansion of a new 3-floor wing to accommodate 20-30 more stores. The ground floor at the very end of the expanded wing is kept clear of those popup kiosks for "events", and last year they had a fashion show to show...
[20:48:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 1305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:15] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but you're not answering the question: where are they going to find someone to take out a $1B mortgage on this place, who isn't going to also fail like the current mortgage holder? Basically, if you're a bank lending to people for real estate, you're basically letting them manage property that...
[20:48:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03chewbacon [1032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 812 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:18] <exec> 08└─When I need clothes, I hit the big retail stores. Usually I can get a week's clothes for about $100 with some sale going on. That's the only place I spend cash... that and taking my kids to see a holiday mascot. Christmas shopping? I'll window shop. It's all over-priced an so many of those stores go...
[20:48:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:20] <exec> 08└─Sounds like you need to move. Where do you live anyway? I used to live close to a really nice mall (a couple years ago) that didn't have any of these problems, and served upper-middle class white people. However, the stores were all horribly expensive places like Tiffany's, Bloomingdale's, some wat...
[20:48:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:22] <exec> 08└─I've been to the newer lifestyle centers in the Phoenix area; there's no cover there. Rain isn't a big problem of course, but sunlight is. So they were really nice to visit in the winter (there is no fall or spring in Phoenix), but in the summer forget it. No thanks, I don't want to stroll around in...
[20:48:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03draconx [4649] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:25] <exec> 08└─But you can go to the antique stores and buy a claw hammer forged in 1935 that will last until the end of time. Same thing with furniture.
[20:48:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:27] <exec> 08└─The local mall was ahead of that, and removed the bus stops years ago.
[20:48:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 5006 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:29] <exec> 08└─^ THIS ^ The only reason a business owner is going to put with extortionate rent is if it is profitable. What killed malls? Technology killed the malls. They were a distribution model if you will, and they controlled the distribution channels ruthlessly. There was a time that malls were premium loca...
[20:48:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03migz [1807] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:31] <exec> 08└─That's easy. It's called QE. Uncle Sam will loan them the money, and the taxpayers will pay for it. Win! Win! Win!
[20:48:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:34] <exec> 08└─It must be the malls in your state. The malls in my area (northern VA) have lots of expensive chain restaurants (Legal Seafood for instance), and other non-chain ones. Of course, the best restaurants are the non-chain ones in "old town" downtown areas, but those are hard to get to because of parking...
[20:48:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:36] <exec> 08└─I'm really starting to wonder how much of this is "white flight": the poorer minorities are hanging out at the older malls, and the richer white people are flocking to the newer "lifestyle centers" despite the exposure to the elements, because the minorities aren't there (and the minorities don't bo...
[20:48:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 686 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:38] <exec> 08└─The bank doesn't get 1B back because they have to sell the thing first. But since they foreclosed, it is no longer a going concern, so it devalues even faster. By the time they get around to selling, it isn't a slightly out of date mall with a 50% occupancy, it's a ghost building featuring a rat con...
[20:49:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03https [5248] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Obama Administration Undermined Iranian Counterproliferation - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:03] <exec> 08└─Does telling lies about a religion make you feel better about...anything? There's more than enough fodder to put the smackdown on Islam without making shit up.
[20:49:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Obama Administration Undermined Iranian Counterproliferation - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:04] <exec> 08└─Not just North Korea and Iran have entered the business of detaining other countries' citizens for political gain. The US has traded Iranians it detained for its own citizens. And it looks like the US is building up its accounts wrt Russia, witness the extradition requests when a person of interest...
[20:49:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Obama Administration Undermined Iranian Counterproliferation - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:06] <exec> 08└─He's not wrong if he's talking about the Wahhabis, who are Islam's version of the US's Christian Reconstructionists. And like our Theonomists, they are also in charge.
[20:49:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Obama Administration Undermined Iranian Counterproliferation - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:08] <exec> 08└─I bow to your diplomatic experience then.
[20:49:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Obama Administration Undermined Iranian Counterproliferation - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:11] <exec> 08└─Their leaders speak crazed jihadi like a boss. Nobody's fault but their own if they're believed.
[20:49:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 063D-Printing of Glass Now Possible - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:26] <exec> 08└─Never before done 3D printing with glass? Sorry, but MIT beat you to publishing by about a year and a half: http://news.mit.edu [mit.edu] There's even currently a display of the results as the very first exhibit at the MIT museum.
[20:49:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 063D-Printing of Glass Now Possible - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:27] <exec> 08└─The process uses a photocurable silica nanocomposite that is 3D printed and converted to high-quality fused silica glass via heat treatment.
[20:51:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Fight 'Fake News' in a Post-Truth Environment - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:09] <exec> 08└─Wow, some people have very short memories.... or hope others do. We just experienced eight straight years where the media were unquestioning in their throne sniffing. Obama abused pretty much every power available to abuse and the media adored him for it. They even loved him when he treated THEM lik...
[20:51:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Fight 'Fake News' in a Post-Truth Environment - 800 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:10] <exec> 08└─If it were a rare and isolated example you would have a point. It is neither, it is the typical pattern. The best a claim made by a Republican seems to be able to achieve is "mostly true" and that requires an entirely uncontested claim that usually is simply not fact checked at all while a Democrat...
[20:51:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Fight 'Fake News' in a Post-Truth Environment - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:13] <exec> 08└─Ban social media, regulate what the news can and can't print. Because people are fucking stupid and, when you get right down to it, they only respond to a heavy spanking from their parents, er the government.
[20:52:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Urged to Dump Trump - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:51] <exec> 08└─Is Elon giving Trump advice? Or is Elon getting advice from Trump?
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[21:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2, Flamebait) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 1588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:51] <exec> 08└─Fair would be killing the rich, or grabbing them by their fucking necks, turning them upside down, and shaking out OUR fucking money. Basic Income is only required when the Owning Classes are stealing so much fucking daily production, that our daily production is *somehow* not enough to survive. Do...
[21:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:53] <exec> 08└─less 50 per cent of any earned income
[21:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:55] <exec> 08└─And it will go to the Muslims, so that they don't riot, pillage, and rape... Oh, wait.
[21:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03draconx [4649] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:57] <exec> 08└─When implemented properly, basic income is equivalent to wealth redistribution. The highest earners pay a portion of their earnings (in the form of income tax) which is directly redistributed to the lowest earners. It directly addresses income inequality to a certain extent. This plan includes a str...
[21:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:59] <exec> 08└─Yes! KILL ELON MUSK!
[21:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:02] <exec> 08└─Fair would be killing the rich, or grabbing them by their fucking necks, turning them upside down, and shaking out OUR fucking money.
[21:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:04] <exec> 08└─One of the side effects of basic income (or this) is that you just give people a chunk of money without employing a hundred thousand people to figure out who deserves a bit and who doesn't. At a big enough scale, even this flawed experiment would show those savings.
[21:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03draconx [4649] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:06] <exec> 08└─less 50 per cent of any earned income
[21:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:08] <exec> 08└─Stand and deliver. Your money or your life. Time was desperate beggars would murder you for your wallet. Lucky for you in modern times your surveillance state protects you. You sir are a pussy hiding behind your nanny state.
[21:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:10] <exec> 08└─Fair would be killing the rich, or grabbing them by their fucking necks, turning them upside down, and shaking out OUR fucking money.
[21:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 643 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:13] <exec> 08└─You either agree to an interaction, or you don't. Guess what? It's not the factory owner's fault that you depend on a job at his factory to survive. If anything, you should be angry at your parents for being so cruel to have birthed you; you should be angry with your neighbors for being such slobs w...
[21:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:15] <exec> 08└─I have explained why this is stupid enough times already so I'll just leave this: Nobody reads Kipling [kiplingsociety.co.uk] anymore.... And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins, As surely as Water will w...
[21:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:17] <exec> 08└─Six of one, half a dozen of the other. There is no functional difference between basic income and welfare.
[21:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 823 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:19] <exec> 08└─I think basic income is the way to go. Living wages sound great until there's no more practically necessary work, and thanks to robots and just general efficiency gains, we are getting there. I mean, we are getting into semantics here. If all the practically useful jobs (resulting in feeding, clothi...
[21:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:22] <exec> 08└─The nanny state doesn't protect me from the poor and lazy. It protects them from me. I could shoot a mugger in the face and sleep like a baby that night.
[21:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 1596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:24] <exec> 08└─WHY????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That redistribution is fucking stupid and inefficient, not to mention fucking offensive. So I work each day, of which most of my daily production is stolen by those above. I'm wholly dependent upon the state not just for healthcare, but now the ability to eat, clothe, and f...
[21:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:26] <exec> 08└─Basic income is guaranteed income regardless of circumstance.
[21:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:29] <exec> 08└─because you happen to have the drive and ambition to make more of yourself
[21:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:31] <exec> 08└─And asteroid prospecting and robot repair, just like the GNU communist manifesto says.
[21:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:33] <exec> 08└─Oh. Or do they mean, if(earnedIncome < 16989 * 2) baseIncome = 16989 - earnedIncome; else baseIncome = 0; // you don't need it anyway Probably should RTFA huh.
[21:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:35] <exec> 08└─Plus sign, minus sign, what's the difference, I don't even.
[21:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:37] <exec> 08└─Let's make basic income look bad by giving it to folks who never learned basic math.
[21:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:40] <exec> 08└─People worth many Billions of dollars did not somehow earn or merit that by contributing anything of that much value to society in return.
[21:46:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:42] <exec> 08└─Where's my Jetsons flying car and condo on stilts??
[21:46:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 2515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:44] <exec> 08└─It's my money because I worked for it you dumb mother fucker. They need to PAY ME, because I WORKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FUCK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!! You insinuate that we never deserved it in the first place. That's what you forget. It was taking from us. Why the fuck would I work for...
[21:46:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:46] <exec> 08└─I think his point might be that your minimum wage job now pays 50% for the first $17k. You'd better be making a lot more than that, to have an incentive to bother to get out of bed and put the kids in daycare. "Normal" fixed UBI doesn't discourage you from working if you want, because everything ext...
[21:46:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:49] <exec> 08└─Hillary lost. Your million cunt march didn't get you what you think you deserve. Bitch.
[21:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:51] <exec> 08└─This soylentbob sounds like an ass..
[21:47:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Robert M. Pirsig, Author of “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,” Dies at 88 - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:08] <exec> 08└─... one of those books that more or less defined an era..... does not resonate the way it did in the '70's..... one year, in the early '80's it just stopped working...
[21:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robert M. Pirsig, Author of “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,” Dies at 88 - 609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:09] <exec> 08└─Ya know, I could actually see that. It's just famous enough, and yet old and obscure enough that dropping it seems impressive, and no one is probably going to call you out on it, having likely not read it themselves. Kinda like all the dweebs with their Hitchhiker's references (OMG 42, right? It's t...
[21:47:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Robert M. Pirsig, Author of “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,” Dies at 88 - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:11] <exec> 08└─... wow so I thought those were blackheads but as it turns out they're micronigger cocks!
[21:47:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robert M. Pirsig, Author of “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,” Dies at 88 - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:13] <exec> 08└─I think the bigger question is why is EH reading philosophy books? I'm sure that he hasn't read it, and that it is just another attack on the people he hates. Remember, EH gets his reading material from people in pointy hoods.
[21:47:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Robert M. Pirsig, Author of “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,” Dies at 88 - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:16] <exec> 08└─I really enjoyed The Illuminatus! but got the distinct impression I would've gotten a lot more out of it if I'd been born a couple decades earlier. There were a looooot of political references I had to look up.
[21:47:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03mmcmonster [401] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robert M. Pirsig, Author of “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,” Dies at 88 - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:18] <exec> 08└─Sounds kinda like me. Read in in my late teens. I had taken it on a trip and didn't have anything else to read. The second have was a bit dull. But it ended nice enough, with a nice revelation about his driving companion. I bought Lila as soon as I got home. Haven't opened that up yet. But, hey, it'...
[21:49:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:19] <exec> 08└─Actually, I have. It was a lot like any other library. So are most of the "diverse kids" at the mall. It's mostly only a problem for the sort who whisper "those people" to their friends when they mean non-white.
[21:49:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:21] <exec> 08└─so the only reason you'd want to give up on them is because they're incompetent.
[21:49:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Obama Administration Undermined Iranian Counterproliferation - 719 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:51] <exec> 08└─When an Iranian talking head or tweet or youtube video is reported to say something about "death to America" or "the Great Satan" we are supposed to take this as proof that they are "crazy" and therefore a danger to everybody. US politicians sing about bombing Iran. They brag about assasinating Iran...
[21:50:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drivers Look at their Phones on 88 Percent of Trips - 1475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:50] <exec> 08└─Thank you. You can already see the clearly young moron complaining that you are old and unable to deal with tech :) I want to give these morons $2,500 tickets each. Something so fucking bad, that you literally cannot afford to drive for a week or too. There needs to be heavy, heavy, fines. At this p...
[21:50:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drivers Look at their Phones on 88 Percent of Trips - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:52] <exec> 08└─Traffic deaths that are related to alcohol in some way are 31% of traffic-related deaths. Not only are there tons of people driving around under the influence of alcohol, but they don't seem to be a very big problem in the grand scheme. What are those other 69% of doing?!
[21:51:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06How to Fight 'Fake News' in a Post-Truth Environment - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:51:54] <exec> 08└─That persecution complex does not let up, does it? Get over it. Trump won. Whatever happened before Trump has nothing to do with how Trump is reported on. > Affirmative Action Mistake That's trump right? The guy who has literally lost billions of dollars, bankrupted at least 7 times, couldn't get i...
[21:51:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Fight 'Fake News' in a Post-Truth Environment - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:51:55] <exec> 08└─Check out Mark Twain's "Running for Governor." Hilarious, and full of examples of fake news used for political purposes. Did he really steal a poor woman's Plantain Patch in Peking?
[21:51:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Fight 'Fake News' in a Post-Truth Environment - 11343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:51:57] <exec> 08└─> It is neither, it is the typical pattern. If that is the typical pattern, surely you can dig up at least two more examples? Right? Beuller? Meanwhile, here is a list of times when snopes found positively for the conservative world-view, just over a period of about 4 months: Oops, looks like the li...
[21:52:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Radioactive Boy Scout" David Charles Hahn was Regularly Visited by FBI - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:25] <exec> 08└─Well, the Transnistria, that's not got much American in it.
[21:54:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dutch Court Rules Fan Subtitling is Illegal - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:23] <exec> 08└─marked troll? for trolling the courts? maybe the marker is the troll. well played sir.
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[22:45:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three Months on, No Linksys Router Patches for Remote Holes - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:46] <exec> 08└─See that's what happens when you have a critical shortage of IT workers. Patches don't get written in a timely fashion. We need more H1B visas to fix the problem.
[22:45:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Months on, No Linksys Router Patches for Remote Holes - 1128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:47] <exec> 08└─It is simple, companies selling stuff doesn't pay for issuing fixes for years. Cisco can do it on because they require everyone to stay under an annual contract to get bug fixes, Linksys doesn't and therefore won't. Sooner later we realize this problem isn't solvable with anything like the current m...
[22:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three Months on, No Linksys Router Patches for Remote Holes - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:49] <exec> 08└─Ok, so what's with the sic in this summary? Linksys is yet to ... is perfectly valid English. You might prefer Linksys has yet to . . ., but that is only your preference. If you want, we can make it a competition between the two and settle the issue. However, until we do, as old Caius Lucius would s...
[22:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three Months on, No Linksys Router Patches for Remote Holes - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:52] <exec> 08└─If only we had Basic Income and Open Source then Many Eyes could make the Bugs Shallow.
[22:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 1483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:28] <exec> 08└─That's bullshit though. We are nowhere near the point where robotics can take over to feed us, clothe us, and build and provide maintenance for our shelters and infrastructure. Your point is valid for a future that is decades away, if not more. Don't know about Canada, but in the U.S our infrastruct...
[22:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:30] <exec> 08└─Thanks now I can eat lobster for a week. Who shall we kill next week? Keep the blood money coming; I'm hungry.
[22:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:32] <exec> 08└─You worked for their money? I think not. I think you worked for your money by giving them a day's effort and they paid you a mutually agreed upon amount for it. That their intelligence allows them to make more of a unit of effort than yours does is nobody's fault but your own. That they're so good a...
[22:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:34] <exec> 08└─Sorry, you can only kill the milk cow or laying hen once and that meal is all you get. You don't even get milk or eggs anymore.
[22:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 2190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:36] <exec> 08└─I basically agree with you on the ownership thing. Commodities (like money) naturally accumulate at the top. Everything does. Seriously the top 1% of unix sysadmins do more admin work than the entire bottom 99% put together. Ditto software dev. Or fine art. Or cooking. Or singing. Or pro athletes. S...
[22:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 1115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:38] <exec> 08└─They mostly are. I've had unfortunate experiences in my life around executives. Arguments about how the employees are only there to fuck them. From their perspective, it was already an Us. Vs. Them deal. What pissed me off was watching them drink alcohol during work hours while actively railing agai...
[22:46:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:41] <exec> 08└─You are dumber than I thought, and a verified lying sociopath / psychopath through your own admissions. You can't comprehend your own limitations which is why you still utter such garbage.
[22:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:43] <exec> 08└─Are you secretly the "series of contracts" guy? Sounds like you just want the freedom to totally screw over other people, probably sneak in some bullshit fineprint that makes them your literal slave if they fail to do some insignificant bullshit. People like you make me want to believe in religion,...
[22:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:45] <exec> 08└─More garbage from the carrion eater, remember people the shit he throws up on to these pages was dead before he ate it.
[22:46:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:47] <exec> 08└─in the U.S our infrastructure is starting to fail spectacularly. Our engineers give us a D- grade, IIRC. There is an incredible amount of work that needs to be done.
[22:46:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:50] <exec> 08└─That is because you are dumb and can not see it. The basic income plan would remove a huge amount of required oversight with investigators and general bureaucracy overhead. Please keep showing us your massive level of ignorance, it is a nice counterpoint to your arrogance.
[22:46:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 738 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:52] <exec> 08└─There are around 7.5 billion people; if each had $120 that would be $900 billion. http://www.worldometers.info [worldometers.info] From a January 2016 article, I see that the 50 wealthiest people were estimated to have assets of $1459.4 billion.* Were they all to (somehow) pay a 62...
[22:46:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:54] <exec> 08└─Heh not bad for a number completely pulled out of my ass. The whole point is that there are a lot of poor people. The burden of supporting the rich is relatively small. That's not what the problem is. The problem is the disproportionate say in how the world is run that the rich have over the poor. I...
[22:46:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:56] <exec> 08└─The series of contracts guy is just some Aspie loser somewhere. He's weird, and delusional, but he doesn't seem evil. More hopelessly dogmatic, something like APK and the hosts file thing on The Green Site. Uzzard here is, as has been mentioned, a self-professed sociopath. He is a good coder, but th...
[22:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:58] <exec> 08└─Right now it is WORK and FUCK-YOU-I-CAN-REPLACE-YOU-AND-YOU-GET-SHIT-AND-YOU-WILL-LIKE-IT.
[22:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:01] <exec> 08└─Them: Robots are going to take our jobs, what can we do? Them: Let's see if BI works! You: FUCK YOU, I WANT MORE MONEY! I FUCKING *DESERVE* MORE! Everyone else: Can't wait to see the results. Bob: Customers have been complaining about your potty-mouth. You're fired. You (after failing to find a job...
[22:47:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 1455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:03] <exec> 08└─You would shoot Oliver Twist? Speaking of caricatures, do you realize "a mugger" is one? You're talking like "bad" people are spawn in an FPS game, one around every corner. Mugging is not the sort of activity anyone can make a long, successful, and lucrative career out of. Do you think there's any p...
[22:47:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 1039 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:05] <exec> 08└─How about--this is really revolutionary, you guys--how about people get it through their heads that the economy is for humanity, not humanity for the economy, and pass some simplifying laws. Easy ones. Things like "For any publicly-traded company, if you can't pay your workers enough that they can s...
[22:47:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 1961 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:07] <exec> 08└─Scenario 1 (Base + (Earned*.5)) as put forth by TFA. This tells me that the tax rate is 50% and that the base is tax free under this system. Scenario 2 (Base + (Earned*.8)) is my effective tax rate last year. This assumes that taxes are not changed when this goes into effect and base is tax free Sce...
[22:47:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:09] <exec> 08└─No, I would drag his ass by the ear to the police though. And people pulling out deadly weapons to prevent crimes upon themselves is absolutely something we need more of in this nation. It will make crime decidedly less attractive of a career.
[22:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:11] <exec> 08└─Removing bureaucracy from welfare is like putting a bandaid on the Titanic after it hit the iceberg. I don't want more efficient welfare paid for by theft, I want no welfare paid for by theft.
[22:47:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:14] <exec> 08└─You eat things while they're still alive? Tell me more. I find it interesting that you lack the culinary sophistication of a caveman.
[22:47:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:16] <exec> 08└─You wouldn't know a sociopath if one skinned your cat, darlin. It's just another meaningless label coming from you; like misogynist, racist, transphobe, etc...
[22:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robert M. Pirsig, Author of “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,” Dies at 88 - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:39] <exec> 08└─Without a doubt suffering from depression and possibly some form of mild autism. And I'm not trying to be insulting either. I have similar issues myself and can relate to his outbursts, not the content but the desire to do it in the first place. His outbursts are his form of relief. I don't like it...
[22:48:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 6932 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:20] <exec> 08└─1) When I was a kid "hanging out at the mall then getting chased out by security" was a thing. There were entire teen movies about this stuff. Everyone in my generation has some kind of story about being legit kicked out a couple times as a teen and finally getting illegitimately kicked out as a gen...
[22:50:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Obama Administration Undermined Iranian Counterproliferation - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:13] <exec> 08└─McCain and Hillary have made similar threats back to them. Remember John's little song? USA are hypocrites.
[22:50:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Obama Administration Undermined Iranian Counterproliferation - 1961 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:15] <exec> 08└─Scenario 1 (Base + (Earned*.5)) as put forth by TFA. This tells me that the tax rate is 50% and that the base is tax free under this system. Scenario 2 (Base + (Earned*.8)) is my effective tax rate last year. This assumes that taxes are not changed when this goes into effect and base is tax free Sce...
[22:50:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Obama Administration Undermined Iranian Counterproliferation - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:17] <exec> 08└─I love when I am reading one article on my phone and try to reply on the desktop, and have the wrong topic open. Sorry all, mod offtopic.
[22:51:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drivers Look at their Phones on 88 Percent of Trips - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:17] <exec> 08└─What in god's name required you to be driving presumably 3x the speed limit?
[22:52:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Fight 'Fake News' in a Post-Truth Environment - 1393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:23] <exec> 08└─No, my "complaint" is that the line between reporting the facts and presenting opinions as such has been blurred to the point that it's becoming harder for people to tell where one ends and the other starts, basically, what I'm suggesting is that MSM needs to reinforce the line between journalism an...
[22:52:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Fight 'Fake News' in a Post-Truth Environment - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:24] <exec> 08└─Published procedures for handling mis-reported stories combined with a clear willingness to admit errors and correct them would be a good start....
[22:52:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Radioactive Boy Scout" David Charles Hahn was Regularly Visited by FBI - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:53] <exec> 08└─Perhaps this Cow Palace [wikipedia.org]?
[22:52:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Radioactive Boy Scout" David Charles Hahn was Regularly Visited by FBI - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:55] <exec> 08└─It is not pedantry, it is simply reading the summary. If it isn't a correct reflection of the story, then the submitter should do a better job of writing a summary. A summary should, I don't know, summarize the story.
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[23:45:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Months on, No Linksys Router Patches for Remote Holes - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:55] <exec> 08└─The solution will come with BrickerBot 5 or 6 or 12... When people can't plug devices with shitty security or unpatched holes without losing them, someone is going to have to address the problem, if they want their millions of bonus shares to be worth anything despite the lawyers and returns...
[23:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Three Months on, No Linksys Router Patches for Remote Holes - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:57] <exec> 08└─[sic] doesn't mean "you misspelled this" or "bad grammar", it means "this is literal from the source, it's not been changed here." In this case, likely the editor felt that "Linksys has yet", was the preferred use just as you speculated, and simply wished to make it clear that the quote was from the...
[23:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Months on, No Linksys Router Patches for Remote Holes - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:59] <exec> 08└─I disagree. Both are viable options to maintain the current profit margin but in most any other industry this is a solved problem. Release a buggy car, airplane, television, widget-du-jour and people will sue the fuck out of you. For some reason this largely does not happen in the software industry.
[23:46:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three Months on, No Linksys Router Patches for Remote Holes - 1073 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:01] <exec> 08└─I know what sic means, which is why I often decry its improper usage on this site. (Go back a year or so and you'll see some people who took from some definition of it up on Wiki that it is also appropriate to use it to express surprise, and they were peppering article summaries with them whenever t...
[23:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Months on, No Linksys Router Patches for Remote Holes - 1113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:04] <exec> 08└─Big difference being most cars do not get recalled once. If a software product doesn't get bug fixes monthly it is only because the vendor doesn't care, not that there aren't that many bugs. It is a never ending grind, and in a product that doesn't generate a recurring revenue stream is almost certa...
[23:47:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:04] <exec> 08└─I'm not secretly anyone. I go by the same name on this site that I go by at home and with most of my family. And ask around, I'm not even remotely shy about putting my views under my own handle.
[23:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:05] <exec> 08└─A well thought-out and reasoned response. I stand corrected.
[23:47:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:07] <exec> 08└─Living wages sound great until there's no more practically necessary work, and thanks to robots and just general efficiency gains, we are getting there.
[23:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:09] <exec> 08└─Trolling is a lucrative career, let me tell you. It's great that there aren't any living wage jobs left and the market for part time work is saturated also. It gives us professional trolls so much time to devote to our craft of trolling. And did I mention lucrative? Yes indeed I got paid $0.000 to p...
[23:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:12] <exec> 08└─So let people who want to collect tokens collect ALL the tokens. You want to collect "all" the diamonds in minecraft? Have fun! No problemo!
[23:47:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:14] <exec> 08└─I'm writing the Troll Board. You need a 50% pay cut for low quality work you're turning out.
[23:47:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:16] <exec> 08└─Scenario 1 (Base + (Earned*.5)) as put forth by TFA.
[23:47:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 1532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:18] <exec> 08└─Survival is optional. In the old days it was even kind of a luxury. Now we've had a brief stint where, at least in the first world, most people could be pretty well guaranteed to earn a living (people are still starving to death in the third world). Going into the future however, we'll see a dramati...
[23:47:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:21] <exec> 08└─BuahahahaHaha cut all you want! I have a guaranteed basic trolling income of $0.
[23:47:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:23] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=661pi6K-8WQ [youtube.com] I would say 'get dunked nerds', but even nerds can do simple arithmetic. Soylents are just full potato.
[23:47:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 992 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:25] <exec> 08└─In 1790, about 90% of workers were employed in agriculture. Now it's about 1.5%. Robots are doing most of the agricultural work with guidance from a handful of agricultural technicians. The same trends are happening in other industries too, just a bit slower / later. Example: I'm a machinist. I sit...
[23:47:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:27] <exec> 08└─Living wage or a job. Pick one. Automation will make universal basic income necessary. Or if not basic income, maybe some sort of extreme subsidy for employers to hire anybody.
[23:47:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:29] <exec> 08└─No. Not even basic math.
[23:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 812 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:32] <exec> 08└─The economy isn't for humanity. The economy is a side effect of humanity. Without humanity, what passes for an economy is what we call ecology (yes, the words have related roots). As for the rest of your post, you seem really unhappy about the idea that companies work within the regime in which they...
[23:47:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03http [1920] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:34] <exec> 08└─You are operating under the delusion that workers and employers come to a bargaining table with equal power. You're getting very angry for no good reason, and it can't be good for your blood pressure. You would do well to shut up about all things not coding rehash. Both your health and the conversat...
[23:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:36] <exec> 08└─There's nothing worse than half-dead racht.
[23:47:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:38] <exec> 08└─False. Labor force participation rate peeked at 67.30% in January of 2000, and since has dropped to 63%. It hasn't been this low since '77.
[23:47:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:41] <exec> 08└─We need another world war in which you get a nuke to the face.
[23:47:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:43] <exec> 08└─Around here an entry level wage full time job is about break-even with transportation and child care costs. If my wife got a full time job she'd net about $20 / week after taxes and expenses. That's a no brainer even without cutting the takehome in half.
[23:48:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Robert M. Pirsig, Author of “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,” Dies at 88 - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:07] <exec> 08└─You ought to read eckhart tolles - the power of now
[23:50:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Obama Administration Undermined Iranian Counterproliferation - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:44] <exec> 08└─You obviously do not even understand what you're talking about. Hypocrisy would be threatening to destroy them simply because we believed them to be sub-human scum like they believe of the Jews. Promising to destroy them if they attack or even seriously threaten an ally is nothing even remotely appr...
[23:50:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Obama Administration Undermined Iranian Counterproliferation - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:46] <exec> 08└─[begin encoded message] SJW Special Task Force, Rouge Une, jmorris Squad: status report. jmorris lies sleeping dreaming of Armaggedon. We suspect emissions. Or at least leakage. Request crew replacements, Not everyone can be exposed to this much crazy for such a long period of time. jmorris Squad ou...
[23:50:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Obama Administration Undermined Iranian Counterproliferation - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:48] <exec> 08└─If Iran gets The Bomb, they will use it.
[23:51:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 063D-Printing of Glass Now Possible - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:51:05] <exec> 08└─If a material like nano-glass is melted, then would it still have nano sized features? or just fuse due to melting and thus lack any nano dangers?
[23:51:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 063D-Printing of Glass Now Possible - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:51:06] <exec> 08└─It is generally recognized that people working in the following industries have the greatest risk of being exposed to silica dust and contracting silicosis: [...] Manufacturing of glass products [...]
[23:52:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Fight 'Fake News' in a Post-Truth Environment - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:58] <exec> 08└─> To re-use the example of my different slants on the Vinson carrier group's redeployment, It isn't much of an example since you haven't actually provided any ... examples. You claim this "blurring" not only exists but is so common that its difficult for people to even discern it. So actual examples...
[23:53:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Radioactive Boy Scout" David Charles Hahn was Regularly Visited by FBI - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:53:29] <exec> 08└─> [...] maybe he had PTSD, or some other psychological problem. [...] he is diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic with bi-polar disorder. He is on medication for both [...]
[23:55:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dutch Court Rules Fan Subtitling is Illegal - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:55:28] <exec> 08└─You shouldn't feel threatened by something unless you consider it somehow better.Or in otherwords, if you consider your own offering worse. Is there a point in paying for an inferior product? Common sense says no.
[23:55:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Geeks v Government: the Battle Over Public Key Cryptography - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:55:55] <exec> 08└─There's now a Soylent News editor's note, telling us that the story "is discussing a historical event."
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