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[00:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:04] <exec> 08└─And you think that neo-fascist Marine Le Pen would somehow make things all right? France has terrorism problems because, among other reasons, France has problems assimilating its Muslim citizens. Being made to feel like an outsider all the time would hardly make a person feel welcome. The United Sta...
[00:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:05] <exec> 08└─Well, for one thing, there won't be a "Frexit" any time soon, something that would be a disaster worse than the one the British are getting themselves into soon. Second, it means that the Euro is here to stay, at least for the foreseeable future. But more importantly, it means that the alliance betw...
[00:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:08] <exec> 08└─" Being made to feel like an outsider all the time would hardly make a person feel welcome. "
[00:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:10] <exec> 08└─almost as sad as when the teenagers protested after the first round when their socialist candidate didn't win. I knew then that Le Pen was probably screwed. Good job france, you kept that "far right candidate" from "jeopardizing the democracy" by electing the "independent centrist". Ridiculous. It's...
[00:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:12] <exec> 08└─And the no-go zones.
[00:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate ID Cards Use A Photo Of A Chip Rather Than An Actual Smart Chip - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:36] <exec> 08└─Now if the senate would use pictures of douchebags instead of real senators, we'd be getting somewhere!
[00:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate ID Cards Use A Photo Of A Chip Rather Than An Actual Smart Chip - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:38] <exec> 08└─Now if the senate would use pictures real senators of instead of douchebags , we'd be getting somewhere Fixed that for ya.
[00:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate ID Cards Use A Photo Of A Chip Rather Than An Actual Smart Chip - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:40] <exec> 08└─Then have a source of income that allows for it. I do not mind your programs of giving away things but you better have a way to pay for it or we are done talking.
[00:46:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Senate ID Cards Use A Photo Of A Chip Rather Than An Actual Smart Chip - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:42] <exec> 08└─Context? Did your organization switch from magstripe to RFID? The two types of readers are so radically different from each other that there is no excuse for confusion.
[00:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Action on Free Speech Laws for College Campuses and TV - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:14] <exec> 08└─But why oh why do the Young Republicans insist on trying to invite the very enemies of academe into the heart of the campus?
[00:47:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Action on Free Speech Laws for College Campuses and TV - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:15] <exec> 08└─He told me one would fail the test for opiates if one ate a poppyseed bagel the morning of the exam. He also said that eating Jerusalem artichokes would make you fail the blood test. I have no clue if he's correct but that's what he said. He later grew Jerusalem Artichokes in our garden. They're a c...
[00:47:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BitCoin, Ethereum and Gold - 768 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:43] <exec> 08└─i wasn't really trying to give you a hard time with my reply. just cussing the bastards, not necessarily you. i hope everyone in the world abandons fiat currency. It has the potential to kill big government and the banks with their fractional reserve banking scam. We don't need them or their taxes....
[00:47:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BitCoin, Ethereum and Gold - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:45] <exec> 08└─Bitcoin may not be suitable for a savings account. But being able to execute transactions of monetary value between individuals without leaches having any say is a great benefit. Taxation, inflation, institutional collapses and transaction fees are undermined. Because those instruments have been abu...
[00:49:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Crowdfunded Billboards Shame Four Members of Congress Who Sold Out Your Online Privacy - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:02] <exec> 08└─...crowdfunded Congresspeople.
[00:49:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Crowdfunded Billboards Shame Four Members of Congress Who Sold Out Your Online Privacy - 1337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:03] <exec> 08└─Actually lack of USB support can almost be seen as a security benefit ;-) but quite unpractical. Driver support tend to come with many developers using the system and commercial entities using it. The interesting concepts that can be developed into a "killer" OS for the feature can be: * Using a...
[00:49:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Crowdfunded Billboards Shame Four Members of Congress Who Sold Out Your Online Privacy - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:05] <exec> 08└─Trump used circa 50 million US$ asfaik. So 50 000 people could possible fund such venture. It will however require the right candidate to pull it of, or at least 10x the money is needed.
[00:49:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Crowdfunded Billboards Shame Four Members of Congress Who Sold Out Your Online Privacy - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:07] <exec> 08└─[...] the "lots of other pieces" needed to make a free operating system out of linux could come from multiple places, not necessarily GNU. Possibilities include Darwin, OpenSolaris, Plan 9, Inferno, Minix and *BSD. The initial release of the Linux kernel was 17 September 1991 and 386BSD came out ju...
[00:49:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Crowdfunded Billboards Shame Four Members of Congress Who Sold Out Your Online Privacy - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:10] <exec> 08└─. ...let it be what it will be because style is meaningless" is obviously not in any sense an arbiter of "style." Oddly enough, since I stopped going to barbers (I hated them as a kid), long hair seems to have gone in and out of style several times. It's slightly amusing to watch the trends...
[00:49:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Crowdfunded Billboards Shame Four Members of Congress Who Sold Out Your Online Privacy - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:12] <exec> 08└─> But what happens in 4 years? Length of term Two years
[00:49:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Delta Airlines Forces Family off Plane - Threatened with Jail - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:45] <exec> 08└─I have to agree with you on that we are still missing some details but indeed if you do not board and are a no show technically the airline can give th seat to someone else. I was just venting out some frustration about airlines and standby passengers ;).
[00:50:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel AMT Vulnerability: Hacker's Backdoor Dream - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:50:14] <exec> 08└─I don't suppose they involve Natalie Portman and hot grits.
[00:51:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Titan Ripe for Drone Invasion - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:21] <exec> 08└─Even worse, liquid oxygen is denser than diesel fuel. You just fixed a problem by creating a bigger problem of the same sort. At least Titan has lower gravity, meaning your propellant goes further while generating the necessary lift.
[00:53:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Stops Terrorists from Spreading Leprosy? - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:27] <exec> 08└─You can make the suicide bomber's favorite detonator out of Ortho Snail And Slug Death, hydrogen peroxide antiseptic or hair bleach, any flavor of Kool-Ade Mix other than lemon, a spaghetti strainer, two coffee filters, a large bowl, a cup a spoon, a box of table salt and a bag of party ice. A while...
[00:53:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Stops Terrorists from Spreading Leprosy? - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:28] <exec> 08└─How would he explain that to the virgins he's suppose to get?
[00:53:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Plans to Launch Original TV-Like Programming in June - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:56] <exec> 08└─... autoplay videos.
[00:54:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Southern California Edison to Install "Ice Batteries" in Buildings - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:36] <exec> 08└─> Remember it's replacing AC for up to 3 hours, not running along side it. That means while the ice system is running, the AC compressors are not. Ice Energy's promotional video from 2011 shows it running alongside an existing air conditioner. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com...
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[01:46:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Matt Hickey, Anti #GamerGate Journalist Fined $332,000 For Porn Agency Scam - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:00] <exec> 08└─Times have changed. We have this Great Recession on. People do desperate things for money. You have no right to judge unless you were 18 during the Great Depression. Are you 100 years old?
[01:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03a-zA-Z0-9$_.+!*'(),- (3868) (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Matt Hickey, Anti #GamerGate Journalist Fined $332,000 For Porn Agency Scam - 919 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:01] <exec> 08└─Well, the Russian's supposedly once designated prostitution a crime of vagrancy, and I'd say this is just a step removed. Desperate and foolish people do desperately foolish things. As far as going online goes, apparently he's being fined for NOT putting these people online. He just wanted sex with...
[01:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Matt Hickey, Anti #GamerGate Journalist Fined $332,000 For Porn Agency Scam - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:03] <exec> 08└─Times have changed. We have this Great Recession on. People do desperate things for money.
[01:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Matt Hickey, Anti #GamerGate Journalist Fined $332,000 For Porn Agency Scam - 685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:06] <exec> 08└─Not really all that surprising that this guy had a few skeletons in the closet when he's out there shouting as loudly as he can in public. It's like TV Evangelists or 'Family Values' politicians that can't keep it in their pants. It reminds me of a strange scenario from back in my Uni days. The plac...
[01:46:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mendax [2840] 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 396 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:16] <exec> 08└─And you think that neo-fascist Marine Le Pen would somehow make things all right? France has terrorism problems because, among other reasons, France has problems assimilating its Muslim citizens. Being made to feel like an outsider all the time would hardly make a person feel welcome. The United Sta...
[01:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:22] <exec> 08└─This is his full quote from the Guardian: “This threat, this imponderable problem, is part of our daily lives for the years to come. I would like to express all my support for our police forces and more generally the forces of law and order. I am particularly thinking of the victim’s family.”...
[01:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:24] <exec> 08└─That is words not action. We'll see what he actually WILL DO.
[01:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:26] <exec> 08└─The no-go zones are places where the law enforcement will be attacked at all times and crimes go largely unsolved because no one has seen anything.. This enables criminal gangs and drug trade. Ambulance personnel gets stones thrown at them. And normal people may be physically intimidated. Some areas...
[01:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:28] <exec> 08└─Thank-you....
[01:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate ID Cards Use A Photo Of A Chip Rather Than An Actual Smart Chip - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:58] <exec> 08└─That's not entirely true. The first National Debt Clock was installed on February 20, 1989. [...] In 2008, as the U.S. national debt exceeded $10 trillion for the first time, it was reported that the value of the debt may have exceeded the number of digits in the clock.
[01:46:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate ID Cards Use A Photo Of A Chip Rather Than An Actual Smart Chip - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:59] <exec> 08└─No one thought to search the Web for "RFID logo"? https://www.vecteezy.com [vecteezy.com] https://gigaom.com [gigaom.com] http://www.logosdatabase.com [logosdat...
[01:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate ID Cards Use A Photo Of A Chip Rather Than An Actual Smart Chip - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:01] <exec> 08└─We got these "tech" "geniuses" Bezo and Musk and Zuck. I propose we tax the "tech" "geniuses" until everyone has enough basic income to live. Let the "tech" "geniuses" work out the details of how they will afford to pay. Those guys are "tech" "geniuses" so they can solve anything.
[01:47:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Senate ID Cards Use A Photo Of A Chip Rather Than An Actual Smart Chip - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:03] <exec> 08└─So what the senate is saying is that it's open season to fake being a senator. Dunno, but sounds like a literal free lunch. Maybe one could vote for fun too. ;) Ohh... btw my name is Potiner Vlamidir.. I forgot my password for the senate system at home. Please print them out again ;-)
[01:47:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Action on Free Speech Laws for College Campuses and TV - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:37] <exec> 08└─Pffft... If you need overwhelming representation to beat your opponent in a debate, you've already lost. Nye just sucks at debating.
[01:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Action on Free Speech Laws for College Campuses and TV - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:38] <exec> 08└─No, debates are not the answer. They have their place but every time someone remotely controversial wants to speak they should not be forced into a debate format when none of the golden children speakers are.
[01:47:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Action on Free Speech Laws for College Campuses and TV - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:40] <exec> 08└─Abortion is still typically more free in the states than Europe,
[01:47:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03https [5248] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Action on Free Speech Laws for College Campuses and TV - 786 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:43] <exec> 08└─Pfft. You hear that? That's me stifling a derisive insult. Your understanding of "leftists" is sad, a poorly drawn caricature. When your position obviously results in people consistently murdered for no other reason than the colour of their skin (or the shape of their nose, mutatis mutandis), you fu...
[01:47:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Action on Free Speech Laws for College Campuses and TV - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:45] <exec> 08└─anybody who says "hate speech" is a fucking douche bag who deserves a proper beating.
[01:47:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Action on Free Speech Laws for College Campuses and TV - 1128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:47] <exec> 08└─"No, it isn't." Yeah, actually, it is. In much of Europe it's only unrestricted in the first trimester. "That's just another falsehood promulgated by the religious right." Is that what's called an 'alternative fact?' So all the normal sources of info are wrong on this, because some nebulous religous...
[01:49:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Crowdfunded Billboards Shame Four Members of Congress Who Sold Out Your Online Privacy - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:49:38] <exec> 08└─Nah. I don't give a shit if you call him Brad, Chelsae, or Sparkle the Wonder Pony.
[01:50:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Delta Airlines Forces Family off Plane - Threatened with Jail - 947 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:50:13] <exec> 08└─everybody in this country is turning into little authoritarians. listen to the condescending tone in the second woman's/plane skank's voice. you are under her and she's going to make sure you do what you're told, preferably while groveling. the only thing these people understand or respect is power....
[01:50:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel AMT Vulnerability: Hacker's Backdoor Dream - 767 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:50:43] <exec> 08└─So in essence they should have used strcmp(computed_response, received_response) and enforced proper null termination in the "computed_response" variable as that is one that can be thoroughly controlled. As for reading portions of memory "not belong to you". It can cause all kinds of nastiness, from...
[01:51:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Realtime Internet Surveillance in the UK - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:51:36] <exec> 08└─they must be dealt with now before it's too late. they are building a system of total control and domination with your money. you have to attack now while you still can. yea, take your bats and sticks and attack!
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[02:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Qubes Kicks Xen While It's Down After Finding 'Fatal, Reliably Exploitable' Bug - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:53] <exec> 08└─Oh noes AWS uzes Xen. Whot it meanz forz mah EC2 instunces?>?!
[02:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Matt Hickey, Anti #GamerGate Journalist Fined $332,000 For Porn Agency Scam - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:05] <exec> 08└─If he'd bothered to pay them and put it online I think he'd be just another small time pornographer.
[02:46:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Matt Hickey, Anti #GamerGate Journalist Fined $332,000 For Porn Agency Scam - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:07] <exec> 08└─All during this time Hickey had been advocating for sex-negativity on behalf of third-wave feminists
[02:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Matt Hickey, Anti #GamerGate Journalist Fined $332,000 For Porn Agency Scam - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:09] <exec> 08└─All during this time, cisgendered white male Hickey had been saying that all PIV sex is rape on behalf of social justice warriors
[02:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Matt Hickey, Anti #GamerGate Journalist Fined $332,000 For Porn Agency Scam - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:11] <exec> 08└─Is that a new google translate service? what's the url? :P
[02:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Matt Hickey, Anti #GamerGate Journalist Fined $332,000 For Porn Agency Scam - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:13] <exec> 08└─Must be something similar with these "asexuals". There are of course some. But too many seems to be just pretending..
[02:46:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mendax [2840] 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 485 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:25] <exec> 08└─Well, for one thing, there won't be a "Frexit" any time soon, something that would be a disaster worse than the one the British are getting themselves into soon. Second, it means that the Euro is here to stay, at least for the foreseeable future. But more importantly, it means that the alliance betw...
[02:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:34] <exec> 08└─I've asked this before but you never seem interested in responding. What is WRONG with you? For all the tough guy talk you act like a scared little kid.
[02:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:36] <exec> 08└─Le Pen = French Trump, or a Trompette. Macaroon = not Trump. Any questions? PS: Thank you, French voters, from the rest of the world.
[02:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:38] <exec> 08└─Steady on, hold the line and all that stuff. Can't think of a proper car analogy but a Star Wars one is apt. BrExit and Trump was A New Hope and Belgium and France says we are now in The Empire Strikes Back, but we know eventually we make it to Return of the Jedi and win. This moron can't possibly m...
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[02:46:40] <exec> 08└─Malformed brain. [google.com] (It's true of the entire Reactionary genre.) -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[02:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Linatux [4602] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:43] <exec> 08└─the alliance between the French and the Germans just means they will suffer the same - peace is far from guaranteed
[02:46:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06Senate ID Cards Use A Photo Of A Chip Rather Than An Actual Smart Chip - 157 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:54] <exec> 08└─Don't worry. US politicians only look like they are doing their jobs. Hence, the security card that only looks like a security card is perfectly appropriate.
[02:47:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02 - 06Action on Free Speech Laws for College Campuses and TV - 1140 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:43] <exec> 08└─The problem with this is the false equivalency. And the dog-whistles. And the hate speech. There are not always two sides to everything, and if the two sides are crazy and sane, they are not really two sides. Debating Ken Ham, as Bill Nye found out, really does nothing. Debating Alex Jones makes no...
[02:47:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Action on Free Speech Laws for College Campuses and TV - 6482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:56] <exec> 08└─I tried to keep my own perspectives out of my submission here, but I have some real concerns about the language of this "model bill." I'm surprised at some of the language, because at times it's quite vague -- and different readings could make some sections sound so weak as to wonder why they're nec...
[02:47:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Action on Free Speech Laws for College Campuses and TV - 1324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:58] <exec> 08└─You should really take a long hard look at what you are opposing. The only part of the pendulum that has swung too far is PC culture which has taught generations of kids to be too sensitive and censor a boat load of words. But all things considered that is far from the worst excess and hasn't been f...
[02:47:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Action on Free Speech Laws for College Campuses and TV - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:00] <exec> 08└─Eth isn't allowed Lego since that time he swallowed an entire miniature set of them and started shitting Lego-man heads. It's Duplo only now. No Tinkertoys either; apparently he got "ideas" about where some of the longer pieces go...
[02:48:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Action on Free Speech Laws for College Campuses and TV - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:02] <exec> 08└─He doesn't play with Legos, they are an ideological tool of socialist Denmark! This is more to his liking: Little White Dragon toys [smosh.com] Now you know why he drinks ethanol, he needs it to pose like a real fire breathing dragon but it is just a cheap trick from a damaged individual.
[02:48:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Action on Free Speech Laws for College Campuses and TV - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:04] <exec> 08└─Ok, who was the fool who upmodded TMBs obvious trolling??
[02:48:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Action on Free Speech Laws for College Campuses and TV - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:07] <exec> 08└─Thank you for the adult analysis. I had a feeling we'd see the conservative crowd come out swinging in favor of this, yet another notch on the belt for irony. "Too much regulation!! Government bad!?!" *pssst, it might work in our favor here* "MOAR REGULATION!" So easily led to think they are defendi...
[02:49:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Hour Marathon Run *Almost* Achieved - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:49:07] <exec> 08└─Bartender... I'll have what he's having! ;)
[02:49:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Hour Marathon Run *Almost* Achieved - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:49:08] <exec> 08└─You could also make it if the time was allowed to be non-contiguous. For example when the microwave timer dings I can be off the couch and next to the beer fridge to pull the popcorn out of the microwave in no time flat. Amortise that over many years and I've run a sub-two-minute marathon.
[02:50:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Crowdfunded Billboards Shame Four Members of Congress Who Sold Out Your Online Privacy - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:50:01] <exec> 08└─Did I say any different? You should try arguing with what I actually say instead of a strawman once in a while.
[02:50:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Crowdfunded Billboards Shame Four Members of Congress Who Sold Out Your Online Privacy - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:50:02] <exec> 08└─Wasn't a strawman. It was a tangent. Learn your idioms.
[02:50:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Delta Airlines Forces Family off Plane - Threatened with Jail - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:50:40] <exec> 08└─One person in the family was a no show, which means the seat is forfeit. The family tried to use the lost seat for their lap child, and the airline said no. Putting the two year old in that seat and the little one in the two year old's seat was a diversion. Sure they can be sent to jail for disobeyi...
[02:50:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Delta Airlines Forces Family off Plane - Threatened with Jail - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:50:42] <exec> 08└─Executives from United, American, Southwest and Alaska testified at one or both hearings. Delta was notably absent.
[02:51:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel AMT Vulnerability: Hacker's Backdoor Dream - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:51:13] <exec> 08└─Rather, never trust the input to be what you expect.
[02:51:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel AMT Vulnerability: Hacker's Backdoor Dream - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:51:15] <exec> 08└─If your system is powered on and vulnerable, you are completely and utterly pwned as if the exploiter were sitting there with physical access to the box. Minus the physical bits.
[02:51:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel AMT Vulnerability: Hacker's Backdoor Dream - 643 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:51:17] <exec> 08└─The detection "guide" is a binary download for operating systems compatible with Microsoft windows 7 and 10. Maybe someone in the open source community will write a Unix equivalent that just reads in the BIOS data and evaluates it. According to this page [intel.com], these processors are affected: ...
[02:51:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel AMT Vulnerability: Hacker's Backdoor Dream - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:51:19] <exec> 08└─One way to thwart AMT may be to use the network switch, to simply block TCP port 16992 and 16993. In addition only allow the Ethernet MAC of the real network card to pass the switch. A little more hardcore version could send ping to each machine. If the machine respond correctly it will be allowed t...
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[02:54:33] <exec> 08└─And the argument stands. Inspiring other mujahideen is a political goal. Biological warfare is still a crummy way of accomplishing that.
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[03:46:05] <exec> 08└─I would assume that for you it means a quiet evening in your easy chair with a cigar and a glass of whisky, while Amazon's staff apply the patches.
[03:46:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Mykl [1112] 02 - 06Matt Hickey, Anti #GamerGate Journalist Fined $332,000 For Porn Agency Scam - 685 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:16] <exec> 08└─Not really all that surprising that this guy had a few skeletons in the closet when he's out there shouting as loudly as he can in public. It's like TV Evangelists or 'Family Values' politicians that can't keep it in their pants. It reminds me of a strange scenario from back in my Uni days. The plac...
[03:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03a-zA-Z0-9$_.+!*'(),- (3868) (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Matt Hickey, Anti #GamerGate Journalist Fined $332,000 For Porn Agency Scam - 708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:23] <exec> 08└─I'm no expert, but the article talks about Microsofts "go go dancers" which might be defended by "sex positive" people. Those who condemn such go-go dancers might do so as it's "objectifying" or something along those lines (i.e. sexual expression is more or less exploitative, or part of the patriarc...
[03:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Matt Hickey, Anti #GamerGate Journalist Fined $332,000 For Porn Agency Scam - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:25] <exec> 08└─…Hickey had been advocating for sex-negativity on behalf of third-wave feminists. Hickey adopted the activism of a male feminist, attacking companies and the tech industry for its alleged “sexism….”
[03:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Matt Hickey, Anti #GamerGate Journalist Fined $332,000 For Porn Agency Scam - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:27] <exec> 08└─Allow me to attempt now that I've had my laugh at that section. All during this time, Hickey had been advocating for puritanism on behalf of an authoritarian rape victim club whose members are frightened of a command prompt.
[03:46:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:53] <exec> 08└─Whatever the audiences were at rallies for the candidates, more than a third of eligible voters in France didn't bother to vote. [google.com] This was up from 28 percent last time. Democracy has gotten a really lousy name--at least what passes for Democracy these days. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews...
[03:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 1372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:54] <exec> 08└─"That's pretty funny," says Hait Abbas, a non-practicing Muslim who runs a wine shop in a Paris neighborhood among those identified by Peterson as a no-go zone. I have to point out that this is impossible. There's no such thing as a "non-practicing Muslim"; that's like a "non-practicing Catholic". E...
[03:46:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:56] <exec> 08└─Just like Dearborn, MI! OMGFREAKOUT! The Moooooooooooooslims are coming! The Moooooooooooooooslims are coming!
[03:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:58] <exec> 08└─You are all sheep. BAAAAAAAA! BAAAAAAAAA! Baaa sheep baaa. Baa go the sheep. YOU SHEEEPL-- Oh shi--! [xkcd.com]
[03:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 686 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:01] <exec> 08└─We've already had several or our most regular insightful commentators -- Ethanol-Fueled, jmorris, etc. -- post summaries of the event and its implications. I urge you to read their comments. The only thing you have to be careful of is these individuals are posting from another dimension, a mirror un...
[03:47:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 791 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:03] <exec> 08└─He can identify with the Islamic culture he comes from without believing the supernatural aspects, and if he wants to still call himself a Muslim that's up to him. It's not clear if this particular man describes himself that way, or if the author of the piece did, but people who do identify that way...
[03:47:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate ID Cards Use A Photo Of A Chip Rather Than An Actual Smart Chip - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:36] <exec> 08└─Yep, and Trump's tablet is an Etcha-Sketch too from what I hear. Just from what I hear.
[03:48:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Action on Free Speech Laws for College Campuses and TV - 929 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:48:24] <exec> 08└─Anyone who says that about hate speech is in fact engaging in hate speech, and thus not capable of rational debate, or even civilized conversation, and probably not being out in public. Beating? From such a pathetic specimen as yourself? Please! Just because it is hate speech does not mean I am afra...
[03:48:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Action on Free Speech Laws for College Campuses and TV - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:48:25] <exec> 08└─Yeah, actually, it is. In much of Europe it's only unrestricted in the first trimester.
[03:48:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03a-zA-Z0-9$_.+!*'(),- (3868) (Score: 1) 02 - 06Action on Free Speech Laws for College Campuses and TV - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:48:27] <exec> 08└─Duterte is old, but he's not dead: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
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[03:51:35] <exec> 08└─Natalie Portman
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[04:45:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Air Force's Mysterious Space Plane Lands, Wakes Up Florida - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:47] <exec> 08└─You woke me up. If you are still in Elementary School, I'll give you credit for skills beyond your years, but you need to know that waking people up in the middle of the night and making people wait 2 minutes for a 911 operator is wrong on so many levels. If you are older than about 12, you don't ge...
[04:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Matt Hickey, Anti #GamerGate Journalist Fined $332,000 For Porn Agency Scam - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:17] <exec> 08└─...the more likely they're guilty. I know a bunch of actual male feminists, and they don't feel the need to toot their horns about it. They just go about their business being decent people.
[04:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Matt Hickey, Anti #GamerGate Journalist Fined $332,000 For Porn Agency Scam - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:18] <exec> 08└─At 18 not many people have developed strong life skills. Many many people wander through their younger years coddled in relative comfort, unaware of how brutal the real world can be. So some young horny girl wants money, sees an opportunity and doesn't really think twice? I mean, where do you go to...
[04:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:50] <exec> 08└─We've already had several or our most regular insightful commentators -- Ethanol-Fueled, jmorris, etc. -- post summaries of the event and its implications. I urge you to read their comments.
[04:46:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:51] <exec> 08└─They were close friends during the war. [wikipedia.org] Not allies but close.
[04:46:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:54] <exec> 08└─There's a pending story submission [soylentnews.org] about Marie Le Pen winning the presidential election in France.
[04:46:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:56] <exec> 08└─"She lost. Get over it."
[04:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:58] <exec> 08└─I've got some bad news for you. [youtube.com]
[04:46:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:00] <exec> 08└─Being American, totally disagree with you. There really is no such thing as "assimilation". You cannot assimilate foreign people without changing the country in fundamental ways, damaging it. Blacks have been in the USA a long time and I guess have been "assimilated", are, or were, christian, and so...
[04:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate ID Cards Use A Photo Of A Chip Rather Than An Actual Smart Chip - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:35] <exec> 08└─Yep, and Trump's tablet is crayons on construction paper too from what I hear. Just from what I hear.
[04:48:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Action on Free Speech Laws for College Campuses and TV - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:48:25] <exec> 08└─Political affiliation doesn't matter. If they get violent, they've broken the law. They need to be arrested and tried. If convicted, they need to be incarcerated. No excuses. Congrats cupcake, they're going to love you on the Group W bench.
[04:48:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Action on Free Speech Laws for College Campuses and TV - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:48:26] <exec> 08└─You do realize Trump lost the popular vote right? The electorate actually disagrees with the minority of cowardly nationalists who also happen to have pretty much the entire population of neo-nazis as well. You should really think long and hard about who your compatriots are and what they stand for....
[04:48:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Action on Free Speech Laws for College Campuses and TV - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:48:28] <exec> 08└─Spoken like a truly ignorant fool. History shows your place, and it is in the footnotes where they mention that some close minded fools tried to maintain the status quo because they fear change. When your kind makes it into the main pages it is overwhelmingly about the persecutions and genocides of...
[04:48:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Action on Free Speech Laws for College Campuses and TV - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:48:31] <exec> 08└─Hey, your misogyny is peeking. You just wish you had a cupcake of your own ;)
[04:55:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Southern California Edison to Install "Ice Batteries" in Buildings - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:55:57] <exec> 08└─Let me elaborate since I appear to be saying two different things. The basic problem is a standard tragedy of the commons. Water is universally underpriced combined with the current incentives to pump as much water as possible out of the ground, because otherwise someone else will use it up first. T...
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[05:46:00] <exec> 08└─I take it you live in Florida?
[05:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Matt Hickey, Anti #GamerGate Journalist Fined $332,000 For Porn Agency Scam - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:30] <exec> 08└─But only because many men seem to love using Feminism to take advantage of women. Unsurprising in many ways...
[05:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03a-zA-Z0-9$_.+!*'(),- (3868) (Score: 1) 02 - 06Matt Hickey, Anti #GamerGate Journalist Fined $332,000 For Porn Agency Scam - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:32] <exec> 08└─I think he was some kind of respectable writer for crunchbase, etc. and maybe he was the "star" of these interviews. So I'm guessing he wanted to avoid the publicity? Who knows.
[05:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03a-zA-Z0-9$_.+!*'(),- (3868) (Score: 1) 02 - 06Matt Hickey, Anti #GamerGate Journalist Fined $332,000 For Porn Agency Scam - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:34] <exec> 08└─Well it just goes to show, maybe the sex-negative Third Wave feminists are right: men are pervs! Even the ones who agree with the 3rd wave feminists, oh wait...
[05:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Matt Hickey, Anti #GamerGate Journalist Fined $332,000 For Porn Agency Scam - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:36] <exec> 08└─Well don't those bunch tend to say it's rape if they are too drunk to consent? But how drunk is too drunk? Lots of drunk people are still conscious and able to make decisions (bad ones perhaps) but the next day they don't remember what happened.
[05:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Matt Hickey, Anti #GamerGate Journalist Fined $332,000 For Porn Agency Scam - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:38] <exec> 08└─If "stealthing" is rape isn't what he did rape too? If no, why not?
[05:47:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 2229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:16] <exec> 08└─In comparison, I'm an atheist, but I celebrate Christmas and Easter. So what? Lots of people celebrate Halloween by wearing slutty outfits but that doesn't make them religious. Christmas and Easter aren't religious either: Christmas was originally called Saturnalia, and is one of many winter-solstic...
[05:47:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:17] <exec> 08└─Oh no! The Nazis lost again! Maybe they should try a different angle? You know, one not tied to White Nationalism? You might win some battles for once. Just a suggestion.
[05:47:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:20] <exec> 08└─It is maddening knowing there are hordes of Russian propagandists flooding websites with ideologies, because when is someone an actual reactionary nationalist and when are they just a shill trying to please their master? I guess its tomatoes and potatoes all the way down... Given the occasional bout...
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[05:47:22] <exec> 08└─Yup. The 2016 election year was a massive turning point for this site, and with Trump winning it has only gotten worse. I've started reading slashdot again, and while it feels a little sterilized and the ads are annoying it still seems to have a better level of discussion. The only real intellectual...
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[05:47:24] <exec> 08└─I used to believe the same thing but once you start looking at actual data on Muslim beliefs [pewforum.org] it's just not really supported by data. I think one of the main reasons that Islam has been so 'successful' in terms of maintaining such a large of fundamental or core worshipers (as opposed t...
[05:47:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:26] <exec> 08└─There's a pending story submission [soylentnews.org] about Marie Le Pen winning the presidential election in France.
[05:47:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Senate ID Cards Use A Photo Of A Chip Rather Than An Actual Smart Chip - 136 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:34] <exec> 08└─I'm not really very worried that somebody could impersonate a Senator, because how could you possibly do a worse job than the real ones?
[05:48:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Senate ID Cards Use A Photo Of A Chip Rather Than An Actual Smart Chip - 838 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:48:02] <exec> 08└─If you're a Senator, enough people know who you are to recognize if it's you or not. These people are very, very busy and are constantly escorted around by their staff and whatnot. Technically there are eyes on these people at all times simply because they are so important and vital to the legislati...
[05:48:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Action on Free Speech Laws for College Campuses and TV - 835 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:48:57] <exec> 08└─You realize there is no such thing as 'the popular vote' in that race, right? You mean more people nationwide voted for Clinton, I presume, and that may be true, by a fairly slim margin. She won the big cities where she was always going to win, but the large majority of the country repudiated her, a...
[05:48:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Action on Free Speech Laws for College Campuses and TV - 1515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:48:58] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the submission, Anthanasius, and there is no shame in commenting in a thread you have submitted. In fact, it seems to be necessary of late, when all the Nattering Nabobs of Negativism come out to have their say. So this is the "Conservatives, since they are the Majority in Government, mus...
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[05:49:00] <exec> 08└─Violence is sometimes justified! Punching a Nazi in the face is, well, just kind of a "hello" to a Nazi. Not nearly so rude as offering them a shower. So I think that a threat of violence, against those who threaten violence, is totally cool! Ann Coulter called for the killing or forced conversion o...
[05:49:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Action on Free Speech Laws for College Campuses and TV - 997 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:49:03] <exec> 08└─The reality is this: The demographics of the US are changing, and changing in a way that are absolutely irreversible. The Old Guard are so weary of change that they will use absolutely any chance they have to support their cause-- including inviting White Supremacist "lecturers" to their college cam...
[05:49:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Action on Free Speech Laws for College Campuses and TV - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:49:05] <exec> 08└─any random student can invite a speaker to campus, and then the "campuses" MUST be "open to" that speaker. What does that mean?
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[05:52:13] <exec> 08└─That is a known data leak [torproject.org]. 4. Language & Input => Spell Checker -> Android Spell Checker -> Disable Contact Names Disable Google Voice Typing/Hotword detection Android Keyboard (AOSP) => Disable AOSP next-word suggestion (do this first!) Auto-correction -> Off ...still hav...
[05:56:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Southern California Edison to Install "Ice Batteries" in Buildings - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:56:36] <exec> 08└─Did you think I meant that they removed the traditional AC for three hours and reinstalled it after the three hours was up each day? It literally says, in the video you linked to, that it prevents the AC compressor (you know, the part of the AC that uses the most energy and the one I called it in th...
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[06:46:12] <exec> 08└─Technopoly: https://www.amazon.com [amazon.com] You Are Not A Gadget: https://www.amazon.com [amazon.com] Not the submitter, just thought it would be nice to have links. Mods feel free to add thes...
[06:46:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Book(s) Review: "Technopoly" and "You Are Not a Gadget" - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:46:13] <exec> 08└─But you are a machine, and when the capitalists are done with you, it's time to be decommissioned.
[06:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Book(s) Review: "Technopoly" and "You Are Not a Gadget" - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:46:15] <exec> 08└─>Implying the other system is any better where you wish you had machine.
[06:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Air Force's Mysterious Space Plane Lands, Wakes Up Florida - 739 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:46:25] <exec> 08└─> made history by landing for the first time in Florida instead of California. Made history? [facepalm] Someone didn't have anything besides "landed, top secret", and tried to make a big deal out of it. I'll call that "journalist" to have him cover how, for the first time since december 2015, I had...
[06:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03a-zA-Z0-9$_.+!*'(),- (3868) (Score: 1) 02 - 06Air Force's Mysterious Space Plane Lands, Wakes Up Florida - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:46:27] <exec> 08└─Hey, it's CNN, what do you expect? Here's the press release: https://www.dvidshub.net [dvidshub.net]
[06:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Air Force's Mysterious Space Plane Lands, Wakes Up Florida - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:46:30] <exec> 08└─Were you injured? Was your house damaged in some way? Did you go outside and look for a big cloud of smoke? If you answered no to any of these, why the hell did you call 911? If it was that loud don't you think the police and fire departments heard it too? How many people with real emergencies had t...
[06:47:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Matt Hickey, Anti #GamerGate Journalist Fined $332,000 For Porn Agency Scam - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:04] <exec> 08└─The pro ones that make it to the web are staged, because there are some pretty tight laws on keeping records... Amongst the ones that don't make it to the web, a not insignificant portion is guys and girls just filming to cover against the fact that without a camera, prostitution is illegal. Few of...
[06:47:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 722 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:49] <exec> 08└─Nowhere did I imply that the history of Western culture began with Christianity. Obviously Greek and Roman influences predated it--and I agree that Christianity was not an improvement, especially for science and philosophy. The rest of that seems to be you getting angry at how some people choose to...
[06:47:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 1510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:51] <exec> 08└─For a contrary view, I think it's absolutely critical that people of different views come into contact. You know how many people change their views in an echo chamber? Zero. All it mostly leads to is radicalism. When the masses are entirely together extreme views one way or the other tend to get squ...
[06:47:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:53] <exec> 08└─If they're so 'mythical' would you mind going on a stroll as an openly gay man? You may just find yourself 'enriched'.
[06:47:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:55] <exec> 08└─Ooooh, so it's the fault of the French that they're being murdered. "Well, she shouldn't have been wearing that; she was asking for it!"
[06:47:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:57] <exec> 08└─One thing I want to point out here is that on SN we have a killfile [wikipedia.org] of sorts. Put the miscreant in your "foe" list and set your options so that posts from your foes are modded very negative. Then browse at 0 or higher. You still have the replies (maybe we should have a negative mod f...
[06:47:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:48:00] <exec> 08└─Anything that is vaguely political but doesn't support the alt-right agenda doesn't attract the interest of the admins here. It's amazing that this story was posted.
[06:48:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Senate ID Cards Use A Photo Of A Chip Rather Than An Actual Smart Chip - 66 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:48:14] <exec> 08└─Fake news, fake chips, fake cards, .. fake senators? Fake America?
[06:48:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate ID Cards Use A Photo Of A Chip Rather Than An Actual Smart Chip - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:48:37] <exec> 08└─Fake Democracy, too...
[06:48:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate ID Cards Use A Photo Of A Chip Rather Than An Actual Smart Chip - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:48:38] <exec> 08└─If you're not taking a vote, but just going around Capitol Hill, being an old white guy in a suit surrounded by (fake) journalists and (fake) bodyguards would probably open many doors.
[06:49:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03a-zA-Z0-9$_.+!*'(),- (3868) (Score: 1) 02 - 06Action on Free Speech Laws for College Campuses and TV - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:49:37] <exec> 08└─Le Pen lost in the context of recent spectacular waves of terrorism that caused the French to declare martial law. Is that wind going to change?
[06:49:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Action on Free Speech Laws for College Campuses and TV - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:49:39] <exec> 08└─You realize there is no such thing as 'the popular vote' in that race, right?
[06:51:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Crowdfunded Billboards Shame Four Members of Congress Who Sold Out Your Online Privacy - 1055 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:51:36] <exec> 08└─Hurd is a dead end in microkernel design. The idea that some things should be kept in-kernel for performance and that more featureful primitives will reduce IPC overhead has been consistently shown wrong with L4-based microkernels. SeL4, in particular, has incredibly low IPC overhead thanks to forma...
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[06:52:50] <exec> 08└─Told you this years ago. You didn't believe, you pro-women's rights, anti-marry-girl-children feminist cunts. --MikeeUSA--
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[07:46:05] <exec> 08└─Here's a little interview/debate from 3 years ago [pbs.org] in which he (on a whim) advocates incentivizing against uploading to Facebook and whines about the devaluation of human mental labor in the face of big data/machine learning while offering no solution: I mean, you have to — people have to...
[07:46:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Air Force's Mysterious Space Plane Lands, Wakes Up Florida - 937 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:46:17] <exec> 08└─People like advance warning on unusual events. Otherwise, knowing the level of tension being maintained over "terrists", people are apt to think the worst. Now, how would our Government like it if people took to flying drones and launching estes rocket-packs over the White House? They would not lik...
[07:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Force's Mysterious Space Plane Lands, Wakes Up Florida - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:46:19] <exec> 08└─You don't call 911 when a passing black triangle UFO rattles your house?
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[07:46:56] <exec> 08└─But only because many men seem to love using Feminism to take advantage of women. Unsurprising in many ways...
[07:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Matt Hickey, Anti #GamerGate Journalist Fined $332,000 For Porn Agency Scam - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:46:58] <exec> 08└─The fake adverts are for a job in porn, so presumably the applicants have no problem with nude pictures of themselves being made public. It's just an offence because there is no prospect of paid work.
[07:46:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Matt Hickey, Anti #GamerGate Journalist Fined $332,000 For Porn Agency Scam - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:47:00] <exec> 08└─> So I'm guessing he wanted to avoid the publicity? Who knows. Or he's just a run-of-the-mill sociopath who figured if he could trick them rather than pay them, then he should obviously trick them and save a buck.
[07:47:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03julian [6003] 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 20 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:47:16] <exec> 08└─And the no-go zones.
[07:47:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:47:51] <exec> 08└─"non-practicing Muslim" has a specific meaning - it means someone who doesn't practice Salah 5 times a day [wikipedia.org]. It means nothing else. Most Muslims are non-practicing because it is very difficult thing to observe. It is very much against Sharia. Not getting involved in any debate - just...
[07:47:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:47:52] <exec> 08└─I have to point out that this is impossible. There's no such thing as a "non-practicing Muslim"; that's like a "non-practicing Catholic". Either you are or you aren't. It's not like being Jewish. If you aren't practicing the religion, then you aren't part of the religion any more.
[07:49:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Action on Free Speech Laws for College Campuses and TV - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:49:32] <exec> 08└─Ok, so now you're claiming so-called "enemies of academe" engage in persecution and genocide. Except of course, they don't. There's no genocide going on in the US and the persecutions are all by parties keeping them from speaking on a college campus. That's very Orwellian. Maybe you're just a little...
[07:49:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Action on Free Speech Laws for College Campuses and TV - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:49:34] <exec> 08└─Yeah, actually, it is. In much of Europe it's only unrestricted in the first trimester.
[07:49:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Action on Free Speech Laws for College Campuses and TV - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:49:36] <exec> 08└─Duterte is old, but he's not dead
[07:50:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BitCoin, Ethereum and Gold - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:50:05] <exec> 08└─Since pre-Biblical days, its been the human condition that the masses were subject to one war-lord or another. We have our worker bees which produce everything, and we have our elite, many of which are nothing but pure parasites. I can't lop all elites in that group, as there are also many there who...
[07:50:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BitCoin, Ethereum and Gold - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:50:07] <exec> 08└─I don't know. It seems like the mining fee for a swift and successful transaction is getting larger and larger. Pay through the nose to a banker in a suit or to a guy in his sweatpants running a botnet? Decisions decisions...
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[08:46:04] <exec> 08└─The ability to control fire came to use already 1.9 million years ago. And that has of course not changed anything.. *duck* Wheels came in to use circa 7100 years ago. Tech and it did affect society, no? First commercially successful piston steam power at 3.7 kW in 1712. Needs no comment.. So tools...
[08:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Force's Mysterious Space Plane Lands, Wakes Up Florida - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:18] <exec> 08└─How would he know it was a UFO, he was asleep. Even if he weren't it would be long gone by the time he looked.
[08:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qubes Kicks Xen While It's Down After Finding 'Fatal, Reliably Exploitable' Bug - 648 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:28] <exec> 08└─Well for the AMZN share [advfn.com] it meant going from 2017-05-01 953.18 US$ .... 2017-05-05 932.93 US$ a downturn with -2.1%. Amazon EC2 services uses Xen.. well TOUGH! My guess is that will put the pedal to the metal to get a patch out as their livelihood now depends on it. Some progress should b...
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[08:49:32] <exec> 08└─Uhhm, what? Despite all the crazy events that she milked for votes, she still lost.
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[08:49:33] <exec> 08└─There's no genocide going on in the US
[08:49:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Action on Free Speech Laws for College Campuses and TV - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:49:35] <exec> 08└─Shut up, cubancigar00, you are out of your league. You do not understand what you are talking about. You are a pipsqueak and a numbskull, and very, very cute. So shut up. Go ahead and try to book my hall!
[08:49:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Action on Free Speech Laws for College Campuses and TV - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:49:38] <exec> 08└─A recent example: Professor Allison Stanger ended up in a neck-brace after being assaulted by 'leftist' thugs. [theatlantic.com] See also this podcast episode [samharris.org] in which Charles Murray (the other target in the incident, but who wasn't injured) discusses what happened.
[08:49:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Action on Free Speech Laws for College Campuses and TV - 737 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:49:40] <exec> 08└─"Shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits. Those are the heavy seven. Those are the ones that'll infect your soul, curve your spine and keep the country from winning the war.": this is "indecent but not obscene" according to the U.S. Supreme Court (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fed...
[08:50:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BitCoin, Ethereum and Gold - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:50:11] <exec> 08└─Didn't think of that. Regardless the sweatpants is more deterministic. Nor can anyone really try to start the fiat currency printing shop in BTC. Another possibility is to have another currency backed by BTC. Then fees can be lowered.
[08:51:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Crowdfunded Billboards Shame Four Members of Congress Who Sold Out Your Online Privacy - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:51:41] <exec> 08└─AC never said they think the Democratic party is above corruption. You're just reading what you want to read. What is it with Americans assuming that whenever someone attacks one of their two parties, they must automatically be endorsing the other one?
[08:52:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel AMT Vulnerability: Hacker's Backdoor Dream - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:52:56] <exec> 08└─So in essence they should have used strcmp(computed_response, received_response) and enforced proper null termination in the "computed_response" variable as that is one that can be thoroughly controlled.
[08:52:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel AMT Vulnerability: Hacker's Backdoor Dream - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:52:58] <exec> 08└─It's part of a broader trend of 'smart' devices. Smart (hackable) cars, smart (hackable) lightbulbs, and even smart (hackable) CPUs.
[08:53:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Realtime Internet Surveillance in the UK - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:53:52] <exec> 08└─Who was so smart to vote for them?
[08:53:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Realtime Internet Surveillance in the UK - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:53:54] <exec> 08└─Is this a dig at the UK's gun-control success? Because widespread guns are doing a great job keeping things sane across the pond, right?
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[09:46:01] <exec> 08└─Yeah.. "In the meantime, it might be a good idea to use another application" in other words change operating system. Microsoft is so 1990s. Adapted to least common denominator and idiots. To please those groups a gigantic blob of patch-and-fixes is what the code consists of. The problem is not Edge....
[09:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Today's Bonkers Bug Report: Microsoft Edge can't Print Numbers - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:03] <exec> 08└─The headline shows a disappointing lack of empathy. We each have our own talents and limitations. If we ridicule the numerically challenged rather than nurturing them, they'll always have anxiety issues over numbers.
[09:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Force's Mysterious Space Plane Lands, Wakes Up Florida - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:29] <exec> 08└─first shuttle landings in Florida: Columbia was the first shuttle to arrive at the SLF via the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft on March 24, 1979. The runway was first used by a space shuttle on 11 February 1984, when the STS-41-B mission returned to Earth. This also marked the first-ever landing of a spac...
[09:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Force's Mysterious Space Plane Lands, Wakes Up Florida - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:31] <exec> 08└─If NASA can track all that space debris using radar. Why would not anyone be able to track this machine? thus no secret. It would likely emit radio energy and a heat signature.
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[09:48:03] <exec> 08└─I'm all for alternate viewpoints, but the worst offenders of trolling / discussion distraction do not listen to reason or facts. It is just denial and misdirection in every single response. When a large fraction of the vocal users here only engage to troll / soapbox it ruins the atmosphere and drive...
[09:48:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 756 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:48:05] <exec> 08└─You are no American! You are some trash that some other country did not want and ended up here! So double fuck you, unless you can tell us what tribe you are a legitimate member of, and don't say Cherokee! And if you cannot, get your ass back on a fricking boat to what every country you came from th...
[09:48:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:48:07] <exec> 08└─Just stop it, khallow. You're killing SoylentNews.
[09:48:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:48:09] <exec> 08└─I think your theorem "let's assimilate muslims, so ISIS will leave us alone" needs a bit of proof. Blanket statements regarding a leftist view of immigration are routinely being disproved by facts. Isolated facts, most of the time, sure, but you need just one counter example to sink a theorem. Of co...
[09:48:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate ID Cards Use A Photo Of A Chip Rather Than An Actual Smart Chip - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:48:48] <exec> 08└─Why would you get fake bodyguards? I don't think real ones would be that more expensive, and you might need them if anyone recognizes you as fake.
[09:49:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Action on Free Speech Laws for College Campuses and TV - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:49:58] <exec> 08└─Yeah, tell it to Martin Luther King, Jr. You racist! You misanthrope! You scum and villiany in a hive!
[09:50:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Action on Free Speech Laws for College Campuses and TV - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:50:00] <exec> 08└─What exactly did Colbert say, and where are the pics? Nothing says "New York" like Streisanding the Donald.
[09:51:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Hour Marathon Run *Almost* Achieved - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:51:06] <exec> 08└─Actually wasn't it luggage you left somewhere but couldn't find afterwards?
[09:52:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Delta Airlines Forces Family off Plane - Threatened with Jail - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:52:41] <exec> 08└─If the 18-year-old took an earlier flight, presumably he was re-booked and so had all of the available refunds (plane tickets are often non-refundable) applied against his new ticket. It sounds as if these people were trying to commit fraud by using a cancelled ticket.
[09:53:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel AMT Vulnerability: Hacker's Backdoor Dream - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:53:22] <exec> 08└─That only works if you only ever connect the machines to networks you control. Which might not be the case for laptops.
[09:53:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel AMT Vulnerability: Hacker's Backdoor Dream - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:53:23] <exec> 08└─Time for a network "condom" .. :-)) A quick solution is a Raspberry-Pi with an additional network interface. Or a home router that runs OpenWRT etc. Completely sucks. Hopefully someone will start to sue.
[09:53:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel AMT Vulnerability: Hacker's Backdoor Dream - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:53:26] <exec> 08└─Me H1-B do strnnnnncmp() very good. No problem. Or just plainly got the diploma HR required but no conscientious nor brain to go with it. I think you missed where the problem lies.
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[10:45:56] <exec> 08└─Now we really got something.. "Made in China". They got a quality and reliability reputation issue and in too many cases it's real. Any data on time before failure (MTBF etc) will also be interesting. Their market is likely halfway industrialized countries that wants a cheap airplane.
[10:46:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Today's Bonkers Bug Report: Microsoft Edge can't Print Numbers - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:06] <exec> 08└─This is news? How? I have yet to see a browser that can properly print. They all are cluster f***s when trying to print something.
[10:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Today's Bonkers Bug Report: Microsoft Edge can't Print Numbers - 1422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:08] <exec> 08└─I still think DOS 6.20 was Microsoft's pinnacle product... I could never figure out just why it took a Microsoft so many megabytes and so much processing power to do anything, after seeing how Commodore 64's did similar stuff. They had some quite clever hardware in their VIC chip, and it looked like...
[10:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Today's Bonkers Bug Report: Microsoft Edge can't Print Numbers - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:10] <exec> 08└─The WinTel approach seems to be patch just enough to get the next batch of features in and then sell. Only redesign when it's dead stop. Just look at the ATA interface. Expecting quality software from Microsoft is like expecting nutritious food from McDonalds. The automobile industry is worse becaus...
[10:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Today's Bonkers Bug Report: Microsoft Edge can't Print Numbers - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:13] <exec> 08└─All we have to do is make a plugin that converts all numbers to roman numerals before printing. Problem solved.
[10:48:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:48:16] <exec> 08└─The only real intellectual discussions I tend to see here are the weird discussions that use lots of Latin and references to obscure philosophy. It is like we only get the extreme ends of the spectrum here...
[10:48:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:48:17] <exec> 08└─Most of the current crop of terrorists are not mythical ISIS invaders coming over the border, they're locals who have been radicalised. They're no different from the nationalist or Christian terrorist movements: people feel disenfranchised and are a target for people who want to use them. The way to...
[10:50:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Action on Free Speech Laws for College Campuses and TV - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:50:08] <exec> 08└─That's not trolling, just the truth. Now if I'd said Nye still wouldn't have won the debate if he were the only one with a mic, that could have been considered trolling. Learn the difference between things you don't want to hear and trolling, please.
[10:52:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Crowdfunded Billboards Shame Four Members of Congress Who Sold Out Your Online Privacy - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:52:13] <exec> 08└─That sounds a bit low - it's only about $1/vote. Obama spent about $7-8 per vote the first time he was elected and the trend has been upwards.
[10:52:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Crowdfunded Billboards Shame Four Members of Congress Who Sold Out Your Online Privacy - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:52:14] <exec> 08└─But it has been mentioned several times that Trump used a very small budget to be elected.
[10:53:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel AMT Vulnerability: Hacker's Backdoor Dream - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:53:36] <exec> 08└─What you're describing is typically as taint tracking - Perl even includes support for it out of the box. The problem is that it's hard to correctly untaint data, and if you don't then it doesn't take long before it propagates to everything in the system.
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[11:46:05] <exec> 08└─With lots of government subsidies?
[11:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China's First Large Passenger Jet Makes Maiden Flight - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:07] <exec> 08└─Shhhh don't ruin the dream
[11:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China's First Large Passenger Jet Makes Maiden Flight - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:09] <exec> 08└─> They got a quality and reliability reputation issue and in too many cases it's real. Largely because of shoddy Western specifications, I contest. Data will tell us whether their planes are really reliable... (and marketing will spin it regardless)
[11:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Today's Bonkers Bug Report: Microsoft Edge can't Print Numbers - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:22] <exec> 08└─Expecting quality software from Microsoft is like expecting nutritious food from McDonalds.
[11:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Today's Bonkers Bug Report: Microsoft Edge can't Print Numbers - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:23] <exec> 08└─A retirement house for mentally incapacitated elderly is where the numerically challenged in Microsoft should be nurtured.
[11:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Book(s) Review: "Technopoly" and "You Are Not a Gadget" - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:37] <exec> 08└─The catch is that the bar for what constitute a mechanical Turk is constantly becoming higher.
[11:46:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Air Force's Mysterious Space Plane Lands, Wakes Up Florida - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:55] <exec> 08└─To play devil's advocate, maybe they didn't want to make its trajectory publicly known ahead of time? However, since everyone knew it was up there and any sort of interference would probably be construed as an act of war, I think my theory isn't enough to justify sonic booming Florida. That just mad...
[11:47:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Matt Hickey, Anti #GamerGate Journalist Fined $332,000 For Porn Agency Scam - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:47:36] <exec> 08└─Exactly (NSFW). [youtube.com] Deflection via psychological projection but I honestly don't understand how anyone sane could possibly associate themselves with 3rd wave feminism?
[11:48:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:48:35] <exec> 08└─Leader of the Strogg [wikipedia.org]?
[11:48:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:48:36] <exec> 08└─neo-fascist Marine Le Pen
[11:48:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:48:38] <exec> 08└─I'm all for alternate viewpoints, but the worst offenders of trolling / discussion distraction do not listen to reason or facts. It is just denial and misdirection in every single response.
[11:50:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Action on Free Speech Laws for College Campuses and TV - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:50:32] <exec> 08└─I quoted it in the parent post. It's about 708 seconds into this video: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] On Youtube, "cock" is replaced by a tone and Mr. Colbert's mouth is pixellated when he says it.
[11:50:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Action on Free Speech Laws for College Campuses and TV - 2707 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:50:33] <exec> 08└─"The USA has been moving right for the last 30 years" I have no idea from what point in time you have made your post. I am posting from May of 2017, and the US has most definitely NOT been moving right. The momentum is actually toward the left - witness the fact that a half-white man got elected to...
[11:51:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Two Hour Marathon Run *Almost* Achieved - 65 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:51:25] <exec> 08└─What a coincidence! My best marathon time is also 404. Not Found.
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[12:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Just Promised to Give US Manufacturing a $1 Billion Boost - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:06] <exec> 08└─Wooohooo... can you imagine how many man*years can one hire to flip burgers in fly-over country for $1B? What... manufacturing? High tech? But... city slickers again? What about Wyoming and West Virginia? Who should they vote for to get some jobs?
[12:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China's First Large Passenger Jet Makes Maiden Flight - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:18] <exec> 08└─At least, it doesn't have windows with square corners [wikipedia.org]
[12:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Today's Bonkers Bug Report: Microsoft Edge can't Print Numbers - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:34] <exec> 08└─But Edge can't print Summer is over and he's gone to seed Edge can't print He never learned nothin' that he'll ever need
[12:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Today's Bonkers Bug Report: Microsoft Edge can't Print Numbers - 762 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:35] <exec> 08└─i generally use firefox with adblock, noscript, ghostery, and something else i forget, BUT, when i need to go to 'official' sites to download shit, or go to gummint sites to fill in forms, etc, i fire up a plain vanilla version of Inertnet Exploder/Edge i use expressly and only for those purposes......
[12:45:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Today's Bonkers Bug Report: Microsoft Edge can't Print Numbers - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:37] <exec> 08└─There's a big difference between messing up the layout and actually modifying the content.
[12:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Book(s) Review: "Technopoly" and "You Are Not a Gadget" - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:52] <exec> 08└─My coworkers who were involved in the "drinking while turking" game claim its harder now.
[12:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Force's Mysterious Space Plane Lands, Wakes Up Florida - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:10] <exec> 08└─I think the secret part is not where it was, but what it did there.
[12:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Air Force's Mysterious Space Plane Lands, Wakes Up Florida - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:11] <exec> 08└─I expect breaking news, that's what I expect!
[12:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Matt Hickey, Anti #GamerGate Journalist Fined $332,000 For Porn Agency Scam - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:54] <exec> 08└─People do desperate things for money.
[12:46:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Matt Hickey, Anti #GamerGate Journalist Fined $332,000 For Porn Agency Scam - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:55] <exec> 08└─www.reddit.com
[12:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Matt Hickey, Anti #GamerGate Journalist Fined $332,000 For Porn Agency Scam - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:57] <exec> 08└─I laughed at the quote at the end of the SN article Never appeal to a man's "better nature." He may not have one. Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage. -- Lazarus Long
[12:47:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:00] <exec> 08└─I celebrate Christmas too because I think pagan holidays are fun (hence the decorated tree) and I think the Roman tradition of gift-giving is nice; I sure as hell don't tie it to Christianity in any way.
[12:48:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:01] <exec> 08└─Progressivism in politics is dead, its just anti-white propaganda now. Its just not interesting anymore.
[12:48:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:03] <exec> 08└─bustles with Italian delis, African hair-braiding shops, and Chinese massage parlors ..... Hit him up if you're ever in Paris
[12:48:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:05] <exec> 08└─They're no different from the nationalist or Christian terrorist movements
[12:48:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:08] <exec> 08└─I'm fairly certain they're talking about the confectionery [wikipedia.org].
[12:48:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate ID Cards Use A Photo Of A Chip Rather Than An Actual Smart Chip - 2755 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:48] <exec> 08└─May as well issue UBI as amazon gift cards. Not entirely joking. The deal is if your benefit program is the same size or bigger than its economic sector it just causes inflation. A voucher for college tuition merely results in higher college tuition until the same supply and demand is reached as bef...
[12:48:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate ID Cards Use A Photo Of A Chip Rather Than An Actual Smart Chip - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:49] <exec> 08└─Note, when you're taking the IT certification test for "Personal Identity Verification", a reasonably effective form of birth control is a photocopy of a picture of a condom. The good news is if the photograph fails (hole torn in it, maybe a pinhole in the photograph, etc), the result is merely a ph...
[12:50:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Action on Free Speech Laws for College Campuses and TV - 1014 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:50:05] <exec> 08└─Yea! We could just never have actual speakers at all! That solves the problem. /s The solution, as usual, is punishing lawbreaking and allowing speech. We had speakers about Iraq and the war at my campus. They were certainly heckled and harassed (what did you expect, "speaker against/for the war" is...
[12:50:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Action on Free Speech Laws for College Campuses and TV - 2811 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:50:06] <exec> 08└─I get your point. But I also disagree somewhat with your implicit assertion that it's somehow wrong to require that an external individual have some sort of "official invitation" to use the private property of the university. Now most of this is talking about state/public universities, but there's p...
[12:54:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Titan Ripe for Drone Invasion - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:54:45] <exec> 08└─Well, I am scientifically uninformed. That's why I'm always puzzled by how water always runs downhill and not the other way around... Or, maybe it's a joke, Mr. Literal.
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[13:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Just Promised to Give US Manufacturing a $1 Billion Boost - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:28] <exec> 08└─As advanced manufacturing jobs are in high demand in the U.S.
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[13:46:29] <exec> 08└─industrial maint technician
[13:46:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China's First Large Passenger Jet Makes Maiden Flight - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:42] <exec> 08└─COMAC's secured 99 firm orders for the plane, which is expected to enter service in the year 2020
[13:47:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Book(s) Review: "Technopoly" and "You Are Not a Gadget" - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:15] <exec> 08└─Implying there are two only two systems and and only one way to run either of them? The depth of your knowledge and imagination is truly disheartening.
[13:47:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03pr [5942] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Air Force's Mysterious Space Plane Lands, Wakes Up Florida - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:36] <exec> 08└─I'd love to know...
[13:48:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Matt Hickey, Anti #GamerGate Journalist Fined $332,000 For Porn Agency Scam - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:23] <exec> 08└─But how drunk is too drunk?
[13:49:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:31] <exec> 08└─And every time you masturbate God kills a kitten.
[13:49:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:32] <exec> 08└─The only real intellectual discussions I tend to see here are the weird discussions that use lots of Latin and references to obscure philosophy.
[13:49:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:34] <exec> 08└─For a contrary view, I think it's absolutely critical that people of different views come into contact. You know how many people change their views in an echo chamber? Zero. All it mostly leads to is radicalism.
[13:49:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:36] <exec> 08└─I had a long reply and just realized I'm tired of this. There is no convincing the neanderthals here of anything, and there is little point in trying. There are enough users to correct the horrific dribblings of the neo-cons and radical libertarians. I'll leave the trolls and cavemen to their fun an...
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[13:49:39] <exec> 08└─Actually, it might interest you to learn that it is no longer possible to leave the Catholic church. At least formally [wikipedia.org]. You can of course claim to not be catholic, but you could still be listed as being one in various countries and church records. Though I agree somewhat with your se...
[13:50:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate ID Cards Use A Photo Of A Chip Rather Than An Actual Smart Chip - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:21] <exec> 08└─In the rest of the country you can get anywhere with an orange safety vest, steel toe boots, a clipboard, hard hat, and a homemade ID for an imaginary service company printed at home, and using fakes is just going to get you noticed.
[13:50:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate ID Cards Use A Photo Of A Chip Rather Than An Actual Smart Chip - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:22] <exec> 08└─As much as I would like Repubs to be subject to mandatory chips
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[13:50:47] <exec> 08└─You are so fucking naive. The USA has been moving right for the last 30 years. Reagan was probably close to where many of the Democrats are now. The USA has been sold down the river by Robert Mercer, in concert with Steve Bannon and others. To whom? I'm not sure, but the influence of Russia looks ve...
[13:51:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Action on Free Speech Laws for College Campuses and TV - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:51:41] <exec> 08└─What was the point of that?
[13:51:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Action on Free Speech Laws for College Campuses and TV - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:51:43] <exec> 08└─Oh, and you think I did not know that?
[13:51:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Action on Free Speech Laws for College Campuses and TV - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:51:45] <exec> 08└─When your position obviously results in people consistently murdered for no other reason than the colour of their skin (or the shape of their nose, mutatis mutandis), you fucking well deserve violence done upon you if you start espousing it to other people.
[13:51:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Action on Free Speech Laws for College Campuses and TV - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:51:47] <exec> 08└─But they are right about one thing. Violence is not the answer to lies. But did they put agents provocateurs in the crowd to incite violence, and if not for that, there wouldn't have been any?
[13:51:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Action on Free Speech Laws for College Campuses and TV - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:51:49] <exec> 08└─The USA has been sold down the river by Robert Mercer, in concert with Steve Bannon and others. To whom? I'm not sure, but the influence of Russia looks very suspicious.
[13:51:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Action on Free Speech Laws for College Campuses and TV - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:51:51] <exec> 08└─The only part of the pendulum that has swung too far is PC culture which has taught generations of kids to be too sensitive and censor a boat load of words.
[13:52:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BitCoin, Ethereum and Gold - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:25] <exec> 08└─Another possibility is to have another currency backed by BTC.
[13:54:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Delta Airlines Forces Family off Plane - Threatened with Jail - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:37] <exec> 08└─God, not another "something doesn't add up" idiot. Ok, Colombo.
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[14:46:23] <exec> 08└─I watched some of these yesterday.
[14:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Building an 8-Bit Breadboard Computer - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:24] <exec> 08└─This isn't just an educational exercise, it's probably become the only way to get a secure computer whose operation can be trusted to be correct.
[14:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Building an 8-Bit Breadboard Computer - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:26] <exec> 08└─A computer capable of running Windows 10, using vacuum tubes as transistors. It would probably require a nuclear power plant to power it up though.
[14:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Building an 8-Bit Breadboard Computer - 3538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:29] <exec> 08└─Microscopically better link here: https://eater.net [eater.net] Videos are too expensive. I'm not gonna burn 8 hours to find out he's using cascaded '283 as binary adders, I'll just check out the dudes website. Not a bad chip, does fast carry on die and cascading isn't the worst idea ever if y...
[14:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Building an 8-Bit Breadboard Computer - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:31] <exec> 08└─unfortunately, no mod for 'most excellent nerding', had to go 'interesting'...
[14:46:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Just Promised to Give US Manufacturing a $1 Billion Boost - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:42] <exec> 08└─I'm just saying, you get $20/hr and work side by side with a guy who does the 440V three phase power wiring who has an easier to learn job, can hop to any site with little difficulty, gets union bennies which is better than yours, AND gets about $10/hr more pay than you get.
[14:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China's First Large Passenger Jet Makes Maiden Flight - 1479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:54] <exec> 08└─For all we know, the aircraft skin is fried wonton wrappers and the hydraulic fluid is sweet and sour sauce. Somewhat more seriously I'd worry about the walmart effect where stuff that falls off the assembly line and fails QA/QC gets sent to walmart, now what happens when some AN4-10 bolt (which is...
[14:47:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Today's Bonkers Bug Report: Microsoft Edge can't Print Numbers - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:13] <exec> 08└─I used to use Internet Explorer for printing (and only printing). Still don't think firefox can handle tables spanning multiple pages. (found that long-standing bug nearly 10 years ago)
[14:47:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Book(s) Review: "Technopoly" and "You Are Not a Gadget" - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:30] <exec> 08└─Implying there are two only two systems and and only one way to run either of them?
[14:47:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03a-zA-Z0-9$_.+!*'(),- (3868) (Score: 1) 02 - 06Air Force's Mysterious Space Plane Lands, Wakes Up Florida - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:54] <exec> 08└─Mike Colleta https://www.qrz.com [qrz.com] appears to have tracked it using a home-made yagi with the now defunct "space fence" https://gigaom.com [gigaom.com] His now defunct website: https://web-beta.archive.or...
[14:47:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Air Force's Mysterious Space Plane Lands, Wakes Up Florida - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:56] <exec> 08└─You really called 911 cause of a sonic boom? Lame. You need to grow up. You hear a loud noise, turn on the news or radio. The explanation will shortly be broadcast, you dont need the personal handholding from the 911 operator do you?
[14:48:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Matt Hickey, Anti #GamerGate Journalist Fined $332,000 For Porn Agency Scam - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:43] <exec> 08└─We just LEVELED UP!
[14:49:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 2229 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:24] <exec> 08└─In comparison, I'm an atheist, but I celebrate Christmas and Easter. So what? Lots of people celebrate Halloween by wearing slutty outfits but that doesn't make them religious. Christmas and Easter aren't religious either: Christmas was originally called Saturnalia, and is one of many winter-solstic...
[14:49:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:57] <exec> 08└─The rate of posting stories is frequently glacial, with stories frequently posted several days to a week after they first appeared.
[14:49:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:59] <exec> 08└─FYI, estimates of casualties as a consequence of e.g. the IRA, are amounting to 2000 during ca. 30 years. ETA was responsible to about 900 over a somewhat longer period (since 1960 i think). Then, wikipedia lists 400 deaths in France due to terror since the 1970, and not all of those where because o...
[14:50:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:01] <exec> 08└─I love it when a genuinely insightful comment is modded troll. Going for the +5 Troll rating.
[14:50:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:03] <exec> 08└─You're right, I never fit in school/with other kids, was bookish/shy, etc. so I beheaded and raped a few people along the way. So what? Typical stuff everyone goes through, you know? All cultures are pretty much the same.
[14:50:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate ID Cards Use A Photo Of A Chip Rather Than An Actual Smart Chip - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:48] <exec> 08└─Make sure the hard-hat is white.
[14:50:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate ID Cards Use A Photo Of A Chip Rather Than An Actual Smart Chip - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:50] <exec> 08└─Please find another country to live in. Mexico and their people are apparently so much more free, safe, generous, and productive than Americans - what is preventing you from living there?
[14:52:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03cafebabe [894] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BitCoin, Ethereum and Gold - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:47] <exec> 08└─Are you mad? You support PayPal [wikipedia.org] co-founder Elon Musk? PayPal survives because it is shiftier than the average credit card scammer [paypalsucks.com].
[14:52:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BitCoin, Ethereum and Gold - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:49] <exec> 08└─I'm gonna go with egg. Who wants 17:1 on chicken?
[14:52:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score: 1) 02 - 06BitCoin, Ethereum and Gold - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:51] <exec> 08└─Why would a bitcoin broker be better at turning that literal houseful of cash into usable money without the feds noticing than the cartel (with years of experience laundering cash) is?
[14:53:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Hour Marathon Run *Almost* Achieved - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:26] <exec> 08└─Advanced footwear? So, more advanced than my Rollerblades? I'd only consider those semi-advanced, they'd need to be at least electric for me to consider them advanced.
[14:55:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Delta Airlines Forces Family off Plane - Threatened with Jail - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:05] <exec> 08└─They paid for the seat. Thus they should either be allowed to use the seat, or get their money back. Anything else would be plain fraud by the airline, no matter what stupid rules they can make up to try to get away with it.
[14:55:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03cloud.pt [5516] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Delta Airlines Forces Family off Plane - Threatened with Jail - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:07] <exec> 08└─I believe it's something to do with the embedding - either for the video to show nicely embedded in an external site, or to let Youtube know it's coming from an embed site (for whatever big data-mining Google likes to do). So like AC said, all you need is the ...v=[vid id here, not optional]
[14:55:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Intel AMT Vulnerability: Hacker's Backdoor Dream - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:52] <exec> 08└─Thanks. I had missed the implications of the ME mention in the documentation for the BIOS update for my 965-based board. It is not like the manual explains what it actually does.
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[15:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astrophysicists Turn GPS Satellite Constellation Into Giant Dark Matter Detector - 935 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:28] <exec> 08└─If you have a high end shortwave radio that covers long-wave and gives you both sideband and bandwidth control along with high stability, or just about any LF...HF-capable SDR (Software Defined Radio) device and the appropriate software (Lots of free stuff out there, including mine [fyngyrz.com]), y...
[15:46:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02 - 06Building an 8-Bit Breadboard Computer - 3538 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:38] <exec> 08└─Microscopically better link here: https://eater.net [eater.net] Videos are too expensive. I'm not gonna burn 8 hours to find out he's using cascaded '283 as binary adders, I'll just check out the dudes website. Not a bad chip, does fast carry on die and cascading isn't the worst idea ever if y...
[15:46:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Apple Just Promised to Give US Manufacturing a $1 Billion Boost - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:51] <exec> 08└─Flipping the burgers is probably considered food service, rather than manufacturing. Making the patties and buns probably counts as manufacturing.
[15:46:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Just Promised to Give US Manufacturing a $1 Billion Boost - 909 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:52] <exec> 08└─"Making the patties and buns probably counts as manufacturing." I don't think so - but you've made me curious. What ARE bakery personnel classified as? Hmmmm - https://www.bls.gov [bls.gov] leads me to this page https://www.bls.gov [bls.gov] then ctrl-F for baker, which le...
[15:47:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China's First Large Passenger Jet Makes Maiden Flight - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:07] <exec> 08└─> They got a quality and reliability reputation issue and in too many cases it's real. Largely because of shoddy Western specifications, I contest. Data will tell us whether their planes are really reliable... (and marketing will spin it regardless)
[15:47:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Today's Bonkers Bug Report: Microsoft Edge can't Print Numbers - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:27] <exec> 08└─Expecting quality software from Microsoft is like expecting nutritious food from McDonalds. This is a terrible analogy. McDonald's has actually made significant strides here by selling salads, and they also publish nutrition information for their food. MS hasn't made any improvements at all, and the...
[15:47:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Soylentbob [6519] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Today's Bonkers Bug Report: Microsoft Edge can't Print Numbers - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:28] <exec> 08└─Microsoft Windows is great. I think we should equip the entire b-ark [youtube.com] with it, infotainment and auto-navigation even if it takes the last copy available at all! Only the best for our pioneers.
[15:47:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Soylentbob [6519] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Today's Bonkers Bug Report: Microsoft Edge can't Print Numbers - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:30] <exec> 08└─Would be interesting bug to exploit: Send lengthy contract with one number and check, how many people will sign the printed version without re-checking the number ;-)
[15:47:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Book(s) Review: "Technopoly" and "You Are Not a Gadget" - 944 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:48] <exec> 08└─I agree with a lot of this; and thanks for the thoughts and links. After reading the article on recent advances in Google Translate, I'm interested in seeing how it does again. Last year I was asked by a friend to give some comments on a book draft in a language I'm not fluent in (though I know enou...
[15:47:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Book(s) Review: "Technopoly" and "You Are Not a Gadget" - 2235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:50] <exec> 08└─We're all familiar with Open Source, so it's surprising that it and its philosophy aren't looming larger in this discussion. Open Source contributors love the thing itself. They are motivated by something deeper and much better than money. That is a revolutionary idea and an existential threat to ca...
[15:47:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03pnkwarhall [4558] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Book(s) Review: "Technopoly" and "You Are Not a Gadget" - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:52] <exec> 08└─when one is complaining about the problem of people being treated as machines, it's worth noting that's no different than any other era where people worked for a living
[15:48:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Force's Mysterious Space Plane Lands, Wakes Up Florida - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:15] <exec> 08└─The landing occurred at 7:47 a.m.
[15:49:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Matt Hickey, Anti #GamerGate Journalist Fined $332,000 For Porn Agency Scam - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:03] <exec> 08└─-0 technically on-topic
[15:49:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Matt Hickey, Anti #GamerGate Journalist Fined $332,000 For Porn Agency Scam - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:05] <exec> 08└─I can agree that it could just be a bad apple situation. However, I find Feminist too broad a term now a days (just like Nazi, Racist, and Islamophobe), and I never lavish praise at anyone who labels themselves something as it could just be virtue signaling. Still, I will take you at your word that...
[15:50:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 949 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:23] <exec> 08└─It sounds to me like all those "non-practicing Muslims" you speak of only claim to be Muslims because of social pressure, not because they actually believe it. If you're going to break all the laws (eat pork, have pre-marital coitus, not attend Mosque), then what's the point of claiming you're an ad...
[15:50:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:25] <exec> 08└─You can change that by submitting your own stories.
[15:50:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:27] <exec> 08└─There's no such thing as a "non-practicing Muslim"; that's like a "non-practicing Catholic". Either you are or you aren't.
[15:52:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Action on Free Speech Laws for College Campuses and TV - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:38] <exec> 08└─How is "leftist" a pejorative? It literally means "one who identifies with the left." Or are we not allowed to use "left" and "right" now?
[15:52:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Action on Free Speech Laws for College Campuses and TV - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:39] <exec> 08└─No, it isn't. That's just another falsehood promulgated by the religious right.
[15:52:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Action on Free Speech Laws for College Campuses and TV - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:41] <exec> 08└─The momentum is actually toward the left - witness the fact that a half-white man got elected to the White House in the past decade. In times past, only a real-white man could have been elected.
[15:52:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Action on Free Speech Laws for College Campuses and TV - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:43] <exec> 08└─You realize there is no such thing as 'the popular vote' in that race, right?
[15:52:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Action on Free Speech Laws for College Campuses and TV - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:46] <exec> 08└─How well have the protests served that purpose? Shouting down unpopular speech doesn't sound like a good approach to me.
[15:52:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Action on Free Speech Laws for College Campuses and TV - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:48] <exec> 08└─The model bill would require public universities to remain neutral on political issues, prevent them from disinviting speakers, and impose penalties for students and others who interfere with these speakers. The author of the model bill argues that the neutrality stipulation is necessary for public...
[15:52:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Action on Free Speech Laws for College Campuses and TV - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:50] <exec> 08└─Do the same to the golden children then, as long as you can find someone intelligent to debate them at least. My guess is there wont be enough fringe scientists that like getting embarrassed on the regular to do it for every speaker though.
[15:52:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Action on Free Speech Laws for College Campuses and TV - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:52] <exec> 08└─If the Arizona state government is participating in something. Look at it close. Especially if it seems like a progressive cause. Because I guarantee you after years of first hand experience there is something fucky in it.
[15:52:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Action on Free Speech Laws for College Campuses and TV - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:55] <exec> 08└─The adults in the room will just move right on by after seeing that you're unable to string a sentence together without name-calling.
[15:53:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03arcz [4501] (Score: 1) 02 - 06BitCoin, Ethereum and Gold - 2082 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:32] <exec> 08└─Evrything in theory is ASIC minable. It's only a question of how much the design benefits from ASIC vs a regular Von Neuman design. Memory-hard problems like Scrypt benefit less from ASIC. In theory, ETH could also be ASIC'd. ETH does have some ASIC resistance but it is also I believe a Kekkack hash...
[15:54:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Hour Marathon Run *Almost* Achieved - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:09] <exec> 08└─Shoes probably fuck you over in the long run... pun semi-intended.
[15:55:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Crowdfunded Billboards Shame Four Members of Congress Who Sold Out Your Online Privacy - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:10] <exec> 08└─> I'd get that replaced in the next 100 miles if I were you. It is broken beyond repair. Cannot be fixed. Congress will resolve the JIRA issue with "Won't Fix", "Working as intended".
[15:55:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Crowdfunded Billboards Shame Four Members of Congress Who Sold Out Your Online Privacy - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:11] <exec> 08└─I will agree that it could be possible that someone could become privileged without doing bad things. Once someone is privileged, it is impossible for them to not do bad things and become psychopaths from that point on. They can soothe their conscience with charitable foundations and the like. But t...
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[16:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Building an 8-Bit Breadboard Computer - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:30] <exec> 08└─It would probably require a nuclear power plant to power it up though.
[16:46:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02 - 06Apple Just Promised to Give US Manufacturing a $1 Billion Boost - 61 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:39] <exec> 08└─As advanced manufacturing jobs are in high demand in the U.S.
[16:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Apple Just Promised to Give US Manufacturing a $1 Billion Boost - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:45] <exec> 08└─I did not mean to imply those jobs were high-paying. I was surprised to learn I was doing "manufacturing" (industrial food preparation) while trying to fill out a salary survey (I was not working in the field I studied).
[16:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Just Promised to Give US Manufacturing a $1 Billion Boost - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:47] <exec> 08└─Does anyone know if Apple has some sort of press release scheduled? Without knowing where the money is going, there isn't much news here.
[16:46:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Uncle_Al [1108] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Just Promised to Give US Manufacturing a $1 Billion Boost - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:49] <exec> 08└─https://www.eater.com/2015/4/14/8415113/cook-third-worst-job-america-study-career-cast [eater.com]
[16:46:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Just Promised to Give US Manufacturing a $1 Billion Boost - 654 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:52] <exec> 08└─Just a quick FYI, medium voltage refers to systems with voltages over 600 volts. Usually those motors run on about 2.3 to 4kV or more depending on power output. There is another layer of certification and training associated with maintaining MV systems, a big part of which is safety from arc flash/e...
[16:46:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Just Promised to Give US Manufacturing a $1 Billion Boost - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:54] <exec> 08└─Just for perspective: They promise to invest less than half a percent of their overseas cash reserves and actually not even that. In order to avoid paying taxes they instead raise that money states-side. This is then passed of as a huge investment into the US and it seems to be working. Apple sure k...
[16:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China's First Large Passenger Jet Makes Maiden Flight - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:09] <exec> 08└─Somewhat more seriously I'd worry about the walmart effect where stuff that falls off the assembly line and fails QA/QC gets sent to walmart, now what happens when some AN4-10 bolt (which is vaguely like a home depot 1/4 dia 1 inch long bolt... kinda) fails heat treat and gets kicked off the line an...
[16:47:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China's First Large Passenger Jet Makes Maiden Flight - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:11] <exec> 08└─They already have over 500 orders for this plane. However almost all of them are domestic Chinese orders. The two other sources are a few going to a Thai airline, and a few going to GE Aviation for demonstration. They currently are not 100% domestic, although that is the long term goal. Namely, the...
[16:47:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China's First Large Passenger Jet Makes Maiden Flight - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:13] <exec> 08└─Capitalism GOOD! As long as the profits are privatized, it's GOOD! If the risks are socialized, so what! That's outside of the scope of the Capitalism Religion. Unless it's solar panels but hey. However, modern China doesn't seem to have worked its way into OMG Socialism! Hitler! Stalin! Mao*! Pol P...
[16:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China's First Large Passenger Jet Makes Maiden Flight - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:15] <exec> 08└─As someone who works in the aerospace industry, half of the flight critical parts in a plane are already made in India, China, or Mexico with final assembly done here in the USA.
[16:47:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Today's Bonkers Bug Report: Microsoft Edge can't Print Numbers - 1874 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:38] <exec> 08└─It's trendy to hate on McDonald's for offering food many people choose to eat on a daily basis. Of course eating 3,000 kcal every day from a specialized menu at a fast food place isn't going to be healthy no matter which chain it is. I've found that McDonald's does have some quality offerings for br...
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[16:47:39] <exec> 08└─You're absolutely correct. Numeracy is also something that many Republicans struggle with on a daily basis. We should be sympathetic towards them and respect their limitations.
[16:48:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Book(s) Review: "Technopoly" and "You Are Not a Gadget" - 4538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:01] <exec> 08└─I'll thank to contributor for the review, which was an interesting and thoughtful read. Though to me there seems to be an unnecessary and counterproductive conflation of science (or "scientific inquiry") with technological shifts. The critiques in the books, as I understand them (I looked at Technop...
[16:48:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03pnkwarhall [4558] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Book(s) Review: "Technopoly" and "You Are Not a Gadget" - 1546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:02] <exec> 08└─The lack of solutions to any of the specific problems Lanier brought up was the main problem I had with the book. However, I wonder if this was intentional--the preface to "You Are Not A Gadget" was IMHO cleverly constructed to challenge the reader to read with a deliberately conscious and reflectiv...
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[16:48:04] <exec> 08└─>started agriculture for beer I can believe it!
[16:48:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Force's Mysterious Space Plane Lands, Wakes Up Florida - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:29] <exec> 08└─Stuff that requires some very careful handling. I don't think these guys [wikipedia.org] really want to be in the the Florida sun in May in full gear without a good reason. Unless those are just portable A/C...
[16:48:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Qubes Kicks Xen While It's Down After Finding 'Fatal, Reliably Exploitable' Bug - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:40] <exec> 08└─The solution isn't to expect AMT or IPMI to be free of backdoors - because even if you assume only one bug per 100 lines of code, that's still tens, or hundreds, or even thousands of bugs. The solution is to ensure that they're run on seperate management VLANs with proper firewalling to ensure that...
[16:49:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Matt Hickey, Anti #GamerGate Journalist Fined $332,000 For Porn Agency Scam - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:21] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it's been tainted by a bunch of lunatics...the TERFs, the lesbian separatists (one of whom conferred upon me the title "traitor to the lesbian race..."), the ones who think having a Y chromosome means someone is a demon or something...it's nuts. It's gotten to the point i don't want to use the...
[16:49:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 1372 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:51] <exec> 08└─"That's pretty funny," says Hait Abbas, a non-practicing Muslim who runs a wine shop in a Paris neighborhood among those identified by Peterson as a no-go zone. I have to point out that this is impossible. There's no such thing as a "non-practicing Muslim"; that's like a "non-practicing Catholic". E...
[16:50:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 675 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:42] <exec> 08└─Yep, both those people are frauds. They're lying to others and to themselves about what they really are. If it was important to your long-dead grandfather that you be part of some religion, but you don't care about it yourself, then why would you bother? I'm sure if I could resurrect my grandfather...
[16:50:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:44] <exec> 08└─endless Muslim terror attacks
[16:50:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:46] <exec> 08└─I also fail to see where the scripture orders to terrorize people.
[16:50:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:48] <exec> 08└─If you think that """every Christian denomination has "particular beliefs they profess," """, please explain modern Unitarianism. Or, it has been reported, Anglicanism. I can't find the quote I'm looking for but to paraphrase it "a religion so inoffensive that it interferes neither with a man's beli...
[16:51:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate ID Cards Use A Photo Of A Chip Rather Than An Actual Smart Chip - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:51:35] <exec> 08└─Sorry, you don't sound alt-right as much as alt-sane.
[16:51:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Action on Free Speech Laws for College Campuses and TV - 2976 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:51:49] <exec> 08└─The worst thing on a college campus is a bunch of off-campus ideologues stirring shit. I remember when it was the truly deranged Christians that used to show up with some one book (I mean, dude, we got a library with millions of those things!) shouting about how we were all sinners, and especially t...
[16:53:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Action on Free Speech Laws for College Campuses and TV - 840 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:08] <exec> 08└─I watched. Seems to me that it is likely that Colbert wasn't making a homophic slur – I find it very difficult to presume that he is a homophobe, given his general political leanings – but instead, he said something calculated to enrage homophobics, by painting Trump in a homosexual act with Put...
[16:53:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Action on Free Speech Laws for College Campuses and TV - 805 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:10] <exec> 08└─I don't really disagree with anything you've said specifically. It's true the legal definitions are vague, but it's going to be up to the courts to interpret those. Although, I don't necessarily disagree with the law either as long as there isn't something that unfairly targets one political ideolog...
[16:53:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 1) 02 - 06BitCoin, Ethereum and Gold - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:48] <exec> 08└─I like Monero myself. The benefit of making SRAM the ASIC is that you can buy general-purpose equipment without making it obvious what you are doing.
[16:54:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03idiot_king [6587] 02 - 06Crowdfunded Billboards Shame Four Members of Congress Who Sold Out Your Online Privacy - 272 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:36] <exec> 08└─This is an excellent case of using Free Speech to fight back against the Republicans. Raising public awareness of their treachery and corruption will hopefully sway things back in our favor. But of course we need to keep the heat on for the next 4 years as much as we can.
[16:55:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03goodie [1877] 02 - 06Delta Airlines Forces Family off Plane - Threatened with Jail - 905 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:47] <exec> 08└─I don't know... last year we had bought our 1.5yo daughter her own seat because we wanted to use the car seat. We boarded got settled etc. And then came along a standby stewardess who claimed that she had her seat assigned. She was polite but quite adamant about the fact that it was her seat even th...
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[17:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Torvalds Merges DRM CoC Into 4.12 Development Repo - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:20] <exec> 08└─It's the inclusion of a doc about the project. Including a project's logo probably has more significance (trademark issues).
[17:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Torvalds Merges DRM CoC Into 4.12 Development Repo - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:22] <exec> 08└─No. Linux can say hurtful things all he wants, and the DRM people can shove it. If they want Linus to honor their pull requests, they have to put up with him, for better or for worse. But within their own little group, they're free to have their own code of conduct, which they can enforce on their m...
[17:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart [2844] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Torvalds Merges DRM CoC Into 4.12 Development Repo - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:24] <exec> 08└─I wonder how often Linus gets called Linux :-)
[17:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Torvalds Merges DRM CoC Into 4.12 Development Repo - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:26] <exec> 08└─is meaningless bullshit. Freedom of speech, etc, blah blah blah. They aren't going to trap Linus that easily. Linux people pulled a document, la-ti-da - you're not bound to any contract just by reading it. Microsoft and others have gotten away with their terms BS - "if you don't accept these terms,...
[17:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Torvalds Merges DRM CoC Into 4.12 Development Repo - 877 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:28] <exec> 08└─Suddenly I have a renewed interest in BSD. I've seen something or other about Gentoo supporting a BSD kernel, FreeBSD specifically [gentoo.org]. Is dropping a FreeBSD kernel on an existing system something I'd want to do like giving a TuxOnIce Linux kernel a spin instead of the usual Gentoo-patched...
[17:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Torvalds Merges DRM CoC Into 4.12 Development Repo - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:31] <exec> 08└─They still have to interact with other groups code and interfaces which can result in "your code sucks!" and Linus can probably "Haven't been fixed for 8 months, removed from repository!" ;-)
[17:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Torvalds Merges DRM CoC Into 4.12 Development Repo - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:33] <exec> 08└─Is Linus a contributor to FreeDesktop.org code? If not, then would its code of conduct apply? Linus could be a bit more diplomatic. Like saying, that code, between lines 1191 and 1268 is the largest steaming pile of festering putrid goat vomit I have ever seen. By applying more best practices I beli...
[17:46:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astrophysicists Turn GPS Satellite Constellation Into Giant Dark Matter Detector - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:42] <exec> 08└─Where are these stations located?
[17:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astrophysicists Turn GPS Satellite Constellation Into Giant Dark Matter Detector - 856 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:44] <exec> 08└─I think this is what you're looking for? https://www.navcen.uscg.gov [uscg.gov] MultiPSK can demodulate DGPS signals. 100 baud MSK modulation or something like that. I guess "several" former aviation / coastal NDBs were converted to DGPS transmission although thats hearsay...
[17:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astrophysicists Turn GPS Satellite Constellation Into Giant Dark Matter Detector - 653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:47] <exec> 08└─They may also be using RTK [wikipedia.org] which does better than regular DGPS as you make use of the carrier phase of of the encrypted L2 signal to remove errors. Doing that is what usually gets you down from the relative position correctness of a few cm (DGPS ideal) to a few mm (RTK ideal). RTK wo...
[17:46:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astrophysicists Turn GPS Satellite Constellation Into Giant Dark Matter Detector - 1731 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:49] <exec> 08└─The theory behind dark matter is based in observations of the way galaxies rotate. This spinning motion is so fast that it should send stars flying off into extra-galactic space. But this doesn't happen. Instead, a mysterious force must somehow hold the stars in place. The theory is that this force...
[17:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astrophysicists Turn GPS Satellite Constellation Into Giant Dark Matter Detector - 1076 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:51] <exec> 08└─The US Gov is no longer adding noise, well not until there is a military reason to scramble it. There is however a fair amount of random error introduced as the signals pass through the various atmospheric layers and bounce off of crap near by. If we as regular civilians were granted access to the e...
[17:46:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astrophysicists Turn GPS Satellite Constellation Into Giant Dark Matter Detector - 1088 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:53] <exec> 08└─Yeah the noise level is due to propagation and is white enough that averaged long enough it goes away. "long enough" being on the order of a satellite orbit. I suppose this is a big problem if its assumed the dark matter is moving faster than the satellites (insert frown emoji) There is an interesti...
[17:47:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Building an 8-Bit Breadboard Computer - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:07] <exec> 08└─whose operation can be trusted to be correct.
[17:47:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03dbe [1422] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Building an 8-Bit Breadboard Computer - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:08] <exec> 08└─Just saw that one recently, while it's not on a breadboard, it was modeled at gate level: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] I do like the speedometer functionality to change the overall clock at will, also bonus points for the led displays of all the gates & memory locations....
[17:47:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Apple Just Promised to Give US Manufacturing a $1 Billion Boost - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:27] <exec> 08└─Some people take time to block scripts and the like, so may not notice an obnoxious auto-playing video.
[17:47:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Just Promised to Give US Manufacturing a $1 Billion Boost - 1024 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:29] <exec> 08└─I'm tangentially familiar with, although confused by, 600Y/347v 3-phase 4-wire or 600v delta. I am told in Canada its called by its real name 600v delta but in the US we call it 575v delta because as you mention your MV certification req starts at 600v. Surprisingly both the NEC and IEEE agree MV st...
[17:47:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Just Promised to Give US Manufacturing a $1 Billion Boost - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:31] <exec> 08└─Which site are you referring to? (blocks scripts)
[17:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Just Promised to Give US Manufacturing a $1 Billion Boost - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:33] <exec> 08└─Fill in for X. It might include some construction, stimulus to the local economy, and some unknown number of "permanent" factory positions. Ripe for replacement by iRobutts or Amazonk Prometheans.
[17:47:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Just Promised to Give US Manufacturing a $1 Billion Boost - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:35] <exec> 08└─CNBC is the only link in the summary and it seems to have a Tim Cook video on it.
[17:47:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Just Promised to Give US Manufacturing a $1 Billion Boost - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:37] <exec> 08└─My sentence could have been structured better, I suppose. I hope you got the context, that "some" cooks make exceptional money. As in any profession, some combination of skill, talent, luck, connections, and being at the right place at the right time can make a cook moderately wealthy. But MOST cook...
[17:47:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China's First Large Passenger Jet Makes Maiden Flight - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:56] <exec> 08└─So it's just to head of to AS&S and get quality?
[17:47:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China's First Large Passenger Jet Makes Maiden Flight - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:58] <exec> 08└─Yes, but is the QA control of the manufacturing done by Chinese people? And is the QA pass before delivery done by Chinese?
[17:48:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Today's Bonkers Bug Report: Microsoft Edge can't Print Numbers - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:23] <exec> 08└─The problem is additives, frying, pesticides, GMO and selection of food. You can probably use the ham bread as insulation without any mold issues.. ;)
[17:48:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Today's Bonkers Bug Report: Microsoft Edge can't Print Numbers - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:25] <exec> 08└─Large corporations in general seems to compete with MS-13 in ethical matters.. :->
[17:48:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Today's Bonkers Bug Report: Microsoft Edge can't Print Numbers - 978 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:27] <exec> 08└─That's really the wrong criticism. Redesigns are fertile ground for new bugs. And for misfeatures. New and flashy is usually worse then stable and useful...but it doesn't sell as well. The real problem I have with MS is that they don't care much about user security, so they give it just enough prior...
[17:48:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03pnkwarhall [4558] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Book(s) Review: "Technopoly" and "You Are Not a Gadget" - 2104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:50] <exec> 08└─First, thank you for your compliments. "Technopoly" is definitely worth another look--although it does focus on technological shifts, it contains an interesting perspective about how the mindset of "scientific inquiry as road to truth" led to the devaluation of that which could not be scientifically...
[17:50:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03butthurt [6141] 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 24 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:43] <exec> 08└─"She lost. Get over it."
[17:51:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:31] <exec> 08└─The expression "both sides" is still a little bit Cartesian, though.. ;-) I like what Macron said when he got elected (whether he meant it or not, we shall find out): (I first found the English translation on BBC News here [bbc.com]; I'll try to find the original) I'm aware of the divisions in our n...
[17:51:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:32] <exec> 08└─Meh. The Dutch version has a much more interesting taste of coconut: Kokosmakroon [wikipedia.org]. Plus it has an actual bit of paper glued to it, for some inexplicable reason. You can eat the paper, as well.
[17:53:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03https [5248] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Action on Free Speech Laws for College Campuses and TV - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:53] <exec> 08└─Ethanol-fueled? Is that you?
[17:53:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Action on Free Speech Laws for College Campuses and TV - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:55] <exec> 08└─So you believe that Russian Hackers and Globalist Meddlers should be able to finance and organize violent protests on our home soil? Your double-standard is showing, Eth.
[17:57:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel AMT Vulnerability: Hacker's Backdoor Dream - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:57:42] <exec> 08└─Why did you want to update the BIOS ?
[17:57:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Intel AMT Vulnerability: Hacker's Backdoor Dream - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:57:44] <exec> 08└─Hoping the latest update fixes any ACPI-related bugs? I think extra CPU support may have been included as well. I know it falls into the "updates are always good" fallacy. BIOS Update Release Notes (DG965 series -- Standard BIOS) [intel.com]
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[18:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Torvalds Merges DRM CoC Into 4.12 Development Repo - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:33] <exec> 08└─Fuck you fucking cockfuckers!
[18:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Torvalds Merges DRM CoC Into 4.12 Development Repo - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:35] <exec> 08└─Oh noes! A private organization wants to codify the rules of their organization. The TYRANNY!!!
[18:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Torvalds Merges DRM CoC Into 4.12 Development Repo - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:37] <exec> 08└─It would have been funny if Linus had named his kernel "Freeix" like he wanted, and everyone called him Fritz Torvalds instead.
[18:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Torvalds Merges DRM CoC Into 4.12 Development Repo - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:39] <exec> 08└─It might be useful to mention that "DRM" in the context of the Linux kernel means "Direct Rendering Manager", as opposed to the more familiar "Digital Rights Management".
[18:46:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Torvalds Merges DRM CoC Into 4.12 Development Repo - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:41] <exec> 08└─Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct [freedesktop.org] Some suspicion that FreeDesktop will be relieved of any harsh criticism. Instead reality will bite, hard. It tends to be reality correct and have no mercy for bullshit. Some takes on the guidelines .. :-) Using welcoming and inclusive language
[18:46:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Torvalds Merges DRM CoC Into 4.12 Development Repo - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:44] <exec> 08└─Bend over and RENDER yourself for a DIRECT COCKING.
[18:46:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Torvalds Merges DRM CoC Into 4.12 Development Repo - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:46] <exec> 08└─Sigh. I see the 10 yr. olds from Slashdot have made it here.
[18:46:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Torvalds Merges DRM CoC Into 4.12 Development Repo - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:48] <exec> 08└─Maybe less often then I see people referring to Linux as Linus where I work. That happens practically every day.
[18:47:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Astrophysicists Turn GPS Satellite Constellation Into Giant Dark Matter Detector - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:03] <exec> 08└─Or is it possible that the black hole thought to be at the center of every galaxy is exerting a large force somehow that makes up for the apparent lack of gravity?
[18:47:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astrophysicists Turn GPS Satellite Constellation Into Giant Dark Matter Detector - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:04] <exec> 08└─Today Benjamin Roberts at the University of Nevada and a few pals say they have used this data to find out whether GPS satellites may have been influenced by dark matter, the mysterious invisible stuff that astrophysicists think fills our galaxy. In effect, these guys have turned the Global Position...
[18:47:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Building an 8-Bit Breadboard Computer - 840 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:20] <exec> 08└─Have a look at the Intel 4004 replica project [4004.com]. It's a 41 x 58 cm (1.3 x 1.9 ft) 130x scale replica of the 4-bit and 2300 transistor CPU. The Motorola 68020 which is MMU and FPU expandable uses 190 000 transistors and would using the same method require 20 m² (215 ft²). The Intel 80386 r...
[18:47:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Just Promised to Give US Manufacturing a $1 Billion Boost - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:45] <exec> 08└─What will such job really entail?
[18:48:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China's First Large Passenger Jet Makes Maiden Flight - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:08] <exec> 08└─Pride in their work just isn't part of their culture. Can you think of anything made in China that is quality? The Chinese themselves will buy the cheapest thing EVERY DAMN TIME even if it's just 10 cents less. They are super cheap. Contrast this with the Japanese...
[18:48:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China's First Large Passenger Jet Makes Maiden Flight - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:09] <exec> 08└─I beg to differ. Read Liang Qichao's speech "Respect your job and enjoy your job". https://www.douban.com [douban.com] In short, he says to respect your job because it is worth doing well, and in doing it well will give you enjoyment for your life.
[18:49:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Force's Mysterious Space Plane Lands, Wakes Up Florida - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:26] <exec> 08└─If he does, then I have no sympathy. That's what you get for living in Florida. That state is full of crazy. Sonic booms in the middle of the night are the least of your problems if you live in Florida.
[18:49:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qubes Kicks Xen While It's Down After Finding 'Fatal, Reliably Exploitable' Bug - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:38] <exec> 08└─The solution is partly to not run code on my machines that I didn't sanction. Ie the Intel Management engine can't really be deselected. There will always be at least one network card with world access and then there's a CPU with hidden spheres that can mess around without the owner being able to re...
[18:50:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03AssCork [6255] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Matt Hickey, Anti #GamerGate Journalist Fined $332,000 For Porn Agency Scam - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:20] <exec> 08└─Not moving (far) outside geek-circles, today I learned; TERF is an acronym for Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist. Sometimes, "exclusionary" is expanded as "eliminationist" or "exterminationist" instead to more accurately convey the degree to which TERFs advocate for harm towards trans people, spe...
[18:50:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Matt Hickey, Anti #GamerGate Journalist Fined $332,000 For Porn Agency Scam - 1255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:21] <exec> 08└─Clarification for mods: I was not attempting to be funny. Well maybe except the last paragraph. I mean, I'm not without a sense of humor, and stepping back from the situation and looking back 15 some odd years, I guess maybe it is pretty hilarious. I'm only relating what every assigned male (trans w...
[18:50:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Matt Hickey, Anti #GamerGate Journalist Fined $332,000 For Porn Agency Scam - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:23] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure all the red flags used to spot a scammer would have about a 100% false positive rate for legit porn producers.
[18:51:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:50] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it's almost like he didn't actually say that at all and was willfully misquoted. Weird, maybe you should look into that.
[18:51:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:51] <exec> 08└─Someday language might evolve to be exactly what you want. Until then, the rest of us will read and understand his meaning, but feel free to remain willfully confused. -A non-practicing Catholic
[18:51:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:54] <exec> 08└─Thank you for the perfect example of why SN is a failing site.
[18:51:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 846 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:56] <exec> 08└─They're substantially different from someone who doesn't identify at all with those religions, though. If I'm sitting through a Catholic service, I only vaguely know what's going on, and can't fully participate in it because I've never done the things required to take Communion. Whereas my non-pract...
[18:51:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 3180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:58] <exec> 08└─Whereas my non-practicing Catholic friends can and do know exactly what's going on and can fully participate if they so choose, and certainly are familiar with the culture and in-jokes and such. Yes, I'm the same way, because I was raised Catholic. If you insist on calling me a "non-practicing Catho...
[18:52:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate ID Cards Use A Photo Of A Chip Rather Than An Actual Smart Chip - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:45] <exec> 08└─So true. Had a guy show up at my place about 3 weeks ago. Wearing orange safety vest, folding clipboard, some kind of id badge, etc. Told me he was from the "energy supply company" and that he could save me money if he could just have my signature. A rate increase was coming for the company that pro...
[18:54:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Action on Free Speech Laws for College Campuses and TV - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:23] <exec> 08└─Great minds think alike, observed reality has an inherent right wing bias, left wing has an inherent anti-white bias, etc...
[18:54:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Action on Free Speech Laws for College Campuses and TV - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:25] <exec> 08└─.... false equivalency. ... if the two sides are crazy and sane ...
[18:54:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Action on Free Speech Laws for College Campuses and TV - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:27] <exec> 08└─The crazy is strong in this one. VLM, so crazy he thinks he's broke on through to the other side and become all rational with alternative facts! ignoring 4000 years of human history that religion can only be spread by the womb or the sword.
[18:54:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Action on Free Speech Laws for College Campuses and TV - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:29] <exec> 08└─That's not trolling, just the truth.
[18:54:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Action on Free Speech Laws for College Campuses and TV - 1181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:31] <exec> 08└─"Really don't see what point you're trying to make here." There is no popular vote. That's not how Presidents are elected in the US. This is really basic grade-school civics stuff it shouldn't be hard to understand. The vote tally was 304-227 in favor of Trump. This 'popular vote' is a fiction that...
[18:55:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03joshuajon [807] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Hour Marathon Run *Almost* Achieved - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:55:47] <exec> 08└─Right, but where does it end? If shoes are allowed what about the bionic legs someone else mentioned? Or stilts? Or can swimmers wear fins? There are actually swim-fin races that use what appears to be a very particular design for the fins. Clearly the gear in that case makes an enormous difference...
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[19:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Releases DIY Open Source Raspberry Pi 'Voice Kit' Hardware - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:07] <exec> 08└─Seems it can run without any phone-home: Voice Kit: instructions to build a Voice User Interface (VUI) that can use cloud services (like the new Google Assistant SDK or Cloud Speech API) or run completely on-device.
[19:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Releases DIY Open Source Raspberry Pi 'Voice Kit' Hardware - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:08] <exec> 08└─Hmm, so perhaps terabytes of cloudy code and data aren't needed to make a useful virtual assistant with voice recognition? Control your own AI and let it talk to Google, APIs, etc.? Reminds me of this: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] Holden went on to say th...
[19:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Releases DIY Open Source Raspberry Pi 'Voice Kit' Hardware - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:10] <exec> 08└─Will you be getting the Google Voice Kit? What types of projects do you anticipate making? Tell me in the comments below.
[19:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Releases DIY Open Source Raspberry Pi 'Voice Kit' Hardware - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:13] <exec> 08└─Everytime it recognizes a word or two it replays something it heard a while ago. "John is good" .. Raspberry-Pi response "Ooohhh John push it hard and spank me" ;-)
[19:46:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06Torvalds Merges DRM CoC Into 4.12 Development Repo - 170 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:31] <exec> 08└─It might be useful to mention that "DRM" in the context of the Linux kernel means "Direct Rendering Manager", as opposed to the more familiar "Digital Rights Management".
[19:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Torvalds Merges DRM CoC Into 4.12 Development Repo - 1693 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:36] <exec> 08└─That looks acceptable as per a careful read of http://contributor-covenant.org [contributor-covenant.org] I believe that was very carefully written. For example referring to goat fuckers would not fly, but carefully referencing goat vomit instead is all good. The leftist types have a pr...
[19:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Torvalds Merges DRM CoC Into 4.12 Development Repo - 1555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:39] <exec> 08└─Firstly, the CoC [freedesktop.org] applies to those who are part of the freedesktop.org community. If you're not, why should you give a damn? The goals seem to be fairly reasonable, the issues will really only come if the CoC is re-purposed to punish or force folks out, rather than fostering a posit...
[19:46:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Torvalds Merges DRM CoC Into 4.12 Development Repo - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:41] <exec> 08└─Stupid libturd. My freedom of speech is more important than anyone else's freedom of association.
[19:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Torvalds Merges DRM CoC Into 4.12 Development Repo - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:43] <exec> 08└─Trap Linus how? He will probably not hesitate to "you code sucks! - removed" ;-)
[19:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Torvalds Merges DRM CoC Into 4.12 Development Repo - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:45] <exec> 08└─The CoC may prevent the negative feedback needed to keep a project on track. And we all know how a positive feedback loop works in the long run.. Some people just needs to know that that their design or code just won't cut it.
[19:46:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Torvalds Merges DRM CoC Into 4.12 Development Repo - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:48] <exec> 08└─Sometimes negative feedback doesn't help either. Look at Gnome/systemd.
[19:46:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Torvalds Merges DRM CoC Into 4.12 Development Repo - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:50] <exec> 08└─If he's going to start pulling buggy code from the repository that hasn't been fixed for eight months (or heck, eight years), there won't be a whole lot of code left.
[19:46:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Torvalds Merges DRM CoC Into 4.12 Development Repo - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:52] <exec> 08└─Gnome, I'll give you. Nothing bad said about gnome made the slightest difference. But the negative feedback systemd received seems to have helped immensely in the documentation area. Its at least intelligible and coherent these days.
[19:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astrophysicists Turn GPS Satellite Constellation Into Giant Dark Matter Detector - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:09] <exec> 08└─How would the GPS data be affected by dark matter? spinning faster on the side exposed to the inner galaxy than the other side?
[19:47:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Just Promised to Give US Manufacturing a $1 Billion Boost - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:51] <exec> 08└─I'll just point out that this is a pretty good post from The Buzzard. Factual, a reasonable source, doesn't try to troll the audience... More like this.
[19:48:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China's First Large Passenger Jet Makes Maiden Flight - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:16] <exec> 08└─China invests billions into stealing Western tech, gotta show all that money bought em something, right? Now that Chinese Communism has added profit and loss statements (also stolen Western tech) to the mix even the intel services have to justify their existence.
[19:48:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China's First Large Passenger Jet Makes Maiden Flight - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:18] <exec> 08└─Mostly due (based on past reading) to thinly disguised import restrictions. US cars don't quite meet the Japanese requirements on many small counts. All these changes are required to import cars into Japan and the US companies don't put in the effort to make their cars compliant. Also, Japan is righ...
[19:48:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China's First Large Passenger Jet Makes Maiden Flight - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:20] <exec> 08└─The QA is usually done here in the USA. The bulk of the "dirty work", e.g. metal part fabrication and sub assemblies, is done outside the USA for cost cutting reasons.
[19:49:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03a-zA-Z0-9$_.+!*'(),- (3868) (Score: 1) 02 - 06Air Force's Mysterious Space Plane Lands, Wakes Up Florida - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:38] <exec> 08└─Definitely. http://coed.com [coed.com]
[19:50:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Matt Hickey, Anti #GamerGate Journalist Fined $332,000 For Porn Agency Scam - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:33] <exec> 08└─Plus, it is the number one way to spot an undercover officer, according to many defense attorneys. What female officer in her right mind would settle for someone just taking pictures, since it isn't illegal and very embarrassing for them? What prostitute would say no to body shots, given the low ris...
[19:52:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 813 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:05] <exec> 08└─So you say they are being terrorists because we fear that they are terrorists? Look, if somebody is such a touchy powderkeg that society's refusal to accept them is cause for terrorism, THEN THEY ARE TERRORISTS. We don't fucking care why. We shouldn't feel required to appease these people. And yes,...
[19:52:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:06] <exec> 08└─They're no different from the nationalist or Christian terrorist movements
[19:52:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 1017 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:08] <exec> 08└─Remember, long ago World War I used to be called "the war to end all wars" or "the Great War" and nothing like that would happen ever again. Let's not be fools about this. War is coming. It is inevitable. Numerous civilizations have collapsed; the people who inherit great civilizations are seldom ab...
[19:52:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:11] <exec> 08└─There are enough users to correct the horrific dribblings of the neo-cons and radical libertarians.
[19:53:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate ID Cards Use A Photo Of A Chip Rather Than An Actual Smart Chip - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:01] <exec> 08└─Probably one of those invoices for the $700 printer toner cartridge and they'll send you to collections if you don't pay up.
[19:53:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate ID Cards Use A Photo Of A Chip Rather Than An Actual Smart Chip - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:02] <exec> 08└─Numerous factions in the senate would happily mess with each other, not just democrats and republicans. Why are they all sharing a computer system? Who could be trusted to run such a computer network? Oh, we did in fact have a problem: just last year the IT people all came from the same Muslim famil...
[19:54:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Action on Free Speech Laws for College Campuses and TV - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:45] <exec> 08└─There is no popular vote. That's not how Presidents are elected in the US. This is really basic grade-school civics stuff it shouldn't be hard to understand. The vote tally was 304-227 in favor of Trump. This 'popular vote' is a fiction that our establishment media decided some years ago they prefer...
[19:54:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Action on Free Speech Laws for College Campuses and TV - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:47] <exec> 08└─Do you remember the day the Christians stormed Rome and overthrew the Empire?
[19:54:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Action on Free Speech Laws for College Campuses and TV - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:49] <exec> 08└─Right, it wasn't a troll. You of all people should recognize trolling.
[19:54:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Action on Free Speech Laws for College Campuses and TV - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:52] <exec> 08└─Followed by the "I'm not trolling" troll? You really know how to double down, Zzub! But really we should be more professional with the trolling on SoylentNews, don't you think?
[19:55:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BitCoin, Ethereum and Gold - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:31] <exec> 08└─Yeah.
[19:55:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BitCoin, Ethereum and Gold - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:32] <exec> 08└─Why would anyone care if someone is mining?
[19:55:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BitCoin, Ethereum and Gold - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:34] <exec> 08└─Because bit coin is international, and can be exchanged in many places for several other types of currency, both virtual and actual, and virtual currencies can be generated and exchanged by agencies outside the traditional banking circles which are very well regulated and interdependent. While the U...
[19:56:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Hour Marathon Run *Almost* Achieved - 1062 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:13] <exec> 08└─Well first of all the Greeks had it right, compete naked. Otherwise as previously mentioned its a battle of shoes. Secondly F the body. Something always glossed over about the original marathon run was the poor bastard made the run in record time to make his military report and then promptly keeled...
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[20:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06People Don't Trust Scientific Research When Companies Are Involved - 953 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:19] <exec> 08└─It is amazing how easy it appears to be to brainwash most people. Under unrelenting media assault, of course they will say corporate funded research is tainted by their interests. But how many of those same respondents will notice that government also has goals and an agenda and their research fundi...
[20:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06People Don't Trust Scientific Research When Companies Are Involved - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:20] <exec> 08└─Pay me not to work. I'll do research instead. Garage science by citizen scientist co-ops is the one true way to do science.
[20:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06People Don't Trust Scientific Research When Companies Are Involved - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:23] <exec> 08└─Science co-ops will immediately devolve into citizen scientists all screaming at each other for alleged violations of the code of conduct.
[20:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People Don't Trust Scientific Research When Companies Are Involved - 821 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:25] <exec> 08└─Yes, people can be so mentally addled that they can delude themselves into thinking that there is a constant conflict of interest in government science grants that has any meaningful parallel to the profit motive, with fairly consistent outcome targets associated with modern corporate research. The...
[20:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06People Don't Trust Scientific Research When Companies Are Involved - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:27] <exec> 08└─I was previously in academic medical research and found the pressure to do unethical stuff (p-hack, cherry pick, misinterpret results) to be insane. The unethical stuff is actually institutionalized. You are expected to do it and will be punished if you don't. Doing freelance data science type stuff...
[20:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People Don't Trust Scientific Research When Companies Are Involved - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:29] <exec> 08└─Not entirely true, there will be plenty of turf wars, petty disputes about nothing, and barely restrained corruption, such as exemplifies basically any local politics you stick your nose too deep into.
[20:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People Don't Trust Scientific Research When Companies Are Involved - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:31] <exec> 08└─Under unrelenting media assault, of course they will say corporate funded research is tainted by their interests.
[20:46:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Releases DIY Open Source Raspberry Pi 'Voice Kit' Hardware - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:43] <exec> 08└─Seems it can run without any phone-home
[20:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Releases DIY Open Source Raspberry Pi 'Voice Kit' Hardware - 1228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:44] <exec> 08└─Just as a data point, my 10+ year old, completely unconnected-to-anything GPS understands me pretty well. Understands Deb, my SO, a good bit better. Definitely imperfect, yet well into the "useful" realm of functionality. It also has a completely programmable wake-up (I've used "Yo, bitch" in the pa...
[20:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03datapharmer [2702] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Releases DIY Open Source Raspberry Pi 'Voice Kit' Hardware - 686 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:46] <exec> 08└─Google should be ashamed of themselves for using this marketing tactic of "oh we are giving back to the maker community by letting them pay to access our closed source api" Besides, this has already been done almost verbatim using open source by Mycroft: https://github.com
[20:46:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Releases DIY Open Source Raspberry Pi 'Voice Kit' Hardware - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:49] <exec> 08└─Why do they need all that crap? All they are doing is adding a speaker, microphone, light and button to a Pi and bundling you to their platform. It needs several boards for that? An amp chip plugged into the Pi with a microphone. The Pi has a headphone/mic port, why complicate things needlessly? We...
[20:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Releases DIY Open Source Raspberry Pi 'Voice Kit' Hardware - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:51] <exec> 08└─Can it stream Rick Astley "Never Gonna Give You Up"? I have an Alexa and I have been rickrolled thru an open window so if you're gonna be feature complete with the competition...
[20:47:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Torvalds Merges DRM CoC Into 4.12 Development Repo - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:24] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the tsunami of negative feedback about systemd was about the documentation. Pull my finger frojack!
[20:47:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Torvalds Merges DRM CoC Into 4.12 Development Repo - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:25] <exec> 08└─Or as R.Stallman wisefully keeps reminding us, more accurately means: "Digital Restrictions Management"
[20:47:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Torvalds Merges DRM CoC Into 4.12 Development Repo - 1033 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:27] <exec> 08└─I think you're being disrespectful. I'm also going to pull my status here. Unless you're a womyn-born-womyn, I outrank you. If you ask me to identify which part of your post was disrespectful, I'll take that as further disrespect and accuse you of both transphobia and misogyny. I might even telephon...
[20:47:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Torvalds Merges DRM CoC Into 4.12 Development Repo - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:29] <exec> 08└─Sadly, there are a number (usually vanishingly small but quite vociferous) of folks who are fucking assholes.
[20:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Torvalds Merges DRM CoC Into 4.12 Development Repo - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:32] <exec> 08└─The CoC may prevent the negative feedback needed to keep a project on track. And we all know how a positive feedback loop works in the long run..
[20:47:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Torvalds Merges DRM CoC Into 4.12 Development Repo - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:34] <exec> 08└─Sadly, there are a number (usually vanishingly small but quite vociferous) of folks who are fucking assholes.
[20:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Torvalds Merges DRM CoC Into 4.12 Development Repo - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:36] <exec> 08└─Sadly, there are a number (usually vanishingly small but quite vociferous) of folks who are fucking assholes.
[20:47:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Torvalds Merges DRM CoC Into 4.12 Development Repo - 1033 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:38] <exec> 08└─I think you're being disrespectful. I'm also going to pull my status here. Unless you're a womyn-born-womyn, I outrank you. If you ask me to identify which part of your post was disrespectful, I'll take that as further disrespect and accuse you of both transphobia and misogyny. I might even telephon...
[20:47:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Torvalds Merges DRM CoC Into 4.12 Development Repo - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:41] <exec> 08└─It's probably just a defensive reaction. They know system'd is "a disaster" like the White house would put it.. But at least it's a known how the junk works. Now we just need to find Poetternigg and nuke from orbit to be sure.
[20:47:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Astrophysicists Turn GPS Satellite Constellation Into Giant Dark Matter Detector - 1048 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:58] <exec> 08└─You want to really have your mind blown, check out figure 2 here: https://arxiv.org [arxiv.org] The amount of "dark matter" is 100% predictable from the amount of visible matter in every galaxy. This basic fact is left out of all textbooks on the topic: Here I take the conservative vi...
[20:48:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Astrophysicists Turn GPS Satellite Constellation Into Giant Dark Matter Detector - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:00] <exec> 08└─Unsurprisingly, the dark matter was undetectable: By mining 16 years of archival GPS data, we find no evidence for DM clumps in the form of domain walls.
[20:48:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03toph [5509] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Astrophysicists Turn GPS Satellite Constellation Into Giant Dark Matter Detector - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:02] <exec> 08└─My current favorite alternative to dark matter (and dark energy) is quantised inertia [blogspot.ca]. It proposes that there is a universal minimum acceleration. Your inertial mass is effectively zero if you accelerate at a rate below the minimum so any force, no matter how small, will push you to th...
[20:48:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03HighOrbit [3320] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Building an 8-Bit Breadboard Computer - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:18] <exec> 08└─On a similar note, I am running through the Nand2Tetris book and courses aka "Building a Modern Computer from First Principles". http://www.nand2tetris.org [nand2tetris.org] The Nand2Tetris course is not a physical build (everything is done on a hardware simulator), but it shows how to bootstra...
[20:48:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Just Promised to Give US Manufacturing a $1 Billion Boost - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:45] <exec> 08└─Feeding the robots.
[20:49:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China's First Large Passenger Jet Makes Maiden Flight - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:13] <exec> 08└─I think it's telling that nearly all the interested buyers are Chinese. It's like the Russian Tu-204. It's cheap to buy and a reliable workhorse, but no one outside of Russia and North Korea wants to fly it. Will the C919 suffer a similar fate? Well, the Chinese have more money to throw at the probl...
[20:49:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China's First Large Passenger Jet Makes Maiden Flight - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:15] <exec> 08└─From what I read. Corporations that care about quality usually have their own "man" over in China to check quality before it ships.
[20:49:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China's First Large Passenger Jet Makes Maiden Flight - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:17] <exec> 08└─I suspect it may get the same fate as the Shanghai Y-10 [wikipedia.org] that first flew in 1980. Asfair the problem is that it cost too much to build, uses too much fuel and was built on a design already 30 years old at the time for the first flight.
[20:49:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Today's Bonkers Bug Report: Microsoft Edge can't Print Numbers - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:45] <exec> 08└─Redesigns are fertile ground for new bugs. But it's also a base for being able to efficiently prevent them in the first place because there will be less quirky corners for them to hide. And fixes can be executed smoothly without hacks. Like taking a drivers license, lot of initial work but a long ti...
[20:50:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03pnkwarhall [4558] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Book(s) Review: "Technopoly" and "You Are Not a Gadget" - 808 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:10] <exec> 08└─I'm aware of "scientism", and thanks for pointing it out... I really should have included that term/concept in the piece. Your point about "digital humanities" and statistics-based "science" is actually very close to one of the criticisms that led me down my current thought path. I was unaware until...
[20:53:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:08] <exec> 08└─So about a tenth of an French Islamic truck driver per year in a country (USA) with five times the population and about 2356246112 times the handguns. Yeah France has a problem.
[20:53:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:10] <exec> 08└─The IRA had nothing to do with religion, it just happens that the English have been trying to genocide the Irish race for a couple centuries, with some success here and there, and virtually all the English are prots or atheists and virtually all the Irish are catholics or atheists. Its like claiming...
[20:53:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:12] <exec> 08└─Ahem, old testament, ahem. Of course there's a lot of old testament that most Christians are not terribly interested in. Also its a classic old book vs modern interpretation. Uncle Adolf was portrayed as a nice guy in Mein Kampf, a nice devout Catholic Vegetarian semi-pacifist after getting gassed i...
[20:54:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate ID Cards Use A Photo Of A Chip Rather Than An Actual Smart Chip - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:02] <exec> 08└─I think s/he tried, but there was this big wall in the way ...
[20:55:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Action on Free Speech Laws for College Campuses and TV - 661 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:48] <exec> 08└─"The popular vote isn't what (directly) elects the president, no, but it still takes place. They tally the popular vote by district then run it through the electoral college layer." What you're calling the popular vote is not a vote for President, but a vote for electors. It seems you do understand...
[20:55:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Action on Free Speech Laws for College Campuses and TV - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:50] <exec> 08└─What you're calling the popular vote is not a vote for President, but a vote for electors.
[20:59:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel AMT Vulnerability: Hacker's Backdoor Dream - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:40] <exec> 08└─My thinking was kind of like. If you got an "old" BIOS. Maybe you could exploit to gain control of your machines hidden features? ACPI seems to run in Intel Management (ring -2) mode so any BIOS update will also change this. But ACPI is notoriously bug ridden in implementation.
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[21:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06People Don't Trust Scientific Research When Companies Are Involved - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:32] <exec> 08└─Any innovative original research will be done in some guy's basement and the guy will take one look at the science lack-of community and decide to forget about publishing the results. So exactly like how science works now.
[21:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People Don't Trust Scientific Research When Companies Are Involved - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:34] <exec> 08└─And your solution? How do we assure some integrity in research? If government can't do it, and corporations can't either, then who can? > research has to show results that can lead to engineering and actual products. That's very much "cart before the horse". Lot of basic research lead to no known us...
[21:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06People Don't Trust Scientific Research When Companies Are Involved - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:36] <exec> 08└─No, I've had plenty of clients in finance, etc that actually want a honest good job done. There is something really wrong with the medical research community. I think they've dug themselves so deep in a hole of incorrectness there is no way out.
[21:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People Don't Trust Scientific Research When Companies Are Involved - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:38] <exec> 08└─Fool me once, Fuck you. Fool me twice, Fuck you, me and the horse I rode in on, but fuck you... I've stopped believing you and stopped buying your product, probably. Same with the government Fuck you Trudeau. Harper. Chretien. Trudeau, Microsoft, etc. And fuck you, horse I rode in on... Now my ass i...
[21:46:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People Don't Trust Scientific Research When Companies Are Involved - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:41] <exec> 08└─People can detect self-serving "Research" that produces nothing but talking points. That's what they object to. When your company researches automobile transmissions or farming techniques or battery technology (even when its perpetually 25 years away) that results in products or improvements that ma...
[21:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06People Don't Trust Scientific Research When Companies Are Involved - 858 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:43] <exec> 08└─This is entirely understandable, and indeed rational and correct, given the current state of science as practiced. It's very much a "heads I win, tails nothing" type situation. Consider the following. BigSaltCo spends $5,000,000 on a several studies showing salt is not harmful, and is indeed benefic...
[21:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06People Don't Trust Scientific Research When Companies Are Involved - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:45] <exec> 08└─Science is supposed to be reproduced, not trusted.
[21:46:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People Don't Trust Scientific Research When Companies Are Involved - 810 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:47] <exec> 08└─When integrity suffers there's some leeway before the response unmercifully comes back. People with wisdom and integrity can see the writing in the feature and avoid bad choices for the the long term benefit. The MBA style of people usually leads down to fraud. What's needed is people like Hyman G....
[21:46:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People Don't Trust Scientific Research When Companies Are Involved - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:50] <exec> 08└─What we need then is research into how to genetically engineer humans to have these undesirable traits eliminated. Then create a retrovirus that spreads the mutation around to everyone. Of course, there's a danger that everyone could start acting like "pod people", but maybe that's not such a bad th...
[21:46:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People Don't Trust Scientific Research When Companies Are Involved - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:52] <exec> 08└─It is amazing how easy it appears to be to brainwash most people. Under unrelenting media assault...
[21:46:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Linatux [4602] (Score: 1) 02 - 06People Don't Trust Scientific Research When Companies Are Involved - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:54] <exec> 08└─and until it is consistently reproduce-able it is only theory, not "Settled Science"
[21:46:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People Don't Trust Scientific Research When Companies Are Involved - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:56] <exec> 08└─There's a lot of truth in that. Most of the historically important scientists we read about were gentlemen. That is, the had money, free time, and an education. Some were also professors and so could use the school's resources as well as their own, way back when schools had to compete for students a...
[21:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People Don't Trust Scientific Research When Companies Are Involved - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:59] <exec> 08└─It's fatal. Not to the individual libertarian, of course
[21:47:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Releases DIY Open Source Raspberry Pi 'Voice Kit' Hardware - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:16] <exec> 08└─virtual assistant ... voice recognition ... AI
[21:47:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Releases DIY Open Source Raspberry Pi 'Voice Kit' Hardware - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:17] <exec> 08└─I'll guess the GPS voice recognition isn't available as open source. What is "echo" level better? The Mycroft project is very fuzzy about hardware demands. But their web page is all fluffy with bug pictures. But if it can run on RPi it should not be that bad.
[21:47:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Releases DIY Open Source Raspberry Pi 'Voice Kit' Hardware - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:20] <exec> 08└─why complicate things needlessly?
[21:47:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Releases DIY Open Source Raspberry Pi 'Voice Kit' Hardware - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:22] <exec> 08└─I have tried Alexa and I'm also not impressed. It's good at... playing radio stations (but the IP radio will cut out often compared to an FM receiver). Kudos on finding Alexa's "backdoor entry". I used the generic term "AI". Real life sentient/sapient machine brain slavery earns the upgraded term "s...
[21:47:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Releases DIY Open Source Raspberry Pi 'Voice Kit' Hardware - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:24] <exec> 08└─Which is a result of their incompetency.
[21:48:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Torvalds Merges DRM CoC Into 4.12 Development Repo - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:05] <exec> 08└─As I explicitly said, that sort of communication should be appropriate.
[21:48:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Torvalds Merges DRM CoC Into 4.12 Development Repo - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:07] <exec> 08└─I think the parts you quoted are mostly reasonable. There is, however, a couple of clauses you omitted: Project maintainers have the right and responsibility to remove, edit, or reject comments, commits, code, wiki edits, issues, and other contributions that are not aligned to this Code of Conduct,...
[21:48:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Torvalds Merges DRM CoC Into 4.12 Development Repo - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:09] <exec> 08└─Code of Snowflakes for implementing DRM which relies on security will be great. Hackers will have a feast because not enough decline of practice and actual code can be done.
[21:48:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Torvalds Merges DRM CoC Into 4.12 Development Repo - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:11] <exec> 08└─Psychopaths tend to have higher IQs and better social skills than sociopaths. These people don't even make it to psychopath status.
[21:48:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Torvalds Merges DRM CoC Into 4.12 Development Repo - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:14] <exec> 08└─... but it still exists.
[21:48:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Torvalds Merges DRM CoC Into 4.12 Development Repo - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:16] <exec> 08└─This was in the PR: Small supplementary pull request. I didn't want anyone saying we snuck this in in a the middle of a big pile of changes, so here is a clearly separate pull request documenting the code of conduct introduced for freedesktop.org and how it relates to dri-devel community.
[21:48:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Torvalds Merges DRM CoC Into 4.12 Development Repo - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:18] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately it's not the DRM (Digital Restrictions Management), you think it is. The DRM in this case is Direct Rendering Manager.
[21:48:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Torvalds Merges DRM CoC Into 4.12 Development Repo - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:20] <exec> 08└─I think the parts you quoted are mostly reasonable. There is, however, a couple of clauses you omitted: Project maintainers have the right and responsibility to remove, edit, or reject comments, commits, code, wiki edits, issues, and other contributions that are not aligned to this Code of Conduc...
[21:48:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astrophysicists Turn GPS Satellite Constellation Into Giant Dark Matter Detector - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:41] <exec> 08└─Absotutely: There is no dark matter, there is only:"we need something to support GR, so....... Dark matter!!!" Dark matter is a kludge to make GR work. There are better theories out there (one which you show) that don't need kludges.
[21:49:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Just Promised to Give US Manufacturing a $1 Billion Boost - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:25] <exec> 08└─They're going to invest $150 million in Microsoft to keep them from going under.
[21:50:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Today's Bonkers Bug Report: Microsoft Edge can't Print Numbers - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:23] <exec> 08└─I thought the peak was DOS3.3, everything after that was "99% compatible" with previous generations, which meant to me: if your software has more than 100 lines of code, you're probably dysfunctional in the newOS, but they still piled a bunch of crap in there for reasons of "compatibility" as well a...
[21:51:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Force's Mysterious Space Plane Lands, Wakes Up Florida - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:51:18] <exec> 08└─Whatever it is, I doubt it is as "mission critical" as a spaceborne weapons platform. If it were that, they'd have (at least) two with continuous coverage on-orbit. Spy-plane seems a little out there, too - what can it do that smaller, cheaper spy sats can't? Generate a bunch of press and mystery ev...
[21:52:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Matt Hickey, Anti #GamerGate Journalist Fined $332,000 For Porn Agency Scam - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:14] <exec> 08└─Um, duh. I'm vegetarian and even *I* know those companies never intended to legitimately deliver sausage pizzas.
[21:52:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Matt Hickey, Anti #GamerGate Journalist Fined $332,000 For Porn Agency Scam - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:16] <exec> 08└─Sorry, I'm still confused on what the '#GamerGate' sides are -- ostensibly not about one being pro- or anti- a hashtag (?).
[21:52:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Matt Hickey, Anti #GamerGate Journalist Fined $332,000 For Porn Agency Scam - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:18] <exec> 08└─I'm no expert, but the article talks about Microsofts "go go dancers" which might be defended by "sex positive" people.
[21:52:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Matt Hickey, Anti #GamerGate Journalist Fined $332,000 For Porn Agency Scam - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:20] <exec> 08└─one of whom conferred upon me the title "traitor to the lesbian race..."
[21:53:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:59] <exec> 08└─Terrorism is NOT normal. Japan has none. Japan has about two dozen refugees. Japan has roughly a thousand muslims, and the government monitors them all. Japan stopped bringing people in after a few rapes; the safety of Japan takes priority over being nice to non-Japanese. The kids are safe. They wal...
[21:54:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Senate ID Cards Use A Photo Of A Chip Rather Than An Actual Smart Chip - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:52] <exec> 08└─[...] a bunch of deadweight in the government administering the unkillable program [...]
[21:56:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Action on Free Speech Laws for College Campuses and TV - 863 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:41] <exec> 08└─"technically the British Monarch has the power to refuse to sign any bill Parliament passes. Of course, this hasn't happened since the 1600s and there would be a huge panic if she actually did. So do you consider Britain a monarchy or a representative government?" I actually agree that the situation...
[21:56:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Action on Free Speech Laws for College Campuses and TV - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:43] <exec> 08└─"Well then they should put the electors on the ballot instead of the president's name :P" They do. That makes me wonder if you didn't vote or just didn't read your ballot. "That Trump would be fought by everyone on all the crazy stuff he tries to do." Unfortunately even the relatively sensible thing...
[21:56:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Action on Free Speech Laws for College Campuses and TV - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:45] <exec> 08└─Well then they should put the electors on the ballot instead of the president's name :P
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[22:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 0, Flamebait) 02 - 06There's a Mathematical Formula for Choosing the Fastest Queue - 2207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:25] <exec> 08└─Without failure, the person in front of me always has some rude stupid-ass problem. They got the wrong size bag of popsicles for the sale and we have to wait for somebody to fetch the right one for them. They pull out 50 coupons and challenge each expired one regardless of its validity. They don't k...
[22:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06There's a Mathematical Formula for Choosing the Fastest Queue - 1951 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:26] <exec> 08└─There's a Mathematical Formula for Choosing the Fastest Queue ... but its useless because to use it you'd need to waste so much time measuring the queues that any time advantage is lost. And even if you do spend the time, its still a gamble because there is too much uncertainty within the small samp...
[22:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's a Mathematical Formula for Choosing the Fastest Queue - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:28] <exec> 08└─By the time you've stood there gawping and making notes as people go through the tills, more people will have joined the queues and you'll end up leaving later than if you'd just followed your intuition. When it comes to queuing, the intuitive choice is often not the fastest one.
[22:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There's a Mathematical Formula for Choosing the Fastest Queue - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:31] <exec> 08└─The most efficient way to go is with a single queue that feeds to multiple check-out operators. Fry's, BestBuy, Barnes and Noble all do it that way.
[22:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's a Mathematical Formula for Choosing the Fastest Queue - 847 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:33] <exec> 08└─Pay attention to: * Does the cashier look experienced and speedy? * Lot's of items to expedite in each shopping cart? * Any customer types that look like they may need a long time at the checkout? This takes a split second to view and evaluate if you are experienced thus no need to stand by...
[22:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's a Mathematical Formula for Choosing the Fastest Queue - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:35] <exec> 08└─The hard part is to quantify the intuition.
[22:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's a Mathematical Formula for Choosing the Fastest Queue - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:37] <exec> 08└─queue selection is usually a function of looking at who is in the queue and who is servicing the queue
[22:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's a Mathematical Formula for Choosing the Fastest Queue - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:40] <exec> 08└─If you hate waiting in lines, then China is the place for you.
[22:46:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's a Mathematical Formula for Choosing the Fastest Queue - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:42] <exec> 08└─Joshua: Greetings, Professor Falken. Stephen Falken: Hello, Joshua. Joshua: A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?
[22:46:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's a Mathematical Formula for Choosing the Fastest Queue - 1003 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:44] <exec> 08└─Those 3 things are quick and easy to assess too: 1/ Is the cashier quick when they ring items? Z/ Is the cashier the kind who just does their job, or the chatty type who likes to socialize a bit with each customer who passes through? Because the socializing can be nice when it happens with you, but...
[22:47:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People Don't Trust Scientific Research When Companies Are Involved - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:12] <exec> 08└─I would be even harsher on that point and say that there is no settled science. Just more or less settled. People are even prepared to bet their life on airplanes with a 1:10 000 000 chance to crash where everybody on board dies. Still commercial airplanes are considered to be "safe".
[22:47:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03datapharmer [2702] 02 - 06Google Releases DIY Open Source Raspberry Pi 'Voice Kit' Hardware - 686 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:27] <exec> 08└─Google should be ashamed of themselves for using this marketing tactic of "oh we are giving back to the maker community by letting them pay to access our closed source api" Besides, this has already been done almost verbatim using open source by Mycroft: https://github.com
[22:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Releases DIY Open Source Raspberry Pi 'Voice Kit' Hardware - 683 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:35] <exec> 08└─That's very good. My first fucking question/rant here was going to be if Google is still using the fucking thing as a microphone to listen to goddamn everything. I refuse to use any such technology precisely because it "phones home", which is really a misnomer. It's not phoning home, but acting like...
[22:48:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Soylentbob [6519] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Torvalds Merges DRM CoC Into 4.12 Development Repo - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:26] <exec> 08└─Isn't the right capitalization in this context CoCK [pastebin.com]?
[22:48:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Torvalds Merges DRM CoC Into 4.12 Development Repo - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:27] <exec> 08└─Your projection of what you believe to what they "know" is pretty funny.
[22:48:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Torvalds Merges DRM CoC Into 4.12 Development Repo - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:30] <exec> 08└─> The problem is that some people just can't handle declined affirmation. I don't think you intended to go meta with your response. But you sure did.
[22:48:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Torvalds Merges DRM CoC Into 4.12 Development Repo - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:32] <exec> 08└─> Around here they all seem to post as AC, so there could be one or one million for all we know. Do they? Seriously man, you are one of the minor assholes on this site. And your snowflake responses to blunt criticism make your complaints about all the other assholes particularly ironic.
[22:48:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Torvalds Merges DRM CoC Into 4.12 Development Repo - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:34] <exec> 08└─By the way I'm getting real tired of having to do my own research for topics because there's something obviously reactionary and fucky about a summary.
[22:48:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Torvalds Merges DRM CoC Into 4.12 Development Repo - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:36] <exec> 08└─> [...] having to do my own research for topics because there's something obviously reactionary and fucky about a summary. The phoronix.com article has a link to the pull request (around "pull request, which can be found here").
[22:48:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Torvalds Merges DRM CoC Into 4.12 Development Repo - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:38] <exec> 08└─Anyway, my point is you are dealing with people who are deranged hypocritical sociopaths
[22:48:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Torvalds Merges DRM CoC Into 4.12 Development Repo - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:41] <exec> 08└─You can't just "drop in" FreeBSD kernel on your existing system. It's not even something like enabling selinux. You need to do an entire clean install, because freebsd and linux have different syscall tables, different base libraries, different base utilities, and different filesystems.
[22:48:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Torvalds Merges DRM CoC Into 4.12 Development Repo - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:43] <exec> 08└─Finally, I keep holding out hope that one of these days I'm going to buy a AAA game and it'll support a free as in speech operating system.
[22:48:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Torvalds Merges DRM CoC Into 4.12 Development Repo - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:45] <exec> 08└─where else could they possibly have come from?!? Seriously.
[22:48:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Torvalds Merges DRM CoC Into 4.12 Development Repo - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:47] <exec> 08└─Which DRM are they talking about again? Digital Restrictions Management?
[22:48:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Torvalds Merges DRM CoC Into 4.12 Development Repo - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:50] <exec> 08└─Well, it can't be too Direct anymore.
[22:49:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Astrophysicists Turn GPS Satellite Constellation Into Giant Dark Matter Detector - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:11] <exec> 08└─Dark matter is a kludge to make GR work. There are better theories out there (one which you show) that don't need kludges.
[22:49:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Astrophysicists Turn GPS Satellite Constellation Into Giant Dark Matter Detector - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:13] <exec> 08└─So just because there is no better theory we should ignore the problems with GR, to the point of hiding key facts about dark matter like that the "amount" is perfectly predictable from the amount of visible matter?
[22:49:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Astrophysicists Turn GPS Satellite Constellation Into Giant Dark Matter Detector - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:15] <exec> 08└─As DM [dark matter] clumps sweep through the GPS satellite constellation at galactic velocities ~300 km/s, their predicted signature is a correlated propagation of clock glitches through the constellation over a period of a few minutes.
[22:49:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Just Promised to Give US Manufacturing a $1 Billion Boost - 1711 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:00] <exec> 08└─All those different voltage ratings are actually addressed in ANSI C84.1. There is the utility (system) voltage and the utilization (terminal) voltage. System voltage is what the utility delivers to your premises, e.g. 208, 240, 480, 600. The terminal voltage is what you might expect at the point of...
[22:50:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Just Promised to Give US Manufacturing a $1 Billion Boost - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:01] <exec> 08└─Apple's market capitalisation was over $800 billion today; its stock price reached a new high: The stock ran up as much as 3.2% to an all-time intraday high of $153.70 in afternoon trade. At that price, and with 5.21 billion shares outstanding as of March 31 according to filings, Apple’s market c...
[22:54:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:36] <exec> 08└─>The IRA had nothing to do with religion, About as much as ISIS has to do with it. Also, you missed the point.
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[23:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Plastics—Not Simply Garbage - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:24] <exec> 08└─It's important to focus on finding solutions for developing and emerging economies, especially when developed economies (especially the US) are the greatest polluters per capita.
[23:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Plastics—Not Simply Garbage - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:26] <exec> 08└─" Not enough ozone, too much carbon dioxide, and seas of plastic. What is to be done? "
[23:46:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's a Mathematical Formula for Choosing the Fastest Queue - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:46] <exec> 08└─Some supermarkets in my area tried that for a while and then stopped. I'm told the resulting long line scared people off...perhaps there's an IQ differential between the electronics store and supermarket clienteles.
[23:46:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06There's a Mathematical Formula for Choosing the Fastest Queue - 1191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:47] <exec> 08└─Being a lazy fuck, I frequent only 2 or 3 stores -- and after many repeated instances when those lines were unacceptably long, I would inform those in line with me that management got bonuses for keeping payrolls low, and I used to work in stores, and that at any given moment there are at least 3 ot...
[23:46:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's a Mathematical Formula for Choosing the Fastest Queue - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:49] <exec> 08└─Pick the queue with the prettiest person on the till. Doesn't mattr if you have to spend a bit longer in the queue, if you have a something nice to look at.
[23:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's a Mathematical Formula for Choosing the Fastest Queue - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:51] <exec> 08└─Protip: The pharmacies and photo lab sections (and in some grocery stores the Starbucks and Juice franchises) are allowed and able to ring up groceries (other than alcohol) unrelated to their departments
[23:46:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06There's a Mathematical Formula for Choosing the Fastest Queue - 945 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:54] <exec> 08└─I've already described how I handle 3, but there is also a way to address 1 and 2 by speeding up the checker (and by extension, the line). Look really fucking uncomfortable. Put your hands in your pockets, dart your head to different things around you but never directly at anybody, maybe glance upwa...
[23:46:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's a Mathematical Formula for Choosing the Fastest Queue - 2736 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:56] <exec> 08└─Indeed. The one thing left out of this formula and TFA's discussion, as you rightly point out, is customers. All it takes is one person with a handful of disorganized coupons, the speed of a tortoise, and a change purse which they'll go fishing for pennies in, and you might as well have gone in the...
[23:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's a Mathematical Formula for Choosing the Fastest Queue - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:58] <exec> 08└─Does the trick of having your girlfriend put a pillow under her dress still work, or are people now Candy-crushing too much to even notice? Queues are when other people check their FB one more time, just in case the 20 minutes in the supermarket made them missing some life-changing event. Which of c...
[23:46:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06There's a Mathematical Formula for Choosing the Fastest Queue - 957 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:00] <exec> 08└─One thing that other comments haven't yet discussed is this business about the "inspection paradox" and how it's against "intuition." It's incredibly basic, though. Suppose customers take either 2 minutes or 5 minutes for a transaction. With an equal distribution, the average length of transaction i...
[23:47:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There's a Mathematical Formula for Choosing the Fastest Queue - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:03] <exec> 08└─Or the best ass in front of you in line.
[23:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06People Don't Trust Scientific Research When Companies Are Involved - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:32] <exec> 08└─Government research has its own problems. For example: The Fed examiners literally are unhappy with banks that DO NOT p-hack (you read that correctly).
[23:47:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People Don't Trust Scientific Research When Companies Are Involved - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:34] <exec> 08└─I have noticed the same pattern.. * Usually have the means of independent subsistence (not necessarily rich) * Intellectual parents or upbringing. Alternatively, fluke of nature like Leonardo da Vinci. * No wars, famine, disease etc. * Freedom of the individual. It vaguely relates to the...
[23:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06People Don't Trust Scientific Research When Companies Are Involved - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:36] <exec> 08└─Just mostly brain dead.
[23:49:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Torvalds Merges DRM CoC Into 4.12 Development Repo - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:01] <exec> 08└─Right, its only OK when a corporation does it....
[23:49:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Torvalds Merges DRM CoC Into 4.12 Development Repo - 661 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:02] <exec> 08└─I'm not too familiar with the kernel structure and the DRM within it. Are they an independent sub-function for which this CoC only applies to them, or did they put it on some central place with larger implications? Off-hand, this news sounds to me like, "I put my Terms and Conditions on my Facebook...
[23:49:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Torvalds Merges DRM CoC Into 4.12 Development Repo - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:04] <exec> 08└─I have to reply to say thank you for this post. It made me laugh quite awhile, not just because it's funny (it is funny to me at least), or true, but because of how you wrote it. Thanks again.
[23:49:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03invis [439] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Torvalds Merges DRM CoC Into 4.12 Development Repo - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:07] <exec> 08└─My GTX 960 works fine.
[23:49:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Torvalds Merges DRM CoC Into 4.12 Development Repo - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:09] <exec> 08└─Thanks alot man. You gave me a complex! Now every time I hear the words "Fritz Torvalds" I break down in hysterical laughter. You fucked me up man! WTF? Seriously!
[23:50:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Just Promised to Give US Manufacturing a $1 Billion Boost - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:20] <exec> 08└─doesn't try to troll the audience Doesn't say much of anything, in fact. Standard press release from Apphole. Apple will announce the first investment later in May Let's hope it does better than this: - May 2013 - Announcement Motorola to revive shuttered Nokia plant in Texas [upi.com] Motorola says...
[23:51:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Book(s) Review: "Technopoly" and "You Are Not a Gadget" - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:51:46] <exec> 08└─I would argue that the perspective of "workers as machines" was not feasible in many types of production (i.e. products made by craftsmen) prior to the industrial revolution--the individual level of skill and experience used to make a finished product are readily visible in many crafts. In fact, I w...
[23:54:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:56] <exec> 08└─It wasn't aimed at you and yes it was reactionary crap aimed at the site's real trolls
[23:54:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:57] <exec> 08└─9 in the queue currently.
[23:54:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Emmanuel Macron Becomes the President of France - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:55:00] <exec> 08└─And you'll notice that the divisive stories that do get posted are almost always by TMB with commentary very obviously baiting a flame war. Maybe a 6 month ban from admin powers would be good for him and everyone else. I've submitted stories that are much higher quality than some around here but the...
[23:55:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate ID Cards Use A Photo Of A Chip Rather Than An Actual Smart Chip - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:55:53] <exec> 08└─Uh you are talking apples and oranges. "hacking on a gov sys causes people to spend tax money" You come back with "trump fucks up dah taxes" Both may be true but you are offtopic.
[23:55:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Senate ID Cards Use A Photo Of A Chip Rather Than An Actual Smart Chip - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:55:55] <exec> 08└─The ideas I was trying to convey were that the U.S. government is to a significant extent funded by debt, and that if the current president were to have his way the proportion of the government's expenditures that comes from taxes would decrease.
[23:58:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BitCoin, Ethereum and Gold - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:58:28] <exec> 08└─The exchange of money is heavily regulated. You are barely allowed to hold 3 months' emergency cash without being suspected of a crime and having it seized.