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[00:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Turkey Arrests Cumhuriyet Editor-in-Chief Oguz Guven - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:38] <exec> 08└─All users of Twitter deserve a beheading!
[00:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turkey Arrests Cumhuriyet Editor-in-Chief Oguz Guven - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:40] <exec> 08└─This happened late last month: Turkish authorities said they had arrested more than a thousand "secret Imams" who had infiltrated police forces [...] Another 9,103 personnel from Turkey's police force were suspended [...]
[00:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03its_gonna_be_yuge! [6454] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Turkey Arrests Cumhuriyet Editor-in-Chief Oguz Guven - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:42] <exec> 08└─Sigh. Poor Turkey.
[00:17:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Touché) 02 - 06Turkey Arrests Cumhuriyet Editor-in-Chief Oguz Guven - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:44] <exec> 08└─No american news agencies will be allowed in the room, only turkish reporters. Turkey will publish a photo of the two smiling and happily comparing dick sizes. Erdogan will clearly have the larger dick. In the background of the photo Erdogan's aide will be seen stuffing a stack of classified documen...
[00:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0629 Dead Employees == 1 Year "Imprisoned" - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:05] <exec> 08└─See this? This is where someone could come along and say "false equivalency", since he actually said that the two parties are the same, and on a particular issue no less. This is where such an argument would be appropriate, unlike when it's used against people who do not make the claim that the two...
[00:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0629 Dead Employees == 1 Year "Imprisoned" - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:07] <exec> 08└─miners elect politicians who want to eliminate government regulations ...and, more disappointingly, the populace mostly thinks that their their choices are binary. In their general election: [wikipedia.org] Trump 46.09 percent Hillary 26.43 percent Johnson 3.28 percent Stein 1.07 percent McMull...
[00:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03i286NiNJA [2768] (Score: 1) 02 - 0629 Dead Employees == 1 Year "Imprisoned" - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:09] <exec> 08└─Equally? You need to stop this. I know you've probably coasted through life walking fences on complex subjects as a shortcut to appearing clever but it's not going to fly on Democrats vs Republicans in 2017. Politicians are mostly all corrupt but your modern federal republican would eat a baby if th...
[00:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 0629 Dead Employees == 1 Year "Imprisoned" - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:11] <exec> 08└─In the interest of sound business practices and corporate risk mitigation, he probably made sure to hire and deploy entire families at a time into the mines.
[00:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 0629 Dead Employees == 1 Year "Imprisoned" - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:13] <exec> 08└─Republican; All politians suck, ours suck less Democrat: No only yours suck ours are fine Based on the amount of disagree there appears to be a serious suspension of disbelief going on.
[00:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Electric 'Hogs' are Coming -- Autonomous Driving Antidote? - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:57] <exec> 08└─Perhaps the clank of a main battle tank
[00:19:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Developers of the MP3 Format Claim it is 'Officially Dead' - 1037 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:27] <exec> 08└─The main benefit for lossless algorithms is that you should be able to convert them later without loss of quality, since preferred formats seem to change over time. As for "audiophiles," MP3 may be "crap" to them. But many self-professed audiophiles also claimed they needed to spend $100+ on short M...
[00:19:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turning MP3 Artefacts Into Music - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:55] <exec> 08└─I've heard that early CDs were sometimes made with equalisation that was intended for photonograph records. Phonographs "undo" that equalisation but CD players do not. Hence when those CDs are played, high frequencies are over-emphasised. This link explains the equalisation for phonographs, but does...
[00:19:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turning MP3 Artefacts Into Music - 726 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:56] <exec> 08└─> It's really too bad the CD standard wasn't set higher than 22.1/16. You omitted the units, but if you mean to say that CDs have 22,100 samples per second and 16 bits per sample, that's not quite right. They do have 16 bits per sample, but 44,100 samples per second. https://en.wikipedia.org
[00:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Industry Reactions to Trump's Executive Order on Cybersecurity - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:04] <exec> 08└─Some people in Russia probably like him.
[00:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Industry Reactions to Trump's Executive Order on Cybersecurity - 686 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:06] <exec> 08└─How's that working out for you? By Almost Every Measure, Trump is Making Life Worse for the Working Class [commondreams.org] - Jobs - Wages - Health Care - Retirement This war on workers isn't a bug, but a feature of a White House that has turned its economic plan over to Goldman Sachs alums and sto...
[00:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Robert Mercer Used Military Psychological Techniques to Influence the BREXIT Vote - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:17] <exec> 08└─As others pointed out, there might have been laws broken and rule of law if the very foundation of democracy. Both Mercer and Bannon are not UK citizens, therefore they should not have played any part on a national referendum. If Putin does it, big scandal. If Mercer does it, it’s just the democr...
[00:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Robert Mercer Used Military Psychological Techniques to Influence the BREXIT Vote - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:18] <exec> 08└─My post, currently the second entry on page three,
[00:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Robert Mercer Used Military Psychological Techniques to Influence the BREXIT Vote - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:20] <exec> 08└─I think the trollish bit is where he tries to blame the left for the actions of a Nixon appointee.
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[01:17:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turkey Arrests Cumhuriyet Editor-in-Chief Oguz Guven - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:28] <exec> 08└─Erdogan is driving Turkey to hell. Wonder what he's got planned for the future? Maybe he'll challenge Little Kim for positions as "Most Paranoid Leader", or "Most Deranged Executioner". Expect some nuclear tests in the not-distant future. And, lots of missiles to fall into the Med. Next up, a flood...
[01:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0629 Dead Employees == 1 Year "Imprisoned" - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:55] <exec> 08└─Nah, they should wreck his house with him inside, and then say "Is there anybody home? OOOPS forgot to ask, sorry but I had another job at noon, be seeing ya". Of course meatbags are not really sociopath enough for this, but you will get there one day.
[01:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 0629 Dead Employees == 1 Year "Imprisoned" - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:56] <exec> 08└─Sadly, you don't get to be rich by following all the rules.
[01:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 0629 Dead Employees == 1 Year "Imprisoned" - 669 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:58] <exec> 08└─He should, but again, the coal miners like to elect people who think regulations shouldn't be followed and fines are just a "cost of doing business". They've most recently elected people who really want to reduce or eliminate regulations and enforcement. I don't think the miners would like seeing th...
[01:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 0629 Dead Employees == 1 Year "Imprisoned" - 1452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:01] <exec> 08└─That is cold hearted. Coal miners are people, just like people anywhere. In case you didn't know it, mining is a tough job. But, it's a job. We have a nation of people, complaining about the lack of jobs, because jobs have been exported all over the world, where there are no regulations. These guys...
[01:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 0629 Dead Employees == 1 Year "Imprisoned" - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:03] <exec> 08└─Citation needed. Dems have their faults to be sure, and big ones at that, but talk of loosening environmental and workplace safety regulations is not something I've ever heard of from that side of the aisle. Environmentalism is something that's long been associated with that party in particular. The...
[01:18:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Electric 'Hogs' are Coming -- Autonomous Driving Antidote? - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:47] <exec> 08└─Let me start! When a motorcycle blows up between your legs, you see your balls on fire, when an electric cycle blows up between your legs, you see nothing but your balls melting!
[01:18:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Developers of the MP3 Format Claim it is 'Officially Dead' - 442 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:55] <exec> 08└─No idea why they claim the format is dead right when they can no longer collect royalties. Maybe it's precisely because they can no longer collect royalties and would like people to switch to other, still patent encumbered formats. Sorry, that's not going to happen. MP3 is good enough and the best c...
[01:19:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03WillR [2012] 02 - 06Developers of the MP3 Format Claim it is 'Officially Dead' - 143 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:00] <exec> 08└─And support is only going to get more universal now that distros can move their mp3 codec packages from unofficial add-on repositories to main.
[01:19:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] 02 - 06Developers of the MP3 Format Claim it is 'Officially Dead' - 58 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:11] <exec> 08└─Developers of the MP3 Format Claim it is 'Officially Dead'
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[01:19:46] <exec> 08└─*clarification: I meant analogue FM stereo broadcasts.
[01:19:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turning MP3 Artefacts Into Music - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:47] <exec> 08└─Oh, and by the way before you start complaining that "the original soundwaves are analog" and that's the "artist's intention," [...]
[01:19:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turning MP3 Artefacts Into Music - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:50] <exec> 08└─Whoops, you're right, I was getting the sampling rate mixed up with the Nyquist frequency, and badly at that... I guess what I meant to say was that CDs are 44.1/16, and it would have been nice if they instead were 48/24 or 96/24.
[01:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WannaCrypt Ransomware Variant -- Lacking Kill Switch -- Seen in Wild [Updated] - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:16] <exec> 08└─That had actually occurred to me. I did check the backup and they are still readable.
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[02:17:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Turkey Arrests Cumhuriyet Editor-in-Chief Oguz Guven - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:27] <exec> 08└─...in a Turkish prison?
[02:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 0629 Dead Employees == 1 Year "Imprisoned" - 644 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:58] <exec> 08└─What do YOU suggest they do? I'd suggest they stop voting against their own best interests. Voting for people who want to eliminate regulation that keeps them from getting killed is stupid. It's not their fault that American politics are so polarized on every issue in existence. Actually, it is in a...
[02:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 0629 Dead Employees == 1 Year "Imprisoned" - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:59] <exec> 08└─The families of the deceased should have appealed while they had the chance.
[02:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score: 2) 02 - 0629 Dead Employees == 1 Year "Imprisoned" - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:02] <exec> 08└─Firesign Theater. "Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers!" https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[02:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0629 Dead Employees == 1 Year "Imprisoned" - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:04] <exec> 08└─"I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue, eat a baby schnitzel, and I wouldn't lose any voters."
[02:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 0629 Dead Employees == 1 Year "Imprisoned" - 800 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:06] <exec> 08└─Well, what does the "other side" want? I mean, besides closing the mines. Coal is demonized in almost every publication in existence. The left wants to shut down all the coal burning mills and generators in the country. Voting against people who want to keep the mines open is not in the coal miner's...
[02:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0629 Dead Employees == 1 Year "Imprisoned" - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:08] <exec> 08└─Intent and foreknowledge should've raised the sentencing MUCH higher. He was just giving orders.
[02:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 0629 Dead Employees == 1 Year "Imprisoned" - 1997 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:11] <exec> 08└─Miners have struck before over safe working conditions. If you read why the explosion happened, it was tools that were knowingly in disrepair. No self respecting miner wants to die because the mine owner wants you to use dangerous tools that are visibly broken and/or about to fail. Not to mention, g...
[02:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 0629 Dead Employees == 1 Year "Imprisoned" - 878 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:13] <exec> 08└─Consequences? You mean 10 months in a high risk super-max prison with the worst offenders in the world? Yeah, except it wasn't. It was Club Fucking Bahamas with racquet ball courts. Racquet ball courts, does that sound white and privileged enough for you? :) His biggest complaint about his stint? "T...
[02:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Developers of the MP3 Format Claim it is 'Officially Dead' - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:27] <exec> 08└─> What distinct tiny stairsteps? Looks like GP forgot <sarcasm> tags.
[02:19:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turning MP3 Artefacts Into Music - 809 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:59] <exec> 08└─Once again, I'm not arguing that analog is actually the issue in TFA here: that's my point. The article appears to have been written by someone who wants to complain about digital compression but makes a reference to "analog" for the artists' "intentions," when the reality is that the vast majority...
[02:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Industry Reactions to Trump's Executive Order on Cybersecurity - 597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:08] <exec> 08└─Lol finally you flat out state your position. "Democracy is a failed system and Russia is A OK.". Just because your own country is a corrupt failure for its people doesn't give you the right to tear down others. Democracy is the best system, but your overlords don't like it because it steadily tears...
[02:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Industry Reactions to Trump's Executive Order on Cybersecurity - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:10] <exec> 08└─As an advanced infiltrator do you have any knowledge on which SN users are actual shills? It would make my day to have the real users realize they've been cheering on some government paid tools.
[02:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Robert Mercer Used Military Psychological Techniques to Influence the BREXIT Vote - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:21] <exec> 08└─Let's note here that if I'm really a narcissist, then you're providing exactly the sort of attention I'd desire. "Here's free advertising for khallow! See how terrible (not) he is!"
[02:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Robert Mercer Used Military Psychological Techniques to Influence the BREXIT Vote - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:23] <exec> 08└─But to answer your question: democracy requires transparency. This was anything but transparent.
[02:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Robert Mercer Used Military Psychological Techniques to Influence the BREXIT Vote - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:25] <exec> 08└─It's a lesser-known part of history. But I still don't understand the "troll" mod for this particular post.
[02:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Robert Mercer Used Military Psychological Techniques to Influence the BREXIT Vote - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:27] <exec> 08└─I've read this, I get the connections, I see the possible exploitation of grey areas in electoral funding rules, but what I don't see is the all important WHY. The article does not enlighten on this.
[02:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WannaCrypt Ransomware Variant -- Lacking Kill Switch -- Seen in Wild [Updated] - 1210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:36] <exec> 08└─You can interpret that differently. We really should stop beating that dead horse. Linux is not an instant cure. Most of the protection is just because the most popular attack surface is in M$ Land. You really think that will last? There have been some revelations lately that throw the whole peer re...
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[02:26:41] <exec> 08└─Good catch. Best way to defeat this is having weekly copies made. Some zero knowledge backup companies out there offer version control and can give you a different copy for each day going back as much as you want to pay for. I would imagine something like this wouldn't stay hidden for more than 3 we...
[02:29:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Snapchat Posts $2.2bn Loss After IPO - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:05] <exec> 08└─I really don't understand, what are all these apps spending so much money on?
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[03:17:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Researchers Find "Worst" Windows RCE Flaw - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:02] <exec> 08└─RCE appears to be short for "remote code execution". http://www.abbreviations.com [abbreviations.com]
[03:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 0629 Dead Employees == 1 Year "Imprisoned" - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:01] <exec> 08└─Don't get me wrong: I'm not supporting the lax sentence, I'm trying to explain it and pointing out that the miners and their families are in no way responsible for it. I'm of the viewpoint that corporate crooks should receive sentences proportional to the damage that they caused. In the case of Mass...
[03:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 0629 Dead Employees == 1 Year "Imprisoned" - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:02] <exec> 08└─You have no idea how any of the dead miners have voted. That's OK though since this is about a criminal act of negligent homicide, not a regulatory fine. Had there been no regulations of any kind, it would still be 29 counts of negligent homicide.
[03:18:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Electric 'Hogs' are Coming -- Autonomous Driving Antidote? - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:48] <exec> 08└─NSFW ---> Here you go [youtube.com]. <--- NSFW
[03:19:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turning MP3 Artefacts Into Music - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:51] <exec> 08└─*SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) Added *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) tags for the Reviews nexus in case you want to talk about a novel without ruining it for everyone else. They function everywhere though.
[03:19:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turning MP3 Artefacts Into Music - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:52] <exec> 08└─Damn. Is that a bug? Ampersand lt works as a left angle bracket in preview, but not when you post. testing : &lt Ah I see. It changes the text in the comment box too. You have to convert back to the codes every time you preview. I think that is a bug.
[03:20:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Experts Warn New Computers Could Delete Thoughts Without Your Knowledge - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:51] <exec> 08└─No, see, traditional cognitive access like in Clockwork Orange or Waterboarding, that's not what's at debate here - what they're worried about is having to wear tinfoil hats to prevent new forms of hacking.
[03:20:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Experts Warn New Computers Could Delete Thoughts Without Your Knowledge - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:52] <exec> 08└─We need an established right to make, use, and share psychedelics. Until that happens, these ethics clowns can fuck off back to the Matrix.
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[03:20:54] <exec> 08└─So true, and so depressing. Everybody else is too busy being a temporarily embarrassed millionaire or else somebody who gets upset any time the government reduces “their money.”
[03:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Industry Reactions to Trump's Executive Order on Cybersecurity - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:04] <exec> 08└─If I recall correctly, the other poster has described himself as NRx, short for neoreactionary. Neoreactionaries are indeed against democracy--not to say that American presidential elections are especially democratic. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
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[03:26:27] <exec> 08└─Linux is not an instant cure. Most of the protection is just because the most popular attack surface is in M$ Land. You really think that will last?
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[03:26:29] <exec> 08└─Linux is structurally superior to Windows
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[04:17:23] <exec> 08└─this must be funded by the owners of privatized prisons who are looking for more income tax increases will be next (or some useful services will be cut)
[04:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CPU Rumor Mill: Intel Core i9, AMD Ryzen 9, and AMD "Starship" - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:38] <exec> 08└─Will this i9 have ME and FSP and AMT and all that other junk? Is the real machine code exposed or does this still assume microcode update blobs that we won't be allowed to touch? Has AMD scrapped the PSP? AGESA? I anticipate the answer is no, which means these manufacturers continue to be incompeten...
[04:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Turkey Arrests Cumhuriyet Editor-in-Chief Oguz Guven - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:52] <exec> 08└─My take is that it'll take time for the other shoe to fall. Right now, there's a stream of propaganda showing Erdogan acting as an effective leader without much to contradict it. The opposition has been crushed. Meanwhile the truth will take time to seep in. A country doesn't fall apart instantly. A...
[04:18:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 0629 Dead Employees == 1 Year "Imprisoned" - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:34] <exec> 08└─Personally, I'd say the D's moral compass is spinning so they have a 1/360 chance of doing the right thing. The R's is weakly magnetized backwards so they have a slightly smaller chance of doing the right thing. But it's still down to giant douche or turd sandwich.
[04:18:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 0629 Dead Employees == 1 Year "Imprisoned" - 945 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:35] <exec> 08└─it may sound cold, but maybe more people need to DIE before america gets with the program and stops electing republicans. yes, the dems suck, but they are nowhere near as bad in terms of rolling back SAFETY regulations. the religious folks keep listening to their churches, which are all in the pocke...
[04:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 0629 Dead Employees == 1 Year "Imprisoned" - 971 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:37] <exec> 08└─Voting against people who want to keep the mines open is not in the coal miner's interest, is it? They need jobs. Then they're going to get jobs that kill them. There's other jobs out there, they just need to move. You can't have everything you want in life handed to you on a silver platter, and the...
[04:18:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 0629 Dead Employees == 1 Year "Imprisoned" - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:39] <exec> 08└─and for those examples, one can list 100x as many where the ceo's were evil fucking pieces of shit, caring only for the next boat or mansion they 'need' to buy. if you are rich, you LIKELY got there via amoral methods. this is the USA, afterall. (are we WINNING yet? sigh)
[04:18:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 0629 Dead Employees == 1 Year "Imprisoned" - 820 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:42] <exec> 08└─Coal is demonized in almost every publication in existence. The left wants to shut down all the coal burning mills and generators in the country. Coal *should be* demonized. It's a horrible fuel, with horrible pollution. And these days, it's not even economically viable: thanks to fracking, natgas i...
[04:20:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Turning MP3 Artefacts Into Music - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:34] <exec> 08└─*SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) Yes *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) , *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) that's *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) what *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) I *SPOILER* (click to...
[04:20:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Turning MP3 Artefacts Into Music - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:35] <exec> 08└─I see what you mean. If you type < it works correctly. https://thonyc.wordpress.com [wordpress.com]
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[05:17:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:06] <exec> 08└─> this must be funded by the owners of privatized prisons Or all the companies that get to use the slave labor of prisoners. Oh, you thought slavery was outlawed by the 13th amendment? Nope. Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party sha...
[05:17:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:07] <exec> 08└─Once you accept this reality, you can lower your expectations to a realistic level.
[05:17:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:09] <exec> 08└─Every Soylentil is a druggie, we all know it. Site participation is about to plummet as all the drug addicted SN readers go to prison where they belong. Be hearing from ya during 'internet time' guys!
[05:17:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:11] <exec> 08└─Adjust expectation accordingly.
[05:17:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Some call me Tim [5819] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:14] <exec> 08└─Hey stupid! You guys are supposed to be draining the swamp not making it more toxic! We'll see you stupid a$$holes in the mid-terms. We made sure Hillary would never be President and now we're coming after you! Signed, middle America. Give that money to someone like Space X so some of our younger fo...
[05:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:16] <exec> 08└─>Sessions is a stupid redneck. Signed, a Tolerant Liberal who is pissed because poor, stupid, crime-rampant minorities are no longer getting favorable treatment from the Federal Government
[05:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:18] <exec> 08└─poor, stupid, crime-rampant minorities are no longer getting favorable treatment from the Federal Government
[05:17:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Some call me Tim [5819] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:20] <exec> 08└─Please don't insult rednecks, I've seen them accomplish some pretty amazing and funny things. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Sessions is just another a$$hole looking to give money to his donors and corporate buddies, just like all of them do. Instead of all of us...
[05:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:22] <exec> 08└─So after lowering expectations from 100:1 to 18:1 [wikipedia.org], would 10:1 be more realistic? Or maybe even lower? Yeah, didn't think so.
[05:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:25] <exec> 08└─"Signed, a Tolerant Liberal who is pissed because poor, stupid, crime-rampant minorities are no longer getting favorable treatment from the Federal Government" -- You couldn't be more incorrect. I voted for Trump but I am not in favor of a simple-minded approach to crime. Ask any REAL criminal wheth...
[05:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CPU Rumor Mill: Intel Core i9, AMD Ryzen 9, and AMD "Starship" - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:40] <exec> 08└─Why don't you tell the class about the pile of free as in liberty vacuum tubes you're posting from? And is that a mobile phone surveillance device I see peeking out of your pocket?
[05:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WannaCrypt Ransomware Variant -- Lacking Kill Switch -- Seen in Wild [Updated] - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:13] <exec> 08└─http://emojipedia.org/wilted-flower/ [emojipedia.org] http://emojipedia.org [emojipedia.org] http://emojipedia.org [emojipedia.org] http://emojipedia.org [emojipedia.org] http://emojipedia.org [emojipedia.org] http://emojipedia.org
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[06:17:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 0, Offtopic) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 1078 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:19] <exec> 08└─With now finally proof of treason by Der Trumpenfurher (see links below) we can finally and truly drain the swamp which was overflowing with racist, sexist trash. Most of you will think there's a reason to be worried about the sham that is known as the "War on Drugs." The good news is that the swamp...
[06:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 127310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:20] <exec> 08└─> I voted for Trump but I am not in favor of a simple-minded approach to crime. You wanted a nuanced approach to crime and simple-mindedness for everything else? You do realize that there were other candidates? Updated: 05/15/2017 Count Candidate ID Candidate Name Party FEC Form 2 Filing Da...
[06:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:22] <exec> 08└─I voted for John Ming the Merciless Wright, so don't blame me.
[06:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:24] <exec> 08└─Here's your data: For profit prisons + people in prison = private sector profits. Here's your policy: We need to be tough on crime because crime is out of control, Mexican rapists, whatever you need etc.
[06:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03sgleysti [56] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06CPU Rumor Mill: Intel Core i9, AMD Ryzen 9, and AMD "Starship" - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:40] <exec> 08└─Or you two gentlemen could just put them on the table and measure.
[06:18:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 0629 Dead Employees == 1 Year "Imprisoned" - 170 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:05] <exec> 08└─He should be back in charge! He's a natural leader when it comes to rolling back the overreaching government regulations which were smothering coal's explosive potential.
[06:18:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 0629 Dead Employees == 1 Year "Imprisoned" - 644 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:27] <exec> 08└─What do YOU suggest they do? I'd suggest they stop voting against their own best interests. Voting for people who want to eliminate regulation that keeps them from getting killed is stupid. It's not their fault that American politics are so polarized on every issue in existence. Actually, it is in a...
[06:18:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0629 Dead Employees == 1 Year "Imprisoned" - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:43] <exec> 08└─People have been hanged for following orders... https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[06:23:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03kaszz [4211] 02 - 06How Robert Mercer Used Military Psychological Techniques to Influence the BREXIT Vote - 155 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:58] <exec> 08└─The problem is that non-transparent and non-elected billionaires interferes with the democratic process. They might in fact be declared enemy of the state.
[06:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06WannaCrypt Ransomware Variant -- Lacking Kill Switch -- Seen in Wild [Updated] - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:16] <exec> 08└─> http://emojipedia.org [emojipedia.org] What Apple did there is not nice. > On another note, the way most of the "vendors" implemented this emoji is a bit of a tragedy: > > http://emojipedia.org [emojipedia.org] Maybe this is how it should look: https://en.wikipedia.org
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[07:16:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Audi and Volvo Will Use Android as the Operating System in Upcoming Cars - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:16:56] <exec> 08└─...and Android doesn't crash much.
[07:16:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Audi and Volvo Will Use Android as the Operating System in Upcoming Cars - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:16:57] <exec> 08└─From an optimists point of view, maybe this will be a boon for Android's stability. Car QA is typically vastly superior to that of handset manufacturers. From a pessimists point of view, maybe this will be terrible for the car's stability. From a grumpy old guy's point of view, maybe this will keep...
[07:16:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Audi and Volvo Will Use Android as the Operating System in Upcoming Cars - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:00] <exec> 08└─Will it come with phone-home functionality, thus constantly telling Google where the car is?
[07:17:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Audi and Volvo Will Use Android as the Operating System in Upcoming Cars - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:02] <exec> 08└─Is Google bothering to turn Android into a real-time OS? Cars use QNX for a reason. But sure who gives a fuck. Not the billionaires at Google. We have an overabundance of worthless proles. Let's just rig cars to have lots of convenient accidents. Kill the proles!
[07:17:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Audi and Volvo Will Use Android as the Operating System in Upcoming Cars - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:04] <exec> 08└─Is it Android?
[07:17:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:27] <exec> 08└─> I voted for Trump but I am not in favor of a simple-minded approach to crime. lolwut? How in the world do you reconcile those two things? Trump was explicitly the candidate of simple-mindedness. He never once articulated an approach to anything more complex than mono-syllabic adjectives: Yuge! Gre...
[07:17:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:28] <exec> 08└─Garbage day is here, folks!
[07:17:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Some call me Tim [5819] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 1188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:30] <exec> 08└─And every last bit of that shit is from "Sources say". Give me a name for that source so I can determine the validity of their information. If you don't have that you don't have anything. The media have been beating that dead horse for 6 months and there isn't a shred of actual evidence of any wrong...
[07:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:32] <exec> 08└─Holder: undermining the will of the legislative branch Sessions: pressure to plea bargain (giving up right to a trial) and/or racking up the defendant's legal expenses on flimsy cases The ethical choice is the charge the defendant with the maximum for which there is really solid evidence, then take...
[07:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 821 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:34] <exec> 08└─What sort of crack are you smoking? The Democrats and the Republicans both are responsible for the current mess, as indicated by their former party name: The Democratic Republicans. In the leadup to the Civil War they split into the Democrats and Republicans (who originally stood for the 'opposite'...
[07:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:36] <exec> 08└─Holder: undermining the will of the legislative branch
[07:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:39] <exec> 08└─When offshoring just isn't profitable enough.
[07:18:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 0629 Dead Employees == 1 Year "Imprisoned" - 666 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:24] <exec> 08└─Sympathy here has nothing to do with JUSTICE. This was not justice served to the American people, and especially, the victim's families. The man deliberately, and knowingly, created an environment in which 29 PEOPLE lost their lives. He cannot claim ignorance either, as the regulations were there. T...
[07:19:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Electric 'Hogs' are Coming -- Autonomous Driving Antidote? - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:41] <exec> 08└─...for a sex toy.
[07:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03aim [6322] (Score: 1) 02 - 06 Electric 'Hogs' are Coming -- Autonomous Driving Antidote? - 963 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:42] <exec> 08└─For a motorbike, silence is death. At least over here in Europe, where I'm driving around, motorcycles tend to be overlooked very often. Having a certain level of noise helps being noticed, avoiding accidents - as drivers apparently can't be bothered to look over their shoulders when changing lanes...
[07:20:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turning MP3 Artefacts Into Music - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:20:49] <exec> 08└─You're in luck! You can make an audio DVD, 24 bits / 96 KHz, Dolby 5.1, most standard (cheap) DVD players will play them: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[07:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Experts Warn New Computers Could Delete Thoughts Without Your Knowledge - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:51] <exec> 08└─although it is accurate enough that anybody at the extremes cen be deemed extremely dangerous.
[07:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Experts Warn New Computers Could Delete Thoughts Without Your Knowledge - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:53] <exec> 08└─We're getting to the point where some people won't be satisfied until every statue of old, white men has been torn down and their names removed from the history books.
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[08:17:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Audi and Volvo Will Use Android as the Operating System in Upcoming Cars - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:10] <exec> 08└─So a car would use an OS which, basically, kills every process if it feels like it on sight? That sounds dangerous.
[08:17:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Caballo Negro [1794] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Audi and Volvo Will Use Android as the Operating System in Upcoming Cars - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:12] <exec> 08└─If I need a Google ID to use these cars, I won't be buying one (and my last three cars have been Audis).
[08:17:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:43] <exec> 08└─Exactly. The enemy is not Democrats xor Republicans -- it is Democrats AND Republicans.
[08:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:44] <exec> 08└─I am totally pro-drug legalization and I barely even drink alcohol. Pot just makes me catatonic -- totally the opposite of fun. Never even had any of the hard stuff. BUT, the drug war is massively expensive and massively useless. There isn't a single good thing about it unless you are a cop or own a...
[08:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:47] <exec> 08└─And every last bit of that shit is from "Sources say". Give me a name for that source so I can determine the validity of their information.
[08:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Researchers Find "Worst" Windows RCE Flaw - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:57] <exec> 08└─The details of the flaw will likely be disclosed in 90 days from now
[08:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Turkey Arrests Cumhuriyet Editor-in-Chief Oguz Guven - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:21] <exec> 08└─Turkey has long been an outlier in the Muslim world. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk established Turkey as a secular nation almost a century ago. Many years ago, Turkey was even more modern than much of the western world. Well, that was unusual. We'll miss it. Turkey's future is that of a typical Muslim nati...
[08:19:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 0629 Dead Employees == 1 Year "Imprisoned" - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:09] <exec> 08└─Politicians are mostly all corrupt but your modern federal republican would eat a baby if there were no consequences and there wasn't anything else to eat in the house at the moment.
[08:19:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Electric 'Hogs' are Coming -- Autonomous Driving Antidote? - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:57] <exec> 08└─Harley is the "Apple" of the motorcycle world. It's a poor product that gets by on name.
[08:20:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Developers of the MP3 Format Claim it is 'Officially Dead' - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:20:28] <exec> 08└─The only material where anybody has been repeatedly and reliably able to determine playback of a 320kbps MP3 and an uncompressed source in a double blind test is classical / orchestral
[08:20:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Developers of the MP3 Format Claim it is 'Officially Dead' - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:20:30] <exec> 08└─That's why people use high-bitrate MP3s: to compensate for MP3's comparatively poor lossy compression. Most people don't care all that much that they're using twice the disk-space using 320kbps MP3s compared to if they used Opus targeting a similar quality.
[08:21:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Sulla [5173] 02 - 06Experts Warn New Computers Could Delete Thoughts Without Your Knowledge - 727 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:34] <exec> 08└─Translation: I would be willing to give up some freedom over my memories control as long as mine stay complete and they only delete memories of people I don't agree with. I prefer live in the world of the wild west where people are free to be stupid and cause stupid people problems, and in exchange...
[08:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Robert Mercer Used Military Psychological Techniques to Influence the BREXIT Vote - 720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:35] <exec> 08└─Suppose I tell a few friends on Facebook to BREXIT. Have I interfered with the democratic process? What if I carefully select ethnically British people who seem to be in danger of losing their jobs? To what extent have I interfered with the democratic process? How much of an enemy of the state am I?...
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[09:17:14] <exec> 08└─It might be too much to expect us Soylentils to RTFA, but reading the summary really isn't so hard. It won't go as far as controlling critical safety systems like brakes, though, according to Google.
[09:17:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Audi and Volvo Will Use Android as the Operating System in Upcoming Cars - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:16] <exec> 08└─Make better headlines then.
[09:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Audi and Volvo Will Use Android as the Operating System in Upcoming Cars - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:18] <exec> 08└─Oh i have no doubt it will be embedded just enough to lock in the unit, the slow speed of car tech catchup means the usb plug era will be all too short.
[09:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:51] <exec> 08└─Maybe just cut the legislative branch out? The administrative branch can just do whatever is a step in the right direction, congress be damned? Do you only feel this way when your preferred party occupies the whitehouse, or is that not a consideration? Maybe "it's all good"? We don't even need to pa...
[09:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Google Researchers Find "Worst" Windows RCE Flaw - 2244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:01] <exec> 08└─This is a business grade system, not one that is supported by the user community. If it was OUR thing, whether it be our computer, our kid, our car, our house, whatever, if something's amiss, we want to address the problem NOW! We are fully aware that a tiny thing can get big fast if not addressed i...
[09:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Researchers Find "Worst" Windows RCE Flaw - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:03] <exec> 08└─> Now business-men have a luxury we don't have. They have the dollar and the luxury of delegation that comes with it; > they do not need to know how their stuff works. Any problems can wait until business hours. No-one is going to be > asked to personally sacrifice their stuff because of a loss. Yea...
[09:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Researchers Find "Worst" Windows RCE Flaw - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:05] <exec> 08└─you forget, some 'responsible' businesses use that time to develop and deploy a patch for the hole, before every scriptkiddie in the world makes you wannecry some more those rules are there for the good guys, bad guys abuse the rules for personal gain instead of improving the world
[09:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Researchers Find "Worst" Windows RCE Flaw - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:07] <exec> 08└─... just saying.
[09:18:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CPU Rumor Mill: Intel Core i9, AMD Ryzen 9, and AMD "Starship" - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:18] <exec> 08└─Yes. And microcode. Because people need the previously-listed functions and it's your fault if you fail to lock down and configure your networks appropriately. And when they discover a security bug and you whinge like hell about it, with microcode they can update your CPU for you. Without it, they c...
[09:19:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0629 Dead Employees == 1 Year "Imprisoned" - 889 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:19:21] <exec> 08└─Suppose your city was dying, and all the jobs were in rural places. Would you want to move out to that podunk town full of strange people and strange things, and missing all the comforts of where you live now? I know somebody from West Virginia. Until he moved away as an adult, he had never tasted C...
[09:19:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0629 Dead Employees == 1 Year "Imprisoned" - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:19:23] <exec> 08└─Read up on the events and decisions that lead to: http://newstarget.com [newstarget.com] Try googling "EPA Obama fracking" in the time frame before 2015 where the journalists realigned to the party line...
[09:19:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0629 Dead Employees == 1 Year "Imprisoned" - 864 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:19:25] <exec> 08└─Flammable gas constantly leaks into the mine, sometimes at a high rate. There is also fine powder that can ignite. Coal itself can spontaneously ignite if it is in a pile exposed to air; it naturally oxidizes slowly and builds up heat until it truly burns. This sounds like a losing proposition. Mean...
[09:20:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Developers of the MP3 Format Claim it is 'Officially Dead' - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:20:46] <exec> 08└─The main benefit for lossless algorithms is that you should be able to convert them later without loss of quality, since preferred formats seem to change over time.
[09:20:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Developers of the MP3 Format Claim it is 'Officially Dead' - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:20:47] <exec> 08└─Show me an audio player device, phone, tablet or software application that doesn't support mp3.
[09:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Experts Warn New Computers Could Delete Thoughts Without Your Knowledge - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:28] <exec> 08└─The problem scenario is that Facebook starts to sell these new neurotypist headsets that enables users to type using their thoughts.
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[10:17:30] <exec> 08└─From a grumpy old guy's point of view, maybe this will keep the new cars off my lawn!
[10:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Audi and Volvo Will Use Android as the Operating System in Upcoming Cars - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:32] <exec> 08└─If it is controlling what is seen on the dashboard or cruise control then it is controlling something very critical.
[10:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Audi and Volvo Will Use Android as the Operating System in Upcoming Cars - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:34] <exec> 08└─Well, not to throw out a false dichotomy, but the latest analysis shows it crashes less than iOS, or the apps do, anyway. I'd prefer it not be running engine controls though, as that system certainly shouldn't have any contact with the "infotainment" system.
[10:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:08] <exec> 08└─Give me a name for that source so I can determine the validity of their information. If you don't have that you don't have anything
[10:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 1186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:09] <exec> 08└─These days I'm out in Oyster Bay in Long Island, where Teddy Roosevelt's home Sagamore Hill is. He's my favorite president, too, so I've been contemplating the mess we're in today against the situation when he was president. Then the Trusts had thoroughly corrupted the system as they have now. The g...
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[10:20:35] <exec> 08└─I've actually had exactly the opposite experience.
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[11:17:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03gawdonblue [412] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese President Xi Jinping Pledges $124 Billion for One Belt, One Road Initiative - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:16] <exec> 08└─So China is spending the equivalent of the next 8 countries worth on building up trade. It could have been on arms instead. Which one will pay off?
[11:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lyft and Waymo (Google) Team Up for Autonomous Cars - 857 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:24] <exec> 08└─All those folks 'working' for lyft by driving others around are soon to find out how much the company values their efforts when the self-driving car is finally there and they are all suddenly thanked for their services. The "sharing economy" is a farce. The only sharing that is happening is towards...
[11:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Audi and Volvo Will Use Android as the Operating System in Upcoming Cars - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:44] <exec> 08└─what is seen on the dashboard In-dash porn? Come to papa!
[11:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:21] <exec> 08└─Legalization is the only path that makes sense to me. It's the most effective way to cut the legs out from under the various narco-mafias that are causing the most crime and destabilizing so many countries in Central- and South America. It's a strategic consideration. It has also been nice to see th...
[11:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:22] <exec> 08└─Finally, jobs that H1B's can't do...SN must be happy about this.
[11:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:24] <exec> 08└─I don't care about the will of the legislative branch, since the federal drug war is 100% unconstitutional to begin with
[11:18:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Researchers Find "Worst" Windows RCE Flaw - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:38] <exec> 08└─Yeah and thank goodness for that - would you want boss phoning you at 3 am in the morning because some google f*cker posted an exploit on windows without give microsoft a chance to make a patch?
[11:18:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Researchers Find "Worst" Windows RCE Flaw - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:39] <exec> 08└─The abbreviation RCE is used in the title of this story. Hmmm … but what to do for those who don't read comments either? :-)
[11:19:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 0629 Dead Employees == 1 Year "Imprisoned" - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:56] <exec> 08└─But what issues should be more important to a coal miner than worker safety regulations? Transgender bathrooms? Abortion? Guns? Marijuana enforcement? Sorry, but if you're voting for a party on these issues and fucking yourself over on real issues that actually make a difference in your life, then y...
[11:19:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 0629 Dead Employees == 1 Year "Imprisoned" - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:57] <exec> 08└─This is why we have a criminal justice system, unfortunately one founded on protecting high-functioning sociopaths.
[11:21:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] 02 - 06Developers of the MP3 Format Claim it is 'Officially Dead' - 199 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:21:14] <exec> 08└─Considering that 99% of the music out there is just loud grating noise with autotuned singing that sounds like GlaDOS trying to fuck your ear, its no surprise it is good enough for 99% of the people.
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[12:17:11] <exec> 08└─DON'T YOU, PRECIOUS! NOW GIVE ME THAT FUCKING BUCKET BACK
[12:17:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Chinese President Xi Jinping Pledges $124 Billion for One Belt, One Road Initiative - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:19] <exec> 08└─So China is spending the equivalent of the next 8 countries worth on building up trade.
[12:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese President Xi Jinping Pledges $124 Billion for One Belt, One Road Initiative - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:21] <exec> 08└─Wait a few years for stories about literal billions unaccountably disappearing into a vast bureaucracy without anyone being able to trace it and the stonewalling of a large monolithic entity preventing effective journalism. Don't worry though! There's a new anti-corrpution campaign, focused on both...
[12:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Audi and Volvo Will Use Android as the Operating System in Upcoming Cars - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:49] <exec> 08└─It won't control the engine but you can be sure it will have a CAN interface right to the various ECU's.
[12:18:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:28] <exec> 08└─Screw off with that nihilistic shit. Just because neither party is perfect does not mean they are equally culpable. One party sees no problem with this reversion, the other party was largely responsible for the changes that are being reverted.
[12:18:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:30] <exec> 08└─About ten years ago people followed the money and found out that the Muslim Brotherhood and Hezbollah controlled around 80% of the world drug trade. Then you stopped hearing about it, and now the schools are teaching kids to support Islam while the big social media companies are banning atheist grou...
[12:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 1558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:32] <exec> 08└─> And every last bit of that shit is from "Sources say". Except for the non-denial denials from McMaster and Tillerson. That's your official confirmation. https://www.theblaze.com [theblaze.com] http://theh...
[12:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:34] <exec> 08└─Maybe just cut the legislative branch out? The administrative branch can just do whatever is a step in the right direction, congress be damned?
[12:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:37] <exec> 08└─> the Muslim Brotherhood and Hezbollah controlled around 80% of the world drug trade. Apparently they also supply 100% of your hallucinogenics.
[12:18:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:39] <exec> 08└─About ten years ago people followed the money and found out that the Muslim Brotherhood and Hezbollah controlled around 80% of the world drug trade.
[12:18:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:41] <exec> 08└─Have you ever voted for a candidate that exactly represented your interests?
[12:18:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:43] <exec> 08└─SN is a single person?
[12:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Researchers Find "Worst" Windows RCE Flaw - 835 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:59] <exec> 08└─It sounds like it was the one that was disclosed last week. Remember a year or two ago there was a vulnerability in Norton Antivirus where it decided to decode untrusted images in a component running with kernel privileges and so a maliciously crafted image could exploit a bug in the decoder library...
[12:19:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Researchers Find "Worst" Windows RCE Flaw - 1142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:00] <exec> 08└─I think the problem is someone trying to control stuff after they have sold it. In my mind, the only way such a thing should happen is if the new owner deliberately runs a program that allows this to happen. Likewise, the new owner should have the power to revoke continued access at any time. Plumbi...
[12:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Researchers Find "Worst" Windows RCE Flaw - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:02] <exec> 08└─...can't mod insightful without an account though, so have some spam to the same end.
[12:20:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 0629 Dead Employees == 1 Year "Imprisoned" - 820 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:20:13] <exec> 08└─Coal is demonized in almost every publication in existence. The left wants to shut down all the coal burning mills and generators in the country. Coal *should be* demonized. It's a horrible fuel, with horrible pollution. And these days, it's not even economically viable: thanks to fracking, natgas i...
[12:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03justinb_76 [4362] (Score: 1) 02 - 06 Electric 'Hogs' are Coming -- Autonomous Driving Antidote? - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:11] <exec> 08└─"I can just picture the first time a Japanese engineer was shown a Harley" little known fact, Harleys were made for a time in Japan under license: http://www.motorcycleclassics.com [motorcycleclassics.com] but yeah, personally I will never...
[12:21:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06Developers of the MP3 Format Claim it is 'Officially Dead' - 1106 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:37] <exec> 08└─Mainstream media and their journalists are still firm believers in copyright and intellectual property. They've been moaning for years now that their business is dying and it's all the fault of technology and those naughty pirates for wrecking their monopoly on the ability to mass copy information....
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[13:17:19] <exec> 08└─they reprogram you if you deviate from the program. you are hypnotized and command controls are implemented. you are drugged and given a label. welcome to the future, the same as the past.
[13:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Why Quantum Computers Might Not Break Cryptography - 1291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:27] <exec> 08└─That's an interesting alternate strategy, simply using a RSA key too large for even Shor's algo to crack in a reasonable length of time. WRT "cryptographers are scrambling to find a new quantum-proof security standard.", about a decade ago there was a major book in the field on post quantum crypto a...
[13:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese President Xi Jinping Pledges $124 Billion for One Belt, One Road Initiative - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:37] <exec> 08└─One of the most nationalistic countries in the world, chuck full of trade barriers for its domestic market (and other underhanded tactics), is coming out AGAINST protectionism. Yeah Xi, go fuck yourself.
[13:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Audi and Volvo Will Use Android as the Operating System in Upcoming Cars - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:08] <exec> 08└─From TFA: (It won't go as far as controlling critical safety systems like brakes, though, according to Google.)
[13:18:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:56] <exec> 08└─But the Trust-busting and reform policies that he pushed through from the bully pulpit set the stage for America's global ascendency over the last 100 years, and also bought the Republic that time to even continue to exist.
[13:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:57] <exec> 08└─The social cost is even higher. By making drugs illegal, they also get more expensive (demand and supply, economics 101), which means the addicts need more money to pay for it. More need of money combined with less ability to obtain it legally means more crime. Of course if your goal is to fill up t...
[13:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:00] <exec> 08└─Well, #1263 has won the presidency of the USA. Deal with it.
[13:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:02] <exec> 08└─Actually I think president Trump has been pretty smart, by postponing the "Rich People Don't Need To Pay Tax" law a bit. As long as that law hasn't been passed yet, the Republicans in Congress need him (to blame), and his life is secure. Afterwards, well maybe Bannon needs a popular and outspoken po...
[13:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 2698 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:04] <exec> 08└─The fact is that the drug war single-handedly created a huge black market, and has been fundamentally responsible for very nearly 100% of the violence and corruption in the recreational drug sphere on every side. In addition, it is a major offense (in both senses of the word) against personal / cons...
[13:19:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:06] <exec> 08└─The greeedy fingers getting into the tax revenue would be public fingers. What makes you think they don't have their private fingers already in the revenue?
[13:19:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Researchers Find "Worst" Windows RCE Flaw - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:26] <exec> 08└─> I think the problem is someone trying to control stuff after they have sold it. I agree with most of your comment (and interestingly, I sort of agree with the other one above). But I believe it is possible to turn off/suppress windows update by tinkering (for example, enterprise customers run thei...
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[13:22:09] <exec> 08└─Exactly. To pound it in: The developer of the format announced this week that it has officially terminated its licensing program.
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[14:17:38] <exec> 08└─one side is talking about real math and physics and the other is talking about Hollywood technobabble.
[14:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese President Xi Jinping Pledges $124 Billion for One Belt, One Road Initiative - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:50] <exec> 08└─Exclusive: CPEC master plan revealed Dawn has acquired exclusive access to the original document, and for the first time its details are being publicly disclosed here. The plan lays out in detail what Chinese intentions and priorities are in Pakistan for the next decade and a half, details that have...
[14:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese President Xi Jinping Pledges $124 Billion for One Belt, One Road Initiative - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:51] <exec> 08└─What do you mean by "larger"?
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[14:18:22] <exec> 08└─If it is controlling what is seen on the dashboard or cruise control then it is controlling something very critical. No. That is called an HMI. In industrial automation, an HMI is a separate computer which runs the UI. The HMI is then networked to the actual automation controller via a fieldbus netw...
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[14:18:24] <exec> 08└─I know the other side of it is that same steel shaft may well impale me. But that's a risk I am willing to take for the assurance I am not going to lose my ability to steer this thing.
[14:18:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hemocyanin [186] 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 553 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:56] <exec> 08└─I am totally pro-drug legalization and I barely even drink alcohol. Pot just makes me catatonic -- totally the opposite of fun. Never even had any of the hard stuff. BUT, the drug war is massively expensive and massively useless. There isn't a single good thing about it unless you are a cop or own a...
[14:19:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 649 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:01] <exec> 08└─Legalization is the only path that makes sense to me. It's the most effective way to cut the legs out from under the various narco-mafias that are causing the most crime and destabilizing so many countries in Central- and South America. It's a strategic consideration. It has also been nice to see th...
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[14:19:19] <exec> 08└─They're trying to build a prison They're trying to build a prison Following the rights movement You clamped on with your iron fists Drugs became conveniently Available for all the kids Following the rights movement You clamped on with your iron fists Drugs became conveniently Available for all the k...
[14:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 1453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:20] <exec> 08└─Recreational drug use and addiction are two separate, but related issues. The war on drugs makes both worse, but supports a broad industry to fight the war from both sides. On the Pro bench is pharma and the drug lords. On the Con bench are the departments of Justice and Defense and tobacco, alcohol...
[14:19:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:22] <exec> 08└─You forgot to include Marijuana, legal in many countries and quite a few US states now. Near legal in yet more countries. Its ok, I know you don't approve, only tea and biscuits for that old boy!
[14:19:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 1167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:24] <exec> 08└─Well, I hope you're happy. All of this shit happening right now, this is the WORST CASE SCENARIO FOR TRUMP WINNING. Even after She Lost!, I started to Get Over It!, especially because I was still so pissed off at myself for throwing away my vote when I could have voted Johnson or Stein. I told mysel...
[14:19:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:27] <exec> 08└─Let's hope that The People of the Several States that have now legalized cannabis are ready to FIGHT BACK, AND I MEAN WITH GUNS when Sessions directs the National Guard to descend on Denver or where ever.
[14:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 0629 Dead Employees == 1 Year "Imprisoned" - 1507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:08] <exec> 08└─That's all bullshit, I'm sorry. The parties are different, just not in the way many people would like. No, on questions that matter to the well being of Americans, they do NOT vote the same. The ACA is a prime example here: the Republicans voted against it (yes, even though it was originally the pla...
[14:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 0629 Dead Employees == 1 Year "Imprisoned" - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:10] <exec> 08└─So the Democrats sell us out to a slightly different set of corrupt evil sociopaths than Republicans do? That's a difference without a distinction. I'm gonna propose a novel idea here: government should serve the voters who pay its salaries. Period. Corporations and evil oligarchs can stand way the...
[14:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03higuita [2465] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Developers of the MP3 Format Claim it is 'Officially Dead' - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:36] <exec> 08└─Even better, dump mp3 and encode with ogg vorbis... it have better quality and is totally free
[14:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turning MP3 Artefacts Into Music - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:14] <exec> 08└─That's no help at all: all the music is on CD at the very best, MP3 otherwise. I don't record my own music. Where am I going to get a 24/96 version of Led Zeppelin IV, or some more obscure recording from the past?
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[15:17:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unfolding the Folding Mechanism of Ladybug Wings - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:35] <exec> 08└─Would be nice if they got a little credit should their technique be directly implemented in some way. They are struggling to survive in some places, much like bees, who also do much thankless work for us.
[15:17:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Quantum Computers Might Not Break Cryptography - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:46] <exec> 08└─For this reason, the RSA cryptosystem, an encryption scheme that derives its security from the difficulty of integer factorization ...
[15:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Funny) 02 - 06Why Quantum Computers Might Not Break Cryptography - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:47] <exec> 08└─Prove it.
[15:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Quantum Computers Might Not Break Cryptography - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:49] <exec> 08└─"Is it actually true that quantum computers will kill RSA?" The authors note that even though a quantum computer running Shor's algorithm would be faster than a classical computer, the RSA algorithm is faster than both. And the larger the RSA "key" — the number that must be factored — the greate...
[15:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese President Xi Jinping Pledges $124 Billion for One Belt, One Road Initiative - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:02] <exec> 08└─The running narrative seems to be: Chinese nationalism=good. American nationalism=bad. Palestinian nationalism=good. Israeli nationalism=bad. Ukrainian nationalism=good. Russian nationalism=bad. Japanese nationalism=good. North Korean nationalism=bad. Swiss nationalism=good. German nationalism=bad....
[15:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese President Xi Jinping Pledges $124 Billion for One Belt, One Road Initiative - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:04] <exec> 08└─You seem to be confusing nationalism and jingoism.
[15:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Audi and Volvo Will Use Android as the Operating System in Upcoming Cars - 606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:37] <exec> 08└─The entertainment system in my Mazda could do with anything to replace the current "infotainment" system and Android seems like quite a good fit. The current media player has no state and insists on sorting all my music by Track Title (ignoring artist, album, etc.). It always plays tracks in the sam...
[15:18:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03joshuajon [807] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Audi and Volvo Will Use Android as the Operating System in Upcoming Cars - 916 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:38] <exec> 08└─I recently purchased an Android head unit for my car and while I like it better than any stock radio / infotainment unit I've ever used, it's lacking in some pretty basic functionality. Specifically and most conspicuously - there is currently no way to sync notifications from my Android phone to my...
[15:19:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:38] <exec> 08└─This country needs a reset on many fronts. That's why Mr. Trump got the job. I'd really like to understand what he is thinking on this. It seems an area where he has personal knowledge and should make a rational choice to improve the situation. How does continuing to dig the hole deeper help this al...
[15:19:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:40] <exec> 08└─I'm sure you're right, but if it's legalized then they can pretend it's legitimate and spare themselves the hassle of hiding. Even if you're a sociopath and have no conscience, constant duplicity is still an annoyance because you have to keep your story straight.
[15:19:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:42] <exec> 08└─I can dream. :(
[15:19:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:44] <exec> 08└─Der Trumpenfurher
[15:19:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:46] <exec> 08└─The US was already a world power by the time that Roosevelt became president and those trusts were a huge part of the reason why.
[15:19:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:48] <exec> 08└─It would also be legal for Mitch McConnell to walk onto the floor of the Senate, shoot every democratic senator from a state with a republican governor, have those governors appoint republican senators as replacements and then have Turmp pardon him.
[15:21:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0629 Dead Employees == 1 Year "Imprisoned" - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:30] <exec> 08└─It takes money to uproot and move a whole family to a city. A lot more money if you actually want significant certainty the move will be a success (many cities are lot more expensive to live in). Money people with no/crap jobs don't have. So what happens is one person goes and leaves the rest behind...
[15:21:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0629 Dead Employees == 1 Year "Imprisoned" - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:32] <exec> 08└─From what I gather the electoral college means that more rural folk dying will just make the rural votes worth more.
[15:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Electric 'Hogs' are Coming -- Autonomous Driving Antidote? - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:24] <exec> 08└─this means electric 'bacon'!
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[16:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:31] <exec> 08└─I suppose if no one is going to RTFA, you might as well not link to it...
[16:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese President Xi Jinping Pledges $124 Billion for One Belt, One Road Initiative - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:13] <exec> 08└─communism is the better capitalism. with communism you get to officially brainwash your workers thus instilling a solid nationalism. with capitalism there is always the danger of making a quick buck by selling out (to the better capitalism). all the ethics, being green, protecting nature etc etc. is...
[16:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese President Xi Jinping Pledges $124 Billion for One Belt, One Road Initiative - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:15] <exec> 08└─History has shown that the largest economies can shift rapidly to being the largest military, without requiring huge standing armies. The USA's inverse approach of sinking endless amounts of potential economic growth into military forces essentially forces a political necessity of wasting that milit...
[16:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese President Xi Jinping Pledges $124 Billion for One Belt, One Road Initiative - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:17] <exec> 08└─History has shown that the largest economies can shift rapidly to being the largest military, without requiring huge standing armies.
[16:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese President Xi Jinping Pledges $124 Billion for One Belt, One Road Initiative - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:19] <exec> 08└─roads != nukes. trade deals != sponsoring and training terrorists.
[16:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese President Xi Jinping Pledges $124 Billion for One Belt, One Road Initiative - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:21] <exec> 08└─China has about 5% as many nukes as the US, but it's almost as much deterrent for us to want to not want to fuck with them, the intricacies of Sino-Russian geopolitics notwithstanding.
[16:20:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:02] <exec> 08└─What about SSRIs and opioid-based pain killers? If I'm not mistaken, both are highly addictive, and withdrawal from an SSRI drug can involve psychosis, seizures, and hospitalization.
[16:20:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:03] <exec> 08└─Exhibit A in favor of modifying how long comments get collapsed :P Presumably it wasn't since it's all in one tag?
[16:20:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:05] <exec> 08└─The Democrats have spent the last 30 years implementing GOP policy -- unbalanced free trade, Nixon's healthcare plan, unshackling banksters, supporting war, prisons, mass surveillance. Democrats have proven exceptionally adept at being Republicans.
[16:20:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 1790 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:07] <exec> 08└─Did you read the comment you're responding to? The war on (some) drugs is unconstitutional. It is up to the judicial branch to reign in BOTH the legislative and executive branches here. However, the judicial branch has been derelict in that duty, across party lines, and complicit in allowing this fl...
[16:20:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03jIyajbe [5615] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:10] <exec> 08└─Is this familiar quote a summary of your point? "...the purpose of the presidency is not to wield power, but to distract attention away from it." I am coming round to this point of view.
[16:20:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:12] <exec> 08└─An interesting and perhaps insightful observation, but I think here: The voters weaponized the candidate and sent him like a guided missile to DC in order to leave the place a giant smoking crater
[16:20:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06CPU Rumor Mill: Intel Core i9, AMD Ryzen 9, and AMD "Starship" - 180 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:40] <exec> 08└─Why don't you tell the class about the pile of free as in liberty vacuum tubes you're posting from? And is that a mobile phone surveillance device I see peeking out of your pocket?
[16:21:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 0629 Dead Employees == 1 Year "Imprisoned" - 59 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:27] <exec> 08└─Sadly, you don't get to be rich by following all the rules.
[16:25:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Experts Warn New Computers Could Delete Thoughts Without Your Knowledge - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:08] <exec> 08└─There is zero overlap
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[17:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03i286NiNJA [2768] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:33] <exec> 08└─Uberspoiled elites don't feel any need to conform. Old people instinctively demand conformity from young people in order to preserve society through the generations. Also because they did it. Also for the pleasure of kicking around some helpless young person who lacks any ability to retaliate. This...
[17:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:35] <exec> 08└─Bro why u gotta be a bitch about it
[17:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:37] <exec> 08└─Rather than the notion of textspeak that lived briefly in the 2000s, only people intentionally "leaning in" on bad spelling type that badly on the internet now. Well, and your mom.
[17:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:39] <exec> 08└─My colleagues at Stanford gripe as much as the ones who teach at state schools, and students from more privileged backgrounds are often the worst offenders.
[17:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:41] <exec> 08└─summary has been updated, my apologies.
[17:17:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:44] <exec> 08└─I have no idea how any of this relates to the article.
[17:17:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:46] <exec> 08└─No worries, wasn't gonna read anyways.
[17:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 903 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:48] <exec> 08└─As I re-read the doc, it in no way implies he has freshman year age 19 students. He might be bullying postdocs or grad students older than him who didn't win the demographic lottery and now he gets to rub it in. I certainly wouldn't put up with that kind of crap from a coworker. If I were a tenure t...
[17:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:50] <exec> 08└─I have no idea how any of this relates to the article.
[17:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:53] <exec> 08└─Granted at 31 I'm one of the older Millennials but I sure as death taxes and Republican corruption did NOT talk to ANY of my teachers this way, ever, let alone a college professor. This sounds like another "hurr hurr let's hate on the kids" clickbait whinge from the past-the-sell-by-date crowd.
[17:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:55] <exec> 08└─This generation's of old people have a lot of gall demanding any respect from younger people just cause.
[17:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:57] <exec> 08└─Interesting. You're not going to jump dump on millennials or leftists here?
[17:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 698 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:59] <exec> 08└─Well, no -- I don't think profs tend to receive much "textspeak" in emails. However, I have had professorial colleagues who received emails from students with salutations including "Hey man" and "Yo dude". I wish I were joking. And no, these were not from students who knew the profs well; they were...
[17:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 1305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:02] <exec> 08└─They're refusing to take responsibility for the end game of decades of "trickle down" golden shower economics using the oldest method in the book: scapegoating. Note also how many old folks rail against how they're teaching the kids these days. However, they just can't seem to put a finger on just W...
[17:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:04] <exec> 08└─A lot of these things are kind of personal. With emails, I insist on them mentioning their roster name and class every time, just so that I can quickly locate their record. If that information is not present, I refuse to process the rest and instantly fire a boilerplate request for clarification. Sa...
[17:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Soylentbob [6519] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:06] <exec> 08└─I assume nearly every generation says that about their predecessors (... started the war, ... were all Nazis, ... committed atrocities in Vietnam, ... killed the US-Natives, ...). Of course, they were all wrong, while we are obviously right. And our kids will be wrong as well :-)
[17:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:08] <exec> 08└─whateva u say bby
[17:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:10] <exec> 08└─government is a deranged circus that is either there to oppress them or to oppress the entitled
[17:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Soylentbob [6519] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:13] <exec> 08└─From summary: syllabus: basic rules for how to address teachers and write polite, grammatically correct emails.
[17:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urine Test Could Detect Zika Virus Quickly, Protect Unborn Babies - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:21] <exec> 08└─Great news for stockholders of Pig Pharma! So will this urine test be priced at $10,000? Do I hear $20,000? $20,000 anyone? Do I hear $25,000?
[17:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese President Xi Jinping Pledges $124 Billion for One Belt, One Road Initiative - 1224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:02] <exec> 08└─Which is to say, using economic growth to build up to global hegemony. I want you all to remember something: China is 4,000+ years old. Not in its modern form of course, but even when it was basically a collection of warring states on the east coast of Asia, there was already a long-seated culture (...
[17:19:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Audi and Volvo Will Use Android as the Operating System in Upcoming Cars - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:38] <exec> 08└─Can you plug your own audio source into it?
[17:20:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:50] <exec> 08└─Yes they are.
[17:20:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:51] <exec> 08└─The lolz are in the justification. I voted for because I couldn't stand all the corruption.
[17:20:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:54] <exec> 08└─A pardon does not make what you did legal
[17:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:56] <exec> 08└─The Dems been running on "We're not as bad as those other guys" while those other guys have lurched and lurched further to the right. Quick quiz: you know the far-right candidate in France, Marine Le Pen? Where would she sit on the US political spectrum? . . . Clue: pro abortion. Clue: pro secular s...
[17:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:58] <exec> 08└─Our very own alt-right diva J-Mo specifically says he wants to burn the lot down, and so does Bannon. You know, *Bannon?* That guy?
[17:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:00] <exec> 08└─Ha ha that's so fucking hilarious! You know that 17% approval rating by the public for Trump's Healthcare Bill? Yeah, we passed that shit and celebrated. You know those states where your vote counts about 1/4 as much as Wyoming? Yeah, tough shit. Please bleat your bullshit whining somewhere else. Si...
[17:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:02] <exec> 08└─Not in charge... but everything just happens to go their way. Huh! How about that coincidence?
[17:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:05] <exec> 08└─And you thought Trump was not corrupt... LOL!
[17:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:07] <exec> 08└─It is not about only helping rich whites. That is an unfair generalization. It is about helping rich, white, christian, heterosexual, obese, elderly males.
[17:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:09] <exec> 08└─I thought we were all constitutional scholars here?
[17:22:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 0629 Dead Employees == 1 Year "Imprisoned" - 669 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:24] <exec> 08└─He should, but again, the coal miners like to elect people who think regulations shouldn't be followed and fines are just a "cost of doing business". They've most recently elected people who really want to reduce or eliminate regulations and enforcement. I don't think the miners would like seeing th...
[17:22:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] 02 - 0629 Dead Employees == 1 Year "Imprisoned" - 272 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:40] <exec> 08└─and for those examples, one can list 100x as many where the ceo's were evil fucking pieces of shit, caring only for the next boat or mansion they 'need' to buy. if you are rich, you LIKELY got there via amoral methods. this is the USA, afterall. (are we WINNING yet? sigh)
[17:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 0629 Dead Employees == 1 Year "Imprisoned" - 1010 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:53] <exec> 08└─No, there is a distinction. Before, with the health care "plan" that Republicans favor, if you make less than $50k, and your job doesn't give you health insurance, you simply go without. Now, with the plan that Democrats managed to get passed, you can afford a subsidized insurance plan, though this...
[17:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 0629 Dead Employees == 1 Year "Imprisoned" - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:55] <exec> 08└─Maybe instead of striking, miners should be thinking about their voting.
[17:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03quacking duck [1395] (Score: 2) 02 - 0629 Dead Employees == 1 Year "Imprisoned" - 894 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:57] <exec> 08└─My observation has been the exact opposite of yours, where the right-wing are less willing to admit any faults by their side, but the left/centrists are more intellectually honest and admit both sides have serious issues (and yes, that "ours suck less"). The left are also more willing to openly crit...
[17:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03quacking duck [1395] (Score: 2) 02 - 0629 Dead Employees == 1 Year "Imprisoned" - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:59] <exec> 08└─Then they're going to get jobs that kill them. There's other jobs out there, they just need to move. You can't have everything you want in life handed to you on a silver platter
[17:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turning MP3 Artefacts Into Music - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:06] <exec> 08└─...all the music is on CD at the very best, MP3 otherwise.
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[18:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:56] <exec> 08└─It never hurts to re-read this. A little old, but still mainly applicable. http://www.catb.org [catb.org]
[18:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 3191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:57] <exec> 08└─I think it's really an institutional culture thing, and sometimes even various by department. Yes, Ivies or small colleges with small classes might have more casual interactions with profs, but it still generally depends on the prof. Usually by default you'd still address them as "Prof. X" unless th...
[18:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:59] <exec> 08└─They just can't get over being the "fuck you, I've got mine" generation long enough to do their damned job. If millennials ever develop a voice, I hope it's "thanks for fucking us over, fuck you & fuck off and die already while we clean this fucking mess up." For starters, social security needs to g...
[18:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:02] <exec> 08└─I completely understand that policy, and if we were talking about a class of 100 students or something, I'd be grateful for the same thing. When you're teaching a 10-student seminar and talk to the student personally almost every class, it's a bit odd to receive an email like that repeatedly from th...
[18:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:04] <exec> 08└─That's totally true. My teaching load is between 100 and 120 students per semester, and while I manage to memorize 90% of the names after a month or so, I can never do 100%, and the recall doesn't work as well over email, especially if it comes from some random yahoo account :)
[18:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:06] <exec> 08└─the discriminating english user demands the Oxford comma [wikipedia.org]
[18:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:08] <exec> 08└─This generation's of old people have a lot of gall demanding any respect from younger people just cause.
[18:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:11] <exec> 08└─Fuck you, you whiney, entitled, millennial, bitch. I'll tell you what I did-I went to a school that I could afford and that would give me a degree I could actually use. I busted my ass my whole life to make a better life for my family and me. When I hire you and you write me an email like that, you...
[18:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:13] <exec> 08└─1) being sloppy and "drunken" 2) being informal Here in Finland we're very informal but that certainly does not mean we are sloppy. We just cut to the chase and talk about things and don't Sir or Mam anybody. I realize this is different in other countries but I for one like this style.
[18:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 1441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:15] <exec> 08└─I do think the problem is likely exaggerated. Most of the students I've dealt with can figure out how to write an email. Maybe they've just been trained by another prof. On the other hand, there ARE a striking minority of young people who don't know how to address a professor or even to write a "pro...
[18:18:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:17] <exec> 08└─I've received emails that look like this even AFTER I've had a detailed email correspondence with a student multiple times.
[18:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:20] <exec> 08└─Of course, they were all wrong, while we are obviously right. Which is what every generation says about their successors.
[18:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 732 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:22] <exec> 08└─True -- the random Yahoo or Gmail accounts can be a mystery. I have on occasion received a message from "groovychick2014@yahoo.com" or some address like that with a request for clarification on a syllabus and no signed name... which was confusing. I guess I haven't encountered the combo of random Ya...
[18:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:24] <exec> 08└─You have to choices: 1. Come out of high school perfect, with no weaknesses in your professional communication skills. 2. Be one of those damn millennials ruining everything. Why are they eating so many avocados on my lawn? Hell, I'm a professional who works in an office with some very formal people...
[18:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:26] <exec> 08└─Germany really.. REALLY have a very formal system for titles etc. No informal Silicon Valley can-do-the-job for you. Study to become a combined brain surgeon and rocket scientist before you even dare to touch the HR door for hiring cleaning personnel.
[18:18:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:29] <exec> 08└─or it could be because: Insisting on traditional etiquette is also simply good pedagogy. It’s a teacher’s job to correct sloppy prose, whether in an essay or an email. And I suspect that most of the time, students who call faculty members by their first names and send slangy messages are not see...
[18:18:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:31] <exec> 08└─Children are now raised as superiors to their parents. Modern parents want to be the child's friend, not their parent. There is no discipline. Parents negotiate with children rather than dictate.
[18:18:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 1871 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:33] <exec> 08└─I agree completely. Concerning grad school and up, I never got a chance to work at a department where people get stiff about titles. My Russian upbringing would make me a fish in the water there, but on the intellectual level I think it's all rubbish. At BU, where I was invited to do a doctorate, th...
[18:18:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:35] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't exactly say I was "castigating" poor Sam. I'm sincerely grateful he made the effort. And I wasn't AT ALL criticizing his politeness or respectfulness -- only the fact that he told me his name four or five times in every message. (And this fictional student is not unique.) I do sometimes f...
[18:18:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 657 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:37] <exec> 08└─Seems you found the formula for how to handle noise so you get a better signal-to-noise deal ;-) Anyway I think setting a proper subject in personal emails, making an effort on how a text is formulated and grammar such that other people can understand and interpret what is being written and of cours...
[18:18:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:40] <exec> 08└─Come out of high school perfect, with no weaknesses in your professional communication skills.
[18:18:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:42] <exec> 08└─which of the previous listed achievements should command the Millennials' respect?
[18:18:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:44] <exec> 08└─Ohmmmy GOD. You just get things done? how horrible! ;-)
[18:18:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 722 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:46] <exec> 08└─Ah, but my dear and fluffy frojack, how could you possibly tell the difference between a political agenda and the Arts, Sciences, and Humanities? It is bad enough that you cannot address your superiors with the proper decorum, but to remain so ignorant and confused at an institution of Higher Learni...
[18:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:49] <exec> 08└─I assume nearly every generation says that about their predecessors
[18:18:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:51] <exec> 08└─Seems to be mostly non-STEM departments doing that stuff.
[18:18:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:53] <exec> 08└─In essence your point is that when the parent generation screws up the next generation they will not adhere to any inter-generational obligations? Otoh, many things are hard to affect as an individual and the most efficient means is usually a feet vote.
[18:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:55] <exec> 08└─Come now, throw Republicans a bone. Thanks to them, the public discourse has checks and balances; without them, it would be an onslaught of facts and logic.
[18:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unfolding the Folding Mechanism of Ladybug Wings - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:11] <exec> 08└─Wow, that seems like a lot of work just to keep aphids off my roses!
[18:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unfolding the Folding Mechanism of Ladybug Wings - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:13] <exec> 08└─We offer chemical-free room and board on our rose bushes, but I have to figure out whether ladybugs get addresses from yelp or just a Google search.
[18:19:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Quantum Computers Might Not Break Cryptography - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:26] <exec> 08└─How fast do you blow through your battery and data cap when you encode "grab milk on the way home" with a TB key?
[18:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03sgleysti [56] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Quantum Computers Might Not Break Cryptography - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:28] <exec> 08└─This technique from 2011 has more reasonable key lengths https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[18:19:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese President Xi Jinping Pledges $124 Billion for One Belt, One Road Initiative - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:50] <exec> 08└─A distinction without a difference
[18:20:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Audi and Volvo Will Use Android as the Operating System in Upcoming Cars - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:27] <exec> 08└─I guess it can't be any worse than Nuclear Submarines running Windows NT.
[18:20:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03PocketSizeSUn [5340] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Audi and Volvo Will Use Android as the Operating System in Upcoming Cars - 1421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:29] <exec> 08└─There is an android 'mirror' scheme that was eventually superseded by Android Auto that is supported by quite a few aftermarket audio systems. This is basically what you want for you in-dash is to just plug your phone in. FYI: Android Auto should be available for any Android phone running 5.0 (Lolli...
[18:20:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 152 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:40] <exec> 08└─this must be funded by the owners of privatized prisons who are looking for more income tax increases will be next (or some useful services will be cut)
[18:21:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hemocyanin [186] 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 87 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:02] <exec> 08└─Exactly. The enemy is not Democrats xor Republicans -- it is Democrats AND Republicans.
[18:21:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hemocyanin [186] 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 248 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:38] <exec> 08└─The Democrats have spent the last 30 years implementing GOP policy -- unbalanced free trade, Nixon's healthcare plan, unshackling banksters, supporting war, prisons, mass surveillance. Democrats have proven exceptionally adept at being Republicans.
[18:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:53] <exec> 08└─TL;DR
[18:21:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:54] <exec> 08└─MAGA has gotten lost somewhere. I thought it was because we wanted to win. We wanted to get bored of winning. We were tired of loosing. We want La Guardia to get a federal remodel so Trump doesn't have to look down on 3rd world levels of poverty when he flies in from MargoLargo. It's DISGUSTING. Cle...
[18:21:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:56] <exec> 08└─The National Guard of Colorado is directly controlled by the State Governor. The President can "borrow" them but only with the Governor's permission. IIRC. Sessions has zero direct control of any real military. Though there are several militarized civilian organizations he can probably use.
[18:21:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 1685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:59] <exec> 08└─For what it's worth, Michael Moore said much the same [globalnews.ca]: What was most surprising about Trumpland is Moore’s conclusion: that Trump would win the election over Democratic rival Hillary Clinton [globalnews.ca], and it would be the “biggest ‘F**k you!’ ever recorded in human his...
[18:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:01] <exec> 08└─Give me a name for that source so I can determine the validity of their information. Donald Trump
[18:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 0629 Dead Employees == 1 Year "Imprisoned" - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:49] <exec> 08└─I've already started preparing for the future by playing Little Inferno. It's an excellent simulation of how to live when the sun has been blotted out by smog clouds and the land underneath has been enveloped to perpetual winter.
[18:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 0629 Dead Employees == 1 Year "Imprisoned" - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:50] <exec> 08└─Well, what does the "other side" want? I mean, besides closing the mines. Considering there have been absolutely zero legislative attempts from the "other side" to do anything but let economics do it's work I'd say the answer is proper, life-saving regulation.
[18:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Celestial [4891] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Developers of the MP3 Format Claim it is 'Officially Dead' - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:20] <exec> 08└─That would require buying physical CDs again. No thanks. Now if a digital music store opened up and sold Ogg Vorbis or Opus encoded music, I'd switch to it in a heartbeat.
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[19:17:20] <exec> 08└─What's that? You need to speak up, sonny!
[19:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The Ormia Fly's Incredible Hearing is a Curiosity to Those Developing Better Hearing Aids - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:21] <exec> 08└─The structure of the (inner) ear is kinda fascinating to me. The hair follicles of decreasing length in a spiral cavity act a lot like a mechanical Fourier transform, where each follicle corresponds to a specific pitch. That, in turn, acts like a perfect input to a neural network, a series of distin...
[19:17:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 38 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:37] <exec> 08└─No worries, wasn't gonna read anyways.
[19:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:20] <exec> 08└─I can totally see why people who came from disenfranchised groups, such as women or racial minorities, people who fought double-hard to obtain a degree, are insisting on respectful titles.
[19:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:21] <exec> 08└─lol! Er, I mean, surely you jest, sir! I'll tell you what I did-I went to a school that I could afford
[19:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:24] <exec> 08└─I think it's really an institutional culture thing, and sometimes even various by department. Yes, Ivies or small colleges with small classes might have more casual interactions with profs, but it still generally depends on the prof. Usually by default you'd still address them as "Prof. X" unless th...
[19:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:26] <exec> 08└─Thats not irony, its just deserts.
[19:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:28] <exec> 08└─I personally saw 2 spelling mistakes in the space of a month in emails. The millenials are fucking destrying the fucking country those fucking noobs.
[19:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:30] <exec> 08└─oh u like it wen i talk like dat huh txt me
[19:18:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03fliptop [1666] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:32] <exec> 08└─No one mentioned the disappearance of properly quoting original messages in your reply [lifewire.com].
[19:18:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 863 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:35] <exec> 08└─-Sent from my techno-marvel iPhone which I purchased for a week's wages, from my free-as-in-freedom city, county, state, country. "The conservative mindset springs from the idea that Good Things are very difficult to create, but very easy to destroy." Much like a fine vase. I think it's millenials w...
[19:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:37] <exec> 08└─Perkele!!!
[19:18:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 1559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:39] <exec> 08└─Keep crying little whiner. I paid social security all my life to take care of those who aged out before me. I'm not complaining. The thought that I'd be relying on SS is just another example of your entitled attitude, bitch. If we get rid of SS now, who's going to take care of your old ass? Mine is...
[19:18:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:41] <exec> 08└─In my experience I was unlikely to ask for help from professors who liked to be excessively formal because they were less likely to provide real help. When I was still attending school, in my major's department there were two fairly informal professors and two very formal professors. If I asked a qu...
[19:18:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 1532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:44] <exec> 08└─I teach in Switzerland, and used to teach in Germany. The Sie/Du (formal/informal) stuff really isn't that complicated: - When you address anyone you don't know, over the age of 16 or so, you start out formal. If you only have a brief interaction, that's the way it stays. - In an environment where y...
[19:18:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urine Test Could Detect Zika Virus Quickly, Protect Unborn Babies - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:52] <exec> 08└─If people are willing to pay for the test, then isn't it also great news for them as well? The pricing of the test will probably be set to maximize profit (considering market share and competitor tests). Pharmaceutical companies are not charities.
[19:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urine Test Could Detect Zika Virus Quickly, Protect Unborn Babies - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:55] <exec> 08└─Urine Test Could Detect Zika Virus Quickly, Protect Unborn Babies
[19:19:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03sgleysti [56] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Quantum Computers Might Not Break Cryptography - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:20] <exec> 08└─"Some of the cryptographers who are discussing post-quantum crypto are definitely on the Hollywood technobabble side." I doubt this. You seemed to be confused about the nature of research. Looking into threats that are decades away is exactly the kind of thing that researchers are supposed to do. Th...
[19:19:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Quantum Computers Might Not Break Cryptography - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:21] <exec> 08└─And transmitting a fucking terabyte-sized key to protect your data is also not reasonable
[19:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Quantum Computers Might Not Break Cryptography - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:23] <exec> 08└─Actually no, you probably shouldn't distribute your private key along with the encrypted message.
[19:19:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Quantum Computers Might Not Break Cryptography - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:25] <exec> 08└─go ask alice when she's ten feet tall
[19:20:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Audi and Volvo Will Use Android as the Operating System in Upcoming Cars - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:25] <exec> 08└─> Run as fast as you can. Do I have to follow Hollywood straight-line protocols, or can I run away from a car by turning behind obstacles?
[19:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 1627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:54] <exec> 08└─I have not heard that quote before and don't know its provenance, but it feels descriptive of what we see now. I recall from history class that historians often write that America's original sin was slavery. There's the famous quote from Sojourner Truth about the Constitution having "a little weevil...
[19:21:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:55] <exec> 08└─Making the big leap that the war on drugs is ultimately governed by the Constitution, does this say that liquid drugs that intoxicate are not to be regulated by the Feds and are solely the domain of the states? Section 2. The transportation or importation into any State, Territory, or possession of...
[19:21:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:57] <exec> 08└─How Dems spent the last 8 years: Single-Payer was included in the ACA until the Republicans filibustered it out. Wall Street Hates the Volcker Rule (Dodd Frank). Will Finally Trump Kill It? [realclearpolitics.com] Phasing Out Our Use of Private Prisons [justice.gov]
[19:21:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:59] <exec> 08└─10 years for 1,000 kilograms of marijuana! Luckily I only have 999 kilos on me now.
[19:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 1090 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:02] <exec> 08└─> Clue: pro abortion. No more so than the rest of France. Meanwhile her party, the National Front, has a long history of opposing feminism in general and abortion specifically, calling it "anti-french genocide." http://www.ibtimes.co.uk
[19:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CPU Rumor Mill: Intel Core i9, AMD Ryzen 9, and AMD "Starship" - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:34] <exec> 08└─Dear AMD, I want to make my boss buy your chips, but for that you have to give us quad-channel DDR4 to fill big caches. Our loads will fill all the memory bandwidth we can throw at them. Pretty please, don't make us go Intel again this round. 8 cores will do, unless we can get 10 for a reasonable pr...
[19:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CPU Rumor Mill: Intel Core i9, AMD Ryzen 9, and AMD "Starship" - 989 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:35] <exec> 08└─"And when they discover a security bug and you whinge like hell about it, with microcode they can update your CPU for you." The problem is not that it uses microcode per se, it's that the microcode is a hidden blob which the customer cannot update. This is effectively the machine code level of progr...
[19:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Turkey Arrests Cumhuriyet Editor-in-Chief Oguz Guven - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:52] <exec> 08└─Erdogan will also have an armada of ships full of terro^H^H.refugees waiting for invasion orders if he doesn't get a big fat check signed.
[19:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turkey Arrests Cumhuriyet Editor-in-Chief Oguz Guven - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:53] <exec> 08└─My thoughts too. Right now they are members of NATO where the codes for the nukes must be signed by the US president. It's not far fetched to consider a realignment with Putin (or the middle east) and North Korea style testing, building and lashing out. Not to forget incursions into neighboring coun...
[19:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turkey Arrests Cumhuriyet Editor-in-Chief Oguz Guven - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:56] <exec> 08└─Turkey has issued arrest warrants for more than 85 people in the Energy and Education ministries. [dw.com] today. Already 50 000 people has been targeted this way in all professions. Seems so similar to another state that rounded people up, reformed school to a indoctrination system, forced people i...
[19:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Electric 'Hogs' are Coming -- Autonomous Driving Antidote? - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:54] <exec> 08└─The choir of pre-school imitates the coolest car they can think of.... on repeat. Does that count as t-rr-ism? ;)
[19:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Electric 'Hogs' are Coming -- Autonomous Driving Antidote? - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:56] <exec> 08└─Great now various people can sneak up on others without a sound. Great get-away-tool..
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[20:17:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Threaten to Release Copy of "Pirates of the Carribean 5" - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:25] <exec> 08└─How many bitcoin do I have to pay Hollywood to stop releasing sequels? I wonder if any of the story is true or just a weird PR technique.
[20:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Threaten to Release Copy of "Pirates of the Carribean 5" - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:27] <exec> 08└─Yep, it looks born out of a brainstorming session right after the windows ransomware hit the news.
[20:17:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03gringer [962] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Threaten to Release Copy of "Pirates of the Carribean 5" - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:29] <exec> 08└─Ten years ago, it seemed that early-release movies were all over the place, and the people releasing them tried hard to preserve their anonymity from people outside the scene. What changed that meant these people feel that an early release is so valuable and harmful that the movie studios would pay...
[20:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hackers Threaten to Release Copy of "Pirates of the Carribean 5" - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:31] <exec> 08└─"Disney has refused to pay a ransom and is cooperating with the FBI." good job, you little pig loving rats.
[20:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Hackers Threaten to Release Copy of "Pirates of the Carribean 5" - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:34] <exec> 08└─No doubt. My first thought was, "If we crowd-source a large enough payment, will you delete any trace of it existing instead?"
[20:17:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hackers Threaten to Release Copy of "Pirates of the Carribean 5" - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:36] <exec> 08└─I wish I was young to care about these shinola...
[20:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Hackers Threaten to Release Copy of "Pirates of the Carribean 5" - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:38] <exec> 08└─the people releasing them tried hard to preserve their anonymity from people outside the scene
[20:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Hackers Threaten to Release Copy of "Pirates of the Carribean 5" - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:40] <exec> 08└─That explains why Disney won't pay: They hope that the hackers release the movie, so they can download a copy to replace the one that got encrypted by the ransomware, so they can avoid paying for the decryption key. ;-)
[20:17:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Threaten to Release Copy of "Pirates of the Carribean 5" - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:42] <exec> 08└─And then there's terrorism. Please, hackers, just take my bank account. Don't make me see Johnny Depp Awkwardly fumble about for another 2 hours. Anything but that.
[20:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Ormia Fly's Incredible Hearing is a Curiosity to Those Developing Better Hearing Aids - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:52] <exec> 08└─Maybe one can design a speaker the same way. One acoustic emitter for each frequency? And I know it's a hard design..
[20:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06The Ormia Fly's Incredible Hearing is a Curiosity to Those Developing Better Hearing Aids - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:55] <exec> 08└─It doesn't seem so complicated. Mix two incoming signals and measure the wave that comes out of the timing difference of the two incoming signals. It's actually a brilliant but simple design. Especially when you have a neural network to process that signal. A simple sign of the signal can be used to...
[20:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03dak664 [2433] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Ormia Fly's Incredible Hearing is a Curiosity to Those Developing Better Hearing Aids - 729 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:57] <exec> 08└─Ever since ATSC video transmission when I am completely relaxed and there is a low level source of white noise (wind or ceiling fan) I can hear dialogue on the strong local TV station, particularly early morning and late evening weather reports. Just a couple KHz bandwidth, enough to distinguish the...
[20:19:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:10] <exec> 08└─Young grasshopper, my generation told their parents exactly what you tell us. Picking left vs right is just picking one side of the real agenda. But you'll learn.
[20:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 1472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:11] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I'm about your age, so I'm only in the Millennial label depending on if I'm leaning the wrong way at any given time, but correspondence was always formal. Always. I can't really imagine doing it any other way. I think it is a 'kids these days' article. At this point though, I think anyone olde...
[20:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:14] <exec> 08└─Maybe they are trying not to be presumptuous that their 10 student class is all that you look after. For all they know, you have 10 ten-student classes.
[20:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:16] <exec> 08└─working at institutions of higher learning with the way things are is about like being a cop with the way things are. you're fucking complicit. you will get treated with a very basic amount of respect, if that.
[20:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:18] <exec> 08└─I agree with you on that. I've just re-entered the academic scene as a graduate student, and I erred of the side of formality when emailing the professor who's become my supervisor. After a handful of emails where the professor signed his first name only (and addressed me by first name) I took the l...
[20:19:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:20] <exec> 08└─From the young Millennials' point of view Why are you talking about Millennials here? This story is about college students. The Millennial generation is all out of college now; they're around 30 years old and having kids now. The college kids are the next generation after them. Please try to keep up...
[20:19:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urine Test Could Detect Zika Virus Quickly, Protect Unborn Babies - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:31] <exec> 08└─let someone who's infected know to avoid pregnancy
[20:19:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urine Test Could Detect Zika Virus Quickly, Protect Unborn Babies - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:34] <exec> 08└─i wonder what atrocities they'll commit once they find out? the less the baby killers of western medicine know about you, the better.
[20:20:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03dak664 [2433] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Quantum Computers Might Not Break Cryptography - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:03] <exec> 08└─It strikes me that nuclei undergoing beta decay are quantum computers solving the problem of energy release. Some of them get it right away, others take a very long time. Wonder what the "half life" of Shor's algorithm is?
[20:20:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Quantum Computers Might Not Break Cryptography - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:04] <exec> 08└─RSA dates back to '77. In '75 the Altair 8800 was release and S100 memory cards usually only held 8192 bits or 32768 bits (costing $340). Organized as bytes of course. In about '82 my father paid about a couple hundred bucks for a mere 16K of ram to upgrade one of his machines. I remember being impr...
[20:20:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese President Xi Jinping Pledges $124 Billion for One Belt, One Road Initiative - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:28] <exec> 08└─You seem to be confusing reason and ideology.
[20:20:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese President Xi Jinping Pledges $124 Billion for One Belt, One Road Initiative - 829 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:30] <exec> 08└─Citation needed for all of these. I think the thing you're missing is that "nationalism to protect your country from an aggressive invader isn't too bad", and that "nationalism which encourages invading your neighbors is bad". Palestine isn't invading anyone, they're being occupied and oppressed by...
[20:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Audi and Volvo Will Use Android as the Operating System in Upcoming Cars - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:10] <exec> 08└─well, i hope you open source your stuff so maybe one day we'll all be able to build open source vehicles. use the vbloclk chain to buy and sell parts made at home/neighborhood shops.
[20:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:44] <exec> 08└─No. No, it would not. A pardon does not make what you did legal;
[20:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:46] <exec> 08└─As long as I stay atheist I will be a member of a protected minority!
[20:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:48] <exec> 08└─Dude, that's a ton of weed!
[20:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:50] <exec> 08└─Hey! Are you confused? Do you think Mitch McConnell is president? We are talking about what it would be legal for the president to do.
[20:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CPU Rumor Mill: Intel Core i9, AMD Ryzen 9, and AMD "Starship" - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:23] <exec> 08└─The leak says 4x DDR4-3200 for all Ryzen 9 chips. So if it's not fake news, you got your wish. 10 cores is the minimum for Ryzen 9.
[20:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 0629 Dead Employees == 1 Year "Imprisoned" - 1994 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:48] <exec> 08└─Voting never solved anything. Strikes, especially Massive NATIONAL strikes in dozens and dozens of cities, have been proven historically to bring positive change to the Middle Class. In fact, there are some that argue that all of the positive gains we've had (the 8-hour day--no child labor) came exp...
[20:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 0629 Dead Employees == 1 Year "Imprisoned" - 783 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:50] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the irony isn't lost on me. It's like the sides have switched. These days, it's the right-wingers that I see who are refusing to move to a better job. The left-wingers have all packed up and moved to the big cities (and any that haven't are planning to when they can); so that's left a bunch of...
[20:24:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 0629 Dead Employees == 1 Year "Imprisoned" - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:52] <exec> 08└─Um, no. If, for instance, 100k rural voters in Pennsylvania drop dead tomorrow, and for some reason we have a Presidential election the next day, the liberals in Philly will have their votes count more, because there's fewer rural conservatives voting against them. Long term, meaning after a census...
[20:28:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Experts Warn New Computers Could Delete Thoughts Without Your Knowledge - 3052 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:09] <exec> 08└─Nope. That's called competition. Capitalists claim that they like competition. The Mondragon Cooperative, as an example, outcompetes its Capitalist rivals on a daily basis. What is needed to make a greater impact is MORE Socialist workplaces. The trick is for Socialist types to get their own busines...
[20:28:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Experts Warn New Computers Could Delete Thoughts Without Your Knowledge - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:11] <exec> 08└─The problem is not that you accidentally types something bad. Rather its that the neuro-interface will mess with your thinking right away.
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[21:17:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06Hackers Threaten to Release Copy of "Pirates of the Carribean 5" - 219 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:27] <exec> 08└─That explains why Disney won't pay: They hope that the hackers release the movie, so they can download a copy to replace the one that got encrypted by the ransomware, so they can avoid paying for the decryption key. ;-)
[21:17:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Threaten to Release Copy of "Pirates of the Carribean 5" - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:30] <exec> 08└─they got pirated.
[21:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Threaten to Release Copy of "Pirates of the Carribean 5" - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:32] <exec> 08└─If they release that movie then.. hmm nothing? :p People might be to lazy to even bother and just go to the movie theater anyway. But I don't think people will aid the hunt for these hackers. It was blown on corporate bullying.
[21:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Threaten to Release Copy of "Pirates of the Carribean 5" - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:34] <exec> 08└─Don't make me see Johnny Depp Awkwardly fumble about for another 2 hours. Anything but that.
[21:17:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hackers Threaten to Release Copy of "Pirates of the Carribean 5" - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:36] <exec> 08└─People might be to lazy to even bother and just go to the movie theater anyway.
[21:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Threaten to Release Copy of "Pirates of the Carribean 5" - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:38] <exec> 08└─I think it will be something for Guantánamo Bay :p A TV playing pirates of the bay #5 and being forced to be in the same room. If that won't help the combined show of Here Comes Honey Boo Boo and Kardashian ought to do it :)
[21:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Threaten to Release Copy of "Pirates of the Carribean 5" - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:41] <exec> 08└─Yup... Could not care less. I cared about Black Sails, and wanted to get the box set, but then they killed their franchise with the happy, feel good crap ending, and now I may not. How's that saying go: stupid executives is as stupid executives does.
[21:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Ormia Fly's Incredible Hearing is a Curiosity to Those Developing Better Hearing Aids - 1001 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:53] <exec> 08└─You're not crazy. I can hear radio stations in my head. By hear, I don't mean hear the words or music or anything, but I'm perceiving it. How do I know? I start singing the damn song :) What I found was that when that feeling came, I could turn the radio on and find the song. A few times, the song i...
[21:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06The Ormia Fly's Incredible Hearing is a Curiosity to Those Developing Better Hearing Aids - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:54] <exec> 08└─The hair follicles of decreasing length in a spiral cavity act a lot like a mechanical Fourier transform, where each follicle corresponds to a specific pitch.
[21:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Ormia Fly's Incredible Hearing is a Curiosity to Those Developing Better Hearing Aids - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:56] <exec> 08└─Always upvote thorough science, I say.
[21:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:15] <exec> 08└─I never address someone familiarly (at least in a professional setting -- and despite what some may think, school is a professional setting) unless invited to do so.
[21:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:17] <exec> 08└─Sorry if I'm making wrong assumptions on your age, but do note that you and I did not even have an email account at age 14, or at least not one that we actually used (you do need someone to communicate with, after all). As irritating as it is, the issue of teenage usernames sticking around is simply...
[21:19:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:19] <exec> 08└─Of course, you got yours so screw everyone else. The public university you attended was far more highly subsidized than public universities today. I'm near retirement and went to a public univeristy so this is true for me as well. You didn't do it on your own to the extent you want to believe.
[21:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:21] <exec> 08└─To be fair, after over a decade of working in higher education, some of the professors do this too (as well as secretaries/admins)...
[21:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:23] <exec> 08└─Typical entitled "I got mine so screw you" jerk. Your public university education (and mine for that matter) was far more highly subsidized by someone else's taxes than is true today. It wasn't your undeserved smug moral superiority that got you through college - it was someone else paying for the...
[21:19:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:25] <exec> 08└─TL;DR -- The Internet is today's restroom wall.
[21:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:28] <exec> 08└─as good of an instructor
[21:19:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:30] <exec> 08└─I'd suggest something like this on the Manners Sheet: "During your career you are probably going to encounter picky or demanding bosses, colleagues, and/or clients; and depending on the economy of the time, it's not always easy to jump ship. The ability to be polite and courteous is thus a useful li...
[21:19:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urine Test Could Detect Zika Virus Quickly, Protect Unborn Babies - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:41] <exec> 08└─Not so much protecting unborn babies as protecting hypothetical babies before they're conceived. "Hey you've got Zika; don't get pregnant." Try harder, I know we can force "think of the children" in here somehow! :)
[21:19:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urine Test Could Detect Zika Virus Quickly, Protect Unborn Babies - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:43] <exec> 08└─Your honor, it is ABSOLUTELY VITAL that we price this medication for 500x profit! I mean, yes, we've been producing these injectors for decades and recouped our R&D costs incurred in designing it several times over, but my wallet--er I mean, our company survival--depends on continuing to charge an a...
[21:19:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urine Test Could Detect Zika Virus Quickly, Protect Unborn Babies - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:45] <exec> 08└─If people are willing to pay for the test, then isn't it also great news for them as well?
[21:19:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urine Test Could Detect Zika Virus Quickly, Protect Unborn Babies - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:47] <exec> 08└─They'll have to offer it cheap, because nobody beats the whizz :v Nobody.
[21:20:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Quantum Computers Might Not Break Cryptography - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:19] <exec> 08└─Let's say something more reasonable, like a 128-megabyte key. How long would *that* take Shor's Algorithm to crunch? Because if it's anything over 50 years or so that should be plenty.
[21:21:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Audi and Volvo Will Use Android as the Operating System in Upcoming Cars - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:23] <exec> 08└─jaguar and toyota use linox. i'd buy that instead. i think they are submitting upstream and what not, too. android is a forced choice on my phone. don't want it in my auto, with the Eric the nosey nsa mole rooting around in there.
[21:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 4281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:00] <exec> 08└─> It is dangerous to view epochal shifts like these through a cartoonish lens. That's rich. You've got your favorite cartoonish explanation which isn't supported by the data. Over and over again the actual research, instead of your hand-waving wishful thinking, is that Trump won because of white anx...
[21:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:02] <exec> 08└─Person mainly responsible for killing Single Payer: Max Bacus, Democrat (AKA, Republican in Sheep's Clothing) He went so far as to have doctors and nurses who supported single payer arrested: https://www.democracynow.org [democracynow.org]
[21:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:04] <exec> 08└─Wall St. hates anything, but Dodd-Frank is weak tea out of the gate: https://www.thenation.com [thenation.com]
[21:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:06] <exec> 08└─Prisons: Is that phasing out private prisons to save money and open more publicly financed prisons? Kind of like how Democrats' plan to "close" Gitmo was to move the operation to Illinois which would close Gitmo but not change the practices of due process free detention, just the place where it happ...
[21:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:09] <exec> 08└─> Person mainly responsible for killing Single Payer: Max Bacus, Democrat (AKA, Republican in Sheep's Clothing) You are right. Her was one asshole who happened to be at a point where his influence was outsized. That does not make him representative of the party. Your attempt to paint the entire part...
[21:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:11] <exec> 08└─> What was the point of this whole hypothetical? Oh please do not play stupid. The point was that legality is not a defense. > Appealing to the laws is usually a pretty safe way to defend something logically Which is why there is an entirely separate definition that mentions laws. Because its the sa...
[21:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:13] <exec> 08└─"Signed, a Tolerant Liberal who is pissed because poor, stupid, crime-rampant minorities are no longer getting favorable treatment from the Federal Government"
[21:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheB [1538] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Researchers Find "Worst" Windows RCE Flaw - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:33] <exec> 08└─Yep, that bug is so last week. Here is today's windows bug. set a=hkcu\Environment /v windir / reg add %a%d "cmd /K reg delete %a%f||" schtasks/Run /TN \Microsoft\Windows\DiskCleanup\SilentCleanup /I
[21:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CPU Rumor Mill: Intel Core i9, AMD Ryzen 9, and AMD "Starship" - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:47] <exec> 08└─Yes, TFA made me happy. Crossing fingers that it was a real leak, and not someone's wishful thinking (part numbers help make it more believable).
[21:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 0629 Dead Employees == 1 Year "Imprisoned" - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:13] <exec> 08└─Sadly it sounds almost like violent uprising is the only thing that works instead of voting.
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[22:17:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikileaks Offers 100k Bounty for Trump Tapes - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:26] <exec> 08└─Can Trump decline the request from U.S. lawmakers to turn over any Comey tapes?
[22:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Wikileaks Offers 100k Bounty for Trump Tapes - 852 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:28] <exec> 08└─Yes, in several ways. 1. These are, with only 2 exceptions that I know of, members of the minority party demanding the tapes. Until such time as republicans with integrity exist(try a cemetery?), they couldn't even pass a vote to act on these demands. 2. Legal precedent regarding what the president...
[22:17:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikileaks Offers 100k Bounty for Trump Tapes - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:30] <exec> 08└─But almost exactly as this article hit the front page of SN, the NY Times report there's a memo that specifically documents that Trump asked Comey to end the Flynn investigation [nytimes.com] Though I recognize the way that memos about conversations are essentially formalized hearsay, it's still pre...
[22:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hackers Threaten to Release Copy of "Pirates of the Carribean 5" - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:52] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately since piracy is NOT theft, Disney still has a copy.
[22:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Threaten to Release Copy of "Pirates of the Carribean 5" - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:54] <exec> 08└─Nothing changed - except a vulnerable/hackable middle man on the way to distribution. I'm not sure these guys have made one bitcoin yet from their extortion attempt. I'm guessing these are the same people who did Netflix.
[22:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hackers Threaten to Release Copy of "Pirates of the Carribean 5" - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:56] <exec> 08└─Disney is not paying because they know they have nothing to worry about. The standard "Disney fan" is much like the standard Apple fan-boi. They will buy whatever is put out, whether or not anything has changed in the new thing or even if there's been a pirate release of the same ahead of time. Di...
[22:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hackers Threaten to Release Copy of "Pirates of the Carribean 5" - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:58] <exec> 08└─Some movies do benefit from the big screen. If pirates get seen too much on computer it is inevitable that bad ratings will follow. I made the mistake of seeing rogue one on blueray (yes i paid for it too), on a 40" hd tv. Really felt i missed out not being arsed to see it in the cinema. Then ag...
[22:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hackers Threaten to Release Copy of "Pirates of the Carribean 5" - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:00] <exec> 08└─I wonder if any of the story is true or just a weird PR technique.
[22:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Threaten to Release Copy of "Pirates of the Carribean 5" - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:03] <exec> 08└─Yes unfortunately these guys are working under the misguided assumption that MPAA argument is right and "piracy" hurts sales. What they might end up proving is that piracy actually increases sales because now everyone knows about the new movies thanks to the free advertising.
[22:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hackers Threaten to Release Copy of "Pirates of the Carribean 5" - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:05] <exec> 08└─Yep I think the only one getting fucked by all this is the middle man distributor who got hacked. I hope they go out of business because they deserve it. But they probably won't because the only reason they're probably IN business is through the jewish buddy network. It's ok Uriel, we know you didn'...
[22:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Threaten to Release Copy of "Pirates of the Carribean 5" - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:07] <exec> 08└─Maybe it is a weird PR technique. So far, none of these are movies I had any intention of seeing.
[22:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Threaten to Release Copy of "Pirates of the Carribean 5" - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:09] <exec> 08└─Are the crooks failing blackmail 101 or something? You blackmail people (or companies) about things they DON'T want to show. Said companies want to show their Movies or TV-Shows etc. Possibly not right this very second but they want to show them. I can only assume again that this is some workprint c...
[22:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Hackers Threaten to Release Copy of "Pirates of the Carribean 5" - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:12] <exec> 08└─Are the crooks failing blackmail 101 or something? You blackmail people (or companies) about things they DON'T want to show. Said companies want to show their Movies or TV-Shows etc. Possibly not right this very second but they want to show them.
[22:19:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NotSanguine [285] 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 82 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:16] <exec> 08└─which of the previous listed achievements should command the Millennials' respect?
[22:19:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:51] <exec> 08└─I never address someone familiarly (at least in a professional setting -- and despite what some may think, school is a professional setting) unless invited to do so.
[22:19:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:53] <exec> 08└─> Since this generation of college professors are more intent on spreading their political agenda than actually teaching They spread their political agenda by letting some grad student teach? Professors are clearly more intent doing some kind of grant-related activity. Is teaching a grant-related ac...
[22:19:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:55] <exec> 08└─Correction: Re: "you are probably going to encounter picky or demanding [people]...". Let me rephrase that as, "you are probably going to encounter people who come across to you personally as picky or demanding..." [may need to reshuffle the nouns] I didn't mean to make a value judgement on your pol...
[22:19:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:57] <exec> 08└─"You will find, that the persons best equipped to advance your career and/or financial safety, are typically likely to value proper etiquette and language. Unconfirmed rumors have circulated, pretending I might be one of those."
[22:20:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Quantum Computers Might Not Break Cryptography - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:45] <exec> 08└─It's why I sell flying-car insurance.
[22:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese President Xi Jinping Pledges $124 Billion for One Belt, One Road Initiative - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:10] <exec> 08└─The US has long since lost what little moral standing it had
[22:21:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Audi and Volvo Will Use Android as the Operating System in Upcoming Cars - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:52] <exec> 08└─I'd avoid the straight-line protocols. Especially the horror film "run until you trip and desperately try to crawl to safety when you can just get the fuck back up and keep running" routine.
[22:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Audi and Volvo Will Use Android as the Operating System in Upcoming Cars - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:53] <exec> 08└─I'd just go for "stand there until Hero grabs you out of the way at the last second", but the gender reassignment surgery has a long recovery...
[22:21:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Audi and Volvo Will Use Android as the Operating System in Upcoming Cars - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:55] <exec> 08└─If it's like my new Sony TV, it will. I've blocked traffic from it in my firewall box and even with the TV off for hours, its still hammering my firewall with connection attempts to google and other places.
[22:21:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Audi and Volvo Will Use Android as the Operating System in Upcoming Cars - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:58] <exec> 08└─Ah, a double edged sword.
[22:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gault.Drakkor [1079] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 913 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:42] <exec> 08└─As I understand it, the USA governmental system design is heavily based on the Roman Republic. Only citizens may vote. The citizens are the land owners/aristocrats. The vast majority of the people are only residents. Thats the way USA was for the first ~70 years of time as well in terms of voting. U...
[22:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 876 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:44] <exec> 08└─Aardvark [mozilla.org] Some more pages/images. [google.com] After downloading and installing the extension (and restarting your browser): - Right-click; select Start Aardvark (it's actually a toggle). - Move your cursor until the part of the page that you want removed is surrounded by the red rectan...
[22:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:46] <exec> 08└─> shoved into a box labelled "really stupid ideas that did huge damage to society." People have publicly admitted that disenfranchising millions of young poor/minorities (courtesy of uneven enforcement and sentencing) was both a goal and a success. Is trampling the poor for political gain considered...
[22:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 0629 Dead Employees == 1 Year "Imprisoned" - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:46] <exec> 08└─Something like 1/3 of rich people are rich because they were born rich and didn't do anything particularly stupid with their money. Which means that one of their ancestors may be one of these kinds of corporate crooks, but they themselves aren't. And yes, I agree that there are a lot of corporate cr...
[22:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03ticho [89] (Score: 2) 02 - 0629 Dead Employees == 1 Year "Imprisoned" - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:48] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I can't read soylentnews anymore. It has devolved into yet another forum where the USA idiocy has prevailed, and where there's nothing else but two sides that yell and shake fists at each other. Have fun here.
[22:26:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Electric 'Hogs' are Coming -- Autonomous Driving Antidote? - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:43] <exec> 08└─The bike gets a sound system with options. Off, classic Harley, jet, Jetsons, Tai Fighter, good ole rock and roll, and whatever else the rider has an mp3 for. That will at least help them with the nerd market. They won't get much else unless the focus on the bike and not this fluff.
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[23:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Deepmind's 1.6m UK Medical Record Slurp "Legally Inappropriate" - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:17] <exec> 08└─If one never gives one's true details [youtube.com], it doesn't matter who 'slurps' one's records.
[23:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikileaks Offers 100k Bounty for Trump Tapes - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:28] <exec> 08└─Well, wikileaks is obviously a Russian front and nobody can prove otherwise. If they do, then they are a Russian plant. Based on this information: 1. Offer bounty on Trump tapes 2. Whitehouse leaker turns over tapes 3. Russians know who leaker is 4. Trump now knows who leaker is 5. ??? 6. Profit The...
[23:17:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03its_gonna_be_yuge! [6454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikileaks Offers 100k Bounty for Trump Tapes - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:29] <exec> 08└─WikiLeaks announced Friday it is prepared to pay $100,000 for any tapes of conversations between President Donald Trump and former FBI Director James Comey.
[23:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikileaks Offers 100k Bounty for Trump Tapes - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:31] <exec> 08└─Offering the money is great and all, but Anonymous already declared war on Trump and his administration promising to bring transparency. I have faith in Anonymous to bring the chaos, and do it just for the lulz. Lulz, as you know, are priceless :)
[23:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikileaks Offers 100k Bounty for Trump Tapes - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:33] <exec> 08└─Or, the old intelligence analysis(by retired types who say stupid shit for the media, mind you, not the still-classified actual ones) on Assange are accurate and he's a narcissist who feels validation for affecting the outcomes of major world events regardless of whether there's a moral imperative o...
[23:17:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikileaks Offers 100k Bounty for Trump Tapes - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:36] <exec> 08└─On the week-end I submitted a related story. /submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=20202 [soylentnews.org]
[23:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrentDavey [1526] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Wikileaks Offers 100k Bounty for Trump Tapes - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:38] <exec> 08└─Do they have to be 8 inch reel-to-reel or can they the newfangled Philips cassettes?
[23:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikileaks Offers 100k Bounty for Trump Tapes - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:40] <exec> 08└─Scotch brand transparent mending tape will do. Anything more is just overkill.
[23:17:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikileaks Offers 100k Bounty for Trump Tapes - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:42] <exec> 08└─WikiLeaks has money: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Between donations and BitCoins, they probably can spare $100k. But that $100k could be recovered since posting the hypothetical tapes would likely result in an influx of donations. WikiLeaks likely wins either way...
[23:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikileaks Offers 100k Bounty for Trump Tapes - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:45] <exec> 08└─Certainly he can for now. A committee can subpoena things. Individual congressmen can't. It's worth mentioning that nobody has confirmed that conversations are, or are not, taped at the WH. I doubt DJT installed a new recording system... if there was a system, BHO's staffers would presumably leaked...
[23:17:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02 - 06Hackers Threaten to Release Copy of "Pirates of the Carribean 5" - 137 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:53] <exec> 08└─How many bitcoin do I have to pay Hollywood to stop releasing sequels? I wonder if any of the story is true or just a weird PR technique.
[23:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Threaten to Release Copy of "Pirates of the Carribean 5" - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:18] <exec> 08└─the misguided assumption that MPAA argument is right and "piracy" hurts sales.
[23:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Threaten to Release Copy of "Pirates of the Carribean 5" - 1065 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:19] <exec> 08└─No. It's not a PR technique. Netflix and others have apparently been using a 3rd party vendor that required access to the entire film to do the work, and was responsible for post processing work. A LOT of data was copied out of their protected networks some time ago, and probably included this. All...
[23:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hackers Threaten to Release Copy of "Pirates of the Carribean 5" - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:22] <exec> 08└─Great. Just great. I woild rather have had three more decent sequels to Monkey Island Three.
[23:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Threaten to Release Copy of "Pirates of the Carribean 5" - 1847 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:24] <exec> 08└─Culture. I'm not sure anyone here is old enough to remember Razor, Fairlight, and others. Piracy existed on 2400 baud modems well before the Internet, and I personally pirated Star Control II over a phone line. There was a code that many adhered to, almost a form of honor amongst thieves. We can deb...
[23:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Threaten to Release Copy of "Pirates of the Carribean 5" - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:26] <exec> 08└─Geeeez. You know with a good brownie and some food, those movies are actually kind of... enjoyable. I guess I'm alone in this :) If that won't help the combined show of Here Comes Honey Boo Boo and Kardashian ought to do it :)
[23:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Threaten to Release Copy of "Pirates of the Carribean 5" - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:28] <exec> 08└─Movies make the bulk of their money during the opening weekend. Sometimes reviews will be embargoed until the movie is out. If the movie leaks before opening day, the word can spread that the movie is crap. People can get spoiled and lose interest. Some people will watch the leak instead of going to...
[23:18:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Threaten to Release Copy of "Pirates of the Carribean 5" - 1123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:30] <exec> 08└─God, ^^^THIS^^^ I have every single thing Disney has ever done up to about 5 years ago pirated and on a hard drive in my room. For that reason. The cocksuckers never release anything again because they are so fucking greedy. Or worse, they re-edit the shit out of it and tried "funking it up for 90s"...
[23:19:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03melikamp [1886] 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 156 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:40] <exec> 08└─Come now, throw Republicans a bone. Thanks to them, the public discourse has checks and balances; without them, it would be an onslaught of facts and logic.
[23:20:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 837 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:14] <exec> 08└─That's actually the problem I have. Parents didn't want me to work too hard; thought it'd teach the wrong lessons. I was supposed to graduate from college and go on to some cushy corporate job doing something ingenious and be rich or something. I really did not think I needed to do more than kill ti...
[23:20:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 1470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:15] <exec> 08└─I don't know; the two least formal professors I had, one was GREAT and one was TERRIBLE. The Great One had been in it a long, long time and was very old. He'd retired technically and just did two classes a semester for fun. He was tired of all the titles and junk and stopped caring, and was so accom...
[23:20:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:18] <exec> 08└─Since this generation of college professors are more intent on spreading their political agenda than actually teaching, I guess I'd have to agree with you.
[23:20:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:20] <exec> 08└─They've [the older generation] catastrophically fucked up the entire planet.
[23:20:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:22] <exec> 08└─I assume nearly^w every generation says that about their predecessors...
[23:20:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:24] <exec> 08└─sorry I don't know how to find the exact quotes, but the old people have been criticizing the younger generation for thousands of years.
[23:20:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:26] <exec> 08└─... well into my sophomore year. I earned my real name when some older students were drinking prairie fires - half a shot of tequila, half tabasco sauce, followed by jamming a lemon wedge in your mouth. "Go easy on the tequila," I requested, "I can't hold my liquor". I proceeded to slowly savor the...
[23:20:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:29] <exec> 08└─Germany really.. REALLY have a very formal system for titles etc.
[23:20:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urine Test Could Detect Zika Virus Quickly, Protect Unborn Babies - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:44] <exec> 08└─How about being able to pay for the test? ... They should even make a healthy profit. But just how much?
[23:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unfolding the Folding Mechanism of Ladybug Wings - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:56] <exec> 08└─It's funny to see a White Nationalist get all soft and sentimental over Lady Bugs. Wonderful that you want to save the bees, but look to your own fucking party when it comes to who is propping up MonSatan and the others. The people trying to make it the most difficult for the bees, in the interests...
[23:21:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03FunkyLich [4689] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese President Xi Jinping Pledges $124 Billion for One Belt, One Road Initiative - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:45] <exec> 08└─I wonder when was the last time you checked a history book? I mean books which don't have the wars like in Korea, Vietnam, Nicaragua, Laos, Lebanon, Cambodia, Panama, Haiti, Iraq, censored out? Why won't you spend the time reading a bit about the world instead of admiring your new star spangled undi...
[23:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Chinese President Xi Jinping Pledges $124 Billion for One Belt, One Road Initiative - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:46] <exec> 08└─What do you mean by "larger"?
[23:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Audi and Volvo Will Use Android as the Operating System in Upcoming Cars - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:32] <exec> 08└─Subs aren't trying to phone their location home every five seconds over the Internet...
[23:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:19] <exec> 08└─Is trampling the poor for political gain considered "huge societal damage", nowadays?
[23:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 1719 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:20] <exec> 08└─I could have voted Johnson or Stein. I told myself that [voting for Trump] wouldn't be that bad Just a guess: You've never been put in charge of hiring for a company. Apparently, you would choose someone who has no applicable experience and an otherwise empty head. ...plus an overbearing ego that do...
[23:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:23] <exec> 08└─Funny how there are so many Democrats at crucial moments ready make sure only Republican policy is passed.
[23:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:25] <exec> 08└─It is up to the judicial branch to reign in BOTH the legislative and executive branches here.
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