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[00:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. President to Visit Saudi Arabia; Arms Sales Expected - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:33] <exec> 08└─After years of disillusionment with the Obama administration, the Saudi leadership was eager to do business. “They were willing to make a bet on Trump and on America,” a senior White House official said.
[00:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. President to Visit Saudi Arabia; Arms Sales Expected - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:34] <exec> 08└─The previous US administration suspended some supplies because of human rights concerns.
[00:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. President to Visit Saudi Arabia; Arms Sales Expected - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:36] <exec> 08└─And take their oil.
[00:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. President to Visit Saudi Arabia; Arms Sales Expected - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:39] <exec> 08└─Why would the Saudis be unhappy with the Obama regime?
[00:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06U.S. President to Visit Saudi Arabia; Arms Sales Expected - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:41] <exec> 08└─> ...regional security architecture White House officials call an “Arab NATO,” It's a long way from the North Atlantic to the Arabian peninsula. But maybe no one in the White House took geography?
[00:17:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. President to Visit Saudi Arabia; Arms Sales Expected - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:43] <exec> 08└─Nobody cares about the goat-fuckers. If they want to commit genocide out in the sandbox, then it's scum killing scum. If anybody really gave a shit about it, then it wouldn't happen. But it is happening. And that's because Whites and Chinks, Bozgors and Hohols and Slav scum, all know that the lives...
[00:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06U.S. President to Visit Saudi Arabia; Arms Sales Expected - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:45] <exec> 08└─We don't even need their fucking oil. None of the arab states would even be able to feed their own people if Western companies hadn't gone in and drilled for oil for them. The 21st century and beyond can have no use for the retarded, incomprehensible ramblings of a 7th century psychopath being perpe...
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[00:17:48] <exec> 08└─Nobody cares about the goat-fuckers.
[00:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. President to Visit Saudi Arabia; Arms Sales Expected - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:50] <exec> 08└─They're all backwards. The life of any Middle-Easterner (including Israelis) is worth no more than a bucket of piss. We learned the harsh lessons of the goat-fuckers. [wikipedia.org] Now, they are nothing but a buyer of crippled US arms. They've done us a lot of good over the years, though, best let...
[00:18:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 105 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:00] <exec> 08└─Yeah! Stupid scientists! Instead of doing a survey they should just ask a bunch of people some questions!
[00:18:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:17] <exec> 08└─Student loans... yet another way for banks to grant toxic loans during a downturn in economy. Looks there is something they keep forgetting
[00:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:19] <exec> 08└─Hyperbole? Nonsense. I guarantee you, if my plan above is enacted, the world will thank us for it later, even if you don't.
[00:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:21] <exec> 08└─This is exactly why the Hillary campaign lost. Her campaign was based on heavy appeals to the far left and far right tails of the bell-curve, totally neglecting that the middle of the bell curve is the biggest. The insidious plan was to appeal to leeching beaners to shift the μ of the distribution...
[00:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:23] <exec> 08└─Wow, I didn't know Bob Iger reads SN!
[00:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:25] <exec> 08└─Tell that fucking Jew to spit out the money and suck helium.
[00:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Return to Pluto? - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:59] <exec> 08└─> It would be good if we could get rid of imperial units. Be careful what you wish for: The gallon (/ˈɡælən/) is a unit of measurement for liquid capacity in both the US customary units and the British imperial systems of measurement. Three significantly different sizes are in current use: the...
[00:19:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Return to Pluto? - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:01] <exec> 08└─I heard Trump doesn't take a salary for his President gig. I guess it's one of those things you put on your cv when you're looking for a better gig.
[00:19:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Return to Pluto? - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:03] <exec> 08└─OMG U MEAN THERES MORE ICE??? SEND ROCKETS ASAP
[00:19:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Return to Pluto? - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:05] <exec> 08└─I'd solve it all by using double instead of float. That would blow the minds of those cowboys at NASA. Doubles mother fucka, DOUBLES.
[00:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Return to Pluto? - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:07] <exec> 08└─We need to think outside the box guys. While you punks bicker about Neptune and Uranaus, the rest of the Universe is sitting there waiting for us to discover it. In a few short billion years we could understand the cosmos. Neptune's moons will seem so pathetic in hindsight. Give up!
[00:19:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Return to Pluto? - 695 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:09] <exec> 08└─NASA went metric in 2007 afaik since the loss of the Mars orbiter hurt a lot. As for the mission. Interesting but the question is what will we gain from this? A mission that would give key data is to send a human to live on the moon for a year to see the physiological changes that occurs when the gr...
[00:19:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Unveils the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:20] <exec> 08└─For ten years I have believed that core count would rise more rapidly than it has.
[00:20:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washed-Up Carcass Was Probably a Baleen Whale - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:02] <exec> 08└─In addition to bleeding a mysterious red fluid, the dead animal was mysteriously motionless. Scientists are confounded.
[00:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Stock Surges on Report of Intel Graphics Licensing Deal, 16-Core Ryzen Confirmed - 1307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:12] <exec> 08└─But if you aren't even maxxing out the cores that you have what does it matter? Your cores can twiddle their thumbs much faster now? I only have 2 applications where half my cores aren't permanently parked, Audacity and Handbrake and even on those I'm not maxxing my cores, a few spikes here and ther...
[00:25:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Released from Prison, Remains on Active Duty Pending Appeal - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:02] <exec> 08└─Yes. Except in reality, HRC is an evil queen. However, when it comes to what Trump promised, it will be as useful a reference tool as Obama's '08 platform.
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[01:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. President to Visit Saudi Arabia; Arms Sales Expected - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:37] <exec> 08└─dealing with dissidents dealing with journalists dealing with opposition... http://pomed.org [pomed.org] https://beta.theglobeandmail.com [theglobeandmail.com]
[01:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. President to Visit Saudi Arabia; Arms Sales Expected - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:38] <exec> 08└─They've done us a lot of good over the years, though, best let them down slowly and let their regime dissolve gracefully rather than typical violent disorderly Islamic fashion. Your "typically violent disorderly Islamic fashion" is being exported around the world by Zionists. What exactly do you pr...
[01:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03its_gonna_be_yuge! [6454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. President to Visit Saudi Arabia; Arms Sales Expected - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:41] <exec> 08└─Trump is interested in importing Saudi culture as well. Saudi women aren't allowed to drive. Trump wants to import that idea to the US, so that women can't drive away when he tries to grab their pussies.
[01:17:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. President to Visit Saudi Arabia; Arms Sales Expected - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:43] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the links, you're better at it than me. The Huffington Post one is just the usual pointed blather posing as journalism from that site, but the Guardian one makes some proper points I suppose. This is the link I meant to post. [reuters.com] Billions in arms sales says to me that no matter...
[01:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. President to Visit Saudi Arabia; Arms Sales Expected - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:45] <exec> 08└─Well, as a mere man there is nothing I can do except for advocating the nuking of the Middle-East, including Israel. As long as the Middle-East exists, we have too many men, too many people, making too many problems -- and there's not much love to go around. Can't you see, this is the land of confus...
[01:17:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 866 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:58] <exec> 08└─Uh, you know that talking to them doesn't do anything to offset the fact that all individual worker productivity gains have been going to the upper class for like 30 years now, right? You can lie your ass off like a Donald Trump and pretend manual labor jobs that have been automated to oblivion like...
[01:18:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03idiot_king [6587] 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 457 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:10] <exec> 08└─The very fact that some humans believe this qualifies as "humor" is not only horrifying but I would argue is precisely the reason we're in the predicament we're in now. Sincerity has gone out the window and, in its stead, has been replaced by Trumpian Hyperbole, by which I essentially mean every wor...
[01:18:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:18] <exec> 08└─Scientists? They have scientists at the Libertystreeteconomics and the Financial Times? I. Don't. Think. So.
[01:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:20] <exec> 08└─Can we purge annoying twits like you? For sure that would make the world a better place.
[01:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:22] <exec> 08└─4. Euthanize all defective offspring
[01:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:24] <exec> 08└─> Tell that fucking Jew to spit out the money and suck helium. Beep, sorry your turn is up. My father was a Yankee and post-theological1. He worked well into his 90s and died in his sleep at 100...same age as his Yankee mother. 1. http://www.urbandictionary.com [ur...
[01:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 3119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:26] <exec> 08└─Most of the list really would help. Some of it is horrifying, but life is cruel. Going down the list... The more conservative Jews are not harmful. Problem is, they all left for Israel. We're left with liberal ones like George Soros. Those people are harmful. There is also something to be said about...
[01:18:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:28] <exec> 08└─You cannot discharge student loan debt. If you stop paying, that also means you'll have to stop gaining any income for the rest of your life. The banks offered bribes and Congress took them long ago against the theory that students would spend $$$ at college and then simply declare bankruptcy right...
[01:18:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:31] <exec> 08└─And instead of dealing with your family's problem, you've pushed it onto the next person who receives that phone number. Nice ethics.
[01:19:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Germany Got 85% of Its Electricity from Renewable Sources in April - 662 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:47] <exec> 08└─The objection was never that green energy couldn't be produced, obviously it can. The question is how much money does one have to throw at buying their green absolution? In America we pay an average of eleven or twelve cents per KWH because while we piss away a pair amount on green egoboo we aren't...
[01:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Released from Prison, Remains on Active Duty Pending Appeal - 645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:06] <exec> 08└─Manning betrayed his mates. That is the bottom line. The queer shit may give me the icks, but I have never called you or anyone else here subhuman, have I? No, I have not. You are infatuated with Manning because A. he is queer, and B. he has been painted as altruistic. Betrayal. Look that up in the...
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[02:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's New TPUs are Now Much Faster -- will be Made Available to Researchers - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:25] <exec> 08└─> takyon [soylentnews.org] writes: I've been wondering, is it: + ta - ka - on + tak - yon + tacky - on or some other pronunciation?
[02:17:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's New TPUs are Now Much Faster -- will be Made Available to Researchers - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:26] <exec> 08└─It's a little like this. [youtube.com]
[02:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's New TPUs are Now Much Faster -- will be Made Available to Researchers - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:28] <exec> 08└─The TPU is smarter than our Commander-in-Chief.
[02:17:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's New TPUs are Now Much Faster -- will be Made Available to Researchers - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:30] <exec> 08└─TPUs are ineligible to become the President of the United States. Here's a short story idea for mcgrew: Donald Trump becomes the first human to be mind uploaded, and the resulting AI quickly becomes smarter than any other human while discovering profound insights about its copied former experiences.
[02:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's New TPUs are Now Much Faster -- will be Made Available to Researchers - 618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:33] <exec> 08└─That's right, GV100/Tesla V100 is rated for 120 TFLOPS of "tensor operations". So how much does a TPU cost? https://cloud.google.com [google.com] More importantly, despite having many more arithmetic units and large o...
[02:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's New TPUs are Now Much Faster -- will be Made Available to Researchers - 666 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:35] <exec> 08└─The world's fastest supercomputer, Sunway TaihuLight, has 40,960 "Chinese-designed SW26010 manycore 64-bit RISC processors based on the Sunway architecture". Speed is 105 petaflops, 125 petaflops peak (LINPACK, so take it with some salt). I believe the "Cloud TPU" is 4 smaller TPUs in one unit (not...
[02:18:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 1595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:39] <exec> 08└─$30000 tuition (not including food or housing or bills) / $10 hr / 40 hrs / 52 wks = 1.44 years working full-time per college semester. Hardly instant gratification. It's impossible to graduate debt free under those conditions. Sure, cut tuition in half using scholarships (which aren't available to...
[02:18:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:41] <exec> 08└─I always answer my phone "This is Mike". That particular collection agent was after some other guy who was also named Mike. It didn't work to claim they had the wrong guy. Eventually I got a new phone number and the problem went away.
[02:18:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:43] <exec> 08└─The problem resided with the estate. It was the creditor's problem.
[02:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:45] <exec> 08└─Clearly, the answer is to give the state more power and we can have the paradise of Venezuela
[02:18:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:47] <exec> 08└─Crowfard never misses an opportunity to brag about his great life. Debt collectors calling? Just be homeless! MDC is a lucky duck to be one of the beautiful people, and when he sings on the street, people give him money. Me, if I try to sing on the street, people tell me to shut up and fuck off and...
[02:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:49] <exec> 08└─Well, you can do that, but you end up having to hide what you're doing from your academic advisors [nytimes.com].
[02:18:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 1164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:52] <exec> 08└─First, quit talking as if that slump is over. The "recovery" that Lamestream Media keeps yammering about is a fraud. The actual economy in the USA is still crawling along on its hands and knees. [google.com] That hasn't even gotten back to the 2007 levels of activity--forget the kind of thing that w...
[02:21:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SCOTUS Denies Appeal of Police "Qualified Immunity", Ignores Gorsuch Dissent - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:19] <exec> 08└─I kind of figured some liberal would react that way. There is no "thug" race. You are projecting your own racism into this. A thug is a person who uses a physically intimidating presence and/or human strength to engage in crime, particularly to steal. If you see the word "thug" and think "black pers...
[02:21:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SCOTUS Denies Appeal of Police "Qualified Immunity", Ignores Gorsuch Dissent - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:20] <exec> 08└─I have to wonder if some of the "kids these days" aren't disrespectful of their schools simply because there's nothing to respect.
[02:21:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS Denies Appeal of Police "Qualified Immunity", Ignores Gorsuch Dissent - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:23] <exec> 08└─Anyone who clicks on the link will figure this out, but I accidentally wrote "expelled" in the first sentence where I meant "suspended." This should be clear that I messed up the wording since the next sentence gives the actual expulsion stats.
[02:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Released from Prison, Remains on Active Duty Pending Appeal - 1948 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:30] <exec> 08└─Your request is easy to deal with - http://www.history.army.mil [army.mil] And, I would like to help you a little to understand that oath. "All enemies, foreign and domestic" Some of America's worst enemies are located inside of the Washington beltway. Others are scattered around...
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[03:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06BBC May Contact Your Boss if You Post Comments it Finds Problematic - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:27] <exec> 08└─Troll them once: Shame on you. Troll them twice: You're already unemployable and can troll them all day long.
[03:17:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BBC May Contact Your Boss if You Post Comments it Finds Problematic - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:28] <exec> 08└─What kind of surveillance and investigative powers do they have that they can figure out who you and your bosses are? Especially if you don't use your real name? Please don't tell the MAFIAA how you do--- oh, you are part of the MAFIAA.
[03:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BBC May Contact Your Boss if You Post Comments it Finds Problematic - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:30] <exec> 08└─Is that the same mouth you use to say "hello" to your boss every morning?
[03:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BBC May Contact Your Boss if You Post Comments it Finds Problematic - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:33] <exec> 08└─Nobody is the boss of me.
[03:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BBC May Contact Your Boss if You Post Comments it Finds Problematic - 957 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:35] <exec> 08└─Bingo. fustakrakich wins the internet today. People who voluntarily give the BBC, or anyone else online, their real contact information, are chumps, asking to be burnt. I'm looking at all the fools who post all the details of their lives to Facebook, first and foremost. But, while those are the wors...
[03:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BBC May Contact Your Boss if You Post Comments it Finds Problematic - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:37] <exec> 08└─Sure but the real questions are can you still collect jobseekers benefits and does being unemployable for trolling count as a disability and how can trolling be used as the thin edge of a wedge to basic income.
[03:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06BBC May Contact Your Boss if You Post Comments it Finds Problematic - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:39] <exec> 08└─In America your own congressional representative will write to your boss for exercising your first amendment right to free speech. [thehill.com] And not even buzzard-approved punching-down free-speech, actual speaking-truth-to-power political free speech.
[03:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BBC May Contact Your Boss if You Post Comments it Finds Problematic - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:42] <exec> 08└─All my BBC accounts show me to be Someone I don't like.
[03:17:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BBC May Contact Your Boss if You Post Comments it Finds Problematic - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:44] <exec> 08└─In the 80's and early 90's, days of usenet. Didn't understand why people didn't use their real names online, and it suddenly clicked. It clicked so suddenly I had to get a username Right Fricken Now. Snotnose came to mind. Now I'm snotnose everywhere. And I'm not the only one, there are 3-4 other fo...
[03:17:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BBC May Contact Your Boss if You Post Comments it Finds Problematic - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:46] <exec> 08└─double fuck the social justice warrior who calls herself a "human relations" officer
[03:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BBC May Contact Your Boss if You Post Comments it Finds Problematic - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:48] <exec> 08└─That is truly interesting. And, I quote, "A lawyer told WNYC that the letter is likely not illegal, though it could pose a problem for the congressman politically." If the activist groups failed to use that letter against the congressman, they missed a golden opportunity. Legal or not, the letter wa...
[03:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BBC May Contact Your Boss if You Post Comments it Finds Problematic - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:50] <exec> 08└─I sense some levity in your post, but the BBC is indeed married to the MAFIAA-like organizations of the world. I think we all realize that the US has no counterpart for the BBC. Maybe Netflix could become BBC-like, in time. But, Netflix doesn't control radio and television space, so probably not. We...
[03:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BBC May Contact Your Boss if You Post Comments it Finds Problematic - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:53] <exec> 08└─Michael David Crawford uses his real name and Michael David Crawford can do no wrong. Michael David Crawford recovers from homelessness and long term unemployment in a world where unemployment is a death sentence. Michael David Crawford is a living miracle of blockbuster proportions. Michael David C...
[03:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06BBC May Contact Your Boss if You Post Comments it Finds Problematic - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:55] <exec> 08└─Shit, I'd been hoping those fuckers would torpedo my career with Boston Dynamics for the past fucking decade. I hate my workplace, Jews, and, shit, everybody. [youtube.com]
[03:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BBC May Contact Your Boss if You Post Comments it Finds Problematic - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:57] <exec> 08└─Yes, I do know who you are, but I hired you anyway. It amuses me to keep you around.
[03:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BBC May Contact Your Boss if You Post Comments it Finds Problematic - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:59] <exec> 08└─> I don't know anyone that's dumb enough to give the BBC their real personal info. Like.... your IP address? If you post from work and you break the law, it doesn't seem out of line for the BBC to report that someone at your company's place of business is using their equipment to break the law. ISP...
[03:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BBC May Contact Your Boss if You Post Comments it Finds Problematic - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:01] <exec> 08└─The bit I liked was: “I had to write a statement to my CEO, and at my level as an assistant general counsel and a senior vice president, at this employer it was not something that I expected,” I know what I would write to the CEO if put in that position: "Dear CEO, this is none of your business...
[03:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BBC May Contact Your Boss if You Post Comments it Finds Problematic - 950 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:04] <exec> 08└─Yes, I learned that lesson pretty early too -- for me, it was someone posting emails on his website without permission, emails I had sent him just as casual comments on his site and not meant for public consumption. (This was back in the early days of the web when people just put up personal website...
[03:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06BBC May Contact Your Boss if You Post Comments it Finds Problematic - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:06] <exec> 08└─You're employed? How the fuck did THAT happen, family connections?
[03:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06BBC May Contact Your Boss if You Post Comments it Finds Problematic - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:08] <exec> 08└─Fuck yeah. Michael David Crawford ROCKS.
[03:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BBC May Contact Your Boss if You Post Comments it Finds Problematic - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:10] <exec> 08└─Mmmmmm - uhhhhh - That's a tough question. I don't think she whores herself at all. She is a BELIEVER!! You can't sell yourself for an idea that you believe in. Besides, she's almost the definition of "fugly", so she would have a hard time prostituting herself. So, no, I don't suppose she's any kind...
[03:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BBC May Contact Your Boss if You Post Comments it Finds Problematic - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:12] <exec> 08└─I wish. Made the mistake of leaving a good job a few years back to join a startup, which went tits up a year later. Haven't been able to get an interview since then, let alone a job. Even chopped 10-15 years off my resume, nobody responds to my "um, u got a job, I would be really good at it, so, we...
[03:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BBC May Contact Your Boss if You Post Comments it Finds Problematic - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:15] <exec> 08└─> I know what I would write to the CEO if put in that position: "Dear CEO, this is none of your business". The article implies that she was forced to resign as a result. So, CEO's business or not, she is the one who paid the price.
[03:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BBC May Contact Your Boss if You Post Comments it Finds Problematic - 1403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:17] <exec> 08└─Seriously. First off, there's nothing in the BBC statement that implies they are going to contact your BOSS -- that's just unjustified spin in TFA. After "employer" they say "school email/internet provider." I take this to mean something slightly different than what TFA is reading into it -- namely,...
[03:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06BBC May Contact Your Boss if You Post Comments it Finds Problematic - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:19] <exec> 08└─Ask San Francisco. if somebody can get hired there, [youtube.com] they can get hired anywhere.
[03:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. President to Visit Saudi Arabia; Arms Sales Expected - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:55] <exec> 08└─There's no need to nuke Mecca, I know you're trying to be provocative but that's sick. All we need to do is stop propping up the Wahibs and let nature take it's course. Of course, after propping them up for a century and feeding them plenty of advanced weaponry, it's going to be bloody, but continui...
[03:18:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. President to Visit Saudi Arabia; Arms Sales Expected - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:57] <exec> 08└─Hey... 350 billion dollars.... Let's not sweat the small shit...
[03:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. President to Visit Saudi Arabia; Arms Sales Expected - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:59] <exec> 08└─All we need to do is stop propping up the Wahibs and let nature take it's course. That market is too big to leave to Chinese and Russian competition. You know the routine, nature abhors a vacuum.
[03:19:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. President to Visit Saudi Arabia; Arms Sales Expected - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:01] <exec> 08└─Then quit buying their oil. Done right we can drain them dry, and let their barbaric society figure out they can't afford gas, let alone maintenance on all that cool shit we sold them. Then tell them we'll only teach women who are allowed to drive how to maintain all that cool shit, sit back, and en...
[03:19:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. President to Visit Saudi Arabia; Arms Sales Expected - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:03] <exec> 08└─'Let nature take it's course' most likely means a situation where none of the three major powers really wants to risk another quagmire AND piss off the other two and push them together by doing that. The US has had Vietnam, and Iraq, and still hasn't found a way out of Afghanistan. The USSR has had...
[03:19:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. President to Visit Saudi Arabia; Arms Sales Expected - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:05] <exec> 08└─> but continuing the current strategy only insures it will be even bloodier. If you can involve the insurance companies and get insurance to keep the current strategy going that will certanly ensure things get even bloodier.
[03:19:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:53] <exec> 08└─Lifelong indentured service? Bring back the debt-prisons? You think I joke, but don't be so certain about that... I think we've seen the end of the second renaissance. Dark times are coming.
[03:19:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 2253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:54] <exec> 08└─There's no reason to make credit cards sound as difficult as the parent does here. Yes, those who have specialized needs or who are willing to "play the games" with credit cards can maximize savings for themselves -- more power to them. But you're right that a lot of people who likely try to do that...
[03:19:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:56] <exec> 08└─This is what an empire in decline looks like: Over the last decade, GDP is up $5.2T; the total credit market debt owed is up $24.5T [mybudget360.com] (No publication date on the page; that appears to be May 2016.) In 1947, the FIRE[1] side of the economy made up roughly 10 percent of GDP. Today it i...
[03:19:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:58] <exec> 08└─if I try to sing on the street, people tell me to shut up Apparently, you have no performing talent. It's small of you to be jealous of the superior talent of MDC. ...and if you don't have sufficient skills/a job that pays more than busking, you should get in contact with The Mighty Buzzard. He has...
[03:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS Denies Appeal of Police "Qualified Immunity", Ignores Gorsuch Dissent - 1124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:29] <exec> 08└─The school system where I am still has one school specifically for disciplinary problems. If a student is expelled, they go there and their parents are required to arrange transportation (making sure even otherwise unconcerned parents will show an interest). I don't know how it is now, but when I wa...
[03:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SCOTUS Denies Appeal of Police "Qualified Immunity", Ignores Gorsuch Dissent - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:31] <exec> 08└─I didn't realize that Dylan and Eric qualified as "hood rats."
[03:24:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02 - 06China and India Years Early On Climate Goals - 156 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:43] <exec> 08└─Runaway1956: Typical Trump voter: can't see the information when it's right in front of his face. Can't accept the facts when they contradict his worldview.
[03:26:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Released from Prison, Remains on Active Duty Pending Appeal - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:41] <exec> 08└─I think I understand how you feel now. Family betrayed me many moons ago, and they'll tell you that I was the one who betrayed them instead. That's interesting. I hadn't expected such an interplay between sociology and psychology. Thank you for explaining.
[03:26:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Released from Prison, Remains on Active Duty Pending Appeal - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:42] <exec> 08└─And what he revealed ended up possibly stopping a shitload worse. I've got mixed emotions about what he did and why, and the motives sure as hell weren't pure, but then...what about the last 70+ years of US intervention in international affairs has been? There's no good guys here, and I suspect he,...
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[04:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BBC May Contact Your Boss if You Post Comments it Finds Problematic - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:05] <exec> 08└─Why would it have to be you who ties them together? A 3rd party reddit/twitter lynch mob leader will tie your name to your employer and demand your firing. ISP/Telco/Service provider staff will dox you to assist, provided your politics aren't sufficiently leftist.
[04:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BBC May Contact Your Boss if You Post Comments it Finds Problematic - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:07] <exec> 08└─By the way, BBC, go ahead and contact my boss if you like. I work for myself. Can't wait to tell you limp-dick bad teeth cowards to go fuck yourselves. If anyone is wondering whether the US is different from the UK, you can quit wondering now.
[04:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06BBC May Contact Your Boss if You Post Comments it Finds Problematic - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:09] <exec> 08└─If you're using an employer's email, a university's email, or an internet provider's services to do something illegal
[04:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BBC May Contact Your Boss if You Post Comments it Finds Problematic - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:11] <exec> 08└─I just route it all through Russia and Rachel Maddow.
[04:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BBC May Contact Your Boss if You Post Comments it Finds Problematic - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:13] <exec> 08└─Bleh! Go away, troll!
[04:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BBC May Contact Your Boss if You Post Comments it Finds Problematic - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:15] <exec> 08└─by ensuring the discussion community consists only of persons with no job or real life reputation to protect.
[04:18:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BBC May Contact Your Boss if You Post Comments it Finds Problematic - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:18] <exec> 08└─"inappropriate or objectionable content" By whose standards? Only a fool could be comfortable trusting such a judgement call standard won't be subject to a political purity test. Supporting the wrong political candidate is enough to be labeled a *phobe, nazi, etc. Mention that family law is biased?...
[04:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BBC May Contact Your Boss if You Post Comments it Finds Problematic - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:20] <exec> 08└─The internet was so slow 300 years ago that his emails are still *SENDING*........
[04:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BBC May Contact Your Boss if You Post Comments it Finds Problematic - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:22] <exec> 08└─I guess I should switch from "Adolf Hitler" to some current politician's name when registering for accounts, then.
[04:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BBC May Contact Your Boss if You Post Comments it Finds Problematic - 2687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:24] <exec> 08└─I know a lot of people that are wealthy because they own their own businesses. and if they exercise their free speech in a manner that's legal and someone doesn't like it they have enough money to hire the best lawyers. Heck, I know a lot of wealthy people that are rich because they trade the stock...
[04:19:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. President to Visit Saudi Arabia; Arms Sales Expected - 1860 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:05] <exec> 08└─10 Reasons to Make the Break with Saudi Arabia That place is right out of the 7th Century. [commondreams.org] 1. Saudi Arabia is governed as an absolutist monarchy 2. Criticizing the monarchy or defending human rights can bring down severe and cruel punishments 3. Saudi Arabia has one of the highest...
[04:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. President to Visit Saudi Arabia; Arms Sales Expected - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:07] <exec> 08└─You would have preferred "CENTO", "SEATO", "ANZAC"? Don't expect the airheads in the Trump White house to know about any of those, BTW. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[04:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. President to Visit Saudi Arabia; Arms Sales Expected - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:09] <exec> 08└─And tiny hands.
[04:20:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 1175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:00] <exec> 08└─Perhaps the recovery is more like the economy isn't in rapid decline. And has entered a kind of steady state. Which means that economic planning is a lot easier. Seems the way out is to either find a beneficial employer or start ones own business. Not necessarily a company. Just making sure the prod...
[04:20:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:02] <exec> 08└─Yeah, Venezuelian communism and cronyism is the shit! :-) Lot's of oil resources and all to crap anyway. Nobel prize in inability? :p On a more clear thinking note it must be up to individuals to set the conditions for which they are willing to trade their carrots, tools or time for something else....
[04:20:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:04] <exec> 08└─Take a degree somewhere else than USA? Work hard and save. Live in a cheap cabin with internet and read a lot?
[04:20:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:06] <exec> 08└─Does the time you need to spend to keep this scheme running equals a worthwhile hourly pay? Does the diverted attention steal that away from something that could have benefited you even more?
[04:20:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:08] <exec> 08└─A country that produces fiat money that others may suddenly stop to put a value on sounds risky ;) A system where real addition of value has gone is likely to, yes, decline.
[04:20:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:11] <exec> 08└─Only incomes in the visible economy and only in that country. Many options.. :p
[04:20:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DrkShadow [1404] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:13] <exec> 08└─You may be late to the game: that "Buy gift cards at Target and get 5% off the cash-value" trick was short-lived. You can't do it any more. They might let you use a credit card to buy the card at face-value, screwing them out of Visa's fees, though. I was looking for a way to do something like this...
[04:20:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:15] <exec> 08└─2. Purge the illegal aliens
[04:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Return to Pluto? - 1422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:55] <exec> 08└─New Horizons also got you [wikipedia.org] a grainy image of Asteroid 132524 APL, and imagery and data from Jupiter and the Galilean moons, including a volcanic plume over Io. Now that the Pluto data is in, New Horizons will fly by (486958) 2014 MU69 [wikipedia.org], becoming the first spacecraft in...
[04:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Direct Counterfactual Quantum Communication Claimed - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:22] <exec> 08└─You need to put it in a pyramid scheme like bitcoin to amplify it's quantity before you count it.
[04:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Direct Counterfactual Quantum Communication Claimed - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:23] <exec> 08└─If this actually works, we will see applications in the arbitrage markets very soon. Conversely, if we don't see applications of this in the arbitrage markets, the traders have been unable to replicate the process described in the paper. Frankly, I'm surprised this was published at all instead of be...
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[04:23:26] <exec> 08└─Oh, nevermind, they aren't communicating directly, they're hitching a ride on the phase information of a wave instead of a particle. No speed value to traders there. To determine whether light appears in a channel, one refers to the amplitude of its wave function. However, in counterfactual communi...
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[05:17:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03MadTinfoilHatter [4635] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Legislation Would Require the NSA to Inform Other Agencies About Vulnerabilities - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:13] <exec> 08└─This won't put any kind of checks on anything. It only means that the vulnerabilities previously exploitable by the NSA, will now also be exploitable by the CIA, FBI, and probably some other TLA:s as well. DHS? (Shudders.) Of course it also means that there will be even more potential holes for thos...
[05:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Legislation Would Require the NSA to Inform Other Agencies About Vulnerabilities - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:14] <exec> 08└─Personally I have passed a rule that Santa Claus have to give me a new super computer every year. This forces him to do this. :-)
[05:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Legislation Would Require the NSA to Inform Other Agencies About Vulnerabilities - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:16] <exec> 08└─It could help the vulnerabilities leak faster. Just spread it around to all of the agencies, and watch the weakest link reveal them all. Hell, they might get sold instead of leaked.
[05:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BBC May Contact Your Boss if You Post Comments it Finds Problematic - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:02] <exec> 08└─"inappropriate or objectionable content" By whose standards? Only a fool could be comfortable trusting such a judgement call standard won't be subject to a political purity test.
[05:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BBC May Contact Your Boss if You Post Comments it Finds Problematic - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:03] <exec> 08└─That phrase does not appear in the BBC document.
[05:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BBC May Contact Your Boss if You Post Comments it Finds Problematic - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:05] <exec> 08└─Ain't no jobs when you're over 30. Unless you're Michael-fucking-David-fucking-Crawford-fuck-yeah.
[05:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BBC May Contact Your Boss if You Post Comments it Finds Problematic - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:07] <exec> 08└─punching-down free-speech
[05:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BBC May Contact Your Boss if You Post Comments it Finds Problematic - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:10] <exec> 08└─Just as I thought communist Soviet DDR crimes against thinking the wrong way was out of fashion. It's all part of punishing people for having the wrong opinion. And proof that organizations can't be trusted with "real names". Those that have weak arguments for their case always need to know "who you...
[05:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BBC May Contact Your Boss if You Post Comments it Finds Problematic - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:12] <exec> 08└─doing something illegal
[05:18:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's New TPUs are Now Much Faster -- will be Made Available to Researchers - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:25] <exec> 08└─It seems how the chip works is pretty well known. So when will the first open source chip show up? Any researcher that uses these online TPUs can be sure that google gobles it up. And any productivity, patent, value addition goes to share holders etc. A open source solution will enable more free dev...
[05:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's New TPUs are Now Much Faster -- will be Made Available to Researchers - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:26] <exec> 08└─36.8e15 FLOPS is the estimated computational power required to simulate a human brain in real time.. At a price of 30 million dollars?
[05:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's New TPUs are Now Much Faster -- will be Made Available to Researchers - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:28] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but can it run Grand Theft Auto 5 at 4K over 60FPS?
[05:18:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's New TPUs are Now Much Faster -- will be Made Available to Researchers - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:30] <exec> 08└─TPUs are ineligible to become the President of the United States.
[05:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. President to Visit Saudi Arabia; Arms Sales Expected - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:03] <exec> 08└─Trump finally failed at the last remaining "good" thing I figured could come out of his presidency. That he'd not lube the ol' war machine with Saudi Arabia. Granted, I made the same mistake as his supporters: I assumed he'd hate/fear ebil brown people too much and use it for a rally instead.
[05:19:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. President to Visit Saudi Arabia; Arms Sales Expected - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:04] <exec> 08└─Don't be ridiculous. The Saudi will give the weapons to some fringe group who in turn will do the American killing. Who do you think is bankrolling ISIS?
[05:20:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 1054 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:20:04] <exec> 08└─Capitalism is NOT a governmental system. If you thought about it for half a second[1], you would then realize that THE OPPOSITE OF CAPITALISM IS NOT A GOVERNMENTAL SYSTEM EITHER. [1] I realize it's asking a lot of you to think. Don't blow a lobe, dude. The way to disempower Capitalists is to EMPOWER...
[05:20:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:20:06] <exec> 08└─Are you American too? I feel like you are because that sort of misplaced sense of responsibility to the state and corporations seems mighty American. Tying it to ethics seems especially American. But no. Debt of a decedent doesn't work like that. I am not an executor. Good luck surviving in the Amer...
[05:20:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:20:08] <exec> 08└─Brilliant analysis, and I love how your solution to unemployment can be summarized as "just get a job."
[05:20:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:20:10] <exec> 08└─Before they could have Communism, they'd first need to have Socialism. That would be a whole bunch of worker-owned cooperative businesses. They don't have that. What they have is a BADLY-RUN Liberal Democracy that depends on ONE commodity. What that country needs is a proper ECONOMIC system. Clearly...
[05:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS Denies Appeal of Police "Qualified Immunity", Ignores Gorsuch Dissent - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:42] <exec> 08└─Use metal detectors and drug dogs to screen out anyone with guns or drugs brought to school. And if found so relegate them to another school equipped to handle such people. Now if schools wouls stop this no-kid-left-behind and common-core BS..
[05:25:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China and India Years Early On Climate Goals - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:09] <exec> 08└─In other words, when China builds coal burning plants, it's "years early on climate goals". When the US does the same thing, it's "the US doesn't need coal". I think it's reasonable to ask for equal treatment here.
[05:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China and India Years Early On Climate Goals - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:11] <exec> 08└─For an example of equal treatment, I advocate global trade even though it does have a modest negative effect on low skilled labor in the US - because it creates such a tremendous improvement in the lives of everyone outside of the developed world.
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[06:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Scientists Develop New Plow - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:17] <exec> 08└─Is this like carbon fiber horse buggy?
[06:17:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Scientists Develop New Plow - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:19] <exec> 08└─Did you just invent a better buggy? Quick, patent your idea, and sell to the Amish.
[06:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Scientists Develop New Plow - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:21] <exec> 08└─You need to plow for most crops. Some GMO plants don't really need it, which saves diesel fuel and soil erosion. A plow is also good for removing land mines. :-)
[06:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Legislation Would Require the NSA to Inform Other Agencies About Vulnerabilities - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:32] <exec> 08└─Silly fool, smartphones are supercomputers for your pocket. You just asked for one bargain bin phone per year. Lame.
[06:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Legislation Would Require the NSA to Inform Other Agencies About Vulnerabilities - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:34] <exec> 08└─Nah, computerphones are for wimps. I asked for big room full with racks to the ceiling equipped with processor 19" units and a suitable nuclear plant to power it. :p
[06:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BBC May Contact Your Boss if You Post Comments it Finds Problematic - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:26] <exec> 08└─To be clear, my post was referring to the policy about contacting your employer, etc. I'm less of a fan of the other section of the BBC policy that you note, though that seems to fall under a separate standard of action.
[06:18:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's New TPUs are Now Much Faster -- will be Made Available to Researchers - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:44] <exec> 08└─Maybe if you can wire a really fast bus between a board with TPUs and the graphics card. Probably using the SLI port or PCI-e data pair. Then it's just the task to write some code..
[06:18:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02 - 06U.S. President to Visit Saudi Arabia; Arms Sales Expected - 207 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:54] <exec> 08└─After years of disillusionment with the Obama administration, the Saudi leadership was eager to do business. “They were willing to make a bet on Trump and on America,” a senior White House official said.
[06:21:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Germany Got 85% of Its Electricity from Renewable Sources in April - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:41] <exec> 08└─It's not the energy cost that increases, it's the part of it that is paid for by normal consumers. In other words, the problem is not the renewable energies, it's a misguided subsidy system.
[06:21:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 4, Touché) 02 - 06 Germany Got 85% of Its Electricity from Renewable Sources in April - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:42] <exec> 08└─Germany states that both Wood burning and hydro are 'renewable'.
[06:21:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Germany Got 85% of Its Electricity from Renewable Sources in April - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:44] <exec> 08└─Once you burn the trees, the "carbon" does not stay in the EU!
[06:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Germany Got 85% of Its Electricity from Renewable Sources in April - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:47] <exec> 08└─But of course here in the US we spend the money saved well on the military and other long-term investments like education and healthcare.
[06:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Direct Counterfactual Quantum Communication Claimed - 1229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:40] <exec> 08└─"If your best argument is shaming skeptics, I'd say your failure to convert them to your point of view is entirely your own." Lol, way to promote the age of polarization! I was never looking to "convert" anyone, I just dislike the knee jerk reactions from close minded fools. Such were (and still are...
[06:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Vocal Minority [2765] (Score: 1) 02 - 06AMD Stock Surges on Report of Intel Graphics Licensing Deal, 16-Core Ryzen Confirmed - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:23] <exec> 08└─Where is the "+1 Groan" mod?
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[07:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Scientists Develop New Plow - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:20] <exec> 08└─My operation is 100% hydroponic.
[07:17:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Scientists Develop New Plow - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:22] <exec> 08└─RTF(s)A one concludes that it's possibly a new steel alloy, or possibly just the use of said allow for plows which is new. And maybe the plow design is better than either the imported ones or the allegedly crappy home-made ones. But it's definitely cheaper than the imported ones. I can only hope a l...
[07:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Chinese Scientists Develop New Plow - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:24] <exec> 08└─Submitted via IRC for Runaway1956
[07:17:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Scientists Develop New Plow - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:26] <exec> 08└─Tell us more about your marijuana business.
[07:18:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06BBC May Contact Your Boss if You Post Comments it Finds Problematic - 1403 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:10] <exec> 08└─Seriously. First off, there's nothing in the BBC statement that implies they are going to contact your BOSS -- that's just unjustified spin in TFA. After "employer" they say "school email/internet provider." I take this to mean something slightly different than what TFA is reading into it -- namely,...
[07:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BBC May Contact Your Boss if You Post Comments it Finds Problematic - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:29] <exec> 08└─Given his tech background and trollish personality I'm gonna go with: he just found someone he could blackmail. "Love me, or else!"
[07:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BBC May Contact Your Boss if You Post Comments it Finds Problematic - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:31] <exec> 08└─Wub a lubba dub dub!
[07:18:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Refugee from beyond [2699] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BBC May Contact Your Boss if You Post Comments it Finds Problematic - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:33] <exec> 08└─Now I'm snotnose everywhere.
[07:18:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BBC May Contact Your Boss if You Post Comments it Finds Problematic - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:35] <exec> 08└─The comments sections of BBC news articles are cesspits for the following reasons. Comments are limited to 400 characters so it's very difficult to make any argument of any depth whatsoever. The comments are not threaded either so it's very difficult to reply in place to a troll or someone talking o...
[07:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. President to Visit Saudi Arabia; Arms Sales Expected - 647 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:27] <exec> 08└─We like countries addicted to our weapons. We especially like them addicted to our spare parts. Iran had the F-14, which would be a nice plane when not grounded due to lack of spare parts. We also like to keep our defense contractors viable. The alternative is that Russia and China and others gain t...
[07:19:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. President to Visit Saudi Arabia; Arms Sales Expected - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:29] <exec> 08└─It is said that the final battle, in which Islam wins, will occur in al-A’maq or in Dabiq. OK then. Let's just evaporate those towns, 20 megaton minimum. Oh hey, your prophet was wrong and your whole religion is a farce. Not that we couldn't spare a couple more nukes for Mecca and Medina of course...
[07:20:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 756 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:20:33] <exec> 08└─I pay for everything with (a) cash or (b) my bank debit card. I don't have a credit card, and I don't get into debt at any point. It means my finances are very simple: I live entirely within my means, and only buy what I can afford and have saved for. By the way, there's no such thing as "free money...
[07:20:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:20:34] <exec> 08└─The only standard of living increase for poor people has been cheap shit. Yay, they can buy cheap electronics! Too bad their healthcare is worse, too bad education is worse, too bad economic opportunities are worse. The middle class has been gutted, it is now more of a lower-middle class at best, wi...
[07:20:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 722 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:20:36] <exec> 08└─Just don't forget that your financial data is one of their products. So put your entire financial life into the web, true dystopia will never arrive right? Oh wait, insurance already wants to peruse your purchasing history for risk assessment. Black market data will never result in nefarious schemes...
[07:20:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:20:38] <exec> 08└─Not so fast, TMB has been caught in multiple lies where he works for some company yet at other times is himself the employer with grateful minions. Pretty sure you'll be sucking sand from that goat's bladder, but you'll get a good dose of 'Murrican bootstrapping advice.
[07:20:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:20:41] <exec> 08└─Liberal fairy tales? Is that what we've been so lucky to get for the last 30 years? I feel so BLESSED! /sarcasm just in case
[07:22:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06 Germany Got 85% of Its Electricity from Renewable Sources in April - 64 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:01] <exec> 08└─Germany states that both Wood burning and hydro are 'renewable'.
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[08:17:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Powerful Denuvo DRM Cracked 10 Days After Release of PREY - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:12] <exec> 08└─DRM irritates the honest customers. Those who absolutely want to pirate, are going to get cracked versions anyway. Could they just stop?
[08:17:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Powerful Denuvo DRM Cracked 10 Days After Release of PREY - 680 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:13] <exec> 08└─Not sure it's a tech that gamers hate. Does it get in their way? Most DRM these days is fairly innocuous and the days of not having a compatible CD-drive or whatever are behind us. Probably it checks in, and requires Internet connection, and re-activates if you suddenly change all your hardware, but...
[08:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More Powerful Denuvo DRM Cracked 10 Days After Release of PREY - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:15] <exec> 08└─Probably it checks in, and requires Internet connection
[08:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More Powerful Denuvo DRM Cracked 10 Days After Release of PREY - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:18] <exec> 08└─DRM is a buisness in and on itself. It's a digital version of snake oil, just that in this case not only is the offered cure fake, the disease it claims to cure is fake too.
[08:17:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06More Powerful Denuvo DRM Cracked 10 Days After Release of PREY - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:20] <exec> 08└─To me, having DRM on something is like I do not really own it. Someone else does. Its kinda like me having to ask someone else's permission to drive "my" van, and they have the power to say "no. You didn't obey something we imposed on you." I had just as soon not have that hand in my life if I can...
[08:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Chinese Scientists Develop New Plow - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:34] <exec> 08└─Truly, Runaway is an idiot, an ignoramous, a bot mon, a singularity amoungst the constellation of Arkansawians, someone so dense, that the Earth is in danger of being sucked into a Black Hole. I prefer not to read anything he posts, since what ever he post is the most pure and reflned bullshit desi...
[08:17:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Chinese Scientists Develop New Plow - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:35] <exec> 08└─Truly, Runaway is an idiot, an ignoramous,
[08:18:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BBC May Contact Your Boss if You Post Comments it Finds Problematic - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:43] <exec> 08└─> If you're using an employer's email, a university's email, or an internet provider's services to do something illegal, there's at least a theoretical possibility that those hosts could be held partly liable for your illegal acts. No, there's not. There's even precedent [eff.org] that when somebody...
[08:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06BBC May Contact Your Boss if You Post Comments it Finds Problematic - 1113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:45] <exec> 08└─I did not want to retire either... but we do have a Gawd-awful surplus of STEM people in the workplace right now due to all the aerospace companies which are no longer around. Which has highly depressed how much organizations value us. One organization I was dealing with seemed to have no problem pa...
[08:20:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03migz [1807] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 1434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:20:48] <exec> 08└─False. Fractional reserve banking is not capitalism. It's the continual failure of Central Planning. Imagine that the government decided tomatoes were the most important thing in the economy. Instead of farmers growing tomatoes and selling them to grocery stores which people bought them from the gov...
[08:20:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:20:49] <exec> 08└─Why is it that a college education is so expensive in the United States (and, increasingly, the UK), while it is nearly free in the EU?
[08:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Germany Got 85% of Its Electricity from Renewable Sources in April - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:13] <exec> 08└─Never head of heat pumps? They have a COP (Coefficient of performance) of around 3-3.5. So you need around 1.5 "X" of electricity to get 5 "X" of heat. So practically, gas might be 80% efficient while electricity with an heat pump is 300% efficient.
[08:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washed-Up Carcass Was Probably a Baleen Whale - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:30] <exec> 08└─Earlier reports that the dead giant squidlike creature was Cthulhu, washed up out of his house in R'lyeh, have been disconfirmed.
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[09:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Announces "Lens" Augmented Reality Service - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:15] <exec> 08└─Great! Now I can build a spamfilter for all those obnoxious bill boards. Added functionality can include face identification of undercover cops and background green/red light for anyone you meet. The future is so bright I got to wear Goooogle lenses ;-)
[09:17:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Announces "Lens" Augmented Reality Service - 660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:16] <exec> 08└─Guess its a long beard and permanent sunglasses with a choice of stylish head garments from now on. Well, that is until they sell one of those stylish full body outfits from whatever that weird movie was called. Seriously thought, this is something that could be easily done with a decent free (not a...
[09:17:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Powerful Denuvo DRM Cracked 10 Days After Release of PREY - 1299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:29] <exec> 08└─There is a middle ground here but I think we don't have a process to find it, or later calibrate it. We need to make a distinction between two markets - those who want to own and those who want to pass over. For example, on Origin you can pay for a "pass" that lets you play any game for 1 month (and...
[09:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More Powerful Denuvo DRM Cracked 10 Days After Release of PREY - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:30] <exec> 08└─Paying the development studios directly via crowdfunding, and as a result of their patronage be required to only sell copies of the game DRM free, bound by a legal statement on their crowdfunding page stating so, with penalties if they don't. Until then we will remain with the same sick gaming ecosy...
[09:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Powerful Denuvo DRM Cracked 10 Days After Release of PREY - 1726 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:32] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure one should say it's pointless due to a couple of titles being cracked in a week or two. Prey and Mass Effect Andromeda being the two in question. In the same time frame (as in a fairly new title) there are still uncracked games such as For Honor, Sniper Elite 4, Bulletstorm, Warhammer 4...
[09:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03radu [1919] (Score: 1) 02 - 06More Powerful Denuvo DRM Cracked 10 Days After Release of PREY - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:35] <exec> 08└─I only bought one game, "Rocksmith" a few years ago. This one already has "DRM" built in the USB guitar cable, but for some reason it had Steam too. Probably it checks in, and requires Internet connection
[09:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06More Powerful Denuvo DRM Cracked 10 Days After Release of PREY - 1265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:37] <exec> 08└─Ok... maybe I should have stated I am 65+ and retired... and my childhood memories of games was something in a box bought at a store. The idea of DRM on a game is very asinine to me. To me, its like a toy which insists on making contact with Milton-Bradley first before I could play with it. I would...
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[09:17:53] <exec> 08└─Runaway is the Last Soylentil. After everyone else has left, realizing there is no point in talking to him and Ethanol_funded, Runaway will still be here, because he cannot be stopped, he will continue to post, even though he has been proven wrong on each and every point he makes, even though no on...
[09:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Scientists Develop New Plow - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:54] <exec> 08└─> You need to plow for most crops. No, very few plants -need- freshly tilled soil. Plowing is a form of pest management but it's not mandatory, just orthodox. Aeration happens naturally from insects - less so if some human has dumped insecticide everywhere of course.
[09:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Scientists Develop New Plow - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:56] <exec> 08└─I just like to watch, as the complaints roll in, and Runaway's supply of down-mods runs out. Yes, he is still a net-negative for SoylentNews, and he may even pretend to have a posse, but every time the down mods cease about the time any one user's supply would be exhausted. So it is just Runaway. Po...
[09:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BBC May Contact Your Boss if You Post Comments it Finds Problematic - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:19:06] <exec> 08└─Emphasis by me: Where the BBC reasonably believes that you are or may be in breach of any applicable laws (e.g. because content you have posted may be defamatory), the BBC may use your personal information to inform relevant third parties such as your employer, school email/internet provider or law...
[09:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Soylentbob [6519] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BBC May Contact Your Boss if You Post Comments it Finds Problematic - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:19:07] <exec> 08└─Notification sent. You will hear from your school soon, child!
[09:20:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. President to Visit Saudi Arabia; Arms Sales Expected - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:20:02] <exec> 08└─10 Reasons ... 1. ... 11.
[09:21:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 680 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:14] <exec> 08└─Profit motivated textbook companies and tax cuts to defund universities and shift the costs on to the individuals in the form of student loans. Tuition skyrocketed and the university systems became major centers of corruption. Yay crony capitalism! The US painted socialism as the biggest bogeyman ev...
[09:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Germany Got 85% of Its Electricity from Renewable Sources in April - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:44] <exec> 08└─Excellent point about heat-pumps. The "outlet" of a german winter-heating heat pump would probably connect to the fridge anway :) Also there are induction cookers. They generate a eddy current in the metal cook ware (only). The hot pan or pot will then heat the food. Very efficient and "dangerous" b...
[09:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Germany Got 85% of Its Electricity from Renewable Sources in April - 1110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:45] <exec> 08└─I dont know but does electricity production count in the GDP ( gross domestic product) figueres? Because if it does and the source is infinite (albeit maybe intermittend) then ... well it just means that this item on the GDP will be and stay an item for a very long time AND without people having to...
[09:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washed-Up Carcass Was Probably a Baleen Whale - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:03] <exec> 08└─kn'a y- 'bthnk li'hee n'gha
[09:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS Denies Appeal of Police "Qualified Immunity", Ignores Gorsuch Dissent - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:05] <exec> 08└─Ah yes. I was curious, that it could be reasoned that when performing a civil arrest, you are doing the work of a police officer and are qualified immune from whatever you're doing? But it states it only applies to state or federal employees.
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[10:17:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Announces "Lens" Augmented Reality Service - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:19] <exec> 08└─Guess its a long beard and permanent sunglasses with a choice of stylish head garments from now on.
[10:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More Powerful Denuvo DRM Cracked 10 Days After Release of PREY - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:37] <exec> 08└─The only way they'll stop is if you educate the SHAREHOLDERS that the DRM is doing nothing but costing them money.
[10:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More Powerful Denuvo DRM Cracked 10 Days After Release of PREY - 1229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:38] <exec> 08└─I have not bought ANY games for my PC - for the exact reasons you cited. I know money-across-the-counter is a one-way trip. As far as I am concerned, if someone wants to protect their right to control it after I buy it, I also protect my right NOT to buy. I actually spent REAL EARNED MONEY for an...
[10:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Powerful Denuvo DRM Cracked 10 Days After Release of PREY - 886 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:41] <exec> 08└─I know what you are saying. Until 3 years ago I was in the same ship. So much that I hadn't played the latest and greatest AAA games at all. But then I played a pirated copy of TESV: Skyrim, right after I had built a new PC. It blew my mind. I had to give them my money. So I sucked it up and paid th...
[10:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Scientists Develop New Plow - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:59] <exec> 08└─or tomatoes https://ag.arizona.edu [arizona.edu] or lettuce http://www.wikihow.com [wikihow.com]
[10:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03fraxinus-tree [5590] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Legislation Would Require the NSA to Inform Other Agencies About Vulnerabilities - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:11] <exec> 08└─IANAUSresident, but media coverage of NSA in no way differs from other countries' problems.
[10:19:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's New TPUs are Now Much Faster -- will be Made Available to Researchers - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:29] <exec> 08└─It seems how the chip works is pretty well known. So when will the first open source chip show up?
[10:21:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:20] <exec> 08└─That said, use credit cards to buy everything. Fuel. Groceries. Utility bills (yes really!).
[10:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Return to Pluto? - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:01] <exec> 08└─> small debris in orbit destroying the craft. That risk has been cleared away. Wait, Pluto has cleared its orbit? Yay! Promotion to the big-boys planet league awaits...
[10:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SCOTUS Denies Appeal of Police "Qualified Immunity", Ignores Gorsuch Dissent - 1264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:06] <exec> 08└─Well, it's not totally bad: the supreme judges just turned all police into lepers so one should avoid close contact with them -or- in other words avoid them like the pest. In a way this gives the police more "scary powers" or forces people to repect or fear the police. It means, that if the police g...
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[11:17:18] <exec> 08└─They'll catch up eventually.
[11:17:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vatican Observatory Hosts Conference on Astronomy - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:19] <exec> 08└─Just leave your youngest kids at home!
[11:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vatican Observatory Hosts Conference on Astronomy - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:22] <exec> 08└─Can we expect more foot washing videos?
[11:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snospar [5366] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Google Announces "Lens" Augmented Reality Service - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:32] <exec> 08└─Well at least now we know why Google Photos offers everyone free unlimited photo storage forever... they needed all the meta data to train their AI expert system so it could classify and categorise all the objects that people point their cameras at. Now... profit?
[11:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Scientists Develop New Plow - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:11] <exec> 08└─My operation is 100% hydroponic.
[11:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Scientists Develop New Plow - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:13] <exec> 08└─Portland, Maine, and Portland, Oregon
[11:18:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MadTinfoilHatter [4635] 02 - 06Legislation Would Require the NSA to Inform Other Agencies About Vulnerabilities - 445 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:20] <exec> 08└─This won't put any kind of checks on anything. It only means that the vulnerabilities previously exploitable by the NSA, will now also be exploitable by the CIA, FBI, and probably some other TLA:s as well. DHS? (Shudders.) Of course it also means that there will be even more potential holes for thos...
[11:18:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06BBC May Contact Your Boss if You Post Comments it Finds Problematic - 957 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:39] <exec> 08└─Bingo. fustakrakich wins the internet today. People who voluntarily give the BBC, or anyone else online, their real contact information, are chumps, asking to be burnt. I'm looking at all the fools who post all the details of their lives to Facebook, first and foremost. But, while those are the wors...
[11:19:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BBC May Contact Your Boss if You Post Comments it Finds Problematic - 899 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:25] <exec> 08└─> People who voluntarily give the BBC, or anyone else online, > their real contact information, are chumps, asking to be burnt. Yes, except that access to the BBC iPlayer service (watch BBC content via the internet at your convenience) is changing 1. First they made it a requirement that you have a...
[11:20:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. President to Visit Saudi Arabia; Arms Sales Expected - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:20:22] <exec> 08└─Yeah, right. This is the world we live in and these are the hands we're given, no need to increase the (con)fusion and neither the (con)fission, better make it a place worth living in.
[11:20:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. President to Visit Saudi Arabia; Arms Sales Expected - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:20:23] <exec> 08└─11. Saudi Arabia helps maintain the world’s destructive dependence on oil.
[11:21:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:21:37] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it's amazing what qualifies as cheap shit nowadays, ain't it? Couple big flatscreen TVs instead of one 12" black and white? Cheap shit. Getting to eat multiple meals at home a day that don't involve either beans or rice? Cheap shit. Getting healthcare that doesn't come in a bottle marked Robit...
[11:21:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:21:38] <exec> 08└─What's even more problematic is that the banks have no way of collecting on a defaulted student loan.
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[12:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Decryption Utility for WannaCry is Released - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:34] <exec> 08└─Windows XP, the aging, largely unsupported version of Microsoft's operating system, which analysts believe accounts for some portion of the WannaCry plague.
[12:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03fraxinus-tree [5590] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vatican Observatory Hosts Conference on Astronomy - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:44] <exec> 08└─Vatican Observatory is pretty serious institution in modern astronomy.
[12:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Announces "Lens" Augmented Reality Service - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:56] <exec> 08└─Extracting even more information from suckers.
[12:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Google Announces "Lens" Augmented Reality Service - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:57] <exec> 08└─> Well, that is until they sell one of those stylish full body outfits from whatever that weird movie was called. A scanner darkly? https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] It was weird, but prescient, as most dystopian stories end up reality it seems, unfortunately...
[12:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Announces "Lens" Augmented Reality Service - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:00] <exec> 08└─I think you mean a neural network rather than an expert system (both are AI). Otherwise yes, that sounds like something Google would do.
[12:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Announces "Lens" Augmented Reality Service - 1207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:02] <exec> 08└─On Wednesday, the search giant announced a big push into augmented advertising, which overlays digital ads on what you'd normally see through a camera. The new advertising technology, announced at the company's I/O developer conference, is called Google Lens. It's a way for google to use your phone'...
[12:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Legislation Would Require the NSA to Inform Other Agencies About Vulnerabilities - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:01] <exec> 08└─Just like the CIA can't torture ... unless they want to! https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Seriously, if you haven't read the 525 page executive summary [sic!], do it tonight. Just make sure you got a bucket nearby.
[12:20:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BBC May Contact Your Boss if You Post Comments it Finds Problematic - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:20:04] <exec> 08└─> It's not any hindrance for applying it. Official policy often isn't the real practice. Well, by that logic then, every website is going to report you to your employer for any reason at all because their terms of service don't say anything about it either! SMDH
[12:20:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BBC May Contact Your Boss if You Post Comments it Finds Problematic - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:20:05] <exec> 08└─Iknowrite? Stupid social justice wankers. Real men know that the real enemy are the ones least able to fight back,
[12:20:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BBC May Contact Your Boss if You Post Comments it Finds Problematic - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:20:07] <exec> 08└─If you post from work and you break the law, it doesn't seem out of line for the BBC to report that someone at your company's place of business is using their equipment to break the law.
[12:20:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BBC May Contact Your Boss if You Post Comments it Finds Problematic - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:20:09] <exec> 08└─Out of curiosity I've just signed up to the BBC website. They did not even ask for my name, just an email address and a PW, a pity because I was looking forward to giving one of my standard falses IDs (actually, someone I want to piss off) but was never asked. I gave a spam-catcher email address. Th...
[12:20:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Google's New TPUs are Now Much Faster -- will be Made Available to Researchers - 810 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:20:29] <exec> 08└─TL;DR TPU = google's new funky spy processor Tensor processing units (or TPUs) are application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) developed specifically for machine learning. Compared to graphics processing units, they are designed explicitly for a higher volume of reduced precision computation (e...
[12:20:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's New TPUs are Now Much Faster -- will be Made Available to Researchers - 744 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:20:30] <exec> 08└─> ... Compared to graphics processing units, they are designed explicitly for a higher volume of reduced precision computation (e.g. as little as 8-bit precision) ... When you say it like that, it almost sounds like ML could be viewed as an extension of Fuzzy Logic, or at least use Fuzzy as an analo...
[12:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. President to Visit Saudi Arabia; Arms Sales Expected - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:12] <exec> 08└─The Saudis aren't afraid to wield one. US is two rooks short in the chess game against the House of Saudi. Fifteen of the 9/11 attackers were from Saudi Arabia, two from the United Arab Emirates, one from Egypt, and one from Lebanon, zero from Iraq and zero from Afghanistan. Interestingly enough Ira...
[12:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03justinb_76 [4362] (Score: 1) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:28] <exec> 08└─do you have, like, a newsletter or something? and how would I go about subscribing to it?
[12:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 1192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:29] <exec> 08└─I hate debt, and pay off every CC bill every cycle without fail. However, I do use a CC for nearly all purchases. There are at least two very good reasons to use a credit card. First, your debit card is a direct line to your checking. If you use that everywhere, and it gets compromised, your money i...
[12:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Unveils the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:21] <exec> 08└─I think it may be 13TF single, 26 half-precision and 7 or so double...
[12:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Direct Counterfactual Quantum Communication Claimed - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:56] <exec> 08└─Who said he ever left? Is Schrodenger's cat alive if it can IM out from the box?
[12:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Direct Counterfactual Quantum Communication Claimed - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:58] <exec> 08└─That's what pisses me off about the summary, the summary implies that they are passing a message "without sending particles" - but they're sending single photon waves, so, how is this even impressive? Because they called their photons waves instead of particles? I'll start calling Republicans Right...
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[13:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vatican Observatory Hosts Conference on Astronomy - 1656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:39] <exec> 08└─Home Page Vatican Observatory » Who Are We? http://www.vaticanobservatory.va [vaticanobservatory.va] > The Vatican Observatory is one of the oldest astronomical research institutions in the world. Though we can trace our roots back to the reform of the ca...
[13:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vatican Observatory Hosts Conference on Astronomy - 2857 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:40] <exec> 08└─None of this should be at all surprising. For most of the past millennium the Catholic Church has been perhaps the longest-lived and most consistent supporter of scientific endeavors [wikipedia.org]. Many prominent advances in science have been made by Catholic clerics [wikipedia.org], not just the...
[13:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vatican Observatory Hosts Conference on Astronomy - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:42] <exec> 08└─The whole Galileo thing, the belief first and actual investigation secondly, forcing kids into belief systems they didn't approve of and all those priest abusing kids. It makes it really hard to establish trust with the institution.
[13:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vatican Observatory Hosts Conference on Astronomy - 826 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:45] <exec> 08└─Look at the link or don't comment on Galileo -- the "belief first and actual investigation secondly" is a stronger description of Galileo's methods in this case than his opponents. As to child abuse, note that the rate of child abuse among Catholic priests hasn't been shown to be significantly highe...
[13:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vatican Observatory Hosts Conference on Astronomy - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:47] <exec> 08└─See the Catholic Church of Virgin Birth On its shell it holds the Earth. Its thought is slow, but always kind. It holds us all within his mind. On its back all vows are made; It sees the truth but mayn't aid. It loves the land and loves the sea, And even loves a child like me.
[13:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More Powerful Denuvo DRM Cracked 10 Days After Release of PREY - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:21] <exec> 08└─There is a middle ground here but I think we don't have a process to find it, or later calibrate it.
[13:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Legislation Would Require the NSA to Inform Other Agencies About Vulnerabilities - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:57] <exec> 08└─Look forward, not back. Just how unpatriotic can you be!?
[13:20:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BBC May Contact Your Boss if You Post Comments it Finds Problematic - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:03] <exec> 08└─So who do they call when Donald Trump makes a problematic post? And you know he will. :P
[13:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:25] <exec> 08└─The only main concern is privacy, and I get that concern. But to me, it's worth it even just to have a simple easy record of my financial transactions that I can view, download, autosort into categories, etc.
[13:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Return to Pluto? - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:08] <exec> 08└─Using the Space Launch System (SLS) could reduce travel time compared to the nine-and-half-year journey of New Horizons
[13:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washed-Up Carcass Was Probably a Baleen Whale - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:13] <exec> 08└─Hell, anyone who's seen a humpback or similar whale skeleton at a museum should have been able to guess this after seeing the photos of the head of the carcass, pretty obviously a baleen whale skull and mandible.
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[14:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MonarchyNews: The King is My Co-Pilot and Japanese Succession "Crisis" - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:54] <exec> 08└─Did anyone else see the phrase "expected to reignite debate" and briefly parse the third word as "reign-ite" instead of "re-ignite"? That's the danger of monarchical thinking -- it can even change your view of grammar!
[14:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Decryption Utility for WannaCry is Released - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:04] <exec> 08└─I know someone who was surprised to hear about all this and admitted she has been clicking on all email links sent to her. The scariest part to her was that an email containing a bible verse could be dangerous. That just isnt something that seemed possible before ransomware, but now even your mom is...
[14:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Decryption Utility for WannaCry is Released - 965 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:06] <exec> 08└─Great as now it seems Windows XP will be safer with time while keeping the software base and having ReactOS [wikipedia.org] accomplish better and better compatibility. 32-bit architecture is a sweet spot in terms of memory pointer size, accessible memory and processor efficiency. 4 GB ought to be en...
[14:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vatican Observatory Hosts Conference on Astronomy - 659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:22] <exec> 08└─By the way, if you need some more info about abuse, here's a Newsweek article [newsweek.com] that came up in the first few hits of an internet search. There's other stuff out there, but the reality is that it's much easier to quantify abuse statistics for the Catholic Church due to its records. Give...
[14:18:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vatican Observatory Hosts Conference on Astronomy - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:24] <exec> 08└─Unlike church(es) Galileo didn't force anyone to believe anything. As for the sex abuse. The exploitation potential and danger comes from that the church is so ingrained and able to shield offenders.
[14:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vatican Observatory Hosts Conference on Astronomy - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:26] <exec> 08└─As I said in my initial comment: "I'm not a Catholic, nor do I think religion is a helpful influence in modern science." And I completely agree with you that, as a matter of free speech/expression, the treatment of Galileo was deplorable and should absolutely be condemned. (Though that could basical...
[14:19:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Powerful Denuvo DRM Cracked 10 Days After Release of PREY - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:02] <exec> 08└─The "middle ground" was explained in the next sentence. Thanks for not reading.
[14:19:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More Powerful Denuvo DRM Cracked 10 Days After Release of PREY - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:04] <exec> 08└─Not all of them [reddit.com]. More than half of Denuvo protected games remain uncracked. There are certainly some online only games in there, but many are notable releases worth playing in single player. Could they just stop?
[14:19:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More Powerful Denuvo DRM Cracked 10 Days After Release of PREY - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:06] <exec> 08└─Does it get in their way?
[14:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More Powerful Denuvo DRM Cracked 10 Days After Release of PREY - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:08] <exec> 08└─It's like masturbation.. They don't want to admit in public that they do it. It is legal but they hate to talk about it. They assume you will like it if you try it. Some people consider it, DRM, unethical and immoral, but they don't care. They keep doing it until someone or thing forces them to stop...
[14:19:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More Powerful Denuvo DRM Cracked 10 Days After Release of PREY - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:10] <exec> 08└─Yes. It does get in my way. Which is why I do not buy games that have DRM. DRM is a worse scam than Halal Certification and worth just as much.
[14:19:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Scientists Develop New Plow - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:32] <exec> 08└─You're just jealous because you Greeks didn't invent agriculture. But, you did plow a lot of little butt-cheeks! The rest of the world calls that thing a penis, you call it a mouldy-board? Whatever . . .
[14:19:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrentDavey [1526] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Chinese Scientists Develop New Plow - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:34] <exec> 08└─So can we buy one, reverse engineer it, outsource it to Taiwan and sell it back to the Chinese? Kind of a novel idea I thought.
[14:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BBC May Contact Your Boss if You Post Comments it Finds Problematic - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:55] <exec> 08└─BBC: Dear Boss - One of your programmers is trolling on our internet site! They said very, very mean things. In public! Boss: Dear BBC - Fuck off. Unsubscribe. Mark as Spam. Report to Authorities. I don't give a shit.
[14:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:19] <exec> 08└─You don't seem to understand. The first week is to have fun in Disney World. (Disneyland is simply too small.) The second week is to recover from the first week.
[14:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 883 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:20] <exec> 08└─There's really nothing complicated about it. I have two cards. Whenever I (we actually) get fuel or groceries, we grab a certain card to pay it. Utilities (mobile phone, electricity, gas, water, etc) are on auto-pay on the other card. People spend enormous amounts of time "couponing". We don't. We c...
[14:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:22] <exec> 08└─See where I wrote another reply above that says how simple this is. We don't spend any significant time doing this. Utilities are all on auto-pay on the airline card. When buying food / fuel, we use a certain card by reflex. Anything else, we use the other card. Then there is the going online to pay...
[14:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:24] <exec> 08└─Yep. We went through that a few years ago. Took 10 days to get our money back in checking account. That was before we figured out how to use credit cards without debt.
[14:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 840 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:26] <exec> 08└─Like you: * I don't get into debt * My finances are simple * I live within my means * I only buy what I can afford and have saved for (yes really) * And that includes saving for vacations -- but we get hundreds of dollars of leverage just by using CC to pay for things See the part where I wrote: we...
[14:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:29] <exec> 08└─Just like using Google, GMail, etc. I'm trading that info for a lot of value received. They also are keenly aware of out of the ordinary purchases which helps prevent fraud. Even if I used a debit card, like most people, the bank would know what my purchases are. Even writing checks gives the bank i...
[14:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:31] <exec> 08└─The last time we bought Disney Cards at Target, we got 5% off the face value. Right at the checkout line.
[14:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:33] <exec> 08└─Btw.. is it possible to pay money to another credit card such that you can re-circulate plenty of money and be a "good spender" but in reality not using a dime? ;) Setup0) Card0 pays to Card1 Withdraw as cash. Setup1) Card0 pays Card1 pays Card2 pays Card0 etc..
[14:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:35] <exec> 08└─No. It is not possible. Sadly. There is only one exception that I knew of, and I think it was closed off. One time, we bought a big stack of Disney Gift Cards on Target card, for 5% off face value. Then we went online to target.com to pay off the Target card, and were able to use another CC to pay i...
[14:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:37] <exec> 08└─If your options for people willing to pay for your time is limited and you can't educate yourself out of that. Well that sucks. No patent solution to that.
[14:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:40] <exec> 08└─Target, like other banks, keeps insanely increasing my credit limit to absolutely absurd amounts. I think this in the hope that I'll get into debt and end up paying outrageous interest for years and years. I'm not sure what you're talking about "gift card fees". Disney Cards are simple. Buy them at...
[14:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 920 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:42] <exec> 08└─Now that you mentioned the time I spend (or lack of it actually), it reminded me. There is another CC we have that we don't even give a thought to. (At least I don't) My wife pays the bill regularly, but that is all done online and is a minor chore that she does. (I did mention we are single income....
[14:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:44] <exec> 08└─"Tomatoes" were only forbidden for plebs in the period 1933 - 1974 in the USA. And since 1977 it's even allowed to write contracts that demands payment in such way. Value as property is harder to devalue by printing or canceling paper notes or to tax because, they are not visible. An interesting eff...
[14:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:46] <exec> 08└─if I try to sing on the street, people tell me to shut up and fuck off and they call the cops.
[14:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Return to Pluto? - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:29] <exec> 08└─At least we don't measure velocity in atto parsecs per micro fortnight.
[14:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Germany Got 85% of Its Electricity from Renewable Sources in April - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:17] <exec> 08└─I suppose it is only a question of time scale? Geologic time scale?
[14:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washed-Up Carcass Was Probably a Baleen Whale - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:37] <exec> 08└─One Scientist was quoted as saying, "If it bleeds, we can kill it."
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[15:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MonarchyNews: The King is My Co-Pilot and Japanese Succession "Crisis" - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:46] <exec> 08└─The one political context where the term "republican" doesn't instill instant disdain in me. I mean, in some ways, having a totally powerless figurehead is kinda quaint and cute, but even then, you have cases where Thailand where the figurehead is used as an excuse to arrest and detain people critic...
[15:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MonarchyNews: The King is My Co-Pilot and Japanese Succession "Crisis" - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:47] <exec> 08└─I fail to see how this is an "article about technology, science, and general interest". There are probably lots of other sites where people can follow royalty and celebrities. So why post this here?
[15:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MonarchyNews: The King is My Co-Pilot and Japanese Succession "Crisis" - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:49] <exec> 08└─I highly doubt they would have let something as minor as not having a monarch get in the way of making up an excuse, though. Lots of other countries haven't needed one for that.
[15:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MonarchyNews: The King is My Co-Pilot and Japanese Succession "Crisis" - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:52] <exec> 08└─Have you failed to notice this a political discourse site?
[15:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MonarchyNews: The King is My Co-Pilot and Japanese Succession "Crisis" - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:54] <exec> 08└─Naruhito and Fumihito are both eligible to be emperor, so no problem? Maybe a new law to permit abdication should instituted?
[15:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MonarchyNews: The King is My Co-Pilot and Japanese Succession "Crisis" - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:56] <exec> 08└─The change has been noticed. The problem with politic discourse that doesn't have a clear and relevant impact is endless debate that leads to just less attention spent elsewhere. Like introducing SOPA etc.
[15:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MonarchyNews: The King is My Co-Pilot and Japanese Succession "Crisis" - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:58] <exec> 08└─Well, as someone who has flown several flights on KLM's F70s over the years, I'm now kinda curious about who my pilots were and hoping that the Dutch will maybe publish a list of Willem-Alexander's flights at some point. It's also kind of cool that growing numbers of the various remaining monarchies...
[15:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MonarchyNews: The King is My Co-Pilot and Japanese Succession "Crisis" - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:01] <exec> 08└─I fail to see how this is an "article about technology, science, and general interest".
[15:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Decryption Utility for WannaCry is Released - 1131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:12] <exec> 08└─Actually you could blame Microsoft of that aspect; it wouldn't have been a problem if Windows XP could still get updates automatically. The original patches were released in March; XP and Vista probably had patches created around that time as well because of the extended life contracts some large co...
[15:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Decryption Utility for WannaCry is Released - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:14] <exec> 08└─There are some shops that rely on software that no longer runs on new hardware and there is no modern equivalent. There are also poor people with XP computers that had been donated and can't afford a new one. I have two XP computers, but they're never online. I just can't see discarding perfectly go...
[15:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03dbe [1422] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Decryption Utility for WannaCry is Released - 909 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:16] <exec> 08└─For once this decryption code is actually small and can be easily analyzed if you look at the "search_primes.cpp" file. It's based on the fact that the WinXP encryption library does not clean its memory from the key primes when returning, so the main: 1/ gets the memory pages in the context of the w...
[15:18:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Vatican Observatory Hosts Conference on Astronomy - 2274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:35] <exec> 08└─The way I read matters is that the Church positioned itself as the stewards of Ultimate Truth, the Meaning of Life, and all the Answers. Medieval public acceptance of that stand gave them a lot of power. They supported scientific research not because they were especially interested in science and di...
[15:18:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snospar [5366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Announces "Lens" Augmented Reality Service - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:52] <exec> 08└─I'm sure there is a pseudo-neural network buzzing away in the background recursively feeding back and refining the output (and the algorithm to reach the output) but I still fall short of classing that as "Artificial Intelligence". I know I'm probably in the minority these days but I'd like to reser...
[15:19:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More Powerful Denuvo DRM Cracked 10 Days After Release of PREY - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:19] <exec> 08└─Reminds me of the zika scare. The tests for the virus were non specific (picking up dengue fever et al), the "disease" was not a disability (micrencephaly is associated with disability, not microcephaly; and even that connection is dubious), and the treatment was abortions...
[15:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Powerful Denuvo DRM Cracked 10 Days After Release of PREY - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:20] <exec> 08└─Probably it checks in, and requires Internet connection, and re-activates if you suddenly change all your hardware That alone is reason enough to hate it. Software piracy is STUPID, incredibly stupid. It's an invitation to being hacked!
[15:19:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Powerful Denuvo DRM Cracked 10 Days After Release of PREY - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:22] <exec> 08└─For some things there is no reasonable middle ground, e.g. "How much sewage would you be okay with me putting in your drinking water? A gallon? A cup? A drop?" Presumably that was his point.
[15:19:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Scientists Develop New Plow - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:46] <exec> 08└─Subtract one from the other, that will give you the difference...
[15:19:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Scientists Develop New Plow - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:48] <exec> 08└─Plow xiānshēng That's the name That name again is Plow xiānshēng
[15:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BBC May Contact Your Boss if You Post Comments it Finds Problematic - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:12] <exec> 08└─Quiet or we'll tell your Mum.
[15:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06BBC May Contact Your Boss if You Post Comments it Finds Problematic - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:14] <exec> 08└─I expect the BBC would be told to fuck off if they tried. :-) I wouldn't count on it.
[15:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06BBC May Contact Your Boss if You Post Comments it Finds Problematic - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:16] <exec> 08└─Dear mr. Putin, He's at it again! Please tell him to stop. Sincerely, the BBC
[15:21:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BBC May Contact Your Boss if You Post Comments it Finds Problematic - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:18] <exec> 08└─I'm retired; I have no boss.
[15:21:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BBC May Contact Your Boss if You Post Comments it Finds Problematic - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:20] <exec> 08└─The criteria that BBC published allow posting only of information-free content, probably cats' photos.
[15:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:57] <exec> 08└─As the core business of Universities becomes all the more vulnerable to other methods to accomplish the same goal. They might have undermined themselves. Adding to the injury, if the work market for those exams are bad it will amplify the effect. The point of intelligent but poor students saying f-c...
[15:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:59] <exec> 08└─Or "huh, why am I in prison?" (for having similar buying habits as Muhammad).
[15:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:02] <exec> 08└─Good thing students cannot escape this debt via bankruptcy and the Trump admin has allowed for interest to be charged on these government secured loans.
[15:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:04] <exec> 08└─Start a shell company? That has a credit card linked to it..
[15:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:06] <exec> 08└─I would say you spend less (ie 3%) but doesn't get any net income from it. The real way to "save" anything is to not buy ;)
[15:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 1331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:08] <exec> 08└─Even if we spend less, we still would get 3% or 0% on that lesser amount depending on whether or not we used an Amazon card to pay for it. We're not spending any differently on Amazon today than before we got that card. Like the subject line says, we are using the CC as a tool. We would end up havin...
[15:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Return to Pluto? - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:52] <exec> 08└─What part of this article is supposed to support your claim? -1 Not In Given Reference
[15:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06 Germany Got 85% of Its Electricity from Renewable Sources in April - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:41] <exec> 08└─Renewable energy is being sold after generation and this transaction will by definition be part of the GDP.
[15:27:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Direct Counterfactual Quantum Communication Claimed - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:46] <exec> 08└─I was thinking of a perfectly in focus crisp clear photo of Usain Bolt on the starting blocks, and thus winning the race.
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[16:17:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supermarket Giant to Slash Emissions 60% by 2025, 100% Renewable by 2030 - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:45] <exec> 08└─Does this long term commitment come with any real commitments? Like a contract: til death do they part? Has money been put into a trust or something to say: "Hey, if we renege we will donate all this money to WWF"? Sounds like good publicity that is free and can be made to go away after a while.
[16:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03its_gonna_be_yuge! [6454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MonarchyNews: The King is My Co-Pilot and Japanese Succession "Crisis" - 805 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:02] <exec> 08└─Genetics is an interesting field, isn't it? The genetics of the Japanese royal family is a good study. The inevitable degradation of mental and physical acuity associated with constant inbreeding within a fixed social class is evident here. Nobody has ever accused Akihito of being the sharpest bl...
[16:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MonarchyNews: The King is My Co-Pilot and Japanese Succession "Crisis" - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:03] <exec> 08└─If the king is flying your airplane you're in dutch.
[16:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MonarchyNews: The King is My Co-Pilot and Japanese Succession "Crisis" - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:06] <exec> 08└─Submit more science/tech articles, if you have them. Fridays, weekends, and holidays are good times to get your feet wet since there are usually fewer articles in the queue then. Less pressure on submitters. I tend to harvest a bunch from various feeds on tues-thus and batch them in so the editors c...
[16:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MonarchyNews: The King is My Co-Pilot and Japanese Succession "Crisis" - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:08] <exec> 08└─I really wanted to see this thing as a huge passenger carrying bi-plane. Really, really. That would have been soooooo cool.
[16:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MonarchyNews: The King is My Co-Pilot and Japanese Succession "Crisis" - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:10] <exec> 08└─For what it's worth, while Prince Charles has had his regrettable moments, when the spotlight is off him he has actually done some rather good work on the front of wildlife conservation and organic farming and so on. I'm no royalist, but if there is to be a king, it may as well be someone with an ey...
[16:18:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Decryption Utility for WannaCry is Released - 706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:24] <exec> 08└─Cry baby cry, make your mother sigh... Makes me glad i'm off windows. Side note: Bell (in Canada) got hacked, and i got informed by haveibeenpwned 1 day before Bell told me. Bell says no passwords were taken, but pwned says there were. Anywho, i changed my password. My wife asked me what the new pas...
[16:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03lonehighway [956] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Announces "Lens" Augmented Reality Service - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:01] <exec> 08└─Four words for this, William Gibson, Virtual Light.
[16:19:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More Powerful Denuvo DRM Cracked 10 Days After Release of PREY - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:31] <exec> 08└─Well, it's still better than "buying" digital videos on Amazon. Their terms actually say right there "we do not promise the content will be available in any region, including the one you buy it for and including when you buy it". That's basically saying "feel free to leave your money, but we don't a...
[16:19:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Chinese Scientists Develop New Plow - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:58] <exec> 08└─Runaway isn't the only person with mod points. When I was little, sometimes my grandpa would let me ride in his tractor with him. I have an interest in this topic, although I have about the same level of knowledge about farming as quantum mechanics. Don't fool yourself that farming isn't a complicat...
[16:20:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Legislation Would Require the NSA to Inform Other Agencies About Vulnerabilities - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:14] <exec> 08└─If that is so, then smartphones make a pretty poor excuse as a pocket supercomputer. Real supercomputers have significantly more powerful vibrators.
[16:21:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BBC May Contact Your Boss if You Post Comments it Finds Problematic - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:28] <exec> 08└─Doesn't every TV owner in Britain have to pay a BBC tax of some sort? I would guess they have a record of that they can use to cross-reference your IP address (since we all know an IP address = a person), and then go from there.
[16:21:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BBC May Contact Your Boss if You Post Comments it Finds Problematic - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:29] <exec> 08└─No, but *this* is the mouth I use to say hello to *your* boss every night.
[16:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. President to Visit Saudi Arabia; Arms Sales Expected - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:32] <exec> 08└─To get your "10 reasons" list down to 10 entries, just drop item #4 since that is just sensible policy.
[16:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. President to Visit Saudi Arabia; Arms Sales Expected - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:34] <exec> 08└─But we can be tranquil and thankful and proud For man's been endowed with a mushroom-shaped cloud And we know for certain that some lovely day Someone will set the spark off And we will all be blown away!! They're rioting in Africa There's strife in Iran What nature doesn't so to us Will be done by...
[16:22:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 201 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:49] <exec> 08└─While I don't agree with all of your ideas, I find the idea of killing the President after his 71st birthday to be salacious indeed. Does Dear Leader know about this? I find your defection interesting.
[16:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 820 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:15] <exec> 08└─It takes quite a while to do all the things Disney World has to offer. A couple years ago, I think in 2015, we took a "behind the scenes" tour. It's a 5 hour tour and includes lunch. You get to see things behind the show. Learn a lot of interesting things. You get to see the underground complex. It...
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[17:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Elsevier Wants $15 Million Piracy Damages From Sci-Hub and Libgen - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:49] <exec> 08└─GNU everything! Information wants to be free! Look at my open sores selfie pics!
[17:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elsevier Wants $15 Million Piracy Damages From Sci-Hub and Libgen - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:51] <exec> 08└─I think Elbakyan can tell Evilvier.. Fuck you! ;-) With a good standing on legal and moral grounds. Travel might be restricted however.
[17:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elsevier Wants $15 Million Piracy Damages From Sci-Hub and Libgen - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:53] <exec> 08└─Travel is unnecessary in the information age when every homeless bum living under a bridge can send a message anywhere in the world. I think I'll stay under the bridge today as it's cloudy and rainy and I don't feel like walking.
[17:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elsevier Wants $15 Million Piracy Damages From Sci-Hub and Libgen - 836 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:55] <exec> 08└─As long as she stays in Russia and/or Kazakhstan she should be fairly safe from the reaches of Evilvier, if she is ever going to go on some academic or personal trip to (western) Europe or the USA then their might be some issues. That said I recall this being a previous topic of Soylent and when I l...
[17:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elsevier Wants $15 Million Piracy Damages From Sci-Hub and Libgen - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:59] <exec> 08└─1676: If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants. 2017: I got mine, fuck you.
[17:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elsevier Wants $15 Million Piracy Damages From Sci-Hub and Libgen - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:01] <exec> 08└─1676: If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants. 2017: Want to see further? We have Giants here, stand on their shoulders for the low, low price of....
[17:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supermarket Giant to Slash Emissions 60% by 2025, 100% Renewable by 2030 - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:10] <exec> 08└─Tesco
[17:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MonarchyNews: The King is My Co-Pilot and Japanese Succession "Crisis" - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:32] <exec> 08└─...What?
[17:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MonarchyNews: The King is My Co-Pilot and Japanese Succession "Crisis" - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:33] <exec> 08└─He might keep being more useful if he followed precedent, abdicated because of his woman, let the charismatic kid and his wife be the popular figureheads, and kept pushing his causes without the constraints of being king.
[17:18:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MonarchyNews: The King is My Co-Pilot and Japanese Succession "Crisis" - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:35] <exec> 08└─And the pilot was Roy Fokker.
[17:18:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Decryption Utility for WannaCry is Released - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:49] <exec> 08└─How long is the key btw? and what algorithm does it use? As the hack only works when not rebooting. Maybe next time people could trigger suspend to disc or such to preserve the necessary data? At least some memory dumper would be handy. I'll presume core can't be dumped on Windows..
[17:18:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Decryption Utility for WannaCry is Released - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:50] <exec> 08└─Yes, you could blame MS for not wanting to support a 16-year-old system with ever-declining users, and dedicating their resources to making sure patches don't break it for those rare users who do bother to patch. But that would put you at odds with the realities of running a profitable company.
[17:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vatican Observatory Hosts Conference on Astronomy - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:11] <exec> 08└─You're only doing science if you're willing to follow the evidence wherever it leads. Faith is fundamentally incompatible with science.
[17:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vatican Observatory Hosts Conference on Astronomy - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:13] <exec> 08└─> nor do I think religion is a helpful influence in modern science I'll propose one lonely exception: Religion-driven cultural norms preventing scientists from slicing and stitching all kinds of living things together, just because now they can.
[17:19:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Announces "Lens" Augmented Reality Service - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:32] <exec> 08└─n/t
[17:20:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Scientists Develop New Plow - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:29] <exec> 08└─I think your right, it sounds like an evolution of current design. It also features: The edge of the plow has a better ground-breaking angle and has helped reduce abrasion and fuel consumption
[17:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's New TPUs are Now Much Faster -- will be Made Available to Researchers - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:22] <exec> 08└─So when will the first open source chip show up?
[17:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's New TPUs are Now Much Faster -- will be Made Available to Researchers - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:23] <exec> 08└─It will be the data center behind the fiber ;-) The component to make free is the process to make chips. Once that is accomplished their monopoly significantly decreases.
[17:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's New TPUs are Now Much Faster -- will be Made Available to Researchers - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:25] <exec> 08└─Do it in China and get back through mailbag with "electric stuff" ?
[17:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's New TPUs are Now Much Faster -- will be Made Available to Researchers - 785 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:27] <exec> 08└─It depends on which estimate you use. We don't even have nearly an order of magnitude of that number. Particularly if you allow the exclusion of parts of the brain that are dedicated to, e.g., handling blood chemistry. And particularly if you include speculation that some quantum effects happen in t...
[17:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. President to Visit Saudi Arabia; Arms Sales Expected - 581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:11] <exec> 08└─You're forgetting a big problem: If the Chinese get in there (because they need the oil, badly), they could simplify their oil business a lot... ... by asking barrels to be sold in Renminbi. That would kneecap the US and its giant debt and trade deficit. The US has gone to war for less than that. Th...
[17:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:52] <exec> 08└─You cannot discharge student loan debt.
[17:24:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:53] <exec> 08└─Did the TV work well with the computer? in these times of incompatible protocols, HDCP (DRM), spy-r'-us etc. I guess the remote control thing hasn't been resolved yet.
[17:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:56] <exec> 08└─I think what you're talking about is more syndicalism than socialism. Pure syndicalism, just like pure capitalism, is a form of anarchy.
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[18:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish Prosecutor Retracts Warrant Against Julian Assange - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:33] <exec> 08└─Trump loves Wikileaks soooo much, if Assange leaves the embassy, Trump will rape Assange to death.
[18:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish Prosecutor Retracts Warrant Against Julian Assange - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:35] <exec> 08└─"It's a trap!"
[18:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish Prosecutor Retracts Warrant Against Julian Assange - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:37] <exec> 08└─Smells fishy.
[18:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Prosecutor Retracts Warrant Against Julian Assange - 701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:39] <exec> 08└─I know how Assange can leave the Ecuadorian embassy.. The problem is he can't leave it horizontally because then any ground transport or air travel will be intercepted. But vertical escape is not covered that easily. So start shipping an excavator in parts to build a underground rocket facility and...
[18:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish Prosecutor Retracts Warrant Against Julian Assange - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:41] <exec> 08└─Yes yes but how are SpaceX and The Boring Company involved?
[18:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Elsevier Wants $15 Million Piracy Damages From Sci-Hub and Libgen - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:54] <exec> 08└─We have Giants here
[18:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elsevier Wants $15 Million Piracy Damages From Sci-Hub and Libgen - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:56] <exec> 08└─If they wanted to split off the academic papers database, it should be pretty easy. The same papers may be accessible on multiple sites, some of which might not offer ebooks and comics. As you said, Elsevier only cares about the science papers.
[18:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elsevier Wants $15 Million Piracy Damages From Sci-Hub and Libgen - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:58] <exec> 08└─2017: If I have seen further how to monopolize the future it is by standing on the shoulders of fat donations from self serving people that make plebs pay taxes and then pay for the fruits of invested tax again.
[18:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elsevier Wants $15 Million Piracy Damages From Sci-Hub and Libgen - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:00] <exec> 08└─In the billions upon trillions upon quadrillions upon quintillions of hypothetical different resolved quantum states of the universe, I'm sure there's at least one where there's a more pointless rent-seeking publishing company, with even more suspect journals involved in cash-for-skipping-peer-revie...
[18:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Elsevier Wants $15 Million Piracy Damages From Sci-Hub and Libgen - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:02] <exec> 08└─*Citations start at $2.99 each, or $1.99 each in packs of 50.
[18:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elsevier Wants $15 Million Piracy Damages From Sci-Hub and Libgen - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:04] <exec> 08└─"1676: If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants." The bitter fight claiming Leibnitz plagiarized him doesn't fit terribly well with that. Newton's giants seem to be those who were safely dead rather than anyone who might dare to dilute his reputation.
[18:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elsevier Wants $15 Million Piracy Damages From Sci-Hub and Libgen - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:07] <exec> 08└─Most of these journals are tomes of phacking and NHST, people just want to take a quick glance to find out which is not worth much more than a satoshi.
[18:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elsevier Wants $15 Million Piracy Damages From Sci-Hub and Libgen - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:09] <exec> 08└─soon, apps like sci-hub will be rebuilt as anonymous dapps using block chain tech. founders/maintainers could be paid with certain trace resistant crypto currencies. all the court orders in the world wouldn't be able to take down shit. also, 15 million buys a lot of dead copyright trolls. these targ...
[18:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elsevier Wants $15 Million Piracy Damages From Sci-Hub and Libgen - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:11] <exec> 08└─1676: If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants. 2017: If I have not seen as far as others, it's because I have giants standing on my shoulders.
[18:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supermarket Giant to Slash Emissions 60% by 2025, 100% Renewable by 2030 - 1362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:21] <exec> 08└─Apparently they're on track to meet their previous goals so there's some evidence this is in good faith: Tesco's carbon footprint Emissions from stores and DCs make-up over 85% of our direct carbon footprint. To meet our new targets, we commit to 100% renewable electricity by 2030. Ten years ago, Te...
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[18:18:45] <exec> 08└─> why post this here? Flight nerds. The princess bit, nipponophiles.
[18:19:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06Vatican Observatory Hosts Conference on Astronomy - 2857 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:13] <exec> 08└─None of this should be at all surprising. For most of the past millennium the Catholic Church has been perhaps the longest-lived and most consistent supporter of scientific endeavors [wikipedia.org]. Many prominent advances in science have been made by Catholic clerics [wikipedia.org], not just the...
[18:19:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Vatican Observatory Hosts Conference on Astronomy - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:23] <exec> 08└─I wasn't trying to imply otherwise. I submitted this because: - I wasn't aware of Lemaître's work, which predates Hubble's, and thought it might be new to others - according to the Daily Beast article, the observatory's previous symposia have had a religious aspect to them that this one didn't have...
[18:20:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Scientists Develop New Plow - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:41] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry, but nowadays subtractions are legally restricted to benefits, additions to profits, multiplications to scandals, and divisions to people. The root of the problem being the failure to integrate cities, we cannot subtract them.
[18:20:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Scientists Develop New Plow - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:42] <exec> 08└─The ones that don't need plowing aren't the GMO crops (well, some of them are), but rather the perennials. Those you don't want to plow, at least not deeply enough to damage their roots. For a "sort of" exception, orchards are often plowed...just very shallowly. This is to control weeds. or to allow...
[18:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03http [1920] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BBC May Contact Your Boss if You Post Comments it Finds Problematic - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:16] <exec> 08└─Just remember, a homeless guy with mental health issues has more posts worth reading than you have.
[18:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BBC May Contact Your Boss if You Post Comments it Finds Problematic - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:18] <exec> 08└─Why would you give them fake ID, when you can give them the real ID of someone you really don't like? Troll the Beeb and your foes by making them fight each other!
[18:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BBC May Contact Your Boss if You Post Comments it Finds Problematic - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:20] <exec> 08└─by ensuring the discussion community consists only of persons with no job or real life reputation to protect. So....wait....what's changing?
[18:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's New TPUs are Now Much Faster -- will be Made Available to Researchers - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:46] <exec> 08└─Well now that the capacity becomes available. Maybe it will enable research to find out?
[18:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's New TPUs are Now Much Faster -- will be Made Available to Researchers - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:47] <exec> 08└─"Holy crap I was literally wrong about everything." THE END
[18:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. President to Visit Saudi Arabia; Arms Sales Expected - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:32] <exec> 08└─Remember when selling weapons to the Saudis was bad? Oh wait, it was only selling weapons to the Saudis while democrat that was bad. My mistake.
[18:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 1061 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:17] <exec> 08└─The TV was for the living room. It has a smart TV built in, sadly, which I do not use or ever want to use. I use a Roku 3 on that TV as well as a DVD player (not Blue Ray) and a Chrome Cast. The Roku will easily play video from a server on the local network. But not the audio on most. I can understa...
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[19:17:33] <exec> 08└─Doesn't really matter other than now there won't be a fight between the US and Sweden when Assange turns himself in. Remember? He promised President Obama that if he let Manning out that he would give himself up. It is time to fulfill that promise. Now that we are in bizarro world it will the the De...
[19:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish Prosecutor Retracts Warrant Against Julian Assange - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:34] <exec> 08└─he would almost certainly suffer the same fate as everyone else who pissed off the Clintons.
[19:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish Prosecutor Retracts Warrant Against Julian Assange - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:37] <exec> 08└─And at any moment Assange could drop a word on the Seth Rich murder and blow the current political world into orbit, and know he would almost certainly suffer the same fate as everyone else who pissed off the Clintons.
[19:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish Prosecutor Retracts Warrant Against Julian Assange - 653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:39] <exec> 08└─I hope the day Assange steps out of the embassy, Chelsea Manning is waiting there with an anti-tank missile that blows him to shards. Assange built his "brand" (vomit, vomit) out of the info Manning gave him, then lifted not a single finger to help Manning as s/he got convicted and sent to jail. Ass...
[19:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish Prosecutor Retracts Warrant Against Julian Assange - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:41] <exec> 08└─It is time to fulfill that promise.
[19:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elsevier Wants $15 Million Piracy Damages From Sci-Hub and Libgen - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:04] <exec> 08└─Standing on the shoulders of midgets more likely? And isn't that dwarf at the bottom complaining loudly about how heavy you all are? :P
[19:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elsevier Wants $15 Million Piracy Damages From Sci-Hub and Libgen - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:05] <exec> 08└─But will it be resistant to quantum attacks?
[19:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Elsevier Wants $15 Million Piracy Damages From Sci-Hub and Libgen - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:08] <exec> 08└─In 2018* we are rolling out a new subscription CAAS (Citation As A Service) that gives you the same great access as the venerable per-citation model. For only $50 a month, you get up to 50 citations per month per user!** Since this works out to $1 per citation, your savings could be as high as 66%!*...
[19:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elsevier Wants $15 Million Piracy Damages From Sci-Hub and Libgen - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:10] <exec> 08└─Those giants also carry seemingly endless rolls of parchment carrying the misguided emblems of the USPTO gods.
[19:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elsevier Wants $15 Million Piracy Damages From Sci-Hub and Libgen - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:12] <exec> 08└─> As long as she stays in Russia and/or Kazakhstan she should be fairly safe [...] Both countries are members of WIPO. If they wanted to go to the trouble, the publishers could sue her there, could they not? http://www.wipo.int [wipo.int] http://www.wipo.int
[19:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supermarket Giant to Slash Emissions 60% by 2025, 100% Renewable by 2030 - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:24] <exec> 08└─The title is additionally confusing because there is a major supermarket chain called Giant [giantfood.com].
[19:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supermarket Giant to Slash Emissions 60% by 2025, 100% Renewable by 2030 - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:26] <exec> 08└─Of course, even with these impressive goals, much remains to be done. As WWF's head of climate and energy, Gareth Redmond-King, notes in the Business Green article, Tesco is a major retailer of gasoline and diesel due to the gas (petrol!) stations it runs at its stores.
[19:18:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MonarchyNews: The King is My Co-Pilot and Japanese Succession "Crisis" - 634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:51] <exec> 08└─Plenty of them have in the past. The difference was they often would NEVER disclose this fact because it was unacceptable for a Royal to be seen sullying their hands like a commoner, except under the most exceptional of circumstances (This is one of those bell curve things where in the far past it w...
[19:19:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Vatican Observatory Hosts Conference on Astronomy - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:31] <exec> 08└─I neglected to search for related stories before submitting this. Here are a couple: Mapping With the Stars: Nuns Instrumental in Vatican Celestial Survey [soylentnews.org] Vatican Hosts Conference On Alien Life in Universe [soylentnews.org]
[19:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Legislation Would Require the NSA to Inform Other Agencies About Vulnerabilities - 752 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:07] <exec> 08└─these dumb fucks still don't get it. they are trying to keep it closed source but they want in on the exploits. hey! you dumb old whores! you can't secure slaveware! also, fuck you for thinking you don't have to share the exploits with private industry and individual users in the country, not that i...
[19:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Legislation Would Require the NSA to Inform Other Agencies About Vulnerabilities - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:08] <exec> 08└─Patriotism? Don't you go throwing around meaningless terms there, young man. Next time you use a word that you think means something real, reflect on this first: https://i.imgur.com [imgur.com] "Patriotism"... pffha...
[19:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BBC May Contact Your Boss if You Post Comments it Finds Problematic - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:27] <exec> 08└─I believe you are overthinking this. The emphasis should be placed on the "human relations" part of the job description to get the joke. As far the part about her being fugly, perhaps she is in fact a he. That seems to be a common thread among SJW advocates who claim femalehood these days. Is "her"...
[19:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. President to Visit Saudi Arabia; Arms Sales Expected - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:40] <exec> 08└─One assumes that this is your admission of having a small penis. Real men don't need to suppress someone else's human rights in order to seem superior. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[19:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. President to Visit Saudi Arabia; Arms Sales Expected - 1383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:42] <exec> 08└─Each link goes to a different page. Both are by Medea Benjamin. Each contains 10 items but they differ slightly in content. intolerant religious authoritarians I am certain that if you are spending time on your knees and/or casting your eyes skyward as if a magical man is up there, that is a waste o...
[19:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:28] <exec> 08└─Debt terrifies me, and people who don't take it seriously frustrate me. So it confuses me greatly that people treat credit cards as a separate account rather than (forgive my terms) a delayed debit to your real account in the first place.
[19:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:29] <exec> 08└─Maybe you can start a small project to reflash the smart TV into BSD or Linux? For the audio isn't there like raw PCM or a FLAC option? My remote control idea was to be able to control the TV from a computer such that one playing one source the TV can be told to switch to that etc. And doing it usin...
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[20:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Autonomous Car Rollout Waiting on Regulators - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:37] <exec> 08└─I'm waiting to read about a grizzly autonomous car accident. Any takers how long it takes before such event hits the courts in a circus way?
[20:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Autonomous Car Rollout Waiting on Regulators - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:38] <exec> 08└─When it does hit the courts, the autonomous car will likely have a lot of data to show that a human was at fault. Or maybe that something in the environment happened so fast that the system could not respond, and a human wouldn't have done any better. What would be more interesting is a true failure...
[20:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Autonomous Car Rollout Waiting on Regulators - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:41] <exec> 08└─Buyers have to have faith in them, before they can be sold. Although, the number of drivers who put their lives at risk already with driver assist technologies may indicate that there are buyers.
[20:17:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Autonomous Car Rollout Waiting on Regulators - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:43] <exec> 08└─"one of the holdups to the wide usage of autonomous cars is a lack of regulations that can be used to certify the control systems" Which of course doesn't mean they work or are safe but merely "certified".
[20:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Autonomous Car Rollout Waiting on Regulators - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:45] <exec> 08└─It'll be like trying to use footage from police body cams for anything besides showing the cop was complete right to shoot somebody. Or like big pharma only publishing results that make it seem like their shit works, etc. You know the golden rule? He who has the gold, makes the rules.
[20:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Autonomous Car Rollout Waiting on Regulators - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:47] <exec> 08└─I suspect the autonomous car makers have the gold. I'm sure all of the data collected by the autonomous car will be available to the other party(ies) of the accident and their insurance companies and lawyers. There is another failure mode of autonomous vehicles that I did not mention. Not a software...
[20:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Autonomous Car Rollout Waiting on Regulators - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:50] <exec> 08└─I'm optimistic about technology generally. But of all the cool self driving videos I've seen, I don't seem to run across any where the self driving car drives in bad weather. Or where the road is covered with snow. Or where you can't make out the lines that indicate where the lanes are.
[20:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Autonomous Car Rollout Waiting on Regulators - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:52] <exec> 08└─Precisely. If you comply with a "certification", you can transfer liability on the authors for not covering the corner case in which your car kills 5 people. Autonomous cars are improving every day, but lawyers have sharpened their quills waiting to sue deep-pocketed manufacturers (on behalf of poor...
[20:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Autonomous Car Rollout Waiting on Regulators - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:54] <exec> 08└─Read: Hold harmless. Caveat emptor.
[20:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Autonomous Car Rollout Waiting on Regulators - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:56] <exec> 08└─Is the grizzly the passenger, or the victim? I like the idea of Joe-six-pack getting into an accident, storming angrily out of his wrecked car to retaliate in typical shitty human fashion, only to discover that the autonomous car was carrying a 600-pound bear.
[20:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Prosecutor Retracts Warrant Against Julian Assange - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:16] <exec> 08└─The Russkies are probably more interested in this ;)
[20:18:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03cafebabe [894] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Prosecutor Retracts Warrant Against Julian Assange - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:17] <exec> 08└─So, he's wanted for resisting arrest? With no other charges pending?
[20:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Swedish Prosecutor Retracts Warrant Against Julian Assange - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:19] <exec> 08└─Now that we are in bizarro world it will the the Democrats baying for his blood and Trump's people probably calling for a lighter sentence. What are you talking about? It looks like Trump wants Joe Lieberman to be the next FBI head, and Lieberman is already talking about how badly he wants to prosec...
[20:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Prosecutor Retracts Warrant Against Julian Assange - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:21] <exec> 08└─> He promised President Obama that if he let Manning out that he would give himself up. The offer was made on Twitter: If Obama grants Manning clemency Assange will agree to US extradition despite clear unconstitutionality of DoJ case
[20:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Prosecutor Retracts Warrant Against Julian Assange - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:23] <exec> 08└─The U.S. hasn't officially sought Assange's extradition. Not under Obama anyway.
[20:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Swedish Prosecutor Retracts Warrant Against Julian Assange - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:26] <exec> 08└─It's a breach of bail conditions, not resisting arrest. Aside from that technical point, he is indeed wanted solely for skipping bail in relation to international charges that no longer exist.
[20:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Prosecutor Retracts Warrant Against Julian Assange - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:28] <exec> 08└─It would be beneath the dignity of a United States President to do such an inappropriate thing.
[20:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Prosecutor Retracts Warrant Against Julian Assange - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:30] <exec> 08└─Anthony Weiner will not go to prison. High Court. Low Court. But your remark about the Clintons could be correct.
[20:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Prosecutor Retracts Warrant Against Julian Assange - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:32] <exec> 08└─https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/19/nyregion/anthony-weiner-guilty-plea-sexting.html [nytimes.com] Mr. Weiner, 52, will have to register as a sex offender where he works and lives, and he may face a prison term. He pleaded guilty to transferring obscene material to a minor, which carries a sentence o...
[20:18:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish Prosecutor Retracts Warrant Against Julian Assange - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:35] <exec> 08└─Is that a reason to give him a pass? If someone steals property that ends up being destroyed while he's being chased, do you drop the charges? And in this case, the international charges don't exist exactly because he breached his bail. I don't see how you can drop those charges
[20:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Prosecutor Retracts Warrant Against Julian Assange - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:37] <exec> 08└─which carries a sentence of up to 10 years in prison
[20:18:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Prosecutor Retracts Warrant Against Julian Assange - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:39] <exec> 08└─Sure he can exit through the tunnel to the diplomatic box, but he still has to show his passport at the boarder (tunnel, boat, or airplane). That is where he will be stopped and arrested. The officers at the embassy are only there to prevent him from using the front door and can tip off the board se...
[20:18:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Prosecutor Retracts Warrant Against Julian Assange - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:41] <exec> 08└─It would be beneath the dignity of a United States President to do such an inappropriate thing. Exactly, that's why I predict it'll happen as early as next week.
[20:18:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Prosecutor Retracts Warrant Against Julian Assange - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:44] <exec> 08└─If Mr. Weiner does get prison. I won't shed a tear. It's not that I like the guy.
[20:18:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish Prosecutor Retracts Warrant Against Julian Assange - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:46] <exec> 08└─Doesn't really matter other than now there won't be a fight between the US and Sweden when Assange turns himself in. Remember? He promised President Obama that if he let Manning out that he would give himself up. It is time to fulfill that promise
[20:18:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Prosecutor Retracts Warrant Against Julian Assange - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:48] <exec> 08└─"Anthony Weiner will not go to prison." - DannyB
[20:18:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish Prosecutor Retracts Warrant Against Julian Assange - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:50] <exec> 08└─Best example of nominative determinism ever.
[20:18:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Prosecutor Retracts Warrant Against Julian Assange - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:52] <exec> 08└─What? You are trying to say the Lightworker bought a bag of magic beans from Assange and when he opened it only found rocks? No way! Obama is smarter than his own advisors, a better speechwriter than his speechwriters, no way the smartest man to ever sit in the Oval Office got took in a bait and swi...
[20:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Prosecutor Retracts Warrant Against Julian Assange - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:55] <exec> 08└─Look. Trump managed to give a somewhat sane, calm state of the union address. He did not poop on the carpet -- which I had expected him to do. I know that is a very low bar to set for a president to give a speech without pooping on the carpet. But Trump did it. So have some faith. Maybe he can not s...
[20:18:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Prosecutor Retracts Warrant Against Julian Assange - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:57] <exec> 08└─Is that a reason to give him a pass?
[20:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Swedish Prosecutor Retracts Warrant Against Julian Assange - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:59] <exec> 08└─I hope the day Assange steps out of the embassy, Chelsea Manning is waiting there with an anti-tank missile that blows him to shards. Assange built his "brand" (vomit, vomit) out of the info Manning gave him, then lifted not a single finger to help Manning as s/he got convicted and sent to jail. Ass...
[20:19:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Prosecutor Retracts Warrant Against Julian Assange - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:01] <exec> 08└─Ok. I just wouldn't expect justice for someone who was a congress critter. But strange things happen.
[20:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Prosecutor Retracts Warrant Against Julian Assange - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:03] <exec> 08└─A more accurate analogy would be chasing a guy for shoplifting, the merchandise gets destroyed, and then they find out while he's still on the run that he paid for it in the first place.
[20:19:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03nekomata [5432] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Swedish Prosecutor Retracts Warrant Against Julian Assange - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:06] <exec> 08└─By that logic he would get a speeding ticket for riding a rocket beforehand.
[20:19:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elsevier Wants $15 Million Piracy Damages From Sci-Hub and Libgen - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:33] <exec> 08└─Let's just suppose there is a reason they don't dare to pull that one.. ;)
[20:20:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03its_gonna_be_yuge! [6454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MonarchyNews: The King is My Co-Pilot and Japanese Succession "Crisis" - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:13] <exec> 08└─Sure. Chucky talks to his plants. And who could forget his remarks in 2004 that people should know their "god-given" places in life. As if somehow his place was given by god.
[20:20:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MonarchyNews: The King is My Co-Pilot and Japanese Succession "Crisis" - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:14] <exec> 08└─Wasn't the Fokker a tri-plane?
[20:20:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Decryption Utility for WannaCry is Released - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:31] <exec> 08└─"keeps saying windows is better than linux"... Do you know how many times I've heard that while fixing their malware infested porn terminal? I sometimes want to install Linux but change the themes to look like Windows and be done with it.
[20:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Vatican Observatory Hosts Conference on Astronomy - 1730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:56] <exec> 08└─That's a really interesting spin you put on all the facts. Excuse this long post, but if you're not going to look at the link I offered, I guess I'll have to try to explain a very complex situation here. Look: I'm really not trying to be a contrarian. But some of my research actually involves the hi...
[20:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Chinese Scientists Develop New Plow - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:15] <exec> 08└─A philosophical question for you, AC: Is it still mod-bombing if you're not modding?
[20:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Scientists Develop New Plow - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:16] <exec> 08└─The ones that don't need plowing aren't the GMO crops (well, some of them are), but rather the perennials.
[20:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Legislation Would Require the NSA to Inform Other Agencies About Vulnerabilities - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:35] <exec> 08└─Just wait until the next major cyber attack happens. Big Corporations will be screaming at their government servants for protecting government systems, but not protecting the systems belonging to the owners of the government. Then there will be bill to share vulnerabilities with the software develop...
[20:23:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03turgid [4318] 02 - 06BBC May Contact Your Boss if You Post Comments it Finds Problematic - 602 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:33] <exec> 08└─The comments sections of BBC news articles are cesspits for the following reasons. Comments are limited to 400 characters so it's very difficult to make any argument of any depth whatsoever. The comments are not threaded either so it's very difficult to reply in place to a troll or someone talking o...
[20:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03cafebabe [894] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BBC May Contact Your Boss if You Post Comments it Finds Problematic - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:56] <exec> 08└─According to the BBC's Data Protection Act registration [ico.org.uk], it is legal for the BBC to disclose any information about you to "current, past and prospective employers" at any time and for any reason.
[20:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. President to Visit Saudi Arabia; Arms Sales Expected - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:12] <exec> 08└─Dumping. [google.com] They are keeping the price low by accelerating the rate of extraction and getting rid of a commodity that is rapidly losing its luster as renewables become ever more economical solutions to old problems. Venezuela's tanked economy is a result of this as well (in addition to tha...
[20:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. President to Visit Saudi Arabia; Arms Sales Expected - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:14] <exec> 08└─The single instance of dumping I remember is the 2015-2016 episode**. Are there others? ** (and for this one we may not have seen yet the end of it. It can still backfire big time - the Saudis didn't just dump but have also bought lotsa shale oil fields in US; these may transform into serious liabil...
[20:27:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 860 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:02] <exec> 08└─So many project ideas. So little time. I don't know anything about BSD. Other than some dabbling with Raspberry Pi and Arduino, I generally prefer to work at much higher levels of abstraction these days. Back in the 80's I would have been more interested in a project at this low a level. These days...
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[21:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Autonomous Car Rollout Waiting on Regulators - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:41] <exec> 08└─You've seen what the companies have wanted you to see. There are still a dozen or more companies doing research and testing autonomous cars on public roads or in demonstration areas. And as long as they aren't being sold or used by the public, they have time to work out how to handle hazardous condi...
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[21:17:42] <exec> 08└─Who is driving?! Ohmygod, bear is driving, how can that be?! [youtu.be]
[21:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Autonomous Car Rollout Waiting on Regulators - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:45] <exec> 08└─i piss in my own face
[21:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Autonomous Car Rollout Waiting on Regulators - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:47] <exec> 08└─I'm sure the ceramic caps can "get the chair". They are kind of used to electricity though.. ;)
[21:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Autonomous Car Rollout Waiting on Regulators - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:49] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure that I would pay good money to witness that event firsthand...from a bear-proof area. Bonus points for a close-up on Joe's face, when the realization 'it's a bear!?!?!' sets in... ;-) *commencing ROFLcoptors now*
[21:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Autonomous Car Rollout Waiting on Regulators - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:51] <exec> 08└─There's at least one company doing testing in Michigan iirc. The only caveat is that last winter we had about one day with any appreciable amount of snow and slush on the road. In my non-expert opinion, they should at least wait for a real Michigan winter, and even then, that's hardly the worst case...
[21:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Autonomous Car Rollout Waiting on Regulators - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:54] <exec> 08└─Kids these days, never went to the circus where there were bears (plural) riding bicycles... This was for real, the bears rode around inside one of the rings of the "three ring circus".
[21:18:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Prosecutor Retracts Warrant Against Julian Assange - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:36] <exec> 08└─Manning is in a car parked outside, doing her nails. She's got a multi-tube rocket launcher, a flame thrower, and an automatic assault rifle. It's dark, and Assange is wearing sunglasses.
[21:18:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Prosecutor Retracts Warrant Against Julian Assange - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:37] <exec> 08└─By that logic he would get a speeding ticket for riding a rocket beforehand.
[21:18:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Prosecutor Retracts Warrant Against Julian Assange - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:39] <exec> 08└─No, I wasn't trying to say that. I don't know Mr. Obama's motivations.
[21:18:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Prosecutor Retracts Warrant Against Julian Assange - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:41] <exec> 08└─"Assange Skips Bail, Heads to Mars"
[21:18:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Prosecutor Retracts Warrant Against Julian Assange - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:44] <exec> 08└─The summary says It remains unclear whether there is a standing U.S. extradition order for Assange.
[21:18:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish Prosecutor Retracts Warrant Against Julian Assange - 1075 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:46] <exec> 08└─> Ok. I just wouldn't expect justice for someone who was a congress critter Seems like it happens often enough. Here's an incomplete list of recent sitting members of congress who were sentenced to prison: Michael Grimm - 8 months in prison Rick Renzi - 3 months in prison William Jefferson - 13 year...
[21:18:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Prosecutor Retracts Warrant Against Julian Assange - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:48] <exec> 08└─The lawyer speaking on behalf of him says "Fuck you Musk, I got there first" :-)
[21:18:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Prosecutor Retracts Warrant Against Julian Assange - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:51] <exec> 08└─The fine print of diplomatic box or bags etc is that they are exempt from customs. And boxes are not processed as humans, so no "papiren BITTE". Hmm, maybe the embassy needs to send some furniture home.. :p
[21:19:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elsevier Wants $15 Million Piracy Damages From Sci-Hub and Libgen - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:19] <exec> 08└─Our resident Authoritarian editor has, yet again, chosen a dept. line with which I disagree. Mine would have been from the queered-system dept. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[21:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elsevier Wants $15 Million Piracy Damages From Sci-Hub and Libgen - 1919 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:20] <exec> 08└─That's an extremely good question. Although there is a theory that AES might not be vulnerable after all. Meaning that AES can scale faster than quantum computers can scale, and at much cheaper costs. It may be better to move to purely anonymous forms of mass communication. Maintainers (IT) are not...
[21:20:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03tekk [5704] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MonarchyNews: The King is My Co-Pilot and Japanese Succession "Crisis" - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:02] <exec> 08└─They're drafting the law, but the problem in Japan is longer term: Akihito's son will inherit the throne when he resigns. The problem is that Akihito has only one grandson, and the treaty that the US forced on Japan disqualified every royal house but the one that Akihito is part of from succession (...
[21:20:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Decryption Utility for WannaCry is Released - 2627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:20] <exec> 08└─From MS - SMB Ports 445/139 (TCP) & 137/138 (UDP) protection via: Disable SMBv1 on the SERVER, configure the following registry key: Registry subkey: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Parameters Registry entry: SMB1 REG_DWORD: 0 = Disabled REG_DWORD: 1 = Enabled Defau...
[21:20:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Decryption Utility for WannaCry is Released - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:21] <exec> 08└─its advice STILL STANDS THE "TEST OF TIME"
[21:26:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 1211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:52] <exec> 08└─Not in the slightest. I never mentioned labor unions in that comment. I'm talking about business startups that are One worker == One vote, with all votes being equal. In northern Italy, as mentioned, they have them by the thousands and, as mentioned, they make up a sizable portion of the economy. I'...
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[22:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06US Court Upholds Enforceability Of GNU GPL As Both A License And A Contract - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:31] <exec> 08└─Eben was the one who really wrote the GPL while Dick Bathroom Stall-Man took a shit and yelled through the door, "I'm going to call it Copy-LEFT, get it, get it? Hahahahaha. Hold on a minute. I'm pushing out another patch to emacs. Aw man it's hanging from my ass by a hair. No toilet paper! I'll nee...
[22:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06US Court Upholds Enforceability Of GNU GPL As Both A License And A Contract - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:32] <exec> 08└─Aaaannd this is why I prefer Vim.
[22:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Court Upholds Enforceability Of GNU GPL As Both A License And A Contract - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:34] <exec> 08└─If the court had voided the GPL. Then a lot of other really proprietary software would had been at risk too. So the conclusion is from a pure game theory point of view the only reasonable.
[22:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Court Upholds Enforceability Of GNU GPL As Both A License And A Contract - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:36] <exec> 08└─Well, the thing is, if they had voided the GPL, this guy would have no license to use the software, that wouldn't have gained him anything. Then again, that would cause a pretty big commotion from everyone that is respecting the GPL and using that software, since suddenly they would be violating cop...
[22:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Autonomous Car Rollout Waiting on Regulators - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:01] <exec> 08└─Yep, government-certified must be OK (NOT). From some limited contact with the employees at US DOT / NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety) it was pretty clear to me that it won't be government employees that write any regulations. They might get some help from gov't associated labs and test tracks...
[22:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Autonomous Car Rollout Waiting on Regulators - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:02] <exec> 08└─We already have a lot of data to show that big corporations and rich human will do anything to squeeze the last blood out of anyone else. And autonomous cars will be different..?
[22:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Autonomous Car Rollout Waiting on Regulators - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:05] <exec> 08└─Yep I'd like to see one handle driving on 280 from Campbell (California) to 580 in Dublin. Then 580 through Livermore, up over the Altamont Pass, then through Tracy to 5 to Stockton. Then in Stockton take 4 to 99, then right on 26 then 26 to Valley Springs. All that leaving at 4PM on a Friday aftern...
[22:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Prosecutor Retracts Warrant Against Julian Assange - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:55] <exec> 08└─Much easier than that: As an Ecuadorian citizen Assange can be listed as part of embassy staff. Then he can be officially given the diplomatic bag to take to Ecuador. The holder of the diplomatic bag has ABSOLUTE immunity and cannot be arrested. If the UK does this - well, their diplomats everywhere...
[22:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish Prosecutor Retracts Warrant Against Julian Assange - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:57] <exec> 08└─Nope. That's not what happened. In order to report on your year's activities as president, you have to have been president for a year. What Donnie Tiny Hands gave wasn't a SotU. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[22:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Prosecutor Retracts Warrant Against Julian Assange - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:59] <exec> 08└─So you are implying Obama just turned a traitor out of prison because he hates America? Because it really does come down to one or the other as there was no legitimate reason to release the convicted traitor other than a trade.
[22:19:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Prosecutor Retracts Warrant Against Julian Assange - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:01] <exec> 08└─the dignity of a United States President
[22:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Swedish Prosecutor Retracts Warrant Against Julian Assange - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:03] <exec> 08└─I wasn't implying that either. I only wanted to point out that there was something factual in what you had written.
[22:19:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Prosecutor Retracts Warrant Against Julian Assange - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:06] <exec> 08└─Joe Lieberman has wanted Assange's head on a pike since 2010 or so when Wikileaks released the Collateral Murder video. And I'm speaking only somewhat metaphorically here: He was among those calling for drone strikes and shooting Assange on sight. He was also at the forefront of attempting to silenc...
[22:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Prosecutor Retracts Warrant Against Julian Assange - 859 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:08] <exec> 08└─That is correct. Extradition implies that the US is going to put Julian Assange on trial. The problem with putting Assange on trial is that his lawyers could very easily (under a fair judge at least) get the case dismissed on the grounds that he's never been in US jurisdiction, and the Pentagon Pape...
[22:19:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supermarket Giant to Slash Emissions 60% by 2025, 100% Renewable by 2030 - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:50] <exec> 08└─I glanced at this story thinking it was that very same chain, until now.
[22:19:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supermarket Giant to Slash Emissions 60% by 2025, 100% Renewable by 2030 - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:51] <exec> 08└─Even if the customers are burning the gas, distributors have to transport the gas to the gas stations, which requires energy. I guess another move they could take would be to add charging stations.
[22:20:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MonarchyNews: The King is My Co-Pilot and Japanese Succession "Crisis" - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:22] <exec> 08└─Were you looking for the google?
[22:20:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MonarchyNews: The King is My Co-Pilot and Japanese Succession "Crisis" - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:23] <exec> 08└─There should be at least 3 persons that can replace the emperor? Naruhito (1960) has one daughter Aiko. Fumihito (1965) has two daughters Mako, Kako and one son Hisahito. Naruhito, Fumihito, Hisahito in that order. Or is that wrong? ie if Naruhito becomes emperor then the children of Fumihito cannot...
[22:20:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03tekk [5704] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MonarchyNews: The King is My Co-Pilot and Japanese Succession "Crisis" - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:26] <exec> 08└─No, that's correct as I understand it. Like I said, the problem is a long term one: they're in a tight spot if something happens to Hisaito, including Hisaito not having a son. If Hisaito fails to produce an heir then there is no one to succeed.
[22:20:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Decryption Utility for WannaCry is Released - 1244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:45] <exec> 08└─There ain't shit anybody can do once you have an elevated process encrypting files. We've designed it so that an elevated process encrypting files is protected against tampering and snooping :) Gaining access to keys after the fact is a major problem for you, not so much for the attackers. So we've...
[22:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Scientists Develop New Plow - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:32] <exec> 08└─Delete copper. Fast loading juck.
[22:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BBC May Contact Your Boss if You Post Comments it Finds Problematic - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:12] <exec> 08└─In this case the BBC is all of those. The media has gone unhinged on speech they do not like. These people are not your friends. They are not giving you good news. They sell you bad news. They think they are saving the world when they are making it much much much worse.
[22:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. President to Visit Saudi Arabia; Arms Sales Expected - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:28] <exec> 08└─That has to be the most verbose 'whoosh' I've read in a long time. Here, let me help: https://m.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[22:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. President to Visit Saudi Arabia; Arms Sales Expected - 1056 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:30] <exec> 08└─Oil is extremely fungible, and there are large amounts of it outside the middle east. It might have been true some decades back that controlling from Suez to the Persian Gulf would have amounted to a chokehold on the worlds energy but that's far from true today. Even a full and completely unrealisti...
[22:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. President to Visit Saudi Arabia; Arms Sales Expected - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:32] <exec> 08└─I wasn't referring to the ability to get oil. I was pointing out how the dollar being the money in which oil is traded worldwide is quite critical to the US economy.
[22:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. President to Visit Saudi Arabia; Arms Sales Expected - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:34] <exec> 08└─It's quite critical to the profits of a few well-connected American stockholders, but past that? Why don't you explain just how you think it's actually critical to the economy as a whole?
[22:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:22] <exec> 08└─You're being a piece of shit again. Just stop. You have absolutely no idea what is like down in the barrios with the poor and the homeless. Have you donated your time to work with the sick and those in need? You don't. I know you don't, because you are full of shit. I didn't see anything remotely li...
[22:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:24] <exec> 08└─I've been homeless, you pampered twit. Tell me again how I don't know what I'm talking about. The average poor family in the US has two televisions and a car nowadays. Learn what the fuck you're talking about before you go spouting off.
[22:28:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Germany Got 85% of Its Electricity from Renewable Sources in April - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:57] <exec> 08└─But tipping point.
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[23:17:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oculus Research Presents Focal Surface Display. Will Eliminate Nausea in VR - 834 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:16] <exec> 08└─It sounds like implementing a focal surface display will eliminate a major source of eye strain. Soon, any headset that does not have an adequate method of retinal blur correction will be garbage. focal surface displays: high resolution; narrow FOV; narrow eye box; wide DOF; yes eye tracking require...
[23:17:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oculus Research Presents Focal Surface Display. Will Eliminate Nausea in VR - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:18] <exec> 08└─I'm hoping this makes VR usable for me. Right now a few minutes makes me feel like I've held my eyes crossed for hours. It causes a weird burning soreness. At least I don't get the nausea that some people report. I bet that'll be harder to fix.
[23:17:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oculus Research Presents Focal Surface Display. Will Eliminate Nausea in VR - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:20] <exec> 08└─On the other side of the coin, as an inventor, you don't want early adopters. When you invent something in a stroke of insight, your first instinct might be to shout from the rooftops, look at this awesome thing I just invented. But if you can't explain how or why it works, or you can't even replica...
[23:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06US Court Upholds Enforceability Of GNU GPL As Both A License And A Contract - 809 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:31] <exec> 08└─Poor legal reporting at its finest. The court has not ruled on anything of substance. They have certainly not ruled on the existence of any contract involving the GPL. The court has merely denied a motion to dismiss by the defendant, which basically means that the plaintiff's allegations are actuall...
[23:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Court Upholds Enforceability Of GNU GPL As Both A License And A Contract - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:32] <exec> 08└─Ja, vim skurer effektivt men riper ikke.
[23:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Court Upholds Enforceability Of GNU GPL As Both A License And A Contract - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:34] <exec> 08└─Not necessarily an infringement without a license. There is an implicit license, a promise, embedded in the GPL and similar licenses. This promise is that you are allowed to use the software.
[23:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Autonomous Car Rollout Waiting on Regulators - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:01] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0QhxF4OmhQ [youtube.com]
[23:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Autonomous Car Rollout Waiting on Regulators - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:03] <exec> 08└─Oh, my, one of those ceramic caps quit working after being in the sun all day
[23:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Autonomous Car Rollout Waiting on Regulators - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:05] <exec> 08└─I'm waiting for a bored Russian kid to replace a bunch of autonomous car's software updates with a copy of Carmageddon. "What a mess!"
[23:18:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02 - 06Swedish Prosecutor Retracts Warrant Against Julian Assange - 626 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:18] <exec> 08└─Doesn't really matter other than now there won't be a fight between the US and Sweden when Assange turns himself in. Remember? He promised President Obama that if he let Manning out that he would give himself up. It is time to fulfill that promise. Now that we are in bizarro world it will the the De...
[23:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Prosecutor Retracts Warrant Against Julian Assange - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:03] <exec> 08└─AC> And in this case, the international charges don't exist exactly because he breached his bail. I see congruence between what the AC wrote and what the prosecutor said: Significantly, [prosecutor Marianne Ny] said Assange’s failure to show up in Sweden and likely future noncooperation were impo...
[23:19:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Swedish Prosecutor Retracts Warrant Against Julian Assange - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:04] <exec> 08└─So much vitriol. What did assange do against Manning? Its more like what he didn't do. You're deluded if you think he had influence over Manning's treatment in the US. I think he knew he couldn't influence the US govt so he just kept doing his work. Agree he is a bit of a media hoe but that's no rea...
[23:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Prosecutor Retracts Warrant Against Julian Assange - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:07] <exec> 08└─Faith? Funny you mention that. I think that's what Imperial Officers run on when hoping not be forced choked to death by ol' Darth.
[23:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Prosecutor Retracts Warrant Against Julian Assange - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:09] <exec> 08└─None of that helps us to recreate that scene in Spies Like Us where a huge box is shipped to Ecuador, you pop open the front, and see Assange in a recliner with beer cans and empty pork rind bags laying around him....
[23:19:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish Prosecutor Retracts Warrant Against Julian Assange - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:11] <exec> 08└─Assange should hand off wikileaks to someone more trustworthy.
[23:20:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Decryption Utility for WannaCry is Released - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:47] <exec> 08└─There existed a 64-bit version of Windows XP, but it saw little uptake. On x86, Physical Address Extension allows the use of more than 4 GB of memory. The 32-bit size of the virtual address is not changed, so regular application software continues to use instructions with 32-bit addresses and (in a...
[23:20:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Decryption Utility for WannaCry is Released - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:49] <exec> 08└─> [...] you could blame MS for not wanting to support a 16-year-old system [...] According to the tabloids, Microsoft, as recently as 2015, offered--for a fee--support for Windows XP (which isn't quite 16 years old). They imply that the support is still available: The Government Digital Service, se...
[23:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BBC May Contact Your Boss if You Post Comments it Finds Problematic - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:15] <exec> 08└─BBC - British Bully Corporation. They're welcome to moan to my boss as I am my own boss. :)
[23:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. President to Visit Saudi Arabia; Arms Sales Expected - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:36] <exec> 08└─Because the transactions are in dollars, the massive amounts involved, often too high for direct use by various producers, tend to be reinvested in dollar-labelled assets, boosting the US economy... It also cements the Reserve Currency status, and provides a significant soft power tool for the US ag...
[23:28:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Return to Pluto? - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:11] <exec> 08└─https://img.purch.com/h/1400/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5zcGFjZS5jb20vaW1hZ2VzL2kvMDAwLzA1NS8xNTkvb3JpZ2luYWwvcGx1dG8tY29tcGxldGUtbWFwLWFwcmlsMjkuanBn [purch.com] There's the map from the article. As you can see, some parts in the southern hemisphere have not been mapped, and the features facing the spacecraft a...
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