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[00:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Plasma Jet Engines - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:05] <exec> 08└─Could we use this technology to set Runaway on fire?
[00:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Plasma Jet Engines - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:06] <exec> 08└─I think any commercialization plan that includes: Step 3: Plan on a breakthrough in compact fusion reactors to power system Step 4: Profit! is not likely to be successful.
[00:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Plasma Jet Engines - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:08] <exec> 08└─Exactly - wake me up when I can buy one of these at Walmart and put it on my electic bicycle.
[00:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plasma Jet Engines - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:11] <exec> 08└─A team of engineers has created plasma engines that work at ground level
[00:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Plasma Jet Engines - 758 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:13] <exec> 08└─So it sounds a bit like using a plasma cutting torch as a propulsor, just pumping up the rate that the working gas is going through it. Sounds not very energy efficient, so to make it "work" (produce enough output to overcome gravity and aerodynamic drag, aka thrust) you need to use compact fusion p...
[00:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Changes the Way it Sells Books -- May Hurt Publishers - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:31] <exec> 08└─I use kindle unlimited to get a lot of my books, but those that aren't available on unlimited I buy in printed format as the selling price for an ebook is so close to that of a printed book and yet I can't share or resell the ebook. By the time I share the printed book with my uncle and 2 cousins, a...
[00:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Changes the Way it Sells Books -- May Hurt Publishers - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:32] <exec> 08└─Not Amazon, the book authors, you dumb dickweed. Look here, I just wrote a comment! I don't get paid for it because anyone can copy and paste trillions of copies with minimal effort. But the superintelligent techniggers of SN deserve beer money and blowjobs for doing the needful of running this incr...
[00:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Changes the Way it Sells Books -- May Hurt Publishers - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:34] <exec> 08└─Sounds like Amazon is a pretty unreliable book seller.
[00:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Amazon Changes the Way it Sells Books -- May Hurt Publishers - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:37] <exec> 08└─OMG, Arik, just RTFA and stop speculating FFS.
[00:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Changes the Way it Sells Books -- May Hurt Publishers - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:39] <exec> 08└─Yes, but in those cases somebody bought the book. These are digital books and there's no guarantee that a copy that's for sale was ever paid for by anybody.
[00:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Changes the Way it Sells Books -- May Hurt Publishers - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:41] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but: Not Amazon, the book authors, you dumb dickweed. Look here, I just wrote a comment! I don't get paid for it because anyone can copy and paste trillions of copies with minimal effort. But the superintelligent techniggers of SN deserve beer money and blowjobs for doing the needful of runnin...
[00:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Changes the Way it Sells Books -- May Hurt Publishers - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:43] <exec> 08└─just RTFA and stop speculating
[00:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fearing Shadow Brokers Leak, NSA Reported Critical Flaw to Microsoft - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:54] <exec> 08└─No no, you see... imagine if there was a terrorist and a suitcase nuke and the terrorist locked his iPhone and demands a lawyer but there's a timer and we can't wait and it's New Year's Eve. You see?
[00:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Demena [5637] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Fearing Shadow Brokers Leak, NSA Reported Critical Flaw to Microsoft - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:55] <exec> 08└─No. I do not see.
[00:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 0637,000 AT&T Mobility Workers Have Walked Out Until Monday - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:24] <exec> 08└─Either you pay an intermediary so that the unneeded people can live in peace, or the unneeded people are coming to kill you. Your choice.
[00:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0637,000 AT&T Mobility Workers Have Walked Out Until Monday - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:25] <exec> 08└─"Do you know the secret of steal?" Thulssa Doom, Trump Republican
[00:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 0637,000 AT&T Mobility Workers Have Walked Out Until Monday - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:27] <exec> 08└─Whoever is right, employers in the Silicon Valley are fighting over the last D- candidates who possess such valuable qualities as having a warm body and being able to fog a mirror. But this is not a universal law - it's just a curious attribute of this specific location. It also applies only to thos...
[00:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0637,000 AT&T Mobility Workers Have Walked Out Until Monday - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:29] <exec> 08└─Why isn't there a Kibbutz for laid-off American tech workers who trained their H-1B replacements? Why isn't the Free Software Foundation employing unemployed coders to finish GNU? Why is the FSF a charity non-profit organization, when instead the FSF should be a charitable organization? Why does FSF...
[00:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Uber Starts Charging what it Thinks you are Willing to Pay - 743 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:28] <exec> 08└─Indeed. The last time I took an Uber, there wasn't any vomit on the floor and the guy didn't drive like a maniac. I almost got hypotension! So I tried a Lyft instead, and it was no better. No cigarette smell, no vomit, no questionable stains! I mean, WTF is this millennial hipster crap? When I want...
[00:39:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06IBM and D-Wave Quantum Computing Announcements - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:45] <exec> 08└─The first problem comes with the term, "one day". I doubt that they are foreseeing serious QC business in the short term. There isn't much that QC can do right now. Second, IBM would be throwing away some big businesses already. While everything can be sold with more advanced security algorithms (w...
[00:39:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM and D-Wave Quantum Computing Announcements - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:46] <exec> 08└─Power efficiency matters, esp. given the increasing about of tech relying on batteries.
[00:40:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BostonGlobe.Com Disables Articles When Your Browser's in Private Mode - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:35] <exec> 08└─I figure that the MBAs paid attention to the graphics[1] when their instructors were teaching asymptotes. ...but completely missed the context. Apparently, when the Readership line has flattened out near zero, that will be "success". [1] The word is that Trump likes really short text documents with...
[00:40:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Reveals 'Athena' CIA Spying Program Targeting All Versions of Windows - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:58] <exec> 08└─Too bad that the floppy drive includes call-home firmware...
[00:41:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tabby's Star Under Observation After Dimming Event Detected - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:27] <exec> 08└─Oh, apologies. Here, borrow my sarcasm tags: <sarcasm> </sarcasm>. They're all yours!
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[01:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Insightful) 02 - 06Google, A.I. and the Rise of the Super-Sensor - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:07] <exec> 08└─Yeah that's right, I'll just jack off while wearing a Google Lens and the video feed will be uploaded directly to YouTube where I will need to pay a fine when it gets taken down for explicit content. Fuck Google, and you know what, fuck every single last motherfucker who continues to work at Google...
[01:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Google, A.I. and the Rise of the Super-Sensor - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:08] <exec> 08└─Only a child or an incredibly stupid person could imagine such technology is ( or will remain ) benign. Install such a sensor in your home ? Are you kidding me ? Why not just commit a serious crime and go to prison for the rest of your life now, and cut out the middleman. If you're comfortable with...
[01:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google, A.I. and the Rise of the Super-Sensor - 1281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:10] <exec> 08└─To all of you to deployed Googles recaptcha to your sites, and for those you still used the sites who basically became fronts for Google's AI training. I hope you are happy with the dystopian results you have wrought upon the world. "We were so innocent then -- mostly about the promise and coming ub...
[01:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google, A.I. and the Rise of the Super-Sensor - 782 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:13] <exec> 08└─You opined : "And would not surprise me if one day the AI can detect me as "human", then probably run facial recognition tech to find out exactly who I am." Actually, the cameras which are already installed on the sides of the Interstate highway system in the US are ALREADY capable of face-reco with...
[01:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google, A.I. and the Rise of the Super-Sensor - 1307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:15] <exec> 08└─Well yes, but they have to be explicitly programmed to spot humans and run the face detection. Much as I detest highway cameras, you can at least avoid them or minimise your exposure to them, if by nothing else than not using the highways and go on the smaller roads that criss cross the country (as...
[01:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plasma Jet Engines - 736 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:28] <exec> 08└─If the aircraft were set in motion with a catapult before starting the engines, the plasma wouldn't dwell on any one spot for long. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Materials such as calcium aluminate cement can resist the heat in kilns and ovens; those might suffice....
[01:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plasma Jet Engines - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:30] <exec> 08└─Sounds like a pretty poor propulsion system, if it's reliant on carrying around large amounts of energy that means you have to carry a lot of weight in powerplant, fuel, batteries or whatever. But think of the possibilities as a weapon! 20km/second is about 65k fps. The tiniest amount of mass moving...
[01:36:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06Amazon Changes the Way it Sells Books -- May Hurt Publishers - 479 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:42] <exec> 08└─"And there's no guarantee that if the latter is true, said third-party seller bought the book from the publisher. In fact, it's most likely they didn't. Which means the publisher might not be getting paid. And, by extension, neither is the author." Really? These are books for which the publisher was...
[01:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Changes the Way it Sells Books -- May Hurt Publishers - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:56] <exec> 08└─Yeah! Beer money and blowjobs for SN SuperNiggers!
[01:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Changes the Way it Sells Books -- May Hurt Publishers - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:58] <exec> 08└─It's easy to set up an online store, but getting mind-share is not so easy. Nor is building a distribution network on the scale that Amazon.com has done. And again, this topic is not about e-books.
[01:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Changes the Way it Sells Books -- May Hurt Publishers - 787 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:00] <exec> 08└─Here's the relevant paragraph from the article. Pardon the formatting. A representative I spoke to from one of the big five publishers theorized that third-party sellers might be selling some of the free promotional copies that publishers routinely send out to critics and blogger...
[01:37:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Changes the Way it Sells Books -- May Hurt Publishers - 654 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:02] <exec> 08└─> Sounds like Amazon is a pretty unreliable book seller. Yes, true. Unfortunately for small specialty publishers, Amazon also has a huge marketing presence, funded by VC or stock holders through retained profit. With the result that to the great unwashed it appears that, "If Amazon doesn't have it,...
[01:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Changes the Way it Sells Books -- May Hurt Publishers - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:04] <exec> 08└─I know I know I read that too but it makes no sense. Just how many of these promotional copies are they sending out? How can that number possibly be large enough to have the effect? I mean if it is, then again, obviously the publishers need to quit sending out such unreasonably large numbers of prom...
[01:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Changes the Way it Sells Books -- May Hurt Publishers - 1211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:06] <exec> 08└─Generally speaking, I'm usually sympathetic to publishers when dealing with a force like Amazon, which now exercises huge control over the book market. But in this particular case, the publishers sound like a bunch of whiners -- unless I'm missing something. Here's what the Vox article in the summar...
[01:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Changes the Way it Sells Books -- May Hurt Publishers - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:09] <exec> 08└─This is a discussion board. First we read, then we discuss. First I read, then I said 'hey this makes no sense, what's going on?' and you tell me to read the article. The article doesn't answer the question. The article doesn't make a lot of sense actually, and that's what we're discussing. Hope tha...
[01:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Changes the Way it Sells Books -- May Hurt Publishers - 1506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:11] <exec> 08└─My impression from the second link in the summary seems to be the worry is that the publisher's main link isn't the default option anymore. Instead the cheapest option is. So if the publisher sells to a retailer at wholesale prices (you know, how commerce works) and that retailer doesn't actually se...
[01:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fearing Shadow Brokers Leak, NSA Reported Critical Flaw to Microsoft - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:24] <exec> 08└─The prime responsibility for all the crap is Micro$oft for releasing a shitty operating system.
[01:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0637,000 AT&T Mobility Workers Have Walked Out Until Monday - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:56] <exec> 08└─You're full of shit. There are plenty of A candidates with demonstrated problem solving skills who can't find work anywhere because they happen to have white skin, they happen to have a penis, or they happen to be over 30 years of age. There's no shortage of unemployed skilled individuals who don't...
[01:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0637,000 AT&T Mobility Workers Have Walked Out Until Monday - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:57] <exec> 08└─After reading his previous comments, I have thought of tftp as a Reactionary. Now, he proposes a community-based solution. If he's not careful, someone may accuse him of being a Communist. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[01:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0637,000 AT&T Mobility Workers Have Walked Out Until Monday - 635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:59] <exec> 08└─Stallman's longterm goal [...] was to suck the government teat There are currently lots of extremely wealthy individuals, educational institutions, and for-profit corporations receiving gov't subsidies. This, while extracting gobs of income from the economy and doing everything they can (some legal...
[01:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 0637,000 AT&T Mobility Workers Have Walked Out Until Monday - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:02] <exec> 08└─If he's not careful, someone may accuse him of being a Communist.
[01:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Army Rations Helped Change Food - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:28] <exec> 08└─Yep -- absolutely true. I didn't mean to imply that the Mongol armies only succeeded because of better food supplies. There's a lot of other reasons, as you note. But I was trying to think of other historical examples that might see an intersection between food preservation innovations and unusual m...
[01:40:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06 Uber Starts Charging what it Thinks you are Willing to Pay - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:03] <exec> 08└─Took cabs in and out from La Guardia to Manhattan in January. Both were clean, drivers friendly, price acceptable. One had lost the seal where the rooftop sign was bolted on, it was raining that day, and there was a small drip on the rear floor. Beyond that, little to complain about. Maybe Uber (and...
[01:40:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM and D-Wave Quantum Computing Announcements - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:21] <exec> 08└─But, is there any profit growth left in "big iron" pushing HTML or spreadsheets? QC is new territory, with mostly undefined applications, a chance for growth. HTML and spreadsheets are a race to the bottom with every other vendor on the planet.
[01:44:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Into the Mental Resilience of Journalists - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:59] <exec> 08└─If I understand that image, it doesn't imply that the AK-47 doesn't exist, only that journalists may misidentify it.
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[02:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google, A.I. and the Rise of the Super-Sensor - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:08] <exec> 08└─Better obey government and people with power from here on. But there are devices that change their voltage output very rapidly and those tend to be bad for chips..
[02:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Google, A.I. and the Rise of the Super-Sensor - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:10] <exec> 08└─I use an ad blocker not because I object to advertising - I don't - but because I object to being tracked. I'm going to start wearing a burqha.
[02:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google, A.I. and the Rise of the Super-Sensor - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:12] <exec> 08└─When I'm fighting off the Terminators, I'll make time to loot your house.
[02:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google, A.I. and the Rise of the Super-Sensor - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:14] <exec> 08└─You don't want to be on the internet, and yet you register an account under your real name Michael David Crawford. What are you hiding under that burqa? Eris Blastar, are you Eris Blastar? Did you join GitHub under a pseudonym because you didn't want to admit to using GitHub? Did you want to pretend...
[02:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plasma Jet Engines - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:29] <exec> 08└─that means you have to carry a lot of weight in powerplant, fuel, batteries or whatever
[02:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plasma Jet Engines - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:30] <exec> 08└─Shit, I must have missed the Walmart sale of "Portable fusion plant, only 99$". Hopefully there's a cheap healthcare insurance included for cancer treatments. Only 9999$ ? ;)
[02:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plasma Jet Engines - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:32] <exec> 08└─Thing was designed 20-30 years before one could be made as metallurgy wasn't advanced enough. The Germans figured out how to make one, hence the ME-262, which was in a lot of ways a piece of crap. But that PoC could have turned the war's fortunes had it been developed a year earlier.
[02:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Changes the Way it Sells Books -- May Hurt Publishers - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:05] <exec> 08└─Without speculation, there would be no SoylentNews. We are like Wall Street in that respect.
[02:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Changes the Way it Sells Books -- May Hurt Publishers - 724 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:07] <exec> 08└─> No one is quite sure where their books come from, including, it seems, Amazon itself Wild speculation -- perhaps there is a grey/black market for popular books? Many books are printed/bound in China (and other locations far from US or European publisher headquarters). Perhaps these printers are pr...
[02:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Changes the Way it Sells Books -- May Hurt Publishers - 1122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:09] <exec> 08└─So tell me, are these “third-party sellers” running their own printing presses producing their own copies of books without the consent of the author or publisher? In that case a lawyer would be in order for blatant cases of copyright infringement. Seems not though. Having a look at the article c...
[02:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fearing Shadow Brokers Leak, NSA Reported Critical Flaw to Microsoft - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:23] <exec> 08└─Look up ping of death as applicable to lunix. Yeah, RCE via ping, now sod off.
[02:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fearing Shadow Brokers Leak, NSA Reported Critical Flaw to Microsoft - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:25] <exec> 08└─My router will block that before it gets to my LAN... try again.
[02:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fearing Shadow Brokers Leak, NSA Reported Critical Flaw to Microsoft - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:27] <exec> 08└─Presidential Medal of Freedom sounds appropriate. These assholes (NSA et all) find vulnerabilities that make us all insecure and hoard them for their own use. Never mind the Chinese, Russians, and random hacker groups find the same vulnerabilities. This "leak" has made everyfuckingone of us a hell o...
[02:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 0637,000 AT&T Mobility Workers Have Walked Out Until Monday - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:02] <exec> 08└─Why isn't there a Kibbutz for laid-off American tech workers who trained their H-1B replacements?
[02:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0637,000 AT&T Mobility Workers Have Walked Out Until Monday - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:04] <exec> 08└─Haven't you noticed how money flows in one direction: toward FSF. I know very well, as I have donated money to FSF, and I have also written GPL software (not for GNU, thus I retain the copyright), but there's nothing liberal democratic about FSF. FSF is purely communist. FSF doesn't give. FSF takes....
[02:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0637,000 AT&T Mobility Workers Have Walked Out Until Monday - 710 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:06] <exec> 08└─Don't scrub that artwork off the bridge, because it's not graffiti. It's a neighborhood mural which was permitted by the city council. There isn't much actual graffiti these days since amateur artists have turned to social media which affords them a global audience with little effort. Sure the occas...
[02:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 0637,000 AT&T Mobility Workers Have Walked Out Until Monday - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:09] <exec> 08└─It's a neighborhood mural which was permitted by the city council.
[02:40:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06IBM and D-Wave Quantum Computing Announcements - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:29] <exec> 08└─Power efficiency matters, esp. given the increasing about of tech relying on batteries.
[02:40:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06IBM and D-Wave Quantum Computing Announcements - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:31] <exec> 08└─But, is there any profit growth left in "big iron" pushing HTML or spreadsheets?
[02:40:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM and D-Wave Quantum Computing Announcements - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:33] <exec> 08└─Any efficiency difference captured by multiplication will only hold for problems below a certain size, this is about how the amount of resources required grows with the size of the problem. At some problem size QC will pull ahead forevermore, regardless of how many times faster classical computers a...
[02:40:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06IBM and D-Wave Quantum Computing Announcements - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:35] <exec> 08└─Any efficiency difference captured by multiplication will only hold for problems below a certain size, this is about how the amount of resources required grows with the size of the problem.
[02:42:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tabby's Star Under Observation After Dimming Event Detected - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:15] <exec> 08└─Not interplanetary dust because the infrared would be detectable. Not interstellar dust because other stars along the same/similars sightlines are not showing any dimming or brightening. The reason it has all the astronomers worked up is that it doesn't fit any easy answers.
[02:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Into the Mental Resilience of Journalists - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:13] <exec> 08└─> [...] 99.99% of the AK variants sold in the USA are SkS versions. A Web site that seems to be intended for U.S. gun enthusiasts contradicts you: The SKS once had what was considered a robust accessory market. However, with the increasing popularity of firearms and the AK in the United States, the...
[02:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Into the Mental Resilience of Journalists - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:14] <exec> 08└─> [...] 99.99% of the AK variants sold in the USA are SkS versions. A Web site that seems to be intended for U.S. gun enthusiasts contradicts you: The SKS once had what was considered a robust accessory market. However, with the increasing popularity of firearms and the AK in the United States, the...
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[03:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Tells Thousands of Remote Employees to Come Back to Office or Find New Jobs - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:03] <exec> 08└─3-4 years ago a friend said her financial advisor told her to buy IBM stock. I told her to run away, very far away. At the time IBM was firing, ooops, laying off, all their experienced staff and replacing them with cheap Indian labor. I was right. I was right the next year. Don't care what the finan...
[03:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Tells Thousands of Remote Employees to Come Back to Office or Find New Jobs - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:04] <exec> 08└─The story notes this might be a way to reduce staffing and avoid worker layoff protection laws at the same time.
[03:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Tells Thousands of Remote Employees to Come Back to Office or Find New Jobs - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:06] <exec> 08└─When I was in college a classmate cheated off of me. Submitted a copy of my assignment as his own. Didn't even bother changing my name either. He was expelled from college and immediately hired by IBM.
[03:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Tells Thousands of Remote Employees to Come Back to Office or Find New Jobs - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:09] <exec> 08└─Published 2017-05-19: IBM hauls remote workers into office or "choose" to leave [soylentnews.org] TD;LR: IBM treats everybody who isn't a Ph.D like shit and won't let them work from home. The hauling back of employees to offices is just an excuse to get rid of employees. and yes their offices suck....
[03:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Tells Thousands of Remote Employees to Come Back to Office or Find New Jobs - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:11] <exec> 08└─Checking if a company has competent staff and treat them decently. And if their board and CEO are of the engineering mindset is perhaps is a god way to evaluate if a company will do well or if it should be blanked?
[03:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google, A.I. and the Rise of the Super-Sensor - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:27] <exec> 08└─It is ironic that you (appear to) offend (((google))). The technique you used is applied by jewish rats usually. The constant bombarding of the same message eventually breaks the average minds into thinking what the jew rat propagandist wants them to. (((google))) is only a tool that was developed a...
[03:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google, A.I. and the Rise of the Super-Sensor - 788 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:29] <exec> 08└─People already welcome these sensors into their homes. Consoles, smart TVs, and their own phones/laptops staring them in the face. 1/10,000 actually think their devices could be hacked. Most techies even dismiss the idea, thinking Apple is sacrosanct and truly protects them. I mean, why else would t...
[03:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google, A.I. and the Rise of the Super-Sensor - 1295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:31] <exec> 08└─The AI is with you, all the time. Not just you, but millions of other people. All day, every day. It watches you and your spouse. It watches how you interact with your children. It watches how you interact with your elderly relatives. It watches your driving. It listens as you curse your boss. It's...
[03:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google, A.I. and the Rise of the Super-Sensor - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:33] <exec> 08└─It's all good until you connect the device to the Internet.
[03:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plasma Jet Engines - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:51] <exec> 08└─"Once it leaves the "acceleration zone" of the engine," I was saying the main limitation would be range *if used as a weapon.*
[03:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Changes the Way it Sells Books -- May Hurt Publishers - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:28] <exec> 08└─> How can that number possibly be large enough to have the effect? Again from the article: If the Buy Box winner for a book is out of stock, it will look to most customers as though the book is out of stock everywhere.
[03:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Changes the Way it Sells Books -- May Hurt Publishers - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:30] <exec> 08└─This is a discussion board. First we read, then we discuss.
[03:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Fearing Shadow Brokers Leak, NSA Reported Critical Flaw to Microsoft - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:47] <exec> 08└─Jack Bauer was going to get the password out of the terrorist using the five dollar pliers, but the terrorist choked down a cyanide pill hidden in a tooth. Fortunately, five dollar pliers work on US Senators too, and Jack is able to pass the privacy-destroying laws he needs to save Manhattan.
[03:40:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM and D-Wave Quantum Computing Announcements - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:51] <exec> 08└─real world problems, particularly for power limited applications, are far below a "certain size"
[03:45:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Into the Mental Resilience of Journalists - 1093 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:32] <exec> 08└─> You are really saying thousands of people a year are buying fully automatic weapons? No, you're inacccurately conflating "AK-47" with "fully automatic weapon." I quoted a U.S. Web page which says that accessories for the AK-47 are more popular (there, I presume) than those for the SKS. I also quot...
[03:45:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Into the Mental Resilience of Journalists - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:33] <exec> 08└─Snotnose gun expert? SKS is single shot,
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[04:36:46] <exec> 08└─The most reasonable response seems to be that the genie is out of the bottle, so how do we adapt? To start off, privacy legislation! Next, serious security development for our devices. Make it reasonable to assume you're safe instead of the opposite.
[04:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google, A.I. and the Rise of the Super-Sensor - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:48] <exec> 08└─So mass vandalism? I guess that is preferable to actual civil war / guerilla fighters. Of course jail or actual fighting is the end result of vandalism, better to use the political processes (haha are we too cynical yet?) to get these violations of civil rights off the highways and everywhere else....
[04:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google, A.I. and the Rise of the Super-Sensor - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:50] <exec> 08└─"Soon, it will be to late to turn the damned phone off." We're already there, there are hidden batteries so that even removing the main battery means someone could listen in on your for another 5-30 mins probably. Powering the phone off does nothing, phones can be remotely turned on. I'm tempted to...
[04:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Changes the Way it Sells Books -- May Hurt Publishers - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:47] <exec> 08└─You have missed the point that they are representing these copies as new. If they have already been sold, they are not new. This is not a case of used books competing with new.
[04:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fearing Shadow Brokers Leak, NSA Reported Critical Flaw to Microsoft - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:06] <exec> 08└─And they're rebooting that shit, pretty sure the protagonist is a woman this time. Gotta get the diversity in there, can't let a silly thing like feminism stop the police state.
[04:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 1) 02 - 0637,000 AT&T Mobility Workers Have Walked Out Until Monday - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:46] <exec> 08└─They are very brave to stand up to the communications giants to demand their rights. Marx would be proud. Hell, I was proud just watching them!
[04:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0637,000 AT&T Mobility Workers Have Walked Out Until Monday - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:48] <exec> 08└─Cause lawyers to fight bad lawsuits cost nothing. Sounds like someone wants a free ride, hypocrisy strong with you today?
[04:39:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New SMB Worm 'EternalRocks' Uses Seven NSA Hacking Tools -- WannaCry Used Just Two - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:59] <exec> 08└─Actually not really, we've had plenty of stories come through here about computers being compromised on the hardware level. Maybe you can be more secure than some, but never fully secure as long as you have a connection to the net.
[04:40:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New SMB Worm 'EternalRocks' Uses Seven NSA Hacking Tools -- WannaCry Used Just Two - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:01] <exec> 08└─I am now preparing to sell my house and have not been paid in 1+ months because I'm trying to do payroll "correctly". I dont see how doing payroll correctly would prevent you from getting paid.
[04:41:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM and D-Wave Quantum Computing Announcements - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:18] <exec> 08└─Laying off your high priced older employees isn't abandoning an industry, it's cost control. They can still service the old accounts and continue to milk them.
[04:41:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06IBM and D-Wave Quantum Computing Announcements - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:19] <exec> 08└─kilobytes may seem tiny, but that's also the point, megabytes are also starting to look tiny now, and with HD HDR 60fps videos on the horizon gigabytes will start to look small pretty fast too. Literally billions of bytes will look small.
[04:41:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06IBM and D-Wave Quantum Computing Announcements - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:21] <exec> 08└─I think that's a better take on the situation. It's still short-sighted, since the experience is in the people they're getting rid of, but at least it a saner course of action.
[04:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Reveals 'Athena' CIA Spying Program Targeting All Versions of Windows - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:32] <exec> 08└─"Hans, are we the baddies?" At least the US doesn't put skulls on their helmets. Actually, I don't know enough about various US military units, do we have any that wear "evil" outfits?
[04:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HSBC Voice Authentication Bypassed in BBC Test - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:22] <exec> 08└─Great story, thanks. It's always the same thing isn't it, the law is for the little people and the too-big-to-fail fuckers are given a get-out-of-jail-free card.
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[05:36:00] <exec> 08└─Symptoms emerge in adults 18-36
[05:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Botulism Outbreak Linked to Gas Station's Nacho Cheese - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:02] <exec> 08└─At least it wasn't the house specialty, California roll sushi :)
[05:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Botulism Outbreak Linked to Gas Station's Nacho Cheese - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:04] <exec> 08└─It's night. You open your fridge. You take a moment for your eyes to adjust to the light, and then look at the food. You notice something strange and lean in closer... *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) IT'S TAPEWORMS. EVERYTHING IN THE FRIDGE IS TAPEWORMS. MILLIONS OF THEM. A SEA O...
[05:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Tells Thousands of Remote Employees to Come Back to Office or Find New Jobs - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:16] <exec> 08└─I was beginning to think I was suffering from delusional deja-vu. However, no, I'm sane (am I?) - the thing was published much earlier - Feb 09 - IBM's Marissa Mayer Moment: Staff Ordered to Work in One of 6 Main Offices – Or Face the Axe [soylentnews.org]
[05:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Google, A.I. and the Rise of the Super-Sensor - 715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:40] <exec> 08└─I believe the genie is out of the bottle. Trying to enforce privacy at this level is just as un-doable as trying to enforce copyright or farting in elevators. I greet the Google advancement of this as a mixed bag. It would be nice to take a picture of a leaf, and Google tell me what plant it belon...
[05:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google, A.I. and the Rise of the Super-Sensor - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:41] <exec> 08└─Same with a Smart TV.
[05:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Google, A.I. and the Rise of the Super-Sensor - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:43] <exec> 08└─I do not run ad-blockers. Never have. I run script-blockers. Because I do not trust scripts. Many scripts carry resource-consuming annoyances or worse, hostile code. I consider scripts to be worse than things I find in public toilets as far as hostile intent go, that is I have yet to see explodin...
[05:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google, A.I. and the Rise of the Super-Sensor - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:46] <exec> 08└─As per the stainless steel rat, when you can no longer avoid the DB, overload it. What we need is to start wearing Vendetta like masks or paper masks like the Chinese do in general public. Get a mask of yourself and exchange with someone else so you are not where you are...
[05:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plasma Jet Engines - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:05] <exec> 08└─Ah, Ok. (well, not even, if you use the engine as a kinetic weapon)
[05:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plasma Jet Engines - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:06] <exec> 08└─Nah, I'm thinking some kind of plasma cannon. Suitable for fixed emplacements where power is easier to supply.
[05:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Amazon Changes the Way it Sells Books -- May Hurt Publishers - 1047 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:47] <exec> 08└─Interesting.... I remember buying a copy of "TCP/IP Lean" by Jeremy Bentham... only to discover the CDROM in the back of the book was missing. Luckily, I found Jeremy Bentham's email address and begged him for a copy. He graciously shared a link to me to let me have a copy of the code. I have two ph...
[05:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0637,000 AT&T Mobility Workers Have Walked Out Until Monday - 1549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:47] <exec> 08└─We can quickly run into semantics with entities calling themselves one thing and actually being another thing. Democracy in the Workplace (Socialism) can and does indeed work. There are thousands of such workplaces in northern Italy, some of them of being of significant size. USA is a relative newbi...
[05:41:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM and D-Wave Quantum Computing Announcements - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:18] <exec> 08└─QC won't help at all with the need for larger data pipes
[05:41:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06IBM and D-Wave Quantum Computing Announcements - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:20] <exec> 08└─The thing is, current computation is already vast overkill for a variety of computation needs while quantum computers are extremely primitive (handful of qubits, for example). Gambling a huge company on the remote possibility that QC can be massively accelerated at some point in the near future seem...
[05:42:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06BostonGlobe.Com Disables Articles When Your Browser's in Private Mode - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:09] <exec> 08└─Having actually experienced what happens when MBA's take over a company and implement the things taught in business seminars, I guess I have to say there is nothing, no matter how preposterous it may sound, that should surprise me. If men come from Mars, and women come from Venus, then engineers hav...
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[06:36:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06CIA Informants Imprisoned and Killed in China From 2010 to 2012 - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:00] <exec> 08└─Pay-to-play. The Clintons did always enjoy their Chinese soft-money.
[06:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CIA Informants Imprisoned and Killed in China From 2010 to 2012 - 2656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:02] <exec> 08└─-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Just as with the reports of record number of kilos of coke being seized in various places around the world, the conservative way to interpret this bodes ill 4 China. If the reports are true in spirit... That is, if CIA lost more agents than ever before...
[06:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CIA Informants Imprisoned and Killed in China From 2010 to 2012 - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:04] <exec> 08└─want Obama back.
[06:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CIA Informants Imprisoned and Killed in China From 2010 to 2012 - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:06] <exec> 08└─I want Slick Willy back.
[06:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CIA Informants Imprisoned and Killed in China From 2010 to 2012 - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:08] <exec> 08└─China may be a powder keg, but the powder might be too damp to ignite. There has to be some build up and Tienanmen Square or Arab Spring style events. Things need to get... dry. the simplest explanation is, the agency HAS more agents than ever before!
[06:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CIA Informants Imprisoned and Killed in China From 2010 to 2012 - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:11] <exec> 08└─What else besides "democracy" do the regime tries to censor? Makes one wonder how close a possible powder keg event is. And what relationships will then be after such event. They have nukes, large army, international industries have their production facilities there etc. So it will impact the whole...
[06:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Botulism Outbreak Linked to Gas Station's Nacho Cheese - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:22] <exec> 08└─Soylent green !! https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[06:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06California Botulism Outbreak Linked to Gas Station's Nacho Cheese - 1332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:24] <exec> 08└─The adults over 36 didn't get sick because that's the approximate cutoff age of older people who got sick the old-fashioned way and developed an immune system rather than bathing in hand-sanitizer. What's more surprising is that the "cheese" had botulinum, I always thought gas-station nacho "cheese"...
[06:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06California Botulism Outbreak Linked to Gas Station's Nacho Cheese - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:26] <exec> 08└─U.S. Salmon may contain Japanese tapeworm?! What kind of conflationary linguistic trick is that? Well anyway, tapeworms aren't a bad thing. It's like being pregnant, and once you give birth your tapeworm swims into the sewer and eventually mutates into an ally of the Ninja-Turtles, fighting for the...
[06:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06California Botulism Outbreak Linked to Gas Station's Nacho Cheese - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:28] <exec> 08└─...free Botox with every order of crisps
[06:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Botulism Outbreak Linked to Gas Station's Nacho Cheese - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:31] <exec> 08└─tapeworms aren't a bad thing MRDA.
[06:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Tells Thousands of Remote Employees to Come Back to Office or Find New Jobs - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:43] <exec> 08└─Don't worry. The green slime did the same mistake ;) I even have a related movie title: Deja vu busters ;-) I think it will feature portable fusion reactors and sliming.
[06:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Tells Thousands of Remote Employees to Come Back to Office or Find New Jobs - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:45] <exec> 08└─I think it will feature portable fusion reactors and sliming.
[06:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google, A.I. and the Rise of the Super-Sensor - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:13] <exec> 08└─Our man flint with James Coburn already covered the home phone listening in on you in the late 60's. One of the ultimate enemies was the 'Ma-Bell' entity. https://www.rottentomatoes.com [rottentomatoes.com]
[06:37:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google, A.I. and the Rise of the Super-Sensor - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:14] <exec> 08└─This is a technical problem, that is, a matter of established physical reality. Legislation never did win a fight with cold hard physics. So the solution is to throw a wrench in the works. If everyone in your car is wearing Donald Trump masks, for example, that could lead to a case of what is polite...
[06:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google, A.I. and the Rise of the Super-Sensor - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:16] <exec> 08└─I hope someday you code a brilliant app in JavaScript, and just so you are hoisted by your own petard, I hope everyone refuses to use it, because everyone believes as you do that scripts are worse than a hostile shitweasel in a toilet. No word yet on whether Michael Duddits Crawford is or is not Jon...
[06:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plasma Jet Engines - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:37] <exec> 08└─Better try ball lightning [wikipedia.org] then. Jets doesn't play nice with the "cannon" idea.
[06:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Changes the Way it Sells Books -- May Hurt Publishers - 789 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:19] <exec> 08└─Wall Street only "wins" filthy lucre, and at the cost of their soles! Have you ever seen the bottom of a Wall Street financier's shoes? Only when he was kicking your for sleeping in the alcove at the front of his Very Large and Impressive Financial Building? Then you get my point. On the other...
[06:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Changes the Way it Sells Books -- May Hurt Publishers - 2000 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:21] <exec> 08└─I have already run across this on Amazon.de. At the time, I was mystified - so here's the explanation. Actually, I'm still mystified. Amazon has gone to the trouble to build up this huge, well-oiled logistics chain...and now they don't want to use it? Anyway, as a consumer, it's a nuisance. First, I...
[06:38:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03daver!west!fmc [1391] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Amazon Changes the Way it Sells Books -- May Hurt Publishers - 1048 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:23] <exec> 08└─That "tear the cover off" thing is for unsold pocket paperbacks which were historically a separate sales channel from retail book stores. (Pocket paperbacks were for casual sales in grocery and drug stores, not the retail book trade.) Return the covers to certify that the books were destroyed and ge...
[06:38:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Changes the Way it Sells Books -- May Hurt Publishers - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:25] <exec> 08└─But at least wild speculation never crashed SN...
[06:38:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Fearing Shadow Brokers Leak, NSA Reported Critical Flaw to Microsoft - 855 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:44] <exec> 08└─That was the first thing that came to my mind, too. You beat me to it. Now, I am finally beginning to understand why my cries about computer security went ridiculed when I worked in the lower levels ( engineering ) of the aerospace industry. I now sincerely believe that at the same time I was expr...
[06:38:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chromium_One [4574] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Fearing Shadow Brokers Leak, NSA Reported Critical Flaw to Microsoft - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:45] <exec> 08└─Seriously, people need to quit referring to Linux as Lunix. They really don't have much in common, though the 7-node clustering capabilities were kind of neat considering the hardware. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[06:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Fearing Shadow Brokers Leak, NSA Reported Critical Flaw to Microsoft - 1021 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:48] <exec> 08└─My feeling is Microsoft deliberately inserts backdoors presented to them by the TLA's in order to be a "team player" in exchange for adoption of Microsoft by government contractors, and favorable law regarding "hold harmless" clauses. I have no proof of this, but having so many backdoors constantly...
[06:39:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Army Rations Helped Change Food - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:56] <exec> 08└─Meals Rejected by Ethiopians :)
[06:39:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Army Rations Helped Change Food - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:58] <exec> 08└─Back in the 1970s we discovered a cache of my dad's C-rations from when he was in the Army (1950ish). Opened 'em up and ... dang, the cracker is actually still good. So is the cake of hard cocoa. Don't remember what else was in 'em, but yeah, some things keep forever.
[06:40:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Paint Colors Invented by Neural Network - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:40:14] <exec> 08└─If you manage to grow a new color of iris, the Iris Society lets you name it. I had a volunteer iris bloom in unfortunate shades of brown and yellow, quite possibly the ugliest flower ever. I named it "Blood and Vomit".
[06:40:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New SMB Worm 'EternalRocks' Uses Seven NSA Hacking Tools -- WannaCry Used Just Two - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:40:48] <exec> 08└─Paperwork requirements, can't drive, the payroll company needing more information. I generally expect for things like this to happen and they always do. You've never had that happen? I budget for that shit it's happened to me so many times. It's one reason I tried doing the contractor thing in the f...
[06:42:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM and D-Wave Quantum Computing Announcements - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:09] <exec> 08└─You're right, it isn't worth the risk; if they do get in early though it may be very valuable in the future.
[06:42:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Design Principle: IKEA Effect - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:35] <exec> 08└─....Linux.
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[07:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OxyContin's 12-Hour Problem - 1952 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:07] <exec> 08└─The OxyContin Cartel: Billionaire Family 16th Richest in the US An Anonymous Coward writes: Over the last two years or so, opioid production in yeast [wired.com] has moved from hypothetical [wired.com] to experimental success [wired.com]. It could take years before industrial quantities of opioids a...
[07:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06CIA Informants Imprisoned and Killed in China From 2010 to 2012 - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:21] <exec> 08└─- Build a great wall between the US and China (and China pays for it). - Ban foreign individuals of the Chinese faith from entering the country. Seriously though, while the spies play their spy games and the warmongers their war games on our money, 99% of the rest of the world, composed of ordinary...
[07:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CIA Informants Imprisoned and Killed in China From 2010 to 2012 - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:22] <exec> 08└─That is, if CIA lost more agents than ever before in the last few years, the simplest explanation is, the agency HAS more agents than ever before! [...] So the simplest, Occamiest explanation of the trend is that more Chinese than ever before are being so dissatisfied with their government, they are...
[07:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CIA Informants Imprisoned and Killed in China From 2010 to 2012 - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:24] <exec> 08└─That's a possibility: CIA staff often pose as members of the diplomatic corps, and Ms. Clinton was the secretary of state at that time. https://www.cia.gov [cia.gov] WSJ reports that the State Department presence in Benghazi "provided diplo...
[07:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CIA Informants Imprisoned and Killed in China From 2010 to 2012 - 869 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:27] <exec> 08└─> What else besides "democracy" do the regime tries to censor? [...] certain content about independence movements in Tibet and Taiwan, the religious movement Falun Gong, democracy, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, Maoism, corruption, police brutality, anarchism, gossip, disparity of wealth, an...
[07:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CIA Informants Imprisoned and Killed in China From 2010 to 2012 - 1683 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:29] <exec> 08└─-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 NYTimes says a lot of odd things. Or, to phrase it in a more sensible way, they are full of shit. Here's a taste: https://chomsky.info "unraveling a network that had taken years to build"... Evidence? No, I didn't think so. I personally do no...
[07:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Tells Thousands of Remote Employees to Come Back to Office or Find New Jobs - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:58] <exec> 08└─IBM is in the biz of selling "solutions" that just happen to require gobs of powerful and capacious computing hardware. And video certainly requires that. This reversal on telecommuting makes their whole push for others to switch to a more mobile workforce look like just so much marketing hype.
[07:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google, A.I. and the Rise of the Super-Sensor - 759 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:29] <exec> 08└─If they do, they will know who gave it to 'em. I will not run my little shitweasel behind someone's back like a lot of websites do. I won't eat things if I cannot verify it came from a trusted source. Does not mean I do not eat. I watch what I eat. If I crafted up something and take responsibilit...
[07:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Google, A.I. and the Rise of the Super-Sensor - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:30] <exec> 08└─Well, they won't be intentionally-crafted, but try eating a vindalu that's been sitting out for 8 hours or so...
[07:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google, A.I. and the Rise of the Super-Sensor - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:32] <exec> 08└─Oooh! Isn't that the stuff that sets your pants on fire? Providing, of course, that you could get it past your mouth...
[07:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google, A.I. and the Rise of the Super-Sensor - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:35] <exec> 08└─I've been a chilli fiend from a young age thanks to growing up in a majority-Cantonese neighborhood, so no, no pants-on-fire here moments. It's definitely hot, but its effects are similar to (though different than) Sichuan "numbing-spicy" food when done right.
[07:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plasma Jet Engines - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:56] <exec> 08└─Just strap 10 of these directly to a person. Hello Ironman!
[07:38:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Changes the Way it Sells Books -- May Hurt Publishers - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:42] <exec> 08└─Interesting! Put me down for a hundred thousand.
[07:38:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Changes the Way it Sells Books -- May Hurt Publishers - 1117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:43] <exec> 08└─Wait, which is it now? Paper or electronics? You and your sibling comment make opposite claims. The Vox article is talking about paper books, it seems. Third-party sellers may have obtained the books they sell in any number of ways. They might be a used bookstore that buys stock back from consumers...
[07:38:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Changes the Way it Sells Books -- May Hurt Publishers - 684 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:46] <exec> 08└─> Wait, which is it now? Paper or electronics? You and your sibling comment make opposite claims. Amazon.com sells both paper books and e-books. This article is about publishers' unhappiness at third-party sellers getting preference on a book's product page. Amazon.com sells e-books in a different m...
[07:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Changes the Way it Sells Books -- May Hurt Publishers - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:48] <exec> 08└─So the problem of the Vox article is physical copies of books that were under publisher control and now are in the hands of third parties. This causes the author not to profit from that particular sale. The particular gripe is that Amazon made it now the default, and that the actual offer from the p...
[07:39:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fearing Shadow Brokers Leak, NSA Reported Critical Flaw to Microsoft - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:39:10] <exec> 08└─No need to try again, because the same applies to this M$ asploit.
[07:43:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BostonGlobe.Com Disables Articles When Your Browser's in Private Mode - 1070 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:43:22] <exec> 08└─...but you demonstrate on a regular basis that you can consume text at a reasonable rate and comprehend that. With Trump[1] constantly in Transmit mode on Twitter, it seems obvious that he can -write-. The question is "Can he read?" Lots of folks have noted that his emotional development stalled at...
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[08:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06OxyContin's 12-Hour Problem - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:04] <exec> 08└─It's something about shitting and shitting-related issues. Fuck those shitting bastards. Shitting pooper Indians.
[08:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CIA Informants Imprisoned and Killed in China From 2010 to 2012 - 2437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:22] <exec> 08└─-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 I disagree with an assertion that the Chinese brand of censorship "has the intended effect", if the intended effect is: less free speech than before. The effect is, at best, the slowing-down of the public discourse that can only happen in a free societ...
[08:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CIA Informants Imprisoned and Killed in China From 2010 to 2012 - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:24] <exec> 08└─We had a Secretary of State who thought security rules didn't apply to her. Not liking the special secure phone because you have a Blackberry addiction? Oh, just ignore the rules. Get a personal device, rigged up to a personal server that isn't even fully up to date with patches, and then use it for...
[08:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CIA Informants Imprisoned and Killed in China From 2010 to 2012 - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:26] <exec> 08└─> [...] they are full of shit. They may be; we needn't believe that the events described in the article happened. I suppose someone who wished to check could request records regarding the Honey Badger investigation. > [...] the actual, factual conditions I described. Conditions that would lead an in...
[08:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CIA Informants Imprisoned and Killed in China From 2010 to 2012 - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:29] <exec> 08└─That's a possible explanation. The article offers another: Some officers met their sources at a restaurant where Chinese agents had planted listening devices, former officials said, and even the waiters worked for Chinese intelligence. [...] This carelessness, coupled with the possibility that the C...
[08:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03gawdonblue [412] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CIA Informants Imprisoned and Killed in China From 2010 to 2012 - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:31] <exec> 08└─This is possibly the US wanting the Chinese to think they're doing a great job uncovering "spies", and to keep trusting that intelligence...
[08:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Soylentbob [6519] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CIA Informants Imprisoned and Killed in China From 2010 to 2012 - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:33] <exec> 08└─I had some problems verifying the signature due to some weird behaviour of Epiphany web-browser. When copying the post to clipboard, half of the new-lines are removed [pastebin.com] leading to error messages about "invalid clearsig header" and "invalid armor header". Trying the same with Firefox wor...
[08:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Botulism Outbreak Linked to Gas Station's Nacho Cheese - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:48] <exec> 08└─The adults over 36 didn't get sick because that's the approximate cutoff age of older people who got sick the old-fashioned way and developed an immune system rather than bathing in hand-sanitizer.
[08:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Botulism Outbreak Linked to Gas Station's Nacho Cheese - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:49] <exec> 08└─No, he just has a strong liver.
[08:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06California Botulism Outbreak Linked to Gas Station's Nacho Cheese - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:51] <exec> 08└─Man, you two have gotten rather nasty since the Seth Rich debacle is due to explode. Well, whatever. But if you want to kill me too you're gonna have to hide a stick of dynamite in my favorite hotdog. I survive after every other method.
[08:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google, A.I. and the Rise of the Super-Sensor - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:41] <exec> 08└─Here, have a gift horse! https://raw.githubusercontent.com [githubusercontent.com]
[08:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Changes the Way it Sells Books -- May Hurt Publishers - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:53] <exec> 08└─It did, thanks!
[08:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Changes the Way it Sells Books -- May Hurt Publishers - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:54] <exec> 08└─Exactly, which is why I don't particularly mind. Now the Vox article points out a few (legal) cases where a heap of books ends up with a third-party reseller. But since these cases still amount to a legal transfer of ownership from the publisher to the third party, I don't see the problem.
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[09:35:52] <exec> 08└─Eternal damnation and flaming death to: Airbnb, Amazon, Amtrak, Apple, Ebooks, Eventbrite, Evernote, Facebook, Google, Intel, LinkedIn, Lyft, Meetup, Microsoft, Netflix, Pay Toilets, Skype, Spotify, Twitter, and Uber.
[09:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ISS Emergency Spacewalk Planned to Replace a Failed Computer - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:54] <exec> 08└─They've paid their bitcoins and are now off to type in the decryption key.
[09:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ISS Emergency Spacewalk Planned to Replace a Failed Computer - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:56] <exec> 08└─Came here to say 'good on them' for swapping out the computer instead of paying the BTC.
[09:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ISS Emergency Spacewalk Planned to Replace a Failed Computer - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:58] <exec> 08└─Found the LUDDITE .
[09:36:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ISS Emergency Spacewalk Planned to Replace a Failed Computer - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:00] <exec> 08└─*notes the absence of Ebay/Paypal, SpaceX and Tesla* *welcomes a distinguished visitor (?)*
[09:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OxyContin's 12-Hour Problem - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:10] <exec> 08└─Have these stupid overentitled privileged idiots never heard of the phrase "your mileage may vary" ? YOUR MILEAGE MAY VARY Jesus Herbert Motherfucking Christ. YMMV
[09:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OxyContin's 12-Hour Problem - 1000 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:12] <exec> 08└─John Oliver is a douche, to wit: "In particular, he finishes by noting that people with chronic or terminal illness expect continued prescriptions of opioid painkillers and therefore an outright ban is problematic." I have stage 4 PCa, with bone mets all over the place. It hurts. A lot. I take Trama...
[09:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OxyContin's 12-Hour Problem - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:15] <exec> 08└─So, maybe, you should just die, instead of being a lowlife drug addict? Just saying, as one AC to Another. Sorry, bro!
[09:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CIA Informants Imprisoned and Killed in China From 2010 to 2012 - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:39] <exec> 08└─Partisan moderating. Though, to be fair, the post is partisan. Which part of "pay to play" don't people understand? Hillary advanced the causes of dozens of dirtballs, because they had MONEY!! From African blood diamonds, to Canadian fissionables being sold to Russia, the list goes on and on. Not on...
[09:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CIA Informants Imprisoned and Killed in China From 2010 to 2012 - 870 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:40] <exec> 08└─P.S. I like big bones. ~Anonymous 0x9932FE2729B1D963 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJZIn/NAAoJEJky/icpsdlj6QAP/3cwV7bIjiByvs3ppuV6+QnR aeAAION16DH3QOAVi2C53Eo23y7P889qhT/5lvJ/PPhWjjtjaqjn1jOr3OicvkpW mh13zJxBPWne7Kn0GerHIQ1QSV/tXOzN/nDEYNmG6NNmJW/wlB7SYlY5k037ltdK jF+a...
[09:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CIA Informants Imprisoned and Killed in China From 2010 to 2012 - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:42] <exec> 08└─Not liking the special secure phone because you have a Blackberry addiction? Oh, just ignore the rules.
[09:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06CIA Informants Imprisoned and Killed in China From 2010 to 2012 - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:44] <exec> 08└─Reader, watch China carefully. They are the world's powder keg. No one will be ready for that explosion, because no one believes it will happen. But if and when a revolutionary spark appears there, it will be entirely too late to make any plans.
[09:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06California Botulism Outbreak Linked to Gas Station's Nacho Cheese - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:02] <exec> 08└─Jesus H. Christ, Fucking homos.
[09:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Botulism Outbreak Linked to Gas Station's Nacho Cheese - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:04] <exec> 08└─SoylentNews has gone off the deep end with this one. Not a single coherent comment. We have lost track of what the original post was even about! Why, oh Why, has no one brought up Systemd yet? Bunch of slackers. Food-poisoning just laying about in gas stations, and this is all we have to say! Buck...
[09:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google, A.I. and the Rise of the Super-Sensor - 1482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:55] <exec> 08└─" If everyone in your car is wearing Donald Trump masks, for example, that could lead to a case of what is politely called "Bayesian poisoning." Think, by analogy here, diarrhetic shellfish poisoning for databases :) tl;dr: you can't hide, but you can bullshit." Until they make covering your face, o...
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[09:37:57] <exec> 08└─" To start off, privacy legislation!" Ha, you are joking right? Look at every other piece of privacy legislation put forward. It pretty much isn't worth the paper it is printed on. Governments will violate it whenever they want, however they want. I guess you can sue the government, but in the end:...
[09:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google, A.I. and the Rise of the Super-Sensor - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:59] <exec> 08└─Until they make wearing masks, or otherwise hiding your identity in public illegal. Then what? (Longer post on the same idea here: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] ) Not to mention, it has been shown you can detect quite accurately who a pe...
[09:40:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Army Rations Helped Change Food - 594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:40:45] <exec> 08└─The Navy still possessed some of those, when I joined. Up until about 1978, you could find some, here and there. They weren't "for issue", but people had caches of them, here and there, that they just never gave up. Of course, by that time, "C-rations" aboard ship had been completely redefined. The...
[09:41:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New SMB Worm 'EternalRocks' Uses Seven NSA Hacking Tools -- WannaCry Used Just Two - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:41:33] <exec> 08└─Well, if theft is permanent and non-optional then you could argue it is a slavery. However, if you can opt out, like in "renounce citizenship" then you are not a slave, but then again, it is a choice between being domesticated or being a game, or even more precisely, being a domesticated in househol...
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[10:36:13] <exec> 08└─Lol you think of Musk.
[10:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06ISS Emergency Spacewalk Planned to Replace a Failed Computer - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:14] <exec> 08└─Actually I presumed it was just a Win10 forced update.
[10:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ISS Emergency Spacewalk Planned to Replace a Failed Computer - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:16] <exec> 08└─i'm always thinking of musk. thinking, dreaming, yearning!
[10:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06OxyContin's 12-Hour Problem - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:29] <exec> 08└─https://theweek.com/articles/541564/how-american-opiate-epidemic-started-by-pharmaceutical-company [theweek.com] There are a lot of details give, about how the drugs are pushed. I stumbled over that while searching for that infamous statement that "less than 1% of pain killer prescriptions result in...
[10:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OxyContin's 12-Hour Problem - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:30] <exec> 08└─I will. And so will you. Hopefully, with more pain as a brave non-addicted AC.
[10:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06OxyContin's 12-Hour Problem - 2222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:33] <exec> 08└─"Addiction is kind of meaningless when your life expectancy is short." Exactly. If a person has high blood pressure, and his blood pressure pills enable him to continue living, then he is "addicted" to those pills. Withdrawal symptoms include - death. So, another person has a condition which causes...
[10:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OxyContin's 12-Hour Problem - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:35] <exec> 08└─Did you misread Oliver's statement, or are you just being an asshole? He's saying that banning painkillers is problematic since some people need them. He's not saying that people who need painkillers are problematic.
[10:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OxyContin's 12-Hour Problem - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:37] <exec> 08└─I think the snarky trigger word was "expect", which makes it sound like a frivolous choice rather than a medical need.
[10:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OxyContin's 12-Hour Problem - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:39] <exec> 08└─This is the best that all of us can hope for, to die as free persons, in debt to no New York Real Estate developer, or Pharmaceutical Corporation.
[10:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CIA Informants Imprisoned and Killed in China From 2010 to 2012 - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:07] <exec> 08└─Can't help wondering how many people were trapped by that Great Firewall of China. Just because you got through the firewall, exchanged information, gathered data, or whatever, doesn't mean that you weren't noticed. Government officials may or may not have broken your encryption, but they know where...
[10:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Botulism Outbreak Linked to Gas Station's Nacho Cheese - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:28] <exec> 08└─I have always wondered who those people are that decide that buying food at the gas station sounded like a good idea. Sure gas station sushi, gas station nachos or whatever sounds like a real dish. Here it's mostly hot dogs, I wonder how long they rotate round and around on that machine and how ofte...
[10:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Botulism Outbreak Linked to Gas Station's Nacho Cheese - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:30] <exec> 08└─Where's that "off-base" mod? Age has shit to do with botulism. It's possible that people over age 36 are less likely to buy nachos from a gas station, but that's the only relevance I can think of. Let's fall back to 18-36 hours, like the article intended, alright? Which leads to the question - how d...
[10:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Botulism Outbreak Linked to Gas Station's Nacho Cheese - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:32] <exec> 08└─Get back unter your bridge, and stop frightening the children.
[10:37:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NotSanguine [285] 02 - 06IBM Tells Thousands of Remote Employees to Come Back to Office or Find New Jobs - 112 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:41] <exec> 08└─The story notes this might be a way to reduce staffing and avoid worker layoff protection laws at the same time.
[10:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google, A.I. and the Rise of the Super-Sensor - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:27] <exec> 08└─Same with a smart anything really. The "internet of things" will be a barrel of fun. We are just starting with the hard core dystopia, it can get a lot worse.
[10:38:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google, A.I. and the Rise of the Super-Sensor - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:28] <exec> 08└─Are you kidding me ? Why not just commit a serious crime and go to prison for the rest of your life now, and cut out the middleman. If you're comfortable with being watched, prison will have a lot of advantages for you,
[10:38:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google, A.I. and the Rise of the Super-Sensor - 615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:31] <exec> 08└─Even though ErisBlastar does not appear to have any malicious intent from my preliminary research of the URL you gave, I would still be leery of running something an AC gives me in response to the post I just wrote. It *might* be another roach... but I won't find out until I eat it. Like a cat that...
[10:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plasma Jet Engines - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:54] <exec> 08└─This is also a problem for Harriers. They have special concrete areas for vertical take-off and landings, because doing so on a normal runway melts the tarmac. I was on an RAF base a few years back and they showed me the holes someone had made doing that - apparently the heat of the jets was nothing...
[10:39:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Changes the Way it Sells Books -- May Hurt Publishers - 857 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:46] <exec> 08└─A footnote -- some small publishers are no longer selling direct to Amazon. The terms and other problems in dealing with Amazon are just too much trouble for these companies. Sorry, I don't have a reference, but I have discussed this with my small engineering press and they have withdrawn certain ti...
[10:39:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Changes the Way it Sells Books -- May Hurt Publishers - 961 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:47] <exec> 08└─Of course, there is the more severe approach, as described in Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose [wikipedia.org], which interestingly enough involved a remaindered copy of Aristotle's work on Comedy, the second book of the Poetics. Nice plot, since we no longer have a copy of this work, due to copyr...
[10:39:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Changes the Way it Sells Books -- May Hurt Publishers - 730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:49] <exec> 08└─> are these “third-party sellers” running their own printing presses producing their own copies of books without the consent of the author or publisher? Wild speculation (copied from earlier thread) -- many books are printed in China and other places far from the eyes of the North American or Eu...
[10:44:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BostonGlobe.Com Disables Articles When Your Browser's in Private Mode - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:26] <exec> 08└─I imagine it is a process very similar to a Warrant Canary. No cookie detected? They must be a new user, so display them "You must join up or log in to view this page".
[10:44:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06BostonGlobe.Com Disables Articles When Your Browser's in Private Mode - 1708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:27] <exec> 08└─I know I can get so involved in detail that I lose sight of the big picture.... Trump seems to be a big-picture guy, not a detail guy like me. Here's hoping Trump will go through our government and clean house. I saw how fast a team of MBA's cleaned the techie-types out of our workplace. All that...
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[11:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Delta Kiosk Checks Your Face Before You Check Your Bag - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:14] <exec> 08└─It would have value if not for the TSA bottleneck** on the flow. ** Bottleneck - by definition, the constraint imposing the most restrictive limit on the throughput of the system (it's rarely more than one) Any attempt to optimize the flow on the branch where the bottleneck resides is of marginal va...
[11:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Delta Kiosk Checks Your Face Before You Check Your Bag - 1372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:16] <exec> 08└─Actually, it kind of depends on the airport and how much time you have. Security screening (TSA administered or otherwise) is almost always the longest part of the process of getting onboard a plane, but that's more down to the length of the queues for the X-Ray machines and for quieter airports tha...
[11:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06ISS Emergency Spacewalk Planned to Replace a Failed Computer - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:31] <exec> 08└─But why was a mission critical computer mounted on the *outside* of the ISS? Anyone??
[11:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06OxyContin's 12-Hour Problem - 594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:51] <exec> 08└─Please don't use mercola.com as a reference. It actively detracts from the credibility of what you are saying. https://sciencebasedmedicine.org [sciencebasedmedicine.org] [sciencebasedmedicine.org] http://www.quackwatch.com [quackwatch.com] [quackwatch.c...
[11:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OxyContin's 12-Hour Problem - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:52] <exec> 08└─What in the world ever became of sweet Jane? She lost her sparkle, you know she isn't the same Living on reds, vitamin C and cocaine all a friend can say is "ain't it a shame" Various interpretations available here, http://artsites.ucsc.edu [ucsc.edu]
[11:37:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] 02 - 06CIA Informants Imprisoned and Killed in China From 2010 to 2012 - 456 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:07] <exec> 08└─- Build a great wall between the US and China (and China pays for it). - Ban foreign individuals of the Chinese faith from entering the country. Seriously though, while the spies play their spy games and the warmongers their war games on our money, 99% of the rest of the world, composed of ordinary...
[11:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03WalksOnDirt [5854] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Botulism Outbreak Linked to Gas Station's Nacho Cheese - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:46] <exec> 08└─The botulism probably came from a sealed can of nacho cheese sauce. Living is unsafe, but it's better than the alternative.
[11:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Botulism Outbreak Linked to Gas Station's Nacho Cheese - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:47] <exec> 08└─Lololol, never thought I'd see the day when EF let it show that his feelings are hurt. Guess he is more emotionally attached to users he feels are his kind of people? Or his algorithm simply got triggered by the chatbot accusation and went into defensive mode. Damn snowflake bots, must've been progr...
[11:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google, A.I. and the Rise of the Super-Sensor - 1391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:46] <exec> 08└─Quite true. No telling what kind of "riders" that manufacturers of in-home always-on internet-connected devices will incorporate for their business partners. Just like all the javascript riders we find on high-traffic business sites these days. Especially with all these "Copyright/Intellectual Prop...
[11:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google, A.I. and the Rise of the Super-Sensor - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:47] <exec> 08└─It might be simpler than that. What if you made your lower lip look bigger by coloring the skin directly below with the correct shade of lipstick? Would that be enough to mess up facial recognition? How about a large bandage on one cheek (as if you were covering a wound)?
[11:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google, A.I. and the Rise of the Super-Sensor - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:49] <exec> 08└─While my choice to not have kids was made for other reasons, this adds another one. I can probably survive the next ~30+ years, but right now I'd feel really bad if I had kids that were growing up into this brave new surveillance state.
[11:40:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Changes the Way it Sells Books -- May Hurt Publishers - 900 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:40:07] <exec> 08└─Yes, Amazon does have an awful lot of power over publishers. There's not much way around that. That said, there are other solutions for the specialty press (for example, scientific reference books that sell very few copies). For example, I would think that this would be an ideal application of print...
[11:41:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03rleigh [4887] 02 - 06New Paint Colors Invented by Neural Network - 3567 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:55] <exec> 08└─No, RGB isn't anywhere near acceptable. You need to use a spectrophotometer to obtain the full excitation and emission spectra, so you can see exactly what proportion of each wavelength is absorbed or emitted across the full visible spectrum, extending into the UV and IR regions. Why outside the vis...
[11:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New SMB Worm 'EternalRocks' Uses Seven NSA Hacking Tools -- WannaCry Used Just Two - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:32] <exec> 08└─if theft is permanent and non-optional then you could argue it is a slavery
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[12:36:02] <exec> 08└─A Scotsman parted with some money.
[12:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Delta Kiosk Checks Your Face Before You Check Your Bag - 1999 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:12] <exec> 08└─I don't know -- I'm generally happy to join in the criticism of the very existence of the TSA. But in this case, I think it depends on the airport and the individual airline's check-in system. I'm not a frequent flyer, but I fly often enough to see some patterns at airports. Airline check-in can act...
[12:36:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03lx [1915] 02 - 06ISS Emergency Spacewalk Planned to Replace a Failed Computer - 74 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:20] <exec> 08└─They've paid their bitcoins and are now off to type in the decryption key.
[12:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ISS Emergency Spacewalk Planned to Replace a Failed Computer - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:29] <exec> 08└─The shipboard computer detected a failure in the AE-35 unit. Mysteriously after they EVA to replace the AE-35 unit, the old one still tests good. So they decide to put the old one back, and the shipboard computer goes "kill all humans" on them. :P
[12:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03J_Darnley [5679] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OxyContin's 12-Hour Problem - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:51] <exec> 08└─I need a +1 depressing moderation option.
[12:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CIA Informants Imprisoned and Killed in China From 2010 to 2012 - 1250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:21] <exec> 08└─Corruption is all they know how to do. They literally don't know how to do anything else. After the earthquake in Haiti all kinds of companies and people donated materiel to the relief effort. Penske, for example, donated hundreds of trucks. They sat in the Port of Miami for 8 months because nobody...
[12:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Botulism Outbreak Linked to Gas Station's Nacho Cheese - 2420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:47] <exec> 08└─I worked at a place with a very dodgy deli nearby and if you ate the fresh stuff you gonna die, if you want a day off from work buy a salad and you'll be sitting on the toilet for the next 24 hours, but fried and "burnt" stuff was safe because the botulism toxin (along with a bunch of other food poi...
[12:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06IBM Tells Thousands of Remote Employees to Come Back to Office or Find New Jobs - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:05] <exec> 08└─This is nothing new or unusual, and since the MBA types think workers are just interchangeable widgets or beans for them to count
[12:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Tells Thousands of Remote Employees to Come Back to Office or Find New Jobs - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:07] <exec> 08└─laying off, all their experienced staff and replacing them with cheap Indian labor.
[12:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google, A.I. and the Rise of the Super-Sensor - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:52] <exec> 08└─Hot peppers, onions, and coconut are the primary flavors. Delicious stuff IMHOP. Set your pants on fire? Not normally, but if the meat's gone off and the spices are used to cover it then yes, it could conceivably destroy trousers in that case.
[12:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plasma Jet Engines - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:17] <exec> 08└─twitter's only hope, down the drain like that. Oh well the second dotcom bubble was fun while it lasted.
[12:40:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Changes the Way it Sells Books -- May Hurt Publishers - 1576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:40:13] <exec> 08└─"That "tear the cover off" thing is for unsold pocket paperbacks which were historically a separate sales channel from retail book stores. (Pocket paperbacks were for casual sales in grocery and drug stores, not the retail book trade.)" Interesting, I remember quite clearly the bookstore in my town...
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[13:36:05] <exec> 08└─Not only is downmodding abused, but it would be a good source of revenue: If people want to shut others down, then people should pay for that privilege. This should apply not just to "Troll", but to any form of downmodding.
[13:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06SoylentNews Site Update Story Followup -- WOW! - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:06] <exec> 08└─Let's rather require money to troll or post shitty comments! Pay your $5!
[13:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews Site Update Story Followup -- WOW! - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:09] <exec> 08└─If we could objectively identify which comments are actually trollish or "shitty", then this would be a moot point. The whole problem is that such comments are not objectively identifiable, and thus a person who wishes to identify a comment as such should be forced to render such an opinion closer t...
[13:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Site Update Story Followup -- WOW! - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:11] <exec> 08└─I could see $5 to post anonymously. I pay $20/yr for the yellow star so I could see posting as anon being "worth" as much, so $5 is pretty cheap. Here's a controversial idea... anyone can post as AC as long as they're paid up subscribers (aka $20/yr)
[13:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Site Update Story Followup -- WOW! - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:13] <exec> 08└─The whole problem is that such comments are not objectively identifiable
[13:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ISS Emergency Spacewalk Planned to Replace a Failed Computer - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:40] <exec> 08└─We are not talking about a PC here, but the control for the solar panels. Solar panels don't work very well indoors.
[13:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ISS Emergency Spacewalk Planned to Replace a Failed Computer - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:42] <exec> 08└─Like a car, all the computers are critical and there's about 100 of them. It is an interesting reliability assessment mistake. Of course a 1 in a million incident does happen 1 in a million times, there's only a process problem if weird incidents happen all the time...
[13:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ISS Emergency Spacewalk Planned to Replace a Failed Computer - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:44] <exec> 08└─route commands to its solar power system, radiators, cooling loops and other equipment
[13:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OxyContin's 12-Hour Problem - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:06] <exec> 08└─Don't bogart that joint my friend, Pass it over to me!
[13:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CIA Informants Imprisoned and Killed in China From 2010 to 2012 - 1623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:38] <exec> 08└─Chinese society is very fragile. It has "feet of clay," to borrow a Chinese phrase. It is more complex than 'oppressed people want to be free,' though. It's also not a matter of the Chinese people getting better access to better information. This is not the Cold War, when it was thought Voice of Ame...
[13:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CIA Informants Imprisoned and Killed in China From 2010 to 2012 - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:39] <exec> 08└─If the CIA wants more, better information they need to torture more, harder. It's obvious, isn't it?
[13:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CIA Informants Imprisoned and Killed in China From 2010 to 2012 - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:41] <exec> 08└─Carelessness? Have you ever lived in China, my friend? There are, like, five restaurants in the entire country where you can eat a meal and not have Mao's Revenge five minutes later. Over the long haul you tend to eat there every meal because everything else destroys your ass. Nothing compromises op...
[13:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CIA Informants Imprisoned and Killed in China From 2010 to 2012 - 815 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:43] <exec> 08└─Must be some other China than the one I spent nearly 2 weeks in. Granted I was in Peking but I ate out twice every single day and the restaurants I chose were not some classy joints. One even didn't have an English menu. The worst thing I ever experienced was I saw a cockroach on wall at one place....
[13:39:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google, A.I. and the Rise of the Super-Sensor - 1596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:12] <exec> 08└─Umm if you code 'a brilliant app' in javascript, the first question for you is going to be why did you cripple a great idea with such a rubbish implementation? Anyway not the other poster and don't speak for him but we do seem to share some ideas here. And I don't think it has much to do with 'javas...
[13:40:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Changes the Way it Sells Books -- May Hurt Publishers - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:34] <exec> 08└─And if you’re buying a used book, it doesn’t benefit the author or the publisher.
[13:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Army Rations Helped Change Food - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:10] <exec> 08└─I checked again a few years ago about purchasing some more, but the effing preppers have driven the price up to ridiculous levels.
[13:44:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM and D-Wave Quantum Computing Announcements - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:24] <exec> 08└─It's a really shitty thing to do as a "corporate citizen" and it is often not as effective as the spreadsheets say it will be since one older employee earning $125K per year can often bring more income to a company than 3 younger employees earning $50K per year (and the cost difference to the compan...
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[14:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Autobots, roll out!’: Father & son make Transformer out of old Russian car (VIDEO) - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:16] <exec> 08└─Well that's a serious hardware hack! I'm impressed they got the "transformation" working while in motion too. Tough crowd though.
[14:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Autobots, roll out!’: Father & son make Transformer out of old Russian car (VIDEO) - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:17] <exec> 08└─It appears the crowd saw the side profile as it rolled by, which isn't as impressive as the front.
[14:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Autobots, roll out!’: Father & son make Transformer out of old Russian car (VIDEO) - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:19] <exec> 08└─It's a Lada, I'm impressed they got it in motion.
[14:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews Site Update Story Followup -- WOW! - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:32] <exec> 08└─> Not only is downmodding abused, Hardly. All kinds of outright false information gets up-modded as insightful/informative and then left up.
[14:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Site Update Story Followup -- WOW! - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:33] <exec> 08└─Urban Dictionary has some definitions for "14/88": https://www.urbandictionary.com [urbandictionary.com]
[14:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews Site Update Story Followup -- WOW! - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:36] <exec> 08└─As well as currency exchange within PayPal, there is at least one possible other option -- paying from a PayPal balance. My hobby business generates a few bucks that I leave in PayPal and then spend on small purchases. In this case I was able to donate to SN from that balance. At least in some cases...
[14:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews Site Update Story Followup -- WOW! - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:38] <exec> 08└─I'm in favor of the current system (no money changes hands when posting or modding). Negative mod points already extract "payment" from trolls, that's enough to control the very low level that we normally see.
[14:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Site Update Story Followup -- WOW! - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:40] <exec> 08└─Yeah, sure, and let's let Donald Trump be able to abolish the First Amendment because he's richer than us.
[14:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06SoylentNews Site Update Story Followup -- WOW! - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:42] <exec> 08└─My heartiest congratulations to the entire team of volunteers for all their efforts. Well done people. I am very happy that a volunteer group achieves what many commercial organisations cannot achieve. Impressed with the professionalism and team efforts. I look forward to Soylent's future with great...
[14:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Site Update Story Followup -- WOW! - 738 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:44] <exec> 08└─I can't remember if you're Ameri-burger but in the USA at least since the 70s (if not further) all non-left wing political candidates are traditionally labeled as "literally Hitler". Its actually kinda funny when applied to small town mayoral races. If they don't have that long political tradition i...
[14:36:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Site Update Story Followup -- WOW! - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:47] <exec> 08└─Great work, team. Keep it up.
[14:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06SoylentNews Site Update Story Followup -- WOW! - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:49] <exec> 08└─You whine about "snowflakes" and then complain yourself about people referring to politicians as "literally hitler". You are fluent in hypocrisy, now how about taking some courses in critical thinking? That said, we do need more diverse moderation options and it would be nice if you could see the mo...
[14:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Delta Kiosk Checks Your Face Before You Check Your Bag - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:00] <exec> 08└─There's nothing like waiting in line and the family in front of you have just found out that one of their five bags is over 50 lbs, and now they've got them all open on the floor as they shuffle things between them, and re-weigh them, all the while you keep checking your watch because you're afraid...
[14:37:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Delta Kiosk Checks Your Face Before You Check Your Bag - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:01] <exec> 08└─Better that than having the plane crash because a suitcase was too heavy!
[14:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ISS Emergency Spacewalk Planned to Replace a Failed Computer - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:22] <exec> 08└─I get that the panels are outside, duh. But if the solar panel controller is mounted on the outside of the ISS pressure vessel, then it's only a foot or so away from being on the inside. Of course there will be an airtight connector/pass-through required, but they must already have many of those.
[14:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ISS Emergency Spacewalk Planned to Replace a Failed Computer - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:24] <exec> 08└─Google, Intel, eBait, Paypal, SpaceX and Tesla are the only ones with REAL stuff.
[14:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OxyContin's 12-Hour Problem - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:47] <exec> 08└─Some countries, sane countries actually have a ban on pharmaceutical advertising.
[14:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CIA Informants Imprisoned and Killed in China From 2010 to 2012 - 1370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:23] <exec> 08└─China runs a shitload of compromised ones IIRC and it is nothing short of a death race for the devs to continuously detect their signatures. Good thing TOR has spent lots of time and money updating their CoC! It seems like throughout history the CIA has been willing to do almost anything to get extr...
[14:38:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 1) 02 - 06CIA Informants Imprisoned and Killed in China From 2010 to 2012 - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:25] <exec> 08└─Funny. I'd placed "Pure speculation + Off-topic" in between a couple of karats before the second paragraph as a kind of joke. Looks like I forgot it would disappear. Joke's on me. Hehe.
[14:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Botulism Outbreak Linked to Gas Station's Nacho Cheese - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:52] <exec> 08└─Is botulism less likely to be fatal in the youth?
[14:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Botulism Outbreak Linked to Gas Station's Nacho Cheese - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:53] <exec> 08└─Don't forget that pH is your friend. You need those pressure-cooker temps to take care of the spores if your pH is too high. You don't have to turn that fillet into fish leather if you cook it in some acid, or like with ceviche, you don't cook it at all.
[14:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Botulism Outbreak Linked to Gas Station's Nacho Cheese - 899 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:55] <exec> 08└─Hmm, seeing as how Ethanol backed down, allow me to attempt to continue. *clears throat* You're damned right I have a strong liver. Back when I was a kid, we drank beer for breakfast. The millennial pansies can't handle a little botulinum toxin? It builds character! They wouldn't get infected in the...
[14:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03cykros [989] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Botulism Outbreak Linked to Gas Station's Nacho Cheese - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:58] <exec> 08└─Canned fish is rare? Never heard of tuna, salmon, mackerel, herring, sardines, anchovies, etc? They're all available at my small local grocery store (and the herring goes great on some rye).
[14:39:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Tells Thousands of Remote Employees to Come Back to Office or Find New Jobs - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:16] <exec> 08└─I actually agree with you for once. Kudos!
[14:40:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Plasma Jet Engines - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:29] <exec> 08└─fusion reactors to power his system. Other possible options could be solar panels
[14:40:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plasma Jet Engines - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:31] <exec> 08└─>is not likely to be successful. Until it is. That breakthrough is less than 20 years away. Just like it was in 1962.
[14:40:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plasma Jet Engines - 959 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:33] <exec> 08└─It's basically the next step past turbo-jet engines. Turbines aren't terribly efficient when compared to internal combustion, but there's only so fast that a piston (or Wankel or...) engine can spin a shaft. I looked at the idea (similar to the https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.o...
[14:41:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Fearing Shadow Brokers Leak, NSA Reported Critical Flaw to Microsoft - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:54] <exec> 08└─This disclosure is great! Props to Shadow Brokers for making us all safer from the NSA. Now let's close all the holes the Russians, Chinese, N. Korean, and other hostile foreign powers have. While we're at it let's eliminate the hacks that criminal organizations use to competently extort money and s...
[14:43:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Paint Colors Invented by Neural Network - 768 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:24] <exec> 08└─The answer is: this particular attempt failed. A favorite quote of mine: "Try, fail. Try again, fail again. Fail better next time." The neural network didn't have sufficient cultural contextual reference to do the job given to it. And, this, being a purely subjective topic, is nothing that can ever...
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[15:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06‘Autobots, roll out!’: Father & son make Transformer out of old Russian car (VIDEO) - 886 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:21] <exec> 08└─Ok, I have to admit, when I first heard of this I was pretty much "Yawn", people have been making autobot type figurines out of scrap cars for years now. However the soylent news article tipped off that this is a bit different, and it is. This is the first time I have seen an actual car that transfo...
[15:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Autobots, roll out!’: Father & son make Transformer out of old Russian car (VIDEO) - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:23] <exec> 08└─"isn't as impressive" is a massive understatement. From the side it just looks like the front and rear side panels stacked on top of each other. The rear is pretty lame looking as well, this thing should have driven straight towards the audience. Here's hoping they can get a better funded 2nd chance...
[15:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06‘Autobots, roll out!’: Father & son make Transformer out of old Russian car (VIDEO) - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:25] <exec> 08└─When I read that I kind of imagined they strapped two AK47's to the side of the car, because you know, Russia.
[15:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Autobots, roll out!’: Father & son make Transformer out of old Russian car (VIDEO) - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:27] <exec> 08└─> I kind of imagined they strapped two AK47's to the side of the car [...] Reality is a bit less awesome, but still pretty cool. This is only the export version.
[15:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews Site Update Story Followup -- WOW! - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:49] <exec> 08└─The whole idea of moderation is for the community to be able to judge which posts should be highly visible. It isn't a shut down, shit posts are still readily available with a tiny click. Your idea would likely make the problem worse since then a smaller subset of people willing to pay money would b...
[15:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Xyem [6597] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SoylentNews Site Update Story Followup -- WOW! - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:50] <exec> 08└─> it would be nice if you could see the moderation history for a comment. If you click the comment id [soylentnews.org] there is a little table beneath the comment which shows the moderations. Is that what you mean?
[15:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews Site Update Story Followup -- WOW! - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:53] <exec> 08└─Giving myself a bit of a smackdown, VLM was bipartisan with his 14/88 and snowflake tag names. I think my point still stands since VLM has complained about liberal snowflakes in the past.
[15:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Site Update Story Followup -- WOW! - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:55] <exec> 08└─Actually the troll modding so far has been accurate to like 90% or better. So no need to "fix" it. Besides moderation provides a value to readers so they can go directly to the interesting material. Comments with a 5-score usually have really interesting content.
[15:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Soylentbob [6519] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Site Update Story Followup -- WOW! - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:57] <exec> 08└─Most definitely not. Being required to log in first to post anonymously would be a big red flag for me. I notice there are many anonymous trolls around, and getting rid of them (or make them pay) might be desirable, but there might be legitimate use-cases for people to actually post anonymously, and...
[15:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews Site Update Story Followup -- WOW! - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:59] <exec> 08└─90% of troll-modding is wrong, moderation provides little value to readers, and most 5-point comments are completely banal—indeed, to be universally lauded, things generally do need to be banal; in contrast, it is usually the "Troll" comments that I find intellectually stimulating. Also, just as o...
[15:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ISS Emergency Spacewalk Planned to Replace a Failed Computer - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:34] <exec> 08└─I can think of a few reasons to mount it outside. More space inside, less of a fire hazard, less cooling needed inside.
[15:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ISS Emergency Spacewalk Planned to Replace a Failed Computer - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:35] <exec> 08└─1637: tulipmania 1929: Black Friday 2008: mortgage crisis 2017: the Great Flush You heard it here, PayToilets is in a bubble.
[15:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ISS Emergency Spacewalk Planned to Replace a Failed Computer - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:37] <exec> 08└─Earlier on Sunday, Whitson assembled and tested a spare electronics box to replace the failed device, which had been installed during a spacewalk on March 30, said NASA spokesman Dan Huot.
[15:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ISS Emergency Spacewalk Planned to Replace a Failed Computer - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:40] <exec> 08└─It might be on a location where there are no pressurized section.
[15:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ISS Emergency Spacewalk Planned to Replace a Failed Computer - 2802 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:42] <exec> 08└─Wrong. Amtrak has real stuff too. However, I'm not sure how the OP ever got the idea that Amtrak was part of the tech industry. Amazon has real stuff too: you pay them, they ship you real, physical things. You can also buy video-on-demand from them. Of course, with all the counterfeit problems they...
[15:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ISS Emergency Spacewalk Planned to Replace a Failed Computer - 629 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:44] <exec> 08└─No, the cooling would be worse outside, because there's no air out there, so you need a big radiator (depending on how much heat the computer is generating). Put it on the inside and you can dump the computer's heat into the station air, where the station's main radiators can handle it instead of ha...
[15:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06OxyContin's 12-Hour Problem - 1500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:08] <exec> 08└─Indeed. I'm often shocked at how Mercola's site links are often near the top of any internet search on a medical topic. Mainstream medicine and Big Pharma have had their share of scandals over the years, but Mercola seems to seek out every form of quackery there is and put his personal stamp of appr...
[15:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OxyContin's 12-Hour Problem - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:10] <exec> 08└─But the government says that sweet Jane is causing the opioid crisis! And government wouldn't ever lie! If only we doubled down and put anyone in jail who's ever advocated for medical weed (bunch of pot heads anyway, just want an excuse to get high), nobody would be abusing opioids!
[15:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CIA Informants Imprisoned and Killed in China From 2010 to 2012 - 1248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:47] <exec> 08└─I think you're missing one of the most important variables: nationalism. Chinese are, by and large, extremely nationalistic. That doesn't preclude change that 'goes against the [established] grain', to put it one way, but it does help ensure that that change is geared directly towards the greater go...
[15:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CIA Informants Imprisoned and Killed in China From 2010 to 2012 - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:49] <exec> 08└─> [...] Canadian fissionables being sold to Russia, the list goes on and on. http://www.factcheck.org [factcheck.org]
[15:38:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CIA Informants Imprisoned and Killed in China From 2010 to 2012 - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:51] <exec> 08└─You certainly swallowed the anti-China propaganda hook line and sinker. You will recall the most memorable part of the "massacre of unarmed civilians" was the fact that the tank didn't run him over...
[15:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CIA Informants Imprisoned and Killed in China From 2010 to 2012 - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:53] <exec> 08└─The sad thing is, these people aren't exactly "the spies" (and not American), at least according to my reading of TFS. They're the spies' informants: they're people the spies conned into working with them, perhaps even by exploiting romantic feelings. It takes a particularly horrible kind of person...
[15:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CIA Informants Imprisoned and Killed in China From 2010 to 2012 - 897 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:55] <exec> 08└─Did Hillary, or did Hillary not, accept money from Russia - however it may have been laundered? https://www.nytimes.com [nytimes.com] When you're doing "fact checking", it helps to look at means a...
[15:39:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Tells Thousands of Remote Employees to Come Back to Office or Find New Jobs - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:45] <exec> 08└─I thought this was understood? The linked article mentions here that "this week is the deadline", which it was not last time.
[15:39:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mike [823] (Score: 1) 02 - 06IBM Tells Thousands of Remote Employees to Come Back to Office or Find New Jobs - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:46] <exec> 08└─I believe the story is coming back up because the deadline for being layed-off, I mean to stop being a remote worker, is this week.
[15:41:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Changes the Way it Sells Books -- May Hurt Publishers - 835 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:59] <exec> 08└─The Fine Article (Vox) offers two suggestions where third-party sellers get their books from: 1. promotional copies sent out to reviewers and bloggers etc. 2. buying books from warehouses with minor damage Option 2 clearly includes the third party paying for the book. So the publisher and author sho...
[15:42:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Changes the Way it Sells Books -- May Hurt Publishers - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:01] <exec> 08└─I agree that Amazon should clearly distinguish between one seller being out of stock and an item being out of stock for all sellers.
[15:42:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Changes the Way it Sells Books -- May Hurt Publishers - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:04] <exec> 08└─Big publishers are going to be on this in a hot second. If you like using this workaround, I suggest you stock up quickly on your "made for India" books.
[15:42:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Changes the Way it Sells Books -- May Hurt Publishers - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:06] <exec> 08└─> Amazon offering the cheapest new version of an item that you are looking for is not a problem, it's what people expect from Amazon. If you believe this I have a bridge you might be interested in. Amazon prices are often cheapest in areas where they are trying to dominate a market segment (started...
[15:43:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Army Rations Helped Change Food - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:44] <exec> 08└─Those are only on my wife's side of the family.
[15:44:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Paint Colors Invented by Neural Network - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:02] <exec> 08└─RGB is a radical scale. That is, that the emitted light of each color is proportional to the square of its RGB value.
[15:44:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New SMB Worm 'EternalRocks' Uses Seven NSA Hacking Tools -- WannaCry Used Just Two - 1264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:38] <exec> 08└─You're making a damn good argument to go back to analog and discrete digital components and forgo the reliance of software defined devices. Perhaps the current software everywhere model would make sense if all the devices required support contracts to keep them up to date. Consumers won't bite on th...
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[16:36:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Steal Billions From Workers' Paychecks Each Year - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:46] <exec> 08└─Be glad you have a job at all. If you don't like it, go find somewhere else to work. If we don't do this, the whole company will go under, do you want that? When people asked Trump about the Mars mission, he said "it sounds great, I love it, but let's fix our infrastructure first." Yeah, starting wi...
[16:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Employers Steal Billions From Workers' Paychecks Each Year - 738 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:47] <exec> 08└─Just document it. No, not a month after you've fired, or quit, or whatever. Your first day on the job, bring a journal to work with you. Log the hours you work. Don't worry that carrying your journal around may cause it to get a little smudged or something. Keep it legible, but make sure it's "worn"...
[16:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employers Steal Billions From Workers' Paychecks Each Year - 1026 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:50] <exec> 08└─When society becomes dependent on "There should be a law!", then members of society lose the capacity to be shrewd in their dealings with each other. Worse yet, the lack of shrewdness prompts politicians to buy votes by establishing fake resource supply chains ("Welfare"), which just exacerbates the...
[16:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employers Steal Billions From Workers' Paychecks Each Year - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:52] <exec> 08└─Dude, this is plain and simple contract law. Yeah I know it's actually employment law which is a whole 'nother ball of wax, but you're making a contract with somebody. I work n hours and you pay me r $/hr. My paycheck gross pay is gexpected = n × r. If gactual < gexpected, the contract has been vio...
[16:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employers Steal Billions From Workers' Paychecks Each Year - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:54] <exec> 08└─Next.
[16:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employers Steal Billions From Workers' Paychecks Each Year - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:56] <exec> 08└─Unions?
[16:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Autobots, roll out!’: Father & son make Transformer out of old Russian car (VIDEO) - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:11] <exec> 08└─That's the comment I was looking for. I'm not Russian, and I've never even seen a Lada. But, I've often read disparaging comments about one of those Russian cars - and I thought it was a Lada. Here in the US, Ford is probably comparable to Lada. The word is actually an acronym for Found On Road Dead...
[16:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Autobots, roll out!’: Father & son make Transformer out of old Russian car (VIDEO) - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:13] <exec> 08└─The Youtube video is interesting, if for nothing other than the lack of special effects.
[16:37:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] 02 - 06SoylentNews Site Update Story Followup -- WOW! - 314 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:32] <exec> 08└─My heartiest congratulations to the entire team of volunteers for all their efforts. Well done people. I am very happy that a volunteer group achieves what many commercial organisations cannot achieve. Impressed with the professionalism and team efforts. I look forward to Soylent's future with great...
[16:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Site Update Story Followup -- WOW! - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:44] <exec> 08└─"it is usually the "Troll" comments that I find intellectually stimulating." You've touched on the problem, but haven't quite identified it. Idealogues abhor intellectual stimulation. They are kinda like priests, in the church. They are always policing, listening for people to question dogma. If you...
[16:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Site Update Story Followup -- WOW! - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:45] <exec> 08└─The idea of a non-partisian moderation "Political" is interesting to think about as a more serious, more realistically applicable suggestion.
[16:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews Site Update Story Followup -- WOW! - 722 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:48] <exec> 08└─You know, if you log in, you can adjust your preferences so that all comments are score: 1 regardless of moderation if that's such a big problem for you. I think it still displays "funny" or "informative" or "troll" but there you are. Personally I have ACs set so they start at score 1 and karma bonu...
[16:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Site Update Story Followup -- WOW! - 1031 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:50] <exec> 08└─Absolutely agree. For all the complaints about AC comments, it seems to me that we have a LOT of reasonable ones. Sure, they may not always be as well thought-out as logged in users, but the percentage of actual trollish behavior seems roughly equal to what you see from logged-in users. Moderation s...
[16:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Site Update Story Followup -- WOW! - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:52] <exec> 08└─Score: 4, Insightful.
[16:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Delta Kiosk Checks Your Face Before You Check Your Bag - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:05] <exec> 08└─http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119094/ [imdb.com]
[16:38:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ISS Emergency Spacewalk Planned to Replace a Failed Computer - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:36] <exec> 08└─What about cows? Where I can I find cows? Asking for a friend.
[16:38:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ISS Emergency Spacewalk Planned to Replace a Failed Computer - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:37] <exec> 08└─I'll agree on Amtrak. The rest seems more like middle men which of course provide a service. But it ain't rocket science. And some of them are very predatory and needs to be treated that way. Why is Twitter btw worse than Facebook?
[16:38:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ISS Emergency Spacewalk Planned to Replace a Failed Computer - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:39] <exec> 08└─PayToilets is in for a pain.. ;)
[16:38:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ISS Emergency Spacewalk Planned to Replace a Failed Computer - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:41] <exec> 08└─Twitter is useful even if you don't have an account there. They have no real name policy. Facebook, not so much. You can search topics in real time to get a sense of what people are thinking about.
[16:38:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06OxyContin's 12-Hour Problem - 2222 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:57] <exec> 08└─"Addiction is kind of meaningless when your life expectancy is short." Exactly. If a person has high blood pressure, and his blood pressure pills enable him to continue living, then he is "addicted" to those pills. Withdrawal symptoms include - death. So, another person has a condition which causes...
[16:39:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Disagree) 02 - 06OxyContin's 12-Hour Problem - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:09] <exec> 08└─I have absolutely no doubt that thousands of people every year suffer serious ill effects if not life-threatening or fatal ones due to following his advice
[16:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OxyContin's 12-Hour Problem - 894 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:10] <exec> 08└─Same AC. And lets not forget that the number of medical degrees given out is purposefully limited so that almost all doctors are sleep deprived: https://www.theguardian.com [theguardian.com] The entire medical cul...
[16:39:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CIA Informants Imprisoned and Killed in China From 2010 to 2012 - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:53] <exec> 08└─Maybe there should be some proof before shooting the people, such as hard cash as evidence. Love alone is hard to track on paper. But then again this is China so maybe I'm wrong and they don't bother with such details.
[16:40:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Tells Thousands of Remote Employees to Come Back to Office or Find New Jobs - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:45] <exec> 08└─I think it will be.. "don't cross the article links" ;)
[16:42:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plasma Jet Engines - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:01] <exec> 08└─"Hello, this is your captain speaking. We're gonna land for the night and continue tomorrow at noon when our batteries should have charged enough. Let's hope for a sunny day and don't forget to buy something for dinner from our cabin crew."
[16:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fearing Shadow Brokers Leak, NSA Reported Critical Flaw to Microsoft - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:28] <exec> 08└─> Its the only plausible explanation I can think of as to why my concerns fell on such deaf ears. You underestimate the human laziness and corporate comfort zones.
[16:43:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fearing Shadow Brokers Leak, NSA Reported Critical Flaw to Microsoft - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:29] <exec> 08└─Technically , in the US, a male is a minority*. So you should still be able to cast a man. LGBTBBQLOLBRBWTF man if you're still trying to fill the diversity quota. *You'll have first trust Wikipedia, then second trust the 2012 CIA World Factbook, and third add up the numbers yourself. https://en.wik...
[16:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Paint Colors Invented by Neural Network - 640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:02] <exec> 08└─So, a color isn't so much of a single wavelength, but more of a spectrum of absorption and/or reflection intensities. There may be one "dominant" average wavelength, but green is definitely perceived differently from purple, even though the average wavelength of the blue and red peaks that make purp...
[16:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Paint Colors Invented by Neural Network - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:03] <exec> 08└─First, yeah, what he said. Second, about perceiving 8 bit color differences: Yes, the eye can do it, easily, but only if the monitor renders it. Lots of consumer level LCD monitors only display 6 bits of color, especially in blue and red channels.
[16:45:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New SMB Worm 'EternalRocks' Uses Seven NSA Hacking Tools -- WannaCry Used Just Two - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:41] <exec> 08└─Nice! When you looked those up, did you happen to see any mention if the Apple, Linux, and BSD implementations of SMB (client and server) also suffered from the same vulnerabilities?
[16:45:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New SMB Worm 'EternalRocks' Uses Seven NSA Hacking Tools -- WannaCry Used Just Two - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:43] <exec> 08└─Sorry, I am still missing something. You are saying that you have so much paperwork to fill out after freelancing for a bit that it is basically a full time job for months?
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[17:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Daily Mail: Facebook Gives You (More) Cancer - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:19] <exec> 08└─I want to mod up the editorial. Hilarious!
[17:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Daily Mail: Facebook Gives You (More) Cancer - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:20] <exec> 08└─Funny [theguardian.com] Funnier [zerohedge.com] While I'm no fan of gingers or fat kids Daily Mail Vs. Facebook is a close call.
[17:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Daily Mail: Facebook Gives You (More) Cancer - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:22] <exec> 08└─Soylentils are advised to avoid [...] oxytocin
[17:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Daily Mail: Facebook Gives You (More) Cancer - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:25] <exec> 08└─Da. SN staff are Russian Albino Nigger Jews.
[17:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employers Steal Billions From Workers' Paychecks Each Year - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:40] <exec> 08└─That's still a problem with documentation; get signatures, get stamps, etc. Hell, in grade school, I was regularly accused of not turning in my homework assignments, so I told my teacher to sign a document that I had done so on every assignment I turned it; she laughed in my face at first, but I sto...
[17:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Employers Steal Billions From Workers' Paychecks Each Year - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:42] <exec> 08└─All great empires evolve towards this command-and-control structure, and they all fail because of it, requiring society to head back towards a more decentralized (and therefore robust) structure.
[17:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Steal Billions From Workers' Paychecks Each Year - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:44] <exec> 08└─Except that when a union gets involved, you avoid the exact economic problem OP pointed out about Wal-Mart. Unions negotiate a fair contract with the employer without any government passing any laws. Without unions, the only way to get Wal-Mart to do better for their employees is through legislation...
[17:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employers Steal Billions From Workers' Paychecks Each Year - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:46] <exec> 08└─You poor, poor, illiterate douche. "you will have confessed to disloyalty, and you will be fired." Which part of " Keep that log for as long as you work - whether it is weeks, months, or years." did you fail to understand? Even poor idiot un-evolved baby boomers understood that going to the labor bo...
[17:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Employers Steal Billions From Workers' Paychecks Each Year - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:48] <exec> 08└─Perhaps societies oscillate between decentralization and centralization as different limitations becomes clear?
[17:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Steal Billions From Workers' Paychecks Each Year - 1036 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:50] <exec> 08└─In the US, unions have historically wielded a lot of power. Power attracts the criminally minded. Criminals abuse power. Unions did a lot of good in this country, until they reached some threshold, and had to much power. Unions were instrumental in moving the American steel industry out of the Unite...
[17:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Steal Billions From Workers' Paychecks Each Year - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:53] <exec> 08└─Citation needed on "Unions were instrumental in moving the American steel industry out of the United States, to Belgium and India." That would be directly opposed to their own self-interest, both of the union as an institution and of the individual workers that make up the union. If they wielded any...
[17:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Steal Billions From Workers' Paychecks Each Year - 627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:55] <exec> 08└─The more important message is: employment at will works both ways. If you have to keep a journal to get paid, you really should be investing that journal keeping effort in finding a better employer. If you can do both, great, but finding the more secure job is going to be far more important in the l...
[17:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employers Steal Billions From Workers' Paychecks Each Year - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:57] <exec> 08└─Is that where the "anti-science" babble comes from? Because he wants our infrastructure to be fixed before we go for an adventure to Mars?
[17:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Steal Billions From Workers' Paychecks Each Year - 723 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:59] <exec> 08└─1980's the steel companies losing lots of money. They tried to negotiate with the unions. "Take a 2% reduction in benefits for a couple years, and we'll get out of the mess we're in." The union answer was, "No, we'll take our Cost Of Living raises, now, or we'll shut the plants down." The corporatio...
[17:37:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Steal Billions From Workers' Paychecks Each Year - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:02] <exec> 08└─Is that where the "anti-science" babble comes from? Because he wants our infrastructure to be fixed before we go for an adventure to Mars?
[17:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Autobots, roll out!’: Father & son make Transformer out of old Russian car (VIDEO) - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:19] <exec> 08└─Fords aren't that bad. They're really the best of the big-3 US automakers if you care about quality. Chryslers are the worst ones, and GMs are in the middle. Stay away from the Fords (usually Focuses) with DSG transmissions though; those seem to have a lot of problems.
[17:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Autobots, roll out!’: Father & son make Transformer out of old Russian car (VIDEO) - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:20] <exec> 08└─If an American had made it for a rodeo, complete with stars and stripes painting, it'd be the OMGWTF AWESOMEST thing of the century.
[17:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Autobots, roll out!’: Father & son make Transformer out of old Russian car (VIDEO) - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:23] <exec> 08└─SHHHH! Stop being reasonable! I'm trying to find out how many motorheads come to Soylent. If I can get a feud going between GM, Ford, and Mopar fanbois, we'll be able to get a count. There are some good acronyms for some of the other autos out there, too. I'd tell you what Pontiac stands for, but th...
[17:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews Site Update Story Followup -- WOW! - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:58] <exec> 08└─See the title, AthanasiusKircher. In my experience, people who have prodigious memories (and the concomitant verbosity) tend to have lackluster reasoning; I suppose that to such people, remembering a statement engenders the same emotional satisfaction as logically validating that statement.
[17:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews Site Update Story Followup -- WOW! - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:59] <exec> 08└─Idiot.
[17:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Soylentbob [6519] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Site Update Story Followup -- WOW! - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:01] <exec> 08└─Similar here. I want to be able to share my gihub-username, codewars-links etc. here, but that means I wouldn't want this account associated with comments too controversial for e.g. my workplace or stories related to my work that could, combined with my identity, damage the reputation of colleagues....
[17:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews Site Update Story Followup -- WOW! - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:04] <exec> 08└─Typical AC mind games. Outlandish claims in the guise of legitimate criticism. That 90% contains a lot of nigger and cow comments. Ignore parent, they have gotten enough replies as is.
[17:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Site Update Story Followup -- WOW! - 1989 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:06] <exec> 08└─OK there is some reasonable opposition but consider three counteroffers: 1) The population here isn't quite desktop windows users. People here are reasonably talented at sharing as much or as little as they care to. Been a long time since I set up an account here but from memory it didn't require an...
[17:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ISS Emergency Spacewalk Planned to Replace a Failed Computer - 705 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:52] <exec> 08└─Of course most of them are "just" services, but without many services, we wouldn't have an economy. Think about what the state of the internet would be if we never had any search engines; good luck finding anything. Lyft is obviously a service, but people do need to get from point A to point B, and...
[17:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ISS Emergency Spacewalk Planned to Replace a Failed Computer - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:53] <exec> 08└─Which is why I stated that Google provided a real service. Lyft/Uber is more about providing a website with the right functionality. While Facebook permits long messages. The structure makes people focusing on the wrong things and there's not real capabilities to filter out the mental junk.
[17:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OxyContin's 12-Hour Problem - 970 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:22] <exec> 08└─This study that claims 251,454 patients die each year is here [west-info.eu]. Before citing it as strong evidence, you should note that that estimate of 250,000 deaths is based on data from three papers that collectively accounted for 35 "preventable" deaths. No, that's not a typo. That's quite an e...
[17:39:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OxyContin's 12-Hour Problem - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:23] <exec> 08└─"In particular, he finishes by noting that people with chronic or terminal illness expect continued prescriptions of opioid painkillers and therefore an outright ban is problematic." What John Doucheiver doesn't seem to get is that late-stage cancer treatment is almost exclusively palliative. i.e.pa...
[17:40:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CIA Informants Imprisoned and Killed in China From 2010 to 2012 - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:08] <exec> 08└─Maybe they shouldn't shoot anyone at all. But this isn't a discussion over how China should treat spies or their informants; China's going to do what they're going to do. I'm just pointing out that the OP's lack of sympathy is probably misplaced, because the *real* spies don't seem to be getting the...
[17:40:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CIA Informants Imprisoned and Killed in China From 2010 to 2012 - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:09] <exec> 08└─Bush outs Valerie Plame, the hunt begins, in a few years time agents are being identified and eliminated.
[17:40:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CIA Informants Imprisoned and Killed in China From 2010 to 2012 - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:11] <exec> 08└─- Build a great wall between the US and China (and China pays for it). - Ban foreign individuals of the Chinese faith from entering the country. Seriously though, while the spies play their spy games and the warmongers their war games on our money, 99% of the rest of the world, composed of ordinary...
[17:40:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Botulism Outbreak Linked to Gas Station's Nacho Cheese - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:43] <exec> 08└─Yes good point I was thinking of home canning. I don't think the Ball book lists a fish recipe even for pressure cooking.
[17:40:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 1) 02 - 06California Botulism Outbreak Linked to Gas Station's Nacho Cheese - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:44] <exec> 08└─...Libertarians will continue to cry that deregulation, such as stripping health codes, helps people. LOL
[17:41:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Tells Thousands of Remote Employees to Come Back to Office or Find New Jobs - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:07] <exec> 08└─This is nothing new or unusual, and since the MBA types think workers are just interchangeable widgets or beans for them to count
[17:41:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google, A.I. and the Rise of the Super-Sensor - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:55] <exec> 08└─Trying to enforce privacy at this level is just as un-doable as trying to enforce copyright or farting in elevators.
[17:41:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google, A.I. and the Rise of the Super-Sensor - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:56] <exec> 08└─Umm if you code 'a brilliant app' in javascript, the first question for you is going to be why did you cripple a great idea with such a rubbish implementation?
[17:41:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google, A.I. and the Rise of the Super-Sensor - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:59] <exec> 08└─This is confusing to me. May I make a proposal? Let's use parens when identifying where the Jews are echoing, for example: (((Jews))). For Google, let's use curly braces, for example: {{{Google}}}. Finally, just to try to make my proposal robust, I'd like to suggest pointing fingers for reptiles fro...
[17:42:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google, A.I. and the Rise of the Super-Sensor - 2546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:01] <exec> 08└─The legislation already exists [europa.eu], at least in the EU. One of the core tenets of EU regulation 2016/679 (on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regul...
[17:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New SMB Worm 'EternalRocks' Uses Seven NSA Hacking Tools -- WannaCry Used Just Two - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:11] <exec> 08└─why do you keep blaming F/OSS for your inability to buy from a responsible company or not to buy at all? You knew the situation before you bought, but you're a fucking sell out, so you bought anyways. now you're whining about it? you funded it, bitch! demand that companies foster dev+user community...
[17:46:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New SMB Worm 'EternalRocks' Uses Seven NSA Hacking Tools -- WannaCry Used Just Two - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:13] <exec> 08└─Strange to say, but I agree with you (sorry Runaway1956, but we rarely agree). On-topic: They have quite a different culture and in a sense their current state management is very similar to imperial China. They invest and provide real benefits to surrounding peoples for not more than acknowledgment...
[17:47:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Uber Starts Charging what it Thinks you are Willing to Pay - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:06] <exec> 08└─Clearly, everyone will become Lisp programmers. They will know the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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[18:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Daily Mail: Facebook Gives You (More) Cancer - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:40] <exec> 08└─tanning in an effort to improve appearance
[18:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Daily Mail: Facebook Gives You (More) Cancer - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:42] <exec> 08└─Exploding cancer bomb! JJJJJJIIIIHHHHAAAAAAAADDDDDDDDD!!!!!
[18:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Daily Mail: Facebook Gives You (More) Cancer - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:44] <exec> 08└─Are the shills out today waiting for the facebook moderation story to break? Wonder [euobserver.com] why? [independent.co.uk]
[18:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Daily Mail: Facebook Gives You (More) Cancer - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:46] <exec> 08└─I troll your shit site of shit mother shitting son of an ass!
[18:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Daily Mail: Facebook Gives You (More) Cancer - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:49] <exec> 08└─Thank you for being a friend Traveled down the road and back again Your heart is true you're a pal and a confidant And if you threw a party Invited everyone you ever knew You would see the biggest gift would be from me And the card attached would say thank you for being a friend.
[18:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Daily Mail: Facebook Gives You (More) Cancer - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:51] <exec> 08└─Dacre will ensure strong and stable government for the whole of the UK. Brexterminate!
[18:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Daily Mail: Facebook Gives You (More) Cancer - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:54] <exec> 08└─You're missing the point the pet rock was a great idea because the troll who made it got an oxytocin rush just from making it and stop making fun of my jump to conclusions mat! Why is the oxytocin button labeled Submit? Whoa.
[18:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Daily Mail: Facebook Gives You (More) Cancer - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:57] <exec> 08└─People from the UK have been going to places like Spain, exposing themselves to excessive sunlight, often getting ban sunburns, for decades. Northern European skin and southern European sunlight don't match. This has been a problem since companies started selling cheap package holidays in Spain and...
[18:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Daily Mail: Facebook Gives You (More) Cancer - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:00] <exec> 08└─I think that list is wrong. Oxytocin and daylight are good for the health. And LCD backlight don't count as daylight! :P
[18:37:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06Employers Steal Billions From Workers' Paychecks Each Year - 195 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:16] <exec> 08└─All great empires evolve towards this command-and-control structure, and they all fail because of it, requiring society to head back towards a more decentralized (and therefore robust) structure.
[18:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Employers Steal Billions From Workers' Paychecks Each Year - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:26] <exec> 08└─All the proof continues to point that Capitalism incentivizes people to take advantage of each other for the greatest profits, and only hurts people. How many stories like this do we have to read to realize the system is broken and shortchanges us all? Seriously! When all the evidence points that so...
[18:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Steal Billions From Workers' Paychecks Each Year - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:28] <exec> 08└─That's the beauty of "crumbling infrastructure"--it keeps on crumbling. Japan has one of the top five economies in the world, with a high population crammed into a small area. It has a lot of dollars to spend on infrastructure. So it becomes a common site to see construction crews building Buck Roge...
[18:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03chewbacon [1032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Steal Billions From Workers' Paychecks Each Year - 1316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:30] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but people won't do the anything they don't want to do unless they are coerced to. People don't want to be complacent with getting screwed out of wages, but they fear losing their jobs and while being comforted by the idea of taking credit to make ends meet. Meanwhile, those making the call to...
[18:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employers Steal Billions From Workers' Paychecks Each Year - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:32] <exec> 08└─This was essentially explained to you here: [soylentnews.org] The underlying system (the market) is inherently decentralized; it doesn't matter that a pocket of centralization develops as a matter of efficiency—should that local centralization become dysfunctional, the whole system drops back on...
[18:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Steal Billions From Workers' Paychecks Each Year - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:34] <exec> 08└─Agreed, though fundamental government structural changes are perhaps less likely to oscillate in this way. You usually need a war, a revolution, an invasion, an economic or environmental disaster, etc. to topple centralized power once established, whereas decentralized government often seems to evol...
[18:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Autobots, roll out!’: Father & son make Transformer out of old Russian car (VIDEO) - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:54] <exec> 08└─That's the moment to strike with Pro GTR or other ricer commentary to make sure the heat stays on high.
[18:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Autobots, roll out!’: Father & son make Transformer out of old Russian car (VIDEO) - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:56] <exec> 08└─An American rodeo promoter needs to sponsor making one, and bring these guys over for a Rocky IV esq matchup that's heavy on the cheese.
[18:38:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews Site Update Story Followup -- WOW! - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:37] <exec> 08└─On the other hand, if there's nothing downright offensive or inflammatory about the post, it's really difficult to tell whether someone is: (1) actually trolling by acting insincerely to provoke disagreement, (2) just clueless or ignorant, or (3) so enveloped in an alternative worldview that they do...
[18:38:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Site Update Story Followup -- WOW! - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:39] <exec> 08└─As I understand it, only logged in users with staff access can see the moderation histories. displaying for all to see is likely to create more drama and rivalries.
[18:38:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Site Update Story Followup -- WOW! - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:41] <exec> 08└─You can see what moderation has been applied but not who made the mods -- which I think strikes a perfect balance, except in cases of extreme abuse, where the staff would be the right people to investigate.
[18:38:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Site Update Story Followup -- WOW! - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:43] <exec> 08└─Why not? If the President does it, it's legal. And, as a great man once said, the Constitution is just "a goddamned piece of paper."
[18:38:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews Site Update Story Followup -- WOW! - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:45] <exec> 08└─Try reading my whole comment next time, dipshit.
[18:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Site Update Story Followup -- WOW! - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:48] <exec> 08└─This is correct, I forgot about that part... For some reason I didn't see it on my phone when i wrote that comment... My mistake.
[18:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews Site Update Story Followup -- WOW! - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:50] <exec> 08└─There's no value in reading the rest of your moronic comment. Also, I'm not going to click so many things every fucking time I load the page, which is frequently given the crappy system that runs this site.
[18:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Site Update Story Followup -- WOW! - 1354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:52] <exec> 08└─See, you just gave an example of an AC comment that isn't "well-thought-out." Not because it's succinct, nor because it criticizes me personally. (In fact, if you just had commented negatively on my verbosity, I would probably mod you "+1 insightful," even with the quip about "lackluster reasoning."...
[18:39:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ISS Emergency Spacewalk Planned to Replace a Failed Computer - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:40] <exec> 08└─> No remote upgrade and the computer has a bug? almost seems like the commercial approach to quality has finally reached ISS? Well, astronauts are pretty much being spied on at every step of their their work, comms, and movements, so getting phone-app quality code is par for the course.
[18:40:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OxyContin's 12-Hour Problem - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:12] <exec> 08└─Before citing it as strong evidence, you should note that that estimate of 250,000 deaths is based on data from three papers that collectively accounted for 35 "preventable" deaths. No, that's not a typo. That's quite an extrapolation.
[18:41:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CIA Informants Imprisoned and Killed in China From 2010 to 2012 - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:00] <exec> 08└─If that's really true (e.g. they really were CIA informants) nothing of great value was lost. I find it really hard to build a list of significantly good things the CIA has done for the USA (much less the world) compared to the evil it has done. It's far easier to list good things the NSA has done.
[18:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google, A.I. and the Rise of the Super-Sensor - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:50] <exec> 08└─Sure, because ecmascript is the best and only language for cross-platform development. Come on.
[18:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Army Rations Helped Change Food - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:02] <exec> 08└─1. Napoleon's Food Preservation Prize (1795) [npr.org] Napoleon offered 12,000 francs to improve upon the prevailing food preservation methods of the time. Not surprisingly, the purpose was to better feed his army "when an invaded country was not able or inclined to sell or provide food". Fifteen ye...
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[19:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Americans Are Paying $38 to Collect $1 of Student Debt - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:08] <exec> 08└─Degrees for Free! I want my MTV I don't want to work Money for nothin' and chicks for free I don't want to play Custom kitchen deliveries I took a stick and an old coffee can Bangin' on the bongoes like a chimpanzee Campus Crusade for Communism!
[19:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Are Paying $38 to Collect $1 of Student Debt - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:09] <exec> 08└─If it takes 38 dollars to collect 1 dollar of defaulted debt. How many dollars were repaid on time? If the other debtors know that defaulting is painful they will keep up payments. So while the debt collection service may not reclaim their cost, it may still work in the grand scheme. Another complet...
[19:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Are Paying $38 to Collect $1 of Student Debt - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:12] <exec> 08└─Back in the summer of 1981 and of 1982, when I worked pumping gas between college years, a mentor who I respected told me that the government will spend a million dollars (in 1982 dollars) to collect a quarter from you. So getting $1 collected from only $38 spent is not a bad ROI. Yes, there was a t...
[19:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans Are Paying $38 to Collect $1 of Student Debt - 872 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:14] <exec> 08└─Everyone has to go to college, even those who are not academics. Partying, sports, and making money are far more important than silly academia and education. The corporate takeover of higher 'education' has given us a situation where the vast majority of colleges and universities are little more tha...
[19:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Are Paying $38 to Collect $1 of Student Debt - 1373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:16] <exec> 08└─My dad was involved in debt collection toward the end of his life. Legal collection not so much Sopranos style. Mostly cell phones and medical back then. The software suite at that time was very vertically integrated. The private world is completely different from the article. You can contract out s...
[19:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Are Paying $38 to Collect $1 of Student Debt - 856 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:18] <exec> 08└─Before Obama took over student loans, banks knew how to collect debts far more efficiently because the ones who didn't went out of the selling money at a profit business. Now they game the government system to maximize profits safe in the knowledge they can't lose money. Don't blame them for playing...
[19:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Are Paying $38 to Collect $1 of Student Debt - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:21] <exec> 08└─Education has very little to do with academics and very much to do with virtue signalling. You spend 4 years, at great expense, learning to perform the currently fashionable rites, and you get a piece of paper that other people who also wasted 4 years and lots of money getting a similar piece of pap...
[19:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans Are Paying $38 to Collect $1 of Student Debt - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:23] <exec> 08└─Wherever the federal government doesn't directly dictate education, it instead throws easy loans that cannot be defaulted. As always, the problem is putting the power to allocate resources into the hands of a coercive organization known as a "government". Why can't you people see this?
[19:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans Are Paying $38 to Collect $1 of Student Debt - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:25] <exec> 08└─Ah, the days of questions like: how much is your 39 cent ice cream?
[19:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Are Paying $38 to Collect $1 of Student Debt - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:27] <exec> 08└─There is a massive education quality gap between the average and the top schools.
[19:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Are Paying $38 to Collect $1 of Student Debt - 652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:30] <exec> 08└─From TFA: The consumer bureau estimates that the vast majority of borrowers who rehabilitate their defaulted debt with $5 monthly payments are eligible for $0 payments after they exit default, under an income-based repayment plan. But about 90 percent of debtors who rehabilitated their debt failed t...
[19:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans Are Paying $38 to Collect $1 of Student Debt - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:32] <exec> 08└─I live in NJ, don't talk to me about things that have not yet passed.
[19:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Daily Mail: Facebook Gives You (More) Cancer - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:52] <exec> 08└─Soylentils are advised to avoid social networks, the Daily Mail, oxytocin, oxycontin, daylight, nightlight, selfies and the JavaScript which runs the Daily Mail headline generator.
[19:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Steal Billions From Workers' Paychecks Each Year - 1405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:24] <exec> 08└─Anybody who thinks the US infrastructure is "crumbling" needs to get out and travel a little to those "backwards third world countries" you know, like France, Australia, Brazil. Look around for freeways, bridges, roads, etc. and then reflect on what you see in the US. Unpaved roads are really rare i...
[19:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Employers Steal Billions From Workers' Paychecks Each Year - 2018 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:26] <exec> 08└─Your employer cheats you of your pay, and gets away with it, and all you can advise is to suck it up be glad you got a few crumbs instead of none at all? You aren't taking this problem seriously enough. This is systemic corruption. If the employer cheats employees, why shouldn't all the employees ch...
[19:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Disagree) 02 - 06Employers Steal Billions From Workers' Paychecks Each Year - 1028 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:28] <exec> 08└─It is in my self-interest to live in a society that runs smoothly, and that is robust and functional, and therefore provides adequate access to the resources that I both want and need. That is to say, it is in my self-interest to make sure that I allocate my capital (my resources) towards endeavors...
[19:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Steal Billions From Workers' Paychecks Each Year - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:30] <exec> 08└─Or were you being sarcastic and I missed that?
[19:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Steal Billions From Workers' Paychecks Each Year - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:32] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the diatribe - good stuff. However, you might want to develop a satire filter...
[19:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Steal Billions From Workers' Paychecks Each Year - 734 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:35] <exec> 08└─See, now you're just getting mean. Anyhow, the quick response is that you're using a variant of the "No true Scotsman" fallacy. Apparently you want to claim that every "centralized" system is merely a "pocket" superimposed on top of an "underlying decentralized system." By that logic, the Italic cit...
[19:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employers Steal Billions From Workers' Paychecks Each Year - 752 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:37] <exec> 08└─What makes an organization a government is the fact that said organization allocates resources through coercion rather than through prior agreement; it's not the case that people prefer to exist under the dictates of a government, but rather that a government prefers for people to exist under its di...
[19:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Disagree) 02 - 06Employers Steal Billions From Workers' Paychecks Each Year - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:39] <exec> 08└─That is an excellent display of your inability to reason meaningfully.
[19:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employers Steal Billions From Workers' Paychecks Each Year - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:41] <exec> 08└─Parts of the government (particularly the Supreme Court) valiantly fought against FDR's attempts to put more power into the federal government to create things like Welfare, Social Security, etc.
[19:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employers Steal Billions From Workers' Paychecks Each Year - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:44] <exec> 08└─You have made a life choice: You have chosen to live in the middle of nowhere, far away from the infrastructure that carries the Internet's bits. If you want to tap into that infrastructure, then you find a way to do that; either pay for last 100 miles out to your shack, or move into the nearest cit...
[19:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employers Steal Billions From Workers' Paychecks Each Year - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:46] <exec> 08└─Wow, if you are willing to share, I'm really curious where this was and when it happened (roughly). This kind of behavior by a teacher was unheard of in my grade school years (through the 1960s & early 70s) in the NE USA. Even the bad teachers were honest and generally pretty fair.
[19:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Steal Billions From Workers' Paychecks Each Year - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:48] <exec> 08└─Once the government becomes enough dysfunctionaly nasty, people will return the nastiness. But it is a problem with dysfunctionality enforced through coercion.
[19:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Steal Billions From Workers' Paychecks Each Year - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:50] <exec> 08└─Which is why there are laws on spam, environmental protection, volunteering of contract, violent guards, fraud etc. Mostly about not being allowed to externalize costs.
[19:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Steal Billions From Workers' Paychecks Each Year - 2225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:53] <exec> 08└─Centralized power is good for more than just military action. Power is centralized when people require or expect immediate action. Military, economic, and social crisis are all good examples of such--like your Roman example. Look at the difference between the Executive and Legislative branches on cr...
[19:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03UncleSlacky [2859] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Employers Steal Billions From Workers' Paychecks Each Year - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:55] <exec> 08└─Exactly - it's time to SEIZE THE MEANS!
[19:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employers Steal Billions From Workers' Paychecks Each Year - 712 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:57] <exec> 08└─You appear to be USAian. You also appear to have made zero effort to investigate non-USAian systems. Perhaps Bradley13 could inform us about how things go in his adopted homeland of Switzerland. There, they have Direct Democracy. [wikipedia.org] So, how have YOU -gotten involved- in making things be...
[19:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Autobots, roll out!’: Father & son make Transformer out of old Russian car (VIDEO) - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:20] <exec> 08└─That's the moment to strike with Pro GTR or other ricer commentary to make sure the heat stays on high.
[19:39:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Site Update Story Followup -- WOW! - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:08] <exec> 08└─You're mistaken; I like concise comments.
[19:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Site Update Story Followup -- WOW! - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:10] <exec> 08└─Thanks. Can I hire you as my editor? :)
[19:39:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Site Update Story Followup -- WOW! - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:12] <exec> 08└─Urban Dictionary has some definitions for "14/88":
[19:40:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OxyContin's 12-Hour Problem - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:32] <exec> 08└─Substitute "need" for "expect" and you might have a point. Learn the subtle nuances of language before you snidely suggest reading lessons.
[19:40:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OxyContin's 12-Hour Problem - 678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:33] <exec> 08└─Yes a lot of people are in search of a problem that can explain X. Really a result of people having too much fucking time on their hands, and not enough productive work to do. Blocking advertising may keep these people from going: "Oh yes! I must have OCBPSTFF as this add suggests, and this magical...
[19:40:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OxyContin's 12-Hour Problem - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:36] <exec> 08└─Anyone using the word "problematic" gives themselves away as a clueless fuck-wit on the given subject. It basically means he will virtue-grand-stand about current policy but has no better solutions. A total fucking tool, and a waste of time to listen to.
[19:41:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CIA Informants Imprisoned and Killed in China From 2010 to 2012 - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:23] <exec> 08└─China can't afford to listen in on every restaurant in the country. They bugged that restaurant because they knew a spy would be likely to go there. They wanted to discover who else was involved and to learn about methods, targets, etc. How did they know a spy would likely go there? That is where ou...
[19:41:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CIA Informants Imprisoned and Killed in China From 2010 to 2012 - 889 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:25] <exec> 08└─Being the Secretary of State, you don't get to have a normal phone. Don't take the job if you don't like it. There are 2 people with an absolute right to release classified information to anybody, Russians included. That is the President and the Vice President. All presidents do it. There are perhap...
[19:41:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Botulism Outbreak Linked to Gas Station's Nacho Cheese - 2544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:59] <exec> 08└─Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving 400 delicious and creative recipes for today Published 2006 ISBN 0-7788-0139-X pg. 394 Seafood Prepare fish for home canning as you would for cooking. Leave the backbone in small fish and debone larger fish. Soak fish in a salt-water brine before canning. Becaus...
[19:42:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Botulism Outbreak Linked to Gas Station's Nacho Cheese - 3338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:00] <exec> 08└─This is from my Presto manual. Page 46-47. PRESSURE CANNING FISH AND SEAFOOD Pressure canning is the only safe method for canning fish and seafood. Only fresh fish should be canned and these should be bled and thoroughly cleaned of all viscera and membranes when caught, or as soon as possible. Canni...
[19:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google, A.I. and the Rise of the Super-Sensor - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:16] <exec> 08└─We could do like South Korean women seem to have done and all have plastic surgery so that we look the same. I also think that the success rate of such software has been blown out of proportion by the folks who have a vested interest in it 'financial' success. https://www.technologyreview.com
[19:43:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google, A.I. and the Rise of the Super-Sensor - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:17] <exec> 08└─I am not wearing a mask to prevent identification but for health reasons officer. The idea being not to wear a mask of someone but a surgical mask... http://www.healthguidance.org [healthguidance.org] A billion Chinese can't be wrong twice can the...
[19:43:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Plasma Jet Engines - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:48] <exec> 08└─You can make a fuel-efficient turbine. The problem is that it will be absurdly expensive. You'll need to 3D-print the blades in wax, then use a lost-wax process to cast single-crystal superalloy metal. Normally you'd only bother for commercial jets. The other issue is NO2 emmissions. Bragging about...
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[20:36:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06Americans Are Paying $38 to Collect $1 of Student Debt - 536 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:41] <exec> 08└─Education has very little to do with academics and very much to do with virtue signalling. You spend 4 years, at great expense, learning to perform the currently fashionable rites, and you get a piece of paper that other people who also wasted 4 years and lots of money getting a similar piece of pap...
[20:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans Are Paying $38 to Collect $1 of Student Debt - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:47] <exec> 08└─You won't get an argument from me that they took a shit system and made it worse.
[20:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans Are Paying $38 to Collect $1 of Student Debt - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:49] <exec> 08└─The real MIT is not the undergraduate school; it's the graduate school.
[20:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans Are Paying $38 to Collect $1 of Student Debt - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:51] <exec> 08└─They're millennials. They think they're entitled to botulinum toxin-free organic artisan cheese and hipster kale on their nachos. Kill them all, immediately. We'll just have to try again with the next generation....
[20:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Are Paying $38 to Collect $1 of Student Debt - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:54] <exec> 08└─Something I've noticed in videos of ivy classes is the kids don't whine, or didn't used to. You go to the local public school and the instructor assigns 20 pages of reading or 10 pages of writing and someone always starts crying, but at the ivies they made the kids little "yes men" who jumped thru i...
[20:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Are Paying $38 to Collect $1 of Student Debt - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:56] <exec> 08└─You accurately point out that higher end kids don't go to collections because they have no debt or more post school income, but there's also pressure from the bottom where I know a couple waitresses and bartenders who pay zero, you forward proof of income (tax return? W-2 form?) and the required min...
[20:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Are Paying $38 to Collect $1 of Student Debt - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:58] <exec> 08└─whining for office hours after they get a B+ on an assignment
[20:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Americans Are Paying $38 to Collect $1 of Student Debt - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:00] <exec> 08└─What did you expect from a financial program designed by clueless and/or self-serving politicians? Reduce their ability to spend other people's money. It is the only cure to their addiction.
[20:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Are Paying $38 to Collect $1 of Student Debt - 957 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:03] <exec> 08└─I suspect the population of defaulters is different than the population of income-based-repayment plans. It seems like all the waitresses and bartenders and substitute teachers heard about income-based from coworkers and they all sign up together etc. My guess is defaulters are cut from a different...
[20:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans Are Paying $38 to Collect $1 of Student Debt - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:06] <exec> 08└─Who will birth your "next generation" when your surviving women are menopausal?
[20:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Americans Are Paying $38 to Collect $1 of Student Debt - 804 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:08] <exec> 08└─They are ignoring it in the sure knowledge that eventually the government will wave the magic wand and make it all go away. They apparently believe the news accounts from election day where HRC was a sure thing to win and are sticking their fingers in their ears and humming really loud and putting A...
[20:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03StarryEyed [2888] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Americans Are Paying $38 to Collect $1 of Student Debt - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:10] <exec> 08└─I've been in a situation where I was eligible for a $0 payment, due to series of effectively random catastrophic events. At one juncture during this period the loan servicer decided that whatever paperwork I filed wouldn't be 'good enough' for about 4 months of back and forth. It was good before, an...
[20:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans Are Paying $38 to Collect $1 of Student Debt - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:12] <exec> 08└─Niggers and Mexicans.
[20:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03purple_cobra [1435] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Daily Mail: Facebook Gives You (More) Cancer - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:34] <exec> 08└─If every single person that either bought that libellous rag or looked at their shitty website was abducted by aliens then I'd do a happy little dance. But my shoes are too tight and I've forgotten how to dance.
[20:38:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employers Steal Billions From Workers' Paychecks Each Year - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:24] <exec> 08└─A double carriage return works better. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[20:38:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Steal Billions From Workers' Paychecks Each Year - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:26] <exec> 08└─To the Internets! - SEIZE THE MEMES!
[20:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Steal Billions From Workers' Paychecks Each Year - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:28] <exec> 08└─You have made a life choice: You have chosen to live in the middle of nowhere, far away from the infrastructure that carries the Internet's bits. If you want to tap into that infrastructure, then you find a way to do that; either pay for last 100 miles out to your shack, or move into the nearest cit...
[20:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employers Steal Billions From Workers' Paychecks Each Year - 943 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:30] <exec> 08└─A democracy is just one group dictating to another group; actually, it's potentially worse than a one-man dictatorship, because a moron in a democracy has as strong a vote as a scholar. Whether a dictator, an oligarchy, a warlord, a monarch, or a representative democracy, it's all the same: Coercion...
[20:38:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employers Steal Billions From Workers' Paychecks Each Year - 872 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:32] <exec> 08└─Unless you are a billionaire, -your- capital doesn't mean shit. There are folks with gobs of multi-generational wealth who own the vast majority of the stock, vote as a bloc, and make your ownership/vote inconsequential. Bernie Sanders has, yet again, proposed a system that will give support for Emp...
[20:38:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employers Steal Billions From Workers' Paychecks Each Year - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:34] <exec> 08└─If not even the city has been able to build Internet infrastructure robustly, then why in the world would anyone be willing to let governments squander resources in the sticks? We can agree on one thing: Governments fuck everything up.
[20:38:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employers Steal Billions From Workers' Paychecks Each Year - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:37] <exec> 08└─I drove over that bridge the day before it collapsed. Was a bit freaked out by that.
[20:38:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03number11 [1170] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Steal Billions From Workers' Paychecks Each Year - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:39] <exec> 08└─Be glad you have a job at all. If you don't like it, go find somewhere else to work.
[20:38:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employers Steal Billions From Workers' Paychecks Each Year - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:41] <exec> 08└─Democracy is a sham: The moron's vote has as much weight as the vote of a scholar. No, thanks. The weight of a person's vote should increase or decrease based on that person's historical performance; if that person makes a bad bet, his vote loses weight; if that person makes a good bet, his vote gai...
[20:38:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employers Steal Billions From Workers' Paychecks Each Year - 809 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:43] <exec> 08└─You are a sad, pathetic individual. With that level of cynicism, I'm surprised that you haven't killed yourself. ...and, centuries ago, Thomas Jefferson said specifically that an educated, informed public is essential to a Democracy. (It's why the discounted postal rate for bulk mail i.e. newspapers...
[20:38:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employers Steal Billions From Workers' Paychecks Each Year - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:46] <exec> 08└─If your wisdom/experience is so much greater than everyone else's, you should easily be able to persuade the majority that your way is the correct way. ...you sad, pathetic hump.[1] [1] used in the signoff of comedian/interviewer/political commentator David Feldman's weekly program on Pacifica Radio...
[20:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Steal Billions From Workers' Paychecks Each Year - 799 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:49] <exec> 08└─Dear Mr. AC, You've taught me a valuable lesson today. Just a few hours ago, I went out of my way to comment on how important I thought ACs were to the discourse on this site. (Which I sincerely believed.) In response, you've chosen to attempt to troll me with ad hominem attacks, even as I've tried...
[20:38:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Steal Billions From Workers' Paychecks Each Year - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:51] <exec> 08└─"If what you said were true, and a more decentralized structure was actually more "robust," then why do decentralized societies historically also trend toward more centralized ones? " This really reads to me like, "Why do hard workers spoil their children? I am assuming that over time everything imp...
[20:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Steal Billions From Workers' Paychecks Each Year - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:53] <exec> 08└─Don't let perfect be the enemy of good
[20:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Steal Billions From Workers' Paychecks Each Year - 1119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:55] <exec> 08└─In all walks of life, I think this saying applies: You can wrestle a pig but in the end you'll both get dirty, and the pig enjoys it. Sure, you can take criminal scum to court, you might win, you might lose, but it's going to cost so much more effort and frustration than simply finding somewhat less...
[20:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Autobots, roll out!’: Father & son make Transformer out of old Russian car (VIDEO) - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:19] <exec> 08└─Original NSX forever, in particular the version without power steering.
[20:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Autobots, roll out!’: Father & son make Transformer out of old Russian car (VIDEO) - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:21] <exec> 08└─What's the difference between a Lada and a golfball? You can drive a golfball 300 meters.
[20:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Autobots, roll out!’: Father & son make Transformer out of old Russian car (VIDEO) - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:23] <exec> 08└─and then sprayed the audience with machine gun fire
[20:40:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03oakgrove [5864] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SoylentNews Site Update Story Followup -- WOW! - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:14] <exec> 08└─I long for the day I receive (Score 5: 14/88)
[20:40:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Site Update Story Followup -- WOW! - 830 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:15] <exec> 08└─"the Constitution is just "a goddamned piece of paper."" This is absolutely correct! The Constitution does not provide us our freedoms; it is a worthless piece of literature which intends to legally limits the powers of the government through symbolism and faith. However, it is one political alignme...
[20:40:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews Site Update Story Followup -- WOW! - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:18] <exec> 08└─TL;DR
[20:40:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Site Update Story Followup -- WOW! - 1806 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:20] <exec> 08└─I always saw "trolling" "flamebait" as victim behaviors, speed of ignition. One trolls like trolling for fish, which involves crusing by in your boat with a tasty morsel on a hook hoping the victim snaps at which point its game on. My 14/88 mention was somewhat troll-ish in that way. Although if no...
[20:40:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SoylentNews Site Update Story Followup -- WOW! - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:22] <exec> 08└─Are you so opposed to systemd that you've blocked it from your recollection?
[20:40:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Soylentbob [6519] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Site Update Story Followup -- WOW! - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:25] <exec> 08└─Generally, I think your ideas have in common that they are hard to apply for the casual reader, but more suited for some of our regulars. 1) The population here isn't quite desktop windows users.
[20:41:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ISS Emergency Spacewalk Planned to Replace a Failed Computer - 2560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:15] <exec> 08└─Lyft provides a real service too; before them, you couldn't hail a car-for-hire using a simple and convenient smartphone app. Just like Google's search engine and Gmail and Maps, it took real work to create that (plus at least a little ingenuity in coming up with the idea in the first place, and all...
[20:41:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OxyContin's 12-Hour Problem - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:50] <exec> 08└─Car analogy: If I sell you a car that had poor maintenance on the brake system, and you have an accident and die, I made an error. Depending on the situation, I may or may not be legally culpable for negligence. If, on the other hand, I sell you a car with the brake system removed and claim "If you...
[20:43:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Botulism Outbreak Linked to Gas Station's Nacho Cheese - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:14] <exec> 08└─and those two pages comprise the entirety of the Seafood section
[20:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Botulism Outbreak Linked to Gas Station's Nacho Cheese - 1676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:16] <exec> 08└─My favorite junk food to can so far is "orange marmalade". It's more like a sauce if you don't boil it long enough and I add habeñeros (as the recipe calls for) or other hot peppers to make it spicy. It uses an insane amount of sugar. I think I used 30 cups of sugar (over 10 lbs?) with 16 pounds of...
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[21:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Song About Public Key Infrastructure - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:18] <exec> 08└─Be better as an audio track. Video adds nothing.
[21:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03dzoe [1934] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Song About Public Key Infrastructure - 1359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:20] <exec> 08└─As requested by the editor, here we go: Public Key Infrastructure That might be the sound of a message, that has been encrypted using rather common symmetric encryption and some pretty random key. But how do you prove this message has not been tampered with, and how can you see whether it was sent b...
[21:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03dzoe [1934] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Song About Public Key Infrastructure - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:22] <exec> 08└─Yes it is. That's one of the reasons I decided to post it here - it is my hope that someone might actually create a meaningful video for this :)
[21:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Are Paying $38 to Collect $1 of Student Debt - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:54] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the story. Sorry to hear about such bureaucratic nonsense. I've had to deal with my share in my life, but thankfully nothing that ever affected my credit. [so far, knock wood, crosses fingers...] But it also sounds like in TFA we're talking about people who simply are continuing not to ma...
[21:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans Are Paying $38 to Collect $1 of Student Debt - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:56] <exec> 08└─I'd be on the phone the moment a statement arrived and trying to find out if there is anything I could do.
[21:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans Are Paying $38 to Collect $1 of Student Debt - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:58] <exec> 08└─Great, you've discovered a way to make yourself feel superior to others, because that's what's important in life. Stand around and jerk off to how great you are, that's the ticket to a good life.
[21:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03StarryEyed [2888] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Americans Are Paying $38 to Collect $1 of Student Debt - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:00] <exec> 08└─Another good term to go along side Franz Kafka is Freakonomics. What are the unanticipated incentives here? If the collectors get paid regardless, what makes them more money? Someone who never defaults, a successful rehabilitation, or a long series of government paid for failures? It's quite possibl...
[21:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Americans Are Paying $38 to Collect $1 of Student Debt - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:03] <exec> 08└─giant debilitating black mark on credit that was effectively created out of nothing by the loan company
[21:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Are Paying $38 to Collect $1 of Student Debt - 2220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:05] <exec> 08└─This certainly ranks among the most retarded hot take in the history of dimwitted analyses. It's bad enough to merely drag out the alt-right's favorite vague, unfounded accusation of "virtue signaling", but it's utterly incomprehensible how you and everyone who upvoted you can so monumentally misund...
[21:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans Are Paying $38 to Collect $1 of Student Debt - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:07] <exec> 08└─He got +5 because the phrase "virtue signal" is itself a virtue signal.
[21:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Are Paying $38 to Collect $1 of Student Debt - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:09] <exec> 08└─Ah, the days of questions like: how much is your 39 cent ice cream?
[21:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Are Paying $38 to Collect $1 of Student Debt - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:11] <exec> 08└─> how much is your 39 cent ice cream? If "cent" does not refer to 1/100 of a US dollar, the answer will usually be "39 cents", since in most countries around the world, you don't get told a before-tax price which you never pay.
[21:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Are Paying $38 to Collect $1 of Student Debt - 841 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:14] <exec> 08└─A degree is certainly a signal; I don't think you're debating that. I'd call it a quality signal, which is close enough to virtue that I'm willing to let arik slide on this one. I had one teacher (of incentives and game theory) ask the class rhetorically "Why you go graduate school get degree? Becau...
[21:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03StarryEyed [2888] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Americans Are Paying $38 to Collect $1 of Student Debt - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:16] <exec> 08└─You missed my point of it being the lender's refusal to process paperwork properly, and not the borrower.
[21:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Are Paying $38 to Collect $1 of Student Debt - 677 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:18] <exec> 08└─That's the standard turn-around on the idiots who use the phrase, but I don't think it's accurate. The under-educated sociologist in me says it's actually a tribal signal. They aren't trying to communicate that they're good, trustworthy people to form bonds with. They're indicating an affiliation. I...
[21:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Americans Are Paying $38 to Collect $1 of Student Debt - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:20] <exec> 08└─Another completely crazy idea is to select the people with the best skills and let them do free college
[21:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Are Paying $38 to Collect $1 of Student Debt - 792 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:23] <exec> 08└─Since now we're actually talking about reality: I still think that's full of shit. It's a signal the same way all our job titles and deeds and licenses and every other fucking piece of mundane bureaucracy we file away in a cabinet in our spare bedroom is: nobody knows shit about who you are and what...
[21:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans Are Paying $38 to Collect $1 of Student Debt - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:25] <exec> 08└─Education has very little to do with academics and very much to do with virtue signalling.
[21:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans Are Paying $38 to Collect $1 of Student Debt - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:27] <exec> 08└─I like you. You're the right kind of person.
[21:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans Are Paying $38 to Collect $1 of Student Debt - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:29] <exec> 08└─And I live in Oregon, also yet to see these things . . .
[21:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Daily Mail: Facebook Gives You (More) Cancer - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:52] <exec> 08└─For this story, the Daily Mail gets a big Fail in the originality category. Everything causes cancer. Red M+Ms, well done beef, masturbation, air travel, microwave ovens ( http://www.dailymail.co.uk [dailymai...
[21:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Daily Mail: Facebook Gives You (More) Cancer - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:53] <exec> 08└─Yes, cell division causes cancer, so anything that will increase the need for cell division will cause cancer. Here it is from the guy who invented the main cell culture test for carcinogens: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov [nih.gov] This is why people are most likely to get cancer after...
[21:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Employers Steal Billions From Workers' Paychecks Each Year - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:58] <exec> 08└─Is a thick layer of male bovine excrement considered infrastructure? He's already laid that out.
[21:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employers Steal Billions From Workers' Paychecks Each Year - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:00] <exec> 08└─For what it is worth, I enjoyed your comments and found them valuable. Please don't feel you need to respond, I don't want you to break with your new policy so soon. I just want you to know your words are thought provoking and valued, even by those of us without an account. - JCD
[21:39:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Steal Billions From Workers' Paychecks Each Year - 833 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:02] <exec> 08└─I live in the city limits, 1 mile from the loop interstate offramp, 3 miles from the thru-interstate offramp, 1/2 mile from shopping centers, in a major metro area (800K pop.) I have Comcast and AT&T to choose from, and they both suck. AT&T charges nearly as much for dysfunctional DSL as Comcast cha...
[21:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Steal Billions From Workers' Paychecks Each Year - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:05] <exec> 08└─We decided to not move to the Lakeland area in 2012, after one of those sinkholes opened on I-4 while we were visiting, plus a dozen more that summer in neighborhoods swallowing houses and also closing smaller roads.
[21:39:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Steal Billions From Workers' Paychecks Each Year - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:07] <exec> 08└─First paragraph yes, second paragraph no.
[21:39:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03number11 [1170] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Steal Billions From Workers' Paychecks Each Year - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:10] <exec> 08└─This is a fundamental problem, the solution to which is already known but only poorly implemented: Capitalism: Each resource is allocated solely by the person who gained control of that resource through prior, voluntary agreement; this is a philosophy of iterative contract negotiation and dispute re...
[21:39:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Steal Billions From Workers' Paychecks Each Year - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:12] <exec> 08└─Man, where I am, when a sinkhole opens up under a house, sometimes the whole house explodes. Iron gas pipes from the early 20th century. One time an entire block exploded. Allegedly they are "mostly" replaced now but the gas company doesn't publish where the unreplaced ones are because of terrorism...
[21:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Steal Billions From Workers' Paychecks Each Year - 671 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:14] <exec> 08└─It's kind of a sad story in Lakeland. Sinkholes (there and most places) form when the water table gets low. Well, when it doesn't rain as much as normal, the strawberry crop in Plant City struggles, so - on top of the low rain input, the strawberry farmers pump extra water on their crops - seriously...
[21:39:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03migz [1807] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Steal Billions From Workers' Paychecks Each Year - 991 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:16] <exec> 08└─It's not Capitalism that makes people greedy. That's human nature. Capitalism gives us the power to stop supporting those we consider too greedy. Capitalism gives us a choice. When there is no Capitalism there is no choice. Then only the powerful, the members of the central committee, those more equ...
[21:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employers Steal Billions From Workers' Paychecks Each Year - 696 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:19] <exec> 08└─Capitalism entails an iterative, evolutionary process. There's no need for a god. There is no requirement that one organization be blessed and ordained as being magically different from all other organization; there's no need to rely on a monopoly, let alone one that is violently imposed. There is n...
[21:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employers Steal Billions From Workers' Paychecks Each Year - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:21] <exec> 08└─I certainly won't miss your replies.
[21:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Steal Billions From Workers' Paychecks Each Year - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:23] <exec> 08└─If the employer cheats employees, why shouldn't all the employees cheat too?
[21:39:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Autobots, roll out!’: Father & son make Transformer out of old Russian car (VIDEO) - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:50] <exec> 08└─Oh, fuck you. Tell us what Pontiac stands for :) It's not like you're afraid of the Progs around here. I grew up in a repair shop, so I've heard plenty of motorheads going off about how much Ford sucks. A lot :)
[21:40:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Site Update Story Followup -- WOW! - 1370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:48] <exec> 08└─In a side discussion about "what is trolling vs flamebait" your first paragraph is the response I'd expect to a good troll. TIFU by not even trolling you back. Part of the problem is my comment was mostly serious "agit-prop" style but I couldn't resist inserting a droplet of troll blood in an otherw...
[21:40:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Site Update Story Followup -- WOW! - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:50] <exec> 08└─I think we've had this discussion. It included autonomous sudo-random names for AC determined by IP address. Yeah, I recalled suggesting the NSA Name Generator [nsanamegenerator.com], and someone thought to translate the names to Russian and then back to English, then add numbers to it. I can't seem...
[21:40:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Site Update Story Followup -- WOW! - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:52] <exec> 08└─Yeah, you're correct, I forgot to mention that trolling always has some off-topic taste whereas flamebait tastes kinda on topic. Trolling is like we're talking about grilling steaks and someone drives by and tosses a molotov cocktail in the bbq and suddenly flamewar everywhere. Whereas flamebait is...
[21:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OxyContin's 12-Hour Problem - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:16] <exec> 08└─A total fucking tool, and a waste of time to listen to.
[21:43:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Botulism Outbreak Linked to Gas Station's Nacho Cheese - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:43] <exec> 08└─I cast magic missile at the tapeworms.
[21:43:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Botulism Outbreak Linked to Gas Station's Nacho Cheese - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:44] <exec> 08└─The landlord evicts you for destroying the refrigerator. Then the Ministry of Magic captures you and holds your public execution. You are reborn as a house elf.
[21:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Changes the Way it Sells Books -- May Hurt Publishers - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:33] <exec> 08└─>Big publishers are going to be on this in a hot second. If you like using this workaround, I suggest you stock up quickly on your "made for India" books. They tried. They failed. Got a bitchslap from the Supremes. So no recourse for them without buying a whole new copyright law. :)
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[22:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Song About Public Key Infrastructure - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:19] <exec> 08└─This literal song and dance story just shows there is no way to pursue a career in "tech" without social media showmanship. Antisocial nerds might as well kill yourselves now. Society doesn't need nerds.
[22:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Song About Public Key Infrastructure - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:20] <exec> 08└─"Tech" giant Google doesn't provide a Service-as-a-Service for cloud hosting of audio tracks. Trendy kids use YouTube or nothing. I'm not even going to mention alternatives to YouTube, because anything outside the "tech" giants simply does not exist in the minds of the "tech native" generation. Ther...
[22:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Song About Public Key Infrastructure - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:22] <exec> 08└─Even typing this comment is a waste of my fucking time.
[22:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Song About Public Key Infrastructure - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:24] <exec> 08└─Middle aged genXman shakes fist at millennial cloud.
[22:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Song About Public Key Infrastructure - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:27] <exec> 08└─Vogon master says: You need more practice, young padwan.
[22:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Song About Public Key Infrastructure - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:29] <exec> 08└─Digital native - A naked feces-covered millennial oscillating his/her hips.
[22:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06A Song About Public Key Infrastructure - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:31] <exec> 08└─There is a proposal by the AARP to conduct a study of the environmental impact of young people's feet upon lawns.
[22:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Song About Public Key Infrastructure - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:33] <exec> 08└─MONORAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIL! (Sorry, I'll see myself out.)
[22:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Are Paying $38 to Collect $1 of Student Debt - 1083 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:23] <exec> 08└─Why flamebait? I don't have an opinion on the statement that is strong one way or the other. But is it not worth considering that maybe for America the government is the issue in education? I'm not a teacher, I couldn't tell you what it is. But come on, at least entertain criticism. jmorris was bein...
[22:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06Americans Are Paying $38 to Collect $1 of Student Debt - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:24] <exec> 08└─白左!
[22:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Are Paying $38 to Collect $1 of Student Debt - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:26] <exec> 08└─An educated populace asks way too many questions about the schenanigans you get up to while working in government. Much better to cut education funding to render them more docile.
[22:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Are Paying $38 to Collect $1 of Student Debt - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:29] <exec> 08└─No, point were that if you have 100 people in debt and 5 of them skip on payment. Then even if the collection on those 5 people is a net loss. It will keep the other 95 people paying.
[22:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans Are Paying $38 to Collect $1 of Student Debt - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:31] <exec> 08└─it's easier to figure out what song you're parodying if it's not a mashup
[22:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Are Paying $38 to Collect $1 of Student Debt - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:33] <exec> 08└─Until some other nation run circles around you and there's no way around that other than having their own educated people to secure national security and wealth. Uneducated people are easy to control but can't help you when the whole system is at stake. How long has America been the top of the world...
[22:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Are Paying $38 to Collect $1 of Student Debt - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:35] <exec> 08└─And they will of course not take undergrads from state colleges there?
[22:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Are Paying $38 to Collect $1 of Student Debt - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:37] <exec> 08└─Insightful. It's a signal which at this point in time has essentially become fetishized and made into a virtue of its own, and the way you describe it is pretty much the way I remember it.
[22:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Are Paying $38 to Collect $1 of Student Debt - 790 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:40] <exec> 08└─I'll suspect what the Ivy leagues or better schools has is: * Who you get know. Is your classmate going to be a technician or CEO? guess who can help with a investment. * Motivation. The people around you will get done instead of moaning. * People may think about quark force interactions in...
[22:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Daily Mail: Facebook Gives You (More) Cancer - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:05] <exec> 08└─you name it, it probably causes cancer.
[22:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Daily Mail: Facebook Gives You (More) Cancer - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:06] <exec> 08└─Somewhat: if the stomach/throat cancer from the vomiting doesn't get you, the melted neurons will.
[22:39:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employers Steal Billions From Workers' Paychecks Each Year - 733 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:23] <exec> 08└─That's not how Mondragon did it. Mondragon started in 1956 with zero capital and 6 worker-owners. They have competed with the Capitalist operations and, in the process, the Mondragon worker-owned cooperative regularly eats the lunch of their competitors. Today, Mondragon has over 100,000 worker-owne...
[22:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employers Steal Billions From Workers' Paychecks Each Year - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:24] <exec> 08└─... the United States Government outlawed beer; it shuttered that 100-year-old pub, seized people's hard-won property, and threw them in cages for enjoying a secret pint. I repeat: Representative democracy is no different from a dictatorship.
[22:39:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employers Steal Billions From Workers' Paychecks Each Year - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:26] <exec> 08└─It does not make sense to say that something is both "pithy" and "without substance". I guess you really cannot reason meaningfully.
[22:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03migz [1807] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Steal Billions From Workers' Paychecks Each Year - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:29] <exec> 08└─You can leave, and go work somewhere else. Slavery is immoral. And fortunately illegal. The behaviour of the abuser is halted, by refusing to be a victim, and leaving. You don't need any law to effect this remedy. Simple, effective, and does not require you to surrender your freedom to the wolves in...
[22:39:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employers Steal Billions From Workers' Paychecks Each Year - 880 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:31] <exec> 08└─Capitalism gives us a choice That's NOT Capitalism. You're talking about MARKETS. Markets existed before Capitalism and will still exist after Socialist workplaces are the norm. Capitalism is a method of PRODUCTION. That model, with its concentrated ownership, stands in contrast to Socialism where t...
[22:39:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Steal Billions From Workers' Paychecks Each Year - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:33] <exec> 08└─If my burger joint charges too much, then I buy my burgers, elsewhere. If my burger joint puts horse meat in their burgers, then I buy my burgers somewhere else.
[22:39:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employers Steal Billions From Workers' Paychecks Each Year - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:35] <exec> 08└─It's interesting how you think that "the majority rules" is a broken system. So far, the only thing you have suggested as an alternative is "no government". I challenge you to gather together 1000 who feel as you do, start a settlement, and report back to us how The Law of the Jungle thing is workin...
[22:40:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Autobots, roll out!’: Father & son make Transformer out of old Russian car (VIDEO) - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:03] <exec> 08└─Power steering is useful, but counter-steering is fun!
[22:41:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Site Update Story Followup -- WOW! - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:05] <exec> 08└─Ah, I'm following along. So my previous comment is somewhat trollish as it is on topic and can be construed as part of the conversation, but lures people to an off topic flamewar. While going to an article about recent systemd updates and spouting some nonsense like "the only merits that warrants sy...
[22:41:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Delta Kiosk Checks Your Face Before You Check Your Bag - 899 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:19] <exec> 08└─It is all on the airlines in this case. When was the last time you used once of those kiosks? When they first came out, they were a 5 step process: enter ticket id, security warning, do you have bags?, any kids?, print receipt. Nowadays there are literally 8 more screens of ads and up-sales. Want to...
[22:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OxyContin's 12-Hour Problem - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:34] <exec> 08└─Utilizing the word "problematic" is not nearly as bad as an idiot who would utilize the word "utilize" and its variants. Whenever one would write "utilize", one should write "use" instead because the word "utilize" is problematic.
[22:42:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OxyContin's 12-Hour Problem - 1471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:35] <exec> 08└─My arthritis specialist had me try Tramadol in 2010. And he said to take it every day. I quickly realized it didn't like it. I quit taking it because: * I didn't like the side effects (jittery, causes restless leg, and even one time an auditory hallucination) * I couldn't easily stop and start taki...
[22:43:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CIA Informants Imprisoned and Killed in China From 2010 to 2012 - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:25] <exec> 08└─Hey you guys, take it to a motel room. I think jmorris has one permanantly booked over to the right (or possibly even left) of you.
[22:43:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CIA Informants Imprisoned and Killed in China From 2010 to 2012 - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:26] <exec> 08└─I like squirrels. Do you also like squirrels?
[22:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google, A.I. and the Rise of the Super-Sensor - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:22] <exec> 08└─This is what Google Glass was supposed to do. Why do people suddenly think this is a new idea? The idea is far, far older than Google Glass too.
[22:48:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Paint Colors Invented by Neural Network - 2841 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:57] <exec> 08└─This is not correct, though it's a crude approximation for some common cases. "RGB" does not in and of itself have a defined scale, it's simply a triplet of intensity values; the scale needs specifying in the metadata accompanying the pixel data and/or in the specifications for the display device in...
[22:48:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Paint Colors Invented by Neural Network - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:59] <exec> 08└─While one criticism would be that using e.g. 12 bits over 8 is wasteful, I'll just say that this type of data compresses losslessly really well, and doesn't take up that much extra space.
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[23:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Moderation Guidelines Leaked to The Guardian - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:21] <exec> 08└─Those on sexual content, for example, are said to be the most complex and confusing. As in real life. And they're beating up Facebook because they can't consistently model inconsistency? There are a lot of reasons to hate on them, but this is not one of them.
[23:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Moderation Guidelines Leaked to The Guardian - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:22] <exec> 08└─It's not really confusing. For tech guys, it's more like shopping for a fancy new toy: Spend years familiarizing with the specs and your best fit, and as soon as you finally acquire one, it's broken, no returns, and the other models mostly seem like they'd have been better.
[23:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Moderation Guidelines Leaked to The Guardian - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:25] <exec> 08└─They must be complex and confusing because that is the only way the message can be told when it can be explicit and clear.
[23:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Moderation Guidelines Leaked to The Guardian - 753 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:27] <exec> 08└─Seems the UK nanny implementation charity is going wild with this one: Alarming! Outlaw platform that don't bend their moderation policies to our will. All this alarm and others shall nanny their children.. and adults. The US free speech may be repulsive at times for what it allows. But in the end i...
[23:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Facebook Moderation Guidelines Leaked to The Guardian - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:29] <exec> 08└─Facebook is cancer.
[23:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Song About Public Key Infrastructure - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:47] <exec> 08└─Definitions: Social: You are invited and you go to the party Asocial (like asynchronous or asymmetrical): You are invited to the party but you don't go Anti-social: You are NOT invited to the party but you crash it anyway and spoil everyone's fun Really Anti-social: You go to the party and try to ki...
[23:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Song About Public Key Infrastructure - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:48] <exec> 08└─Pro-social: youpost the time and location of the party, so lots of others go then don't turn up yourself.
[23:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Are Paying $38 to Collect $1 of Student Debt - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:48] <exec> 08└─Now we have a flood of "best" people only willing to do the "best" jobs, and nobody (from this country) willing to harvest potatoes.
[23:39:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employers Steal Billions From Workers' Paychecks Each Year - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:38] <exec> 08└─People drive on a particular side of the road not because it is mandated by a government, but because they don't want to die. Contract negotiation, dispute resolution, and contract enforcement do not require coercion; indeed, the enforcement of a contract is voluntary by virtue of the fact that the...
[23:39:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employers Steal Billions From Workers' Paychecks Each Year - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:40] <exec> 08└─The world is filled with people who believe that the creator of the entire universe wants people to cut chunks of flesh off little boys' sexual organs. Good luck working with that. If fools like Lenin are capable of amassing followers by the millions, then there is very little hope that good ideas w...
[23:39:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employers Steal Billions From Workers' Paychecks Each Year - 743 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:42] <exec> 08└─Capitalism always existed, because it is what works. It's just that nobody codified capitalism; nobody uttered the phrase "voluntary trade" (or, perhaps more generally, "voluntary interaction"). Capitalism is the foundational theory; if socialism is to work, it must be based on top of capitalism (...
[23:39:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employers Steal Billions From Workers' Paychecks Each Year - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:44] <exec> 08└─contract enforcement do[es] not require coercion Boy, that shit you guys smoke in Libertarianland must be really great stuff. Meanwhile, in the real world, gangland warfare is what the always-be-maximizing-profits business environment looks like without laws and courts and cops. -- OriginalOwner_ [s...
[23:41:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Site Update Story Followup -- WOW! - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:14] <exec> 08└─Studying Strunk & White helped me there. Still struggle with verbosity, too, but it helped. It might avail you or others, too, if you've never checked it out. One other source I'd mention, while we're on the subject of composition: Little Red Schoolhouse. It was a writing course offered at the Unive...
[23:42:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ISS Emergency Spacewalk Planned to Replace a Failed Computer - 1005 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:06] <exec> 08└─*SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) Airbnb [stallman.org] | Amazon [stallman.org] | Amtrak [stallman.org] | Apple [stallman.org] | Ebooks [stallman.org] | Event...
[23:42:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ellis D. Tripp [3416] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OxyContin's 12-Hour Problem - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:46] <exec> 08└─Seeing as opiates commonly induce serious constipation with long-term use. Big Pharma even has drugs specifically to target this side effect of their other drugs: https://www.movantik.com [movantik.com] https://www.relistor.com [relistor.com]
[23:42:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ellis D. Tripp [3416] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OxyContin's 12-Hour Problem - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:47] <exec> 08└─http://drugabuse.com/legalizing-marijuana-decreases-fatal-opiate-overdoses/ [drugabuse.com] http://www.rollingstone.com [rollingstone.com] http://time.com [...
[23:43:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CIA Informants Imprisoned and Killed in China From 2010 to 2012 - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:39] <exec> 08└─Or as the second paragraph I quoted suggests, it's possible "the Chinese had hacked the covert communications channel".
[23:44:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Botulism Outbreak Linked to Gas Station's Nacho Cheese - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:19] <exec> 08└─Having made this mistake many times, I'll tell you what it is that causes me to tempt fate: It's 3:30 AM, I'm drunk, high, and hungry, and I need cigs so I stop at the gas station rather than McDonalds.
[23:45:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google, A.I. and the Rise of the Super-Sensor - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:37] <exec> 08└─Touche :) However, they can identify you by your facial structure. Specifically the jawline, and distance between bridge, eyes, node and top of your head. A mask like the Asians wear will not save you from being identified, as it does not mask any of those features. Seriously, the average human has...
[23:45:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google, A.I. and the Rise of the Super-Sensor - 878 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:39] <exec> 08└─> I also think that the success rate of such software has been blown out of proportion by the folks who have a vested interest in it 'financial' success. Oh I am sure it isn't as good as they say. However getting a false positive is an even bigger bitch then it being accurate. One thing to identify...
[23:45:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google, A.I. and the Rise of the Super-Sensor - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:41] <exec> 08└─Be my guest, there is fuck all in my house worth stealing. Something to do with not being "materialistically minded". Plus if the terminators are roaming about, I am sure to have booby trapped the place to hell and buggered off ages ago (if I survived).
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