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[00:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WannaCry Ransomware Attack Linked to North Korea by Symantec - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:32] <exec> 08└─That thing had the most impact in Russia, a supposed Nork's ally.
[00:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WannaCry Ransomware Attack Linked to North Korea by Symantec - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:33] <exec> 08└─Their Bitcoins are as good as anybody's :D
[00:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WannaCry Ransomware Attack Linked to North Korea by Symantec - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:36] <exec> 08└─What... is North Korea the American bad guy now, or is Russia? China?? Or was Symantec told to take America's eyes/entertainment lobes off of Russia and put it back onto North Korea??? Man, it's so hard to stay focused on who the bad guy is anymo--- --oooh, look! Kardashians! Heee heee, soooo shiny!...
[00:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WannaCry Ransomware Attack Linked to North Korea by Symantec - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:38] <exec> 08└─Unless you've had dealings with these slanteyed godless fucks, you have no idea just how different they are from decent western people. The US should have destroyed China, Korea, and all the rest of the hordes of dog-eating yellow people, while it was possible to do so without nuclear retaliation.
[00:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06WannaCry Ransomware Attack Linked to North Korea by Symantec - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:40] <exec> 08└─The world's superpower can have multiple enemies???!
[00:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WannaCry Ransomware Attack Linked to North Korea by Symantec - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:42] <exec> 08└─Symantec - Mountain View, California, USA FireEye - Milpitas, California, USA Add some special letter soup letter. And you get whatever the master says! :-) Do I need to say more? :p
[00:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WannaCry Ransomware Attack Linked to North Korea by Symantec - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:45] <exec> 08└─I can just imagine the Rusky cybergoons chuckling: "Damn, gooks, yous pulled a doozy. Give it up - high five!"
[00:36:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WannaCry Ransomware Attack Linked to North Korea by Symantec - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:47] <exec> 08└─No: you need to focus the plebs on one enemy at a time! Hence the Jews in Nazi-land... "It's a small Jew world after all, it's a small Jew world uber alles" It's like marketing: one message hammered home again and again. It's the Jews, or it's the Russians or it's the Chinese, but NEVER all at the s...
[00:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Concert Hall in Hamburg Transforms the City - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:00] <exec> 08└─Documentary on the building [youtube.com] (in German but good pictures)
[00:37:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Concert Hall in Hamburg Transforms the City - 798 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:02] <exec> 08└─Well, Wikipedia [wikipedia.org] (and Wikipedia's sources) tells me that this building has three concert venues (a 2100-seat hall, a 550-seat hall, and a 170-seat hall for educational activities). It also has a hotel currently rented by Westin with 244 rooms. It has 45 luxury apartments. It houses co...
[00:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03garrulus [6051] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A New Concert Hall in Hamburg Transforms the City - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:04] <exec> 08└─Want to visit it someday https://www.elbphilharmonie.de [elbphilharmonie.de] http://www.hamburg.com [hamburg.com]
[00:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sir Roger Moore Dies at 89 - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:48] <exec> 08└─Heir to the Goldfarb Girdle's fortune. Cannonball Run was truly a great comedy, especially their Smokey Yunick-like skirting of Roger Moore's employment contract and one-off bond melody. That was singlehandedly responsible for a boilerplate change in all later acting contracts to ensure such parodyi...
[00:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Can Use Subtitles to Take Over Millions of Devices Running VLC, Kodi, Popcorn Time and Strem - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:18] <exec> 08└─Would have been nice if the submitter or editor had mentioned that. Thank you for providing the information that was lacking. Now I know I need to be mindful of the subtitles I use until VLC posts an update.
[00:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Can Use Subtitles to Take Over Millions of Devices Running VLC, Kodi, Popcorn Time and Strem - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:20] <exec> 08└─He never said that. Just "Bite my shiny metal ass!". And how did you get that cool ASCII art past the lameness filter?
[00:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Can Use Subtitles to Take Over Millions of Devices Running VLC, Kodi, Popcorn Time and Strem - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:22] <exec> 08└─given that there are some blind people who have managed to vocalize clicks and use the echo-location response to navigate the world around them; yeah, i bet there are some one-in-a-million who *can* listen/decode, encode/whistle... . those fuggin human beans, their wetware is amazing...
[00:38:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former Prenda Law Attorney Disbarred by Illinois Supreme Court - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:42] <exec> 08└─Won't that affect his briefs?
[00:40:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Co-founder: I’m Sorry if We Made Trump’s Presidency Possible - 649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:25] <exec> 08└─Folks in Rust Belt states really REALLY hated Hillary. The other thing that they saw on TeeVee was Trump. ...so they voted for Trump (who offered zero specifics, just empty slogans). Clearly, hose folks didn't look to see who else was on the ballot. ...so they overlooked a candidate who has a progra...
[00:40:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] 02 - 06Study by MIT Economist: U.S. has Regressed to a Third-World Nation for Most of its Citizens - 554 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:49] <exec> 08└─It's amusing that people now talk about the US becoming a third-world nation, because the third world originally designated countries that weren't aligned with the US or with the Soviet Union during the cold war. It's true in a sense though: the US today isn't aligned with what the US once stood for...
[00:44:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] 02 - 06Japan's Fertility Crisis is Creating Economic and Social Woes Never Seen Before - 482 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:05] <exec> 08└─Actually, they could improve their economy by simply ENFORCING a sane working week of 40 hours or (preferably) significantly less. If you were putting in 14 hour days, 6 days a week for years on end with practically no time / energy left over for fun, family, or even proper meals or sex, do you thin...
[00:44:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan's Fertility Crisis is Creating Economic and Social Woes Never Seen Before - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:42] <exec> 08└─California, despite its liberal policies is more wealthy
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[01:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says New Tesla Autopilot is 'Smooth As Silk' - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:25] <exec> 08└─Smooth is bad. Resistance is good.
[01:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06WannaCry Ransomware Attack Linked to North Korea by Symantec - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:41] <exec> 08└─"Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Eurasia was an ally."
[01:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WannaCry Ransomware Attack Linked to North Korea by Symantec - 1058 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:42] <exec> 08└─Your wish nearly came true: In 1951, the U.S. escalated closest to atomic warfare in Korea. Because China deployed new armies to the Sino-Korean frontier, pit crews at the Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, assembled atomic bombs for Korean warfare, "lacking only the essential pit nuclear cores". In October...
[01:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New Concert Hall in Hamburg Transforms the City - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:59] <exec> 08└─The cost graph (around 37:56) shows 77 M€ 2005 became 789 M€ in 2013. Around 10 times. Germany efficiency. Myth or not what it used to be.
[01:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hackers Can Use Subtitles to Take Over Millions of Devices Running VLC, Kodi, Popcorn Time and Strem - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:16] <exec> 08└─is it a windows only attack? Me guesses probably I am guessing not from the summary.... users of popular media players, including VLC, Kodi (XBMC), Popcorn Time and Stremio.
[01:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hackers Can Use Subtitles to Take Over Millions of Devices Running VLC, Kodi, Popcorn Time and Strem - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:18] <exec> 08└─Not outside the realm of possibility. Corporations like to use the media to push agendas. They do it all the time. They have for years. The news orgs are so crap they run with pretty much anything that sorta looks like a story. I have been seeing tons of KODI hate out there for the past month. It sm...
[01:39:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gabbard, Perry Introduce Bill to Permanently End Warrantless Collection of Americans’ Emails - 1215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:06] <exec> 08└─1. find her a curious mix, the rising star thing, like you said, BUT, that has been 'tainted' of late (in the eyes of the DLC, Deep State, conventional wisdom, etc...) by her opposition to syrian involvement, anti-drone stance, etc... *possible* she is simply another puppet for the puppet-masters to...
[01:39:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gabbard, Perry Introduce Bill to Permanently End Warrantless Collection of Americans’ Emails - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:08] <exec> 08└─Laws are never "permanent," particularly when they come from a legislature that can decide to overturn that "permanent" law any time it wants. Constitutional amendments are perhaps more permanent, because they'd require a much more complex process to overturn. Of course, passing a new Constitutional...
[01:44:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan's Fertility Crisis is Creating Economic and Social Woes Never Seen Before - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:44] <exec> 08└─It's good to hear that Japanese kids get exposed to the real world. But it isn't enough. 7-8 years ago I was working with a Japanese college student, he wanted to send me an international postal money order for something available in USA. I emailed him my postal address and then he emailed back to c...
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[02:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says New Tesla Autopilot is 'Smooth As Silk' - 772 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:21] <exec> 08└─it is a step. a step towards automation a step towards acceptance of automation a step towards fewer deaths people are crap at driving (yes, even you and even me) our reaction speeds are nowhere near good enough for the speeds cars can legally drive (let alone driving beyond mandated speed limits)...
[02:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03a-zA-Z0-9$_.+!*'(),- (3868) (Score: 1) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says New Tesla Autopilot is 'Smooth As Silk' - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:22] <exec> 08└─"This autopilot chops off even fewer heads per 1000 drivers than the last update!" [1] [1] https://www.treehugger.com [treehugger.com] Or how about, "This autopilot update provides you no greater...
[02:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sir Roger Moore Dies at 89 - 2492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:41] <exec> 08└─Growing up I have to say that I merely tolerated Roger Moore's Bond. I enjoyed the movies because they were Bond movies, of course, and back then Bond movies were lots of fun. Especially Moonraker because it was half Bond movie and half Star Trek movie and I was quite small when my older sister agre...
[02:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sir Roger Moore Dies at 89 - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:42] <exec> 08└─Murders people. ...e.g., JFK. Attempts (and often succeeds at) regime change--and, in the process, murders people. This is in contrast to the original charter for that outfit which said that they were to aggregate and analyze intel from other agencies. FULL STOP. Harry Truman said that the greatest...
[02:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03a-zA-Z0-9$_.+!*'(),- (3868) (Score: 1) 02 - 06Sir Roger Moore Dies at 89 - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:44] <exec> 08└─reminds me of "blue steel"
[02:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hackers Can Use Subtitles to Take Over Millions of Devices Running VLC, Kodi, Popcorn Time and Strem - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:19] <exec> 08└─Someone's been binge-watching The Stallman Hour...
[02:38:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Can Use Subtitles to Take Over Millions of Devices Running VLC, Kodi, Popcorn Time and Strem - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:20] <exec> 08└─Dutch Court Rules Fan Subtitling is Illegal /article.pl?sid=17/04/24/1837249 [soylentnews.org] Swedish Fansub Site Operator Facing Prosecution /article.pl?sid=16/05/27/0055244 [soylentnews.org] Netherlands Fansubbing Group Prepares to Sue BREIN /article.pl?sid=16/02/07/1523233 [soylentnews.org]
[02:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hackers Can Use Subtitles to Take Over Millions of Devices Running VLC, Kodi, Popcorn Time and Strem - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:22] <exec> 08└─https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1149 [ietf.org]
[02:38:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hackers Can Use Subtitles to Take Over Millions of Devices Running VLC, Kodi, Popcorn Time and Strem - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:24] <exec> 08└─Use MPV. No need for VLC bloat.
[02:38:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03sgleysti [56] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Can Use Subtitles to Take Over Millions of Devices Running VLC, Kodi, Popcorn Time and Strem - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:27] <exec> 08└─And how did you get that cool ASCII art past the lameness filter?
[02:39:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03a-zA-Z0-9$_.+!*'(),- (3868) (Score: 1) 02 - 06Gabbard, Perry Introduce Bill to Permanently End Warrantless Collection of Americans’ Emails - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:16] <exec> 08└─An "obscure" krishna group: http://www.huffingtonpost.com [huffingtonpost.com]
[02:40:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Co-founder: I’m Sorry if We Made Trump’s Presidency Possible - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:34] <exec> 08└─While she herself might not have used it correctly, the Correct the Record PAC used it to great effectiveness. Both sides did more work trying to disenfranchise the other side than they did trying to win people to their own. I think in the end Trump did a little better because he didn't act entitled...
[02:40:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Co-founder: I’m Sorry if We Made Trump’s Presidency Possible - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:35] <exec> 08└─These things always come in threes. First Bill, then Roger, and now Sean. Looks like Fox News has succeeded beyond their wildest dreams!
[02:45:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03coolgopher [1157] 02 - 06Explosion at Manchester Arena (UK) with 19 Dead and 50 Injured - 252 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:13] <exec> 08└─In its extremes, you only have two options. One is that you glass the entire planet. The other, in the words of WOPR, states that "the only winning move, is not to play". Anything in between pours fuel on one fire or another and doesn't solve anything.
[02:47:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swiss Vote to Phase Out Nuclear Power - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:23] <exec> 08└─Qualification means understanding what you vote on and the consequences it will have. Voting X because some other dude did so is bad basis for decision making.
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[03:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Roger Murdock [4897] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Lithium-Ion Pioneer Claims 5x Increase in Energy Density - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:26] <exec> 08└─The only take-away I got from this is that I wish my last name was Goodenough.
[03:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lithium-Ion Pioneer Claims 5x Increase in Energy Density - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:27] <exec> 08└─Murdock isn't Goodenough for you?
[03:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lithium-Ion Pioneer Claims 5x Increase in Energy Density - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:29] <exec> 08└─Batteries are goodenough! Make no attempt to improve them!
[03:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lithium-Ion Pioneer Claims 5x Increase in Energy Density - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:31] <exec> 08└─Actually might be risky to try improving a life's work at age 94. People tend to be petty idiots who remember you only for the very last thing you did. If this new battery design isn't goodenough, his legacy could be ruined forever.
[03:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lithium-Ion Pioneer Claims 5x Increase in Energy Density - 930 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:34] <exec> 08└─A young man is walking through a small village one day and decides to stop by a bar and have a beer. He walks into a bar, and sees a grizzled old man, crying into his beer. Curious, the young man sits down and says, "Hey old timer, why the long face?" The old man looks at him and points...
[03:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says New Tesla Autopilot is 'Smooth As Silk' - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:44] <exec> 08└─it is a step. a step towards automation a step towards acceptance of automation a step towards fewer deaths
[03:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says New Tesla Autopilot is 'Smooth As Silk' - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:45] <exec> 08└─Remind me again: what good is half a wing [berkeley.edu]?
[03:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WannaCry Ransomware Attack Linked to North Korea by Symantec - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:03] <exec> 08└─This is what people get for using Windows for their critical data.
[03:39:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Gabbard, Perry Introduce Bill to Permanently End Warrantless Collection of Americans’ Emails - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:39] <exec> 08└─Of course everybody hates Congress as a whole, yet we keep reelecting the people in our districts. Exactly... So who are the dysfunctional ones in this equation? Certainly not congress. They have a winning formula that works perfectly for them.
[03:40:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03sgleysti [56] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Co-founder: I’m Sorry if We Made Trump’s Presidency Possible - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:58] <exec> 08└─"People elected Trump" A minority of voters, but yes, I take your point. My gut reaction to the article was, "I blame the electorate."
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[04:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lithium-Ion Pioneer Claims 5x Increase in Energy Density - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:43] <exec> 08└─Legacy is useless. Only life extension matters.
[04:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says New Tesla Autopilot is 'Smooth As Silk' - 826 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:56] <exec> 08└─The crash rate under autopilot, just among Tesla users, is already substantially lower than the crash rate for 'manual driving' among the same userbase. There's definitely going to be some confounding variables there, but if anything I think they would result in understating how major an accomplishm...
[04:37:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gaaark [41] 02 - 06WannaCry Ransomware Attack Linked to North Korea by Symantec - 302 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:07] <exec> 08└─What... is North Korea the American bad guy now, or is Russia? China?? Or was Symantec told to take America's eyes/entertainment lobes off of Russia and put it back onto North Korea??? Man, it's so hard to stay focused on who the bad guy is anymo--- --oooh, look! Kardashians! Heee heee, soooo shiny!...
[04:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WannaCry Ransomware Attack Linked to North Korea by Symantec - 1182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:16] <exec> 08└─I'm surprised there's not more scrutiny over this sort of incredibly lazy security "analysis" here. False attribution is a regular part of any sort of digital criminal activity. What these "analysts" and the 'it's the Russkies!' crew before them are doing fundamentally comes down to "He said It was...
[04:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WannaCry Ransomware Attack Linked to North Korea by Symantec - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:18] <exec> 08└─Reminds me of CNN's "security analyst" discussing, Who is this hacker known as 4chan? [youtube.com] "He may have been just a systems administrator who knew his way around and how to hack things."
[04:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New Concert Hall in Hamburg Transforms the City - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:36] <exec> 08└─Is this a temple for audiophools?
[04:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New Concert Hall in Hamburg Transforms the City - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:37] <exec> 08└─It looks like a good venue for boxing matches, sumo wrestling, maybe even basketball.
[04:39:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Can Use Subtitles to Take Over Millions of Devices Running VLC, Kodi, Popcorn Time and Strem - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:05] <exec> 08└─Same here: mplayer, then mplayer2, then mpv. If only all software were this straightforward
[04:39:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Can Use Subtitles to Take Over Millions of Devices Running VLC, Kodi, Popcorn Time and Strem - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:07] <exec> 08└─Given that all of the listed projects are multiplatform and support Windows, it is impossible to say whether it only affects Windows, or all versions. The fact that the same vulnerability exists in all those applications suggests that it is not in code written specifically for those projects, but in...
[04:39:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Can Use Subtitles to Take Over Millions of Devices Running VLC, Kodi, Popcorn Time and Strem - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:09] <exec> 08└─Downloading subtitle files isn't a default behaviour with vlc, is it? A script enabling such downloads with MKV is available: OpenSubtitles automatic downloader script for MPV. Relies on LuaSocket, lua-xmlrpc and lua-zlib.
[04:41:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Co-founder: I’m Sorry if We Made Trump’s Presidency Possible - 1392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:24] <exec> 08└─What you're saying is contradicted by reality. There has been research [arxiv.org] indicating that downvoting sort of mechanisms have a paradoxically negative effect. It actually encourages further negative behavior and reciprocation. People do change their behavior - they start acting even more ext...
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[04:41:25] <exec> 08└─Bwahaha! Folks over here in flyover country (yeah, I called the place I live "flyover country," alt-snowflakes!) voting for a.) a woman and b.) a leftist "elitist" from the eco hippy "feel bad because you're white" party? You tell some pretty good jokes! ... Yes, they are all sheep, baa go the sheep...
[04:43:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02 - 06Study by MIT Economist: U.S. has Regressed to a Third-World Nation for Most of its Citizens - 153 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:04] <exec> 08└─Social benefit is irrelevant. The government does not exist to promote social benefit, it exists to protect the rights of its people who are individuals.
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[05:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WHO Spends More on Travel Than on AIDS, Malaria - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:18] <exec> 08└─"Combatting" is correct.
[05:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WHO Spends More on Travel Than on AIDS, Malaria - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:19] <exec> 08└─WHO is on first, FEMA is on second, and Congress consistently misses the entire game/flight. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[05:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03cafebabe [894] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WHO Spends More on Travel Than on AIDS, Malaria - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:21] <exec> 08└─Although the WHO's office in Rome closed at the end of 2011 [who.int], I heard that the restaurant on the top floor overlooked Rome's Colosseum and served amazing five course meals. Also, from the daughter of a WHO administrator in Zambia, the WHO paid first world salaries to third world workers -...
[05:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WHO Spends More on Travel Than on AIDS, Malaria - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:24] <exec> 08└─How do you disperse and dispense treatment and verify service if you don't travel?
[05:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lithium-Ion Pioneer Claims 5x Increase in Energy Density - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:36] <exec> 08└─*Groan*, was that PUN-ishment Goodenough ?
[05:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lithium-Ion Pioneer Claims 5x Increase in Energy Density - 720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:38] <exec> 08└─If you're over 80, bad enough that you're probably suffering from a variety of age related problems. Can't walk as fast, not as strong, can't drive as well, etc. But everyone constantly wondering if this time you've finally lost your mind and gone senile has to be a real bummer. You may even have ch...
[05:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sir Roger Moore Dies at 89 - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:17] <exec> 08└─Which reminds me instantly of this... https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[05:41:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Co-founder: I’m Sorry if We Made Trump’s Presidency Possible - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:12] <exec> 08└─Clearly we need to censor trump and apologize because this is bad because we don't like him so we have to make sure we can censor people we don't like in the future because reasons!
[05:41:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Co-founder: I’m Sorry if We Made Trump’s Presidency Possible - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:14] <exec> 08└─People do change their behavior - they start acting even more extreme and with even greater blase disregard for feedback.
[05:45:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Japan's Fertility Crisis is Creating Economic and Social Woes Never Seen Before - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:32] <exec> 08└─Recall that you wrote: Keep in mind that when a few people here tell us all about how we need to accept working more hours for less pay, this is the future they're leading us to.
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[06:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WHO Spends More on Travel Than on AIDS, Malaria - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:34] <exec> 08└─Travel is necessary, business class travel and five star hotels is just being greedy.
[06:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06WHO Spends More on Travel Than on AIDS, Malaria - 1413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:36] <exec> 08└─WHO is a governmental organization, and specifically not a charity. I don't really have a problem with the executives flying something above cattle-class and staying in reasonably nice hotels. That said, booking $1000/night suites is definitely over the top. To be fair, however, this information com...
[06:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WHO Spends More on Travel Than on AIDS, Malaria - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:38] <exec> 08└─or apply the same standards for those administrative/executive folks as the regular joe sixpack. That means cattle class everything and a limit on how much they travel per year. Afterall if the ones paying for them, i.e. regular joe sixpack with their tax dollars, don't get business/first class and...
[06:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WHO Spends More on Travel Than on AIDS, Malaria - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:40] <exec> 08└─I tried to open the original article, https://www.usnews.com [usnews.com] When WebCite tried to archive the page, it received a Page Not Found error from the website concerned.
[06:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lithium-Ion Pioneer Claims 5x Increase in Energy Density - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:55] <exec> 08└─I don't see any suggestion of him being mocked for his old age in the summary and the linked paper has 3 co-authors who are probably a lot younger and could prevent any devastating age-related mistakes.
[06:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lithium-Ion Pioneer Claims 5x Increase in Energy Density - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:56] <exec> 08└─It's not like you cannot find an overworked intern at your service 24h to check out if whatever you do is working as expected...
[06:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New Concert Hall in Hamburg Transforms the City - 1973 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:49] <exec> 08└─HAHAHAH! Oh hahaha ... HAHAHAHAHAH ... oh ... man, my sides hurt ... Next, you'll tell us all about how prestige projects in distinctly non-capitalist, and even anti-capitalist societies were totally different, you guys! Totally different. And maybe you want to explain how all those capitalists - th...
[06:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hackers Can Use Subtitles to Take Over Millions of Devices Running VLC, Kodi, Popcorn Time and Strem - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:23] <exec> 08└─Someone's been busy ignoring reality...
[06:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hackers Can Use Subtitles to Take Over Millions of Devices Running VLC, Kodi, Popcorn Time and Strem - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:24] <exec> 08└─Corps rarely run their shady dealings in a way that can be uncovered. Usually a good investigative journalist is required, and even then it often depends on a whistle blower.
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[07:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Are Laws Like the French Ban on Emails After Work Saving Us or Burying Our Jobs? - 1845 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:19] <exec> 08└─"Do you believe that this can get to a point where an individual eventually breaks down?" I damned near did... I was called in as a consultant to rescue a failing IT project a few years ago. Worked my buns off, was basically on-call 24/7, even on vacation, I worked at least an hour a day (plus being...
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[07:36:20] <exec> 08└─In the end, it wasn't my employer that drove me nuts on that horrible project - it was my personal sense of responsibility, me wanting to pull a successful project from the jaws of failure.
[07:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Are Laws Like the French Ban on Emails After Work Saving Us or Burying Our Jobs? - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:23] <exec> 08└─But this is the problem. Employers abuse the workers because most employees have a sense of responsibility. That is the problem here. In a perfect world, where nobody wants to take advantage of you, this would be good. However, the world is not perfect. Driving business means making profit. And prof...
[07:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Laws Like the French Ban on Emails After Work Saving Us or Burying Our Jobs? - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:25] <exec> 08└─...because most employees have a sense of responsibility.
[07:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Are Laws Like the French Ban on Emails After Work Saving Us or Burying Our Jobs? - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:27] <exec> 08└─Why do you need government if you don't benefit from it then?
[07:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03UncleSlacky [2859] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Are Laws Like the French Ban on Emails After Work Saving Us or Burying Our Jobs? - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:29] <exec> 08└─Some form of union would seem to be in order, then - unless you're against those as well, of course...
[07:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Laws Like the French Ban on Emails After Work Saving Us or Burying Our Jobs? - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:31] <exec> 08└─We really need to stop comparing ourselves to Europe. We are not socialists over here, we're crony-capitalists wishing we were just capitalists.
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[07:37:03] <exec> 08└─The head of the committee continued: - ... and so, dr Goodenough, we took your measurements, ran them against powerful AI systems to find the possible chemical processes going on. Found NOTHING. We analyzed your prototype and came to the inescapable conclusion... - I AM NOT CHEATING! - Yes you are....
[07:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Concert Hall in Hamburg Transforms the City - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:57] <exec> 08└─Is this a temple for audiophools?
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[08:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Quants" With Supercomputers Run Wall Street - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:21] <exec> 08└─And how many of these Quant funds have shown an ability to outperform the S&P 500 index, or perhaps the Nasdaq index, over 5 or 10 years? Best thing I ever did 20 years ago was move all my 401(k) money out of managed funds and into SPDR and QQQ, and then forget about them.
[08:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03UncleSlacky [2859] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Are Laws Like the French Ban on Emails After Work Saving Us or Burying Our Jobs? - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:36] <exec> 08└─There are no socialist countries in Europe - social democracy != socialist. They are all capitalist economies, i.e. the workers do not control the means of production.
[08:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Are Laws Like the French Ban on Emails After Work Saving Us or Burying Our Jobs? - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:38] <exec> 08└─If it has the word "social" in the name, that should be a clue to you. Also, workers never control the means of production in any socialist country. The government does. You're halfway there now. Give it another twenty to fifty years and you'll be entirely socialist. Give it another fifty and you'll...
[08:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Are Laws Like the French Ban on Emails After Work Saving Us or Burying Our Jobs? - 1587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:40] <exec> 08└─He spent two decades working for the same company, finally had a mental breakdown with 2x-3x the amount of vacation time he was allowed to carry according to company policy (they'd kept pushing it back because he was needed for new/failing projects.) He was a couple of years out from his next sabbat...
[08:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03UncleSlacky [2859] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Are Laws Like the French Ban on Emails After Work Saving Us or Burying Our Jobs? - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:43] <exec> 08└─You're using the American definition of socialist, i.e. ""Socialism is when the government does stuff and more stuff it does the socialister it is". Here's a clue, the only shared aspect of all forms of actual socialism is the worker control of the means of production. Lots of countries call themsel...
[08:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Laws Like the French Ban on Emails After Work Saving Us or Burying Our Jobs? - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:45] <exec> 08└─Name a nation that mandated that workers control the means of production without, and this is important, taking that job over itself.
[08:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WannaCry Ransomware Attack Linked to North Korea by Symantec - 832 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:50] <exec> 08└─in their hate, thanks to World 2.0 and the dramatic changes it has offered through digital content production values, Humans v2.0 can now be multi-minded in their ability to hate others! No longer must a single organization, group, race, gender, or religion be hated upon by them, but rather all can...
[08:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WannaCry Ransomware Attack Linked to North Korea by Symantec - 659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:51] <exec> 08└─The dangerous parts were leaked from the NSA. The NSA needed something to "prove" that leaking their exploits helps the enemy rather than helping fixing our own security. What better way than a false flag operation, creating some shoddily written malware that infects a lot of computers. I expected t...
[08:39:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sir Roger Moore Dies at 89 - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:39:04] <exec> 08└─I would like to remember him in The Cannonball Run, but all that surfaces about the movie is a pair of tits and a black Countach... I am sure he was superb as usual, though.
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[08:42:06] <exec> 08└─Me, too! But for me it was more the part about "betting both cheeks of my ass". This seems to be a Runaway fetish of late, super effective! And much better than Eth's strange and bizarre obsession with the underarms of young female domesticated animals. Eeewww!
[08:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan's Fertility Crisis is Creating Economic and Social Woes Never Seen Before - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:28] <exec> 08└─Japan has been reducing hours. But it is the heavy hours in their past that are coming back to haunt them today. That's not actually that hard to understand, is it? So those who suggest we should work more for less are simply setting us up for a similar decline and fall.
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[09:36:31] <exec> 08└─https://xkcd.com/1827/ [xkcd.com]
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[09:36:51] <exec> 08└─I think that fact has more to do with perceived worth by the employee. When you feel lime an unappreciated cog it can be easy to stop caring. If you feel valued, and decent pay is a necessary component of this, then often you get better employee attitudes. It is in part a cultural problem as well wi...
[09:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are Laws Like the French Ban on Emails After Work Saving Us or Burying Our Jobs? - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:52] <exec> 08└─Ugh go away already. Your hard line capitalist / libertarian stance is old and boring. Only slightly less spammy than the violently imposed monopoly troll.
[09:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Laws Like the French Ban on Emails After Work Saving Us or Burying Our Jobs? - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:54] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that's what I thought. Don't come at me unprepared again.
[09:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Laws Like the French Ban on Emails After Work Saving Us or Burying Our Jobs? - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:57] <exec> 08└─That's a partial answer. The complete answer also includes that those who actually care about the quality of their work and the success of their company tend to be promoted more often than those who don't.
[09:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Are Laws Like the French Ban on Emails After Work Saving Us or Burying Our Jobs? - 1622 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:59] <exec> 08└─Here's my advice for a happy work life. Your mileage may vary. If you can honestly excel at something, then do so and demand excellent compensation and conditions in return for excellent performance. The conditions you set should include reasonable accommodation of your lifestyle. Because my desires...
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[09:37:14] <exec> 08└─I'd agree, and especially on the abuse of policy, but I think it needs some discretion based on the indivudual and the specifics of the trip rather than a blanket cut-off for the top-brass only. I often fly business class and will typically get a good deal of work done on long haul flights as I don'...
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[09:37:32] <exec> 08└─As far as I can tell, this 'violating the first law of thermodynamics' shtick is down to poor reporting. Also, why would you go to a Professor of Mechanical Engineering to ask about Electrochemistry? In electrochemical research, it is not unusual to build cells that have the same electrodes either s...
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[09:37:34] <exec> 08└─If you're over 80, bad enough that you're probably suffering from a variety of age related problems. [...] The suggestion that this new lithium battery is too good to be true, nothing wrong with that.
[09:46:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan's Fertility Crisis is Creating Economic and Social Woes Never Seen Before - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:43] <exec> 08└─OK, then they also need a massive advertising campaign: "Want to give your best to your company? Go home and screw your wife!" (followed by small print evidence of how that is good for your productivity.)
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[10:36:29] <exec> 08└─1 million dollars? Is this Austin Powers....?
[10:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Laws Like the French Ban on Emails After Work Saving Us or Burying Our Jobs? - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:53] <exec> 08└─...either work for yourself, a company/group of individuals you believe in...
[10:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WHO Spends More on Travel Than on AIDS, Malaria - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:10] <exec> 08└─WHO is a governmental organization
[10:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Lithium-Ion Pioneer Claims 5x Increase in Energy Density - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:31] <exec> 08└─Possibly Arthur C. Clarkes 'First Law' applies: When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
[10:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says New Tesla Autopilot is 'Smooth As Silk' - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:46] <exec> 08└─Why is this modded informative? We are all aware of the circumstances that led to Joshua Brown's death (and, to be fair, he wasn't completely free of blame himself). However one death does not prove anything. A statistical analysis with a sample size of one is useless. What's more, that death led di...
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[10:37:47] <exec> 08└─Some people seem to think Musk is the tech Messiah, and will hype up anything that comes from him or his company, no matter how vapid. They also get very touchy about people who don't don't show the expected amount of reverence, or, Musk forbid, actually criticise or point out flaws in him or his pl...
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[10:37:49] <exec> 08└─In other news, MS CEO M Knight Shamalamadingdong says "Our new Windows doesn't suck!" Yeah, more "who cares what stake holders say".
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[11:36:32] <exec> 08└─So the there will be [inc.com] no asshole rule [wikipedia.org] that keep SpaceX [wikipedia.org] clean from, well assholes [businessinsider.com] is now depreciated? That is actually quite sad. At least I had higher expectations on that company. Or is it just a smoke screen where some moronic worker l...
[11:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Technician says Concerns about Test Results Got Him Fired - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:33] <exec> 08└─Remember this is the company run by the guy who insisted that the rocket which blew up was purposefully sabotaged by a sniper's bullet. I don't know why people expected more from one of the founders of paypal...
[11:37:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03pTamok [3042] 02 - 06Lithium-Ion Pioneer Claims 5x Increase in Energy Density - 2710 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:42] <exec> 08└─As far as I can tell, this 'violating the first law of thermodynamics' shtick is down to poor reporting. Also, why would you go to a Professor of Mechanical Engineering to ask about Electrochemistry? In electrochemical research, it is not unusual to build cells that have the same electrodes either s...
[11:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WannaCry Ransomware Attack Linked to North Korea by Symantec - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:23] <exec> 08└─actually, this is not that unbelievable. the bit with the movie a couple of years ago was just plain stupid, and I doubt North Korea was actually involved, but I do believe the North Koreans would be capable of extortion/"data kidnapping" or whatever you want to call it. they definitely need the cas...
[11:39:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sir Roger Moore Dies at 89 - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:36] <exec> 08└─Roger was kept in the dark about much of the mine massacre scene [youtube.com] in "A View to a Kill" because they knew that Zorin's ruthless gunning down (while laughing) of the innocents would have distressed him too much. [imdb.com]
[11:40:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hackers Can Use Subtitles to Take Over Millions of Devices Running VLC, Kodi, Popcorn Time and Strem - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:40:22] <exec> 08└─- VLC already released an update, Version 2.2.5.1 [videolan.org] but still won't autoupdate. - Kodi already patched the source [github.com], but no binaries are available.
[11:40:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hackers Can Use Subtitles to Take Over Millions of Devices Running VLC, Kodi, Popcorn Time and Strem - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:40:23] <exec> 08└─Kodi's pull request [github.com] is already public so in practice the cat is out of the bag.
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[12:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unanimous SCOTUS Ruling Closes Court-Shopping Loophole for Patent Trolls - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:30] <exec> 08└─You must file suit against a company in the juirisidction they are incorporated in, not just one they do business in. However, if you are a company incorporated outside the US, don't have any offices in the US, and don't employ anyone in the US but you do business with anyone inside the US over the...
[12:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Technician says Concerns about Test Results Got Him Fired - 681 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:40] <exec> 08└─you mean, have i ever made an ass out of myself by not understanding something fully and talk about to someone a level or two above my boss and gotten fired for it? sure. have i ever suggested how a user department could get scheduled an app in dev and gotten fired for that? sure. did i get others t...
[12:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SpaceX Technician says Concerns about Test Results Got Him Fired - 937 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:42] <exec> 08└─Elon Musk was likely advised by his direct reports that the man was a troublemaker, and I would be surprised if he took a direct interest in the case. It is entirely possible that test results were falsified: or at best, ignored. You only need to see the shenanigans that went on at NASA, as describe...
[12:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Technician says Concerns about Test Results Got Him Fired - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:44] <exec> 08└─If your boss's boss also tells you your concerns are not warranted, it's time to update the resume. Continuing to push makes you a problem. The people that keep pushing anyway tend to not understand how negatively they come across, or otherwise have narcissistic tendencies that overrule their own go...
[12:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06"Quants" With Supercomputers Run Wall Street - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:55] <exec> 08└─It's good to know that our supercomputing resources are put to good use for humanity .. :p
[12:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bootsy [3440] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Quants" With Supercomputers Run Wall Street - 672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:57] <exec> 08└─Of course Hedge Funds and Fin Tech start ups will beat banks. They don't have to spend 70% of their IT budget on keeping up with Compliance rules such as MIFID II, Dodd Frank, Sarbanes Oxley etc. The legal requirement are necessary to operate as a bank but they add no business advantage whatsoever....
[12:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Laws Like the French Ban on Emails After Work Saving Us or Burying Our Jobs? - 727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:22] <exec> 08└─I don't know about special laws being necessary, but being unavailable while not in the office works very well for me, thank you. All I need is the contract of employment - the law between myself and the employer - it doesn't contain anything about being available outside office hours. If it did, I...
[12:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are Laws Like the French Ban on Emails After Work Saving Us or Burying Our Jobs? - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:24] <exec> 08└─Name a nation that mandated that workers control the means of production without
[12:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Are Laws Like the French Ban on Emails After Work Saving Us or Burying Our Jobs? - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:26] <exec> 08└─Or people acting on their own initiative. A single labor union would just be another government, but multiple competing labor unions is fine in my book.
[12:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03rondon [5167] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WHO Spends More on Travel Than on AIDS, Malaria - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:43] <exec> 08└─Business class is fine for long flights, and doesn't generally add up to ridiculous price tags. Its the 5 star hotels, meals, and actual first class flights that chew up a budget in no time.
[12:38:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03kaszz [4211] 02 - 06WannaCry Ransomware Attack Linked to North Korea by Symantec - 184 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:37] <exec> 08└─Symantec - Mountain View, California, USA FireEye - Milpitas, California, USA Add some special letter soup letter. And you get whatever the master says! :-) Do I need to say more? :p
[12:39:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Concert Hall in Hamburg Transforms the City - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:09] <exec> 08└─From the exterior it will not do for Hamburg what the Opera House did for Sydney. The Reeperbahn will remain the city's calling card, I think.
[12:40:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sir Roger Moore Dies at 89 - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:40:02] <exec> 08└─Yup on the big scale. On the small scale its almost worse, very few in the CIA do the "James Bond" stuff its mostly sitting in cubicles trying to figure impossible stuff out. So not wanting to sit in a cube all day and ponder, I got a job in IT where I ... sit in a cubicle and ponder impossible task...
[12:40:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Can Use Subtitles to Take Over Millions of Devices Running VLC, Kodi, Popcorn Time and Strem - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:40:51] <exec> 08└─Here's the patch that fixes it, which gives more insight into the technical nature of the attack. https://github.com However, the first thing that comes to mind is that someone could guess an absolute path and simply include one o...
[12:43:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Co-founder: I’m Sorry if We Made Trump’s Presidency Possible - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:09] <exec> 08└─the fact that his hammers had been used for things other than the common good may very well have been the motivating factors.
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[13:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AlphaGo Beats Ke Jie in First Match of Three - 882 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:30] <exec> 08└─what the hell? it will exist even if most computers will beat the crap out of any go champion. the point of checkers/chess/go/etc is to develop abstract thinking in humans, and many humans subsequently find them fun to play. I know how to solve Rubik's cube, but I still solve it from time to time be...
[13:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AlphaGo Beats Ke Jie in First Match of Three - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:31] <exec> 08└─From reading the summary I thought the computer assistance would be in the style of a helper you could consult at any time, but TFA states it's more of a tag-team system: Pair Go - a game of Go between two human players who will be assisted by two different AlphaGo instances. The humans will alterna...
[13:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Unanimous SCOTUS Ruling Closes Court-Shopping Loophole for Patent Trolls - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:40] <exec> 08└─" held that a company can be sued only in the state where it is incorporated, rather than in any district where the company happens to do business." " Delaware, after a few academic studies showed that the courts there may have been even more friendly than East Texas. " Just about every corp is inco...
[13:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unanimous SCOTUS Ruling Closes Court-Shopping Loophole for Patent Trolls - 996 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:42] <exec> 08└─If a company can only be sued in the state it is incorporated in, I predict a mass exodus of major high tech companies incorporated in East Texas will re-incorporate elsewhere. Expect a flood. A tsunami. On a more serious note (did you think the previous sentence was serious?), Delaware? Correct me...
[13:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Technician says Concerns about Test Results Got Him Fired - 851 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:54] <exec> 08└─There is not much detail in the Bloomberg article. There's more here (long video news article) https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] He was testing avionics for the capsule. The level of pickeyness was not up to his Marine core standards. As a matter of safety, it's not clear if...
[13:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kell [292] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Technician says Concerns about Test Results Got Him Fired - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:56] <exec> 08└─I don't recall Musk ever actually claiming that. Do you have a source?
[13:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Technician says Concerns about Test Results Got Him Fired - 808 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:58] <exec> 08└─An engineer I knew was in the reverse situation, there were problems with the product (used in public transportation) and this guy felt that if there was an accident, it was likely that he was going to be the fall guy. He was very stressed out by this and all I could do was suggest that he keep a se...
[13:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are Laws Like the French Ban on Emails After Work Saving Us or Burying Our Jobs? - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:39] <exec> 08└─You'd like to marry a cute little girl or two, but have set those desires aside and while your burning to death say "this is ok, everything is fine, being ruled by women is fine, kill paedos"
[13:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Are Laws Like the French Ban on Emails After Work Saving Us or Burying Our Jobs? - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:40] <exec> 08└─Yep. You lost. I'll note here that OriginalOwner has actually thought out this stuff and has some good working examples of worker-owned coops and businesses. These happen to be wholly capitalist since they are by definition privately owned capital (going by the real world definition of capitalism ra...
[13:38:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03rondon [5167] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lithium-Ion Pioneer Claims 5x Increase in Energy Density - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:20] <exec> 08└─Is there a "+1 Jesus Christ I hope not, but it does almost sound plausible" mod, because if so...?
[13:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lithium-Ion Pioneer Claims 5x Increase in Energy Density - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:21] <exec> 08└─He should screw hundreds of young girls. They'll call him king Soloman, and women will demand his full penile castration and torture and execution (since it is in their interests and the interest of "society" (aka: women) to keep the market constrained)
[13:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lithium-Ion Pioneer Claims 5x Increase in Energy Density - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:24] <exec> 08└─> I would almost say this cell operates in about as different a way as a transistor to a vacuum tube. Are you saying this battery could be sold 5x higher to audiophiles?
[13:38:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lithium-Ion Pioneer Claims 5x Increase in Energy Density - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:26] <exec> 08└─Niggar Thugs Yo!
[13:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lithium-Ion Pioneer Claims 5x Increase in Energy Density - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:28] <exec> 08└─No, the audiophiles won't touch it. They will want the old school battery. Not the new fangled, better working, solid state battery. I wonder if they initially understood why the first transistor worked? I know they didn't know why the first diodes worked.
[13:40:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sir Roger Moore Dies at 89 - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:22] <exec> 08└─Never really thought of him as particularly good looking either. So I was a bit shocked to recently watch a documentary on him where it turns out that in his time he was a renowned "pretty boy" action actor beloved by a great many people, not just in his native England but all over the world.
[13:40:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03jman [6085] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Sir Roger Moore Dies at 89 - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:24] <exec> 08└─+1 for Ffolkes. Kinda campy, but hey, you got Anthony Perkins too! One of my favorite scenes in the film is near the beginning where the government officials are trying to talk him into the job. An admiral chastises Ffolkes as being one of those people who "Probably does the Times crossword puzzle...
[13:40:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sir Roger Moore Dies at 89 - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:26] <exec> 08└─Uhura? So underused in ToS - and so full of possibilities to bring this amazing woman more to the fore in a new story. Wasted
[13:41:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hackers Can Use Subtitles to Take Over Millions of Devices Running VLC, Kodi, Popcorn Time and Strem - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:14] <exec> 08└─Do you plan on connecting it up to your solar system in any way?
[13:41:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Former Prenda Law Attorney Disbarred by Illinois Supreme Court - 180 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:28] <exec> 08└─Justice will truly be served when he gets sentences for every malicious act and serves a bit of time with the General Population. Being disbarred is a slap to the ego, not Justice.
[13:42:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gabbard, Perry Introduce Bill to Permanently End Warrantless Collection of Americans’ Emails - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:08] <exec> 08└─Funny that even she doesn't mention it in her article. Apparently it is a secret... Doh!
[13:43:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Co-founder: I’m Sorry if We Made Trump’s Presidency Possible - 1468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:36] <exec> 08└─When people ask me how I keep up to date with what my friends are doing, I always answer "the same way I have been since 1993", referring of course to IRC. Right now, I'm on a server that hosts a channel full of ex workmates, another server that hosts several channels full of beer-drinking buddies i...
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[14:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Takes Another Step Towards Being Big Brother - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:21] <exec> 08└─I don't think this is compatible with EU data protection laws. [wikipedia.org] And the EU has shown in the past that they don't hesitate going against big companies. So this will be a non-starter in the EU. Of course given that I do all of my offline purchases with cash, good luck with determining m...
[14:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03riT-k0MA [88] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Google Takes Another Step Towards Being Big Brother - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:23] <exec> 08└─Let's see them track a cash transaction. Cash is still king.
[14:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Google Takes Another Step Towards Being Big Brother - 1059 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:25] <exec> 08└─This is one of the main reasons why I always pay in cash. Just insist on using cash, and resist electronic payments. Alas, it is getting harder and harder to do so. In fact at one establishment they flat out refused cash, saying they don't accept it. I could pay by app, or plastic, neither of which...
[14:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Takes Another Step Towards Being Big Brother - 719 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:27] <exec> 08└─Sweden is pretty much fully in the push for cashless, and others are following suit. There are lot of places there that will refuse cash transactions. Plus EU nations will ignore laws when it suits them, so you are in the same mess. Fundamentally in the EU the government and agencies already have th...
[14:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AlphaGo Beats Ke Jie in First Match of Three - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:37] <exec> 08└─I'm rated at 14 kyu (better than a beginner, but worse than a serious amateur). There are lots and lots of human players that are far better than I am, and I still enjoy playing the game. I don't see that the existence of supercompetent computer players is going to change that.
[14:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unanimous SCOTUS Ruling Closes Court-Shopping Loophole for Patent Trolls - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:48] <exec> 08└─I haven't looked at the rule but I'd be shocked if there isn't an "or" in there along the lines of "District where incorporated or in $defaultDistrict if not incorporated in the US."
[14:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Technician says Concerns about Test Results Got Him Fired - 1276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:03] <exec> 08└─So this guy, a technician, is 'sure' that the engineers, all of them, are providing falsified test results. And his coworkers are doing it too. As such, he started altering procedures and falsifying test results in order to 'meet quota', because 'everyone has to be doing it'. He even went as far as...
[14:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Technician says Concerns about Test Results Got Him Fired - 725 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:04] <exec> 08└─Sounded odd to me as well, so I dug around and the nearest I can find to the OP assertion is: from http://spacenews.com [spacenews.com] Here is the statement attributed to him: “The other thing we discovered is that w...
[14:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Quants" With Supercomputers Run Wall Street - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:17] <exec> 08└─Probably many of them (to the extent that they've been around for 5 - 10 years). But as these setups become more prevalent, they won't be able to keep the information advantage on their side over such a long time frame, and the whole exercise of finding the signal that gives them their alpha becomes...
[14:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Laws Like the French Ban on Emails After Work Saving Us or Burying Our Jobs? - 863 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:48] <exec> 08└─There's also a wider range of "human biological differences" here than in 60s Europe, although recently Europe is on this self-destructive path to annihilation. The point being we NEED more prisons because of who lives here, and this kind of costs extend thru all of society making many "traditional...
[14:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Laws Like the French Ban on Emails After Work Saving Us or Burying Our Jobs? - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:50] <exec> 08└─Employers abuse the workers because most employees have a sense of responsibility.
[14:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Laws Like the French Ban on Emails After Work Saving Us or Burying Our Jobs? - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:52] <exec> 08└─the software vendor didn't use version control
[14:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are Laws Like the French Ban on Emails After Work Saving Us or Burying Our Jobs? - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:54] <exec> 08└─Did you miss the part where the economies aren't socialist? Your insights really are tired and worn-out.
[14:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Laws Like the French Ban on Emails After Work Saving Us or Burying Our Jobs? - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:56] <exec> 08└─I find your "North Syria" comment to be somewhat over the top, but I'd like to counter it with this observation: The military intervention by the USA (and other Western nations) in attempting to democratise countries such as Iraq, Lebanon, Afghanistan could equally be described as turning the Middle...
[14:38:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06WHO Spends More on Travel Than on AIDS, Malaria - 1413 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:08] <exec> 08└─WHO is a governmental organization, and specifically not a charity. I don't really have a problem with the executives flying something above cattle-class and staying in reasonably nice hotels. That said, booking $1000/night suites is definitely over the top. To be fair, however, this information com...
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[14:38:14] <exec> 08└─works for me brings up an article from the AP i block all javascript and cross-site references
[14:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WHO Spends More on Travel Than on AIDS, Malaria - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:16] <exec> 08└─Healthcare is simply overrrun by scandals like this. That is why they are trying to pass laws to force you to pay for their BS.
[14:41:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hackers Can Use Subtitles to Take Over Millions of Devices Running VLC, Kodi, Popcorn Time and Strem - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:28] <exec> 08└─Here's the patch that fixes it,
[14:41:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Can Use Subtitles to Take Over Millions of Devices Running VLC, Kodi, Popcorn Time and Strem - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:30] <exec> 08└─He did, sort of: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] And it's called ecode tags.
[14:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gabbard, Perry Introduce Bill to Permanently End Warrantless Collection of Americans’ Emails - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:24] <exec> 08└─they're already legislators and you probably aren't
[14:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gabbard, Perry Introduce Bill to Permanently End Warrantless Collection of Americans’ Emails - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:25] <exec> 08└─But then you don't have to floss separately.
[14:43:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Co-founder: I’m Sorry if We Made Trump’s Presidency Possible - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:54] <exec> 08└─> One can hardly call "information and ideas" something limited to 140 characters "Do unto others as you would have done unto you." "Every action has an equal and opposite reaction." "The King is dead. Long live the Queen." "My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I signed legislatio...
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[15:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:40] <exec> 08└─Very smart lady. This could win the election for her. Terrific!
[15:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Google Takes Another Step Towards Being Big Brother - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:52] <exec> 08└─Where's George? [wheresgeorge.com]
[15:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Takes Another Step Towards Being Big Brother - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:53] <exec> 08└─I'm not saying that it is okay for Google to be doing this. I'd rather they didn't. But I think their motives are different than the government's motive to invade my privacy. Google motive: I'm a drop in an ocean of data that they don't care about -- they simply want their machines to put fewer but...
[15:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Takes Another Step Towards Being Big Brother - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:55] <exec> 08└─That was an experiment, the only reason I can think of for a no cash policy is employee theft, but that would be evident anyway. Also, transaction fees and the ever tempting opportunity for fiddling with the books makes the store seem even less likely. As a techie I really really hate some of the mo...
[15:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Takes Another Step Towards Being Big Brother - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:58] <exec> 08└─Both, because if Google collects that data, you can bet the Government will want a copy (or any other government for that matter, where Google has a presence), and will not hesitate to get their mitts on it. The only way to be sure it doesn't happen, is not to collect the data in the first place.
[15:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Takes Another Step Towards Being Big Brother - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:00] <exec> 08└─Which one should I be more worried about?
[15:37:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Takes Another Step Towards Being Big Brother - 905 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:02] <exec> 08└─This was a small craft beer store. Their "register" was a phone app with a card reader. Hence no cash available. They didn't even mention they didn't accept cash, but I guess they assumed everyone who would visit such an establishment were all "in" to the latest gadget fashion, and would tap their p...
[15:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Takes Another Step Towards Being Big Brother - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:04] <exec> 08└─Germany is full of Muslims that exercise violence and attacks against pretty much everyone else. Out of the ashes into the fire..
[15:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Takes Another Step Towards Being Big Brother - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:07] <exec> 08└─While slaves themselves have little value. They care about adding another one. And they might target you with higher prices if they can single you out. Or enforce a filter bubble with products that are bad for you.
[15:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Takes Another Step Towards Being Big Brother - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:09] <exec> 08└─And as publicly reminded a couple of days ago, where I currently am (UK) isn't exactly blossoming with peace, tranquility and goodwill among men, now is it?
[15:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Takes Another Step Towards Being Big Brother - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:11] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't let a little thing like this stop me from getting a beer. Why didn't you give the cash to the cashier or another customer and ask him/her to pay with their own card/phone-bump? Engineers are problem solvers. Or maybe you aren't an engineer?
[15:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Takes Another Step Towards Being Big Brother - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:13] <exec> 08└─I'll bet every ATM does something like that..
[15:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AlphaGo Beats Ke Jie in First Match of Three - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:25] <exec> 08└─On the assumption that the humans are significantly worse than alphago, then this gives an advantage to the human who plays first, as alphago gets to get the upper hand first. abABabABabABabABabABabAB ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ at this point, aA has the advantage, as alphago A has played...
[15:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unanimous SCOTUS Ruling Closes Court-Shopping Loophole for Patent Trolls - 996 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:36] <exec> 08└─If a company can only be sued in the state it is incorporated in, I predict a mass exodus of major high tech companies incorporated in East Texas will re-incorporate elsewhere. Expect a flood. A tsunami. On a more serious note (did you think the previous sentence was serious?), Delaware? Correct me...
[15:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Quants" With Supercomputers Run Wall Street - 1833 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:05] <exec> 08└─About a decade ago, I picked up a book at an airport bookstore called The Drunkard's Walk [wikipedia.org]. It's a fascinating and somewhat entertaining read about randomness, but the big take-home message is how humans are really bad at recognizing the difference between legitimate positive (or nega...
[15:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Quants" With Supercomputers Run Wall Street - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:07] <exec> 08└─Sorry -- I should have said that obviously these graphs predate the biggest advances in the use of quants in the past 15 years or so. It would be interesting to see a similar analysis and whether the quant funds are more consistent in performance.
[15:38:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03UncleSlacky [2859] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Laws Like the French Ban on Emails After Work Saving Us or Burying Our Jobs? - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:44] <exec> 08└─Ironically, North Syria is where you'll find the nearest thing we currently have to an actual socialist economy, Rojava: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[15:38:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are Laws Like the French Ban on Emails After Work Saving Us or Burying Our Jobs? - 676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:45] <exec> 08└─I wonder how this is going to work at global companies like Renault? They also own Nissan which has design centers in Japan (possibly China?) and the USA. Engineering and product testing goes on 24 hours a day (not sure about weekends) as CAD and other engineering data is passed around the time zone...
[15:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are Laws Like the French Ban on Emails After Work Saving Us or Burying Our Jobs? - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:47] <exec> 08└─If it has the word "social" in the name, that should be a clue to you.
[15:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Laws Like the French Ban on Emails After Work Saving Us or Burying Our Jobs? - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:49] <exec> 08└─If it has the word "social" in the name, that should be a clue to you.
[15:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are Laws Like the French Ban on Emails After Work Saving Us or Burying Our Jobs? - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:52] <exec> 08└─I think someone should look into the moderation on your comments. Seems like you get upmodded for the trashiest comments.
[15:39:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lithium-Ion Pioneer Claims 5x Increase in Energy Density - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:38] <exec> 08└─I'm Goodenough, would you marry me?
[15:39:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lithium-Ion Pioneer Claims 5x Increase in Energy Density - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:39] <exec> 08└─His name does make it easy to remember. He has really enabled lithium based chemistries to come to the marketplace. This is why I'm quite excited about this announcement: it may take a few years to commercialize, but I don't think it will fall by the wayside like so many "revolutionary" battery tech...
[15:39:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says New Tesla Autopilot is 'Smooth As Silk' - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:57] <exec> 08└─Better follow test protocols for building and use truthful results [soylentnews.org] .. :P
[15:40:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WannaCry Ransomware Attack Linked to North Korea by Symantec - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:23] <exec> 08└─Yeah. The attribution method is dubious. It contains more NSA code than NK code. This was cobbled together from available parts. Symantec is done, as a trustworthy analyst. Bluecoat aquired them and went private. They peddle for various big gov customers. It's a shame, really.
[15:41:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sir Roger Moore Dies at 89 - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:43] <exec> 08└─...and?
[15:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Can Use Subtitles to Take Over Millions of Devices Running VLC, Kodi, Popcorn Time and Strem - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:36] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qBlPa-9v_M [youtube.com]
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[16:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:44] <exec> 08└─What are the military going to do against civilian suicide bombers exactly?
[16:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:45] <exec> 08└─Nothing, it's security theater. But it makes people feel like the government is "doing something".
[16:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:47] <exec> 08└─Even smarter lady! Now the elections could be suspended, military on the streets to quell any further "terrorists", etc... National Emergency and all that.
[16:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 887 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:50] <exec> 08└─I don't know how smart that is. Smart would be not letting people from these countries in. Smart would be rounding up these vermin and deporting them. Curtailing the freedoms of your own people is not smart, it's authoritarian. Curtailing the freedoms of your own people as a response to some event w...
[16:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:52] <exec> 08└─Terrorism seems to accompany political motives. I'm tired of pretending it is 100% the workings of lunatics. OK, lunatics is a broad term, I'm tired of pretending it is 100% Islam / Muslim / whatever. In 20 or 30 years the enemy will change to the next bogeyman, whatever group provides enough threat...
[16:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:54] <exec> 08└─This will do fuck all to remedy the problem. None of the potential targets of Daesh, especially the UK, have the will to do what is necessary to eliminate Islamic terror, which is to eliminate the terrorists and their sympathizers. All of them. Everywhere. By any means necessary. I repeat, by any me...
[16:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:56] <exec> 08└─eliminate the terrorists and their sympathizers.
[16:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 778 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:59] <exec> 08└─Does plastic explosive go off if it is shot?? I'm sure the bombers will use the best explosives possible so they do not accidentally explode! Perhaps they can't afford to rig a deadman switch and can be shot in the head? Warning to fat people and those with baggy jackets... oh, and never wear a back...
[16:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:01] <exec> 08└─I'm tired of pretending it is 100% Islam / Muslim / whatever.
[16:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:03] <exec> 08└─News flash: dead bodies are not quite mere threats. They are the quite palpable result of threats actually carried out. You are correct that politicians make use of bogeymen, real or imagined, but it this case the bogeyman is very real. It has a name: Salafism. Just ask the Saudis.
[16:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:05] <exec> 08└─> Smart would be not letting people from these countries in. Like that British man who blew himself up at a concert: British officials are starting to piece together a more detailed profile of the 22-year-old man behind Monday's terror attack at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England. The s...
[16:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:07] <exec> 08└─Like that British man who blew himself up at a concert:
[16:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:10] <exec> 08└─In case you weren't paying attention, we're discussing the UK in particular and the generalized world. America's domestic lunacy does not diminish the overwhelming prevalence or Islam in the wonderful world of terror.
[16:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:12] <exec> 08└─But does that give the opposition, were one to appear, the possibility of saying "Under the Conservatives, we've suffered the worst terror attacks since 1320, and all they seem to be able to do about it is to lock the greenhouse door after the cabbages have bolted"?
[16:37:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 945 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:14] <exec> 08└─The Manchester attacker was a single person carrying a bomb. Even if the whole arena would be filled with hundreds of armed guards. Would it have stopped him? Does every guard have a explosives sniffing dog with them? because that is about the only "guard" thing that will make a difference. A lot of...
[16:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:17] <exec> 08└─By any means necessary. Converting to Wahabbism would go a long way toward the goal.
[16:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:19] <exec> 08└─Bombers will use the explosives they can get their hands on. They are reckless and don't care for life.
[16:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:21] <exec> 08└─So how many generations back do we carry out this purge? Just curious where your cut off is for a "real" British/US/French citizen. I'm only the 2nd gen born in my country, do I count?
[16:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:23] <exec> 08└─This attack has all the hallmarks of a James bond style villain using the publics preconceptions to whip up outrage and stoke the fires of war. Innocent kids, little girls figured prominently in the media. Regardless of the true motives, the media spin and focus is sickening. Enough people have said...
[16:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:25] <exec> 08└─If only the native Indians were that smart back in day we wouldn't all those idiotic refugees and immigrants here now.
[16:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:28] <exec> 08└─Like that British man who blew himself up at a concert:
[16:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 907 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:30] <exec> 08└─deporting does no good. Kicking out and locking up citizens does no good. How do you convict somebody of blowing themselves up? How could you possibly find them before they do it? And how do you prove that they were actually going to do it and not just sounding nuts or watching some how to video? (p...
[16:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:32] <exec> 08└─> You mean the son of Libyan refugees? Yes, that one. When deporting/imprisoning/killing people of foreign descent, where shall it end? The House of Windsor is the royal house of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms. The dynasty is of German paternal descent [...]
[16:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:34] <exec> 08└─Why would she suspend them if she's got even more chance of winning now with an even bigger margin. It just resets the clock and keeps he in longer.
[16:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:36] <exec> 08└─Islamic "refugees" [twitter.com] should be here on licence for two generations. Withhold citizenship for members of death cults.
[16:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 669 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:39] <exec> 08└─It is a tough one, some people will not integrate for generations. The answer that you are looking for is that you should not have allowed the parents in the first place. However it is too late for that. You can't deport/incarcerate innocents "just in case" or because of the actions of one man. If y...
[16:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:41] <exec> 08└─That's not what a franchise is...
[16:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 690 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:43] <exec> 08└─Does plastic explosive go off if it is shot?? According to me knowledge, gained entirely from watching Hollywood movies and TV shows, the answer is no: it has to be electrically detonated, usually with a wristwatch. Similarly, I know for a fact that a car will automatically explode any time it rolls...
[16:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:45] <exec> 08└─Thats exactly the point. There is no opposition, so everyone knows it would be worse without them in charge.
[16:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:47] <exec> 08└─I'm sure if you are a descendant from a country that subscribe to western values it won't become a big issue.
[16:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:50] <exec> 08└─I'm the son of a non-citizen resident alien of my country. I'm the grandson of immigrants.
[16:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:52] <exec> 08└─Withhold citizenship for members of death cults. I like this idea. We should do it in the US. However, it would be hard to achieve politically, because that would cause I'm guessing about 70% of the citizenry to be stripped of their citizenship, including most politicians, since so much of the US is...
[16:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 910 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:54] <exec> 08└─> It's time to focus on the source of these problems! You mean like the countries who engage in wars in the middle east? Overthrowing governments, invading, and bombing? I seem to remember reading that 500,000 Iraqi civilians have died since the invasion in the early 2000's. Libya was ruled by an au...
[16:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:56] <exec> 08└─There's always a boogieman such that security services always will be needed. Be it the Nazis, Soviet or Muslims. It's not they are not bad. It just happens to always show up when the previous one disappeared..
[16:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 780 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:58] <exec> 08└─Stop letting terrorists WIN and they'll stop. If nobody pays attention to them then their whole motive goes away. This is an extreme adult version of a child having tantrums to get it's way. I'm sorry, this one is just stupid. You can't convince the population to just ignore a mass bombing where do...
[16:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:01] <exec> 08└─While it's true that's a good idea in the long-term, it's not going to do anything about the current generation of terrorists who hate us.
[16:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:03] <exec> 08└─BAN 'EM! MAKE A LAW! SOMEONE SHOULD MAKE A FUCKING LAW!
[16:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:05] <exec> 08└─I can't imagine the USA being smart enough to delay elections
[16:38:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Takes Another Step Towards Being Big Brother - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:29] <exec> 08└─Matter of principle. It was an example of me taking my money elsewhere. In this case, exactly over the street to another craft beer store, that accepted cash. So I rewarded their competition with my patronage. I still got my beer, walking across the street wasn't a big deal for it. Yes, if there was...
[16:38:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Weasley [6421] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Takes Another Step Towards Being Big Brother - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:30] <exec> 08└─How can this information be so valuable? I ignore 99% of advertising.
[16:38:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Takes Another Step Towards Being Big Brother - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:32] <exec> 08└─Government motive: The government cares deeply about each individual and they want all the details of my life to analyze whether I may be committing thoughtcrime. Speaking ill of the Dear Leader. Etc.
[16:38:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Takes Another Step Towards Being Big Brother - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:34] <exec> 08└─Thankfully the Germans seem to have brains, and are pretty much a cash heavy society and pro privacy. If things continue in the direction they are heading, I may end up moving there (not knowing German and finding a job are the stickers right now).
[16:38:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Takes Another Step Towards Being Big Brother - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:36] <exec> 08└─How can this information be so valuable? I ignore 99% of advertising.
[16:38:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Takes Another Step Towards Being Big Brother - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:39] <exec> 08└─Understood. It's the clerk at the first pub that wasn't an engineer (problem solver). He/she could have offered to take your cash and put it on their personal card, or another work-around.
[16:38:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Google Takes Another Step Towards Being Big Brother - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:41] <exec> 08└─It was only when I pointed out to them that cash is legal tender and that they can't refuse it
[16:38:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Takes Another Step Towards Being Big Brother - 826 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:43] <exec> 08└─Lol, good to know. I always have the exact amount ready. I pre-calculate the cost, and while in line I prep cash and change, so that when it comes to my turn I just hand over the money and transaction completes successfully. If I don't have exact amount I usually let them keep the difference. Quite...
[16:38:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Takes Another Step Towards Being Big Brother - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:45] <exec> 08└─The only thing that will change is the shit that currently occupies the White House not that it is shit :p Pay attention to everything that will be a hindrance for you to change your circumstances.
[16:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Google Takes Another Step Towards Being Big Brother - 957 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:48] <exec> 08└─Yes, this is exactly right. Parent post is not exaggerating in the slightest, and nor am I. I went to Munich earlier this year and was surprised to find that instead of warm hospitality, ancient architecture and smiling drindl-clad Fraulien serving fine bier and traditional fare in beautiful surroun...
[16:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Takes Another Step Towards Being Big Brother - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:50] <exec> 08└─Pay attention to everything that will be a hindrance for you to change your circumstances.
[16:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AlphaGo Beats Ke Jie in First Match of Three - 1291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:01] <exec> 08└─On one hand - good! Ever since Deep Blue, the Go world has had a supercilious attitude that somehow Go was the kind of game that could never be dominated by AIs, as the game and move space was too large for any computer that could ever exist to be able to explore to any depth. So my schadenfreud lob...
[16:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unanimous SCOTUS Ruling Closes Court-Shopping Loophole for Patent Trolls - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:14] <exec> 08└─You must file suit against a company in the juirisidction they are incorporated in, not just one they do business in.
[16:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unanimous SCOTUS Ruling Closes Court-Shopping Loophole for Patent Trolls - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:15] <exec> 08└─SCOTUS is pointing out that there are two standards in law, and that the stricter one should be used when filing patent lawsuits, not the looser one, as had been the case since a prior non-SCOTUS decision. The fundamental rationale is that you're not taking Grandma to Delaware when she gets beaten u...
[16:39:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unanimous SCOTUS Ruling Closes Court-Shopping Loophole for Patent Trolls - 752 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:17] <exec> 08└─Well, that's one reason corporations choose Delaware. But in general, there's a lot of reasons why corporations choose Delaware, not least of which is because there's such a long history now of corporations in Delaware that corporate law there is significantly more developed (with a lot more precede...
[16:39:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Technician says Concerns about Test Results Got Him Fired - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:34] <exec> 08└─Yeah it doesn't add up. He is a trouble maker to say they least. Most likely he is a big talker, with an embellished idea about his own capabilities. He got exactly what he deserved. As a manager, if one person was causing trouble among the ranks of my underlings, that guy would be gone.
[16:39:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Technician says Concerns about Test Results Got Him Fired - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:36] <exec> 08└─So this guy, a technician, is 'sure' that the engineers, all of them, are providing falsified test results. And his coworkers are doing it too. As such, he started altering procedures and falsifying test results in order to 'meet quota', because 'everyone has to be doing it'. He even went as far as...
[16:39:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Technician says Concerns about Test Results Got Him Fired - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:38] <exec> 08└─It's also possible that he's language lawyering the test procedures and considering them invalid because they aren't being done exactly according to his odd interpretation of the written procedure.
[16:39:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Quants" With Supercomputers Run Wall Street - 752 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:53] <exec> 08└─This is the major question in my mind. For the home investor robo-advisors are the closest parallel, and they do minimize one of the few controllable aspects: the management price. I cannot comment on the performance of my Fidelity Go account beyond in the last four months is has performed slightly...
[16:40:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WHO Spends More on Travel Than on AIDS, Malaria - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:54] <exec> 08└─Money generally gets soaked up by ever-expanding administration and bureaucracy. Pournelle's Iron Law. This is one of the primary arguments for keeping government and governmental organizations as small as possible. Even better would be to elimiate and replace them on a regular basis.
[16:40:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WHO Spends More on Travel Than on AIDS, Malaria - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:56] <exec> 08└─Which would be true and massively misleading.
[16:42:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WannaCry Ransomware Attack Linked to North Korea by Symantec - 847 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:08] <exec> 08└─Conventional bombing and incendiaries - under the direction of Curtis LeMay - wiped out 20% of the civilian population of the Korean peninsula. This is a war crime, unfortunately not without parallel, but still in the greatest order of magnitude. The USA is no better than Stalin's USSR in this regar...
[16:42:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WannaCry Ransomware Attack Linked to North Korea by Symantec - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:10] <exec> 08└─You may be thinking of Tokyo. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Kyoto was considered as an A-bomb recipient but lost out. https://www.quora.com [quora.com]
[16:42:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WannaCry Ransomware Attack Linked to North Korea by Symantec - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:12] <exec> 08└─The elites have cell phones and computers. It's shocking how little americans know about north korea. Which absolutely is a massive threat and who we will probably go to war with. The irony is that the people first to say "well we don't know what's REALLY going on over there" over and over in an ef...
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[17:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:09] <exec> 08└─By all means, please do.
[17:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:11] <exec> 08└─TSA is security theater. European military guys with automatic weapons have already stopped a few assholes, as in Paris (Louvre, Champs Elysees, Airport). If you're gonna pay them to train for a conventional war which isn't tomorrow, you might as well make them do something useful.
[17:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 2038 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:13] <exec> 08└─The McVeigh incident was over 20 years ago, and there haven't been any similar incidents since then. The other thing that's different is the suicide factor: I don't know of *any* instances of suicide bombing in the last half-century that were by non-Muslim extremists. There's been non-Muslim terrori...
[17:37:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:15] <exec> 08└─USA could not allow Saddam to sell the oil in Euro instead of Dollars which would have undermined the Dollar currency "petrodollar". So they achieved two goals. They got Iraq back on petrodollar and sent a warning to anyone else trying the same. If you want to save kids in the middle east then you h...
[17:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:18] <exec> 08└─It is a big deal, but it doesn't justify retribution on anyone besides the perpetrators. Leverage the entire UN military might agaisny any suspected conspirators, watch the assholes crumble. This dream only works if we do NOT persecute entire nations or ethnic / religious groups for the sins of a fe...
[17:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 921 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:20] <exec> 08└─Obviously mistakes were made in the past, like letting his parents into the country, granting automatic citizenship to anyone born in your country, etc. All these are counter to self-preservation of you and your culture. As a first generation immigrant I feel the pull of my homeland everyday. It's n...
[17:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:22] <exec> 08└─The tsa is intended to disrupt the planning phase of a terrorist attack. It serves an ulterior purpose of keeping the public scared and used to invasive authoritarianism. Nobody has any interest in keeping the public safe feeling. Please remember that.
[17:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 1603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:24] <exec> 08└─Well, I think it would help. Take this guy in Manchester, he was 22. The crap in Libya started in 2011, 6 years ago, so he would have been 16, a relatively impressionable age. During that time he would watch his country of birth attack his country of origin and turn it into a hell hole. He may well...
[17:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:27] <exec> 08└─The son of a diseased bitch was not British. He was a fucking camel jockey, sired by a camel, and thrown by a dog. Kindly pull your head out of your ass. Islamic is not British, British is not Islamic. And, fuck a whole bunch of progressivism, liberalism, and whatever else makes you think that a cam...
[17:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:29] <exec> 08└─The younger brother to the attacker has been arrested in Tripoli, Libya by anti-terrorist forces. He's suspected of collaboration with IS. Now the spooky thing is that the attacker came from Libya to Manchester after a visit just a few days ago. Just a coincidence?
[17:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:31] <exec> 08└─Mythbusters tried it. Even high velocity rounds don't do anything.
[17:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:33] <exec> 08└─..is that you should not have allowed the parents in the first place
[17:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 889 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:36] <exec> 08└─No, but you can start with the news ignoring every single asshole who threatens the West when he has a bad harem day. Stop talking about every battle in Iraq/Syria as if the fundamentalists mattered, and disconnect them from the internet faster, including no propaganda videos on bloody Youtube. Don'...
[17:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:38] <exec> 08└─Gaddafi threatened with state sponsored terrorism. That is part of why the regime were broken. Another is that the people would elect a sane leader.. It might be harsh but it might be a good idea to deny entry to people with a risk profile of dual loyalties.
[17:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:40] <exec> 08└─You are full of shit. No one was out celebrating what that cretin did. Every American condemned his acts. The line of Christian men to put that SOB down would stretch the length of the country. Everyone knows what he did was wrong and unacceptable by any Western moral standard. Yet there are thousan...
[17:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:42] <exec> 08└─What you have to start doing is adopting a policy of going after the families of suicide bombers. A drone strike right to their home.
[17:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:45] <exec> 08└─Hey, dumbass. Muslims have been killing Christians, atheists, Hindus, animists, queers, adultresses, ugly people, beautiful people, and random other Muslims for about 1400 years now. Dafuq makes you think anything is going to change in the next 20 years? Try to wrap your mind around this simple fact...
[17:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:47] <exec> 08└─Oh no most of these true believers would flip the second they were immersed in a culture that ridiculed their stone age beliefs. Most of the rest are only christian because they believe being so will carry some sort of reward. The rest are such a small number of people.. tell me how often you meet a...
[17:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 758 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:49] <exec> 08└─I hate to admit it but I've met plenty of people who don't really like america but they think that there is something waiting here for them. I honestly don't think it does much good to let people in the country who don't like us. Fuck them if their country is a shithole and watch me not even give a...
[17:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 1741 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:51] <exec> 08└─^ That, exactly! ^ Once again, I'll try to explain that Muslims are tribalists. Everything they do is calculated to enrich a. themselves b. their immediate family c. the tribe d. there is no d. Everything is calculated on the basis of enriching self, family tribe - everything. If the commission of a...
[17:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:54] <exec> 08└─The tsa is intended to disrupt the planning phase of a terrorist attack.
[17:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:56] <exec> 08└─Gaddafi threatened with state sponsored terrorism. That is part of why the regime were broken. Another is that the people would elect a sane leader..
[17:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:58] <exec> 08└─Obviously mistakes were made in the past, like letting his parents into the country, granting automatic citizenship to anyone born in your country, etc.
[17:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 1823 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:00] <exec> 08└─I agree that you can't just ignore these things. BUT I do think we also need to seriously consider media culpability in encouraging terrorist events. For example, we've seen a number of "terrorist" incidents in the past few years that seem to fall under the "depressed loner" category, e.g., Muslim g...
[17:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 884 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:03] <exec> 08└─Uhhhhh - not exactly. Colonel Khadaffi engaged in very little terrorism, throughout his life. What he DID do, was to reward terrorists, and/or their families with cash rewards. He also talked smack to the US/UK, and he had delusions of grandeur regarding his military prowess. To the best of my knowl...
[17:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:05] <exec> 08└─No need to convert explicitly, Wahhabism just got reinforcements to the tune of a mere 110 billion dollars.
[17:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:07] <exec> 08└─You can't deport/incarcerate innocents "just in case" or because of the actions of one man.
[17:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:09] <exec> 08└─> How could you possibly find them before they do it? Perhaps some sort of search of people as they enter concerts, sporting matches and the like?
[17:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:12] <exec> 08└─Some of them are so stable, they can be shot, and otherwise abused, and they won't explode. The most (in)famous plastic explosive, C-4, is detonated with blasting caps. Others are only detonated with an electrical charge. But, that's really all beside the point. Mankind has been making explosives fo...
[17:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03fliptop [1666] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:14] <exec> 08└─In the U.S. we have this thing where politicians don't get to decide when to hold elections to benefit them the most
[17:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 722 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:16] <exec> 08└─Are you a raghead? Do you think in tribal terms? Are you Muslim? Do you insist on Sharia law in your adopted country? If you answer "yes" to one or more of those questions, then we probably don't need or want you in the west. If you answered "no" to all of those questions, then you have little to wo...
[17:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Takes Another Step Towards Being Big Brother - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:53] <exec> 08└─Be thankful you're far from the horrible "carnage" going on in Chicago, 228 shootings in 2017 with 42 killings (up 24% from 2016).
[17:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Takes Another Step Towards Being Big Brother - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:54] <exec> 08└─Government motive: The government cares deeply about each individual
[17:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bootsy [3440] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Takes Another Step Towards Being Big Brother - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:56] <exec> 08└─In the UK this is termed an "Invitation to Treat". The shop is offering you the chance to offer a trade with them but they can still say no. Unless you can prove they are discriminating against you due to race, sex, disability, sexual orientation etc then they are allowed to refuse to sell to you if...
[17:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Takes Another Step Towards Being Big Brother - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:58] <exec> 08└─Fundamentally in the EU the government and agencies already have the data, so if they have a problem with this, it is more because they don't want Google competing with them. You are still stuck with the same problem, if not a worse one.
[17:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Takes Another Step Towards Being Big Brother - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:01] <exec> 08└─In my country, the US, the one branch of government that does care, and actually LISTENS to the citizens is: the NSA.
[17:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Takes Another Step Towards Being Big Brother - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:03] <exec> 08└─Warm winter? How many were within 3 miles of State & 95th? There are two Chicago: one is a nice -if crowded- big city with shops and life, the other is a 3rd-world wasteland of poverty with active gang wars.
[17:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Takes Another Step Towards Being Big Brother - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:05] <exec> 08└─I am saying that if they want to, they can get access to that data from the banks. As for location, there are enough CCTV cameras around here that the pretty much know where I have been every single day, at what time, so yes, they are. I suspect it varies by government. I get the impression the Germ...
[17:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AlphaGo Beats Ke Jie in First Match of Three - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:17] <exec> 08└─In chess generally two players are not much, if at all, better than the strongest of the two independently. I'd imagine this is even more true in Go where short term sharp tactical situations (where 'blindness' can become a factor) don't play such a major role.
[17:40:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Quants" With Supercomputers Run Wall Street - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:08] <exec> 08└─Eventually, the billionaires may let the cleanest of us touch the warm datacenter watercooling pipes, in the heart of winter. Trickle-down warmth, they'll call it.
[17:40:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Quants" With Supercomputers Run Wall Street - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:09] <exec> 08└─Sounds great, they will even provide trickle down food in the form of a wide variation menu inside the trickle down garbage bag ;)
[17:40:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Quants" With Supercomputers Run Wall Street - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:11] <exec> 08└─The trickle-down garbage bag will definitely improve in quality, after they replace the guard dogs with armed drones.
[17:40:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are Laws Like the French Ban on Emails After Work Saving Us or Burying Our Jobs? - 1088 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:53] <exec> 08└─I maintain a strict policy of reciprocity: - The company treats me well? I treat it well! - The company shows flexibility when dealing with me? I am flexible when the company asks me to! - The company gives you 2 weeks when they fire you? I will give it two weeks when I quit! - The company is reason...
[17:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WannaCry Ransomware Attack Linked to North Korea by Symantec - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:29] <exec> 08└─Yes, you're right. Tokyo. And Ira C Whittaker was LeMay's strategist, responsible for targets and methods in WWI.
[17:43:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sir Roger Moore Dies at 89 - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:51] <exec> 08└─It's true, he was generally known as a really decent human being. We could use a few more of those if you ask me.
[17:43:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03oldmac31310 [4521] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Sir Roger Moore Dies at 89 - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:53] <exec> 08└─Definitely not Bond though.
[17:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Co-founder: I’m Sorry if We Made Trump’s Presidency Possible - 1150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:09] <exec> 08└─And it seems that Twitter may be giving Sean Hannity an outlet for his self-destructive tendencies. From last nite: Liberal Fascism. Mmfa is targeting my advertisers to silence my voice. They hope to get me fired. Rush, O'Reilly, Beck, Imus, & now me. — Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) M...
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[18:36:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 98 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:56] <exec> 08└─Nothing, it's security theater. But it makes people feel like the government is "doing something".
[18:37:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 311 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:26] <exec> 08└─Withhold citizenship for members of death cults. I like this idea. We should do it in the US. However, it would be hard to achieve politically, because that would cause I'm guessing about 70% of the citizenry to be stripped of their citizenship, including most politicians, since so much of the US is...
[18:37:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 68 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:44] <exec> 08└─..is that you should not have allowed the parents in the first place
[18:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:06] <exec> 08└─"There's no reason whatsoever" Incompatible religious beliefs. Muslims believe the only proper thing to do with infidels, is to kill them.
[18:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:08] <exec> 08└─Awful lot of Baby-Boomers who are guilty of slavery by that standard....
[18:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:10] <exec> 08└─Saxons out of England! And take those darn Angles with you! Briton for Britons!
[18:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:12] <exec> 08└─the parents are kindly, community-minded people
[18:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:14] <exec> 08└─Runaway, you ignorant slut! This: Muslims believe the only proper thing to do with infidels, is to kill them.
[18:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:17] <exec> 08└─So how many generations back do we carry out this purge?
[18:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:19] <exec> 08└─There's been non-Muslim terrorism in the US and UK, sure: McVeigh in the US, and the IRA stuff in the UK, both ending over 2 decades ago I believe.
[18:38:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:21] <exec> 08└─Some sulfur, some saltpeter, and some charcoal, are all you need to make an explosive.
[18:38:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:23] <exec> 08└─Once again, I'll try to explain that Muslims are tribalists.
[18:38:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:26] <exec> 08└─No, I'm not hanging with Flynn. Instead, I read the Quran. Infidels are good for raping, taxing, killing, and enslaving. There is no other use for a nonbeliever. Go, read it for yourself.
[18:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:28] <exec> 08└─> You can't purge without killing unless you have somewhere to put these people. I hear they regularly clear up some space in Gaza.
[18:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:30] <exec> 08└─Hillary, is that you?
[18:38:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:32] <exec> 08└─"You can't deport/incarcerate innocents "just in case"" We have plenty of historical examples that say you really can do that. In fact, Muslims are quite good at doing that very thing: http://www.history.com [history.com]
[18:38:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:34] <exec> 08└─Okay, on an individual community level there are probably exceptions. It would be news to me if anybody was doing it state-level and above.
[18:38:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 2445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:37] <exec> 08└─Well, this all is pretty much what happened in my original timeline. Elections in many democracies were suspended in 2019 and 2020 following martial law as all hell broke loose. Of course I say that ironically, because that hell is a kind of hell that humanity has lived through many times before. Th...
[18:38:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:39] <exec> 08└─"we have to do something, this is something, therefore we have to do this"
[18:38:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:41] <exec> 08└─Colonel Gaddafi accepted Libya's responsibility for the Lockerbie bombing and paid compensation to the victims' families in 2003. However, he has never admitted personally giving the order for the attack.
[18:38:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 1362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:43] <exec> 08└─Yes, because never in the course of human history has a "tribe" responded to escalating violence with its own escalation of violence, rather than just deferential submission. [rolls eyes] You're thinking about this as if suicide bombers were "soldiers" taking "orders" in some sort of "war." In that...
[18:38:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:46] <exec> 08└─purpose of keeping the public scared Not unlike like terrorism.
[18:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:48] <exec> 08└─Except this incident https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org], where Libyan intelligence apparatus had its filthy hands all over it. Yeah I'm half and half on Khadafy. One one hand he was a total schmuck, on the other his constituents deserve no better, and in fact cannot deal...
[18:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:50] <exec> 08└─A clarification: Military personnel are replacing those armed police who's duties are guarding buildings, such as Buckingham Palace for example. The armed police are then redeployed to city centre patrols or wherever. (For those in the USA: remember that a small proportion of UK police carry firearm...
[18:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:52] <exec> 08└─The Joe Cox murder was the only non-islamic UK act of terrorism that resulted in death for the last two decades. [twitter.com] I'm also unaware of any of the other groups you mention being involved in industrial scale child rape.
[18:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:54] <exec> 08└─Yes, some he-said, she-said to reinforce a particular point of view. But, Agdel-Jalil doesn't even describe his "proof", let alone share the "proof". Accepting responsibility isn't quite the same as ordering and supplying the operation, of course. I can't know what actually happened, any more than a...
[18:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:57] <exec> 08└─Surah 4 An-Nisa, Ayat 29 (وَلَا تَقۡتُلُوۡۤا اَنۡـفُسَكُمۡؕ اِنَّ اللّٰهَ كَانَ بِكُمۡ رَحِيۡمًا‏ ﴿4:29 Truly, you are an idiot, Runaway, and easily mislead.
[18:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:59] <exec> 08└─Don't say that, the Angles might come to Anglesey [wikipedia.org] by mistake!
[18:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:01] <exec> 08└─Your ideas are not without precedent. Australia is very cautious about admitting refugees.
[18:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:03] <exec> 08└─No need to convert explicitly, Wahhabism just got reinforcements to the tune of a mere 110 billion dollars. Whoever signed that deal should go straight to jail.
[18:39:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:06] <exec> 08└─You realize, of course, that most Muslims don't truly follow the Quran, right? When you say "Muslims believe X" and use the Quran as evidence that they believe X, you're utterly failing to take into account different interpretations of the Quran or that many Muslims just outright ignore it while pre...
[18:39:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Takes Another Step Towards Being Big Brother - 2317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:47] <exec> 08└─*that there* ! ! ! there is the nub of the rub right that there: WE mere human beans who -as 'masters'- this technology is SUPPOSED to serve, end up being the ones who have to 'work around' the shortcomings of a system that doesn't give a shit about what human beans want, ONLY what superior-beings,...
[18:39:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Takes Another Step Towards Being Big Brother - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:48] <exec> 08└─Looks like it's time for a new law, then. I'm sure the US government, which desperately wants access to as much data about us as possible, will get right on that.
[18:40:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AlphaGo Beats Ke Jie in First Match of Three - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:02] <exec> 08└─...where's my two hundred dollars ? ? ?
[18:40:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AlphaGo Beats Ke Jie in First Match of Three - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:04] <exec> 08└─You can pick up your Universal Basic Income check in Alaska.
[18:40:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Technician says Concerns about Test Results Got Him Fired - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:38] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't describe this as "insisted" though...
[18:40:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Technician says Concerns about Test Results Got Him Fired - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:40] <exec> 08└─But not too disruptive. Do not question the cult of the Musky anus.
[18:41:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Are Laws Like the French Ban on Emails After Work Saving Us or Burying Our Jobs? - 1622 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:25] <exec> 08└─Here's my advice for a happy work life. Your mileage may vary. If you can honestly excel at something, then do so and demand excellent compensation and conditions in return for excellent performance. The conditions you set should include reasonable accommodation of your lifestyle. Because my desires...
[18:41:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Laws Like the French Ban on Emails After Work Saving Us or Burying Our Jobs? - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:43] <exec> 08└─Name a nation that mandated that workers control the means of production without, and this is important, taking that job over itself. Why? That's like arguing the definition of "Scottish" because you can't name a Scottish guy who's been the President of the US. Being president isn't required to be S...
[18:42:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Lithium-Ion Pioneer Claims 5x Increase in Energy Density - 1385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:35] <exec> 08└─Why you gotta hate on Mechanical Engineers? We take chemistry classes too; and unlike physicists [xkcd.com] we'll give you the benefit of the doubt that you actually know what you're doing and talking about. For what it's worth, electroplating of metals is a significant portion of the study of corro...
[18:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lithium-Ion Pioneer Claims 5x Increase in Energy Density - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:37] <exec> 08└─Also, why would you go to a Professor of Mechanical Engineering to ask about Electrochemistry?
[18:42:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Lithium-Ion Pioneer Claims 5x Increase in Energy Density - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:39] <exec> 08└─Moderated you up, especially for the link to Steingart's analysis. You must admit, though, at first sight, mechanical engineering doesn't immediately appear relevant to electrochemistry: but I take your point about corrosion etc. The reproducibility with different redox centres (S, MnO2, Fe(CN)4-) a...
[18:42:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03vux984 [5045] 02 - 06Elon Musk Says New Tesla Autopilot is 'Smooth As Silk' - 107 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:50] <exec> 08└─it is a step. a step towards automation a step towards acceptance of automation a step towards fewer deaths
[18:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WannaCry Ransomware Attack Linked to North Korea by Symantec - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:27] <exec> 08└─Its still unbelievable to me that these organizations tried to push a "fake news" meme.
[18:48:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Co-founder: I’m Sorry if We Made Trump’s Presidency Possible - 1012 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:09] <exec> 08└─Just because something is downvoted hardly means it or the person speaking is a "bad apple." Most social media sites trend towards becoming hiveminds and aggressively downvote anything that goes against their own biases, aggressively upvote anything that confirms them. The only behavior stronger tha...
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[19:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Plan to Sell Oil Reserve Shows Declining Import Needs - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:35] <exec> 08└─By selling off critical resources? Seems a bandaid, not a good idea.
[19:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Plan to Sell Oil Reserve Shows Declining Import Needs - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:37] <exec> 08└─It's clear Trump wants the Saudis to do a whole lot more in the Middle East to crush ISIS militarily, and "drive out" the extremists. This is one way of telling the Saudis "Otherwise, I'm going to see to it that we destroy your major source of wealth."
[19:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Plan to Sell Oil Reserve Shows Declining Import Needs - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:39] <exec> 08└─A release of half the SPR over 10 years equals about 95,000 barrels per day (bpd), or 1 percent of current U.S. output.
[19:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Plan to Sell Oil Reserve Shows Declining Import Needs - 1943 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:41] <exec> 08└─Are they critical? The Carbon Bubble has already happened. Solar started beating new coal contracts some time ago. We're complete fucking morons for doubling down on coal and oil in the first place. Militarily speaking we need less because we've figured out how to use nukes to power our biggest craf...
[19:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Plan to Sell Oil Reserve Shows Declining Import Needs - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:43] <exec> 08└─The Trump administration[...] is drafting plans to privatize some public assets such as airports, bridges, highway rest stops and other facilities [...]
[19:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Plan to Sell Oil Reserve Shows Declining Import Needs - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:46] <exec> 08└─It takes time (oh, say, ten years) to set up the infrastructure for the smooth selling of large-scale resources. Also, it shows a willingness to use the reserves—and that's in addition to normal U.S. output. If anything, it signals that the U.S. is going to move away from fossil fuels—sooner or...
[19:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Plan to Sell Oil Reserve Shows Declining Import Needs - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:48] <exec> 08└─If a "private" organization does poorly, it loses money and eventually has its assets placed into more capable hands. In contrast, if a government does poorly, it demands more money (under penalty of violence) and eventually usurps authority over what was once "private".
[19:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06U.S. Plan to Sell Oil Reserve Shows Declining Import Needs - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:50] <exec> 08└─Like what happened with the banks? got it privatize the profits socialize the risk, this is what happens every time you contract out critical functions private entities, they badly and in most cases deliberately bungle everything run up huge debts and leave the public holding the bag every time.
[19:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03tizan [3245] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Plan to Sell Oil Reserve Shows Declining Import Needs - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:52] <exec> 08└─The problem is they will sell all the profitable airports and leave the non-profitable ones with the gubernmint....making the whole government worse. So it is not free market at all.....the friends of the politicians are lobbying to get the goodies...if market force is allowed to run such infrastruc...
[19:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Plan to Sell Oil Reserve Shows Declining Import Needs - 847 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:54] <exec> 08└─The Saudis are looking at diversifying, because their last attempt at crashing oil prices to bankrupt US fracking/Tar Sands/Iran, did cost them a bit too much, internally. and they see the progress from renewables. The US selling reserves depresses prices a bit, which goes the same way (against Iran...
[19:39:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Takes Another Step Towards Being Big Brother - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:34] <exec> 08└─It was only when I pointed out to them that cash is legal tender and that they can't refuse it,
[19:39:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Takes Another Step Towards Being Big Brother - 699 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:36] <exec> 08└─Bingo! The easiest marks are the people who think they are immune to the con because they don't think they need to protect against the con. Targeted marketing is not about connecting people with products that they already want. Its about manipulating them into buying the products the marketer has be...
[19:40:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Technician says Concerns about Test Results Got Him Fired - 967 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:28] <exec> 08└─My complaint was that we weren't testing our hardware RAID controllers in the same configuration as the customers used them. This was during apple's gradual migration to 64-but. Command-line programs could be 64-bit, but the kernel was 32-bit, with some Apple Voodoo to transform the system calls. Ou...
[19:40:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06"Quants" With Supercomputers Run Wall Street - 862 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:48] <exec> 08└─-al. I used to be a quant, for a year and a half. My client had written for him a license to print money. by the time I hired on, after ten years of operation, their "bankroll" - a term of art - had grown to $200,000,000.00. The work I did for them enabled to print money twice as fast. For years I g...
[19:40:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Quants" With Supercomputers Run Wall Street - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:49] <exec> 08└─he traded a basket of about 1000 commodities on the Chicago board of trade. Before he started quantitative investment he owned a computer store. In ten years his private - only him - fund grew to $200,000,000.00. It's impossible for humans to time the market, but all that's required for computers to...
[19:40:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Quants" With Supercomputers Run Wall Street - 656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:51] <exec> 08└─>how many of these Quant funds have shown an ability to outperform the S&P 500 index, or perhaps the Nasdaq index, over 5 or 10 years? Of the Quant funds that have been around over 5 or 10 years, nearly all of them. If they could do better by investing on an index strategy, they would. Instead, they...
[19:41:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Laws Like the French Ban on Emails After Work Saving Us or Burying Our Jobs? - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:35] <exec> 08└─We don't police moderations except to see that mod-bombs don't happen and Spam isn't abused. Would you like us to? Bearing in mind I'm almost always the one doing what little policing we actually do, unless it involves me. Myself, I'd rather trust our widely varied community to work it out in the en...
[19:41:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Laws Like the French Ban on Emails After Work Saving Us or Burying Our Jobs? - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:36] <exec> 08└─The government not taking over control of means of production is, however, necessary to distinguish communism from socialism. Unless you think they're the same?
[19:41:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Laws Like the French Ban on Emails After Work Saving Us or Burying Our Jobs? - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:39] <exec> 08└─For most of its history, yes. We've preferred individual liberty over the illusion of collective security.
[19:41:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Laws Like the French Ban on Emails After Work Saving Us or Burying Our Jobs? - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:41] <exec> 08└─Most of the time I've been a contract programmer, I never really could leave work. I ended up in the emergency room, hallucinating police everywhere. Presently I use thunderbird and POP for my work mail, with a web browser and gmail for my work mail. By consciously deciding not to launch thunderbird...
[19:42:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says New Tesla Autopilot is 'Smooth As Silk' - 2429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:52] <exec> 08└─Say whatever the fuck you want, but I'm never getting in the fuckers. Elon Musk is just like the rest, only cares about profit, fuck the users, fuck the people, where's my fucking money!? No. I don't trust people anymore. You can't trust science either with the data or reproducibility. You can't tru...
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[20:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:40] <exec> 08└─" They suggest the reason that women choose to drop out or to change majors is because many such environments are unfriendly, or even hostile to female students. Quite often, female students are made to feel as if they do not belong. "
[20:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Plan to Sell Oil Reserve Shows Declining Import Needs - 2710 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:57] <exec> 08└─No one has much of an answer here other than WTF and symptoms of Trump Derangement Syndrome. I'll give it a try. The purpose of a SPR or any SR is to remove supply as a military and diplomatic constraint. Setting up the SPR is actually a pretty good application of 1940s military thinking to 1970s pr...
[20:37:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03butthurt [6141] 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 459 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:24] <exec> 08└─> Smart would be not letting people from these countries in. Like that British man who blew himself up at a concert: British officials are starting to piece together a more detailed profile of the 22-year-old man behind Monday's terror attack at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England. The s...
[20:39:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Takes Another Step Towards Being Big Brother - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:39] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure what country you're in, but in my country we can speak ill of the evil|stupid|corrupt dickheads who may be in office at the moment.
[20:40:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Quants" With Supercomputers Run Wall Street - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:53] <exec> 08└─The problem will come when the Billionaires start writing the rules, making laws as they see fit, deciding who gets medical care, who gets to have children, who gets to live past a certain age, oh.... wait.....
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[21:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:15] <exec> 08└─Even the ugly ones get loads of attention and offers of help from dick-kneading shut-ins who pop boners at even the slightest whiff of floral shampoo
[21:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 1358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:17] <exec> 08└─There's a shortage of female mentors because there's been a shortage of female students. There's been a shortage of female students because we said there's supposed to be. By said, I mean we've had this narrative marketed to us by advertisers. WRT CS, the percentage of women started to crater in the...
[21:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:19] <exec> 08└─Please, the "green-tea bitches" only use the poor guys, they never actually pay-up what they themselves implicitly offer. This is classic manipulation, and I seen it time and again. Luckily for me I was 100% immune to the BS.... ok 95%, but I'm only a man so you must forgive me. Regardless, the stud...
[21:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:21] <exec> 08└─How about a male mentor in drag? Or maybe just a wig? I think we need some improved ethical surrogacy experiments [uoregon.edu] on this.
[21:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:23] <exec> 08└─Luckily for me I was 100% immune to the BS.... ok 95%
[21:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:26] <exec> 08└─Nobody said the girls are asking for the attention, but it's a fact that they get it... My question is how many girls equipped with the right mindset for engineering would not want a woman as mentor, just because it is explicitly a sexist comment on their ability to persevere.
[21:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 1419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:28] <exec> 08└─You guys are reading it all wrong. All it means is Stockholm Syndrome is stronger when the victims share an identity. Lets be victims together is always going to sell better than let me be a martyr by myself. Something fairly obvious is you assign mixed couples in a corporate environment and HR is g...
[21:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 785 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:30] <exec> 08└─As someone hiring, there's a lack of *skilled* STEM people. There's plenty of people who can answer phones and do basic troubleshooting, but hard stuff, or stuff that takes a long time to learn, well that's where we need people. I can tell you that I would never knowingly hire someone with such a to...
[21:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 1207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:32] <exec> 08└─This is a horribly done paper with massive failures in it's methodology. Worst of all offenses is that the author makes no effort to eliminate bias in the selection of mentors and educational institutions. For all we know, a single professor could single-handedly have accounted for the entire observ...
[21:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:35] <exec> 08└─Please, the "green-tea bitches" only use the poor guys, they never actually pay-up what they themselves implicitly offer. This is classic manipulation, and I seen it time and again.
[21:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:37] <exec> 08└─Make CS more personal and collaborative and you'll see more women return.
[21:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:39] <exec> 08└─There's your feeding for the day, troll.
[21:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:41] <exec> 08└─There's a shortage of female mentors because there's been a shortage of female students
[21:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:43] <exec> 08└─Probably true, but the point of an education is not to find employment. Whether or not there are jobs in CS after you graduate is orthogonal to moving the field forward, which is the project of academia. I'm not really concerned about the private sector side of things. Which is why university should...
[21:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:46] <exec> 08└─I'm going to disagree for a change. I think the effect observed is not only plausible but pretty intuitive when you get down to it. If you want a systemic effect that contributes to the observations normally explained as simply “misogynerds,” here's a part of the puzzle. It's also the tip of the...
[21:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:48] <exec> 08└─That's very utopian. Not saying I disagree. Major changes like that can't be rolled out without a full system reset first. CS is weird because all progress in the field comes from academia but in IT the vocational entrance ticket is a CS degree and all progress in that field comes from outside acade...
[21:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:50] <exec> 08└─Those people become skilled by being hired and working in the field. I gave up on trying to get a job in that field because there are no entry level positions for hire. After seeing countless advertisements for experienced workers in entry level positions, I eventually lost interest in any of that b...
[21:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03i286NiNJA [2768] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:52] <exec> 08└─Lol I was about to be fooled then I saw "ethanol fueled"
[21:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Plan to Sell Oil Reserve Shows Declining Import Needs - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:10] <exec> 08└─If a "private" organization does poorly, it loses money and eventually has its assets placed into more capable hands.
[21:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Plan to Sell Oil Reserve Shows Declining Import Needs - 668 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:11] <exec> 08└─It seems like yet another factor they might be considering is how valuable that oil will actually be in 10 years time. Ten years ago when people were freaking about peak oil being upon us, it seemed like oil was likely to gain value, but now that it looks like electric vehicles are where we're heade...
[21:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Plan to Sell Oil Reserve Shows Declining Import Needs - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:14] <exec> 08└─I would imagine the beancounters have some complicated formula about net present value based on physical plant storage cost plus the costs of the employees, risk of price changes over time, predicted interest rates. Also the cost of money to the government (weird sounding phrase, isn't it?) is non-t...
[21:38:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 1823 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:30] <exec> 08└─I agree that you can't just ignore these things. BUT I do think we also need to seriously consider media culpability in encouraging terrorist events. For example, we've seen a number of "terrorist" incidents in the past few years that seem to fall under the "depressed loner" category, e.g., Muslim g...
[21:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Takes Another Step Towards Being Big Brother - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:55] <exec> 08└─if you have top-of-mind or unaided awareness of a particular brand at the point of purchase, the advertising has succeeded, even if you don't actually purchase that particular brand
[21:39:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Takes Another Step Towards Being Big Brother - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:56] <exec> 08└─1. Start a religious order which forbids anything but cash. 2. Sue for discrimination when denied transaction. 3. there is no point 3 4. PROFIT!!!
[21:39:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Takes Another Step Towards Being Big Brother - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:58] <exec> 08└─"Succeeded" only in the extremely profitable world of advertising
[21:42:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lithium-Ion Pioneer Claims 5x Increase in Energy Density - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:53] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the mod! And, yeah, you'll notice I was VERY careful not to make it sound like a sure thing that the Prof was an appropriate expert; having an ME degree very much makes you a generalist. Smart MEs keep their mouths shut when the topic goes outside their specialty; YMMV :P
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[22:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03arcz [4501] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Plot Twist: Cheesy Soap Opera Script is Deceptive Drug Ad, Doctors Warn - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:20] <exec> 08└─Professional speech restrictions are ready to go the way of the dinosaur. Cry foul all you want, but this is a perfect vehicle for the Supreme Court to do away with them once and for all. It's time for us to recognize that advertising is still speech.
[22:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Plot Twist: Cheesy Soap Opera Script is Deceptive Drug Ad, Doctors Warn - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:22] <exec> 08└─It's curious how womens' magazines use the same color-schemes in their articles as they do in their drug ads contained within. But drug ads aren't limited to women -- watch an NFL game and you'll see plenty of hilarious shit, such as a prescription for restless leg syndrome with side effects such as...
[22:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:49] <exec> 08└─Study finds that ANY student of any gender is less likely to drop a program and MORE likely to complete if they are closely mentored. http://youth.gov [youth.gov]
[22:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:51] <exec> 08└─Boys are failing in part because there aren't many role models, but masculine traits have also been pathologized. Things like recess, PE and music have largely been cut and it's no wonder that boys are struggling when those were things that boys need in order to maintain focus and attention during t...
[22:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:53] <exec> 08└─Good to see you haven't lost your touch :) You can both make a point and be hugely offensive doing it. Huzzah Ethanol-fueled. Keep up the good work...
[22:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03i286NiNJA [2768] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:55] <exec> 08└─Really I hate all this "sexism in tech" bullshit. But I gotta tell you guys I grew up hearing and seeing nonstop how I was supposed to be a loser and a failure at life and I tell you meeting someone who walked the same path would have gone a long way. Especially if they were telling me things that m...
[22:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:58] <exec> 08└─You think that's what a woman wants? Creeps offering to help her in an implicit exchange for sex?
[22:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:00] <exec> 08└─I'd worry more about being a straight woman [nypost.com] in a field dominated by dykes. In spite of the attention, it is extremely unlikely that beta orbiters will actually grope, rape, or threaten to beat women in STEM. But when it's women threatening to beat women, that automatically makes it okay...
[22:37:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 1586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:02] <exec> 08└─charon never replies, so I'll just do it myself. See my post is the way testosterone mentors some testosterone. If I wanted to schmooooze people with BS I'd have gone into marketing. I'd probably have kicked ass there too. It actually paraphrases a conversation I had with a coworker. Look at the err...
[22:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:04] <exec> 08└─Clearly, those girls were sexist. /s
[22:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:07] <exec> 08└─As someone hiring, there's a lack of *skilled* STEM people.
[22:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:09] <exec> 08└─It is a sad state indeed when you go to any given dive-bar, and look towards the bar from behind it, and realize that you can't discern the women from the men. Protip: Don't grow a beard unless you're an actual fucking man skilled in at least some of the manly arts. If you can't change a tire or fix...
[22:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Weasley [6421] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:11] <exec> 08└─Nobody said the girls are asking for the attention, but it's a fact that they get it...
[22:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:13] <exec> 08└─Far fewer women than men receive bachelor's degrees in the STEM fields (just 13 to 33 percent), despite women comprising approximately 56 percent of all students attending college in the United States.
[22:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:15] <exec> 08└─That's because this paper is more to advance a political ideal than to advance science.
[22:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:18] <exec> 08└─"Header name is #include . Compile again." I think SoylentNews swallowed your <>. Tip.. type "& # 60 ;" without spaces. Wonders of HTML ! ;)
[22:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 711 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:20] <exec> 08└─Well that's rather the problem with treating skilled technical people like utterly replaceable commodities--they don't like it. And it's always the MBAs and salespeople doing it. As a technical person after a while you learn you never want to work for those people again. It's also why companies run...
[22:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Plan to Sell Oil Reserve Shows Declining Import Needs - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:41] <exec> 08└─I am not seeing how those greasy jews are going to benefit from this. They must have plotted something not obvious (like they always do). But I'm sure with enough research, we can find out what they are planning. And then we can take a megaphone and warn the world ... and they will ignore it.
[22:40:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AlphaGo Beats Ke Jie in First Match of Three - 922 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:40] <exec> 08└─Agreed. Chess-playing AIs have been able to wipe the floor with Grandmasters for decades now, and yet people still play Chess regularly. Ditto checkers, Risk, Monopoly, and any number of other games that have had well-developed AIs built for them. Heck, the vast majority of people playing any game a...
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[22:40:41] <exec> 08└─I can seriously fuck up the chess AI on beginner level. It makes me feel so manly and tough. I've also got a collection of female sex bots that TOTALLY worship my cock. It's insane.
[22:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are Laws Like the French Ban on Emails After Work Saving Us or Burying Our Jobs? - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:29] <exec> 08└─multiple competing labor unions
[22:42:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are Laws Like the French Ban on Emails After Work Saving Us or Burying Our Jobs? - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:30] <exec> 08└─That has not been my experience. Most often, those who actually care about the quality of their work are easily surpassed by those who dabble shiny trinkets instead -- both on the operational level and in management.
[22:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are Laws Like the French Ban on Emails After Work Saving Us or Burying Our Jobs? - 640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:32] <exec> 08└─Oh please... Communism [wikipedia.org] - socioeconomic order structured upon the common ownership of the means of production and the absence of social classes, money,[3][4] and the state. Socialism [wikipedia.org] - characterised by social ownership and democratic control of the means of production...
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[23:36:25] <exec> 08└─Get yer popcorn here!
[23:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Do Humans Come With a Built-in Sense of Obligation to One Another? - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:27] <exec> 08└─Children feel and think a lot but have yet to hammer that into people older than them. Including scientists.. Almost funny how some things are "discoveries". (at least some children have an active EEG) There once was a researcher that had taught his lab monkey to push a button to get a banana. The s...
[23:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Plot Twist: Cheesy Soap Opera Script is Deceptive Drug Ad, Doctors Warn - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:37] <exec> 08└─Nothing new really.
[23:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plot Twist: Cheesy Soap Opera Script is Deceptive Drug Ad, Doctors Warn - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:39] <exec> 08└─What, me, fat flabby software engineer who thinks antibiotics are the fix for the common cold, is gonna tell my doctor what drug to prescribe me? Really? And I'm better edumacated and more intelligent than most of the idiots who see/read these commercials.
[23:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Plot Twist: Cheesy Soap Opera Script is Deceptive Drug Ad, Doctors Warn - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:41] <exec> 08└─Another good reason to not waste attention or time on TV which just spews out the lowest common denominator junk. And if there is anything important to send, well then vested interests will censor it into a grey bland goo and what remains is a worthless waste of RF spectrum at best. The question bec...
[23:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimbrooking [3465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plot Twist: Cheesy Soap Opera Script is Deceptive Drug Ad, Doctors Warn - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:43] <exec> 08└─Last I heard, the USA and New Zealand are the only countries in the world that allow the advertising of prescription pharmaceuticals. I don't know what the Kiwis' problem is, but here in the USA our form of government has morphed into corporatocracy, for, by, and of corporate beneficiaries. The huma...
[23:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:26] <exec> 08└─You're not wrong; that does happen. But that was not the thrust of the comment I was replying to. EF seems to think that any woman he decides to bestow his attention on should be honored and repay him on her back, regardless of attraction, hygiene, and overall creepiness. And creepy men who are deni...
[23:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:27] <exec> 08└─Female students who were assigned male mentors are more likely to be happily married. Male mentors report that mentoring was a life-changing experience. Many have acquired children.
[23:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 781 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:29] <exec> 08└─Perhaps I was unclear when I used the word want. I did not mean that women are not asking for the attention (though they are not). I meant that they do not desire, and would reject, such attention when it is obviously predicated on a "contract" in the man's mind. Let's perform a thought experiment....
[23:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:31] <exec> 08└─Sorry, I wasn't incessantly refreshing the page waiting for your verbal diarrhea.
[23:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 1652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:34] <exec> 08└─We offer over market salary, company stock, allow remote work, some is 100% remote, full paid medical benefits. I'm big on growing from within, but we actually need experts and what we do is hard, partly because we're doing high end, bleeding edge internet infrastructure work. We have a full team of...
[23:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:36] <exec> 08└─Absolutely not. In fact I never even said that beta-orbiter types even expected sex, from my observations just being flirted-with is good enough. People like Rodger and Seung-Hui Cho [youtube.com] were just fucking nuts and had plenty of problems other than not getting laid. The ones who would expec...
[23:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:38] <exec> 08└─Student is less likely to drop the program, but more likely to fail in real life after college. That's what the headline should say, as it's kind of obvious if someone holds your hand through pretty much any difficult situation you're more likely to succeed at it, but when that handholding ends(typi...
[23:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:40] <exec> 08└─I'm completely with you on that point. My company actually does have a lot of paid internships to give people experience, but unfortunately not all roles can be filled with junior people, or people looking to learn. There do need to be senior people. It's these senior people that are hard to find. I...
[23:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:43] <exec> 08└─We're mostly technical people (as in way more engineers than sales people) and I get what you're saying. We've sucked up a lot of the people in the areas we work in that have expertise, there's just not a lot of people with expertise in what we do. I mean we definitely do get the whole faster, bette...
[23:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 763 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:45] <exec> 08└─While there's certainly quite a bit of truth to what changed in CS in the 80s and how it impacted gender roles, the fact is that this study isn't dealing with a broad college freshman group and what they're deciding to major in -- it's dealing with a subset of declared majors in various engineering...
[23:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03i286NiNJA [2768] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:47] <exec> 08└─Maybe. Maybe they have few examples that they're somewhere they belong. I remember growing up hearing that I was stupid constantly, I learned not to listen to people but I learned not to listen to the right people too. Lots of trial and error to get to a good place.
[23:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 711 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:49] <exec> 08└─In the industry salesmen are technical people. They need to know how the system works and need to be able to perform live demonstrations of its applications and understand its common failure-modes while revealing only enough of them that they have to in order to make the sales, and they need to embe...
[23:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03i286NiNJA [2768] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:52] <exec> 08└─Oh come now a degree in identifying and shitting out 2000 words on various social ills isn't as hard as a CS degree? Sometimes I wish I got an advanced degree in bullshit. It pains me to see some young masters in advanced problematics getting paid 80k making logically turdful statements in print whe...
[23:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Plan to Sell Oil Reserve Shows Declining Import Needs - 603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:14] <exec> 08└─America isn't the only country sitting on a strategic oil reserve. [zerohedge.com] Diversify schmersify, what we are going to see is the slow dismantlement of Saudi Arabia -- though if the weapons sales are any indication, it seems that we're passing the ball over to them in fighting bullshit wars i...
[23:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Plan to Sell Oil Reserve Shows Declining Import Needs - 609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:15] <exec> 08└─The current price is exactly what jumped to my mind with this announcement. Selling now seems like a poor business decision and would defeat purposes of the reserve. If we sit on the oil and sell when times are tough and oil is expensive, the additional oil in the market could help relieve consumers...
[23:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Plan to Sell Oil Reserve Shows Declining Import Needs - 801 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:17] <exec> 08└─More likely than not the Saudis, armed with new shipments of U.S. weapons and the usual clandestine aid of the Jews (Since Saudis and Jews are allies and are both in on their ISIS proxy armies), will launch expanded wars to conquer Yemen, Syria, and finally, Iran and will do it themselves now that A...
[23:41:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Takes Another Step Towards Being Big Brother - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:02] <exec> 08└─I hope that this is not sarcasm. Women are being raped and killed by muslims in Germany due to the mass migration. The videos posted on youtube asking the world to help are soul crushing. Germany is dying
[23:41:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AlphaGo Beats Ke Jie in First Match of Three - 2149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:20] <exec> 08└─If such an attitude existed, it only betrays a poor understanding of AI. What makes Go interesting for AI research is that it can't be "brute forced" the way Chess can. It's not that it's immune to automation - just that it's been immune to the kinds of automation used for Chess. It's interesting pr...
[23:41:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unanimous SCOTUS Ruling Closes Court-Shopping Loophole for Patent Trolls - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:36] <exec> 08└─Yeah I think Kim Dotcom is a doosh but what they did to him is terrible
[23:43:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are Laws Like the French Ban on Emails After Work Saving Us or Burying Our Jobs? - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:13] <exec> 08└─"I was just a common industrial automation engineer..." So you're the reason rock stars in so many fields can't find good jobs anymore! :-)
[23:44:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lithium-Ion Pioneer Claims 5x Increase in Energy Density - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:08] <exec> 08└─Close but this is how it would really go. - ... - ... which means your research is not done with the proper funding and procedures and must cease at once. - I understand... who will take over from here? - ... No-one. You are suspended and your lab is being shut down. You owe $4.2M in back payments f...
[23:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WannaCry Ransomware Attack Linked to North Korea by Symantec - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:58] <exec> 08└─So, what they're saying is the NSA flubbed so badly that they ended up helping (however inadvertently) the world's biggest kook attack the U.S. and others? Pretty much the opposite of their mission? Short of stubbing a cigar out on the big red button, could they screw up any worse?
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