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[00:35:31] <exec> 08└─It is the main reason that the country ranked 55th of 158 nations — last among Western democracies — in a 2017 index of voting fairness run by the Electoral Integrity Project
[00:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trying to Solve the Gerrymandering Problem - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:33] <exec> 08└─Note: Please try to keep the discussion on the topic of gerrymandering.
[00:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rooftop Solar Returning to Nevada - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:42] <exec> 08└─And that's bad...why?
[00:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bryan [29] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rooftop Solar Returning to Nevada - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:45] <exec> 08└─If they generate as much as they use, do they pay nothing...
[00:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03darnkitten [1912] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rooftop Solar Returning to Nevada - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:47] <exec> 08└─If they generate as much as they use, do they pay nothing, despite making use of costly infrastructure? This causes a death spiral for the utility companies.
[00:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rooftop Solar Returning to Nevada - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:49] <exec> 08└─Eventually, we'll get to a system where you pay grid tie, and the local utility buys solar electricity at market prices in real time (except when negative, maybe). But there is a strategic interest in incentivizing people to install solar, so the local monopoly takes one on the chin on behalf of eac...
[00:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rooftop Solar Returning to Nevada - 1623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:51] <exec> 08└─Good. They're run like fucking crap. In California, those fucking cocksuckers at PG&E get over $35 million dollars per year in top level executive salaries. Anytime I see bullshit like that, they're fucking solvent and cannot bitch and complain about having no money. The answer should always be, "We...
[00:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rooftop Solar Returning to Nevada - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:53] <exec> 08└─It's also important to recognize that solar panels on someone's house, while they are producing a surplus, are also powering the neighbors' houses, reducing the load on the grid. Here in PG&E territory, we have a monthly minimum charge of about $10/month for grid connection. It's a minimum, so in wi...
[00:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rooftop Solar Returning to Nevada - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:56] <exec> 08└─No. Net metering normally only works until the break even point, while any over production is ten cents on the dollar (or less). For example: if I use 1000 kWh and produce 800 kWh, I get charged for 200 kWh at the normal rate ($0.08 * 200 kWh = $16.00); but if I use 800 kWh and produce 1000 kWh I on...
[00:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rooftop Solar Returning to Nevada - 1418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:59] <exec> 08└─Excellent point. That's such a good thing to have the load on the grid reduced, that I have no idea why Nevada is fighting it. In Nevada, air condition is life. Period. During the summer in some places it can get to near 120. Neighborhoods simmer at 100-114. So much concrete and asphalt, that heat i...
[00:36:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rooftop Solar Returning to Nevada - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:01] <exec> 08└─If they generate as much as they use, do they pay nothing, despite making use of costly infrastructure? This causes a death spiral for the utility companies.
[00:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rooftop Solar Returning to Nevada - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:03] <exec> 08└─seem to be playing financial games with their revenues
[00:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Milky Way Resides in a Great Cosmic Void - 1572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:36] <exec> 08└─I agree; the Drake Equation as originally proposed is fine, but the early guesses as to the values for the parameters are very much a victim of the time it was created in. EM transmission was the best known means of interstellar communication, we were broadcasting out signals across a large chunk of...
[00:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Milky Way Resides in a Great Cosmic Void - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:38] <exec> 08└─,perhaps. unless there was immaculate conception, though, what would the joke imply about his father? biggus diccus indeed...
[00:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cash for Math: The Erdős Prizes Live On - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:56] <exec> 08└─There is nothing more sociopathic than the notion that "others should do as I say" (or, similarly, "others should fund my existence"); that is the very principle on which government is fundamentally based—there is no form of government that is not based on this principle. In contrast, capitalism i...
[00:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cash for Math: The Erdős Prizes Live On - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:57] <exec> 08└─Notice I didn't mention Adam Smith? Capitalism has some flaws, but it works by and large. Our system, however, is not capitalism, and our government has been an authoritarian/oligarchic mess since it's inception, although for the most part it has worked better than other forms. As you say, governmen...
[00:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cash for Math: The Erdős Prizes Live On - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:00] <exec> 08└─There is only individual self-interest. If you seek to further the "common good", then you'll only end up worshiping the principle that "others should do as you say".
[00:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Enthusiasts Warn Planetary Protection may Stop Humans from Going to Mars - 1400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:52] <exec> 08└─No. Bacteria mutate and evolve very fast. Put bacteria in a hostile environment, and if _any_ of them survive, those survivors will reproduce and their progeny will rapidly become adapted to that environment. Humans who go there would be exposed to bacterial infections the likes of which their immun...
[00:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Weasley [6421] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enthusiasts Warn Planetary Protection may Stop Humans from Going to Mars - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:54] <exec> 08└─Many in the space community argue that we shouldn't send humans to Mars due to contamination. It's a thing. No I'm not going to provide you sources. The fact you don't know who Robert Zubrin is means you probably don't follow the scene too closely and that's the reason you've never heard this argume...
[00:39:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Enthusiasts Warn Planetary Protection may Stop Humans from Going to Mars - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:56] <exec> 08└─Rocks from Mars have been found in Antarctica, therefore it is logical to presume that they have fallen pretty much all over the Earth. If they didn't introduce the purple-spotted plague here, we probably won't introduce measles there.
[00:40:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kansas' Experiment with Reducing Taxes Ends in Failure, Republicans Override the Governor's Veto - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:44] <exec> 08└─I keep pointing this out in these kind of conversations, but the federal government runs a huge deficit. It's entirely possible for the majority of (or even all) states to get more from the federal government than they contribute to it. No-one ever seems to break the numbers down far enough to take...
[00:40:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kansas' Experiment with Reducing Taxes Ends in Failure, Republicans Override the Governor's Veto - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:46] <exec> 08└─You also have the 80s and the 90s showing that they can in fact help quite a lot. Really though our entire tax system needs scrapped and rewritten from the ground up. Preferably without relying on theft which is all involuntary taxation is.
[00:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dish Network Receives $280M Fine for Relentless Robocalling - 1560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:12] <exec> 08└─FSK Tones? Again, Nope :( It's the same reason why FoIP sucks ass. You're attempting to present an analog circuit in name only. This would be greatly, greatly, dependent upon the codec being used and the bandwidth available. I imagine on many connections the error rate would be high. Counter intuiti...
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[01:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trying to Solve the Gerrymandering Problem - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:27] <exec> 08└─You create a map with computer-generated boxes of population (one tenth of a district size in each box), and ask 2nd-grade kids to color in the boxes by groups of ten. Ask 4th-graders to vote for their favorite map (or maps, as different elections could use different districts). You can give them ge...
[01:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trying to Solve the Gerrymandering Problem - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:29] <exec> 08└─Forgot DPRK's scores OK, let’s check what the experts said about North Korea; it’s on page 9 of the report: Electoral laws 53 Electoral procedures 73 District boundaries 73 Voter registration 83 Party and candidate registration 54 Media coverage 78 Campaign finance 84 Voting process 53 Vote coun...
[01:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ken_g6 [3706] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trying to Solve the Gerrymandering Problem - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:31] <exec> 08└─It occurs to me that political boundaries (city and county borders) are more likely to represent practical boundaries of where people live. I assume it's not as easy to change such boundaries as it is to change voting districts? If so, it seems like a rule where no more than two voting districts can...
[01:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trying to Solve the Gerrymandering Problem - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:33] <exec> 08└─an odd request considering the subject matter
[01:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trying to Solve the Gerrymandering Problem - 767 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:36] <exec> 08└─The point of gerrymandering is to tinker with actual proportional representation. The positive side is to allow minority representation, if desired. The negative side is everything else, primarily getting an undue advantage by grouping or diluting the opponent's voters. Turns out that proportional e...
[01:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03anotherblackhat [4722] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Trying to Solve the Gerrymandering Problem - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:38] <exec> 08└─I can imagine an algorithm that could meet any set of districting goals you can define (as best as they can be met anyway). For example, suppose you like an equal number of people in each district, and as few lines as possible. Allow anyone to submit a proposal (for a fee) but only allow politicians...
[01:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trying to Solve the Gerrymandering Problem - 1169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:40] <exec> 08└─The reason it's not a solvable problem is that the people with the power to solve it don't want it solved. And this isn't just a matter of one party using district-drawing to their own advantage, although that certainly happens. Another reason that party hacks like the current system is that it allo...
[01:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trying to Solve the Gerrymandering Problem - 1281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:42] <exec> 08└─I think there are many things that can be done about it. We could get rid of the districts altogether. What's the point? It's not like they actually represent us anyways, and the whole thing is just a sad illusive dance where we convince ourselves that we're represented and have freedom. Do it at th...
[01:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trying to Solve the Gerrymandering Problem - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:45] <exec> 08└─I could imagine volunteers trying to canvas elementary schools trying to influence the kids. An arms race with political parties trying to compete based on who has the best candy and toys.
[01:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trying to Solve the Gerrymandering Problem - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:47] <exec> 08└─I didn't say kindergartners, because the coloring has to be within the lines. But most first-graders won't remember a complex pattern regardless of the amount of candy at stake. Gotta escalate to the supervisors... Politicos bribing the elementary school principals with actual funding? Mission Fucki...
[01:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trying to Solve the Gerrymandering Problem - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:49] <exec> 08└─It's not like they actually represent us anyways
[01:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rooftop Solar Returning to Nevada - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:07] <exec> 08└─Excellent point. That's such a good thing to have the load on the grid reduced, that I have no idea why Nevada is fighting it.
[01:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rooftop Solar Returning to Nevada - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:08] <exec> 08└─I made sure to include that in the dept. line. (The incumbents don't like to lose even the appearance of total control.) -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[01:36:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03t-3 [4907] 02 - 06U.S. Pays Farmers Billions to Save the Soil but It's Blowing Away - 762 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:18] <exec> 08└─Because conventional agricultural practices are environmentally horrible. Intensive monocultures, which damage the soil and are causing problems for lots of native insects and animals by taking away food sources and habitat, lots of exposed soil which leads to erosion , tons of fertilizer that tends...
[01:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Pays Farmers Billions to Save the Soil but It's Blowing Away - 1219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:29] <exec> 08└─Good point. The real solution would be to have bought the land, eminent domain, whatever is necessary to prohibit them completely from bad farming practices. Subsidies just create people that will become reliant on the government to survive, which means we can't ever stop the subsidies. Don't start...
[01:36:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Milky Way Resides in a Great Cosmic Void - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:46] <exec> 08└─Or imagine being in two galaxies that are merging. I strongly suspect you are correct. It's nice being in a void that is relatively quiet. Probably like the clump of weeds and grass at the far end of large field with a rock in front it. Much more stable than the grass in the middle of the field. Cer...
[01:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Milky Way Resides in a Great Cosmic Void - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:47] <exec> 08└─Yo Momma's snatch so big, you could spin the Milky Way around in it and never touch the sides..... (I tried)
[01:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cash for Math: The Erdős Prizes Live On - 606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:08] <exec> 08└─The incentive for winning a prize from Erdős would be the kudos of having won it, not the small cash value of prize itself. Like having a low "Erdős number", it would confer some status in math society. In order for that status to live on, either the cash value has to increase, or the person offe...
[01:41:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former US Spy Chief Calls for 'Filtering' of Social Media - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:28] <exec> 08└─So says the disgraced, liar- o congress. This definitely can't be used against political enemies...
[01:44:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oregon City Approves Permit for US' First All-Wood High-Rise - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:02] <exec> 08└─Sorry, guess that should have been "and have you stopped beating your wife?"
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[02:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Malware uses Pop Star's Instagram Comments - 859 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:28] <exec> 08└─This stuff ain't new. It is all variations on the broadcast your secret instructions and only the intended recipient knows the meaning. BBC would put nonsense messages that meant things to the French Resistance. One or more entities have run the shortwave "numbers" stations for decades. Back when Us...
[02:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trying to Solve the Gerrymandering Problem - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:49] <exec> 08└─http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2013-07-12 [smbc-comics.com]
[02:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trying to Solve the Gerrymandering Problem - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:50] <exec> 08└─If we don't let go, we're gonna die. The solution is to become human and learn how to cooperate.
[02:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Milky Way Resides in a Great Cosmic Void - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:48] <exec> 08└─We aren't monitoring the entire night sky constantly for transmissions across the entire electromagnetic spectrum. Intelligent broadcasts may be hard to detect for reasons we don't expect.
[02:38:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"QUAKE" Soundtrack Available on Vinyl - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:35] <exec> 08└─Neat. I should really take a look at that. For other people that want a listen the entire Last Ninja 2 soundtrack available on youtube (1) -- I highly recommend track 2 (starts at 4:30) -- The soundtrack to the first game is also really good (2) (start from 4:21). I know it's an acquired taste, but...
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[03:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trying to Solve the Gerrymandering Problem - 1076 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:02] <exec> 08└─Attempting to stop gerrymandering is like making water not wet by government decree. By definition, any group of people tasked with drawing the lines that will decide elections is a political group. Appoint all the "bipartisan commissions" you want, wait twenty years and every single one will be ful...
[03:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Trying to Solve the Gerrymandering Problem - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:03] <exec> 08└─> If one party has lots of landslide victories and crushing losses compared with its rivals, this can be a sign of gerrymandering. Wait, what? Isn't the goal of gerrymandering to make sure the opposing party has landslide victories and reliably narrow losses? Crushing losses would mean a whole lot o...
[03:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trying to Solve the Gerrymandering Problem - 723 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:06] <exec> 08└─They tried that in Maine, they almost tried that in the great, great state of Maine. Ranked choice voting, they call it. They had an initiative. A referendum. And the voters of Maine said yes, we want ranked choice voting. But a court said no, don't even think about it. Don't go there. The Maine Sup...
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[03:36:08] <exec> 08└─wait twenty years
[03:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trying to Solve the Gerrymandering Problem - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:11] <exec> 08└─To an extent there is some truth to the assertion that the don't always represent us. But without districts, every last one of them would be elected by the biggest City in the state. Districts were an attempt to spread the influence, and avoid city-state structures that plagued Europe for centuries....
[03:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trying to Solve the Gerrymandering Problem - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:14] <exec> 08└─reliably
[03:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trying to Solve the Gerrymandering Problem - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:16] <exec> 08└─Not really, because then you would still have the process totally outside the influence of elected officials and voters, leaving pure naked party vs party battles and any attempt to reverse the decision to remove district drawing from the hands of elected officials would be condemned by which ever s...
[03:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trying to Solve the Gerrymandering Problem - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:18] <exec> 08└─For a good 10 years I haven't understood why you don't feed a computer a central point and demographic data that is solely how many people live there. Feed it stuff like freeways, and other things that divide neighborhoods. Don't feed it stuff like registered parties. Then let the computer crunch on...
[03:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trying to Solve the Gerrymandering Problem - 1202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:20] <exec> 08└─As some of you are aware, the Constitution did not originally feature districting for Senators - they were elected by the state legislatures effectively 'at large' for the whole state. The House was districted, simply because of technology. Transport between different population centers was relative...
[03:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trying to Solve the Gerrymandering Problem - 2656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:23] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, not really. Most states already tend to prefer municipal boundaries when drawing district lines. Yes, cutting through municipalities can sometimes be a strategy for gerrymandering, but merely requiring municipal boundaries won't get very far. One of the central issues is that district...
[03:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trying to Solve the Gerrymandering Problem - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:25] <exec> 08└─It is worse, remember when the CA Supreme Court ruled the California Constitution unconstitutional after the People voted to amend it? Good times.
[03:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trying to Solve the Gerrymandering Problem - 1281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:28] <exec> 08└─Not to mention that the original intent of the Framers of the Constitution was to maintain districts at a reasonably small size, such that it might still be feasible for a representative to have contact with a large portion of the constituents. Originally, each representative in the House represente...
[03:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rooftop Solar Returning to Nevada - 796 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:48] <exec> 08└─The reality is paying solar owners higher than the lowest wholesale rate is nothing less than a wealth transfer from poor people to rich yuppies with panels so they can #VirtueSnivel. The utility can buy electricity at really low rates and buy it when they need it, where solar is produced when the S...
[03:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Pays Farmers Billions to Save the Soil but It's Blowing Away - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:08] <exec> 08└─How exactly does this get modded disagree? We need insight into who is modding us so we can hold their feet to the fire.
[03:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Milky Way Resides in a Great Cosmic Void - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:29] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the "yo mama snatch so big" hit me in the first millisecond and was rejected in the second millisecond as too obvious. Let's change the question. "There are a lot of bad yo mama jokes here, but damned if I can think of a good one".
[03:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Milky Way Resides in a Great Cosmic Void - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:30] <exec> 08└─Being in a "special" place rubs against the Copernicus Principle. Perhaps there is selection going on where populated areas have been conquered and killed by something. The voids are the last to g#~`^ [NO CARRIER]
[03:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Assessing Child Abusers Using VR - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:28] <exec> 08└─Re US law: computer-generated child pornography is only illegal if it's also obscene. There was a Supreme Court case on this, Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition. This is not a trivial distinction: obscenity under US law is very strictly defined, and it is very hard to get a court to find something wi...
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[03:39:32] <exec> 08└─Astronomers Prove To Einstein That Stars Can Warp Light [slashdot.com]
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[03:40:51] <exec> 08└─-nomsg
[03:40:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Enthusiasts Warn Planetary Protection may Stop Humans from Going to Mars - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:52] <exec> 08└─100% of the proof so far says it's barren, so say varied and repeated experiments. If you were betting money on this, there would only be one logical way to bet.
[03:40:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Enthusiasts Warn Planetary Protection may Stop Humans from Going to Mars - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:54] <exec> 08└─There is a logic flaw in your reasoning. The most likely explanation for why Mars hasn't contaminated Earth is that Mars has no life to contaminate Earth with. If we sent people to Mars, we could certainly contaminate it.
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[03:41:43] <exec> 08└─Ok, why does it seem reasonable? It is not actually a tax increase - not even an implied one. We haven't established, for example, that the services being defunded would even be replaced by state governments. Second, this could result in an overall long term decline in taxation due to less spending...
[03:41:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Kansas' Experiment with Reducing Taxes Ends in Failure, Republicans Override the Governor's Veto - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:44] <exec> 08└─And your interpretation is worthless. Trash talk is not rational discussion.
[03:41:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Kansas' Experiment with Reducing Taxes Ends in Failure, Republicans Override the Governor's Veto - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:46] <exec> 08└─The federal government also is massively incompetent. It's quite likely that no state gets more from the federal government than it puts in.
[03:41:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Kansas' Experiment with Reducing Taxes Ends in Failure, Republicans Override the Governor's Veto - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:48] <exec> 08└─It has been reported repeatedly that the Laffer curve actually does have an effect when you start at a marginal tax rate of 90 percent.
[03:43:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Paper Argues That Mars Robotic Exploration is in Decline - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:14] <exec> 08└─In any case at some point why it works becomes less relevant than the fact it does work from an immediate utility point of view.
[03:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Paper Argues That Mars Robotic Exploration is in Decline - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:16] <exec> 08└─Astronomical spectroscopy [wikipedia.org] was discovered and used to make further new discoveries many centuries before quantum mechanics began to be discovered offering an explanation to what was being observed to happen. They were, initially, so far removed from the answer that I think it would be...
[03:43:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Paper Argues That Mars Robotic Exploration is in Decline - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:18] <exec> 08└─You have to keep in mind here that NASA doesn't get to decide, on the most broad level, how they spend their money.
[03:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oregon City Approves Permit for US' First All-Wood High-Rise - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:07] <exec> 08└─Actually, when I hear "laminate" on this scale I think "tinder" Are you saying Laminate is another hook-up app?
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[04:36:07] <exec> 08└─independent or bipartisan commissions that oversee the creation of voting districts, fared much better
[04:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trying to Solve the Gerrymandering Problem - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:08] <exec> 08└─we have to rely on the broken political system to fix itself, and why would it do that?
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[04:36:10] <exec> 08└─I agree that removing districts would eliminate Gerrymandering, however it creates its own problems. If done right, districts can ensure proper representation of the cross-section of community across a state. For example, you'll want representatives from wealthy areas, poor areas, urban areas, rural...
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[04:36:51] <exec> 08└─Ironic, isn't it, that some folks claim that turning us all into vegetarians would save the environment...
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[05:35:19] <exec> 08└─With all the free time they will have from never finding work ever again! So many GitHub commits, incoming!!
[05:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Report: CIOs Need to Embrace Open Source Software to Drive Change - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:26] <exec> 08└─Open Source is FREE SLAVE LABOR. There is no other motivation for any profit-seeking C-level cocksucker to use it.
[05:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report: CIOs Need to Embrace Open Source Software to Drive Change - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:28] <exec> 08└─Technology workers need to remove Cxx-people to drive efficient change in their life :p Change by proxy is flawed. No more golf lunches to install Microslime down employee throat.
[05:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03patrick [3990] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trying to Solve the Gerrymandering Problem - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:12] <exec> 08└─https://www.xkcd.com/1847/ [xkcd.com]
[05:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trying to Solve the Gerrymandering Problem - 1480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:13] <exec> 08└─Why is #4 even a thing? If the districts are drawn impartially and roughly equal in population, it should reflect the demographics. You might have 4 districts in the urban centre and 6 districts in the rural area if that's how the population is spread out. And who's to say that next election those R...
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[05:38:14] <exec> 08└─-- Russian Child Pornography Movie Studio Chiild pornography is as illegal there as here but the laws are not enforced. The homepage of the site had a photo of a smiling 14 year old girl and 15 year old boy who conceived a child while being filmed. Their baby also resides at the "orphanage". Now rea...
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[05:42:10] <exec> 08└─I don't think we should censor child pornography either. The first amendment does not permit any government censorship; our courts often simply do not follow the Constitution. You've been completely shut out and our goals are irreconcilable, authoritarian.
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[05:42:59] <exec> 08└─Well you're simply wrong there on both accounts. This effect is obvious and easy to generate in the lab. One of NASA's first steps was to have three independent organizations also build and measure the apparent thrust of the device. They all achieved identical results. And the effect of spectroscopy...
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[06:35:27] <exec> 08└─Given the history Verizlime history. Which projects do you think they will botch and which will hurt them? or get some serious backlash for?
[06:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon to Lay Off Around 2,100 from Combined Yahoo!-AOL Entity - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:29] <exec> 08└─Seems like anything that touches AOL turns into something, but it sure as hell isn't Gold. In this case, adding two turds together or even less likely come up shiny.
[06:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report: CIOs Need to Embrace Open Source Software to Drive Change - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:39] <exec> 08└─The catch is that this slave labor have their own will as they will discover. Try system'd and get forked etc. And no where to call to "DO THIS!". It's more a negotiation and proving that a change has merit or it will get the Linus Torvalds review summary ditching. There might be naivety, but it may...
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[06:36:25] <exec> 08└─Problem solved.
[06:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Milky Way Resides in a Great Cosmic Void - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:29] <exec> 08└─Perhaps they came, encountered the mental virus that religion is and have us isolated until we fix it ourselves
[06:38:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Assessing Child Abusers Using VR - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:28] <exec> 08└─Let us just stop and ponder on this: most child abuse is done by women, specially mothers. This "research" is all about measuring penis. How long before this is used to talk about toxic masculinity?
[06:40:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enthusiasts Warn Planetary Protection may Stop Humans from Going to Mars - 871 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:40:54] <exec> 08└─It could be worked around by building a base in the sky with a official purpose other than the real one, ie lying. Once all that is needed for a launch to trans Mars orbit is there. They could say "Hasta la vista Earthlies!". What are they going to do about it? ;-) Any attempt to launch missiles wil...
[06:40:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enthusiasts Warn Planetary Protection may Stop Humans from Going to Mars - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:40:55] <exec> 08└─That will be hard if a landing vehicle crashes and the guts of the passengers is sprayed all over the planet surface.
[06:40:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enthusiasts Warn Planetary Protection may Stop Humans from Going to Mars - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:40:57] <exec> 08└─Fill the space vehicle walls with moon rock or comet water. Radiation protection solved.
[06:40:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enthusiasts Warn Planetary Protection may Stop Humans from Going to Mars - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:40:59] <exec> 08└─Which means life may very well be alive and well beneath the surface, in caves and in polar ice. Which hasn't been explored.
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[07:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06United Airlines Supervisor Injures Musician's Hand While Wresting Antique Violin in Baggage Dispute - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:28] <exec> 08└─More nonsense in the name of security. The TSA and all the idiotic policies from it need to be abolished. As to the wheelchair lady being dropped that sounded like a genuine accident: She seems kind of large, and that is no doubt a challenge.
[07:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06United Airlines Supervisor Injures Musician's Hand While Wresting Antique Violin in Baggage Dispute - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:29] <exec> 08└─Who needs to travel when you can upload recordings of your antique instrument to YouTube and remember to remind everyone that you don't travel because travel is unsafe and airlines are worse than terrorists and Trump is worse than Hitler. Oh right, people pay for live performances, all musicians are...
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[07:35:31] <exec> 08└─Well that was a strange sort of omni-directional rant. A metaphorical hedgehog of rhetoric
[07:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06United Airlines Supervisor Injures Musician's Hand While Wresting Antique Violin in Baggage Dispute - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:33] <exec> 08└─Your medication only helps when you take it.
[07:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06United Airlines Supervisor Injures Musician's Hand While Wresting Antique Violin in Baggage Dispute - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:36] <exec> 08└─Sounds like "under certain conditions" means the musician should/could have notified them and organised this unusual requirement ahead of time. Did they? Or did they just drop it at the foot of some idiot who doesn't know these exemptions exist?
[07:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06United Airlines Supervisor Injures Musician's Hand While Wresting Antique Violin in Baggage Dispute - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:38] <exec> 08└─What nasty prank could United Abuses suffer now? :->
[07:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06United Airlines Supervisor Injures Musician's Hand While Wresting Antique Violin in Baggage Dispute - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:40] <exec> 08└─Some idiot at the Airline is required to know these exemptions. That is part of what they are paid to keep up to date on. So they have no excuse.
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[07:35:58] <exec> 08└─Yet we owe so much to it. DNS, Apache, email..
[07:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Milky Way Resides in a Great Cosmic Void - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:51] <exec> 08└─Or imagine being in two galaxies that are merging.
[07:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Assessing Child Abusers Using VR - 1103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:51] <exec> 08└─You assume that they will act on the results in a particular way. You assume they will keep those who do get aroused locked in forever (or something along these lines). Unfortunately, that assumption is not entirely baseless, but it is still an assumption. Now consider for a minute that they could b...
[07:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03mojo chan [266] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Assessing Child Abusers Using VR - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:52] <exec> 08└─In previous experiments it was found that men who said they found gay sex disgusting actually got aroused a little when seeing it. Turns out that the body is so hard wired for reproduction that even when the conscious mind is not into it, the body will try to get ready anyway. This sounds like total...
[07:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Assessing Child Abusers Using VR - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:55] <exec> 08└─how does one manage to get it up with those deeply unsettling 3D models Like hot damn, that's right in the middle of the uncanny valley. Being forced to look at them in a VR rig seems like some kind of punishment from a horror film or something.
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[07:43:45] <exec> 08└─You think congressional funding has even the slightest bit of anything to do with merit? Congressional budgets are decided by committee. And this [wikipedia.org] is the current head of the Congressional Committee on Science which has direct oversight of the funding of NASA. A bible thumping lawyer w...
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[08:35:38] <exec> 08└─We need to ban our citizens from travelling! It will help stimulate all levels of the local economy! It will keep those filthy illegal immigrants/terrorists out as all the local housing and jobs will be filled by citizens of the region, who will no longer have the means to move out! It will help que...
[08:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trying to Solve the Gerrymandering Problem - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:45] <exec> 08└─I'm not swayed one way or the other, but doesn't having 2 at-large "houses" or "senates" seem redundant? Part of the at-large solution would be to eliminate one or the other. Having "upper" and "lower" houses with the same attributes seems like a waste of time.
[08:36:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trying to Solve the Gerrymandering Problem - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:47] <exec> 08└─The problem with proportional representation, from the politicians view, is no clear winners and the parties having to work together, which to many voters sounds great.
[08:37:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06Rooftop Solar Returning to Nevada - 157 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:03] <exec> 08└─If they generate as much as they use, do they pay nothing, despite making use of costly infrastructure? This causes a death spiral for the utility companies.
[08:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rooftop Solar Returning to Nevada - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:09] <exec> 08└─Yet people ignore externalities of pollution, weather and climate when looking at the cost of producing power from things like coal
[08:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Milky Way Resides in a Great Cosmic Void - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:55] <exec> 08└─> GWB Gamma Way Burst? Have you been archive binging at erfworld.com by any chance?
[08:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Milky Way Resides in a Great Cosmic Void - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:56] <exec> 08└─Good. It'll save on gas to get there.
[08:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Assessing Child Abusers Using VR - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:39:00] <exec> 08└─In France, virtual child porn is forbidden
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[09:35:15] <exec> 08└─So wait, are we supposed to be protesting anti-Net Neutrality, or should we instead be protesting Amazon and Reddit's protesting pro-NN? Decisions, decisions.
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[09:35:17] <exec> 08└─Problem was that the laws that were struck down had nothing to do with ISP regulation, more of what the FCC is allowed to do. Should the FCC be allowed to arbitrarily set what each ISP's service level agreement is? Will this be abused to favor certain ISPs? Can the unelected chairs of the FCC shutdo...
[09:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Reddit, Amazon Push for "Day of Action" on July 12 to Protest the Killing of Net Neutrality - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:19] <exec> 08└─No, it's all very simple. Do you want only Facebook or do you want the entire internet? Only net neutrality will give you the internet instead of few nasty oligarchs.
[09:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reddit, Amazon Push for "Day of Action" on July 12 to Protest the Killing of Net Neutrality - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:21] <exec> 08└─Time for ISPs to give Facebook a slooooowww motion coooonnnection? ;) Special routerd version :p Maybe Facebook will get a new BGP announcement of being available at 0.0.0.0/32 ;)
[09:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reddit, Amazon Push for "Day of Action" on July 12 to Protest the Killing of Net Neutrality - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:23] <exec> 08└─So.. Enemies: Google Netflix ComCast? (usual suspect) Verizon ? (usual suspect) Friends: Amazon Reddit Etsy ACLU California ISP Sonic Mozilla Kickstarter BitTorrent Github Vimeo What will Wikipedia do? Apple? Displaying a page of round-robin sorted phone numbers to all responsible congress and senat...
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[09:35:39] <exec> 08└─Once upon the time, in airlines, customer was the king. Not any more. Now passengers are just cargo, a nasty live cargo that moves around, rambles and complains. The policy of the company is to use tough ways to transport such a nasty herd. Although sometimes such behavior is exposed in media, summi...
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[09:36:47] <exec> 08└─What I take from that is that WHEN given a chance to vote on something, the voting in NK is fairer than in Bulgaria or Romania. The point is that when polling is conducted, is it done in a fair and impartial manner. There won't be votes on the succession of the next dictator, but when asked whether...
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[09:36:48] <exec> 08└─Ditch FPTP voting and the "two" party system.
[09:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Milky Way Resides in a Great Cosmic Void - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:58] <exec> 08└─GRB ie Gamma-ray burst.
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[10:35:10] <exec> 08└─> Had the two companies simply bought Bitcoin with their $20 million, on today's $2,740 price for the crypto-currency there'd be around $140 million in the kitty. Yeah, or Bitcoin could have plummeted to near zero USD, losing all the money. It is easy to see the "wise investment" in hindsight. BTC c...
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[10:35:23] <exec> 08└─Here's some more coverage Amazon, Kickstarter, Reddit and Mozilla are staging a net neutrality online protest [washingtonpost.com] On July 12th, the internet is planning a day of action to save net neutrality, just like the SOPA blackout and Internet Slowdown [privateinternetaccess.com]Net neutralit...
[10:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reddit, Amazon Push for "Day of Action" on July 12 to Protest the Killing of Net Neutrality - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:24] <exec> 08└─Do you want some bureaucrat deciding the only ISP in your area should be shut down?
[10:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Reddit, Amazon Push for "Day of Action" on July 12 to Protest the Killing of Net Neutrality - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:26] <exec> 08└─I don't think Google and Netflix are so much enemies as just not fighting either way as they're big enough to throw their weight around even without neutrality. It's very short-sighted (and really, anti-consumer of them). Apple will probably come out for it for marketing purposes, which is a little...
[10:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03radu [1919] (Score: 1) 02 - 06United Airlines Supervisor Injures Musician's Hand While Wresting Antique Violin in Baggage Dispute - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:43] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=united+breaks+guitars [youtube.com]
[10:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06United Airlines Supervisor Injures Musician's Hand While Wresting Antique Violin in Baggage Dispute - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:44] <exec> 08└─Sure, it isn't an excuse, but like maintaining a system, having redundancies like letting them know ahead of time (maybe even asking for an employee escort) is good for when things go wrong. Especially when something is unusual (the cargo in this case). Having re-read the OP, I could have chosen bet...
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[11:36:00] <exec> 08└─How does this law many any sense at all? Some [stackpathdns.com] instruments [stackpathdns.com] would [stackpathdns.com] not [antiquesandthearts.com] even fit in the cargo hatch of a commercial airliner. I am a musician. Please clear two aisles for my drum set. I am legally entitled to bring it on t...
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[11:36:01] <exec> 08└─Sounds like "under certain conditions" means the musician should/could have notified them and organised this unusual requirement ahead of time. Did they?
[11:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03oakgrove [5864] (Score: 1) 02 - 06United Airlines Supervisor Injures Musician's Hand While Wresting Antique Violin in Baggage Dispute - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:03] <exec> 08└─A scorpion asks a frog to carry it across a river. The frog hesitates, afraid of being stung, but the scorpion argues that if it did so, they would both drown. Considering this, the frog agrees, but midway across the river the scorpion does indeed sting the frog, dooming them both. When the frog ask...
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[11:36:05] <exec> 08└─More nonsense in the name of security. The TSA and all the idiotic policies from it need to be abolished.
[11:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Report: CIOs Need to Embrace Open Source Software to Drive Change - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:25] <exec> 08└─It's mostly junk and if you aren't a disabled transsexual lesbian unicorn with a feminine penis, they don't want [ruby-lang.org] you [archive.org] anyway [archive.org]. That said, I wouldn't piss on an open source licensed software if its asshole was on fire.
[11:42:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Kansas' Experiment with Reducing Taxes Ends in Failure, Republicans Override the Governor's Veto - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:48] <exec> 08└─The tax breaks are for the benefit of the people who invested in Company A and would have invested in Company A over Company B any day of the week, but would rather get a 50% return than a 40% return.
[11:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Kansas' Experiment with Reducing Taxes Ends in Failure, Republicans Override the Governor's Veto - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:49] <exec> 08└─Trickle down economics don't. That was last re-learned 20-30 years ago.
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[11:43:54] <exec> 08└─Just wanted to tell that if you don't follow the most elemental security basics, strong encryption won't help you much. , the post-it on the monitor may be a safer place
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[12:35:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Could Build New Nuclear Plants or Replace Existing Ones - 656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:19] <exec> 08└─Japan already is one of the worlds larger users of hydroelectricity but it only makes up about 8% of their total usage. But if that isn't enough there might not be any choice but to go nuclear. Looking at the modes of production there are notable changes after Fukushima where nuclear power goes from...
[12:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Japan Could Build New Nuclear Plants or Replace Existing Ones - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:20] <exec> 08└─Having said that, they also need to throw what little remains of their financial resources into a fusion moonshot project to replace them ASAP once they have a working fusion reactor prototype. Knowing what they do now, they should have no problems building nuke plants that won't fail critical, for...
[12:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmoschner [3296] (Score: 2) 02 - 06United Airlines Supervisor Injures Musician's Hand While Wresting Antique Violin in Baggage Dispute - 754 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:04] <exec> 08└─Per the FAA rules the instrument must be "in accordance with FAA safety regulations and the carrier’s FAA-approved carry-on baggage program." If the carrier's FAA-approved program limits the size of carry on items to smaller than a violin and case, then it has to be checked. Most Violin cases are...
[12:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06United Airlines Supervisor Injures Musician's Hand While Wresting Antique Violin in Baggage Dispute - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:06] <exec> 08└─Only a grand piano? I expected one of the links to lead to a pipe organ...
[12:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03justinb_76 [4362] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Pays Farmers Billions to Save the Soil but It's Blowing Away - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:00] <exec> 08└─"That fucking jackass in the WH is destroying all the national monuments" wait, wut???? last I heard, it was a bunch of anti-White racist revisionist history fucktards that were tearing down monuments... (pardon me, but I'm still a bit miffed over the complete and utter lack of any mention of the 50...
[12:42:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Kansas' Experiment with Reducing Taxes Ends in Failure, Republicans Override the Governor's Veto - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:54] <exec> 08└─This might be true, but even so, I don't want too many Mississippians to die during this experiment.
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[12:42:56] <exec> 08└─2) Most other countries continue to use that same currency to trade and hold large amounts of it.
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[13:35:23] <exec> 08└─Are you for example going to lump technical things into another thread too? Heck, all we need is one thread that lumps everything together, journals included...
[13:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:24] <exec> 08└─It is a site about technology, not politics. So politics should only be involved as far as it touches are affects the use of technology. But if Washington would disappear into a sinkhole that would.. not matter. But if New York disappeared into a sinkhole that would matter and be news because all th...
[13:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:26] <exec> 08└─Very disappointed in what happened. Very sad day! My heartfelt condolences to Paul Nuttall and the UKIP. #BritainTogether
[13:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:28] <exec> 08└─In the interest of trying to keep political discussions from spilling over into other stories,
[13:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 1297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:31] <exec> 08└─The information is largely circumstantial, but there is a non-zero chance that Comey is a suave, well-dressed weasel. He has been in the orbit of the Clinton Foundation for a long time, perhaps coincidentally, perhaps not. [ijr.com] Many people (including many of us who hold, or once held high-level...
[13:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:33] <exec> 08└─Moolti-Pass!
[13:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:35] <exec> 08└─It is a site about technology, not politics.
[13:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 951 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:37] <exec> 08└─I think political topics are - within limits - important on Soylent. Like it or not, politics is the backdrop against which we operate technology. - Theresa May's election is relevant, because it affect Brexit, which will affect technology companies throughout Europe. Also, she's sufficiently delude...
[13:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:40] <exec> 08└─+1 Insightful to kaszz Last I heard, the eds attempt to run no more than one Politics story a day. It just so happens three were relevant and timely news this morning, which is quite uncommon. The politics nexus is not there because we want more political stories; it's there so people who don't can...
[13:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:42] <exec> 08└─> But there are all these rumors around about Trump and Russia that Comey's FBI may be investigating I thought at least one senior political aide in the Trump campaign resigned for being in bed with Putin. It rather puts weight to the rumours.
[13:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:44] <exec> 08└─http://slashdot.com
[13:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:46] <exec> 08└─Agreed. You can just ignore the Politics nexus if you are not interested in discussions on the topic, but lumping three issues with only a single tenuous connection between the latter two, and which are each quite likely to produce a lively debate, into a single thread is likely to just result in a...
[13:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:49] <exec> 08└─So I live in the UK. Next time there is a US presidential election, you wanna lump that in with a story about some innards of how GCHQ works? There's quite a few non-US folks here.
[13:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03WalksOnDirt [5854] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Could Build New Nuclear Plants or Replace Existing Ones - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:58] <exec> 08└─Hokkaido needs nuclear. Okinawa doesn't.
[13:36:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Japan Could Build New Nuclear Plants or Replace Existing Ones - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:01] <exec> 08└─Having said that, they also need to throw what little remains of their financial resources into a fusion moonshot project to replace them ASAP once they have a working fusion reactor prototype.
[13:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan Could Build New Nuclear Plants or Replace Existing Ones - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:03] <exec> 08└─their financial resources into a fusion moonshot project to replace them ASAP once they have a working fusion reactor prototype.
[13:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Could Build New Nuclear Plants or Replace Existing Ones - 1387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:05] <exec> 08└─There are many alternatives: * Fission: Breeder reactor that will produce more fuel than it consumes (superficially, the energy principle still applies) * Fission: Accelerator driven reactor to re-use "spent" fission fuel. * Fission: Liquid cores * Fission: Using liquid metal or salt coo...
[13:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Could Build New Nuclear Plants or Replace Existing Ones - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:07] <exec> 08└─What kind of people are in charge of Japan then? Btw, the 5th generation project seems to have failed but it likely generated a lot of spinoff and lot's of trained engineers.
[13:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bogus Bitcoiners Battered With US$12 Million Penalty - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:16] <exec> 08└─bilked 10,000 investors out of about $20 million in what was essentially a Ponzi scheme.
[13:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06United Airlines Supervisor Injures Musician's Hand While Wresting Antique Violin in Baggage Dispute - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:54] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately too many times had people not enforced the rules
[13:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06United Airlines Supervisor Injures Musician's Hand While Wresting Antique Violin in Baggage Dispute - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:56] <exec> 08└─I didn't interpret it as that you said the victim was to blame. But that the staff didn't know their own rules. Which the company has to take responsibility for and no one else.
[13:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06United Airlines Supervisor Injures Musician's Hand While Wresting Antique Violin in Baggage Dispute - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:58] <exec> 08└─Protip: anyone with the upper body strength to have a grand piano as a carry on isn't going to be fucked with by airline employees.
[13:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06United Airlines Supervisor Injures Musician's Hand While Wresting Antique Violin in Baggage Dispute - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:00] <exec> 08└─Per the FAA rules the instrument must be "in accordance with FAA safety regulations and the carrier’s FAA-approved carry-on baggage program." If the carrier's FAA-approved program limits the size of carry on items to smaller than a violin and case, then it has to be checked. Most Violin cases are...
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[13:38:12] <exec> 08└─The factor that distinguishes a democracy is the distribution of power towards the majority of the people. And whether by manipulation or force, neither the US nor NK are democracies in the sense of the majority having power to prioritize their own interests over the wealthy or the powerful. Voting...
[13:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trying to Solve the Gerrymandering Problem - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:13] <exec> 08└─(1) Have relatively equal numbers of voters in each district (2) Make districts relatively "compact" (3) Make district boundaries correspond to municipal/communal boundaries (4) Divide districts to produce a final set of representatives that roughly corresponds to the overall voter breakdown (Dems v...
[13:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trying to Solve the Gerrymandering Problem - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:16] <exec> 08└─When did you think that being human involves cooperation outside the size group of a tribe? Being Human is about competition, not cooperation. Any cooperation to be had only allows us to compete better.
[13:38:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rooftop Solar Returning to Nevada - 1110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:38] <exec> 08└─The reality is paying subsidies to coal generation plants is nothing less than a wealth transfer from poor taxpayers to rich CEOs running utilities so they can #MakeBank. The utility can produce electricity at really low rates, but the executives still search for ways to dump those costs onto the re...
[13:40:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mojo chan [266] 02 - 06Assessing Child Abusers Using VR - 340 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:28] <exec> 08└─In previous experiments it was found that men who said they found gay sex disgusting actually got aroused a little when seeing it. Turns out that the body is so hard wired for reproduction that even when the conscious mind is not into it, the body will try to get ready anyway. This sounds like total...
[13:42:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Your Shrink. Woebot Will See You Now - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:02] <exec> 08└─Good point, But the worst part is not that government is able to invade your privacy, but the fact that facebook, a stupid company of marketing, is allowed to invade your privacy
[13:43:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kansas' Experiment with Reducing Taxes Ends in Failure, Republicans Override the Governor's Veto - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:57] <exec> 08└─Yes, yes, all taxes are evil, we get it. That carefully ignores my point, which is that the governments' ability to change investors' minds about where to put their money is far smaller than other factors like customer demand for the product and how efficient the company is at producing said product...
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[14:35:23] <exec> 08└─Just sayin'.
[14:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Adds Lots of Certified Pre-Owned Model S Vehicles for Under $40,000 with New Warranty - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:24] <exec> 08└─I don't track new car prices much, but over $30K always seemed pretty steep. I'm used to thinking of the engine as one of if not the most expensive piece in a car, which meant an electric ought to be significantly cheaper. But... I'm guessing a combustion engine is around $2K. Seems going electric w...
[14:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Adds Lots of Certified Pre-Owned Model S Vehicles for Under $40,000 with New Warranty - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:26] <exec> 08└─Hmm. I just bought a used 2007 Ford Ranger pickup for $4,000 USD with 29,000 miles on it. I'm happy.
[14:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Tesla Adds Lots of Certified Pre-Owned Model S Vehicles for Under $40,000 with New Warranty - 1135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:29] <exec> 08└─It won't help Trump a bit with MAGA. Look first at all, it's about that little prick Elon, who left his position as a councillor for Trump. The result? Many of the states showed a finger (oh, God, a single one, not even two) to Trump and decided to go on their own with CO2 and other stupid things. I...
[14:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Adds Lots of Certified Pre-Owned Model S Vehicles for Under $40,000 with New Warranty - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:31] <exec> 08└─why do you hate the planet? only musk can save us, and you're trying to kill us!
[14:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:51] <exec> 08└─Trump! Trump! Trump!
[14:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Webweasel [567] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:52] <exec> 08└─/me waves the union flag in a half-hearted were all fucked manner.
[14:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03GlennC [3656] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:55] <exec> 08└─Keep up the good work!
[14:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:57] <exec> 08└─Looks like McCarthyism is back in a big way. Look, Russia is a big country that does big business. Some on the shady side, but for good or ill they're major players. Is everybody who ever talked to a Russian now part of some vast global conspiracy? That would render about 99% of official Washington...
[14:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 771 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:59] <exec> 08└─- 3 political articles in a row: ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE... too much politics! This is a tech site!!! - 3 political articles in one: ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE... too much politics in one article! Should be 3 separate articles!!! - No political articles at all: ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE... don't you know that...
[14:36:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:01] <exec> 08└─Since it is possible for those who do not want politics to avoid them, what is the justification to lump 3 politics stories into one? Punish soylenters who like politics or what? You can defend your editor minions as much as you like, that doesn't make screw-ups right!
[14:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 1357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:03] <exec> 08└─Why would Trump be disappointed? As far as the EU is concerned, he's clearly only interested in sowing as much discord as possible to try and Make America Great Again, and the more chaos that results from Brexit the better. Besides, we've finally got an answer of sorts to the question that should h...
[14:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:06] <exec> 08└─/me waves the union flag in a half-hearted were all fucked manner.
[14:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pax [5056] (Score: 1) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:08] <exec> 08└─/me waves the union flag in a half-hearted were all fucked manner.
[14:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 889 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:10] <exec> 08└─Slashdot dumped the "News for Nerds" tag ages ago, before "Fuck Beta" and the creation of Soylent IIRC, and currently runs far more stories without a specific tech angle than Soylent does. That's particularly noticeable not only in their politics coverage, but also of every single legal spat that Ub...
[14:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:12] <exec> 08└─Frankly, I think the guy is a smooth operator, who's doing his damnedest to sabotage Trump.
[14:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 1, Redundant) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:14] <exec> 08└─who's doing his damnedest to sabotage Trump
[14:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:17] <exec> 08└─would have given the committee an impeachable offence there and then?
[14:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:19] <exec> 08└─if New York disappeared into a sinkhole that would matter and be news because all those switches and servers along with techs would be missing
[14:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:21] <exec> 08└─Are you for example going to lump technical things into another thread too? Heck, all we need is one thread that lumps everything together, journals included... It might make sense to lump the two Trump stories together but lumping US & UK politics just means the UK stuff probably won't be discussed...
[14:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan Could Build New Nuclear Plants or Replace Existing Ones - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:35] <exec> 08└─I think Japan has a good shoot at this.
[14:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bogus Bitcoiners Battered With US$12 Million Penalty - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:45] <exec> 08└─LOL. Investing in Bitcoin? Sounds like they got precisely what they wanted to invest in! [ducks]
[14:36:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bogus Bitcoiners Battered With US$12 Million Penalty - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:47] <exec> 08└─So they bilked customers out of $20M, and now they have to pay a $12M fine for their fraud. That leaves them with $8M in profit.
[14:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaganar [605] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reddit, Amazon Push for "Day of Action" on July 12 to Protest the Killing of Net Neutrality - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:02] <exec> 08└─Do you want some bureaucrat deciding the only ISP in your area should be shut down?
[14:37:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06United Airlines Supervisor Injures Musician's Hand While Wresting Antique Violin in Baggage Dispute - 501 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:31] <exec> 08└─Per the FAA rules the instrument must be "in accordance with FAA safety regulations and the carrier’s FAA-approved carry-on baggage program." If the carrier's FAA-approved program limits the size of carry on items to smaller than a violin and case, then it has to be checked. Most Violin cases are...
[14:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06United Airlines Supervisor Injures Musician's Hand While Wresting Antique Violin in Baggage Dispute - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:32] <exec> 08└─This incident doesn't seem to have anything to do with security. The alleged altercation was with airline staff and presumably on airside.
[14:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Report: CIOs Need to Embrace Open Source Software to Drive Change - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:54] <exec> 08└─Open Source is FREE SLAVE LABOR.
[14:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trying to Solve the Gerrymandering Problem - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:50] <exec> 08└─If the districts are drawn impartially and roughly equal in population, it should reflect the demographics.
[14:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trying to Solve the Gerrymandering Problem - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:51] <exec> 08└─To be clear, what I said in my last paragraph about what was "possible" doesn't mean it's likely for a distribution to be so skewed. My broader point is that compact districts don't guarantee proportional representation. And as long as criterion (4) is a priority for politicians (and it obviously is...
[14:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trying to Solve the Gerrymandering Problem - 3497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:53] <exec> 08└─Our current system was setup in the days of near non-existent long range communications. 1] WoM - word of mouth Who you votin' for? Bob. Whar's he from? New York. Nev'r heard of either. -- later he's a dem/rep/ind/etc is only answer -- thin...
[14:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trying to Solve the Gerrymandering Problem - 581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:55] <exec> 08└─"Overall, putting the quality-of-life issues aside, I'd wager the average American is about as politically powerful as the average North Korean." Unfortunately, quality-of-life includes politically meaningful action, so your statement is essentially null. Moving from one place to another is somethin...
[14:39:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Pays Farmers Billions to Save the Soil but It's Blowing Away - 715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:41] <exec> 08└─If they had wanted to do something more practical, they could simply have instituted something like a tax break for approved measures, such as fallowing land, pasture cropping, strip farming between windbreaks and so on. Motivate the right behaviour, in other words, rather than trying to get some ki...
[14:40:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Milky Way Resides in a Great Cosmic Void - 852 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:09] <exec> 08└─There have been numerous reports throughout recorded history of unidentified flying objects. Yeah, probably mostly easily explained by meteors, drunk people, etc. Notice how there were lots of reports of UFOs several decades ago, and now there's none? Simple explanation: we were visited by ETs for a...
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[15:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Closer-than-Normal Moon Will Bring Higher-than-Normal Tides this Summer - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:29] <exec> 08└─The government is trying to paper over the inconvenient facts that global warming is raising the tides! Wake up, sheeple!
[15:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Closer-than-Normal Moon Will Bring Higher-than-Normal Tides this Summer - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:31] <exec> 08└─It's easy to swim climb Mount Everest now: but no.... no global warming here, by gum! AAAAND, all the sheeple have drowned. Maybe it's Darwin warming?
[15:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Closer-than-Normal Moon Will Bring Higher-than-Normal Tides this Summer - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:33] <exec> 08└─Climate Change is raising the sea levels, and a closer moon will raise the tides. I'm curious to see how much damage the two together will cause. *gets popcorn*
[15:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Closer-than-Normal Moon Will Bring Higher-than-Normal Tides this Summer - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:35] <exec> 08└─Ho-hum. How far do you live from tidal waters? Does it even affect you? TBH, tides have never affected me, except for the time I was in the Navy. Even then, out at sea, the tide means almost nothing. In port, it only made a little difference in the slope of the gangway (That walkway with rails that...
[15:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Closer-than-Normal Moon Will Bring Higher-than-Normal Tides this Summer - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:37] <exec> 08└─I blame all the solar and wind energy that has been installed in recent years.
[15:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Tesla Adds Lots of Certified Pre-Owned Model S Vehicles for Under $40,000 with New Warranty - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:49] <exec> 08└─Tesla is a low-volume manufacturer; that increases costs. Moreover, an enormous amount of resources has been poured into research and development of the car, from the ground up. Something like a Tesla car doesn't just pop into existence when a few fratboys get together in their garage and decide to...
[15:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Adds Lots of Certified Pre-Owned Model S Vehicles for Under $40,000 with New Warranty - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:50] <exec> 08└─Wow, nice deal!
[15:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Adds Lots of Certified Pre-Owned Model S Vehicles for Under $40,000 with New Warranty - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:52] <exec> 08└─Besides, you can't roll coal in a Tesla.
[15:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Adds Lots of Certified Pre-Owned Model S Vehicles for Under $40,000 with New Warranty - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:55] <exec> 08└─Tesla is a low-volume manufacturer; that increases costs. Moreover, an enormous amount of resources has been poured into research and development of the car, from the ground up. Something like a Tesla car doesn't just pop into existence when a few fratboys get together in their garage and decide to...
[15:36:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 160 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:04] <exec> 08└─Are you for example going to lump technical things into another thread too? Heck, all we need is one thread that lumps everything together, journals included...
[15:36:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tonyPick [1237] 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 91 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:26] <exec> 08└─Frankly, I think the guy is a smooth operator, who's doing his damnedest to sabotage Trump.
[15:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:32] <exec> 08└─Trump doesn't really understand geopolitics. Not even a little bit. Putin would clearly be interested in sowing as much discord as possible. Since that has been successfully done in the US already, Trump the puppet could be used to sow discord in the EU. It's not like Trump has any understanding of...
[15:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:34] <exec> 08└─It's actually slashdot.org, but .com apparently redirects to there.
[15:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:36] <exec> 08└─It's not McCarthyism. It's Trump's big mouth. Suggesting during the campaign that Russia hack the DNC, combined with having significant business ties in Russia that could compromise one, and refusing to divest oneself, naturally lead to suspicion. Who would have thought. Short version: Trump brought...
[15:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:38] <exec> 08└─Didn't Comey serve three different administrations?
[15:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Webweasel [567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 1650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:41] <exec> 08└─Not sure what point your trying to make there? As for a positive can do attitude, that's impossible under first past the post. So what were my options for voting yesterday? A) Conservative. Who want to spy on our interwebz. Nope. B) Labour, with a leader who won't press the nuclear button and thinks...
[15:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:43] <exec> 08└─Only 8% of Labour voters named Brexit as the most important issue in their decision, compared to 48% of those who voted Conservative. [lordashcroftpolls.com]
[15:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 783 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:45] <exec> 08└─It's the same offence that brought Nixon down, and while yes it wouldn't have supported a conviction by itself, but it wouldn't have to be anything other than he-said-she-said to be very politically difficult for Trump (Seriously, former US-DAG and FBI director with a track record under Repubs & Dem...
[15:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 1144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:47] <exec> 08└─As you say, first-past-the-post does a bad job of representing voters' interests. And because the voting reform referendum failed in the UK not that long ago, getting voting reform in the UK any time soon is unlikely, but still worth making noise about. Unfortunately, of those bad choices, someone i...
[15:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:50] <exec> 08└─Proportional representation was rejected by the UK people years ago.
[15:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:52] <exec> 08└─Lord Sutch, your country needs you.
[15:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan Could Build New Nuclear Plants or Replace Existing Ones - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:07] <exec> 08└─I'd rather they don't. They fucked this shit up already.
[15:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bogus Bitcoiners Battered With US$12 Million Penalty - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:18] <exec> 08└─Maybe next time they'll try to make money the old fashioned way. Bilk people out of money by starting an internet service provider, mobile phone company, or cable tv company.
[15:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bogus Bitcoiners Battered With US$12 Million Penalty - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:19] <exec> 08└─or go work for the pigs in government.
[15:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Weasley [6421] (Score: 2) 02 - 06United Airlines Supervisor Injures Musician's Hand While Wresting Antique Violin in Baggage Dispute - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:05] <exec> 08└─This succinctly summarizes all possible replies. Threads closed, folks. Everyone head home.
[15:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06United Airlines Supervisor Injures Musician's Hand While Wresting Antique Violin in Baggage Dispute - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:07] <exec> 08└─they are slaves on a slave ship. that is well established before the slaves are loaded onto the ship. see tsa grope, irradiate, etc.
[15:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06United Airlines Supervisor Injures Musician's Hand While Wresting Antique Violin in Baggage Dispute - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:09] <exec> 08└─Found the victim blamer!
[15:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06United Airlines Supervisor Injures Musician's Hand While Wresting Antique Violin in Baggage Dispute - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:11] <exec> 08└─The regulation specifically limits itself to instruments that will physically fit in an overhead bin. But practically, if you manage to walk on a plane with a grand piano on your back, just growl if they look at you funny and they probably won't give you any trouble.
[15:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon to Lay Off Around 2,100 from Combined Yahoo!-AOL Entity - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:22] <exec> 08└─Which projects do you think they will botch
[15:38:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Report: CIOs Need to Embrace Open Source Software to Drive Change - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:35] <exec> 08└─It's mostly junk
[15:38:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report: CIOs Need to Embrace Open Source Software to Drive Change - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:36] <exec> 08└─The software running this forum is open-source, you moron. If you're not a complete hypocrite, you'll leave this place.
[15:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trying to Solve the Gerrymandering Problem - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:35] <exec> 08└─A human transcends his natural urges, redirects them into something useful. The species is on autopilot like any other animal. Competition is natural, but it is sub-human.
[15:39:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trying to Solve the Gerrymandering Problem - 766 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:37] <exec> 08└─> quality-of-life includes politically meaningful action If an individual decides to move to another state or buy a foreign car, the political map stays the same. Meaning, it's exactly like voting where the average American['s right of mobility and choice] is about as politically powerful as the ave...
[15:40:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rooftop Solar Returning to Nevada - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:01] <exec> 08└─To be fair, the people are often required by law to be attached to the grid, so paying them retail for their power up to their usage seems pretty fair since if they could unattach legally they'd be able to avoid all that cost.
[15:40:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03CZB [6457] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Pays Farmers Billions to Save the Soil but It's Blowing Away - 2747 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:26] <exec> 08└─Hi, I'm one of those farmers who has land in the CRP program, and cropland I till up in big dusty clouds. Like any industry, when you get into into the details it gets complicated. Popular articles about farming are frustrating because journalists rarely understand the situation they are reporting o...
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[16:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Closer-than-Normal Moon Will Bring Higher-than-Normal Tides this Summer - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:47] <exec> 08└─Corn fields flooded. Fake butter gloop more watery than acceptable. No popcorn for YOU!
[16:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Closer-than-Normal Moon Will Bring Higher-than-Normal Tides this Summer - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:49] <exec> 08└─Hallelujah! The Sheeple [xkcd.com] have been vanquished at last!
[16:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ingar [801] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Closer-than-Normal Moon Will Bring Higher-than-Normal Tides this Summer - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:51] <exec> 08└─The 1953 North Sea flood [wikipedia.org] was caused by a combination of high spring tide and a severe storm. I wonder how much damage it could have done if the tide had been slightly higher-than-usual.
[16:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Adds Lots of Certified Pre-Owned Model S Vehicles for Under $40,000 with New Warranty - 1683 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:07] <exec> 08└─> Tesla holds a tight grip on its used vehicle market I'd agree with "Tesla has the largest stock of used Model S available from one source", but it's hardly a tight grip. Here is a used car site, http://www.getauto.com [getauto.com] that lists 129...
[16:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Adds Lots of Certified Pre-Owned Model S Vehicles for Under $40,000 with New Warranty - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:08] <exec> 08└─How's gonna Trump justify wasting money in the one or two wars in the middle east?
[16:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Adds Lots of Certified Pre-Owned Model S Vehicles for Under $40,000 with New Warranty - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:11] <exec> 08└─Yeah, fuck you martyb and your "trying to keep political discussions from spilling over into other stories" [soylentnews.org].
[16:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Adds Lots of Certified Pre-Owned Model S Vehicles for Under $40,000 with New Warranty - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:13] <exec> 08└─Most likely so has every hotel room you've ever stayed in, do you bring a hazmat suit with you on your vacations?
[16:36:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 269 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:39] <exec> 08└─Since it is possible for those who do not want politics to avoid them, what is the justification to lump 3 politics stories into one? Punish soylenters who like politics or what? You can defend your editor minions as much as you like, that doesn't make screw-ups right!
[16:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:59] <exec> 08└─It's actually a commercial site, and has been for years.
[16:37:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:01] <exec> 08└─I'll give you Uber's self driving car development programme though;
[16:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:03] <exec> 08└─Whoooa: you can afford 'fukitol'? Can you spare a dime, Richy Rich? I'm stuck with 'fukitol max-lite-zero'. :(
[16:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:05] <exec> 08└─Many people (including many of us who hold, or once held high-level clearances) thought it clear that Hillary should have been prosecuted for her handling of classified information - and Comey is the one who let her off the hook.
[16:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 729 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:07] <exec> 08└─@ bradley, all true enough, comey is a deep state weasel, period... (you simply don't get to that level without being a deep-stater, or a total-tool boy scout fool, who is used like a condom but doesn't realize it because they are a twue bewiever...) . further, comey and mueller are joined at the hi...
[16:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 878 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:10] <exec> 08└─The thing about impeachable offenses is that impeachable offenses are whatever Congress says they are. I mean, if you look at the two times a president was actually impeached, the offenses were: 1. Andrew Johnson - Firing his Secretary of War when Congress had passed a law (overriding Johnson's veto...
[16:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:12] <exec> 08└─Only if you count the Trump administration.
[16:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:14] <exec> 08└─"I say we waterboard Trump, Comey, Hillary, etc until we get the truth." "I say we waterboard them, them HANG them." "I say we waterboard them, then we HANG them, then we KILL! them." *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) https://www.youtube.com
[16:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:16] <exec> 08└─Not that that really matters one way or the other. You still end up on the .org domain.
[16:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:18] <exec> 08└─Its not a typical witchhunt if you spot people flying by on brooms.
[16:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:21] <exec> 08└─Or, should i say: "Hookers and blow, hookers and blow: i just want hookers and blow!"
[16:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03BananaPhone [2488] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Could Build New Nuclear Plants or Replace Existing Ones - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:37] <exec> 08└─IMHO they should at least reproduce the Molten Salt Reactor. -Self regulating -passive safety (Freeze plug) -No shutdown needed to refuel -Higher temp (good for industrial processes, not just boiling water to make power) -No high-pressure -No MASSIVE building (could fit in a shipping container!) -va...
[16:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bogus Bitcoiners Battered With US$12 Million Penalty - 1079 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:50] <exec> 08└─Every day, I'm amazed at how the suppos-ed "geeks and nerds" at both this site and /. fail to "see" that it's not about the "coin", it's about the blockchain - thus far "bitcoin" is winning; "bitcoin", itself, may be a "bubble" and may, one day, "burst" (i doubt it, but i'm not concerned), but the b...
[16:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Bogus Bitcoiners Battered With US$12 Million Penalty - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:52] <exec> 08└─lol, u didn't read ak's postscript b4 rant /lol
[16:38:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06United Airlines Supervisor Injures Musician's Hand While Wresting Antique Violin in Baggage Dispute - 812 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:42] <exec> 08└─This summer I will take my first flight since about 2002 or so. But rather than apprehensive, I'm really excited. On August 21 there will be a total solar eclipse across N. Central Oregon. Every hotel in that region has been booked solid for quite some time. When I was figuring this out and contempl...
[16:40:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trying to Solve the Gerrymandering Problem - 1722 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:08] <exec> 08└─A constitutional amendment: All members of congress are allowed to submit one distracting map (these maps are kept secret until a deadline). The map that will become the new districting map is the one that is both legal and "best". A legal map: 1) Covers the entire area of the map with exactly one d...
[16:40:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trying to Solve the Gerrymandering Problem - 964 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:10] <exec> 08└─You're missing the point. Voting with your feet (by moving from, say, South Dakota to, say, California) isn't very significant for one individual, but in aggregate is a meaningful element of changing the political landscape, and one that has been measured. The same option is not open to people in th...
[16:40:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trying to Solve the Gerrymandering Problem - 1082 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:12] <exec> 08└─It doesn't matter whether you do proportional representation (where the party puts its favourite pets at the head of the list), or first past the post (where all the voters for all the losers end up empty-handed). Ranked choice runs into the same problem. You're still voting to give an ape power. Wh...
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[17:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Closer-than-Normal Moon Will Bring Higher-than-Normal Tides this Summer - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:44] <exec> 08└─Millennial here. I only use locally-sourced, organic, cruelty-free, grass-fed butter or else avocado on my popquinoa [blogspot.com], you insensitive clod!
[17:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Closer-than-Normal Moon Will Bring Higher-than-Normal Tides this Summer - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:45] <exec> 08└─What is the risk for a repeat?
[17:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Closer-than-Normal Moon Will Bring Higher-than-Normal Tides this Summer - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:47] <exec> 08└─If a tropical storm coincides with the dates of higher tides it'll likely get flooding a lot farther inland. I don't know the chances that there will be damage, but tropical storms in the Pacific of varying levels of intensity were occurring nearly continuously last year from late June to mid Octobe...
[17:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Adds Lots of Certified Pre-Owned Model S Vehicles for Under $40,000 with New Warranty - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:08] <exec> 08└─So, if I buy one, I'll get some? Just askin'
[17:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Adds Lots of Certified Pre-Owned Model S Vehicles for Under $40,000 with New Warranty - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:09] <exec> 08└─Good thing there doesn't appear to be a violently imposed monopoly involved this time.
[17:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Adds Lots of Certified Pre-Owned Model S Vehicles for Under $40,000 with New Warranty - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:11] <exec> 08└─They dont make diesel rangers, so you cant in a ranger either.
[17:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Adds Lots of Certified Pre-Owned Model S Vehicles for Under $40,000 with New Warranty - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:13] <exec> 08└─Tesla is a low-volume manufacturer; that increases costs. Moreover, an enormous amount of resources has been poured into research and development of the car, from the ground up. Something like a Tesla car doesn't just pop into existence when a few fratboys get together in their garage and decide to...
[17:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Adds Lots of Certified Pre-Owned Model S Vehicles for Under $40,000 with New Warranty - 943 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:16] <exec> 08└─While poking around on various car sites, it looked like the lower cost used cars direct from Tesla were being snapped up quickly. Some guessed that the price was close enough to the upcoming Model 3 price that some people were buying a used S instead of waiting for a 3. In fact Tesla even seemed to...
[17:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Adds Lots of Certified Pre-Owned Model S Vehicles for Under $40,000 with New Warranty - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:19] <exec> 08└─Hmm. I just bought a used 2007 Ford Ranger pickup for $4,000 USD with 29,000 miles on it. I'm happy. Kelly Blue Book says that vehicle, with the bare minimum features and in very good condition is worth $7-8k. I'll assume you just got a really good deal but will point out that $4k is not a represent...
[17:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:15] <exec> 08└─Fair point - I was using impeach as shorthand for committed an actual crime (in this case specifically obstruction) which could fall under the whole "high Crimes and Misdemeanors", but you're absolutely right. (BTW: Good write up on opinions as to what actually counts as obstruction and why Comey's...
[17:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:17] <exec> 08└─I can really appreciate how you start with a conclusion that you like and then work backwards from there to justify it.
[17:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:19] <exec> 08└─Mostly the 20:1 ratio of ACs to registered users we have. ACs can't turn Politics off.
[17:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bogus Bitcoiners Battered With US$12 Million Penalty - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:50] <exec> 08└─Originally quote as more like $19M from investors in their first scheme. There was actually more than one scheme involved. https://www.sec.gov [sec.gov] I'm not clear on exactly how much they got to keep though. A Ponzi scheme implies they were paying out mon...
[17:38:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06United Airlines Supervisor Injures Musician's Hand While Wresting Antique Violin in Baggage Dispute - 138 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:35] <exec> 08└─This incident doesn't seem to have anything to do with security. The alleged altercation was with airline staff and presumably on airside.
[17:38:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06United Airlines Supervisor Injures Musician's Hand While Wresting Antique Violin in Baggage Dispute - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:41] <exec> 08└─Yes, if you can avoid commercial flying, it's still totally fun. I'm kind of waiting for them to drop the other shoe here, but inasmuch as private aircraft tend to be part of the playground of the rich, perhaps that won't happen. I'm lucky enough to be very near the eclipse footprint, so it's just a...
[17:38:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03kc99 [1039] (Score: 1) 02 - 06United Airlines Supervisor Injures Musician's Hand While Wresting Antique Violin in Baggage Dispute - 2642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:43] <exec> 08└─While the rules permit instruments in the cabin, that doesn't automatically entitle a person to bring them on board. From the Dept. of Transportation: "Carriers must allow passengers to stow their small musical instruments in an approved stowage area in the cabin if at the time the passenger board...
[17:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Malware uses Pop Star's Instagram Comments - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:15] <exec> 08└─Except this time it is a win for the malware authors or a win for the rest of the world. I mean, either their message infrastructure is bullet-proof or we no longer have to put up with Britney Spears' instagram account.
[17:40:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trying to Solve the Gerrymandering Problem - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:13] <exec> 08└─The problem with proportional representation, from the politicians view, is no clear winners and the parties having to work together, which to many voters sounds great.
[17:40:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rooftop Solar Returning to Nevada - 1902 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:39] <exec> 08└─Here is a useful hint: actually read the Prog drivel you post links to. Coal gets no subsidies in the U.S., they try to count standard deductions offered to all mining industries as 'taxes otherwise not collected, thus a subsidy' but even then can only scam up half a B. Some other money they count a...
[17:41:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Pays Farmers Billions to Save the Soil but It's Blowing Away - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:05] <exec> 08└─What t-3 wrote applies to crops are grown to feed livestock just as much as it does to crops that humans eat directly. In the United States, More than 90 million acres of land are planted to corn, with the majority of the crop grown in the Heartland region. Most of the crop is used as the main energ...
[17:41:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Pays Farmers Billions to Save the Soil but It's Blowing Away - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:06] <exec> 08└─Except that for most of their lives, these livestock eat range grass (which needs it, as it evolved to be grazed); grain is used only for finishing and supplements.
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[18:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Malware uses Intel AMT feature to steal data, avoid firewalls - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:29] <exec> 08└─SOL? Nice acronym...
[18:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Malware uses Intel AMT feature to steal data, avoid firewalls - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:30] <exec> 08└─As the AC sez dismissively above, it IS a desirable feature. Since it generally replaces IPMI, which usually required a subboard and was expensive, and nobody would even think about racking up machines without it, it is a must have feature. That isn't the problem. A processor baked into your micropr...
[18:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Malware uses Intel AMT feature to steal data, avoid firewalls - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:33] <exec> 08└─It sounds like you are suggesting the radical and subversive idea that if you own tons of rackable hardware that you should be able to fully control that hardware. Especially the keys used in the management of that hardware. Scandalous!
[18:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Malware uses Intel AMT feature to steal data, avoid firewalls - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:35] <exec> 08└─Why are the "This is because..." and "Intel ME runs even..." paragraphs quoted twice, word-for-word? Intel ME runs even when the main processor is powered off
[18:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Malware uses Intel AMT feature to steal data, avoid firewalls - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:37] <exec> 08└─"SOL traffic bypasses the local computer's networking stack, so local firewalls or security products won't be able to detect or block the malware" Sounds like a misconfigured firewall. You don't just blindly forward Ethernet packets if the encapsulation protocol isn't what's expected.
[18:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Malware uses Intel AMT feature to steal data, avoid firewalls - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:39] <exec> 08└─IP packets containing TCP tend to get through. If Ethernet MACs are locked down and specific TCP ports are blocked. It would be harder however.
[18:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Malware uses Intel AMT feature to steal data, avoid firewalls - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:42] <exec> 08└─You don't just blindly forward Ethernet packets if the encapsulation protocol isn't what's expected.
[18:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Malware uses Intel AMT feature to steal data, avoid firewalls - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:44] <exec> 08└─Sorry about that. Great catch. Even the editors mist it. Most people think if the computer is turned off, it must be completely safe. The green site used to have jokes about the only way for a computer to be safe was to unplug it. Some would assume that power off is safe enough.
[18:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Closer-than-Normal Moon Will Bring Higher-than-Normal Tides this Summer - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:02] <exec> 08└─For the tides? Are you fucking serious? Oh, wait, yes you are according to the title. Wow. I guess we can just throw science out the window whenever it is politically convenient, but that's a lot of damn science to throw out. Now, I'm not absolutely certain (just 100's of 9's), but the moon is respo...
[18:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Closer-than-Normal Moon Will Bring Higher-than-Normal Tides this Summer - 1953 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:03] <exec> 08└─I'm a little fuzzy on why this is that newsworthy, unless one is really into measuring tides. Perigean spring tides [wikipedia.org] occur a few times each year. They may exaggerated a little more in summer due to water expansion with higher temperatures. But this is par for the course and happens on...
[18:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Closer-than-Normal Moon Will Bring Higher-than-Normal Tides this Summer - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:05] <exec> 08└─It's just a matter of one of those storms making landfall on one of the windows of high tide to deal some absurd damage.
[18:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03ghost [4467] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tesla Adds Lots of Certified Pre-Owned Model S Vehicles for Under $40,000 with New Warranty - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:31] <exec> 08└─It's a combination of old spice, coriander, patchouli and copious amounts of bullshit. straight from Elon's anal glands.
[18:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Adds Lots of Certified Pre-Owned Model S Vehicles for Under $40,000 with New Warranty - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:33] <exec> 08└─the shale oil boom has made America a net oil producer
[18:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Adds Lots of Certified Pre-Owned Model S Vehicles for Under $40,000 with New Warranty - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:35] <exec> 08└─So the cars have been hacked even before delivery? :-)
[18:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Adds Lots of Certified Pre-Owned Model S Vehicles for Under $40,000 with New Warranty - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:37] <exec> 08└─Someone has to invent a weed or crack derivative named coal, sell it to greenies and blacks with the explicit instructions that you smoke it like a joint. I just want rednecks' tiny brains to explode when confronted with the idea that "rolling coal" was taken away by people they really don't want to...
[18:36:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03kaszz [4211] 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 365 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:48] <exec> 08└─It is a site about technology, not politics. So politics should only be involved as far as it touches are affects the use of technology. But if Washington would disappear into a sinkhole that would.. not matter. But if New York disappeared into a sinkhole that would matter and be news because all th...
[18:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:39] <exec> 08└─You forgot about tattooing them! *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) I have an excuse to use this tag finally! We should waterboard them, then we HANG them, then we KILL! them, and then we TATTOO!!eleven! them. *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) Do these things nest?...
[18:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 1064 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:40] <exec> 08└─Not really, just proves you are an idiot. 1. Trump didn't ask Russia to hack the DNC. 2. It wasn't the Russians. Seth Rich leaked the DNC email to WikiLeaks and was killed for his trouble. Wait for it. 3. Trump made a joke about Hillary Clinton's email, which the government was pretending it couldn'...
[18:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 967 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:43] <exec> 08└─Trump could certainly have made things better for himself by avoiding the appearance of corruption. (Even if not the actual fact of it.) Other presidents have released their taxes, sometimes going way back, just to avoid accusations. I'm not saying all others do things perfectly, but when Trump does...
[18:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:45] <exec> 08└─You got me there. :-) A three ring circus should have the following organization: 1. executive 2. legislative 3. judicial
[18:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:47] <exec> 08└─We could KILL them first, THEN we could HANG them, and finally waterboard them. Sort of like how you BURN and PILLAGE. Oh, wait. Pillage THEN burn. (pull the electrical power cord, restart the computer, then save your documents.)
[18:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:49] <exec> 08└─Colin Powell did the same thing and actually advised Clinton on how to set it up, but he never came close to prosecution.
[18:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Japan Could Build New Nuclear Plants or Replace Existing Ones - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:06] <exec> 08└─What kind of people are in charge of Japan then?
[18:38:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reddit, Amazon Push for "Day of Action" on July 12 to Protest the Killing of Net Neutrality - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:38] <exec> 08└─Time for ISPs to give Facebook a slooooowww motion coooonnnection? ;) I smell a Kickstarter! With the demise of NN we should all chip in to buy Facebook a slow-lane!
[18:38:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reddit, Amazon Push for "Day of Action" on July 12 to Protest the Killing of Net Neutrality - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:40] <exec> 08└─I'm thinking more of network technicians that intentionally make connections to Facebook slow and error prone ;) "oops"
[18:38:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reddit, Amazon Push for "Day of Action" on July 12 to Protest the Killing of Net Neutrality - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:42] <exec> 08└─Well, since you asked, I don't want some bureaucrat deciding that no other ISPs, especially municipal projects by the people and for the people, may operate in my area, you fucking cocksucking tool insensitive clod....
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[18:41:39] <exec> 08└─In case I wasn't the only one ignorant of what a Falling Number test is, Wikipedia has an article about it. It detects whether grain has sprouted, which can be a problem in bread-making. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[18:42:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Milky Way Resides in a Great Cosmic Void - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:08] <exec> 08└─Being in a "special" place rubs against the Copernicus Principle.
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[19:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Life on Mars, in Hawaii - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:36] <exec> 08└─> Their only communication with the outside world will be by email with a 20-minute delay Sure, but that door at the end of the corridor will NOT require 6 months to open in an actual emergency. That voids most "behavioral studies" from the start: Nobody's gonna go postal, die from life support fail...
[19:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Malware uses Intel AMT feature to steal data, avoid firewalls - 1720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:53] <exec> 08└─Ummmm, no. It is NOT desirable in any way, shape, or form. MANAGEMENT is they key fucking word here, yet AMT seems to be more about surreptitiously monitoring processes, memory, and being able to modify the OS without having the OS getting in the way of you. It's a HUGE fucking problem when a manage...
[19:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Malware uses Intel AMT feature to steal data, avoid firewalls - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:54] <exec> 08└─The problem is this ACPI/APM "power off" which leaves +5V DC 1A standby power. Which means that parts of the computer is still on..
[19:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Malware uses Intel AMT feature to steal data, avoid firewalls - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:56] <exec> 08└─Was going to say just that. Never has a system had a more accurate accurate acronym.
[19:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Malware uses Intel AMT feature to steal data, avoid firewalls - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:59] <exec> 08└─Gotta RTFA sometimes (or read the Ars version). A firewall running on the same processor will simply not see those packets, as they get diverted to SOL. Missing from TFS is the fact that this is all disabled by default. You need another malware, or a questionable configuration to enable it first, be...
[19:36:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Malware uses Intel AMT feature to steal data, avoid firewalls - 809 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:01] <exec> 08└─I discussed in college many years ago that the only way to be completely sure your computer was safe was to power it off, disconnect the cables, encase it in a lead shield, drop the shielded box into a vault with about 12-36 inch thick walls of cement buried roughly 100 feet into the ground in total...
[19:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Malware uses Intel AMT feature to steal data, avoid firewalls - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:03] <exec> 08└─Where is that power coming from, the cell battery? Or there's some backup battery wired into the AMT chip?
[19:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Malware uses Intel AMT feature to steal data, avoid firewalls - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:05] <exec> 08└─OK, so on a standalone box you can supposedly disable AMT completely in UEFI bios settings. Anyone know if that actually kills the bugger?
[19:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Malware uses Intel AMT feature to steal data, avoid firewalls - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:07] <exec> 08└─Oh, you weren't replying to me. Whoops.
[19:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Closer-than-Normal Moon Will Bring Higher-than-Normal Tides this Summer - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:28] <exec> 08└─Don't you realize that the moon is closer because of climate change. </sarcasm>
[19:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Closer-than-Normal Moon Will Bring Higher-than-Normal Tides this Summer - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:30] <exec> 08└─I wonder how much damage it could have done if the tide had been slightly higher-than-usual.
[19:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Closer-than-Normal Moon Will Bring Higher-than-Normal Tides this Summer - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:32] <exec> 08└─> Only fishermen really care about the tide - unless, of course, the tide happens to flood a few streets near you. Many towns in Florida are starting to get seawater in their streets on a regular basis. Mar-a-lago might be the best thing for the planet: "We have to protect my $200k/year golf resort"...
[19:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Closer-than-Normal Moon Will Bring Higher-than-Normal Tides this Summer - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:34] <exec> 08└─I wonder whether you noticed but it's a NOAA advisory the OP was referring to. :)
[19:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Leebert [3511] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Adds Lots of Certified Pre-Owned Model S Vehicles for Under $40,000 with New Warranty - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:04] <exec> 08└─They dont make diesel rangers, so you cant in a ranger either.
[19:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scrutinizer [6534] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Adds Lots of Certified Pre-Owned Model S Vehicles for Under $40,000 with New Warranty - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:06] <exec> 08└─Good thing there doesn't appear to be a violently imposed monopoly involved this time.
[19:37:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 1297 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:19] <exec> 08└─The information is largely circumstantial, but there is a non-zero chance that Comey is a suave, well-dressed weasel. He has been in the orbit of the Clinton Foundation for a long time, perhaps coincidentally, perhaps not. [ijr.com] Many people (including many of us who hold, or once held high-level...
[19:37:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 951 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:22] <exec> 08└─I think political topics are - within limits - important on Soylent. Like it or not, politics is the backdrop against which we operate technology. - Theresa May's election is relevant, because it affect Brexit, which will affect technology companies throughout Europe. Also, she's sufficiently delude...
[19:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:14] <exec> 08└─Then when he declares war on the media, that doesn't make him any friends.
[19:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:15] <exec> 08└─Despite Comey badly damaging the Clinton campaign with the letter about re-opening the email investigation..
[19:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:17] <exec> 08└─I think Jmo is sliding into homegrown terrorist territory. Someone should probably report him.
[19:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:20] <exec> 08└─Aristotle was just a bit before my time, but: Aristotle used some other words
[19:38:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Could Build New Nuclear Plants or Replace Existing Ones - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:38] <exec> 08└─It's upwind of Japan, and both SK and China may not like the resultant fission/fusion/lead/DU mix. Let's not go there. It's a silly place.
[19:38:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Could Build New Nuclear Plants or Replace Existing Ones - 1082 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:39] <exec> 08└─So what makes someone a child in this regard? It's the inability to plan and the inability to accept current pain for future gain. Japanese leadership has shown a lot of this behavior over the past two decades. This doesn't sound any different from American leadership these days. In fact, it seems p...
[19:38:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Japan Could Build New Nuclear Plants or Replace Existing Ones - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:41] <exec> 08└─but sacrificing too much in the process, and it's now biting them in the ass.
[19:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bogus Bitcoiners Battered With US$12 Million Penalty - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:58] <exec> 08└─French ducks quack: "Coin!" TMYK...
[19:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reddit, Amazon Push for "Day of Action" on July 12 to Protest the Killing of Net Neutrality - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:18] <exec> 08└─And I disagree with Netflix's opinion. As soon as a few major US providers put low caps on any video service they don't provide, Netflix will die. Netflix is acting as if those guys might play fair and accept payments, but killing Netflix will ensure much more revenue from cord-cutters coerced into...
[19:39:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06United Airlines Supervisor Injures Musician's Hand While Wresting Antique Violin in Baggage Dispute - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:56] <exec> 08└─If you can, it's long past time to stop flying commercially. I have. I think of it as having put all that airline ticket money into a very nice ground vehicle. It's turned out to be a great decision. I get to actually see the country, I ride in style and comfort, I stop and sleep anywhere I want, I...
[19:39:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06United Airlines Supervisor Injures Musician's Hand While Wresting Antique Violin in Baggage Dispute - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:58] <exec> 08└─If you can, it's long past time to stop flying commercially.
[19:42:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Pays Farmers Billions to Save the Soil but It's Blowing Away - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:22] <exec> 08└─You appear to be suggesting that the use of crops as animal feed is incidental? Alfalfa (not a grain) is mainly grown for livestock: Alfalfa is the fourth most widely grown crop in the United States, with an estimated annual value of 11.7 billion dollars. There are 26 million acres cut for hay [...]
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[20:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Life on Mars, in Hawaii - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:35] <exec> 08└─Sure, but that door at the end of the corridor will NOT require 6 months to open in an actual emergency. That voids most "behavioral studies" from the start: Nobody's gonna go postal, die from life support failure, or from a sudden health emergency.
[20:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Life on Mars, in Hawaii - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:36] <exec> 08└─They did say "like", not "identical". For me, the emphasis on behavioral studies rather than technology development is yet another indication of the spurious nature of Mars activity. They don't have any actual technology to test because there is no plan that would require such technologies.
[20:35:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06Malware uses Intel AMT feature to steal data, avoid firewalls - 1720 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:53] <exec> 08└─Ummmm, no. It is NOT desirable in any way, shape, or form. MANAGEMENT is they key fucking word here, yet AMT seems to be more about surreptitiously monitoring processes, memory, and being able to modify the OS without having the OS getting in the way of you. It's a HUGE fucking problem when a manage...
[20:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Malware uses Intel AMT feature to steal data, avoid firewalls - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:02] <exec> 08└─How did that train situation work? Was it a rail yard/factory with tracks running at/to difference elevations? Or was it simply somebody too cheap to pay the costs associated with transporting it offsite for disposal who chose instead to bury it, either below ground with established tracks, dumped b...
[20:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Malware uses Intel AMT feature to steal data, avoid firewalls - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:04] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure I would recommend misting SN. It may affect the shelf life :)
[20:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Malware uses Intel AMT feature to steal data, avoid firewalls - 1038 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:06] <exec> 08└─Nah, it's simpler. Just make a Faraday Cage. Then you put in a Rottweiler, like I had as a kid :) You cannot bypass a Rott, no matter what you've seen in the movies. Not getting around mine, and he was trained as a guard dog. Somebody once thought they could turn him with some treats, or a steak. En...
[20:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Malware uses Intel AMT feature to steal data, avoid firewalls - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:08] <exec> 08└─Virtually every x86 Server since the mid to late 1990's has a Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) that is a separate processor that runs when the system is off, runs a binary blob, can bypass all firewalls on the host operating system, is network connected, and controls and is hooked into all part...
[20:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Malware uses Intel AMT feature to steal data, avoid firewalls - 1369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:10] <exec> 08└─You're off your meds again Ed. AMT and TPM were not designed for casual users like you. It was designed for enterprise level deployment and management. Where with the push of a button a fresh image of a tightly secured OS is downloaded, verified, and imaged complete with data migration to thousands...
[20:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Malware uses Intel AMT feature to steal data, avoid firewalls - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:13] <exec> 08└─links or it didn't happen
[20:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Malware uses Intel AMT feature to steal data, avoid firewalls - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:16] <exec> 08└─Here's the answer anyway: The power supply (ATX) have a main power conversion part that is switched on or off depending on the visible power button and LED. Then there's a separate power conversion with 5 watt capacity that is always on until it's physically unplugged. Some have a real switch on the...
[20:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Malware uses Intel AMT feature to steal data, avoid firewalls - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:18] <exec> 08└─Supposedly yes. Another alternative is to zero out the relevant binary modules present in the BIOS memory using the correct checksums. Otherwise it will reset every 30 minutes, if the AMT doesn't get the correct code loaded to mitigate the watchdog alarm.
[20:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Closer-than-Normal Moon Will Bring Higher-than-Normal Tides this Summer - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:43] <exec> 08└─That's one of the years that they started over with Greek letters after they ran through the complete alphabet naming storms. [google.com] 2005 is another where that happened. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[20:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Closer-than-Normal Moon Will Bring Higher-than-Normal Tides this Summer - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:45] <exec> 08└─Looks like you have fallen for the propaganda. Global warming and now the moon are just a massive coverup to hide the small singularity that has been orbiting Earth for the last 19 years.
[20:36:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Closer-than-Normal Moon Will Bring Higher-than-Normal Tides this Summer - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:47] <exec> 08└─Hmm I might try that popquinoa
[20:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:30] <exec> 08└─Mostly the 20:1 ratio of ACs to registered users we have. ACs can't turn Politics off.
[20:38:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:31] <exec> 08└─I guess I'm one of the few that find it reasonable what the editors did.... It represents reality. Create a big room, label it politics, and get Tina Turner on a mic to be the sportscaster :) Ohh, and you definitely have to be part of Master Blaster. Not sure which end though ;)
[20:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Could Build New Nuclear Plants or Replace Existing Ones - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:53] <exec> 08└─> The only catch: Keep away from water. Molten salt and water mix violently. You seem to be confusing them with sodium-cooled reactors. Metallic sodium can react violently with water, if they come in contact. There are other disadvantages, however: https://en.wikipedia.org
[20:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rooftop Solar Returning to Nevada - 1344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:04] <exec> 08└─Fixing your ICE/horse vehicle comparison, which was really horse or not (there existed early electric vehicles and steam vehicles), you need to cause unpaid expenses for the horse farms and/or horse vehicle manufacturers. For example, horse births get taxed to pay for carriages, and then the carriag...
[20:43:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Milky Way Resides in a Great Cosmic Void - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:02] <exec> 08└─Notice how there were lots of reports of UFOs several decades ago, and now there's none?
[20:43:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Milky Way Resides in a Great Cosmic Void - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:04] <exec> 08└─it would have worked if you sub in "loose" for "big"
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[21:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SteamOS Update That Drops AMDGPU-PRO in Favour of Mesa Has Left Beta - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:23] <exec> 08└─"This is it! Finally! Linux is going mainstream!" Yet, it never quite happened.
[21:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SteamOS Update That Drops AMDGPU-PRO in Favour of Mesa Has Left Beta - 739 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:24] <exec> 08└─Even among those who still use Windoze for gaming, there are significant numbers who now use another OS to do all of their non-gaming stuff. Folks are tired of M$'s "critical" updates that aren't. Tired of getting 3GB of bandwidth and disk space chewed up for an "upgrade" that they never wanted. Tir...
[21:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SteamOS Update That Drops AMDGPU-PRO in Favour of Mesa Has Left Beta - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:26] <exec> 08└─Every *second* version? As far as I can tell only 98SE, 200, XP, and 7 were worth a damn.
[21:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SteamOS Update That Drops AMDGPU-PRO in Favour of Mesa Has Left Beta - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:28] <exec> 08└─About 300 Million [idc.com] non-iOs smarphones shipped in last quarter alone. I'd call Linux mainstream, even if most people don't notice.
[21:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Life on Mars, in Hawaii - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:40] <exec> 08└─IKEA engineers are pretending to live on Mars to help them design better furniture [popsci.com]
[21:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Life on Mars, in Hawaii - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:42] <exec> 08└─Weird how that onion link got labeled popsci.com
[21:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Life on Mars, in Hawaii - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:44] <exec> 08└─You high, bro?
[21:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Life on Mars, in Hawaii - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:47] <exec> 08└─Oh, sorry, shoulda tuned the complexity of the post to the person I was replying to: DUR THAT IDEA DUMB. SOUNDS LIKE SATIRE
[21:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Life on Mars, in Hawaii - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:49] <exec> 08└─Sorry for thinking of Tor instead of your favorite fake news site.
[21:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Malware uses Intel AMT feature to steal data, avoid firewalls - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:22] <exec> 08└─Seriously. AMT is both secure and desirable. Trust me; I'm an Intel engineer.
[21:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Malware uses Intel AMT feature to steal data, avoid firewalls - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:24] <exec> 08└─Basically, Intel reduced the cost of offering AMT to enterprises by making Joe Terminal help pay for it. It also helped economies of scale, because now you can just build the same product for both Joe Terminal and Joe Cog.
[21:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Malware uses Intel AMT feature to steal data, avoid firewalls - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:26] <exec> 08└─Here. [soylentnews.org]
[21:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Malware uses Intel AMT feature to steal data, avoid firewalls - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:28] <exec> 08└─Need another malware.... Does this imply Windows? Is Linux safe, or is this Intel "feature" is its own thing and your OS choice does not even matter? Does AMD have some equivalent of this malevolent bakeware? What recourse do we have against Intel ... a worldwide class action lawsuit?
[21:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Malware uses Intel AMT feature to steal data, avoid firewalls - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:31] <exec> 08└─AMT and TPM were not designed for casual users like you. It was designed for enterprise level deployment and management. Where with the push of a button a fresh image of a tightly secured OS is downloaded, verified, and imaged complete with data migration to thousands of machines in multiple locatio...
[21:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03etherscythe [937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Malware uses Intel AMT feature to steal data, avoid firewalls - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:33] <exec> 08└─You find a gun. Safety's on. Do you still pull the trigger to find out if it's loaded?
[21:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Malware uses Intel AMT feature to steal data, avoid firewalls - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:35] <exec> 08└─Oh yeah? What's 2.0 / 1.0? If you give me something without about eleventy hojillion random numbers after the decimal point you liiiiiiiiiie :D
[21:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Malware uses Intel AMT feature to steal data, avoid firewalls - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:37] <exec> 08└─You're off your meds again Ed.
[21:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Malware uses Intel AMT feature to steal data, avoid firewalls - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:39] <exec> 08└─You cannot bypass a Rott, no matter what you've seen in the movies.
[21:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Malware uses Intel AMT feature to steal data, avoid firewalls - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:42] <exec> 08└─Does this imply Windows?
[21:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Closer-than-Normal Moon Will Bring Higher-than-Normal Tides this Summer - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:10] <exec> 08└─Surfers give a pretty damn good shit about the tides, especially because there are some spots here (Garbage beach, so-named because seaweed likes to deposit itself there and rot, stinking like garbage) that can leave you very dangerously stranded when the tide goes up. That's a big deal because it's...
[21:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Closer-than-Normal Moon Will Bring Higher-than-Normal Tides this Summer - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:11] <exec> 08└─I'm wondering how you get the butter to eat the grass!
[21:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Closer-than-Normal Moon Will Bring Higher-than-Normal Tides this Summer - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:13] <exec> 08└─Or is the climate changing BECAUSE the moon is getting closer! Sneaky bugger, slooooowly inching/centimetering closer and closer whenever we're not watching it. Revenge for all the crap we dropped on it before ignoring it completely. *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) Bastard moon.....
[21:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Closer-than-Normal Moon Will Bring Higher-than-Normal Tides this Summer - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:16] <exec> 08└─That's no singularity: that's yo momma! :)
[21:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Closer-than-Normal Moon Will Bring Higher-than-Normal Tides this Summer - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:18] <exec> 08└─Just be glad i don't live there: with my luck an underwater earthquake would hit at that moment exactly and REALLY cause problems.
[21:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:02] <exec> 08└─There has been yellow journalism since way back. Possibly even before the 21st century. Now I agree that a lot of media has not done a good job. Because of ratings, money and political bias of their owners. But what would be the alternative? A government run official news organization? Trump might a...
[21:39:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:03] <exec> 08└─*SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) A billboard advertising Game of Thrones.... cause that's what ALL this is about
[21:39:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:06] <exec> 08└─As long as you're not killing then RAPING them. That is, apparently, against God. God is fine with raping, just not killing THEN raping. I am against raping.
[21:39:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:08] <exec> 08└─I think Jmo is sliding into homegrown terrorist territory. Someone should probably report him.
[21:40:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reddit, Amazon Push for "Day of Action" on July 12 to Protest the Killing of Net Neutrality - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:05] <exec> 08└─At the time (I can't find the reference), I read that the biggest factor in making SOPA a bad word in Congress was the Wikipedia front-page SOPA blackout, even more so than Google. If Wikipedia doesn't/weigh in on this, I suspect that would make or break the effort.
[21:40:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06United Airlines Supervisor Injures Musician's Hand While Wresting Antique Violin in Baggage Dispute - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:46] <exec> 08└─I prefer train travel myself, for longer distances: It cuts the travel time a bit because I don't have to stop to sleep, and basically I get to lounge around for a couple of days while the country goes by the windows. Plus, if you like chatting with strangers, there are plenty on board that also hav...
[21:40:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06United Airlines Supervisor Injures Musician's Hand While Wresting Antique Violin in Baggage Dispute - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:47] <exec> 08└─Best of luck driving to an overseas destination.
[21:40:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06United Airlines Supervisor Injures Musician's Hand While Wresting Antique Violin in Baggage Dispute - 858 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:49] <exec> 08└─For me, the idea of driving north from Oly through Everett on a weekday post eclipse, sounds like an apocalypse. The charter itself wasn't what I'd call super cheap -- about $1300 total (or $433 for each passenger) for the round trip, but it also isn't millionaire territory either. I figured it is p...
[21:42:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rooftop Solar Returning to Nevada - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:45] <exec> 08└─The cost of maintaining the grid is traditionally built into the utility rate. If you don't buy electricity, then you aren't paying a share of the cost to maintain the grid.
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[22:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SteamOS Update That Drops AMDGPU-PRO in Favour of Mesa Has Left Beta - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:32] <exec> 08└─It did for me: I have never looked back after dumping that turd in the ocean. Looks like you must have scooped my turd back out and are now cuddling with it! Good for you!!!
[22:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SteamOS Update That Drops AMDGPU-PRO in Favour of Mesa Has Left Beta - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:34] <exec> 08└─Can one use SteamOS without Poettering systemd ?
[22:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SteamOS Update That Drops AMDGPU-PRO in Favour of Mesa Has Left Beta - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:36] <exec> 08└─Ever heard of bootloaders?
[22:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SteamOS Update That Drops AMDGPU-PRO in Favour of Mesa Has Left Beta - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:38] <exec> 08└─Teh noes! Teh systemd is teh pwnz!
[22:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SteamOS Update That Drops AMDGPU-PRO in Favour of Mesa Has Left Beta - 947 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:40] <exec> 08└─This means if you give a damn about Free Software you must buy ATI now. (Or if performance isn't an issue, Intel integrated video is acceptable too.) No more whining and excuse making about NVIDIA not being so bad because ATI also has a closed driver and gamers would have to use that so it is closed...
[22:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SteamOS Update That Drops AMDGPU-PRO in Favour of Mesa Has Left Beta - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:42] <exec> 08└─Looks like a no. On a side note you can pretty much set up your own steam box with gentoo all the way to even logging in and starting steam automatically.
[22:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SteamOS Update That Drops AMDGPU-PRO in Favour of Mesa Has Left Beta - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:45] <exec> 08└─Obviously Android does not function as a Linux distro; it does not give users appreciable, well-defined control over the operating system.
[22:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SteamOS Update That Drops AMDGPU-PRO in Favour of Mesa Has Left Beta - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:47] <exec> 08└─Steam seems to work OK on Slackware, assuming you're willing to jump through the usual Slack greps to install the hardware hooks.
[22:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Life on Mars, in Hawaii - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:02] <exec> 08└─Well you should be. That's a dumb thing to think of.
[22:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Life on Mars, in Hawaii - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:03] <exec> 08└─Sad! You need to smoke some dank weed, bro! Blaze up your Tor Browser and submit some fake onion news!
[22:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Malware uses Intel AMT feature to steal data, avoid firewalls - 1844 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:48] <exec> 08└─Oh. It was at an old mill building that we were converting into a warehouse. The building is like 50+ years old, I'm not sure the exact age, it abuts an even older but slightly smaller one owned by another company. I live and work in the rust belt. The mill used to have a lot of trains going through...
[22:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Malware uses Intel AMT feature to steal data, avoid firewalls - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:49] <exec> 08└─If it's pointed safely down-range or at a smarmy little faggot, yes.
[22:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Malware uses Intel AMT feature to steal data, avoid firewalls - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:51] <exec> 08└─Hmmm...been running for 6+ hours with no resets or shutdowns, bios still shows "disabled". Still would like to confirm whether or not bios is lying or the config widget actually works before I go mucking about in bios files. But good info, thanks.
[22:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Malware uses Intel AMT feature to steal data, avoid firewalls - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:54] <exec> 08└─There should be no proprietary blobs. All of it should be 100% free software, and anything else is intolerable and abusive.
[22:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03fliptop [1666] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Malware uses Intel AMT feature to steal data, avoid firewalls - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:56] <exec> 08└─You find a gun. Safety's on. Do you still pull the trigger to find out if it's loaded?
[22:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Closer-than-Normal Moon Will Bring Higher-than-Normal Tides this Summer - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:30] <exec> 08└─Now, I'm not absolutely certain (just 100's of 9's), but the moon is responsible for the tides.
[22:38:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 415 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:41] <exec> 08└─It's not McCarthyism. It's Trump's big mouth. Suggesting during the campaign that Russia hack the DNC, combined with having significant business ties in Russia that could compromise one, and refusing to divest oneself, naturally lead to suspicion. Who would have thought. Short version: Trump brought...
[22:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 1991 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:19] <exec> 08└─I the days of old, we had honest media because it was openly partisan, every town having at least a Republican and a Democrat aligned paper. Our problem is mostly a result of the TV era's early days when three networks based in NYC and the NYT could, and did collude to set the Narrative for the whol...
[22:39:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:21] <exec> 08└─Yeah, Ok, I get it; you favour 20 AC against a subscriber/donor. Lemme sleep on this for a while.
[22:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:23] <exec> 08└─Punish soylenters who like politics or what?
[22:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:25] <exec> 08└─Besides, we've finally got an answer of sorts to the question that should have been asked and answered before the referendum (or at the very least *in* the referendum); what kind of Brexit do the Brexiteer's want?
[22:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:27] <exec> 08└─With the current Congress, I doubt they'll go after Trump no matter how guilty he is.
[22:39:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:29] <exec> 08└─Ever heard of damage control? Once they seized the Weiner Laptop of Shame the odds of preventing a leak of the explosive contents was basically zero. So which option would Mrs. Clinton prefer? Wall to wall drudge sirens and FNC "Breaking News" about the latest leaks and the Obama Justice Dept coveru...
[22:39:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:32] <exec> 08└─> "Hookers and blow, hookers and blow: i just want hookers and blow!" I only have Blackjack and Chocolate. Go Fish!
[22:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:34] <exec> 08└─Not sure what your rules are on submissions, do you simply publish them in order as submitted or can you hold them back for a time before releasing them into the newsfeed? This experiment of lumping three together apparently does not work, it just turned into a whinefest about the articles being joi...
[22:39:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03kaszz [4211] 02 - 06Japan Could Build New Nuclear Plants or Replace Existing Ones - 1387 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:45] <exec> 08└─There are many alternatives: * Fission: Breeder reactor that will produce more fuel than it consumes (superficially, the energy principle still applies) * Fission: Accelerator driven reactor to re-use "spent" fission fuel. * Fission: Liquid cores * Fission: Using liquid metal or salt coo...
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[23:35:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Denuvo License Generator is Latest Circumvention Method - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:19] <exec> 08└─Yaaaaaaawwwwwwn.
[23:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06SteamOS Update That Drops AMDGPU-PRO in Favour of Mesa Has Left Beta - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:39] <exec> 08└─You can tell they're complete baka [google.com] because they even gave the strongest Windows, Windows ⑨, a pass and went straight on to 10!
[23:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SteamOS Update That Drops AMDGPU-PRO in Favour of Mesa Has Left Beta - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:40] <exec> 08└─Followed by an obstinate refusal to take it to 11.
[23:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SteamOS Update That Drops AMDGPU-PRO in Favour of Mesa Has Left Beta - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:42] <exec> 08└─Sure it does. You just have to seek it out. Most people don't, and in fact don't *want* that level of control.
[23:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Malware uses Intel AMT feature to steal data, avoid firewalls - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:48] <exec> 08└─That's fine, but give Joe an "off switch" wouldya? Or at least make it open and documented. Intel is a covetous, secretive, litigious, company hostile to open source/hardware and we are seeing the fruits of those character flaws play out with these exploits.
[23:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Malware uses Intel AMT feature to steal data, avoid firewalls - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:49] <exec> 08└─I'm considering buying a second-hand server for home use. How can I tell if any part of the management engine is activated? Can I do this *before* I buy it? And how should I deactivate it? What ports do I have to block in case it isn't and can't be? Those ports will of course have to be blocked with...
[23:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Malware uses Intel AMT feature to steal data, avoid firewalls - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:51] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty certain a loaded pistol could make a Rotweiler very bypassable.
[23:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Closer-than-Normal Moon Will Bring Higher-than-Normal Tides this Summer - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:26] <exec> 08└─My momma is pretty small but she sure can be dense!
[23:39:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:23] <exec> 08└─Have them hung, drawn, quartered, and whipped and boiled ... until ... until they've had enough!
[23:39:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:25] <exec> 08└─I say we have one long megathread for all stories and every post can have infinite moderation. The discussion never ends and of course only the BEST will rise to the top!
[23:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:27] <exec> 08└─"... even if you're joking." -- Clint Eastwood in "The Line of Fire" A kuro5hin member speculated about putting a "covered person's" head on a pike in his front yard, then was visited by the Secret Service a few days later - at his place of work.
[23:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:29] <exec> 08└─Keep thinking...
[23:39:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:31] <exec> 08└─They've already decided that. What they're waiting for is the move so disgraceful that they can kick him without losing his base. So far, his base is letting everything slide, so they wait...
[23:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:34] <exec> 08└─No we used to have the Fairness Doctrine, but like so many good things: In 1985, under FCC Chairman Mark S. Fowler, a communications attorney who had served on Ronald Reagan's presidential campaign staff in 1976 and 1980, the FCC released a report stating that the doctrine hurt the public interest a...
[23:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:36] <exec> 08└─What's your stance on the comfy chair and soft cushions?
[23:42:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trying to Solve the Gerrymandering Problem - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:46] <exec> 08└─Everything else of course being 100 times the never-achieved benehttp://www.cgpgrey.com
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