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[00:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Anthropocene News: Scientists Warn of "Sixth Mass Extinction", the Era of "Biological Annihilation" - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:15] <exec> 08└─Thats assuming that scenario 8.5, which is 10 degrees per year, scenario is proven true. However, when the Bodes network algorithm is completed, the F values equals 1.2, which means 1.2 degrees of warming per century is natural. So this report is basically imaginary blackmail asking for cash to shut...
[00:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Anthropocene News: Scientists Warn of "Sixth Mass Extinction", the Era of "Biological Annihilation" - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:16] <exec> 08└─>including well-known Stanford University biologist Paul Ehrlich You forgot to mention what he is well known for. Apocalyptic doomsday scenarios that never, ever come to pass. “Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make,” Paul Ehrlich con...
[00:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Anthropocene News: Scientists Warn of "Sixth Mass Extinction", the Era of "Biological Annihilation" - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:18] <exec> 08└─Get your popcorn here! Popcorn!
[00:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anthropocene News: Scientists Warn of "Sixth Mass Extinction", the Era of "Biological Annihilation" - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:20] <exec> 08└─We got lucky with technological improvements and some political sanity. That luck may run out.
[00:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anthropocene News: Scientists Warn of "Sixth Mass Extinction", the Era of "Biological Annihilation" - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:23] <exec> 08└─Dooms day stories sell. The Revelations of St. John has done well for nearly 2000 years. And, all good dooms day stories have an escape hatch built into them, for the chosen few. Everyone loves all the death and destruction, but they imagine that after a little suffering, they can escape the fate of...
[00:19:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Mosquitoes Should Not be Eliminated - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:47] <exec> 08└─We even burned all the forest off of Mount Monadnock just to wipe out a mosquito swarm. The mountain is still bald 2 centuries later.
[00:19:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Mosquitoes Should Not be Eliminated - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:49] <exec> 08└─Transmission of disease is one of mosquitoes' major functions in the ecosystems where they are present... disease is a rather arbitrary label, disease affects population growth rates, balance of species, etc. Suddenly eliminating "disease" in elephants, for example, can lead to decimation of vegetat...
[00:19:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Mosquitoes Should Not be Eliminated - 898 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:51] <exec> 08└─Yeah, so my neighbors left their dog outside in a chain-link fenced 5' x 40' concrete strip with no food or shelter every Sunday night through Friday evening, for months. They left bags of trash out there that the dog shredded looking for food, the place flooded when it rained and the dog sat up on...
[00:19:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Mosquitoes Should Not be Eliminated - 1214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:53] <exec> 08└─I don't know about fish, but birds. Swarms of mosquitos support swarms of birds. Sometime early in my life - between 1959 and 1962 - I was outside playing, doing whatever little children do. It was a bright, sunshiny day, and a cloud hid the sun. I looked up, and the cloud was a huge flock of birds....
[00:19:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Mosquitoes Should Not be Eliminated - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:55] <exec> 08└─Yeah, what he said. In theory, selective removal of the "problem" species sounds great. In practice, we don't really know as much as most people think we do about species variation and distribution. We also don't know how well these "species specific" death vectors will stay within the target specie...
[00:20:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Linux is Available in the Windows Store - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:53] <exec> 08└─Is the Xilinx tool spending so much time in a single core that having 2 or 4 is in the area of diminishing returns? From your experiences it seems 2 cores is almost an optimal point. A finer optimization is if it's more important with local processor cache vs fast memory bus, if one has to choose on...
[00:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Linux is Available in the Windows Store - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:55] <exec> 08└─In the last 3 years, they moved a lot of the single-threaded stuff to 2 and 4 threads (Syn, Route), so not having at least 4 cores is a costly savings. Having at least HT to accommodate the parts where they can spawn 8 threads will save time (reports). But if a company is paying engineers, there is...
[00:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brain-Computer Interfaces Revolutionized Using Silicon Electronics - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:08] <exec> 08└─Never heard of video cameras and head-up-displays (HUD)? We've had both for decades. Used in both civilian life and military life.
[00:21:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenBSD and the Modern Laptop - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:51] <exec> 08└─Mint is just as easy. I can't remember the last time I had trouble with any Linux install. Maybe 1999? Something like that.
[00:21:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenBSD and the Modern Laptop - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:52] <exec> 08└─Also runs on really old hardware without much fuss such as a Pentium 3 on an intel 440BX chipset.
[00:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Status: First-Half Fundraising Goal Reached; SPAM Lists; Mod Points; and More - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:47] <exec> 08└─Get well soon, janrinok!
[00:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Status: First-Half Fundraising Goal Reached; SPAM Lists; Mod Points; and More - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:49] <exec> 08└─I would second this. Any Soylentils in Europe who could do this would be appreciated. I'm on EST in America but I check in at all times.
[00:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Status: First-Half Fundraising Goal Reached; SPAM Lists; Mod Points; and More - 766 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:51] <exec> 08└─That's kind of always been the case from the early days of Slashdot. The most discussed articles there were not "Which Linux Distro is Your Favorite, and Why?" but 9/11 and Columbine. On Soylent that same dynamic presents, but there are some cross-cutting technical subjects that do garner a lot of d...
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[01:19:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Albuquerque, New Mexico Police Refuse to Say If They Have Stingrays, So ACLU Sues - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:21] <exec> 08└─Stingrays are unconstitutional to anyone who pays attention, even though a court has yet to declare them so. Actually, if memory serves, a court did rule them unconstitutional a couple months back, but I'm too lazy to google. The Albuquerque PD needs to both suck a bag of dicks, and be forced to pay...
[01:19:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Albuquerque, New Mexico Police Refuse to Say If They Have Stingrays, So ACLU Sues - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:23] <exec> 08└─A spectrum analyzer and capture mechanism that is on board a drone flying above the city should find these kind of radio transmitters? As time goes on there will be more phones around that can identify this kind of abuse. Ie ones with a real OS and proper software.
[01:19:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Albuquerque, New Mexico Police Refuse to Say If They Have Stingrays, So ACLU Sues - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:25] <exec> 08└─A spectrum analyzer and capture mechanism that is on board a drone flying above the city should find these kind of radio transmitters? Good way to get arrested on federal charges. The spectrum analyzer not so much, but if you capture and try to decode then good luck.
[01:19:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Albuquerque, New Mexico Police Refuse to Say If They Have Stingrays, So ACLU Sues - 640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:27] <exec> 08└─Also to lazy to google for citations, but Albuquerque has also been in the news for doing that civil forfeiture thing, after the feds have told states to quit that shit. The cops don't work for the people in Albuquerque, they work for themselves. If you think about it, it's a pretty good racket. Mon...
[01:19:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Albuquerque, New Mexico Police Refuse to Say If They Have Stingrays, So ACLU Sues - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:29] <exec> 08└─If you think about it, it's a pretty good racket. Monitor anyone and everyone, and when you find them doing something you don't like, you seize all their assets. Car, money, maybe even their home, anything in their home, sell it all off, and pocket the money. If anyone sues, you have some crooked ju...
[01:19:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Albuquerque, New Mexico Police Refuse to Say If They Have Stingrays, So ACLU Sues - 681 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:32] <exec> 08└─Honestly, the drone would not be needed. You can't hide a cell tower, even a bugged one. Each cell has a number (several really but one for simplicity's sake), including the stingrays. It HAS to announce itself to the surrounding space and phones nearby automatically tune to it. LEOs and TLAs bigges...
[01:19:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anthropocene News: Scientists Warn of "Sixth Mass Extinction", the Era of "Biological Annihilation" - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:45] <exec> 08└─In California right now, there aren't enough liberal tears to put out the fires [sky.com].
[01:19:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anthropocene News: Scientists Warn of "Sixth Mass Extinction", the Era of "Biological Annihilation" - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:46] <exec> 08└─The peer reviewers spew the same prattle. Publishing this makes a mockery of science. It's outright fraud. Hundreds of thousands of species will perish, and this reduction of 10 to 20 percent of the earth's biota will occur in about half a human life span....This reduction of the biological diversit...
[01:19:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anthropocene News: Scientists Warn of "Sixth Mass Extinction", the Era of "Biological Annihilation" - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:48] <exec> 08└─God blessed them; and God said to them, "Boink and make lots of babies, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth."
[01:19:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anthropocene News: Scientists Warn of "Sixth Mass Extinction", the Era of "Biological Annihilation" - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:50] <exec> 08└─It isn't only climate change, it is habitat destruction. But then, I suppose you'd like to see a world in which only humans, corn, cows, pigs, and chickens exist.
[01:20:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Why Mosquitoes Should Not be Eliminated - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:20] <exec> 08└─Originally, I made the above post about wolves. We even did torch a whole mountain to get rid of the vile beasts. Aside from the mountain though, the post is quite accurate for mosquitoes. BTW, Jimmy Carter is trying to make the guinea worm extinct. Anybody want to provide habitat for it?
[01:20:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Mosquitoes Should Not be Eliminated - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:22] <exec> 08└─They get "eaten" by stuff like bacteria, water mould, viruses...
[01:21:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brain-Computer Interfaces Revolutionized Using Silicon Electronics - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:31] <exec> 08└─So they're going to risk Broccoli taking over the world from an undisclosed holodeck instead.
[01:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Site Status: First-Half Fundraising Goal Reached; SPAM Lists; Mod Points; and More - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:12] <exec> 08└─Pretty sure there's no 2017-09-31. Leap day is in February only.
[01:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oculus Rift: Dead in the Water? - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:49] <exec> 08└─EAX: Dead. The AMD TrueAudio appears to be AMD only. And I have not heard of it until now, must have been under a rock or something. I'll have to see if I can demo it on my AMD Linux box. Otherwise, my windows gaming rig is Intel/Nvidia.
[01:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Techwolf [87] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oculus Rift: Dead in the Water? - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:51] <exec> 08└─John Carmack betrayed all geeks and nerds out there by selling the Rift to Facebook. Hence all my tech, geek, nerds, etc never bought one due to that. That had to influence sales of the Rift at somepoint in time.
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[02:19:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kaspersky Lab has been Working With Russian Intelligence - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:21] <exec> 08└─Computer security corporation that tries to land contracts with US governments also works with other governments - big surprise!
[02:19:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Albuquerque, New Mexico Police Refuse to Say If They Have Stingrays, So ACLU Sues - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:35] <exec> 08└─not even funny?
[02:19:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Albuquerque, New Mexico Police Refuse to Say If They Have Stingrays, So ACLU Sues - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:36] <exec> 08└─Also three too lazy to google for citations, . . . aw, just fuck it.
[02:19:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Albuquerque, New Mexico Police Refuse to Say If They Have Stingrays, So ACLU Sues - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:39] <exec> 08└─You can't hide a cell tower,
[02:19:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Albuquerque, New Mexico Police Refuse to Say If They Have Stingrays, So ACLU Sues - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:41] <exec> 08└─Other than the combination to the evidence locker, computer passwords, and such, what legitimate secrets should any local police department or Sheriff's office have? I simply can't come up with any equipment that should not be public knowledge.
[02:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Albuquerque, New Mexico Police Refuse to Say If They Have Stingrays, So ACLU Sues - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:43] <exec> 08└─A microwave magnetron in a pringles can.
[02:19:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Albuquerque, New Mexico Police Refuse to Say If They Have Stingrays, So ACLU Sues - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:45] <exec> 08└─I think the idea is that you learn the roaming tower's identifiers. Legitimate pop-up towers set up for a large event would cause false-positives though.
[02:19:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Albuquerque, New Mexico Police Refuse to Say If They Have Stingrays, So ACLU Sues - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:47] <exec> 08└─There's an app for that. Seriously, there is. But so what? You could call the FCC and complain? How many divisions does the FCC have?
[02:20:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Anthropocene News: Scientists Warn of "Sixth Mass Extinction", the Era of "Biological Annihilation" - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:04] <exec> 08└─We got lucky with technological improvements and some political sanity. That luck may run out.
[02:20:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anthropocene News: Scientists Warn of "Sixth Mass Extinction", the Era of "Biological Annihilation" - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:05] <exec> 08└─We got lucky
[02:20:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anthropocene News: Scientists Warn of "Sixth Mass Extinction", the Era of "Biological Annihilation" - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:07] <exec> 08└─As long as it's not seasoned with mosquitoes.
[02:20:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Mosquitoes Should Not be Eliminated - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:40] <exec> 08└─and the cascading effects of their loss would change the world we know dramatically.
[02:20:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Mosquitoes Should Not be Eliminated - 1089 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:41] <exec> 08└─In the couple of places where mosquitoes have been totally eradicated, no adverse effects have been reported. It's true the places were small islands, and I haven't checked back recently, but such evidence as exists seems to imply that the eradication of mosquitoes would yield no adverse result. Cle...
[02:21:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu Linux is Available in the Windows Store - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:37] <exec> 08└─I see it as Windows used (not users) now have an officially sanctioned pathway to upgrade their systems. And having once tasted Ubuntu, they may yeah even (oh horror), discover other distros that are even better. Yet sadly so many, programmed by the Blue Screen of Death, will choose the Blue Pill, o...
[02:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Original Petya Master Decryption Key Released - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:00] <exec> 08└─Any other monsters you can lure them over to?
[02:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03darnkitten [1912] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Status: First-Half Fundraising Goal Reached; SPAM Lists; Mod Points; and More - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:35] <exec> 08└─If I can respond early, in the conversation, there is usually prompt response, but once the Argumentation starts, the AC responses drop off quickly, I presume because getting pissed-off or indignant followed by some yelling is more entertaining than discussion. Me, it just get old quick, 'ey? - --ma...
[02:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03darnkitten [1912] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Status: First-Half Fundraising Goal Reached; SPAM Lists; Mod Points; and More - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:36] <exec> 08└─Argumentation and Argumentating as useful terms go back at least to the 1700s, and were used by both the unlearned and the scholar, my friend... Argumentation, as opposed to Argument carries the sense of 'arguing for the sake of being troublesome, quarrelsome, nitpickish or "just plain being annoyin...
[02:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Site Status: First-Half Fundraising Goal Reached; SPAM Lists; Mod Points; and More - 606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:38] <exec> 08└─I have been using a couple of Greasemonkey recipes, no idea if they are interesting for full site or only some users. Recover the bullet point, easier to separate entries. There is a "overflow-y: hidden" in css for "#slashboxes ul li", maybe because words like "Tuesday" etc were getting bullets cut...
[02:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Site Status: First-Half Fundraising Goal Reached; SPAM Lists; Mod Points; and More - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:40] <exec> 08└─You live in Panama? [wikipedia.org] Ducks
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[03:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kaspersky Lab has been Working With Russian Intelligence - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:14] <exec> 08└─And Cisco works with the NSA.
[03:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kaspersky Lab has been Working With Russian Intelligence - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:15] <exec> 08└─Tedious, but it gives them sweet, sweet clicks. Factual news reporting is so '90s.
[03:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Absolutely.Geek [5328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kaspersky Lab has been Working With Russian Intelligence - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:17] <exec> 08└─Agreed; this is stupid a Russian company deals with Russian gov.
[03:19:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Albuquerque, New Mexico Police Refuse to Say If They Have Stingrays, So ACLU Sues - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:38] <exec> 08└─Where's your Subscriber Badge?
[03:19:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Albuquerque, New Mexico Police Refuse to Say If They Have Stingrays, So ACLU Sues - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:39] <exec> 08└─I demand an inventory of vibrators in lady cops desk drawers.
[03:19:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Anthropocene News: Scientists Warn of "Sixth Mass Extinction", the Era of "Biological Annihilation" - 484 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:49] <exec> 08└─>including well-known Stanford University biologist Paul Ehrlich You forgot to mention what he is well known for. Apocalyptic doomsday scenarios that never, ever come to pass. “Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make,” Paul Ehrlich con...
[03:20:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anthropocene News: Scientists Warn of "Sixth Mass Extinction", the Era of "Biological Annihilation" - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:00] <exec> 08└─Hahaha, came for the "fake news" claim and was not disappointed. Was gonna add my own sarcastic troll version but NO NEED!
[03:20:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anthropocene News: Scientists Warn of "Sixth Mass Extinction", the Era of "Biological Annihilation" - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:01] <exec> 08└─And of course khallow doesn't see the ultimate irony in using that quote himself. Heinlein had a lot of good stuff, but the man also had major issues. Also, I hope you realize that you and your ilk are the "right minded" people as far the the US of A is concerned. Thanks for holding us back you dick...
[03:20:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anthropocene News: Scientists Warn of "Sixth Mass Extinction", the Era of "Biological Annihilation" - 798 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:03] <exec> 08└─You obviously haven't been paying enough attention. This story may be a bit sensationalized and predictions too dire, but we have already lost a rather large number of species. If the ocean keeps warming and acidifying then you can bet on a large portion of aquatic life to die off, and that will tri...
[03:20:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anthropocene News: Scientists Warn of "Sixth Mass Extinction", the Era of "Biological Annihilation" - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:05] <exec> 08└─Well, sure. But whose fault will it be when we get "unlucky"?
[03:20:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Anthropocene News: Scientists Warn of "Sixth Mass Extinction", the Era of "Biological Annihilation" - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:08] <exec> 08└─And of course khallow doesn't see the ultimate irony in using that quote himself.
[03:20:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Why Mosquitoes Should Not be Eliminated - 1214 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:35] <exec> 08└─I don't know about fish, but birds. Swarms of mosquitos support swarms of birds. Sometime early in my life - between 1959 and 1962 - I was outside playing, doing whatever little children do. It was a bright, sunshiny day, and a cloud hid the sun. I looked up, and the cloud was a huge flock of birds....
[03:21:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06Ubuntu Linux is Available in the Windows Store - 1282 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:10] <exec> 08└─They are running a (almost certainly crippled) Ubuntu in a container. A container (in this instance) is a just thin wrapper around the GPL. Still, using the free Microsoft Virtual PC you can run the full Ubuntu or any other Linux. (Yes, I know you glibly asserted that never worked, but I've used it...
[03:21:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Linux is Available in the Windows Store - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:38] <exec> 08└─So even they can make progress ;) Is the UI still crap and crashy? such that makefiles makes the day? Is there some kind of powerful shared server pool for doing the synthesis or is everyone doing that on their own workstation? Any preferences on DRAM types or is it just the more Gbit/s the better?...
[03:21:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu Linux is Available in the Windows Store - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:40] <exec> 08└─The April 2016 release disabled the Ubuntu Shopping Lens by default. [google.com] It was something they tried and they responded to the negative feedback appropriately. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[03:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenBSD and the Modern Laptop - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:39] <exec> 08└─For those who like stability, there's a -stable branch that has the "very important fixes" from -current.
[03:22:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03KiloByte [375] 02 - 06Researcher Manages to Register .io TLD's Authoritative Nameservers - 518 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:53] <exec> 08└─DNSSEC is not perfect but it's so insanely better than the CA model that it's outright sabotage to fail to support it. And guess who's the main villain here. Hint: the same person who breaks your sound, mounting degraded RAID, POSIX-mandated user names or booting if there's any real or perceived tro...
[03:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Site Status: First-Half Fundraising Goal Reached; SPAM Lists; Mod Points; and More - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:42] <exec> 08└─We are legion, that's how.
[03:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03darnkitten [1912] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Status: First-Half Fundraising Goal Reached; SPAM Lists; Mod Points; and More - 852 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:43] <exec> 08└─I guess it depends on the type of "bracing technical discussion"--some of it I enjoy, some I ignore. Humor as well--while not being exactly humorless, many days I find my "funnybone" is less ticklish than others,' and I find myself more bemused than amused. What I do enjoy is learning something new,...
[03:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oculus Rift: Dead in the Water? - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:22] <exec> 08└─Linux Desktop told me.
[03:25:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tfried [5534] 02 - 06Newsweek: Majority of Republicans Say Colleges Are Bad for America - 266 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:17] <exec> 08└─Ghettos - on the over hand - are producing a supply of laborers at a cost of next to nothing. Clearly then, ghettos are doing an extremely good job at producing useful people. It can safely be interpreted that ghettos in their present rendition are good for society.
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[04:19:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Introducing Humans into an Enclosed Habitat Affects Fungal Distribution - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:24] <exec> 08└─Space exploration was cleaner when only men could be astronauts. Women stay in the kitchen barefoot in the dirt on Earth.
[04:19:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Introducing Humans into an Enclosed Habitat Affects Fungal Distribution - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:25] <exec> 08└─The proper solution is closely-related organisms, rendered non-infectious and non-toxic via genetic modification, sprayed everywhere. It's been done and proven to work with aspergillus mold in soil used to grow peanuts. A non-toxic version was mixed into the fields. After a couple years, the toxic v...
[04:19:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kaspersky Lab has been Working With Russian Intelligence - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:38] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but CISCO is not in the business of selling virus and worm protection. Frankly, I would not want my computer to become part of a botnet servicing some interest of the Russian government.
[04:19:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kaspersky Lab has been Working With Russian Intelligence - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:39] <exec> 08└─Honestly? On principle alone, a country as big and powerful as the USA can, and should, afford it's own security measures. Besides, anti-competitive as it may be, Win10's built-in anti-virus is just as shitty and broken as everything else on the market so they might as well use that and save tax-pay...
[04:20:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Anthropocene News: Scientists Warn of "Sixth Mass Extinction", the Era of "Biological Annihilation" - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:27] <exec> 08└─That is like asking who's fault it is that gravity exists. Sometimes there isn't any better solution or it can't be had right now due to limitations.
[04:20:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anthropocene News: Scientists Warn of "Sixth Mass Extinction", the Era of "Biological Annihilation" - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:28] <exec> 08└─It's what's for dinner.
[04:20:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anthropocene News: Scientists Warn of "Sixth Mass Extinction", the Era of "Biological Annihilation" - 673 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:30] <exec> 08└─Global warming gets a lot of blame while everyone ignores the real problem. Yes, we are in the midst of a mass extinction. The external cause is that 3/4 of the Earth's non-frozen, non-water surface has been cleared and replaced with a little thing called agriculture. Not many wild creatures live th...
[04:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Mosquitoes Should Not be Eliminated - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:05] <exec> 08└─How about fleas? What vital role in the ecosystem do they play? I'm quite sure there isn't one. Let's eradicate them, for the sake of our pets at least. Same goes for ticks. As for mosquitos, a lot of those are invasive species and don't belong here: https://www.glacvcd.org
[04:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Mosquitoes Should Not be Eliminated - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:07] <exec> 08└─Also, there are thousands of species of mosquitoes, and only a handful (20 or so) that target humans. Let's just wipe-out the 20 "bad" ones. Hey, it worked for smallpox. We killed off the passenger pigeon (nasty creatures left droppings everywhere), the short-faced bear, the auroch, etc. etc. etc......
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[05:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Pledges to Connect 2 Million Rural Americans with Broadband Internet Access - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:13] <exec> 08└─Woo-hoo! Now I can log on to Trump Wall Jobs Dot Com and get me a job Building A Wall. Education, some high school. Civic engagement, voted Trump. Yee-haw!! Keeping the Mehicans on their side and making them pay!!
[05:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Pledges to Connect 2 Million Rural Americans with Broadband Internet Access - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:14] <exec> 08└─Maybe those rural and suburban idiots can start getting their news from something other than Faux News Network, so next time they don't vote a literal carbon-copy-Hitler into office.
[05:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Pledges to Connect 2 Million Rural Americans with Broadband Internet Access - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:17] <exec> 08└─I just tested my speed on mobile and it's 3.7 Mbps. Entitled whiners who want 25 Mbps can just shut the fuck up.
[05:19:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03http [1920] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kaspersky Lab has been Working With Russian Intelligence - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:37] <exec> 08└─You also wouldn't want your VPN routers discretely copying your office data (that you think is passing between your Manhattan and Bronx offices) to Room 641A in San Francisco. Along with the session keys.
[05:19:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kaspersky Lab has been Working With Russian Intelligence - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:39] <exec> 08└─Ah ha...so now it is revealed, jmorris is a Russian agent.
[05:20:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Albuquerque, New Mexico Police Refuse to Say If They Have Stingrays, So ACLU Sues - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:20:02] <exec> 08└─If ere is an exception for personal items, I can imagine some police personnel will start getting "white van" allowance - just like a car lease, but, unlike normal vans, the back doors are locked all the time...
[05:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Mosquitoes Should Not be Eliminated - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:07] <exec> 08└─Since that question was not in the headline, Betteridge says "yes". :-)
[05:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Mosquitoes Should Not be Eliminated - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:09] <exec> 08└─Most freshwater fish that people care about depend on mosquitoes for food at some point in their life cycle
[05:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Status: First-Half Fundraising Goal Reached; SPAM Lists; Mod Points; and More - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:11] <exec> 08└─So many tabs...
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[06:19:17] <exec> 08└─>He thinks people still watch TV for the news Lol, I bet he thinks watching CNN makes you more informed.
[06:19:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Pledges to Connect 2 Million Rural Americans with Broadband Internet Access - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:19] <exec> 08└─Trumper literally uses Twatter to make news. CNN is fucking dead.
[06:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tyrsal [5456] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Pledges to Connect 2 Million Rural Americans with Broadband Internet Access - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:21] <exec> 08└─.. You really have no idea what the internet is like in rural america, do you? "Do they have phones".. lol.
[06:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Pledges to Connect 2 Million Rural Americans with Broadband Internet Access - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:23] <exec> 08└─Enlighten me, shitbrain. Show me where in rural America there's no cell coverage. You're one the entitled motherfuckers who thinks dialup speeds aren't good enough for "homework" and "jobs" aren't you?
[06:19:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Pledges to Connect 2 Million Rural Americans with Broadband Internet Access - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:25] <exec> 08└─Trump is the news. Twithub is just the dumping ground for his mania.
[06:19:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Introducing Humans into an Enclosed Habitat Affects Fungal Distribution - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:35] <exec> 08└─Nature's a bitch, it may decide to spontaneously mutate a variant of your non-toxic version in something (super-)toxic with a better survival value - give it months and you'll end with a mold which isn't that easier to replace anymore. Now, once you killed the diversity in the environ, your only ava...
[06:19:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Introducing Humans into an Enclosed Habitat Affects Fungal Distribution - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:37] <exec> 08└─It's hard to compete against something that is getting pumped everywhere in great volume. It's hard to compete against something that has to waste resources making extra DNA, protein, and more. It's hard to compete... when we can just take any new super-mutant and build a new genetically modified on...
[06:19:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kaspersky Lab has been Working With Russian Intelligence - 1851 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:53] <exec> 08└─An anti virus company is providing software solutions to a government enterprise!? What is this world coming to!? Thank god no good true blue blooded patriotic American companies like Microsoft, Cisco, Google, Facebook, AOL, Apple, or other companies would ever consider working with government agenc...
[06:20:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anthropocene News: Scientists Warn of "Sixth Mass Extinction", the Era of "Biological Annihilation" - 1256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:20:44] <exec> 08└─Ehrlich is a fruitcake, or else a coldly calculating type who knows that doomsday sells. That said, one thing is definitely true (and I say this as someone who despises most ecological activists): we humans occupy too much of the planet's surface. There is too little space left for other species to...
[06:21:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Zinho [759] 02 - 06Why Mosquitoes Should Not be Eliminated - 124 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:03] <exec> 08└─I beg to differ. Most freshwater fish that people care about depend on mosquitoes for food at some point in their life cycle
[06:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researcher Manages to Register .io TLD's Authoritative Nameservers - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:36] <exec> 08└─DNSSEC allows you to definitively determine if a cache poison attack is in place, as well as allowing for a chain-of-trust for things like TLSA to exist for out-of-protocol HTTPS key pinning. soylentnews.org and sylnt.us are both DNSSEC signed, but I haven't gotten around to deploying TLSA records f...
[06:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Status: First-Half Fundraising Goal Reached; SPAM Lists; Mod Points; and More - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:28] <exec> 08└─Technically speaking, SoylentNews was born in a small flat in Panama because that's where I was living when I got the site setup; our first hit to Linode was from an Panamian IP address.
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[07:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Syrian Observatory Says Islamic State Chief is Dead - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:15] <exec> 08└─His death has been "reported" several times now over the years. I'm skeptical.
[07:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Syrian Observatory Says Islamic State Chief is Dead - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:16] <exec> 08└─The founder died long ago; someone even more evil kills his way to the top whenever the Dear Leader dies.
[07:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Syrian Observatory Says Islamic State Chief is Dead - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:18] <exec> 08└─Someone else just comes along and takes the name Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi whenever the current one is killed or otherwise wants to retire.
[07:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Syrian Observatory Says Islamic State Chief is Dead - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:20] <exec> 08└─"You know, you would make a wonderful Dread Pirate Roberts! You see, the name is the thing, that instills the necessary fear. No one would think of surrendering to a Dread Pirate Runaway, now would they?" Even a Dread Pirate Runaway1956! So, al-Bhagdhadi, for the fifth time, for the win.
[07:19:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Pledges to Connect 2 Million Rural Americans with Broadband Internet Access - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:35] <exec> 08└─MUH VIDEO PORN I CANT GET MUH VIDEO PORN ON DIALUP FUCK U FUCK U FUCK FUCK U
[07:19:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Pledges to Connect 2 Million Rural Americans with Broadband Internet Access - 1399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:36] <exec> 08└─ALMOST three quarters of a million people in rural areas are without access to stunning HD lesbo MILFs and other similar pornographic content, claim campaigners for better broadband across Ireland. The statement comes after the government admitted that delays to the long-awaited National Broadband P...
[07:19:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Pledges to Connect 2 Million Rural Americans with Broadband Internet Access - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:38] <exec> 08└─I'd pit CNN's accuracy over Fox's any day. Wish I could Vegas on it. Conservatives never cared when Fox made "mistakes".
[07:19:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Pledges to Connect 2 Million Rural Americans with Broadband Internet Access - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:41] <exec> 08└─Runaway1956? This is your cue.
[07:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Pledges to Connect 2 Million Rural Americans with Broadband Internet Access - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:43] <exec> 08└─I smell a spam and/or snooping plot.
[07:19:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Pledges to Connect 2 Million Rural Americans with Broadband Internet Access - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:45] <exec> 08└─At present, LTE can provide a broadband-quality connection. But if you actually use it for even an hour, you blow through your available data. The only possible way wireless can be used for actual home internet is if these asinine caps are gone - or they bill directly for usage transparently (say 20...
[07:19:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Pledges to Connect 2 Million Rural Americans with Broadband Internet Access - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:47] <exec> 08└─Project Loon, anyone, anyone?
[07:19:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Pledges to Connect 2 Million Rural Americans with Broadband Internet Access - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:49] <exec> 08└─At present, LTE can provide a broadband-quality connection.
[07:19:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Pledges to Connect 2 Million Rural Americans with Broadband Internet Access - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:52] <exec> 08└─I'd trust neither, since they're both filled mostly with rabid partisan hacks. Fox may be worse, but that excuse only gets you so far.
[07:19:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Pledges to Connect 2 Million Rural Americans with Broadband Internet Access - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:54] <exec> 08└─I'm half that fucker's age and even I remember submitting homework over dialup.
[07:20:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Introducing Humans into an Enclosed Habitat Affects Fungal Distribution - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:20:04] <exec> 08└─Not sure why, but I automatically heard the headline in Comic Book Guy's voice.
[07:20:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Introducing Humans into an Enclosed Habitat Affects Fungal Distribution - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:20:05] <exec> 08└─Proven to work? At best, a "statistical proof". Most of us humans like winning. I'm not tired of winning yet.
[07:20:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Kaspersky Lab has been Working With Russian Intelligence - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:20:23] <exec> 08└─It's not like Microsoft, Cisco, Google, IBM, and all these other major American companies weren't likewise working with the NSA and the CIA. Not a big surprise to hear that Kaspersky is similarly working for the KGB.
[07:21:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anthropocene News: Scientists Warn of "Sixth Mass Extinction", the Era of "Biological Annihilation" - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:16] <exec> 08└─Yeah feed the trolls...
[07:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu Linux is Available in the Windows Store - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:54] <exec> 08└─The GPL is a license, even metaphorically it doesn't make sense as no container for the GPL is needed to run userland utilities on Windows.
[07:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oculus Rift: Dead in the Water? - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:40] <exec> 08└─Dead in the Water? An electronic device? And you went and baptised it? Immersion does not mean what you think it means, and hold on while I hold your head under this steaming pile of, . . . . never mind.
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[08:20:03] <exec> 08└─You don't need to compete. If you create a non-toxic version, then others things can use it as food. Maybe things that wouldn't have such an abundant and easy-to-process food source normally. Environments are an equilibrium, as soon as you upset the balance, things change. And all of a sudden that o...
[08:20:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kaspersky Lab has been Working With Russian Intelligence - 2075 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:20:22] <exec> 08└─But it's different! There's a difference between selling to your Gov and unethically selling out other citizens to your Gov. There seems to be more evidence that various US companies have sold out US citizens unethically to the US Gov than there is evidence that Kaspersky has done a similar thing. C...
[08:20:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Albuquerque, New Mexico Police Refuse to Say If They Have Stingrays, So ACLU Sues - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:20:46] <exec> 08└─Just set the stingray to vibrate.
[08:21:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anthropocene News: Scientists Warn of "Sixth Mass Extinction", the Era of "Biological Annihilation" - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:17] <exec> 08└─Don't forget the classic 1970 prediction: "[i]n ten years all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Think I'm gonna have sushi for lunch, gotta do my bit...
[08:21:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Mosquitoes Should Not be Eliminated - 790 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:57] <exec> 08└─Might be less to do with mosquitoes and more to do with cats. https://www.usatoday.com [usatoday.com] Cats kill all sorts of small birds whereas only a few species of birds are that dependent on mosquitoes (swifts and swallows?). Ma...
[08:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu Linux is Available in the Windows Store - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:57] <exec> 08└─Stallman was right. This is an example of why you should say GNU/Linux and not just Linux. Why? Because this is NOT Ubuntu GNU/Linux, it's Ubuntu GNU/NT. There is no Linux involved anywhere.
[08:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oculus Rift: Dead in the Water? - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:45] <exec> 08└─I do wonder if there's a way to network a couple of VR helmets so that I can watch movies with my missus. I wonder if a PC can power 2 VR helmets, or if you have 2 PCs and time it just right you can hit play on the video at the same time.
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[09:19:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Pledges to Connect 2 Million Rural Americans with Broadband Internet Access - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:19:49] <exec> 08└─what is in this for Microsoft? Where is the money to be made? Why do this, unless there is money in it?
[09:20:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03pgc [1600] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kaspersky Lab has been Working With Russian Intelligence - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:20:21] <exec> 08└─Which aspect of this story is news-worthy?
[09:21:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anthropocene News: Scientists Warn of "Sixth Mass Extinction", the Era of "Biological Annihilation" - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:16] <exec> 08└─> Heinlein had a lot of good stuff, but the man also had major issues. Heinlein was a man, therefore the quote is wrong. okay
[09:21:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Mosquitoes Should Not be Eliminated - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:57] <exec> 08└─Wherever there is an abundance of life, man moves in, and destroys whatever he can't tame. Sad, isn't it? And, ultimately, I wonder how well man will survive in his nice sterile world with no threats. Wipe out the mosquitos because we can't stand a little blood sacrifice to Nature, and with them, fi...
[09:21:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Mosquitoes Should Not be Eliminated - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:59] <exec> 08└─Same goes for ticks.
[09:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Mosquitoes Should Not be Eliminated - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:01] <exec> 08└─Some plants and animals miss the mosquitoes? Just hang in there, some other bug will fill their niche. Natural selection, it works, bitches!
[09:25:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Status: First-Half Fundraising Goal Reached; SPAM Lists; Mod Points; and More - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:08] <exec> 08└─I rather agree with the ACs sentiment. This does not seem to be a need - as a community, we collectively seem to be pretty decent at responding to the occasional "shit, we're running low on money post".
[09:25:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Xyem [6597] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Site Status: First-Half Fundraising Goal Reached; SPAM Lists; Mod Points; and More - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:10] <exec> 08└─I'm being trained up on how to be an editor (GMT/BST), so this is technically in progress already.
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[10:19:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Pledges to Connect 2 Million Rural Americans with Broadband Internet Access - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:54] <exec> 08└─OneDrive and office 365
[10:19:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Pledges to Connect 2 Million Rural Americans with Broadband Internet Access - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:55] <exec> 08└─Suppose, if you can't have people's emails, try and get their data some other way. Wonder how much storage they will offer for "free"?
[10:20:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Albuquerque, New Mexico Police Refuse to Say If They Have Stingrays, So ACLU Sues - 2460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:20:52] <exec> 08└─Another lawsuit against APD is the last thing Albuquerque needs right now. Lawsuits against APD have made it so they aren't even supposed to arrest thieves, trespassers, etc unless more than $1000 worth of damage. http://krqe.com
[10:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anthropocene News: Scientists Warn of "Sixth Mass Extinction", the Era of "Biological Annihilation" - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:25] <exec> 08└─I'm confused now: Do the trolls eat popcorn, or mosquitoes?
[10:21:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Why Mosquitoes Should Not be Eliminated - 738 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:41] <exec> 08└─You city dwellers keep thinking mosquitoes are cute, but we killed them for a damn good reason. They cause harm, both directly to humans and indirectly by killing our livestock. We even burned all the forest off of Mount Monadnock just to wipe out a mosquito swarm. The mountain is still bald 2 centu...
[10:21:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Why Mosquitoes Should Not be Eliminated - 898 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:53] <exec> 08└─Yeah, so my neighbors left their dog outside in a chain-link fenced 5' x 40' concrete strip with no food or shelter every Sunday night through Friday evening, for months. They left bags of trash out there that the dog shredded looking for food, the place flooded when it rained and the dog sat up on...
[10:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Mosquitoes Should Not be Eliminated - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:09] <exec> 08└─Or modify human blood so that it's bad tasting for them? Maybe modify human blood to be poisonous to them; that will put evolutionary pressure to them to avoid humans.
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[11:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Syrian Observatory Says Islamic State Chief is Dead - 1227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:27] <exec> 08└─As stated in TFS, the US view is apparently that there is "no evidence that he is alive", which is quite different to "we have evidence that he is dead". Given that senior members of the Taliban, Al Qaeda, Daesh, and all their various affiliates have a habit of both going quiet then popping back up...
[11:19:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Syrian Observatory Says Islamic State Chief is Dead - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:29] <exec> 08└─The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights is a fancy name for an anti-Assad organization made up out of people that have, for one reason or another, fled Syria. They are anti-government and anti-Assad. That doesn't make them pro-ISIS, but it does make them pro-opposition, or whatnot but they clearly h...
[11:20:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Introducing Humans into an Enclosed Habitat Affects Fungal Distribution - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:20:10] <exec> 08└─Literally, EVERY time humans interfere, they upset the balance
[11:20:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Introducing Humans into an Enclosed Habitat Affects Fungal Distribution - 664 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:20:11] <exec> 08└─We have eradicated precisely one (nearly two, but not quite) infections in the whole of human history. Smallpox. And it's now believed that a similar virus to the other (can't remember the name) has mutated from animal versions again and could infect humans again. Sorry, but we're just temporarily f...
[11:20:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kaspersky Lab has been Working With Russian Intelligence - 765 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:20:32] <exec> 08└─By the way, most people normally have more to fear from their own government than a foreign government. So if you are a US resident not dealing with US national secrets or doing similar work, and have little to do with Russia, it might actually be a good idea to use Russian security software or onli...
[11:21:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anthropocene News: Scientists Warn of "Sixth Mass Extinction", the Era of "Biological Annihilation" - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:21:30] <exec> 08└─Ah, yes. The tu quoque [wikipedia.org] fallacy. That's really strong reasoning there.
[11:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Site Status: First-Half Fundraising Goal Reached; SPAM Lists; Mod Points; and More - 1147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:23] <exec> 08└─We have the quite visible permanent side box. We also have occasional stories reminding you about donations. If considered necessary, I'd have no problems with more such stories, even if it would mean an occasional "story" that's nothing more than asking for money. Or maybe add another text(!) line...
[11:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Popeidol [35] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Status: First-Half Fundraising Goal Reached; SPAM Lists; Mod Points; and More - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:24] <exec> 08└─if you're really that... overly sensitized to informative banners? I can't even begin to fathom why this would trigger you to leave the site.
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[12:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Tabloid Shock and Awe as Google Recommends Torrent and Streaming Sites - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:17] <exec> 08└─If the sites stream any legal movies (creative commons, public domain, etc), why should they not be listed. It's not a search engine's job to be the police, nor should it be.
[12:19:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Tabloid Shock and Awe as Google Recommends Torrent and Streaming Sites - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:18] <exec> 08└─As far as I can tell, this article does not in any way relate to the late Princess Diana. Why is the Express printing it?
[12:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Tabloid Shock and Awe as Google Recommends Torrent and Streaming Sites - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:21] <exec> 08└─Clearly it's a dastardly EU plot to "ruin our brexit"
[12:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tabloid Shock and Awe as Google Recommends Torrent and Streaming Sites - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:23] <exec> 08└─Q: What's the difference between the Daily Express and the Scottish Daily Express? A: The Daily Express hates everyone. The Scottish Daily Express hates everyone and the English.
[12:19:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Tabloid Shock and Awe as Google Recommends Torrent and Streaming Sites - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:25] <exec> 08└─Thanks Express, I'd heard of pirate bay, but not of KickAss Torrents or 1337x.
[12:19:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tabloid Shock and Awe as Google Recommends Torrent and Streaming Sites - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:27] <exec> 08└─I always used to get my Slackware ISOs using bittorrent but a few years ago something strange happened. My client would never seed. I could download but it would never upload. I never figured out why. Never had the time. There days I just use wget to download from one of the official mirrors. Oh wel...
[12:20:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chrontius [5246] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Pledges to Connect 2 Million Rural Americans with Broadband Internet Access - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:20:18] <exec> 08└─Ex college student here. Switched to DSL when the college's online homework submission pages timed out before they loaded on AOL 56K. There was a major rework, with an assload of AJAX, and dialup stopped working. My family's solution was "so study on campus." Except I didn't have any budget for eati...
[12:20:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Introducing Humans into an Enclosed Habitat Affects Fungal Distribution - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:20:34] <exec> 08└─The problem with hospitals is that is you are ill and therefore weakened, then even otherwise harmless bacteria can kill you.
[12:21:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03ewk [5923] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Anthropocene News: Scientists Warn of "Sixth Mass Extinction", the Era of "Biological Annihilation" - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:54] <exec> 08└─3/4? Dude... what have you been smoking? It's about 11% of total land surface and about 36% of the total surface that could be made suitable for some sort of crop production.
[12:21:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03ewk [5923] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Anthropocene News: Scientists Warn of "Sixth Mass Extinction", the Era of "Biological Annihilation" - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:55] <exec> 08└─Think of it as evolution in action... With the possibility that us human may not be the fittest to survive anymore. :-)
[12:22:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Why Mosquitoes Should Not be Eliminated - 414 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:22] <exec> 08└─Transmission of disease is one of mosquitoes' major functions in the ecosystems where they are present... disease is a rather arbitrary label, disease affects population growth rates, balance of species, etc. Suddenly eliminating "disease" in elephants, for example, can lead to decimation of vegetat...
[12:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Mosquitoes Should Not be Eliminated - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:41] <exec> 08└─an organism that has existed for thousands of years
[12:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Linux is Available in the Windows Store - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:42] <exec> 08└─who needs Windows? 2000 called, they want their quesiton back.
[12:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenBSD and the Modern Laptop - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:43] <exec> 08└─I had it running only recently too so it's not like it's an old version of OpenBSD, think it was 5.9 or 6.0. Current version is 6.1. Disk was a 16GB compact flash card and video was an older 4MB PCI card (forget the video chipset). My predecessor at work bought tons of old RAM and I had a fist full...
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[13:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blocked by @realDonaldTrump: Unconstitutional? - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:14] <exec> 08└─I had sex with my stuffed gorilla in a walmart bathroom.
[13:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blocked by @realDonaldTrump: Unconstitutional? - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:15] <exec> 08└─How can a members only private web site be a public political forum?
[13:19:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tabloid Shock and Awe as Google Recommends Torrent and Streaming Sites - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:29] <exec> 08└─I would have thought having the "criminals" tagged, categorised, listed and on public display would be a gift for the police and lawyers. I mean, it's practically handing it on a plate to them. The lawyers should be thanking the likes of Google and giving them some of their spoils when they sue the...
[13:19:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tabloid Shock and Awe as Google Recommends Torrent and Streaming Sites - 1268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:30] <exec> 08└─So, out of curiosity, I did what the link said and ran "best torrent sites" on google. It didn't give me a list, what it gave me is search results, and the top page was from torrentfreak, its "Top 10 most popular torrent sites", which it does every year ( https://torrentfreak.com
[13:19:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tabloid Shock and Awe as Google Recommends Torrent and Streaming Sites - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:32] <exec> 08└─Buy Patrick beer and he'll mail you free Slackware ISO cd's for life.
[13:19:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tabloid Shock and Awe as Google Recommends Torrent and Streaming Sites - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:35] <exec> 08└─What did you expect?
[13:19:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tabloid Shock and Awe as Google Recommends Torrent and Streaming Sites - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:37] <exec> 08└─Why shouldn't a search engine just do what you ask with the information available (index of the internet)? That would be it's most useful state. Add on top of that -user- adjustable settings for types of information you would like to filter out.
[13:19:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tabloid Shock and Awe as Google Recommends Torrent and Streaming Sites - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:39] <exec> 08└─I have a subscription. I get DVDs in the post :-)
[13:19:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Trump not Quite Irrelevant but Isolated in Climate Change - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:51] <exec> 08└─The country is moving forward without you, Al Gore. Did anyone ever mention how you look exactly like the pigs in Animal Farm?
[13:19:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Trump not Quite Irrelevant but Isolated in Climate Change - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:52] <exec> 08└─Maybe the G19 should recognize they need to solve the problems without the help of the US. The US has isolated and is isolating itself. The actions of the illiterate orange clown represent the will of we the citizens, even though Trump did not win the popular vote. The rest of the world outside the...
[13:20:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Syrian Observatory Says Islamic State Chief is Dead - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:12] <exec> 08└─I'm surprised and disappointed. For all the tax money we (USA) spend on CIA and other spying, we should have this answer. Why aren't they doing their job?
[13:20:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Syrian Observatory Says Islamic State Chief is Dead - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:13] <exec> 08└─This guy gets killed every time Raytheon stock takes a dip.
[13:20:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Syrian Observatory Says Islamic State Chief is Dead - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:15] <exec> 08└─Isn't this the "organization" that turned out to be one guy in a London apartment?
[13:20:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Pledges to Connect 2 Million Rural Americans with Broadband Internet Access - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:44] <exec> 08└─I'm thinking of the Facebook plan to get people online for free...but the connection was going to be limited to only go to FB (and maybe a few other commercial sites).
[13:20:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Pledges to Connect 2 Million Rural Americans with Broadband Internet Access - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:46] <exec> 08└─It's a commercial service, just like everything else M$ does. And the price is always right for them because they set the price.
[13:20:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Pledges to Connect 2 Million Rural Americans with Broadband Internet Access - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:48] <exec> 08└─False. Current Month Total Used Data 96.111GB. No data plan, no throttle, no cap. Data caps don't really exist. You just want to believe they do.
[13:21:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Albuquerque, New Mexico Police Refuse to Say If They Have Stingrays, So ACLU Sues - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:50] <exec> 08└─I demand an inventory of vibrators in lady cops desk drawers.
[13:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Anthropocene News: Scientists Warn of "Sixth Mass Extinction", the Era of "Biological Annihilation" - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:27] <exec> 08└─A non-argument statement cannot be fallacious by definition.
[13:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03ewk [5923] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why Mosquitoes Should Not be Eliminated - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:13] <exec> 08└─The quinine in (gin-)tonic isn't there without a reason :-)
[13:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Mosquitoes Should Not be Eliminated - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:14] <exec> 08└─Sir, you obviously have not been to the Creation Museum, and are thus misinformed. Q. Who made the worst mistake in history? A. Noah, he didn't swat the two mosquitoes when he had the chance.
[13:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Linux is Available in the Windows Store - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:17] <exec> 08└─Counteraction? Cut Microsoft out completely. Your development and testing system should be as close as possible to the actual production system. If you tested this drug in mice, then it is obviously safe for use in humans.
[13:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Original Petya Master Decryption Key Released - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:41] <exec> 08└─idkfa
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[14:19:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blocked by @realDonaldTrump: Unconstitutional? - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:20] <exec> 08└─More interesting. Being blocked by the POTUS does not impede you from participating in this 'public forum'. Considering that if this is found to be the case, then Twitter can't shadowban anyone like that one reporter who published leaks over drone killings and got shadowbanned by twitter. See: http:...
[14:19:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fishscene [4361] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blocked by @realDonaldTrump: Unconstitutional? - 841 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:21] <exec> 08└─I suppose it should also illegal to remove people from the whitehouse property because it violates their ability to give (maybe through shouting) and receive official government communication? OR You can go through the usual channels (Like the media everyone so loves right now) and get your informat...
[14:19:22] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03tonyPick [1237] 02 - 06Blocked by @realDonaldTrump: Unconstitutional? - 68 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:23] <exec> 08└─How can a members only private web site be a public political forum?
[14:19:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blocked by @realDonaldTrump: Unconstitutional? - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:25] <exec> 08└─Freedom of speech means there is no repression, not that a tribune is provided.
[14:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blocked by @realDonaldTrump: Unconstitutional? - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:28] <exec> 08└─Those responsible should be sent to a prison where they are beaten daily until they involuntarily shit when they hear a door opening.
[14:19:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blocked by @realDonaldTrump: Unconstitutional? - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:30] <exec> 08└─The issue and lawsuit are not specifically about these blocked people. They are about the larger legal issue.
[14:19:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blocked by @realDonaldTrump: Unconstitutional? - 836 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:32] <exec> 08└─Seriously, Twatter is the wrong tool for the job. The President of the United States has no business posting on a private micro-blogging service (and neither does Donald Trump :P). They should be hosting their own systems so they can have full control over the data and how it gets used. Despite how...
[14:19:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blocked by @realDonaldTrump: Unconstitutional? - 2382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:34] <exec> 08└─Is twitter a public political forum? Is there a constitutional right to be able to tweet with the president? As twitter and the internet etc wasn't invented at the time of the creation of the constitution I recon we have to assume it's any communication. Isn't POTUS mail and other communication alre...
[14:19:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blocked by @realDonaldTrump: Unconstitutional? - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:37] <exec> 08└─I hereby sentence the defendant to death by ........ uh...death by, uh....huh, huh, huh, saw off his tweeter!
[14:19:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Blocked by @realDonaldTrump: Unconstitutional? - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:39] <exec> 08└─You have the right to speak, not right to be heard. The people he blocked are assclowns - that is clowns who live up their own asses. Because Twitter is a sham, these assclowns get promoted over authentic, non-assclown, comments. That is part of the system I suppose, but if we are to accept that we...
[14:19:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blocked by @realDonaldTrump: Unconstitutional? - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:41] <exec> 08└─But you didn't post it on Twitter, so it is not official.
[14:19:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Blocked by @realDonaldTrump: Unconstitutional? - 1974 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:43] <exec> 08└─It's not members only. That's what makes this even stupider. Everything on Twitter is completely public! I'm not even a user and I can see the tweets just fine. Any time I do that by accident, I'm immediately reminded why Twitter is a complete fucking waste of time. This is as stupid as ACs crappost...
[14:19:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blocked by @realDonaldTrump: Unconstitutional? - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:46] <exec> 08└─It's better to leave the offenders alive, so they can spread the story of the cost of being a dipshit.
[14:19:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blocked by @realDonaldTrump: Unconstitutional? - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:48] <exec> 08└─There IS no "larger legal issue", that is the salient point. You need to pay attention to your betters and understand your intellectual inferiority means you are in capable of grasping the realities in the situation. In the mean time, if you have ever considered jumping off a bridge, I can't say I'd...
[14:20:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tabloid Shock and Awe as Google Recommends Torrent and Streaming Sites - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:07] <exec> 08└─I think your guess is right. I can't run patches for my new Acer tablet or do a "repair" on this computer's Microsoft Office when Office stops running, even when the device is streaming music. Pretty sure Comcast is blocking a port Microsoft and Acer use. The only way to repair Office is to reinstal...
[14:20:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03zoward [4734] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Trump not Quite Irrelevant but Isolated in Climate Change - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:16] <exec> 08└─The country moves forward and meets the Paris climate numbers due to advancing technology and the inveitable price drops in renewables. He keeps quiet, thus keeping whatever back room promises he made to the coal industry. Everyboday wins! (Except the coal industry).
[14:20:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump not Quite Irrelevant but Isolated in Climate Change - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:18] <exec> 08└─illiterate orange clown
[14:20:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump not Quite Irrelevant but Isolated in Climate Change - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:20] <exec> 08└─The "Paris Agreement" will fall apart now that there is no US money to steal by being part of it. All the other countries will drop out one by one, and try to come up with a different scheme to fleece the US. The US is not isolated, we have many new allies against the globalists, and we will stand s...
[14:20:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Syrian Observatory Says Islamic State Chief is Dead - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:41] <exec> 08└─Oh, I was going to say, the "Syrian Observatory for Human Rights" sounded like a Syrian government organization with approximately the same role as Saddam Hussein's Iraqi Information Ministry.
[14:20:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Syrian Observatory Says Islamic State Chief is Dead - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:42] <exec> 08└─Yes, that is the one. It was founded by one guy in an apartment somewhere around London, but as I recall it he claims to have a few hundred informants in Syria that is feeding him information. That he then does some sort of analysis work on and presents his evidence to the world.
[14:20:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Syrian Observatory Says Islamic State Chief is Dead - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:45] <exec> 08└─Yeah, well, I claim to be Linus Torvalds.
[14:20:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Syrian Observatory Says Islamic State Chief is Dead - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:47] <exec> 08└─The founder died long ago
[14:21:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Pledges to Connect 2 Million Rural Americans with Broadband Internet Access - 1656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:19] <exec> 08└─This is exactly what the Trump campaign engineered, complete distrust in the media. It was no secret that Fox was an openly far right leaning partisan news network. In fact, it was probably their best move from a business perspective. Plenty of bobble heads tune in to listen to Hannity or some other...
[14:21:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Pledges to Connect 2 Million Rural Americans with Broadband Internet Access - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:20] <exec> 08└─Er, if they're watching FNN they have cable, so they have access to high speed internet already. And don't forget, this place has as many racists and misogynists and Muslim haters and wall cheerleaders as anywhere else.
[14:21:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Introducing Humans into an Enclosed Habitat Affects Fungal Distribution - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:37] <exec> 08└─Please do something about my foot odor :(
[14:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Albuquerque, New Mexico Police Refuse to Say If They Have Stingrays, So ACLU Sues - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:24] <exec> 08└─Maybe they should quit putting themselves in the position of being sued? Maybe they should stop wasting money on stingrays and use it on officer training to prevent the bad behavior? Maybe, just MAYBE you should be holding their leadership accountable instead of blaming the people bringing the misde...
[14:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Albuquerque, New Mexico Police Refuse to Say If They Have Stingrays, So ACLU Sues - 1546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:26] <exec> 08└─"The spectrum analyzer not so much, but if you capture and try to decode then good luck." Not sure about that. Maybe it's just a matter of terminology? You can own any radio RECIEVER, and you can capture, even record, anything on the airwaves. Now, the decoding is tricky. The police will tell you th...
[14:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Albuquerque, New Mexico Police Refuse to Say If They Have Stingrays, So ACLU Sues - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:28] <exec> 08└─Record and publish the identifying information. If people know how to identify an eavesdropper, they won't use the eavesdropper.
[14:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Albuquerque, New Mexico Police Refuse to Say If They Have Stingrays, So ACLU Sues - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:30] <exec> 08└─The solution to all of that? Bust the bad cops, and put THEM in prison for a few decades. If the city tolerates the bad cops, then the city can pay off on law suits. Immediately after that, go after the judges who operate those revolving doors. The average shithead doesn't need prison time - but the...
[14:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anthropocene News: Scientists Warn of "Sixth Mass Extinction", the Era of "Biological Annihilation" - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:08] <exec> 08└─"Notice that this AC fails to have even a single reason why this is alleged hypocrisy or "ultimate irony". It's just another empty accusation from an empty person." That post is voted insightful, so it isn't possible for that to be true.
[14:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anthropocene News: Scientists Warn of "Sixth Mass Extinction", the Era of "Biological Annihilation" - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:10] <exec> 08└─The Land Area of the World is 13,003 million ha. 4,889 million ha are classified as ‘agricultural area’ by the FAO (this is 37.6% of the Land Area). The agricultural area use is divided into 3 categories: arable land (28% of the global agricultural area), permanent crops (3%) and permanent meado...
[14:24:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu Linux is Available in the Windows Store - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:59] <exec> 08└─They both have horrible package- and update-management, for that alone it is worth running Ubuntu... Most people running them probably never install any security updates (especially since both projects as far as I can tell don't even HAVE a security team).
[14:25:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Linux is Available in the Windows Store - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:00] <exec> 08└─Horrible package management? Admittedly it's odd, but re downloading the setup utility and running it to grab packages and updates is not exactly rocket science. And if you like apt, there is always apt-cyg which gives you apt like control of upgrading and installing packages.
[14:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brain-Computer Interfaces Revolutionized Using Silicon Electronics - 1227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:15] <exec> 08└─My dealings with DARPA don't suggest that they're only interested in creating super-soldiers. They do have access to lots of military data - like the surgical database from Vietnam that can inform triage decisions: input your entry/exit points for all wounds and the software can tell you (+/-x%) how...
[14:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenBSD and the Modern Laptop - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:04] <exec> 08└─Joke's on you. Some of the younger OpenBSD devs ARE SJWs... Peter Hessler and Reyk Flöter for example.
[14:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Status: First-Half Fundraising Goal Reached; SPAM Lists; Mod Points; and More - 864 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:16] <exec> 08└─Reading the comments here perhaps this should actually be the normal setting all the time. Sometimes I feel like there is so many stories posted that there rarely is much if any discussion going on. Most stories probably doesn't get read or commented after say five-six hours, do we have any statisti...
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[15:19:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blocked by @realDonaldTrump: Unconstitutional? - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:37] <exec> 08└─If I store a backup of a website in the cloud it does not mean cloud TOS apply to the original website.
[15:19:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blocked by @realDonaldTrump: Unconstitutional? - 825 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:39] <exec> 08└─Twitter actively promotes people that hold a certain point of view (anti-Trump) while suppressing and sometimes cutting others out of the conversation entirely. I understand Twitter is a private company and I think this entire issue is pointless but if the POTUS blocking people on Twitter is unconst...
[15:19:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blocked by @realDonaldTrump: Unconstitutional? - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:41] <exec> 08└─It's not members only. That's what makes this even stupider.
[15:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blocked by @realDonaldTrump: Unconstitutional? - 1279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:43] <exec> 08└─It's not unconstitutional that they put up a fence around the white house so you can't go petition for redress of grievances directly whenever you want. Appropriate boundaries that still allow for some method of trying to communicate with the government is fucking fine. Wethepeople.gov is a perfectl...
[15:19:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blocked by @realDonaldTrump: Unconstitutional? - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:46] <exec> 08└─I cannot board a plane anonymously. Does this mean flying is members only? And if so, what organization do I need to be member of in order to board a plane?
[15:19:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blocked by @realDonaldTrump: Unconstitutional? - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:48] <exec> 08└─That's not analogous. You need to join Twitter to post. Then you're a Twitter member.
[15:19:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blocked by @realDonaldTrump: Unconstitutional? - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:50] <exec> 08└─Ah yes, freedom of the press when combined with freedom of speech must mean I am entitled to my own front page article in the New York Times to expound my pet theories, right?
[15:19:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dale [539] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blocked by @realDonaldTrump: Unconstitutional? - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:52] <exec> 08└─Because it is being used by the POTUS as his main way of communicating to the American public. If the official account was the main delivery method and his personal account was used sparingly then this wouldn't be an issue.
[15:20:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tabloid Shock and Awe as Google Recommends Torrent and Streaming Sites - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:12] <exec> 08└─I'd say it is Google. Google is copying information listed on other websites, parsing it to understand the context, and redisplaying it in a convenient form on search queries. Often this comes in the form of a sidebar biography, but the horizontal list is also prominent. Whether it came from TF or n...
[15:20:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tabloid Shock and Awe as Google Recommends Torrent and Streaming Sites - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:14] <exec> 08└─I only search for torrents when I need a movie or TV show. I'm shocked that people pirate music though... That's real art.
[15:20:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tabloid Shock and Awe as Google Recommends Torrent and Streaming Sites - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:16] <exec> 08└─Odd... I didn't get any streaming sites myself. However this being google it might be that it shows us two different results. I sure never made use of streaming sites of any kind, but have used torrents in the past. I'd say it is Google. Google is copying information listed on other websites, parsin...
[15:20:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Syrian Observatory Says Islamic State Chief is Dead - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:52] <exec> 08└─Syrian Observatory Says Islamic State Chief is Dead
[15:20:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Syrian Observatory Says Islamic State Chief is Dead - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:53] <exec> 08└─Um... I thought Barack Obama was the founder of ISIS. Heck, the U.S. President Donald John Trump was the one who said it! Can you believe that they let the founder of ISIS live unmolested in Washington, D.C.? What's more, the taxpayers pay for his bodyguards! :^)
[15:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Syrian Observatory Says Islamic State Chief is Dead - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:55] <exec> 08└─Yeah, well, I claim to be Linus Torvalds.
[15:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Syrian Observatory Says Islamic State Chief is Dead - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:58] <exec> 08└─Stupid memes are stupid.
[15:21:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Microsoft Pledges to Connect 2 Million Rural Americans with Broadband Internet Access - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:32] <exec> 08└─They want to remove the dial-up networking code from Windows 10 because they can't find any Indians who know how to maintain it.
[15:21:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Introducing Humans into an Enclosed Habitat Affects Fungal Distribution - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:50] <exec> 08└─The ILMAH was closed off from the outside world for the duration of their stay, except for an exchange of filtered air. Prior to habitation, the surfaces were cleaned with a bleach solution, and during the experiment, the surfaces were cleaned weekly with antibacterial wipes.
[15:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kaspersky Lab has been Working With Russian Intelligence - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:12] <exec> 08└─Like Trump.
[15:23:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Hartree [195] 02 - 06Why Mosquitoes Should Not be Eliminated - 53 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:31] <exec> 08└─Don't I remember this storyline from Lilo and Stitch?
[15:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Mosquitoes Should Not be Eliminated - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:09] <exec> 08└─Bats, dragonflies, frogs...
[15:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Mosquitoes Should Not be Eliminated - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:11] <exec> 08└─Indeed. Mosquitoes kill more humans than any other animal does (except perhaps other humans).
[15:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenBSD and the Modern Laptop - 1984 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:20] <exec> 08└─You completely ignored and mischaracterized the discussion. We're not talking about corporate installs or pre-installs, where there is an IT department to hold your hand. We're talking about consumer-level users who want to use a BSD or Linux desktop or laptop that isn't pre-installed with the same....
[15:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenBSD and the Modern Laptop - 1420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:21] <exec> 08└─No I didn't. 1) Correct. 2) NOT CORRECT. If your PC boots into a Windows boot environment (bog-standard boot disk, OEM setup pre-installed on the machine, whatever), it will connect to Windows Update and get everything else it needs. HUNDREDS of different models / manufacturer of machines, each with...
[15:28:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oculus Rift: Dead in the Water? - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:16] <exec> 08└─VR video is much less demanding than VR gaming. My scheme would transform the normally rectangular video, put it in a dark theater setting, and render friends/family/strangers in the audience, but all that should be peanuts for a good GPU. Still, somebody has to code the idea, otherwise the two of y...
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[16:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Releases of Multics and Multics CPU Simulator - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:20] <exec> 08└─My first interactive session with any computer was typing at a BASIC interpreter running on Multics...through an IBM Selectric typewriter terminal. Must have been mid-1970s. Before that it was card decks handed to an operator, and printouts collected sometime after the job was run.
[16:19:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Releases of Multics and Multics CPU Simulator - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:22] <exec> 08└─They are really good at coming up with innovative ideas, and then just letting them flounder into irrelevance.
[16:19:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Releases of Multics and Multics CPU Simulator - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:24] <exec> 08└─Seems like they followed through on radar... https://www.ll.mit.edu [mit.edu] At its peak in 1945, the Rad Lab employed 3500 people and was spending close to $4 million a month. It developed over 100 radar systems, and its designs resulted in $1.5 billion of radar producti...
[16:19:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blocked by @realDonaldTrump: Unconstitutional? - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:55] <exec> 08└─It means that the government isn't allowed to block you from writing in a newspaper. The President is part of the government. The suit is about whether the President is allowed to block people from writing in response to his messages on Twitter.
[16:19:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blocked by @realDonaldTrump: Unconstitutional? - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:56] <exec> 08└─You think the President's statements become insignificant, or not newsworthy, simply because he posts them on a private website?
[16:19:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blocked by @realDonaldTrump: Unconstitutional? - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:58] <exec> 08└─> Isn't POTUS mail and other communication already screened before it reaches him? You're saying that mail to the President is a public forum, like a town hall meeting? Mail to the President isn't published immediately. Tweets are.
[16:20:00] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] 02 - 06Blocked by @realDonaldTrump: Unconstitutional? - 1100 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:01] <exec> 08└─Having only glimpsed the issue, I thought the reasoning of the complainers went roughly like this: - Trump uses twitter a lot for government-related subjects - Many of his tweets lead to a discourse on twitter (by means of replies) - Due to how he uses twitter (both content and frequency), his twitt...
[16:20:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blocked by @realDonaldTrump: Unconstitutional? - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:03] <exec> 08└─It doesn't follow that the need to include something in the official record makes it a public forum. It seems to me that if someone has been blocked via twitter, they could still request and expect to receive a copy of the records in question via FOIA, etc.
[16:20:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tabloid Shock and Awe as Google Recommends Torrent and Streaming Sites - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:26] <exec> 08└─I get that GOOG is not deliberately doing this, hence "recommending" in the sumamry. For me the "best torrent sites" [google.com] search in the summary creates a horizontal list with 1337x, Rarbg, The Pirate Bay, Torrent Project, isoHunt, ExtraTorrent, Demonoid, YourBittorrent, EZTV, Seedpeer, Kicka...
[16:20:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tabloid Shock and Awe as Google Recommends Torrent and Streaming Sites - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:28] <exec> 08└─I'm shocked that people pirate music though... That's real art.
[16:20:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tabloid Shock and Awe as Google Recommends Torrent and Streaming Sites - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:30] <exec> 08└─And illegal immigrants Eating our Swans
[16:20:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Trump not Quite Irrelevant but Isolated in Climate Change - 418 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:38] <exec> 08└─Maybe the G19 should recognize they need to solve the problems without the help of the US. The US has isolated and is isolating itself. The actions of the illiterate orange clown represent the will of we the citizens, even though Trump did not win the popular vote. The rest of the world outside the...
[16:20:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Trump not Quite Irrelevant but Isolated in Climate Change - 899 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:44] <exec> 08└─It's done. I accept the outcome. I simply don't take any of it seriously any more. Clearly less than half the people can control the outcome of the election, and in the process choose not a respectable republican candidate, but the worst of the worst. It isn't deserving of respect or being taken ser...
[16:20:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump not Quite Irrelevant but Isolated in Climate Change - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:46] <exec> 08└─Every G20 country, except the United States, recently signed a declaration to make binding the Paris climate agreement to eventually cut net emissions to zero.
[16:20:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump not Quite Irrelevant but Isolated in Climate Change - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:48] <exec> 08└─You should have been saying this in 1981 about Reagan. Neither Trump nor Dubya were our first idiot president; Reagan was, and we are *still* suffering the effects of that senile fucking clown's trickle-down voodoo bullshit. I'm gonna visit him in Hell and spend some time torturing him myself when t...
[16:21:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Syrian Observatory Says Islamic State Chief is Dead - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:18] <exec> 08└─You are mistaken, Flounder just died...(ducks).
[16:21:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Syrian Observatory Says Islamic State Chief is Dead - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:19] <exec> 08└─Do Obama bodyguards get to beat up US protesters, or is that a privilege left to real presidents like the Turkish one?
[16:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anthropocene News: Scientists Warn of "Sixth Mass Extinction", the Era of "Biological Annihilation" - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:44] <exec> 08└─Yes, exactly. 37.6% overall land area times 28% of that arable ~= 10.5%.
[16:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Mosquitoes Should Not be Eliminated - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:34] <exec> 08└─should not simply be made extinct due to their role in various ecosystems
[16:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Mosquitoes Should Not be Eliminated - 849 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:36] <exec> 08└─Frogs. I stepped outside this morning for a smoke break. Something bright green caught my eye - looked down to see a frog, of some sort. He resembled a common tree frog - or at least what is common here in my part of the country. I think I mentioned "bright" green. So, I stepped around him, and not...
[16:27:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Status: First-Half Fundraising Goal Reached; SPAM Lists; Mod Points; and More - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:59] <exec> 08└─The proposal was for 500 comments, not for each single story with 500 comments.
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[17:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Larsen C Calves Trillion Ton Iceberg - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:17] <exec> 08└─Don't touch that dial! Stay tuned to find out what happens next in The Case of the Restless Ice!
[17:19:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Larsen C Calves Trillion Ton Iceberg - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:19] <exec> 08└─I've been finding this interesting. We get to be aware of a major geological occurrence as it happens. (Is this geology? Oceanography? Which Earth science is this technically?) I certainly find this more interesting than the latest celebrity gossip from the twit-sphere. I sometimes have a passing in...
[17:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Larsen C Calves Trillion Ton Iceberg - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:21] <exec> 08└─we could use the water.
[17:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Larsen C Calves Trillion Ton Iceberg - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:23] <exec> 08└─Has The United Emirates laid claim to it yet?
[17:19:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Larsen C Calves Trillion Ton Iceberg - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:25] <exec> 08└─I'd bet it falls under Oceanography. Icebergs are not generally considered Geologic features the way something like a glacier would is and an iceberg has more impact on the marine environment than anywhere else. Of course there might also be a niche field with it's own name just for icebergs that al...
[17:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Larsen C Calves Trillion Ton Iceberg - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:28] <exec> 08└─You thought "Fiji" water was expensive? Watch how much they ask for Larsen C ice cubes (TM)(R)(C)
[17:19:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Larsen C Calves Trillion Ton Iceberg - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:30] <exec> 08└─You realize the city of San Diego will just enforce their "Pueblo Water rights" on it and charge you 1000x more than anywhere else in the world for every drop. They've done it before and will do it again. We pay about $200 month for water/sewer where the actual water used is $17... the rest is sewer...
[17:20:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blocked by @realDonaldTrump: Unconstitutional? - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:15] <exec> 08└─You have the right to speak, not right to be heard.
[17:20:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blocked by @realDonaldTrump: Unconstitutional? - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:16] <exec> 08└─Easy now, you've poked the overstuffed teddy bears. It is odd how easily they fall over themselves defending such an asshat.
[17:20:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blocked by @realDonaldTrump: Unconstitutional? - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:18] <exec> 08└─Is twitter a public political forum?
[17:20:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blocked by @realDonaldTrump: Unconstitutional? - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:21] <exec> 08└─It's easier than that. They can just logout and then view the posts. There is only two things blocking does: It prevents a person from directly responding thus limiting the chance the person will be heard by the politician (but really, unless the tweet is accompanied by a six figure donation, what p...
[17:20:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blocked by @realDonaldTrump: Unconstitutional? - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:23] <exec> 08└─only ONE thing
[17:20:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blocked by @realDonaldTrump: Unconstitutional? - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:25] <exec> 08└─Despite how the news agencies get payed to spin it, Twitter is not an official source of information.
[17:20:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blocked by @realDonaldTrump: Unconstitutional? - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:27] <exec> 08└─You're saying that mail to the President is a public forum, like a town hall meeting? Mail to the President isn't published immediately. Tweets are.
[17:20:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03PocketSizeSUn [5340] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Blocked by @realDonaldTrump: Unconstitutional? - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:30] <exec> 08└─Ever heard of 'free speech zones'? Your real-life example is how it is done today, IRL.
[17:20:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blocked by @realDonaldTrump: Unconstitutional? - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:32] <exec> 08└─Suppose the president is often speaking and discussing with the public in Central Park, but that he requires that certain individuals (that he gets to point out) are kept far away from him and can only "attend" these events by watching monitors set up near Time Square.
[17:20:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blocked by @realDonaldTrump: Unconstitutional? - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:34] <exec> 08└─How about a real-life analogy? Suppose the president is often speaking and discussing with the public in Central Park, but that he requires that certain individuals (that he gets to point out) are kept far away from him and can only "attend" these events by watching monitors set up near Time Square....
[17:20:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blocked by @realDonaldTrump: Unconstitutional? - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:36] <exec> 08└─If you write a letter to the editor, is the newspaper required to publish it?
[17:20:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blocked by @realDonaldTrump: Unconstitutional? - 855 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:38] <exec> 08└─Yea. About that. Try showing up in the White House Press Room to make your point and watch how fast the MEDIA demand you be thrown out for violating their prerogative of being the Official Blessed Ones who get to decide which questions are going to be part of today's Narrative. That is what this is...
[17:20:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Blocked by @realDonaldTrump: Unconstitutional? - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:41] <exec> 08└─Yup. And I modded it back up because it gets right to the heart of the question here. So long as there are about as many sane users as Progs, it will balance out. The Left love to shout down anyone who disagrees with them one day and then assert that not only do they have a right to speak, everyone...
[17:20:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blocked by @realDonaldTrump: Unconstitutional? - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:43] <exec> 08└─The second problem is that @potus is supposed to be the official channel, but @realDonaldTrump is where all the insanity gets posted. Legally, one could define the first as public space nobody should get blocked from, while the other would be a "private citizen"'s blabberspace with blocking rights....
[17:21:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tabloid Shock and Awe as Google Recommends Torrent and Streaming Sites - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:09] <exec> 08└─I was thinking, a lot of ISPs throttle or block bittorrent since it is so frequently used for piracy (allegedly) ... What's the solution?
[17:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tabloid Shock and Awe as Google Recommends Torrent and Streaming Sites - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:10] <exec> 08└─If your ISP is blocking, Just go into your torrent client prefs and set a non-standard port. That usually fixes it. Having said that, it may just be that you are getting swamped by seeders with massive upload pipes. Whenever I download a new distro, always via torrent, I hardly ever upload anything....
[17:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tabloid Shock and Awe as Google Recommends Torrent and Streaming Sites - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:12] <exec> 08└─Given the sheer amount of spammy sites out there, I doubt that the kind of index search engines we used to have would function well... So at this point, I wish they'd let users have a personalized blocklist to prevent spam sites from appearing in results, and add an option to ban the sites that were...
[17:21:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tabloid Shock and Awe as Google Recommends Torrent and Streaming Sites - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:15] <exec> 08└─funny, one of my top results on that search link is the story that google is now listing the best torrent sites.
[17:21:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03darnkitten [1912] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tabloid Shock and Awe as Google Recommends Torrent and Streaming Sites - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:17] <exec> 08└─I get 5 "Best Torrent Sites" articles from various sources, followed mostly by refeeds of this article. Interestingly, when I refresh the page, the percentage of refeeds increases as more sites pick up the story, gradually blocking out the other content. It's like watching a virus spread, only with...
[17:21:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump not Quite Irrelevant but Isolated in Climate Change - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:31] <exec> 08└─Trump "can't even staff his administration" because democrats are blocking appointments. About 3/4 are blocked as of a few days ago. What the Hell? The democrats are determined to cause troubles for Trump, even if it hurts the country.
[17:21:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump not Quite Irrelevant but Isolated in Climate Change - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:33] <exec> 08└─He has a job to do: make America great again That often means being a bully. If you have to shove the prime minister of a piddly European country in order to project an aura of power, you do it. If you have to break treaties, by proper procedure or by "fuck you I don't care", you do it. The goal is...
[17:21:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump not Quite Irrelevant but Isolated in Climate Change - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:35] <exec> 08└─His hands are tied because Democrats control both houses of Congress.
[17:21:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump not Quite Irrelevant but Isolated in Climate Change - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:37] <exec> 08└─Did anyone ever mention how you look exactly like the pigs in Animal Farm?
[17:21:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump not Quite Irrelevant but Isolated in Climate Change - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:39] <exec> 08└─You should write a book about that strategy: "How to Lose Allies and Influence Morons" (By the way, Dale Carnegie's book is a must-read for anybody entering the work-world, in my opinion. Nerds may not entirely like the message, but it's broccoli for he mind.)
[17:21:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump not Quite Irrelevant but Isolated in Climate Change - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:42] <exec> 08└─But I still had respect for the system
[17:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Syrian Observatory Says Islamic State Chief is Dead - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:13] <exec> 08└─Um... I thought Barack Obama was the founder of ISIS.
[17:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Syrian Observatory Says Islamic State Chief is Dead - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:14] <exec> 08└─Has he claimed that Assad is pursuing WMDs yet? There are traditions ...
[17:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Pledges to Connect 2 Million Rural Americans with Broadband Internet Access - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:50] <exec> 08└─Microsoft spent a lot of time building windows 10 to phone home with "usage data" about you. You can not effectively opt-out or tell Microsoft to not sell your data to others. However, it can't collect data if you are not online.
[17:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Albuquerque, New Mexico Police Refuse to Say If They Have Stingrays, So ACLU Sues - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:06] <exec> 08└─Why should he pay for a subscription? They don't even let him use proportional fonts.
[17:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03PocketSizeSUn [5340] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Mosquitoes Should Not be Eliminated - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:38] <exec> 08└─Mosquitoes were introduced to the Hawaii islands. They seemed to function as a ecosystem just fine before the mosquito.
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[18:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Fedora 26 Released - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:22] <exec> 08└─Real nigger penguins have the blackest feathers and the thickest beaks and the snuggest cloacas. My dick cums so hard when I ram it to a Nigger Penguin wearing a Cowboy Hat.
[18:19:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Larsen C Calves Trillion Ton Iceberg - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:37] <exec> 08└─If I hear about this goddamn ice chunk one more time!
[18:19:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Larsen C Calves Trillion Ton Iceberg - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:38] <exec> 08└─The most fascinating part of this has been watching almost all media and nearly every discussion on the internet act like this is an ominous portent due to climate change, except the people who study it. “Although this is a natural event, and we’re not aware of any link to human-induced climate...
[18:19:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Larsen C Calves Trillion Ton Iceberg - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:40] <exec> 08└─ITYM Dubai. [soylentnews.org]
[18:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Larsen C Calves Trillion Ton Iceberg - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:43] <exec> 08└─Nobody in this discussion has said this calving has to with climate change, or with global warming. In general, though, if ice is warmed sufficiently it does melt. Project MIDAS is a UK-based Antarctic research project, investigating the effects of a warming climate on the Larsen C ice shelf in West...
[18:19:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Touché) 02 - 06Larsen C Calves Trillion Ton Iceberg - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:45] <exec> 08└─It was glaciology until the other day. Now it's icebergology.
[18:19:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Larsen C Calves Trillion Ton Iceberg - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:47] <exec> 08└─You've had it with these monkey-fighting bergs on this monday-to-friday shelf?
[18:19:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Larsen C Calves Trillion Ton Iceberg - 695 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:49] <exec> 08└─Nobody in this discussion has said this calving has to with climate change Nor did they in the source article. FTA: “Although this is a natural event, and we’re not aware of any link to human-induced climate change, this puts the ice shelf in a very vulnerable position. This is the furthest back...
[18:19:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Larsen C Calves Trillion Ton Iceberg - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:52] <exec> 08└─* has to do with
[18:19:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Larsen C Calves Trillion Ton Iceberg - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:54] <exec> 08└─Unless it sinks another Titanic you probably won't hear about it again.
[18:19:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Larsen C Calves Trillion Ton Iceberg - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:56] <exec> 08└─https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14751153 [ycombinator.com]
[18:19:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Larsen C Calves Trillion Ton Iceberg - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:58] <exec> 08└─Except that it is the mission of the organization to study the effects of global warming on this ice. That is the reason this thing is getting so much attention. If these scientists worked on curing diseases, they would generate news about something that matters, instead of this distraction.
[18:20:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Larsen C Calves Trillion Ton Iceberg - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:01] <exec> 08└─Well, your MOM calved a trillion ton iceberg!
[18:20:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03riT-k0MA [88] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Larsen C Calves Trillion Ton Iceberg - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:03] <exec> 08└─Cape Town's closer and needs it more...
[18:20:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Larsen C Calves Trillion Ton Iceberg - 721 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:05] <exec> 08└─Simply switch to Lamestream Media. Once you're consuming "content" from an entity which runs commercial ads for ExxonMobil[1] or Royal Dutch Shell or Atlantic Richfield, anything hinting at any of this will magically disappear. (They don't want to offend the customer--and -you- aren't the customer;...
[18:20:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Dale [539] 02 - 06Blocked by @realDonaldTrump: Unconstitutional? - 223 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:45] <exec> 08└─Because it is being used by the POTUS as his main way of communicating to the American public. If the official account was the main delivery method and his personal account was used sparingly then this wouldn't be an issue.
[18:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03darnkitten [1912] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blocked by @realDonaldTrump: Unconstitutional? - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:05] <exec> 08└─...this is fascinating--we are watching the evolution of US constitutional theory and application, as it relates to a (relatively) new form of personal yet mass communication (which appeared within many of our lifetimes), and which may have profound implications for free speech and the concepts of p...
[18:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blocked by @realDonaldTrump: Unconstitutional? - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:06] <exec> 08└─I don't understand how your comment intersects with the topic. First of all, the lawsuit is about people getting blocked by President Trump. It's not about him deleting his tweets. Second, his tweets aren't usually a second copy of something that was originally posted on whitehouse.gov. Maybe I just...
[18:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blocked by @realDonaldTrump: Unconstitutional? - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:09] <exec> 08└─Thank you for the example of dunning kruger. Since I am sure that is a foreign term for you, or commie term to put it in your parlance, I have attached an explanation. https://en.wikipedia.org–Kruger_effect [wikipedia.org]
[18:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blocked by @realDonaldTrump: Unconstitutional? - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:11] <exec> 08└─No but is the president allowed to bar you from writing the letter?
[18:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Blocked by @realDonaldTrump: Unconstitutional? - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:13] <exec> 08└─Obviously the editor isn't required to publish it, but like the OP's analogy, yours has little to do with the topic. If the President, Congress, or a government agency directed a newspaper editor not to publish my letters, that would be analogous. If Hillary Clinton had gotten elected and she tried...
[18:21:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blocked by @realDonaldTrump: Unconstitutional? - 865 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:15] <exec> 08└─The Central Park analogy is missing one critical detail: "Suppose the president is often speaking and discussing with the public in Central Park" and everyone is invited. By making Twitter an (effectively) official means for everyone to communicate with him, he has changed the rules of the game. Twi...
[18:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tabloid Shock and Awe as Google Recommends Torrent and Streaming Sites - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:46] <exec> 08└─Why is the Express printing something that is relevant? that would totally be against their commitment.
[18:21:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tabloid Shock and Awe as Google Recommends Torrent and Streaming Sites - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:48] <exec> 08└─Force people to install and setup the TCP/IP stack themselves and use text-only clients. That usually filters away a lot of eternal September people :p
[18:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Trump not Quite Irrelevant but Isolated in Climate Change - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:09] <exec> 08└─Err, what? Republicans hold a majority in both houses of Congress. And, from what has been reported, Trump has a habit of refusing potential nominees his subordinates are putting forward, because the suggested people have a clue what they're doing.
[18:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump not Quite Irrelevant but Isolated in Climate Change - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:11] <exec> 08└─The economic realities have changed.
[18:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump not Quite Irrelevant but Isolated in Climate Change - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:13] <exec> 08└─I'm not saying any of them were "good". I'm saying I would take any of them over what we have now. But IMO the system is broken and is spinning out of control. It will not be, cannot be, fixed. Just an opinion.
[18:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump not Quite Irrelevant but Isolated in Climate Change - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:15] <exec> 08└─The democrats are determined to cause troubles for Trump, even if it hurts the country.
[18:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump not Quite Irrelevant but Isolated in Climate Change - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:17] <exec> 08└─Did anyone ever mention how you look exactly like the pigs in Animal Farm? Some votes are more equal than others.
[18:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump not Quite Irrelevant but Isolated in Climate Change - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:20] <exec> 08└─And start making the fossil fuel industries pay to clean up their externalities and they become uneconomical.
[18:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Syrian Observatory Says Islamic State Chief is Dead - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:53] <exec> 08└─1. Find the closest accessible sidewalk to Obama's home. 2. Protest there. 3. ??? 4. Settlement?
[18:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Pledges to Connect 2 Million Rural Americans with Broadband Internet Access - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:30] <exec> 08└─engineered, complete distrust in the media
[18:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Pledges to Connect 2 Million Rural Americans with Broadband Internet Access - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:32] <exec> 08└─"so study on campus."
[18:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Pledges to Connect 2 Million Rural Americans with Broadband Internet Access - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:34] <exec> 08└─The problem is that Microsoft will want to be a captive portal, eavesdrop and make it impossible to use anything but their OS. So it's a really bad idea to let them occupy any radio capacity. Corporate censorship just like Facebook and Youtube seems also very likely.
[18:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Introducing Humans into an Enclosed Habitat Affects Fungal Distribution - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:53] <exec> 08└─Make the surface of the habitat covered with a fungicide? just like modern fridges that has silver ions embedded into the plastic to make it impossible for fungi, algae and bacteria to grow.
[18:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Introducing Humans into an Enclosed Habitat Affects Fungal Distribution - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:54] <exec> 08└─Oh, put a sock in it will ya?
[18:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kaspersky Lab has been Working With Russian Intelligence - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:17] <exec> 08└─Which aspect of this story is news-worthy? The fact that they lied about it and then got caught lying about it. It takes a real partisan to have that not affect your trust in an organization.
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[19:19:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:26] <exec> 08└─What we really need is a determination that advertising internet access is an affirmative statement that needs qualification to the extent that providers don't supply that. Right now we have a huge problem with people advertising ALL THE INTERNET when in actual fact they're doing their best to castr...
[19:19:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fedora 26 Released - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:34] <exec> 08└─Questions: * Is it systemd doomed? * Will it Ubuntu Shopping Lens default phone-home? * Make use of some GUI that suck all CPU and memory it can detect?
[19:19:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Fedora 26 Released - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:36] <exec> 08└─If you don't like systemd you'll love the drop-in replacement NiggerD.
[19:20:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Larsen C Calves Trillion Ton Iceberg - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:04] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=20519&page=1&cid=538220#commentwrap [soylentnews.org]
[19:20:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Larsen C Calves Trillion Ton Iceberg - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:06] <exec> 08└─Happy birthday to our new ice lord.
[19:20:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Larsen C Calves Trillion Ton Iceberg - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:08] <exec> 08└─Sounds like we need a study in ologyology to clear it up.
[19:20:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Larsen C Calves Trillion Ton Iceberg - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:10] <exec> 08└─GP gets the prize for bringing politics to this one. gewg_ gets second place.
[19:20:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Releases of Multics and Multics CPU Simulator - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:21] <exec> 08└─Wake me when a working Unix simulator of Xerox Alto is available..
[19:20:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Releases of Multics and Multics CPU Simulator - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:23] <exec> 08└─Redmond reuses other folks' ideas--but they first strip out all the good stuff. Unix: (Unix time starts in 1970) - Has proper permissions Linux 1.0: Released 1994 - Reused Unix permissions NT: Released 1993 - Lousy permissions Windoze 95 - No permissions at all -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[19:20:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Releases of Multics and Multics CPU Simulator - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:25] <exec> 08└─https://github.com/livingcomputermuseum/ContrAlto/releases [github.com]
[19:21:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blocked by @realDonaldTrump: Unconstitutional? - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:22] <exec> 08└─It's pretty bizarre that Twitter would make tweets unviewable to blocked users when they can just log out. They should change that.
[19:21:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blocked by @realDonaldTrump: Unconstitutional? - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:24] <exec> 08└─I cannot board a plane anonymously.
[19:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blocked by @realDonaldTrump: Unconstitutional? - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:26] <exec> 08└─Does everyone get to attend a town hall meeting and come up to the president and ask a question? You don't think those people that are in attendance are vetted?
[19:21:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tabloid Shock and Awe as Google Recommends Torrent and Streaming Sites - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:59] <exec> 08└─Nice things about Bittorrent: It does the checksums automatically. If one segment fails, it will tell you which one so that you can download just that part again. With wget, you have to do the checksum yourself. ...and, if there is an error, you have to start over again from zero. So, yet another in...
[19:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump not Quite Irrelevant but Isolated in Climate Change - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:27] <exec> 08└─"trickle-down voodoo bullshit"
[19:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump not Quite Irrelevant but Isolated in Climate Change - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:29] <exec> 08└─a respectable republican candidate
[19:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers are Closer to Working Capillaries in 3D-Printed Organs - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:37] <exec> 08└─empty holes To pick a nit, that seems redundant. blood to bring in nutrients and take away waste ...and the holes need to be large enough for that -and- small enough that the blood cells don't get out. Hmmm. Maybe too obvious for them to mention. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[19:25:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03kaszz [4211] 02 - 06Anthropocene News: Scientists Warn of "Sixth Mass Extinction", the Era of "Biological Annihilation" - 94 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:10] <exec> 08└─We got lucky with technological improvements and some political sanity. That luck may run out.
[19:25:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06Anthropocene News: Scientists Warn of "Sixth Mass Extinction", the Era of "Biological Annihilation" - 1256 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:27] <exec> 08└─Ehrlich is a fruitcake, or else a coldly calculating type who knows that doomsday sells. That said, one thing is definitely true (and I say this as someone who despises most ecological activists): we humans occupy too much of the planet's surface. There is too little space left for other species to...
[19:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anthropocene News: Scientists Warn of "Sixth Mass Extinction", the Era of "Biological Annihilation" - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:40] <exec> 08└─If you look at relatively recent reports about Chernobyl, you will find that wildlife has come back to the area with a vengeance. The radiation is still an issue of course, but the fact that nature and wildlife is flourishing, demonstrates that just having humans living in an area is more devastatin...
[19:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anthropocene News: Scientists Warn of "Sixth Mass Extinction", the Era of "Biological Annihilation" - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:41] <exec> 08└─R&D results is not a deterministic activity. It requires hard work, persistence and indeed some luck. Previous gains will not guarantee future ones. Getting people to use resources efficiently without learning by hard mistakes is not an easy task. Free market economics is not necessarily overall eff...
[19:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anthropocene News: Scientists Warn of "Sixth Mass Extinction", the Era of "Biological Annihilation" - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:43] <exec> 08└─Mass extinction events do not come along slowly as in "entering its sixth mass-extinction event".
[19:27:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Linux is Available in the Windows Store - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:40] <exec> 08└─The big problem is that they even tried it. It's like the Belkin router MITM attack from the manufacturer. It should not even be attempted.
[19:28:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenBSD and the Modern Laptop - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:47] <exec> 08└─2) NOT CORRECT. If your PC boots into a Windows boot environment (bog-standard boot disk, OEM setup pre-installed on the machine, whatever), it will connect to Windows Update and get everything else it needs.
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[20:19:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:24] <exec> 08└─Gimme Free Shit Now We Deserve Free Shit Free Shit For Free Gimme Gimme Gimme Free Shit For Free
[20:19:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:25] <exec> 08└─Wow! AJit Pai, posting as AC right here on SolylentNews! We've made it, babies!
[20:19:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:27] <exec> 08└─Unlimited data means unlimited torrents! Fuck you MAFIAAFCC fuckers! I paid for my last mile when I paid sales tax on weed! Give me the unlimited data I fucking deserve!
[20:19:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:29] <exec> 08└─In addition, their are long discussions going on
[20:19:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:32] <exec> 08└─yeah, i'm conflicted. i want the gov to die or at least nearly starve to death but i also don't want corps making it impossible for small operators to stay afloat. turn the internet into tv...
[20:19:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:34] <exec> 08└─Sign me up for the side with the FCC Chair. If there was doubt, a look at the supporters of Network "Neutrality" ends it. They have been on the wrong side of pretty much every question, doubt this is the exception.
[20:19:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:36] <exec> 08└─Your favorite YouTube celebrities have already turned the internet into TV. The time has arrived for you to declare, "I don't have the internet." Go back to ham radio.
[20:19:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:38] <exec> 08└─I wrote this very quickly because none of the editors were online to check it. I'm feeling very ill in real life, and actually didn't even realize NN day was going on until I woke up about two hours ago. I'm feeling crummy enough that I don't trust myself to go into the site settings and lock the th...
[20:19:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:40] <exec> 08└─We're just trying to have a good time, narc.
[20:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:43] <exec> 08└─i hope you die
[20:19:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:45] <exec> 08└─Aren't the supporters pretty much everybody but Comcast and a few other double-dippers? But anyway, people are acting like it's the internet as we know it, but the title 2 reclassification is newer than SN. Was the internet that bad before title 2?
[20:19:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:47] <exec> 08└─This isn't about unlimited usage. It's about ISPs picking winners and losers on the Internet. And a big ISP, AT&T, is buying CNN. So fake news could win.
[20:19:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:49] <exec> 08└─The FCC had de-facto created NN before Title II classification under an act I can't be bothered to look up in 2011-ish. Verizon sued that it was an overstrech of the FCC's power to do that. They won, but the court said the FCC could reclassify them as Title II and re-instate Net Neutrality. So they...
[20:19:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:52] <exec> 08└─You misspelled "dye", but he said he's too sick to change the color.
[20:19:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:54] <exec> 08└─Slashdot : winner SoylentNews : loser HAHAHA fuck you losrs
[20:19:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:56] <exec> 08└─I hope you dyke when she's on the rag.
[20:19:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:58] <exec> 08└─Hmm.... somebody else said that, sure I have seen it somewhere. But I guess something that awesome and true needs to be reposted to the ends of the Earth.
[20:20:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:01] <exec> 08└─Me too, sir. Me too.
[20:20:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 1773 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:03] <exec> 08└─Just net neutrality. Although attempting to preserve net neutrality would be action in a good direction. Why should ISPs get to "double dip" and charge their customers for access to their pipes and then charge those who are supplying data across those pipes. That's charging twice for the same data....
[20:20:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:05] <exec> 08└─I love the fact that ISPs have managed to claim "Unlimited Access" means "you can use it at any time", vs "unlimited data". I personally agree with this, but let's fight one battle at a time.
[20:20:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:07] <exec> 08└─AT&T is joining a pro net neutrality rally even as it fights to kill current net neutrality rules [recode.net] AT&T is joining online net neutrality protest. Say what? [cnet.com]
[20:20:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:09] <exec> 08└─I do believe that is the first death threat I've gotten since we started this site, granted a weak one. Only took three years; took me long enough to do something right.
[20:20:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:12] <exec> 08└─Don't try to post anonymously jmorris you said exactly the same thing in the last NN thread [soylentnews.org] with your name on it. Troll.
[20:20:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:14] <exec> 08└─Aren't the supporters pretty much everybody but Comcast and a few other double-dippers? But anyway, people are acting like it's the internet as we know it, but the title 2 reclassification is newer than SN. Was the internet that bad before title 2?
[20:20:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:16] <exec> 08└─The FCC had de-facto created NN before Title II classification under an act I can't be bothered to look up in 2011-ish. Verizon sued that it was an overstrech of the FCC's power to do that. They won, but the court said the FCC could reclassify them as Title II and re-instate Net Neutrality. So they...
[20:20:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:18] <exec> 08└─Ugh, I feel dirty for writing this, I actually think I get their point. They were OK with the neutrality rules in place before Verizon shat the bed, and forced the FCC to reclassify ISPs under Tier II. What they want is to keep the neutrality rules, but loose the Tier II designation because Tier II...
[20:20:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:20] <exec> 08└─Meme [imgur.com].
[20:20:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:23] <exec> 08└─Did they? I normally would look up the answer myself; but as I said elsewhere, I feel very sick, and I'm only here because I can't sleep. I thought pre-2002 that they were basically in a legal gray area because there was a lot of belief on /. that ISPs were essentially common carriers but there was...
[20:20:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:25] <exec> 08└─Usually, a "typo ahoy" only needs the correction, no excuses are necessary. Best of health, mate, get well quick.
[20:20:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:27] <exec> 08└─I understand your feelings. However, I will never stand with AT&T. Ever. They are scum, pure and simple. And it's nothing new. They were scum before the break up [wikipedia.org], and they have continued to be so every since. After they slammed [wikipedia.org] me back in 1999 or 2000, I swore I'd nev...
[20:20:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:29] <exec> 08└─Only took three years; took me long enough to do something right. "After all, I've tried for three years, seems like ninety" Oh, do get up and go have a rest. SN is no better nor worse than this entire fucked-up world.
[20:20:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:31] <exec> 08└─In addition, their are long discussions going on
[20:20:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:33] <exec> 08└─Nitpicking: Ma Bell itself is dead. What is AT&T now is because Southwestern Bell Corporation (SBC) which was one of the baby bells, bought up most of the other baby bells, the name AT&T. They're not the same company. And yes, for the most part, I agree with you. I'm just old enough to remember the...
[20:20:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:36] <exec> 08└─Could have sworn I replied to this, but can you cite the Title II to TItle I change in 2002? I know ISPs were under a variant of Title II up until roughly that point, but I don't think they were actually designated it. I'd like to have the link for quick reference.
[20:20:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creationist Gets His Bag of Rocks - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:44] <exec> 08└─What crappy school did this guy get his PhD from? They really should revoke it: you can't be a real scientist if you start out with an answer and then selectively interpret evidence to support the answer which you're already convinced of.
[20:20:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Creationist Gets His Bag of Rocks - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:46] <exec> 08└─Further he promises to publish his findings in a peer reviewed journal. Perhaps even his own journal. Perhaps even his own peers.
[20:20:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Creationist Gets His Bag of Rocks - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:49] <exec> 08└─OK. Let's revoke the citizenship of terrorists. You're a terrorist.
[20:20:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creationist Gets His Bag of Rocks - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:51] <exec> 08└─The PhD just means that he's capable of thought and reason. It doesn't mean he needs to actually be thoughtful or reasonable.
[20:20:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Creationist Gets His Bag of Rocks - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:53] <exec> 08└─PhD means he has done original research. It doesn't mean what he's doing at the moment qualifies as scientific.
[20:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Creationist Gets His Bag of Rocks - 647 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:56] <exec> 08└─>"... you can't be a real scientist if you start out with an answer and then selectively interpret evidence to support the answer which you're already convinced of." A real scientist can start out with an answer and objectively interpret evidence in order to judge whether or not it is correct. How d...
[20:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fedora 26 Released - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:07] <exec> 08└─ * Is it systemd doomed? You bet your pinko fedora it is! * Will it Ubuntu Shopping Lens default phone-home? Someone should really test it and see how much of that it's doing today, I honestly don't know. * Make use of some GUI that suck all CPU and memory it can detect? GNOME. If you can ca...
[20:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fedora 26 Released - 1229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:09] <exec> 08└─It's essentially Red Hat's "stable" test bed (as opposed to an LTS or Testing release), so yes, it comes with systemd, and usually updates to the current release fairly quickly. No, it's 100% free of such blatent OS level "phone home" stuff. Individual apps will do their usual things though, and tha...
[20:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fedora 26 Released - 935 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:11] <exec> 08└─congrats on the release but i wonder if fedora team has slapped the shit out of whoever was making gnome software so windows like. if you want to update on reboot and all that jazz, just do it for the kernel and stuff that actually needs it, do the rest in the background while in runlevel 5 and don'...
[20:21:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Larsen C Calves Trillion Ton Iceberg - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:43] <exec> 08└─yes, mega corps lie and so do your precious whore scientists.
[20:21:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Larsen C Calves Trillion Ton Iceberg - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:45] <exec> 08└─Did anybody else read the Clive Cussler novel wherein the supervillain caused a large chunk of ice to separate from Antarctica? His goal was to unbalance the Earth's rotation by redistributing the mass of the ice shelf further from the axis. The weird part was that all the characters in the book bel...
[20:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Releases of Multics and Multics CPU Simulator - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:03] <exec> 08└─NT and 32-bit 9x were two separate lines of technology. It's not fair to say 95 was a "sequel" to NT.
[20:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Releases of Multics and Multics CPU Simulator - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:05] <exec> 08└─Er, *16-/32-bit 9x. You know what I mean :P
[20:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Releases of Multics and Multics CPU Simulator - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:07] <exec> 08└─not fair to say Looking at what I actually said, that does not included Post hoc ergo propter hoc. It does, however, include the Post part and that's my gripe: Older but not wiser. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[20:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blocked by @realDonaldTrump: Unconstitutional? - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:07] <exec> 08└─And I'm probably going to regret asking this, but what exactly has the media done that is seditious?
[20:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tabloid Shock and Awe as Google Recommends Torrent and Streaming Sites - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:41] <exec> 08└─Having said that, it may just be that you are getting swamped by seeders with massive upload pipes.
[20:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tabloid Shock and Awe as Google Recommends Torrent and Streaming Sites - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:43] <exec> 08└─I wish they'd let users have a personalized blocklist If, by "they", you mean Google, that exists. You may have seen Google links with "cse" in the URL. That stands for Custom Search Engine. [google.com] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[20:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tabloid Shock and Awe as Google Recommends Torrent and Streaming Sites - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:45] <exec> 08└─Subscription DVDs by post... There used to be a company called Netflix that did that; are they still in business? If so, do they have Slackware in their catalog?
[20:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump not Quite Irrelevant but Isolated in Climate Change - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:14] <exec> 08└─They learned from the Republicans' actions during the Obama presidency. Still is dumb.
[20:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Pledges to Connect 2 Million Rural Americans with Broadband Internet Access - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:29] <exec> 08└─don't be an idiot. trump is just playing to the prevailing opinion about the presstitute scum.
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[21:19:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:30] <exec> 08└─-- end of line --
[21:19:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:31] <exec> 08└─And if we cut taxes for the rich, they will invest and the economy will grow and we will have more tax revenue! And if we violate copyright, creators will have no incentive and there will be no Windows 11. You do want windows that go all the way to eleven, don't you?
[21:19:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:34] <exec> 08└─I wonder what was in the other hand.... RT wouldn't be cherry-picking here would they? The fact that I can't find a transcript of the interview or the quote in it's entirety makes one wonder....
[21:19:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:36] <exec> 08└─With the entire population of Africa taking refuge in Germany, who will remain to be taken care by Gates foundation? (grin)
[21:19:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:38] <exec> 08└─And rich people hate njiggers.
[21:20:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:21] <exec> 08└─I was mostly making a (weak) joke about the fact that you've stood up for something when you're threatened about it. I do think I'm going to go AFK for awhile though, and see if I can sleep this off.
[21:20:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:22] <exec> 08└─You wrote "we stand with them." The other editors agree, right?
[21:20:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:24] <exec> 08└─Could have sworn I replied to this, but can you cite the Title II to TItle I change in 2002? I know ISPs were under a variant of Title II up until roughly that point, but I don't think they were actually designated it. I'd like to have the link for quick reference.
[21:20:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:26] <exec> 08└─I normally would look up the answer myself; but as I said elsewhere, I feel very sick,
[21:20:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:29] <exec> 08└─$80/month > Free
[21:20:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:31] <exec> 08└─Don't worry. The rest of us will protect sites like Soylent for you.
[21:20:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:33] <exec> 08└─Nitpicking: Ma Bell itself is dead. What is AT&T now is because Southwestern Bell Corporation (SBC) which was one of the baby bells, bought up most of the other baby bells, the name AT&T. They're not the same company. And yes, for the most part, I agree with you. I'm just old enough to remember the...
[21:20:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:35] <exec> 08└─Can we start spam-modding shit that's very clearly not only trollish but also content-free?
[21:20:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:37] <exec> 08└─Hey jmo, we can see through your "submit anonymously" checkbox.
[21:20:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:40] <exec> 08└─Some of us unpatriotic pinko-commie socialist liberal types create a little bit of content for free to share with our fellow human being that the world might be a better place.
[21:20:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:42] <exec> 08└─He didn't repost it anonymously. I did, because I found it amusing, especially in the context of the SoylentNews editors joining the protest. Sorry, I didn't mean to troll or make jmorris look sneaky.
[21:20:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:44] <exec> 08└─Hope you feel better soon!
[21:20:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:46] <exec> 08└─You forgot GTE [teletruth.org]. Today, because of numerous mergers, there are only 4 Bells: BellSouthSBC Communications, which owns Southwestern Bell, Pacific Bell, Ameritech, SNETVerizon, which owns Bell Atlantic, NYNEX, and GTEQwest, which now owns US West [...] Two Bell Companies...
[21:20:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:48] <exec> 08└─Where are all the tweets? Twitter says "No results for #iStandWithAT&T".
[21:20:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:51] <exec> 08└─No, the point goes deeper than that. "Internet Access" means that you get access to the whole, unmoderated, unfiltered thing. No caps nor exploitative agreements, sure. But also: * No preferential boosts for given providers or vendors * No interference with content * Full disclosure of all rules, ed...
[21:20:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:53] <exec> 08└─Disagree. If someone wants to start a new "show" then they just turn on their camera and upload the result. That was never possible with tv.
[21:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:55] <exec> 08└─Next time cite your references, and maybe use /sarcasm tags. :D
[21:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Creationist Gets His Bag of Rocks - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:08] <exec> 08└─Removing anything at all from the Grand Canyon is generally prohibited. Having every tourist grab a souvenir would strip very scientifically valuable material from the site. Taking any samples for research is very restricted. A few scientists per year are allowed to take small samples for qualified...
[21:21:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creationist Gets His Bag of Rocks - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:09] <exec> 08└─Pretty sure that was sarcasm... Scientists work from the evidence forward. This guy works from his conclusion backwards.
[21:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creationist Gets His Bag of Rocks - 771 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:11] <exec> 08└─Yes, but the degree basically means the school is vouching for him in the degree field (in this case, the science of geology) and claiming him to be competent in that field. He clearly is not. Obviously, my idea opens a big bag of worms and really isn't workable: should colleges monitor graduates fo...
[21:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creationist Gets His Bag of Rocks - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:13] <exec> 08└─should colleges monitor graduates for decades to make sure they aren't going off the rails? Should a medical school revoke the degree of a doctor who turns into an alternative-medicine-practicing quack?
[21:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creationist Gets His Bag of Rocks - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:15] <exec> 08└─How do you know whether he is going to be selective or objective?
[21:21:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Creationist Gets His Bag of Rocks - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:18] <exec> 08└─And I thought this was going to be a gender-reassignment story. . . .
[21:21:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creationist Gets His Bag of Rocks - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:20] <exec> 08└─I thought the PhD just meant that he managed to please his defense committee sufficiently to get them to sign off. There are many ways to please a review committee, and I've met more than one PhD who seemed to get their degree awarded as a way for the committee to get the individual out of the insti...
[21:21:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Creationist Gets His Bag of Rocks - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:22] <exec> 08└─> provided that he makes the data from any analyses freely available. Psh. I wonder what kind of "analysis" this religitard is going to do? Pray over them, and then listen for voices in his sleep?
[21:21:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creationist Gets His Bag of Rocks - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:24] <exec> 08└─Scientists work from the evidence forward.
[21:21:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Creationist Gets His Bag of Rocks - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:27] <exec> 08└─Maybe that's why he/it needs a couple (testi)stones.
[21:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Larsen C Calves Trillion Ton Iceberg - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:13] <exec> 08└─Why would this "magically disappear"? It's not related to global warming, it happens all the time, it won't raise sea level one iota. The only reason to suppress this story is a concern that stupid people on the Internet would mis-report it - oh, wait a minute, there are millions of stupid people on...
[21:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Larsen C Calves Trillion Ton Iceberg - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:14] <exec> 08└─Somebody snapped, went off the deep end, reached the summit of Mt. Nutso, and made a quick stop at the loonie bin.
[21:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Larsen C Calves Trillion Ton Iceberg - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:16] <exec> 08└─Steve? Steve Urkel? When did you start doing mom jokes?
[21:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tabloid Shock and Awe as Google Recommends Torrent and Streaming Sites - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:09] <exec> 08└─I usually order stickers and T-shirts too. Nothing quite as cool as an official Slackware T-shirt.
[21:24:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Trump not Quite Irrelevant but Isolated in Climate Change - 899 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:22] <exec> 08└─It's done. I accept the outcome. I simply don't take any of it seriously any more. Clearly less than half the people can control the outcome of the election, and in the process choose not a respectable republican candidate, but the worst of the worst. It isn't deserving of respect or being taken ser...
[21:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump not Quite Irrelevant but Isolated in Climate Change - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:40] <exec> 08└─Respectability is relative. Gray looks pretty light compared to black.
[21:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump not Quite Irrelevant but Isolated in Climate Change - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:42] <exec> 08└─If Obama had wanted the agreement to be binding, he would have submitted it to the US Senate to be ratified as a treaty.
[21:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump not Quite Irrelevant but Isolated in Climate Change - 594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:44] <exec> 08└─Press organizations were allowed to recount the Florida vote after the election. There were several dozen conducted. All of them except 3 showed Bush won Florida - and one of the 3 for Gore had him winning by 3 votes. So Bush really did win Florida. The "inaccurate" initial vote was right after all....
[21:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump not Quite Irrelevant but Isolated in Climate Change - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:46] <exec> 08└─the top republicans are treasonous pieces of shit too. the people that voted for them voted to repeal (not replace!) but these stupid bitches are trying to force the same shit as the socialists. surprise, surprise. for some reason republicans don't seem to notice. they're all like "but muh replace!"...
[21:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump not Quite Irrelevant but Isolated in Climate Change - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:48] <exec> 08└─unfortunately, as a president, if you aren't assassinated you aren't trying hard enough.
[21:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump not Quite Irrelevant but Isolated in Climate Change - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:51] <exec> 08└─Fossil fuels get outright subsidies [theguardian.com] as well.
[21:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump not Quite Irrelevant but Isolated in Climate Change - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:53] <exec> 08└─I think GP was supposed to be sarcasm.
[21:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Syrian Observatory Says Islamic State Chief is Dead - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:29] <exec> 08└─I bow to your superior OS development skills!
[21:26:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kaspersky Lab has been Working With Russian Intelligence - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:52] <exec> 08└─Don't forget Junior.
[21:26:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kaspersky Lab has been Working With Russian Intelligence - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:54] <exec> 08└─lmao! pull your head out of your ass!
[21:27:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Albuquerque, New Mexico Police Refuse to Say If They Have Stingrays, So ACLU Sues - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:27] <exec> 08└─the mortar operator?
[21:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Albuquerque, New Mexico Police Refuse to Say If They Have Stingrays, So ACLU Sues - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:28] <exec> 08└─sounds like the citizens are to blame. the list is long. whining like a helpless slave is not on the list.
[21:29:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Mosquitoes Should Not be Eliminated - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:04] <exec> 08└─I read a book years ago on common fallacies, and several of the experts interviewed made a strong case that this notion of a "balance of nature" is absurd. The idea is usually everything will collapse dramatically if anything of any significance changes. Nonsense. Nature will re-balance easily over...
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[22:20:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:20] <exec> 08└─Get well soon. Or else...
[22:20:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:22] <exec> 08└─Like Comcast merged with NBC.
[22:20:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:24] <exec> 08└─I was speaking from personal experience. I don't remember GTE as a kid, but I primarily grew up in NYC and Westchester where it was NYNEX and BellAtlantic primarily. GTE based on Google had more of the rest of the state. GTE itself wasn't a baby bell, it was one of the few independent companies in t...
[22:20:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:26] <exec> 08└─"In subtraction, our are short discussions stopping off.")
[22:20:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:28] <exec> 08└─You are a high quality person and I applaud your transparency.
[22:20:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:40] <exec> 08└─No need to self-censor, friend, we can say nigger here. Gates shouldn't be so short-sighted. After all, Indians tech workers are becoming more expensive every day. Soon globalization will require African tech workers, to keep costs down.
[22:20:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:41] <exec> 08└─You can't show that you're doing good, if all the able males are running away to a different place than where you're helping. I'm guessing the point was to reduce the incentive so Africans build Africa, rather than run to Europe where they cause instability, and leave Africa to Warlords and China.
[22:20:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 734 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:43] <exec> 08└─It is a simple enough math problem, Mr. Gates isn't an idiot so of course he got the correct answer. If you allow even 10% of Africa's current population, even 10% of North Africa, to move to Europe it will destroy Europe. And the population of Africa, thanks to Western largess, is exploding so the...
[22:20:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:45] <exec> 08└─Gates is not in charge anymore. Microsoft is an Indian company now.
[22:20:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:48] <exec> 08└─Is Mommy Merkel ♢ going to listen to reason? Are the German people going to have the courage to call for being circumspect when granting asylum, even if they may be called Nazis for speaking out?
[22:20:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:50] <exec> 08└─Besides the fact that the rich pay for almost everything in society already, it is also the case that taxing the rich at 100% (that is, stealing all of their income) would do very little to balance the overgrown budgets of western governments. As always, the problem is government, not the rich. Inde...
[22:20:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:52] <exec> 08└─Offtopic? Really? This is entirely on-topic. Try Troll or Flamebait, people.
[22:20:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 751 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:54] <exec> 08└─For clarification, there are two major groups of immigrants from Africa crossing to Europe: One are North African Arabs (Nafris in German police-speak), the second are sub-Saharan black Africans, who are forced by the racist Arabs to travel in the most dangerous part of the boats. Both groups are ec...
[22:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:56] <exec> 08└─"Don't give handouts to people" is a thing that rich people say. But how about "A rising tide lifts all ships" and "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you". Taking in refugees isn't the only generous thing to do. You could also give a helping hand to those in need. Many people would be ha...
[22:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 1004 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:59] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but how do you help make their country better when you're not in that country? Just sending aid to those countries usually ends up feeding corruption instead of improving things for people there, but when Western nations take a more active role, they usually get labeled as "imperialistic". If...
[22:21:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Creationist Gets His Bag of Rocks - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:22] <exec> 08└─It's from the University of Sydney. I don't think they even have schools in Australia, so this is probably fake.
[22:21:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creationist Gets His Bag of Rocks - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:23] <exec> 08└─The PhD just means that he's capable of thought and reason. It doesn't mean he needs to actually be thoughtful or reasonable.
[22:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creationist Gets His Bag of Rocks - 986 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:25] <exec> 08└─No. Scientists frequently start off with a hypothesis that they intend to prove. That's not what they tell you in high school, but if you read the biographies of famous scientists that's what you'll see. (I'm not counting Einstein here as most of his work was as a theoretician. An exception would be...
[22:21:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creationist Gets His Bag of Rocks - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:28] <exec> 08└─Geology is critical in Australia: You learn to recognize under which type of rock each deadly creature is most likely to hide to ambush you.
[22:21:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creationist Gets His Bag of Rocks - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:30] <exec> 08└─Follow prior successful published works: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[22:21:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Creationist Gets His Bag of Rocks - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:32] <exec> 08└─Drop bears hide under rocks too?!
[22:21:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Creationist Gets His Bag of Rocks - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:34] <exec> 08└─And figure out why all the rocks are up in trees.
[22:21:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creationist Gets His Bag of Rocks - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:36] <exec> 08└─They know you're likely looking up.
[22:21:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fedora 26 Released - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:49] <exec> 08└─Anybody know what the state of Perl 6 is in the latest Fedora?
[22:21:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fedora 26 Released - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:50] <exec> 08└─Welcome this news with open arms. I may not be a dyed in the wool Fedora-ite, but I've been using it personally and professionally since Fedora Core 2. Although professionally, we migrated to CentOS 7 for the longer release life, I've had great luck using it in all of my personal computers. Now to r...
[22:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Larsen C Calves Trillion Ton Iceberg - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:28] <exec> 08└─A small correction. It cannot be shown to be directly connected to global warming. This is not at all the same as saying it is not connected to global warming. There are clear indirect connections. True, they probably only affect the speed at which this kind of thing happens, but the speed is not un...
[22:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Larsen C Calves Trillion Ton Iceberg - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:30] <exec> 08└─Everyone loves a good iceberg...
[22:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Larsen C Calves Trillion Ton Iceberg - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:32] <exec> 08└─It cannot be shown to be directly connected to global warming.
[22:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Larsen C Calves Trillion Ton Iceberg - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:34] <exec> 08└─How many Titanics has it sunk so far?
[22:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Larsen C Calves Trillion Ton Iceberg - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:36] <exec> 08└─Check the timestamps.
[22:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Larsen C Calves Trillion Ton Iceberg - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:38] <exec> 08└─That one was a real doozie. You don't see them like that any more.
[22:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blocked by @realDonaldTrump: Unconstitutional? - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:54] <exec> 08└─> Being blocked by the POTUS does not impede you from participating in this 'public forum'. On Twitter, can you reply to someone who has blocked you?
[22:25:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump not Quite Irrelevant but Isolated in Climate Change - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:10] <exec> 08└─You just missed the proper colour to compare grey with.
[22:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Albuquerque, New Mexico Police Refuse to Say If They Have Stingrays, So ACLU Sues - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:45] <exec> 08└─If the ACLU absolutely feels the need to defend people's rights in ABQ, perhaps they could start with our right to not being robbed, mugged, or shot at.
[22:28:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anthropocene News: Scientists Warn of "Sixth Mass Extinction", the Era of "Biological Annihilation" - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:29] <exec> 08└─And a red herring as well.
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[23:20:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 853 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:18] <exec> 08└─"Socialist" and "Liberal" are on opposite sides of the dividing line. A Liberal thinks Capitalism is acceptable and simply wants to redistribute income, via the government, from The Capitalist Class to The Working Class. A Socialist is an Anti-Capitalist. He knows that Capitalism is the root problem...
[23:20:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:19] <exec> 08└─Yeah. We kicked this around a few days ago. Over 50,000 Entities Have Signed on to the July 12 2017 Net Neutrality Day of Action [soylentnews.org] He's the infographic again: The Internet Without Net Neutrality [imgur.com] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[23:20:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:22] <exec> 08└─Contrast with the original, word for word. Next time have you're coffee before using your mouth for sexual matters.
[23:20:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:24] <exec> 08└─It seems pretty obvious that NCommander is not feeling very smurfy. Can't be expecting him to get out the bluing and dunk himself. Per the nasty AC: I don't think NCommander is up to making any stamping tools either. What could the AC be saying? ...and for what possible reason? -- OriginalOwner_ [so...
[23:20:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:26] <exec> 08└─I've heard that there's a liquid that is not only known to kill pathogens, it also is consumable by humans and has a tranquilizing effect. Hope you feel better soon. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[23:20:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 1072 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:28] <exec> 08└─I used to be optimistic about this but in the past year I got the metered shit, intrusive HTML injected into my pages regularly without VPN use (which should not be a VPN usecase), etc. I am highly concerned at these pieces of garbage slowly eating away at the internet's integrity in a frog-in-boili...
[23:20:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:30] <exec> 08└─Socialist? Sounds more like a conservative or CEO to me. Those fuckers NEVER want to pay for what they use. "That road was already there. I'm not paying to maintain it so I can drive on it and use it to deliver my goods. Fuck you. Someone else can pay for it."
[23:20:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:53] <exec> 08└─I do have to wonder, what percent of Suckistan's population immigrating to my country marks the point where I have the moral and ethical right to annex Suckistan so I have somewhere to put all the Suckistanis?
[23:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 1198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:54] <exec> 08└─A clarification that added absolutely nothing useful. Doesn't matter, Eastern Europe is making it clear they aren't dumb enough to take ANY of them and Western Europe can't possibly take enough refugees to make a difference without collapsing into failed states as bad as what the rabbits are fleeing...
[23:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:56] <exec> 08└─Gates isn't suggesting that they should "abandon generosity". He's saying that they should temper their generosity with wisdom and discretion. And that just makes sense - Germany is richer than Tunisia and Chad, but that doesn't make Germany's resources infinite. And for that matter, Germany has som...
[23:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 1505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:58] <exec> 08└─I don't know if the editors are gullible or like the sort of outrage RT tends to encourage because what benefits the state helps websites that publish it. I remember a time when people could recognize this sort of thing and were instantly suspicious. But of course this hasn't stopped fringe places l...
[23:21:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:01] <exec> 08└─>"... were governments not so powerful ..." The government is intrinsically powerful. The problem is that the government abuses its power. What can be done about that is to elect people who exercise restraint in using the government's power. It is bad strategy to take wealth from the rich to give to...
[23:21:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 1020 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:03] <exec> 08└─None, because the correct answer is to just say no to taking in Suckistanis in the first place. If you take over Suckistan you still get to take care of all those Suckistanis who can't maintain a civilization on their own, only now you get to do it while "all right thinking people", the U.N. and suc...
[23:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:05] <exec> 08└─Don't give handouts to people comes from give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day... It's good sense not heartlessness.
[23:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 622 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:07] <exec> 08└─Ok champ, point us to a media outlet that ISN'T a "propaganda machine". CNN? NYT? FNC? Bitch, please! Don't make me laugh. Or do you like state run media, only when they agree with you like NPR, BBC or DW? Or are you an Al Jazera kinda guy? Oh, you point to The Atlantic like it isn't equally biased?...
[23:21:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:10] <exec> 08└─How about instead of a handout we give them a helping hand?
[23:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:12] <exec> 08└─Sure immigrants have made this country great. Doesn't mean we should let in parasites. Just like the old fable teaches us: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[23:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:14] <exec> 08└─A government is an organization that allocates resources according to "do as I say" coercion, rather than according to "do as we already agreed in advance" cooperation. When coupled with a quasi-religious cultural reverence for the government, then the government has a good chance of becoming powerf...
[23:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 937 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:16] <exec> 08└─Oh do fuck off you self-assured little whore of a man. There's really nothing worse than someone who's bought and doesn't know it. You know damn well you don't look at any of those sites. I don't have to even look at news sites because whorish consumers of them will always make sure the items end up...
[23:21:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:18] <exec> 08└─OH NOES! jmorris has been nailed!!! Oh do fuck off you self-assured little whore of a man
[23:21:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:21] <exec> 08└─A sound strategy that worked for a while - but how do you implement it when the megacorps basically own the government? Another strategy is to tax the heck out of corporate profits - that has a proven track record of success when corporate tax rates topped out very close to 100%. Not because the cor...
[23:21:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:23] <exec> 08└─London is no longer an English city. Roll that concept around in your head a moment,
[23:21:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:25] <exec> 08└─Hey, I know what will help society! Forcing people to make risky investments by threatening to transfer the fruits of their labor to the inherently unproductive bureaucrats in government. Yeah. That'll do it! Spread society's resources across both high risk investments and low-intelligence governmen...
[23:21:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:27] <exec> 08└─give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day..
[23:21:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:29] <exec> 08└─"Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe" Gaaark urges Gates to stop being such a cancer on operating systems and software and start being a human being, and not such a stupid prick. Gaaark urges Gaaark to stop being such a caustic asshole, sometimes, but Gaaark is ju...
[23:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Creationist Gets His Bag of Rocks - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:00] <exec> 08└─Genesis is still a great band, but I wish I'd seen them before Gabriel quit.
[23:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creationist Gets His Bag of Rocks - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:02] <exec> 08└─Einstein did theorize from the data. The photoelectric effect was a straightforward summary of the experimental results, only organised as an explanation instead of a puzzle. Same for the special theory of relativity -- the relevant equations, such as the Lorentz-Fitzgerald contraction, had been kno...
[23:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Creationist Gets His Bag of Rocks - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:04] <exec> 08└─I am a creationist and agree with this decision.
[23:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Creationist Gets His Bag of Rocks - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:06] <exec> 08└─Thou shalt not worship thine own hypotheses.
[23:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Creationist Gets His Bag of Rocks - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:08] <exec> 08└─I'm not but yeah giving him his rocks so he can go play quietly in the corner is the best answer. It's not like there's a law that says thou shalt not play with the rocks and there isn't exactly a shortage of them either so...
[23:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fedora 26 Released - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:23] <exec> 08└─It's essentially Red Hat's "stable" test bed
[23:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blocked by @realDonaldTrump: Unconstitutional? - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:23] <exec> 08└─Imagine leading (not back bencher) Republicans daily calling for Obama's impeachment for months on end with zero actual evidence.
[23:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blocked by @realDonaldTrump: Unconstitutional? - 769 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:24] <exec> 08└─Cleric: And the Lord spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to two, no more, no less. Two shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be two. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou one, excepting that thou then proceed to t...
[23:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump not Quite Irrelevant but Isolated in Climate Change - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:41] <exec> 08└─The senate it still operating under dumb 1970s rules that allow a phony fillibuster. (you can take a break, putting the legislation aside to do other things, so a fillibuster is way too easy) McCain and Murkowsky are practically democrats. Oh, and a Bernie supporter actually shot at republicans, lea...
[23:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Introducing Humans into an Enclosed Habitat Affects Fungal Distribution - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:18] <exec> 08└─Nirvana fallacy: the comment. Now with 100% extra vacuous scaremongering. and in the process we made lots of other infections immune to our only defense (antibiotics)
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