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[00:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Reportedly Advising Companies to Ditch Kaspersky Apps - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:19] <exec> 08└─Normally, the marketing plan is rolled out ahead of the product. In this case, though, it seems that NSA got it backward, releasing their service years before the marketing was ready. I blame it on interagency synchronization difficulties.
[00:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Reportedly Advising Companies to Ditch Kaspersky Apps - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:21] <exec> 08└─can't touch this gonna keep usin it my brother. gonna keep usin it.
[00:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Reportedly Advising Companies to Ditch Kaspersky Apps - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:23] <exec> 08└─I interpret this as "we refuse to install the backdoors the FBI requires', so the fibbies say "don't use Kaspersky. It's sad when you trust a foreign company (Russian for bonus points) more than your own TLA.
[00:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Asked to Nullify the Google Trademark - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:35] <exec> 08└─I get the impression that when people talk of googling something, they literally mean that they are going to use Google to search for it. That strikes me more as market penetration than generification. Probably the opposite of generic, in fact.
[00:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Murdoc [2518] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Asked to Nullify the Google Trademark - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:37] <exec> 08└─I know too many people that don't know the difference between "google" and "search engine". Many don't even know it's a website, since they just type their query into the url bar. If they are not aware of their choices, they can't make informed choices.
[00:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supreme Court Asked to Nullify the Google Trademark - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:39] <exec> 08└─:-)
[00:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supreme Court Asked to Nullify the Google Trademark - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:41] <exec> 08└─Do we want the legal president set that makes it all but impossible to trademark names because the name became part of the public lexicon? No company would dare engage in trademarks again if all that had to happen was the general public started using it as slang and you no longer have a trademark.
[00:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Asked to Nullify the Google Trademark - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:43] <exec> 08└─I AltaVistad "I binged it!" but the results were compiled by a bunch of Yahoos!
[00:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Third Party Trackers on Web Shops Can Identify Users Behind Bitcoin Transactions - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:53] <exec> 08└─Because zcash and anoncoin both AFAIK had issues with excessive blockchain usage, and etherium has issues with its vm/contract security.
[00:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Third Party Trackers on Web Shops Can Identify Users Behind Bitcoin Transactions - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:55] <exec> 08└─Well, there is also the fact that if you buy a physical product - legal or otherwise - using "anonymous" currency, you still have to provide a delivery address. So, you're friendly FBI agent delivers the product, and his three accomplices hang around, waiting to see who picks up the package with the...
[00:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Third Party Trackers on Web Shops Can Identify Users Behind Bitcoin Transactions - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:57] <exec> 08└─*sigh* Your friendly FBI agent . . .
[00:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Paul Allen Finds Lost World War II Cruiser USS Indianapolis - 804 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:13] <exec> 08└─Yup. A Guide to the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Attacks [jacobinmag.com] Whatever cynical agenda motivated the American leaders’ decision to annihilate hundreds of thousands of Japanese lives with new-fangled apocalypse technology, it wasn’t out of an interest in preventing further suffering. The bom...
[00:26:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Silent 10-Minute Track Reaches Top 100 on iTunes - 223 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:27] <exec> 08└─> An iPhone or iTunes users plugs into the AUX input of their car stereo. Funny that, I thought they had devoted considerable engineering resources and courageously solved that behavior issue by removing the headphone jack.
[00:26:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silent 10-Minute Track Reaches Top 100 on iTunes - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:49] <exec> 08└─Thanks Marty! Now that I know about this, I bought all my friends and family three copies each of this song! Everybody loves me now because I'm so generous with this incredibly creative endeavor! My mom (at least I think it was my mom) was so happy about it that she sent me a fresh horse head along...
[00:26:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silent 10-Minute Track Reaches Top 100 on iTunes - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:51] <exec> 08└─My mom (at least I think it was my mom) was so happy about it that she sent me a fresh horse head along with a note saying I'd get mine too.
[00:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0610 Sailors Still Missing After U.S. Destroyer Collision With Oil Tanker - 832 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:38] <exec> 08└─Looks like the Navy doesn't have to follow COLREGs: Nothing in these Rules shall interfere with the operation of any special rules made by the Secretary of the Navy with respect to additional station or signal lights and shapes or whistle signals for ships of war and vessels proceeding under convoy,...
[00:27:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0610 Sailors Still Missing After U.S. Destroyer Collision With Oil Tanker - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:39] <exec> 08└─*COLREGS
[00:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 0610 Sailors Still Missing After U.S. Destroyer Collision With Oil Tanker - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:41] <exec> 08└─It's actually illegal according to the Geneva Convention. I don't really understand why.
[00:27:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0610 Sailors Still Missing After U.S. Destroyer Collision With Oil Tanker - 659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:44] <exec> 08└─Probably written in node.js using warship.io which was deprecated the day it was released for navyshipfactory.io which was also obsolete before it got off the drawing board but was developed anyway by a bunch of retarded hipsters who mistakenly thought they were programmers. I hear it is to be repla...
[00:29:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 062017 Solar Eclipse: The Path of Totality - 805 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:29:07] <exec> 08└─I noticed that today. When totality hit, I suddenly couldn't see a thing through the filters. I stole a few glances during totality and I don't notice anything different about my (sucky to start with) vision. I'm so glad I traveled to see it. I was amazed at how bright it was outside with just the t...
[00:29:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062017 Solar Eclipse: The Path of Totality - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:29:09] <exec> 08└─Charter share in a 4 seat Cessna. About a 2.25 hour flight, got to a small municipal airport right underneath the path, watched the eclipse, home before 2 pm. Great views of Puget Sound, Olympic Mountains, and all of our volcanoes going down and back, and totally avoided miles upon miles upon miles...
[00:29:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 062017 Solar Eclipse: The Path of Totality - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:29:11] <exec> 08└─I've always wanted to visit Chile! Another reason.
[00:29:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 062017 Solar Eclipse: The Path of Totality - 691 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:29:13] <exec> 08└─I would agree. I'd never seen any sort of eclipse before and I did sort of question my decision to travel when right at home, I'd have 85.5% coverage of the sun. Totality is totally different than partial. It wasn't what I'd call very noticeable with 50% coverage - kind of like a cloud passed over t...
[00:30:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Report Proposes to Stop a Supervolcanic Eruption by Siphoning Heat From It - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:30:13] <exec> 08└─Now, if I took that microscopic needle and carefully tried to bleed the balloon, what would happen?
[00:30:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Report Proposes to Stop a Supervolcanic Eruption by Siphoning Heat From It - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:30:14] <exec> 08└─This sounds like fracking. Which has been associated with seismic events, not desirable around a supervolcano.
[00:30:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Report Proposes to Stop a Supervolcanic Eruption by Siphoning Heat From It - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:30:17] <exec> 08└─If I tried to make the analogy about drilling the lid of a pressure cooker, therefore affecting structural integrity of the thing containing the pressure, I'd get a cease-and-desist from Seb arguing that pressure cookers don't explode. And going for the "geeze, will they remove the safety valves aft...
[00:31:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Volkswagen to Produce Electric Version of its Microbus Camper Van - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:31:20] <exec> 08└─Bicyclists and pedestrians too. My co-worker was hit by a turning car while in a crosswalk. Luckily enough he had a helmet on as it was smashed - instead of his head. You can be looking directly into a turn and those pillars will easily hide a pedestrian or motorcycle - and sometimes even a small ca...
[00:31:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Volkswagen to Produce Electric Version of its Microbus Camper Van - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:31:21] <exec> 08└─Not 100% true: the tariff is on light trucks (and is really stupid, but not the point of this comment). The original microbus was able to be imported fine, except the cargo versions which fell under light truck. A very similar example was the Fort Transit Connect being manufactured in Turkey. They w...
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[01:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Couple Accused of Using Lowes Website Flaw to Steal Expensive Goods - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:15] <exec> 08└─on a BBS I was given a phone number. Using my 300 baud modem to connect to that phone number I connected to Monkey Ward. From there I could order anything they offered in their catalog. No money required, just a mailto address. I thought about it, then decided no, I don't want to go to prison 10 yea...
[01:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Couple Accused of Using Lowes Website Flaw to Steal Expensive Goods - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:17] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but I'm guessing you couldn't hide behind female privilege.
[01:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Couple Accused of Using Lowes Website Flaw to Steal Expensive Goods - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:19] <exec> 08└─Trust me, Lowe's doesn't make Victoria's Secret. It's made by L Brands but the L doesn't stand for Lowe's. It stands for Les Wexner. Who is disgusting. He said I'm like Emperor Nero or Emperor Caligula. Who, even though they were Emperors, were not popular. Not at all popular. And worst of all, he c...
[01:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Couple Accused of Using Lowes Website Flaw to Steal Expensive Goods - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:21] <exec> 08└─Fail to see male/female privilege here. You're either a thief or not a thief, gender doesn't come into the equation.
[01:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Couple Accused of Using Lowes Website Flaw to Steal Expensive Goods - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:23] <exec> 08└─HiRez Plz.
[01:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Couple Accused of Using Lowes Website Flaw to Steal Expensive Goods - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:25] <exec> 08└─Donald prefers the Oxford comma? I guess when you reach three wives, it starts to matter.
[01:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Couple Accused of Using Lowes Website Flaw to Steal Expensive Goods - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:28] <exec> 08└─Trust me, Lowe's doesn't make Victoria's Secret. Lowe's sells 50 lb bags of concrete and 10 ft lumber, not to mention pool chemicals and assorted shit need to upgrade a house (light switch anyone). How in the hell does Victoria's Secret models get wrapped into a Lowes discussion thread?
[01:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Couple Accused of Using Lowes Website Flaw to Steal Expensive Goods - 855 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:30] <exec> 08└─OK I get it that most people would judge this as theft. But just to present another perspective... I call you up and say "Hey I want to buy a couch. Can you ship it to me?" You: "Sure" Me: "How much?" You: "$500" Me: "OK I'll take it but I'm not paying $500. Will you accept $300?" Now you have a dec...
[01:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Reportedly Advising Companies to Ditch Kaspersky Apps - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:41] <exec> 08└─So, when will we have a don't use Windows, Facebook, etc... (PRISM companies) by everyone else?
[01:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Reportedly Advising Companies to Ditch Kaspersky Apps - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:42] <exec> 08└─Officials claim the company is a Russian stooge that can't be trusted with protecting America's critical infrastructure.
[01:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Reportedly Advising Companies to Ditch Kaspersky Apps - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:44] <exec> 08└─"It's obvious Russian government has a back-door in these products. Because if they were American products, we would have back-doors in them!"
[01:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Reportedly Advising Companies to Ditch Kaspersky Apps - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:46] <exec> 08└─If malware comes from the Russian "Business" Network then Kaspersky won't detect it. I got this from someone in a position to know all the details. That's why I'm posting anonymously.
[01:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03forkazoo [2561] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Asked to Nullify the Google Trademark - 956 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:04] <exec> 08└─I've also never heard anybody say "Google that on Yahoo" or "I am going to Google for a place to eat on Yelp." Every time I've heard somebody use Google as a verb, they literally mean "I am going to use a service operated by Google." So it seems silly to assert it's generic. I have sometimes heard p...
[01:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Asked to Nullify the Google Trademark - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:06] <exec> 08└─It's called Estoppel. It's not like patents or copyrights; the burden of protection is on the trademark holder. They've been calling search "google it" ever since google got to be cool to the slashdot crown. I feel the plaintiff should win.
[01:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supreme Court Asked to Nullify the Google Trademark - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:08] <exec> 08└─Do we want the legal president
[01:26:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Paul Allen Finds Lost World War II Cruiser USS Indianapolis - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:34] <exec> 08└─Ramming speed! [google.com] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[01:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paul Allen Finds Lost World War II Cruiser USS Indianapolis - 817 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:36] <exec> 08└─Of course there is a huge debate on that item. Here are two things to take into account: 1. An invasion of the homeland islands was expected to be incredibly costly. Factoid: after WWII no more purple hearts were manufactured because so many were made in preparation for that campaign. The bombs may...
[01:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silent 10-Minute Track Reaches Top 100 on iTunes - 2 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
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[01:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silent 10-Minute Track Reaches Top 100 on iTunes - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:16] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately almost all OEM infotainment systems have similar issues. Toyota is the one exception: my last rental would search for Bluetooth automatically if it is the last played device, and NOT turn on the radio. But everyone else defaults to the radio if a media device is missing, and Bluetooth...
[01:27:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 0610 Sailors Still Missing After U.S. Destroyer Collision With Oil Tanker - 236 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:25] <exec> 08└─This is the 4th incident this year! Two other ships have had collisions (one really serious, the other not so much), and one ran aground in Japan. What is going on in the Navy that they can't pilot boats in a minimally competent manner?
[01:27:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03EvilSS [1456] 02 - 0610 Sailors Still Missing After U.S. Destroyer Collision With Oil Tanker - 276 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:26] <exec> 08└─This is the second destroyer from the same squadron (DESRON 15) to be involved in a collision in a little over two months and the 4th collision/grounding this year for 7th Fleet vessels. That... seems excessive. I'd sure hate to be the CO of that destroyer squadron right now.
[01:29:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 062017 Solar Eclipse: The Path of Totality - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:36] <exec> 08└─It's cultural appropriation! The sun's putting on blackface!
[01:29:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03John Miller [6613] (Score: 1) 02 - 062017 Solar Eclipse: The Path of Totality - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:37] <exec> 08└─Love the title of the comic! TRUMP in big letters. In capital letters. Not gold, it should be in gold. Let me tell you, when I masturbate, have sex, or get a hand job, I think of President Donald J. Trump. I always, always think of him. Our greatest President ever. Who is not a racist. Racially awar...
[01:30:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA Report Proposes to Stop a Supervolcanic Eruption by Siphoning Heat From It - 1062 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:30:41] <exec> 08└─My take is different. It would take a lot of water, but we have a lot of water available. For example, taking the entire Yellowstone River and flashing it into 600 C would be a massive, hard problem, but not one that's beyond the US in its technological future. Similarly, planning for a Yellowstone...
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[02:26:19] <exec> 08└─well there goes the rest of my evening.... that comic is amazing!
[02:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score: 2) 02 - 062017 Solar Eclipse: The Path of Totality [Updated] - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:20] <exec> 08└─There was a headline in Denver warning people not to drive with the glasses on.
[02:26:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Couple Accused of Using Lowes Website Flaw to Steal Expensive Goods - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:35] <exec> 08└─This is the same shit. Get a 20% discount? Yeah, that's plausible. Get a 100% discount? Yeah, you're a thief and fuck you.
[02:26:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Couple Accused of Using Lowes Website Flaw to Steal Expensive Goods - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:37] <exec> 08└─It never ceases to amaze me how stupid people like this are. If you find an exploit like this and actually want to use it, it would be smarter to only use it occasionally over a long period of time, and not to sell the merchandise online (which leaves behind evidence). Even if the exploit is eventua...
[02:26:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Couple Accused of Using Lowes Website Flaw to Steal Expensive Goods - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:39] <exec> 08└─According to an article on NJ.com, an attorney for the couple has stated that Velazquez is just an expert shopper, not a criminal hacker.
[02:26:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Couple Accused of Using Lowes Website Flaw to Steal Expensive Goods - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:41] <exec> 08└─How is it different if you delegate the decision to a web site?
[02:26:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Couple Accused of Using Lowes Website Flaw to Steal Expensive Goods - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:43] <exec> 08└─Are you quoting yourself? Let me tell you, when you quote yourself you don't need to use quote marks. You can just come out and say it! Believe me, I love to quote myself, I quote myself all the time. And no one ever questioned it. So I know. And I don't know how Victoria's Secret got a shout out, b...
[02:26:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Couple Accused of Using Lowes Website Flaw to Steal Expensive Goods - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:46] <exec> 08└─Absolutely! But I call it the Chicago comma. They taught it to me at Wharton. Where I minored in real estate, and majored in RULING INCREDIBLY. Ruling the likes of which you've never seen in your life. Like this world has never, ever seen before, and may never see again! 🇺🇸
[02:26:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Couple Accused of Using Lowes Website Flaw to Steal Expensive Goods - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:48] <exec> 08└─P.S. when I say come out, it's OK if you come out as gay. I'm very, very OK with the gays! ✔ And especially with my beautiful lesbians! Just remember who has your back. Who always, always stood behind the gays and lesbians! Not trans, I'm done with the trans. In 2020, remember me! #TRUMP2020 🇺...
[02:27:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Reportedly Advising Companies to Ditch Kaspersky Apps - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:02] <exec> 08└─so cycle between antimalware programs from as many countries as possible. in this way you could possibly stumble upon state sponsored malware from different countries. some of the "false positives" aren't!
[02:27:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Paul Allen Finds Lost World War II Cruiser USS Indianapolis - 1380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:52] <exec> 08└─1. An invasion of the homeland islands was expected to be incredibly costly In the summer of 1945, Japan's home islands were completely isolated. Nothing was allowed in or out: no men or materiel. The Allies had things all bottled up. The Japanese people were on starvation rations. The civilians of...
[02:28:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silent 10-Minute Track Reaches Top 100 on iTunes - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:33] <exec> 08└─Creating a compressed, silent sound file is trivial with lame (or flac or any other encoder) and is a two command pipeline on a Linux machine.
[02:31:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ICE Says It Does Not Use Cell-Site Simulators to Locate Undocumented Immigrants - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:31:22] <exec> 08└─what is this no comment nonsense?
[02:31:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 1) 02 - 06ICE Says It Does Not Use Cell-Site Simulators to Locate Undocumented Immigrants - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:31:24] <exec> 08└─Must be very important, since it has attracted three (3) Spam mods. Something to do with Nazis. And free speech.
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[03:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062017 Solar Eclipse: The Path of Totality [Updated] - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:17] <exec> 08└─Clearly Russian intelligence operatives are behind any future and prior eclipses. They cannot be trusted.
[03:26:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Justin Case [4239] 02 - 06Couple Accused of Using Lowes Website Flaw to Steal Expensive Goods - 855 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:31] <exec> 08└─OK I get it that most people would judge this as theft. But just to present another perspective... I call you up and say "Hey I want to buy a couch. Can you ship it to me?" You: "Sure" Me: "How much?" You: "$500" Me: "OK I'll take it but I'm not paying $500. Will you accept $300?" Now you have a dec...
[03:26:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Couple Accused of Using Lowes Website Flaw to Steal Expensive Goods - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:40] <exec> 08└─Why should there be an expectation that a business is going to legitimately negotiate their products down to free for the taking?
[03:26:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Couple Accused of Using Lowes Website Flaw to Steal Expensive Goods - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:42] <exec> 08└─Why? If the store offers you a 75% discount, you would take it, wouldn't you?.... If they offer you a free item, 100% off, you would take it, wouldn't you? Isn't it their fault for offering to "sell" you something at 100% off list price?
[03:26:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Couple Accused of Using Lowes Website Flaw to Steal Expensive Goods - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:44] <exec> 08└─Hoover basically went out of business when their UK division gave away the free flights with the purchase of a vacuum (where they obviously though that not enough people would redeem the reward but the reward was worth more than the vacuum!)....
[03:26:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Couple Accused of Using Lowes Website Flaw to Steal Expensive Goods - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:46] <exec> 08└─it seems to imply that the vendor/business is not responsible for ensuring that their website is properly operating
[03:26:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Couple Accused of Using Lowes Website Flaw to Steal Expensive Goods - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:48] <exec> 08└─Why the expectation that the web site operates flawlessly?
[03:26:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Couple Accused of Using Lowes Website Flaw to Steal Expensive Goods - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:50] <exec> 08└─Get a 20% discount? Yeah, that's plausible. Get a 100% discount? Yeah, you're a thief....
[03:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Beau Slim [6628] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Supreme Court Asked to Nullify the Google Trademark - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:26] <exec> 08└─"legal president"? Was that a Freudian slip, or does your auto-correct have a political bias? Don't get me wrong--I'm fed up too!
[03:27:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supreme Court Asked to Nullify the Google Trademark - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:27] <exec> 08└─Does binged rhyme with hinged or winged?
[03:27:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supreme Court Asked to Nullify the Google Trademark - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:30] <exec> 08└─Audit the Fed!
[03:31:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ICE Says It Does Not Use Cell-Site Simulators to Locate Undocumented Immigrants - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:31:31] <exec> 08└─He got butthurt over having several flamebait submissions deleted while two others got mashed up in a way he didn't like. Now you're seeing him protest these decisions (indistinguishable from a temper tantrum).
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[04:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Effect: Andromeda Officially Shuts Down its Single-Player Updates - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:19] <exec> 08└─Seriously, why do people play this crap?
[04:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Improve the Design of Cylindrical Shaped Hall Thrusters - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:27] <exec> 08└─Cylindrical Shaped Hall Thruster. "Fucking machine" is easier to type. Why does each industry need its own lingo?
[04:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Improve the Design of Cylindrical Shaped Hall Thrusters - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:29] <exec> 08└─We could also call it a Cylindrical Shaped Hall Effect Thruster.
[04:26:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Couple Accused of Using Lowes Website Flaw to Steal Expensive Goods - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:58] <exec> 08└─Nope, if there's no sign of forced entry then insurance won't pay out when you're robbed. Something like 90% of household locks are trivially picked without leaving signs, but few people with brains are robbing houses.
[04:26:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Couple Accused of Using Lowes Website Flaw to Steal Expensive Goods - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:59] <exec> 08└─Oh, that's what happened to them. Well that sucks.
[04:27:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02 - 06FBI Reportedly Advising Companies to Ditch Kaspersky Apps - 208 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:10] <exec> 08└─I interpret this as "we refuse to install the backdoors the FBI requires', so the fibbies say "don't use Kaspersky. It's sad when you trust a foreign company (Russian for bonus points) more than your own TLA.
[04:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Reportedly Advising Companies to Ditch Kaspersky Apps - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:16] <exec> 08└─Time to switch to Linux or BSD or OpenSolaris/Indiana/Whateveritisnow. Are they flawless? No, of course not, I'm sure there are backdoors in there too. But there is something to be said for minimizing your attack surface. If you must use Windows for something--for me it's a MIDI sequence--run it vir...
[04:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03https [5248] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06FBI Reportedly Advising Companies to Ditch Kaspersky Apps - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:18] <exec> 08└─The time to switch was more than a decade ago.
[04:27:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Asked to Nullify the Google Trademark - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:42] <exec> 08└─Depends on how hard you use it.
[04:27:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Asked to Nullify the Google Trademark - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:44] <exec> 08└─I know too many people that don't know the difference between "google" and "search engine".
[04:28:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paul Allen Finds Lost World War II Cruiser USS Indianapolis - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:15] <exec> 08└─Not sure if Karma works before the fact?
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[05:25:19] <exec> 08└─No Comments. Solidarity with Aristarchus!
[05:26:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Couple Accused of Using Lowes Website Flaw to Steal Expensive Goods - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:58] <exec> 08└─Imagine you are making a written contract. The other side signed it and hands it to you to sign as well. Before you sign it, you alter it without the other side noticing. The other side proceeds to fulfil his part of the contract, and then when its your turn you point to your alterations, pointing o...
[05:27:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Couple Accused of Using Lowes Website Flaw to Steal Expensive Goods - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:00] <exec> 08└─Why the expectation that the web site operates flawlessly?
[05:27:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03arcz [4501] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Couple Accused of Using Lowes Website Flaw to Steal Expensive Goods - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:02] <exec> 08└─If that's really the case, the criminal complaint will be dismissed and the property returned to the couple.
[05:27:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Asked to Nullify the Google Trademark - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:44] <exec> 08└─Sure you can. I knew you could. They've managed to hang on to their trademark and the word "xerox" has been a generic term for decades.
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[06:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Everyone Could Soon Have the Powers of Doctor Octopus - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:20] <exec> 08└─I have a fear, that Anonymous might descend on SoylentNews in defense of aristarchus! Should we not take preventative actions to not be perceived as Neo-Nazi White Supremacist Alt-right Mighty Buzzard supporting people? Maybe?
[06:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Everyone Could Soon Have the Powers of Doctor Octopus - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:22] <exec> 08└─No Comment!
[06:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Effect: Andromeda Officially Shuts Down its Single-Player Updates - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:31] <exec> 08└─Because the Mass Effect trilogy was great. The ME3 ending, less so, but the journey and the universe were both fantastic. Only The Witcher trilogy has surpassed it, in my opinion. TW3 left ME:A in the dust however. ME:A was 110% Bioware formula, and it felt like any attempt to explore anything new o...
[06:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Improve the Design of Cylindrical Shaped Hall Thrusters - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:41] <exec> 08└─Whatever happened to EM-Drive tests? I thought China was going to test it in space around January. Must have been a bust. Bummer, no Orion women visits.
[06:26:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 062017 Solar Eclipse: The Path of Totality [Updated] - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:42] <exec> 08└─that's about when they wake. that's about when they wake everyone in the whole neigbourhood.
[06:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03arcz [4501] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Couple Accused of Using Lowes Website Flaw to Steal Expensive Goods - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:15] <exec> 08└─They used a credit card, and for some reason Lowes didn't check the card's credit limit before allowing the purchases to go through.
[06:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Couple Accused of Using Lowes Website Flaw to Steal Expensive Goods - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:17] <exec> 08└─Really? So filthy rich corporations running their own websites are equivalent to the average homeowner? Don't you think people/corporations with that many resources should be held to a higher standard than that?
[06:28:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supreme Court Asked to Nullify the Google Trademark - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:28:01] <exec> 08└─No company would dare engage in trademarks again if all that had to happen was the general public started using it as slang and you no longer have a trademark.
[06:30:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03dwilson [2599] (Score: 1) 02 - 0610 Sailors Still Missing After U.S. Destroyer Collision With Oil Tanker - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:30:03] <exec> 08└─...but someone who's a minority might be offended at serving on a ship named after a slave-owner or a supporter of racist policies...
[06:30:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0610 Sailors Still Missing After U.S. Destroyer Collision With Oil Tanker - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:30:05] <exec> 08└─> Hello and tank you for calling More like drone you, amirite?
[06:31:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Report Proposes to Stop a Supervolcanic Eruption by Siphoning Heat From It - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:31:42] <exec> 08└─I also suggested it a while back, got no mod points. It was doubtful humans could remove enough heat to make a difference.
[06:31:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Report Proposes to Stop a Supervolcanic Eruption by Siphoning Heat From It - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:31:43] <exec> 08└─Ah shucks, I knew it sounded too good to be true. I guess my cult volcano goddess will have to be like the fat slob at the bar--not too picky and accepting of whatever woman I shove down her caldera. Perhaps I should toss a few bottles of cheap whiskey over the cliff before pushing over the girl for...
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[07:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Secret Chips in Replacement Parts Can Completely Hijack Your Phone's Security - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:17] <exec> 08└─Not to mention what it could do to your penis.
[07:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Secret Chips in Replacement Parts Can Completely Hijack Your Phone's Security - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:19] <exec> 08└─In other words, please stop repairing your phones. Use our official repair service or even better go buy a new phone (our repair service will cost just about as much anyways!). Just throw that old one away. It's no good. Why? Well because we're now selling a new one! Perhaps we should lobby the gove...
[07:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Secret Chips in Replacement Parts Can Completely Hijack Your Phone's Security - 656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:21] <exec> 08└─The damned Google Assistant, which I had disabled months ago, pops up today "Can I tell you a joke?" The complexity of the software and hardware is such, that no one has an overview any more. Devices are always online. The motivations of the software and hardware manufacturers do not align with the...
[07:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Secret Chips in Replacement Parts Can Completely Hijack Your Phone's Security - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:23] <exec> 08└─stop this paranoid thinking it makes no sense to hijack a phone through spare parts when you already control all the phone's parts. PS do you know I speak perfect Chinese? Well I don't. sent from my china produced hardware.
[07:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Everyone Could Soon Have the Powers of Doctor Octopus - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:33] <exec> 08└─I, for one, welcome our new "No Comment" overlords!
[07:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Everyone Could Soon Have the Powers of Doctor Octopus - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:35] <exec> 08└─Heh this immediately reminds me of the scene in one of the Ghost in the Shell movies (not the recent hollywood adaptation) where the Major remote controlled her sidekick Batou's cybernetic arm to punch his own face after he made a lewd comment.... I wonder if I can get this thing to scratch an itch...
[07:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Everyone Could Soon Have the Powers of Doctor Octopus - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:37] <exec> 08└─I've seen enough anime to know where this is going...
[07:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Improve the Design of Cylindrical Shaped Hall Thrusters - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:55] <exec> 08└─Projects never die when there's still the chance of (a) more papers (such as the above, it's all theoretical, not real-world); and (b) more funding (because taxpayers have limitless money, and don't care about the infrastructure necessary for a modern society).
[07:26:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062017 Solar Eclipse: The Path of Totality [Updated] - 807 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:59] <exec> 08└─Runaway2017 ran away from the eclipse, as obviously it was a sign of the second coming of Zog, the god of White supremacy. And, .. . once again it didn't happen! How many time do you have to get fooled by that preacher down the road at the MegaChurch, who seems to have a "special" relationship with...
[07:27:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stormreaver [5101] 02 - 06Couple Accused of Using Lowes Website Flaw to Steal Expensive Goods - 89 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:27] <exec> 08└─Get a 20% discount? Yeah, that's plausible. Get a 100% discount? Yeah, you're a thief....
[07:27:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Couple Accused of Using Lowes Website Flaw to Steal Expensive Goods - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:35] <exec> 08└─Agreeing to give something away for free is not a "binding contract". See: "consideration".
[07:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Couple Accused of Using Lowes Website Flaw to Steal Expensive Goods - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:37] <exec> 08└─The difference is, in this particular situation, is it reasonable for the "buyer" to believe that they were actually making such a deal? Or does the "buyer" think they are deceiving the website and getting something against the will of the company? The crimes she is charged with require this intent....
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[07:27:55] <exec> 08└─Exactly what I was thinking. The fact is Kaspersky was willing to offer up their source code for evaluation, and the apparent grievance from our intelligence agencies is they, a Russian digital security company, offered digital security solutions for the Russian government. That's about as grievous...
[07:30:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0610 Sailors Still Missing After U.S. Destroyer Collision With Oil Tanker - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:30:27] <exec> 08└─The width of the Strait of Malacca ranges from 40km at the narrowest to 320km. If our destroyer decided to cruise at max speed in our "extremely busy waterway", it would take it somewhere from 30 minutes to 4 hours to get from one side to the other. Again, even in [most] waterways the ocean is a rea...
[07:30:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0610 Sailors Still Missing After U.S. Destroyer Collision With Oil Tanker - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:30:28] <exec> 08└─"We're the USA, we brake for nobody". Not for an oil tanker than takes miles to change course, not for an island. Everybody must get out of our way.
[07:30:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0610 Sailors Still Missing After U.S. Destroyer Collision With Oil Tanker - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:30:31] <exec> 08└─Feelings take last place when you are serving on a ship of war, ready to kill or be killed for your country.
[07:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06Volkswagen to Produce Electric Version of its Microbus Camper Van - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:17] <exec> 08└─The government would politely explain that you may sell your products, while telling your customers that they cannot operate them on public roads
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[08:25:26] <exec> 08└─It does seem a bit bizarre. but it's not impossible. However, mostly peripherals (such as the touchscreen) are sitting on a bus with very little else on them. Maybe gyro or accelerometer, or other low bandwidth device, but certainly not anything with high bandwidth requirements, such as any of the b...
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[08:26:58] <exec> 08└─Tastes are personal (objective in british english), out of the four I think this is the best one: https://m.xkcd.com
[08:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Couple Accused of Using Lowes Website Flaw to Steal Expensive Goods - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:36] <exec> 08└─Using an Oxford comma doesn't seem anywhere near as weird as the fact that he has produced so many comments without making catastrophic spelling errors. ;-) That said, I thought that the Oxford comma was limited to sequences with three or more items, and the only list I can see there has just two co...
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[08:27:38] <exec> 08└─Maybe GP was talking about a <pun>thyvette</pun>?
[08:28:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supreme Court Asked to Nullify the Google Trademark - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:28:25] <exec> 08└─I've made a conscious effort not to use the term "google" as a verb meaning "search the internet", and instead usually say something like "do a search online", or something similar.
[08:28:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Asked to Nullify the Google Trademark - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:28:26] <exec> 08└─"There is no single word other than google that conveys the action of searching the Internet using any search engine,"
[08:30:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0610 Sailors Still Missing After U.S. Destroyer Collision With Oil Tanker - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:30:34] <exec> 08└─Seems e is even easier: (e) is not a member of the armed forces of a Party to the conflict;
[08:30:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 0610 Sailors Still Missing After U.S. Destroyer Collision With Oil Tanker - 755 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:30:35] <exec> 08└─There is a good diagram and text in the warontherocks link above, which explains what might have happened. https://warontherocks.com [warontherocks.com] A common error is to mistake an overtaking situation and a crossin...
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[09:25:24] <exec> 08└─Actually his approach boils down to using the replacement touch screen to install an app. The routine can be stored in the screen so the screen doesn't need to communicate with anything other than the CPU. However obviously the attack would be closed if the app were to be detected and removed. As lo...
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[09:27:36] <exec> 08└─You: "$500" Me: "OK I'll take it but I'm not paying $500. Will you accept $300?"
[09:27:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Couple Accused of Using Lowes Website Flaw to Steal Expensive Goods - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:38] <exec> 08└─Robbery isn't theft, stealing isn't defrauding, etc. Semantic games aside, ordering over $200k in goods without having to pay goes well beyond any reasonable expectation of "that's just how the world works". If you then also engage in selling the goods on yourself, you bloody well know that that's n...
[09:32:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03fraxinus-tree [5590] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Report Proposes to Stop a Supervolcanic Eruption by Siphoning Heat From It - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:32:12] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the links.
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[10:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Improve Brown Dwarf Weather Forecasts - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:21] <exec> 08└─Giant waves cause large-scale movement of particles in brown dwarfs' atmospheres, changing the thickness of the silicate clouds, researchers report in the journal Science.
[10:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Secret Chips in Replacement Parts Can Completely Hijack Your Phone's Security - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:34] <exec> 08└─How can I completely power down a Galaxy 8?
[10:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Secret Chips in Replacement Parts Can Completely Hijack Your Phone's Security - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:36] <exec> 08└─However, mostly peripherals (such as the touchscreen) are sitting on a bus with very little else on them.
[10:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Secret Chips in Replacement Parts Can Completely Hijack Your Phone's Security - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:38] <exec> 08└─If a hardware repair shop wanted to sneak something in, they surely would find easier ways than via the display. Remember, they have temporary access to the complete hardware. Who stops them e.g. from installing a root kit? That one you won't find out at all by inspecting the hardware, even if an ex...
[10:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Effect: Andromeda Officially Shuts Down its Single-Player Updates - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:58] <exec> 08└─Cut the losses and minimize the embarrassment. Seems legit. Next time get art directors who aren't SJWs.
[10:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 062017 Solar Eclipse: The Path of Totality [Updated] - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:12] <exec> 08└─We had that in '99, however it's still an experience in the path of totality. The lights still go out, the birds still god mad.
[10:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 062017 Solar Eclipse: The Path of Totality [Updated] - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:14] <exec> 08└─the birds still god mad
[10:27:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Couple Accused of Using Lowes Website Flaw to Steal Expensive Goods - 645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:56] <exec> 08└─I guess it will depend on the details. There's a concept of reasonable expectations. I don't think, for example, specially crafted http requests, edited cookies, or exploiting lack of input validation would be regarded as legitimate shopping. Give-aways would normally be well signposted. To use a re...
[10:28:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supreme Court Asked to Nullify the Google Trademark - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:28:45] <exec> 08└─Except that nobody uses "Disney" except for referring to the company. Have you ever heard someone say something like "I will disney this stuff"? Similar arguments also hold for Apple and Uber, except that here the situation is a bit more complicated, since both are common words; the protection is th...
[10:28:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supreme Court Asked to Nullify the Google Trademark - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:28:46] <exec> 08└─The legal precedent is already there. Look no further than the second paragraph of the summary to learn more. Apparently it didn't stop companies from engaging in trademarks.
[10:30:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 0610 Sailors Still Missing After U.S. Destroyer Collision With Oil Tanker - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:30:56] <exec> 08└─The width of the Strait of Malacca ranges from 40km at the narrowest to 320km. If our destroyer decided to cruise at max speed in our "extremely busy waterway", it would take it somewhere from 30 minutes to 4 hours to get from one side to the other. Again, even in [most] waterways the ocean is a rea...
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[11:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Secret Chips in Replacement Parts Can Completely Hijack Your Phone's Security - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:35] <exec> 08└─Putting it in a bucket of water for an hour should do the trick.
[11:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03BenJeremy [6392] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Secret Chips in Replacement Parts Can Completely Hijack Your Phone's Security - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:37] <exec> 08└─Unless those parts are supplied by Q so 007 can spy on your phone, such "malware parts" can't really do anything with all that information they are supposedly logging. This is FUD from brand companies trying to protect their high profit margin repair business, or at the very least, sensationalized g...
[11:27:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Couple Accused of Using Lowes Website Flaw to Steal Expensive Goods - 50 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:27:42] <exec> 08└─Oh, that's what happened to them. Well that sucks.
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[12:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If You’ve Ever Watched a Rocket Launch, That Billowing Cloud Isn't the Exhaust [Updated] - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:23] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKtVpvzUF1Y [youtube.com]
[12:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If You’ve Ever Watched a Rocket Launch, That Billowing Cloud Isn't the Exhaust [Updated] - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:24] <exec> 08└─I'm curious if everyone does this, or if there are alternative solutions to this sound suppression. The system looks to be integrated into the Mobile Launcher Platform. Perhaps it is only required on certain sizes of launches. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[12:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Secret Chips in Replacement Parts Can Completely Hijack Your Phone's Security - 893 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:49] <exec> 08└─Sketchy repair parts are quite a troubling threat. For the good of their users, surely major manufacturers, recognizing this threat, will make genuine replacement parts available to the public and repair shops for reasonable prices. I expect this to happen soon, because it is well understood that tr...
[12:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Everyone Could Soon Have the Powers of Doctor Octopus - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:01] <exec> 08└─Ford: Zaphod, great to see you, you're looking well. The extra arm suits you. Nice ship you've stolen.
[12:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Improve the Design of Cylindrical Shaped Hall Thrusters - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:22] <exec> 08└─whoever is selling the propellant isn't going to like this ... getting to sell less propellant, that is. hopefully this plasma-vortex won't lead to a spinning engine ...
[12:27:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Justin Case [4239] 02 - 06Couple Accused of Using Lowes Website Flaw to Steal Expensive Goods - 58 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:54] <exec> 08└─Why the expectation that the web site operates flawlessly?
[12:28:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Couple Accused of Using Lowes Website Flaw to Steal Expensive Goods - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:11] <exec> 08└─Minus the fact that these two folks probably can't afford a great lawyer, compared with Lowes and their legal team. Court isn't likely to be a level playing field, although I am glad to read that they at least do have a lawyer.
[12:28:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Couple Accused of Using Lowes Website Flaw to Steal Expensive Goods - 692 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:12] <exec> 08└─If Lowes left their doors open and I walked in, I'd call that stealing. If I was given a coupon that said "100% off lawnmower" and I went in and got a free lawnmower, I'd do that in a heartbeat. That's their problem, not mine, and I am not going to judge their intent. Perhaps they have a reason why...
[12:28:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Couple Accused of Using Lowes Website Flaw to Steal Expensive Goods - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:14] <exec> 08└─"Consideration" can be waived, if both parties agree.
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[13:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenAI Bot Bursts Into the Ring, Humiliates Top Dota 2 Pro Gamer in 'Scary' One-on-One Bout - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:22] <exec> 08└─Let's hope that this ends the e-sports craze once and for all.
[13:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06OpenAI Bot Bursts Into the Ring, Humiliates Top Dota 2 Pro Gamer in 'Scary' One-on-One Bout - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:23] <exec> 08└─Or at least harvests electrical energy from the players, who will believe they're playing in the world as it was in 1999.
[13:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06OpenAI Bot Bursts Into the Ring, Humiliates Top Dota 2 Pro Gamer in 'Scary' One-on-One Bout - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:25] <exec> 08└─Not much of a DoTA fan, but aren't we just looking at a bit of one on one laning phase here? It seems like a scenario where perfect execution provides a considerable advantage. It's not purely out 'thinking' the player, like the chess or go AIs. It has the ability to never waste a frame after attack...
[13:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenAI Bot Bursts Into the Ring, Humiliates Top Dota 2 Pro Gamer in 'Scary' One-on-One Bout - 581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:28] <exec> 08└─This, precisely. I remember when TF2 added bots, they specifically had to add a mechanism to imitate a mouse trackpad for the Heavy so he couldn't turn and fire instantly and with perfect accuracy; it was added I think for all of the bots but this was cited as the reason at the time I believe. Nobod...
[13:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03lgsoynews [1235] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenAI Bot Bursts Into the Ring, Humiliates Top Dota 2 Pro Gamer in 'Scary' One-on-One Bout - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:30] <exec> 08└─From the article: It also taps into the Dota 2 bot API to get information not normally available to human players, such as distances between objects, as well as control its movement. This live data stream gave it an edge over human players
[13:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Secret Chips in Replacement Parts Can Completely Hijack Your Phone's Security - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:03] <exec> 08└─That's insane. I've only worked with touchscreen controllers that sit on buses like I2C/SPI, which are as complex as they need to be - utterly dumb - and as high bandwidth as they need to be - as slow as molasses in winter. Adding an external memory bus interface would probably more than double the...
[13:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Secret Chips in Replacement Parts Can Completely Hijack Your Phone's Security - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:05] <exec> 08└─The Galaxy phones are designed to be waterproof. I suggest using a hammer liberally across the entirety of the device to expose the water detect off switch.
[13:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Effect: Andromeda Officially Shuts Down its Single-Player Updates - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:28] <exec> 08└─Yes, I am ashamed for paying for this game (and playing it for like 5 hrs). The mass effect brand was ruined, it is like they had no understanding of what made the trilogy great.
[13:28:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Couple Accused of Using Lowes Website Flaw to Steal Expensive Goods - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:31] <exec> 08└─Because the cost to give you free shipping may be less than the cost to have the merchandise disposed.
[13:28:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Couple Accused of Using Lowes Website Flaw to Steal Expensive Goods - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:33] <exec> 08└─Why the expectation that an employee operates flawlessly?
[13:28:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Couple Accused of Using Lowes Website Flaw to Steal Expensive Goods - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:35] <exec> 08└─Your inability to see the expectation is irrelevant. The earlier poster made absolutely no provision for the website having bugs or flawed operation.
[13:28:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Couple Accused of Using Lowes Website Flaw to Steal Expensive Goods - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:38] <exec> 08└─Let me try to make this obvious. "Like many young mothers, she needs to stretch every dollar she can," Henninger said in a statement. "As a result, she has learned to spot good deals. These are the same deals that any of us can take advantage of, but most of us are too busy to learn how to spot them...
[13:28:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06FBI Reportedly Advising Companies to Ditch Kaspersky Apps - 210 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:45] <exec> 08└─What the FBI is saying is, security companies located outside the US aren't subject to the same pressures and coercion that security companies inside the US are. In this case, BUY AMERICAN!! Makes sense to me!!
[13:28:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06FBI Reportedly Advising Companies to Ditch Kaspersky Apps - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:57] <exec> 08└─Yup! "Officials claim the company is a Russian stooge that can't be trusted with protecting America's critical infrastructure” I read it as "Officials claim Microsoft is an American stooge that can't be trusted with protecting America's (or anyone's) critical infrastructure"
[13:33:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Report Proposes to Stop a Supervolcanic Eruption by Siphoning Heat From It - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:20] <exec> 08└─This sounds like fracking. Which has been associated with seismic events, not desirable around a supervolcano.
[13:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ICE Says It Does Not Use Cell-Site Simulators to Locate Undocumented Immigrants - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:48] <exec> 08└─It's a protest making the point that it's increasingly difficult to air any facts or opinions here that challenge the emerging alt-wrong orthodoxy.
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[14:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:22] <exec> 08└─Where are you? Please enlighten us as to why the rich getting disproportionately richer benefits us all, stops all wars, feeds the starving and cures AIDS and cancer. We're all ears.
[14:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:24] <exec> 08└─We know that "trickle down" is hogwash, yet it is allowed to continue on the false premise that we all benefit from appeasing the monarchy (financial industry), when in fact we don't even get the leftover crumbs.
[14:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:26] <exec> 08└─No, trickle down works; they just got one detail wrong. It's not the money that trickles down, it is the cost.
[14:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:28] <exec> 08└─It's not the money that trickles down, it is the rich people pissing on the rest of us. FTFY
[14:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenAI Bot Bursts Into the Ring, Humiliates Top Dota 2 Pro Gamer in 'Scary' One-on-One Bout - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:40] <exec> 08└─while the backend may or may not be more impressive, in one on one, it essentially is fighting an aimbot.
[14:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenAI Bot Bursts Into the Ring, Humiliates Top Dota 2 Pro Gamer in 'Scary' One-on-One Bout - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:42] <exec> 08└─Is that really useful? Google/DeepMind has done something closer to what you suggest. If it can be done once, it can probably be done a hundred times. Requiring each AI bot to use human-like vision is not the useful bit. It's cracking the complexity of a game (assuming it is complex and it didn't ac...
[14:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06OpenAI Bot Bursts Into the Ring, Humiliates Top Dota 2 Pro Gamer in 'Scary' One-on-One Bout - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:44] <exec> 08└─In human parlance, it's called masturbation. Yes, it can be useful learning tool.
[14:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06OpenAI Bot Bursts Into the Ring, Humiliates Top Dota 2 Pro Gamer in 'Scary' One-on-One Bout - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:46] <exec> 08└─Even if humans had access to the said raw data, I doubt their performance would go up (it'll probably go down)
[14:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenAI Bot Bursts Into the Ring, Humiliates Top Dota 2 Pro Gamer in 'Scary' One-on-One Bout - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:48] <exec> 08└─Is there nothing autobots can't do better?!
[14:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenAI Bot Bursts Into the Ring, Humiliates Top Dota 2 Pro Gamer in 'Scary' One-on-One Bout - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:50] <exec> 08└─If they had access to it in a format directly accessible to their brain (via direct brain interface), then I'm sure their performance would go up. Of course to date we don't know how the brain encodes such information, so even if we assume the hardware side were completely solved, we still cannot gi...
[14:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenAI Bot Bursts Into the Ring, Humiliates Top Dota 2 Pro Gamer in 'Scary' One-on-One Bout - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:53] <exec> 08└─There is: As far as I know, nobody has yet managed to build a machine that enjoyed its life (or whatever term you would use instead of "life" for a non-living sentient entity).
[14:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenAI Bot Bursts Into the Ring, Humiliates Top Dota 2 Pro Gamer in 'Scary' One-on-One Bout - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:55] <exec> 08└─Am I supposed to know what Dota is (well, other than that it is obviously a multiplayer computer game)? Or why was there no link to a description of it (Wikipedia page, game home page, whatever)?
[14:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenAI Bot Bursts Into the Ring, Humiliates Top Dota 2 Pro Gamer in 'Scary' One-on-One Bout - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:57] <exec> 08└─I just gaslighted the summary for you.
[14:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03lgsoynews [1235] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenAI Bot Bursts Into the Ring, Humiliates Top Dota 2 Pro Gamer in 'Scary' One-on-One Bout - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:59] <exec> 08└─You missed my point. I know that realistic access by computers has been done before, what I critize here is the unfairness while bragging that computers "trounced" players. Read the article, and Musk's tweet: he conveniently "forgets" to mention that huge advantage given to the computer. This is che...
[14:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Improve Brown Dwarf Weather Forecasts - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:14] <exec> 08└─What if I told you, what you claim is utter bullshit? Where's your actual calculation, based on an actual model rather than fuzzy prose, that agrees with the observation and doesn't contradict any of the millions of experiments done down on earth (and in near-earth space)? Note that not a single exp...
[14:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Secret Chips in Replacement Parts Can Completely Hijack Your Phone's Security - 547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:36] <exec> 08└─is when you take a crap. And that is only assuming you haven't placed an Amazon Echo (or equivalent) or brought a computing device into the bathroom with you. Hell if you're one of those people with a TV in every room, you might even have a videocamera and microphone recording every time you drop yo...
[14:27:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Effect: Andromeda Officially Shuts Down its Single-Player Updates - 675 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:00] <exec> 08└─uh i am totally lost with the sjw comment. i am guessing it was a person making a joke that the generally single focused wealth creation of the white conservative educated elite MBA nature of those in charge of development studios actually do not play the games that their shareholders demand value f...
[14:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Improve the Design of Cylindrical Shaped Hall Thrusters - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:12] <exec> 08└─"simulated the motion of the plasma in the channel for both nozzle angles using modeling and analysis software" Models are all well and good - but Grandma said that the proof is in the pudding. Build one, and show us what it can do. That model flying around in your computer simulator isn't doing any...
[14:29:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Couple Accused of Using Lowes Website Flaw to Steal Expensive Goods - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:29:09] <exec> 08└─Software bugs no longer exist. We are about to trust our lives to self driving cars.
[14:29:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Couple Accused of Using Lowes Website Flaw to Steal Expensive Goods - 794 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:29:11] <exec> 08└─What if the clearly written company policy said "If a customer walks in the door wearing a tinfoil hat, their purchases are free"? What if the employee and the customer can produce that written policy in court as part of the customer's defense? If the employee follows the written instructions exactl...
[14:29:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Couple Accused of Using Lowes Website Flaw to Steal Expensive Goods - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:29:13] <exec> 08└─[...] If I was given a coupon that said "100% off lawnmower" and I went in and got a free lawnmower, I'd do that in a heartbeat. That's their problem, not mine, and I am not going to judge their intent. Perhaps they have a reason why they're considering that a loss leader in some way.
[14:29:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03quacking duck [1395] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Couple Accused of Using Lowes Website Flaw to Steal Expensive Goods - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:29:15] <exec> 08└─If they offer you a free item, 100% off, you would take it, wouldn't you?
[14:29:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Couple Accused of Using Lowes Website Flaw to Steal Expensive Goods - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:29:17] <exec> 08└─I couldn't disagree more. The couple in the story is a victim of a vicious double standard. Lowe's agreed to give stuff away, and then had a change of heart after the fact.
[14:30:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Asked to Nullify the Google Trademark - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:30:08] <exec> 08└─it's used as a verb. [dictionary.com]
[14:30:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supreme Court Asked to Nullify the Google Trademark - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:30:10] <exec> 08└─I doubt that. If a trademark becomes generic it usually means the product behind it has great market dominance, which is what the company really wants. Any smart company would still be in great shape even after loosing their trademark. I'd rather have 90% market dominance and loose my trademark than...
[14:30:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Third Party Trackers on Web Shops Can Identify Users Behind Bitcoin Transactions - 2669 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:30:23] <exec> 08└─Unless one is taking elaborate means of obfusication, this is difficult to prevent with modern mainstream commerce--identification is big business. Just look at some of the cookies that get saved on your PCs. The use of bitcoin identifies one as an outlier for sure. You're part of a rare group of pe...
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[15:25:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 92 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:27] <exec> 08└─It's not the money that trickles down, it is the rich people pissing on the rest of us. FTFY
[15:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:28] <exec> 08└─It's not the money that trickles down, it is the rich people pissing on the rest of us.
[15:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:31] <exec> 08└─Wait a second! That isn't RAIN!
[15:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:33] <exec> 08└─It's not trickle-down, it's tinkle-down. The rich end up pissing on the poor.
[15:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:35] <exec> 08└─I suppose that in some rare circumstances, rain drops might be yellow. But, look carefully. Is it yellow tinged? It probably ain't rain.
[15:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenAI Bot Bursts Into the Ring, Humiliates Top Dota 2 Pro Gamer in 'Scary' One-on-One Bout - 2368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:58] <exec> 08└─The achievement here was not about creating a bot that could defeat humans. As you mention, this would be an interesting but relatively modest accomplishment. The achievement was creating a bot that taught itself to beat humans. This bot has no domain specific knowledge. That means it has no inheren...
[15:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If You’ve Ever Watched a Rocket Launch, That Billowing Cloud Isn't the Exhaust [Updated] - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:07] <exec> 08└─Do the Russians use something like this, or some other method? I don't remember the launch plume from their rockets, but they always seemed to take off much more quickly than US rockets.
[15:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Improve Brown Dwarf Weather Forecasts - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:17] <exec> 08└─So how are they observing these brown dwarfs? I find it hard to imagine that occultation provides enough data to distinguish weather. -- hendrik
[15:26:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Secret Chips in Replacement Parts Can Completely Hijack Your Phone's Security - 1541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:39] <exec> 08└─is who was involved in funding this study. Look, I'm not questioning their conclusions - I have no doubt someone who's able to sneak new hardware into a phone could do something malicious with that access. I'd go so far as to call that conclusion obvious (though the study does a great job going into...
[15:29:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Couple Accused of Using Lowes Website Flaw to Steal Expensive Goods - 673 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:16] <exec> 08└─In crime, it pays to be a (white) woman because you are A) less likely to be charged, and B) less likely to be convicted, and C) if you are convicted, serve a much shorter sentence: A new study by Sonja Starr, an assistant law professor at the University of Michigan, found that men are given much hi...
[15:30:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Asked to Nullify the Google Trademark - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:30:10] <exec> 08└─Well, if the have to change the name, maybe it could become the originally intended Googol?
[15:32:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 0610 Sailors Still Missing After U.S. Destroyer Collision With Oil Tanker - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:32:23] <exec> 08└─Is it really so hard for landlubbers to dispense with the explanation that "port" is on the left looking forward?
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[16:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CovertBand: Activity Information Leakage using Music - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:18] <exec> 08└─...that Batman was right [youtube.com] all along. Now where's my grappling hook?
[16:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CovertBand: Activity Information Leakage using Music - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:19] <exec> 08└─Back in the day, we'd say things like "I'm afraid the government is trying to put us under constant surveillance"; these day we say "Hey surveillance, order me 5 trinkets and turn up the volume" But they let keep your little guns, so I guess you got that going for you...
[16:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 1) 02 - 06CovertBand: Activity Information Leakage using Music - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:21] <exec> 08└─But they let keep your little guns, so I guess you got that going for you...
[16:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CovertBand: Activity Information Leakage using Music - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:24] <exec> 08└─generators specifically for the 18-20khz range at ~10dB over the highest output device that will be in the room?
[16:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:38] <exec> 08└─There is an economic benefit in having shops. If everyone needed to go and find the suppliers of the commodity that they want and negotiate individually then this would be a significant drain on everyone's productivity. The problem is that we have somehow been conditioned to believe that when the sh...
[16:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 917 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:39] <exec> 08└─Capitalism operates on the principle of maximizing profits by means of buying low and selling high; whether they are buying raw materials or labor, capitalists will seek to pay the least amount possible. Nowhere in their tenets is community building or ameliorating society’s ills. The world has bo...
[16:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 762 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:42] <exec> 08└─During the recent big slump, the Federal Reserve (FR) hinted more stimulus was needed, but their tools are mostly limited to interest rates and quantitative easing (QE), and those were not doing enough. QE does indeed artificially benefit stock owners. The FR Chairperson at the time said that any fu...
[16:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:44] <exec> 08└─While the author of this obviously has an agenda, and he clearly has a few wilder bees in his bonnet, the core tenet of this essay is remarkably well shored up by supporting evidence, and quotations from highly influential decision-makers: http://whatreallyhappened.com
[16:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Non Sequor [1005] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:46] <exec> 08└─Google "cost disease" for an interesting tangent related to this notion.
[16:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:48] <exec> 08└─> monarchy (financial industry) oligarchy
[16:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:50] <exec> 08└─Filthy Communist.
[16:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenAI Bot Bursts Into the Ring, Humiliates Top Dota 2 Pro Gamer in 'Scary' One-on-One Bout - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:14] <exec> 08└─How 'open' is openAi? (Havent really settled in yet from trip: haven't googled)
[16:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenAI Bot Bursts Into the Ring, Humiliates Top Dota 2 Pro Gamer in 'Scary' One-on-One Bout - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:16] <exec> 08└─I agree, it does seem contrived to give many advantages to the bot. Note, however, that other games have been solved with only imperfect vision as input, such as Ms Pacman: https://soylentnews.org . The delay that such "real-world" restrictions put on the dominance of...
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[16:26:26] <exec> 08└─The water is used to make the air heavier than it normally is. With heavier air, it takes less energy to move the vehicle. Note: I'm not a fluid dynamicist.
[16:26:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Improve Brown Dwarf Weather Forecasts - 665 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:37] <exec> 08└─It is easier to study brown dwarfs than planets because they often do not have a bright host star that obscures them. "It is likely the banded structure and large atmospheric waves we found in brown dwarfs will also be common in giant exoplanets," Apai said. Using Spitzer, scientists monitored brigh...
[16:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Everyone Could Soon Have the Powers of Doctor Octopus - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:12] <exec> 08└─But that would only be a risk of these strap-on limbs are somehow online. What manufacturer would be stupid enough to make insecure hardware online-accessible?!?!
[16:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mass Effect: Andromeda Officially Shuts Down its Single-Player Updates - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:26] <exec> 08└─No, the SJW comment was accurate. Look at the people in creative charge of this game. Compare to Mass Effect 1. Look into the writers and their public comments on Twitter and the like. While SJWs want to control gaming, they are just infiltrators. They don't actually play games. So they demand compa...
[16:27:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Effect: Andromeda Officially Shuts Down its Single-Player Updates - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:27] <exec> 08└─Um, can you expand on these assertions please? For reference, I've never played any of these games.
[16:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Effect: Andromeda Officially Shuts Down its Single-Player Updates - 766 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:29] <exec> 08└─As a vapid anti-SJW gamer, let me elaborate. ME:A was panned world over (/universally?) for character design and animation. This department was apparently headed by a diversity candidate (hired for being a woman). So the anti-SJW angle comes from there. On the other hand, there were discussions that...
[16:27:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Improve the Design of Cylindrical Shaped Hall Thrusters - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:42] <exec> 08└─What makes you so sure the Chinese would share the information if it proved successful? The international space race is heating up again, and the EM Drive would give a massive advantage to whoever first perfected it. If by some miracle of a benevolent universe they conclusively proved that it worked...
[16:29:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Couple Accused of Using Lowes Website Flaw to Steal Expensive Goods - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:45] <exec> 08└─The difference is a lawyer is grasping at any straw possible to get their client off the hook - or have you never seen the ridiculous defense arguments made in.. frankly just about every case where the perpetrator is caught red-handed?
[16:30:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03etherscythe [937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Reportedly Advising Companies to Ditch Kaspersky Apps - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:30:05] <exec> 08└─The point, I suspect, is actually to apply economic pressure without an official sanction. "Don't buy Russian - you're supporting the enemy." Appeal to nationalist/bogeyman logic.
[16:30:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Asked to Nullify the Google Trademark - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:30:41] <exec> 08└─I know people who use "Google" as a generic -- even saying they'll "Google it" and then they go ask Siri or Alexa. I even fall into it myself sometimes, although I try to avoid it...I'm so anti-google I block 'em at the firewall...but "Duck-duck-go it" is rather awkward and not commonly understood,...
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[17:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:15] <exec> 08└─Those belong in a museum, with lengthy explanations of what they represent to both sides. Not on public parks' tall pedestals where they only honor the subject and place him high above all. And clearly not in the dustbin, because they do have historical value.
[17:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:17] <exec> 08└─I don't mind them being in a park either because of the same reasons but yeah, they belong either there or in a museum. You don't destroy your history just because you don't like it.
[17:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:19] <exec> 08└─Reminds me of this: http://archive.is [archive.is]
[17:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:21] <exec> 08└─The thing is, statues don't record history. Destroying them has no more effect on the historical record than keeping them around. The entire point of their existence is to *commemorate* a person or event - i.e. to celebrate and/or express respect for them. By keeping them on public display you cont...
[17:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:23] <exec> 08└─Pffft, apologist crap. The statues are not history and the subjects are already in history books. Your comment really sheds light on the complex interplay within your brain: "I'm not racist, but for some strange reason I just really need to defend racists. Except not. God I need a therapist!"
[17:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:25] <exec> 08└─They are a piece of history. The civil war was never about slavery: The north tried to entice the south back into the union with the assurance slavery would continue. When that failed, and fearing France would ally with the South because of their superior textile industries the north took a stance a...
[17:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:27] <exec> 08└─It's nice to think it was all about slavery, but it really wasn't. Also, there were black slave owners.
[17:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:30] <exec> 08└─http://www.snopes.com/facts-about-slavery/ [snopes.com]
[17:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 1) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:32] <exec> 08└─The civil war was never about slavery
[17:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CovertBand: Activity Information Leakage using Music - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:43] <exec> 08└─You only want to trick us into playing the sound associated with that video, so that you can echo-locate our surroundings! ;-) (Actually, using specifically that video for that purpose would be hilarious.)
[17:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CovertBand: Activity Information Leakage using Music - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:44] <exec> 08└─Alternatively, put a filter between the amplifier and the speaker which filters out anything in that frequency range.
[17:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:07] <exec> 08└─al always liberturds got things backwards. It's not a monetary issue in a closed loop system
[17:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:09] <exec> 08└─Help me Obi Wan Khallow. You're my only hope!
[17:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:11] <exec> 08└─Capitalist pigdog.
[17:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:13] <exec> 08└─Put the beer down, take a nap, and for the sake of your neighbors take a shower.
[17:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:15] <exec> 08└─It doesn't benefit you. Neither does it harm you. What goes on in a billionaire's life by in large has zero bearing on your own.
[17:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:17] <exec> 08└─We know that "trickle down" is hogwash
[17:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 684 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:19] <exec> 08└─Seems to me "cost disease" is a capitalist's sob-story about not being able to squeeze the little guy as hard as they like. Clearly the wages wouldn't go up if the value delivered by the workers wasn't at least equal to the new wage - so either: 1) The work was initially under-payed thanks to an ove...
[17:26:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenAI Bot Bursts Into the Ring, Humiliates Top Dota 2 Pro Gamer in 'Scary' One-on-One Bout - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:45] <exec> 08└─You can basically call vision "a format directly accessible to the brain", as we've lots of special purpose hardware (wetware?) to deal with it. Probably presenting the information in any way that doesn't directly stimulate one of the senses would require a LOT more work on the part of the brain.
[17:26:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenAI Bot Bursts Into the Ring, Humiliates Top Dota 2 Pro Gamer in 'Scary' One-on-One Bout - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:47] <exec> 08└─https://github.com/openai [github.com] Parts of it are under the MIT License, so there's no guarantee that the whole thing is open, but the base is.
[17:26:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenAI Bot Bursts Into the Ring, Humiliates Top Dota 2 Pro Gamer in 'Scary' One-on-One Bout - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:49] <exec> 08└─Thank you.
[17:26:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenAI Bot Bursts Into the Ring, Humiliates Top Dota 2 Pro Gamer in 'Scary' One-on-One Bout - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:51] <exec> 08└─But computer-assisted humans could win. e.g. the computer does the stuff computers have been better at and the humans do the stuff humans are still better at.
[17:28:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Improve the Design of Cylindrical Shaped Hall Thrusters - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:14] <exec> 08└─Somehow I doubt they'll lose sleep over this, ion drives aren't exactly a massive market. Whatever propellant they use likely has other market values that are much more significant.
[17:30:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Couple Accused of Using Lowes Website Flaw to Steal Expensive Goods - 694 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:30:17] <exec> 08└─No they weren't. If they were, I would have stockpiled a few copies against possible future need. What they were offering was a free but irreversible (beyond the trial period) "upgrade" from older (but not *too* old) versions of windows. Basically a trade-in program from Win 7 and 8, where the price...
[17:30:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Couple Accused of Using Lowes Website Flaw to Steal Expensive Goods - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:30:18] <exec> 08└─Not a problem so long as the cars' software is less buggy than most human drivers, which is a relatively low bar to cross.
[17:30:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Couple Accused of Using Lowes Website Flaw to Steal Expensive Goods - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:30:21] <exec> 08└─Well that's not really a problem since more guys are committing the crimes than women. At least the major crimes. Despite throwing fewer women into prison, there still aren't that many women serial killers/rapists/robbers/investment bankers/etc. https://www.prisonpolicy.org [pr...
[17:30:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Couple Accused of Using Lowes Website Flaw to Steal Expensive Goods - 656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:30:23] <exec> 08└─My parents actually had such a case go to court - slightly less simplified as there's not really any way to unilaterally modify a contract after one person has signed it. The contract was sent back and forth many times with revisions highlighted, until right near the end the other guy failed to high...
[17:30:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Couple Accused of Using Lowes Website Flaw to Steal Expensive Goods - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:30:26] <exec> 08└─If you find an exploit like this and actually want to use it, it would be smarter to only use it occasionally over a long period of time ...
[17:30:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Couple Accused of Using Lowes Website Flaw to Steal Expensive Goods - 695 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:30:28] <exec> 08└─0) https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] 1) If the page immediately showed you a big discount and a reasonable person would have thought it was a discount, then I'd say you were innocent. >=100% discount is not reasonable, normally stores will say "Free!" instead of 100% discount. P...
[17:30:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Couple Accused of Using Lowes Website Flaw to Steal Expensive Goods - 594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:30:30] <exec> 08└─So the amount this couple "stole" from Lowe's should be not a problem, so long as it is less than most thieves usually steal. On the one hand "web site bugs are so common Lowe's should not be expected to have a bug free site". On the other hand "self driving car bugs are so rare we can bet our li...
[17:30:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Reportedly Advising Companies to Ditch Kaspersky Apps - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:30:51] <exec> 08└─If you found an exploit like this, would you report it? I've seen enough articles of people who report flaws being charged with hacking to put me off reporting something like this if I came across it.
[17:31:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Asked to Nullify the Google Trademark - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:31:28] <exec> 08└─But you can "photocopy" something. There's still an alternative single word to describe the action. You can "Vacuum the carpets" instead of Hoovering them. I think using the argument that "there's no other single word to describe the activity" is not the fault of the trademark owner, but the fault o...
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[18:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:32] <exec> 08└─Yes, the motivations were complex--I agree. But we're trying to revise history here by making it into this: North: No slaves. South: Slaves. And based on that absurdity remove a bunch of monuments for no legitimate reason, pissing off a whole lot of people for no legitimate reason. There's really a...
[18:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 1810 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:33] <exec> 08└─I'm of multiple minds about this. In no particular order: - Culture has changed, and continues to change. Maybe there are chapters in history we no longer want on public display, fair enough. - There are different subcultures. The statues represent different things to different people. Some surveys...
[18:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:35] <exec> 08└─Auction off the monuments. Whoever wants them can pay for them. And display them on their own land. They're kept on display by whoever thinks they should be displayed. Meanwhile, the properties that want to get rid of them, can do so. If they don't sell, then put them in storage for some indefinite...
[18:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:38] <exec> 08└─ZOMG SLAVERY WASN'T ONLY A WHITE PEOPLE THING ZOMGZOMGZOMG! Yeah, that 100% invalidates taking down the statues, or that slave owners were overwhelmingly white. This is like the historical version of "one of my good friends is black". Go try and pawn your shit on some other gullible lawn ornaments.
[18:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 697 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:40] <exec> 08└─You are a clown, I offer no evidence of what makes you a clown or how you being a clown is relevant to anything, but these are the times we live in so wear your label proudly (note: clowns are not people and you should always punch a clown). How does a clown get to tell vast majority of people what...
[18:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:42] <exec> 08└─The thing is, statues don't record history
[18:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:44] <exec> 08└─"- Culture has changed, and continues to change. Maybe there are chapters in history we no longer want on public display, fair enough." BULLSHIT. Even if culture has changed, it has not changed to what is being portrayed in the media and social media by hysterical, whinney, entitled, brats. Yelling...
[18:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:46] <exec> 08└─Few things in life are so clear cut. Every major event in human history has a ton of aspects, but they almost always get boiled down to the most important bits. Slavery was THE most important aspect of the Civil War, and yes there are nuances to be learned for anyone interested in such specifics. Th...
[18:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:48] <exec> 08└─Yeah and they whoever buys them will be labeled WACIST, and their property will be vandalized, they and their family will receive death threats, and might come to physical harm at the hands of the "tolerant" leftists. The Bolshevik Left played their cards so often EVERYONE sees their hand. It's got...
[18:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:51] <exec> 08└─I'd like to see the statues stay where they are, but then have another statue put up beside them to provide an alternate viewpoint. Have a statue of Robert Lee? Great, put a statue of some black enslaved person peeing on his head. I don't know my American history so maybe there's a better option tha...
[18:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Insightful) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 1054 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:53] <exec> 08└─Mod down if you'd like, but the contradictory elements are obvious for anyone to see. I have met quite a few closet bigots, most of the time their negative tendencies are left overs from their upbringing. It takes generations for such institutionalized hatred to wash out, and hopefully we're seeing...
[18:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:55] <exec> 08└─I just offered some facts and said nothing about statues. You sound triggered.
[18:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:57] <exec> 08└─And fuck off with yours too.
[18:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:59] <exec> 08└─So then removing them is not a problem! Thanks for clearing that up.
[18:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03https [5248] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 1352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:01] <exec> 08└─You're as wrong as it's possible to be. https://www.civilwar.org [civilwar.org] Georgia: First paragraph, immediately following the statement of secession: slavery. Mississippi: Second paragraph, immediately following the statement of secessio...
[18:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CovertBand: Activity Information Leakage using Music - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:14] <exec> 08└─It's called "children".
[18:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CovertBand: Activity Information Leakage using Music - 1840 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:16] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure a white noise generator will help with this problem. It might even make it worse. The idea (as I understand it) is to use sound (coming from a static location) and a microphone (also in a static location) to "map" physical details of the space, and potentially detect when they change. A...
[18:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Non Sequor [1005] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenAI Bot Bursts Into the Ring, Humiliates Top Dota 2 Pro Gamer in 'Scary' One-on-One Bout - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:17] <exec> 08└─The effectiveness of techniques that do not use preprogrammed domain specific knowledge to solve a particular problem measures the extent to which the problem does not require domain specific knowledge. The "no free lunch" theorems say that there is no generally applicable meta-strategy that works w...
[18:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If You’ve Ever Watched a Rocket Launch, That Billowing Cloud Isn't the Exhaust [Updated] - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:28] <exec> 08└─> With heavier air, it takes less energy to move the vehicle. No. If you had a prop plane, it would take less air pushed back to move forward, yet the amount of energy to move that air would be the same ... well, except for friction being higher, so you'd need more energy to move (planes fly high fo...
[18:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If You’ve Ever Watched a Rocket Launch, That Billowing Cloud Isn't the Exhaust [Updated] - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:30] <exec> 08└─That's because they film in 50Hz, instead of 59.94Hz. (grin) See wiki link right above. The water system became critical because the payload bay of the shuttle is really low above the pad, making reflected waves much more dangerous than standard tall rocket stacks. Not sure what the Soviets did for...
[18:27:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If You’ve Ever Watched a Rocket Launch, That Billowing Cloud Isn't the Exhaust [Updated] - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:32] <exec> 08└─The Sound Suppression Water System serves as a counterexample to this common fallacy.
[18:28:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Secret Chips in Replacement Parts Can Completely Hijack Your Phone's Security - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:04] <exec> 08└─The Galaxy S6 is not waterproof. 🇺🇸
[18:30:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Couple Accused of Using Lowes Website Flaw to Steal Expensive Goods - 1770 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:30:55] <exec> 08└─I was commenting primarily on your implied smearing of self-driving car capabilities - which are not untested vaporware. Tests have been ongoing for years, and even compensating for manufacturer overstatement they're at least getting into the same league as the average (incompetent) human driver. In...
[18:31:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Asked to Nullify the Google Trademark - 800 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:31:54] <exec> 08└─> Have the plaintiffs exhausted every single language to ensure that there's none with an equivalent word for "search the internet". Other than, you know, "search the internet" or more accurately, "search the web" The canonical case is aspirin, where it is literally impossible to sell your medicine...
[18:31:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Asked to Nullify the Google Trademark - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:31:55] <exec> 08└─I think using the argument that "there's no other single word to describe the activity" is not the fault of the trademark owner, but the fault of the language in question. Have the plaintiffs exhausted every single language to ensure that there's none with an equivalent word for "search the internet...
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[19:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grave Guns and Coffin Torpedoes - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:21] <exec> 08└─I heartily recommend watching Burke and Hare for more information about the topic of grave robbers.
[19:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grave Guns and Coffin Torpedoes - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:23] <exec> 08└─O, dweller of the home of the brave, be afraid, for some evil is coming, to rob what you cherish, yet be comforted, for I happen to have a solution here I can sell you.
[19:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Grave Guns and Coffin Torpedoes - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:25] <exec> 08└─But remember that Burke and Hare weren't grave robbers. They didn't wait until someone died before selling the body for disection.
[19:25:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 1810 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:41] <exec> 08└─I'm of multiple minds about this. In no particular order: - Culture has changed, and continues to change. Maybe there are chapters in history we no longer want on public display, fair enough. - There are different subcultures. The statues represent different things to different people. Some surveys...
[19:25:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03https [5248] 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 1352 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:55] <exec> 08└─You're as wrong as it's possible to be. https://www.civilwar.org [civilwar.org] Georgia: First paragraph, immediately following the statement of secession: slavery. Mississippi: Second paragraph, immediately following the statement of secessio...
[19:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:56] <exec> 08└─Your insults clearly indicate the amount of kool-aid you've been drinking.
[19:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:58] <exec> 08└─I don't agree with such violence, but the following phrase does seem fitting. "Turnabout is fair play."
[19:25:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:00] <exec> 08└─I get your goal, but that is like "teach the controversy" and putting a spin on it with the peeing would only cause greater divisions.
[19:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:02] <exec> 08└─Need a hug? Is it rough being a despised minority? I'll try and maintain some compassion, just enough to stop any violence against you. But enjoy the social effects of being/defending bigotry.
[19:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:05] <exec> 08└─Make them stand on top of slaves instead of horses? That would have educational value, but it would encourage those who see it as the natural order.
[19:26:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:07] <exec> 08└─Is the UT@A mall a public park, or private property? Is an open-air museum not a museum?
[19:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:09] <exec> 08└─That someone once celebrated a person enough to put up statues to them is extremely historically relevant. That someone created the art itself is extremely culturally relevant. If you cannot see this, do please go join ISIS and bust up someone else's history instead of ours.
[19:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03pgc [1600] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:11] <exec> 08└─Indeed, it is clear that you don't know your American history.
[19:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:13] <exec> 08└─Sorry, not a good enough troll to get anything more than this as a response. Keep trying though. One day you may have the skills to start a flamewar over emacs vs vi.
[19:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:15] <exec> 08└─The Mighty Troll can't even distinguish a real comment from a troll comment, I guess you've spent too much time in the trenches. Since you can't muster up a defense I'll just presume your psyche crumbled under the pressure.
[19:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 944 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:18] <exec> 08└─It would be interesting if someone could point to other examples of statues put up to celebrate the losing side of a war. Hitler? Goering? Goebbels? In Germany?? Doesn't happen. Now, if there was a historical marker alongside the statue, which said when and where it was originally erected and when a...
[19:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 783 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:20] <exec> 08└─It is amusing seeing the mental contortions applied to this topic. If I had the time I would go through all previous stories and find a comment where you were dismissive about someone wanting to preserve a legacy. Hell, just the articles on the Dakota pipeline were enough. Where was this righteous o...
[19:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 1524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:22] <exec> 08└─I'm a Native American. Given that my, yes my, oppression/rape/murder at the hands of well pretty much everybody predates and effectively postdates slavery, I'd like to see all statues removed and any and all mention of anybody who invaded my lands scraped from history. Because that's a reasonable th...
[19:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 1240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:24] <exec> 08└─"Never" is a pretty strong word. There is a case to be made that it was a bigger issue, sure, but "never about slavery" is pure historical revisionism. Revisionism by reconstruction racists who couldn't accept that they had lost, abetted by northern racists who were tired of fighting. But the reason...
[19:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:26] <exec> 08└─I don't think supporters of the statues will see this bit of reason, they are emotionally impacted and feel like "whites" are under attack everywhere. I hope we're seeing the dying throws of racism in the US. It will always be around, no country has ever eliminated it, but I'm given hope by the numb...
[19:26:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:28] <exec> 08└─as wrong as it's possible to be.
[19:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:31] <exec> 08└─Well, we committed treason against the British empire right? So there's a long standing history of treason being possibly a good thing. How about Chelsea Manning's Treason?
[19:26:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:33] <exec> 08└─(Your humble editor cannot forget. . . >/quote> Humble racist editor? No statues, no more riots about their removal! It's like pulling off a band-aid.
[19:26:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:35] <exec> 08└─Ah yes, I see I did not include enough information. The "crazy pills" are for anyone who tries to downplay slavery and pretend like it wasn't the foremost reason for the Civil War. Perhaps you were only being informative, but in the context it comes off as apologetic bullshit by claiming it couldn't...
[19:27:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jelizondo [653] 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 917 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:05] <exec> 08└─Capitalism operates on the principle of maximizing profits by means of buying low and selling high; whether they are buying raw materials or labor, capitalists will seek to pay the least amount possible. Nowhere in their tenets is community building or ameliorating society’s ills. The world has bo...
[19:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:18] <exec> 08└─Capitalism operates on the principle of maximizing profits by means of maximizing your negative externalities and everyone else's positive externalities. FTFY.
[19:27:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:19] <exec> 08└─Not with money = political speech. Those damn billionaires are subverting democracy and buy laws to favor themselves.
[19:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:22] <exec> 08└─Neither does it harm you.
[19:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:24] <exec> 08└─I would disagree. Eric Schmidt being a part of the Bilderberg group and bedding with the Democratic party, steering his company toward becoming a surveillance monster rather than an advocate of internet freedom is having quite the bearing on our lives in this moment, though we may not notice it, and...
[19:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:26] <exec> 08└─I've seen you make some lame statements before, but wow being this out of touch with reality is something else.
[19:27:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03https [5248] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:28] <exec> 08└─How about the IMF? https://www.imf.org [imf.org] "The benefits do not trickle down." [quote from Executive Summary]. Or maybe you think the IMF has too much power to be impartial, to look at things from a cool and academic perspective. Maybe Stanford University...
[19:27:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:30] <exec> 08└─>"What goes on in a billionaire's life by in [sic] large has zero bearing on your own." This is not true. Billionaires affect me in many ways. They can buy up property, goods and services, making them either more expensive or unavailable to me. Their concentration of wealth changes the way I can ear...
[19:27:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:33] <exec> 08└─That's why I usually refer to it as "tinkle-down economics".
[19:27:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Non Sequor [1005] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 1605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:35] <exec> 08└─I think it's something of a Rorschach test. I think economists' read on it is particularly poor. Economists want to believe compensates related to quantity and quality of output. As a mathematician I'll note that the examples of "cost disease" are jobs without a linear notion of quality or quantity....
[19:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:37] <exec> 08└─It is fact. I watched what happened when it went full throttle. I mean, sure there were benefits, all going one direction, to the people that implemented it and their specific benefactors and 'contributors', but it's entirely bogus. The spoils aren't shared, they are hoarded. It's not a thing really...
[19:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 1822 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:39] <exec> 08└─Economic inequality was rampant before the introduction of central banking. For example, ancient Rome had no central banking, and the majority of the population were enslaved, about 95% of the rest were dirt-poor plebians, and a few hundred families controlled almost all of the money and government....
[19:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:41] <exec> 08└─Take a page out of gewg_'s book then and start your own socialist "buy a politician" fund. The politicians don't care where the money that lines their pockets comes from.
[19:27:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:44] <exec> 08└─It's funny that the same people arguing against automation will also argue that the productivity increases had to have come from the workers. Clue: the workers are the same workers they've always been. If you see a productivity increase, it came from someplace else.
[19:28:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenAI Bot Bursts Into the Ring, Humiliates Top Dota 2 Pro Gamer in 'Scary' One-on-One Bout - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:15] <exec> 08└─There is basic stuff the ai can have access to like rng seed (thus what item will appear where next). That is why you can see bots beat mariokart in minutes by waiting to get the item box at just the right moment, so they get exactly what is needed.
[19:28:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If You’ve Ever Watched a Rocket Launch, That Billowing Cloud Isn't the Exhaust [Updated] - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:39] <exec> 08└─Tired of nailing egg cartons and adhering foam to your walls? *black and white motion video shot of a person in agony, breaking their wrist while cutting egg cartons with an ordinary pair of scissors* Placebophiles EVERYwhere are raving about the new sound-dampening sensation that's sweeping the nat...
[19:29:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Secret Chips in Replacement Parts Can Completely Hijack Your Phone's Security - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:13] <exec> 08└─There really *isn't* anything you can do. Or at least, very little a conscious consumer can do. The only option really, is that supply chains need to be audit-able and steep penalties applied to violators. But that costs money and effort, which raises prices, and the average person cares more about...
[19:29:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Effect: Andromeda Officially Shuts Down its Single-Player Updates - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:43] <exec> 08└─Here's an alternate game that people may be interested in: http://goingloudstudios.com [goingloudstudios.com]
[19:32:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Couple Accused of Using Lowes Website Flaw to Steal Expensive Goods - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:32:11] <exec> 08└─Why the expectation that the web site operates flawlessly?
[19:32:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Couple Accused of Using Lowes Website Flaw to Steal Expensive Goods - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:32:12] <exec> 08└─Imagine you are making a written contract. The other side signed it and hands it to you to sign as well. Before you sign it, you alter it without the other side noticing. The other side proceeds to fulfil his part of the contract, and then when its your turn you point to your alterations, pointing o...
[19:33:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Asked to Nullify the Google Trademark - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:14] <exec> 08└─It's worth a rewatch, as it's just so damn painful: https://www.youtube.com Don't worry - it's curable, you can come back onto the one true search path: http://www.youtube.com However, MS didn't learn, and they tried it again: http://splinternews.com
[19:33:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Asked to Nullify the Google Trademark - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:16] <exec> 08└─but "Duck-duck-go it" is rather awkward and not commonly understood
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[20:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Why Whisky Tastes Better When Diluted With Water - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:23] <exec> 08└─For my taste, adulterating a good single malt with water, even water from Spey Glenlivet or the like, is just a crime. The distillers put great skill into their craft. I am happy to enjoy the result as bottled.
[20:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Whisky Tastes Better When Diluted With Water - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:24] <exec> 08└─The ideal dilution factor for distillers to maximize the flavor of the aromatics in the whiskey. Using computational fluid dynamics simulations no less, so total nerd news here.
[20:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Whisky Tastes Better When Diluted With Water - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:26] <exec> 08└─Can you believe that distillers ship a product that is often nearly 50% water? Sometimes it's as much as 60% water! That's why I only drink 190-proof Everclear neat.
[20:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Whisky Tastes Better When Diluted With Water - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:28] <exec> 08└─I don't drink alcohol anymore, but when I did... only the first sip of Jack Daniels was harsh. After that you can't taste anything but bliss. No, I'm not E.T.'d
[20:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Whisky Tastes Better When Diluted With Water - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:31] <exec> 08└─No comment.
[20:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grave Guns and Coffin Torpedoes - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:42] <exec> 08└─The way i see it, when i'm dead, it means i don't need the physical body any longer. Science can have it, or it can be made into plant food, or my friends can catapult it through the attic window of someone we all hated, but i don't want to waste space and money taking up a plot of land with it. It'...
[20:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grave Guns and Coffin Torpedoes - 634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:44] <exec> 08└─There was money to be made in selling cadavers to anatomist. This was well before anyone gifted their body to medicine. But the only people whose corpses were fair game were the extremely impoverished. So some right chap worked out a technique for murdering his prospects with just one hand, while he...
[20:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Grave Guns and Coffin Torpedoes - 740 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:46] <exec> 08└─I Am Absolutely Serious. My best friend has a young daughter who has Recessive Polycystic Disease. Both her kidneys were surgically removed when she was less than a week old. She survived on dialysis - which really doesn't work that well - until she was three years old and so big enough to accept th...
[20:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grave Guns and Coffin Torpedoes - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:48] <exec> 08└─Possibly the horror of grave robbing is from the religious idea that we will be raised in the selfsame bodies we died in
[20:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grave Guns and Coffin Torpedoes - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:51] <exec> 08└─I want more of this kind of thing (and have been trying to find time to do it properly: maybe over the last few days of my vacation). More! Encore! Nescafe! +1BillionJillianGooglianBillion!
[20:25:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 260 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:00] <exec> 08└─Those belong in a museum, with lengthy explanations of what they represent to both sides. Not on public parks' tall pedestals where they only honor the subject and place him high above all. And clearly not in the dustbin, because they do have historical value.
[20:26:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03unauthorized [3776] 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 42 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:13] <exec> 08└─The thing is, statues don't record history
[20:26:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:43] <exec> 08└─Do you think that people who go to visit the pyramids are there to worship dead pharaohs?
[20:26:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 933 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:44] <exec> 08└─This vandalism is very troubling. I see it going on and I'm very worried by it. They vandalized the statues of President Saddam Hussein, who was elected several times with over 99% of the vote. A big, big mandate from the voters. He was so popular, nobody ran against him. Because nobody had a chance...
[20:26:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:46] <exec> 08└─That someone once celebrated a person enough to put up statues to them is extremely historically relevant. That someone created the art itself is extremely culturally relevant.
[20:26:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:48] <exec> 08└─Go through all the stories you want. You won't find me arguing what you want to find me arguing. ...you only get outraged when white people are under attack.
[20:26:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:51] <exec> 08└─I don't remember reading anything about tea in the Declaration of Independence. It's been a while since I read it in full, however.
[20:26:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:53] <exec> 08└─I'd like to see the statues stay where they are, but then have another statue put up beside them to provide an alternate viewpoint. Have a statue of Robert Lee? Great, put a statue of some black enslaved person peeing on his head.
[20:26:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:55] <exec> 08└─Historical art shouldn't be destroyed just because it's not popular. Its history is our history, good or bad. If it's currently too offensive to some fragile little snowflakes to stand looking at it, box it up and save it for posterity when you can again teach the children of this nation the truth a...
[20:26:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:57] <exec> 08└─Pssst... If it wasn't even a good troll then it logically follows that it was an absolutely abysmal argument.
[20:26:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03rcamera [2360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:59] <exec> 08└─revolution isn't treason if you win. you just better make sure that you win. the south didn't win, and therefore their rebellion was treason. our rebellion was a success, and therefore considered a revolution. history is written by the victor. manning was found guilty and served time in a military...
[20:27:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 1248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:02] <exec> 08└─If you'll pay very close attention you'll see that the reasoning behind taking these down is in no way about "offensive triggers" and is all about not celebrating racism. Read through this thread, enough people have posted info about when these statues were erected and the cultural reasoning behind...
[20:27:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 953 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:04] <exec> 08└─The claim is that the American Civil war was about States' Rights. That is true in a weird sort of way. The South got all pissed off when northern states claimed States' Rights in refusing to obey the federal law which said that folks in those states had to help return escaped slaves to anyone who c...
[20:27:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:06] <exec> 08└─Good word. Even better when you spell it correctly. http://www.google.com [google.com] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[20:27:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 1326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:08] <exec> 08└─Not about slavery? Hmmm, better tell that to the four states that had formal declarations as to why they left. Starting with Mississippi: A Declaration of the Immediate Causes which Induce and Justify the Secession of the State of Mississippi from the Federal Union. In the momentous step which our S...
[20:27:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:10] <exec> 08└─Speaking of pyramids and the Kremlin. There's a pyramid at the Kremlin, just outside that terrific wall they have. And you can go inside the pyramid and see Vladimir Lenin's body. Which is perfectly preserved, it's in amazing condition. And nobody says, "oh no, we can't have that radical communist r...
[20:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:12] <exec> 08└─"Right" and "Left" are ECONOMIC positions. Here is "Left" (AKA Socialism): The collective ownership of the means of production by the workers. Can you link to an example of a group which is involved in this confrontation whose major concern is Anti-Capitalism? N.B. *Good* descriptors for the sides i...
[20:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:15] <exec> 08└─No. Federal authority vs states rights was the most important issue, and everyone lost.
[20:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:17] <exec> 08└─Now, if there was a historical marker alongside the statue, which said when and where it was originally erected and when and why it was moved, THAT would give it historical context.
[20:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:19] <exec> 08└─In a capitalist economy that is the envy of the world.
[20:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:21] <exec> 08└─Sell the statutes by auction. Let the confederate flag wavers buy them and display them on their own land, or if they are so historical then museums will outbid them. Or maybe anti racists can buy them and have fun smashing them up. Whatever. Use the money to fund something useful.
[20:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 897 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:23] <exec> 08└─I somewhat disagree. I see a huge difference between removing a statue of Lee (A person of significance to the Republic before and after the Civil War) and a statue of Jefferson Davis. Davis was an embodiment of the rebellion where as Lee was a man caught up in it. As the war inched nearer Lincoln w...
[20:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:26] <exec> 08└─These are monuments celebrating Jim Crow. Putting up statues to losers is not normal. Doing that many decades after the war is over is particularly ridiculous. If they are to exist, they belong in cemeteries of war dead. Alternately, in museums with plaques that note that those people were traitors...
[20:27:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 402 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:57] <exec> 08└─While the author of this obviously has an agenda, and he clearly has a few wilder bees in his bonnet, the core tenet of this essay is remarkably well shored up by supporting evidence, and quotations from highly influential decision-makers: http://whatreallyhappened.com
[20:28:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:21] <exec> 08└─Fair argument but not really what I was speaking about. I simply meant that someone else having more money than you does not change your standard of living one iota in and of itself.
[20:28:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:23] <exec> 08└─Troll harder. That was some weak, weak shit.
[20:28:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:25] <exec> 08└─Their concentration of wealth changes the way I can earn money.
[20:28:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:27] <exec> 08└─Strange, it took my family from eating government cheese to driving fancy cars and living in nice houses for most of a decade.
[20:28:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:29] <exec> 08└─The politicians don't care where the money that lines their pockets comes from.
[20:28:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:32] <exec> 08└─An alternative explanation, which the Mises Institute and Austrian School vehemently deny, is that concentration of wealth and income is an inherent feature of capitalism.
[20:29:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenAI Bot Bursts Into the Ring, Humiliates Top Dota 2 Pro Gamer in 'Scary' One-on-One Bout - 1056 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:03] <exec> 08└─That's a rather fancy way of saying nothing. No free lunch does not say that there is no strategy that works well for all problems, it says that there is no strategy that works better than all other strategies for all problems in all scenarios. And even that relatively useless statement comes with a...
[20:29:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06If You’ve Ever Watched a Rocket Launch, That Billowing Cloud Isn't the Exhaust [Updated] - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:18] <exec> 08└─I'll buy 10!
[20:29:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Secret Chips in Replacement Parts Can Completely Hijack Your Phone's Security - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:54] <exec> 08└─True, but only so much water can enter through the headphone jack per second. If you really want to ensure that your phone is off _right_now_, use the hammer to expose the switch and then toss it in a bucket of water. If you can wait 30 minutes, you can do what I did and put it in the washing machin...
[20:32:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Couple Accused of Using Lowes Website Flaw to Steal Expensive Goods - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:51] <exec> 08└─If only she used the opportunity to get some goods she was in need of, probably she could get away with it. But to profit from it by trying to get all she could? It's obvious it would be noticed.
[20:32:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Couple Accused of Using Lowes Website Flaw to Steal Expensive Goods - 1164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:52] <exec> 08└─My guess based on some client interaction and working retail decades ago is the company refund / deal codes are pants on head retarded. Customer service is supposed to be able to deduct $100, $200, whatever from an order to pay back a legit customer for a problem. Oh you ordered $5000 of lumber for...
[20:32:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Couple Accused of Using Lowes Website Flaw to Steal Expensive Goods - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:54] <exec> 08└─Who cares is she profited from it? It's how businesses are started, maintained, and grown. She found a great source, and sold at a profit. It's not her fault if the source didn't calculate its own profits accurately.
[20:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03forkazoo [2561] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Asked to Nullify the Google Trademark - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:57] <exec> 08└─I think "do an Internet search" is no longer necessary because if you say "search for the battle of Madagascar" nobody is going to assume that you mean to immediately drive to a physical library and start digging through paper index cards in the card catalog drawers, nor that they should start lifti...
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[21:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Whisky Tastes Better When Diluted With Water - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:24] <exec> 08└─What led to your change in attitude?
[21:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Why Whisky Tastes Better When Diluted With Water - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:25] <exec> 08└─No, it does not. I don't care what your computer simulation said.
[21:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Whisky Tastes Better When Diluted With Water - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:28] <exec> 08└─This sounds like homeopathy, where the shake it up and sample from the surface or walls rather than bulk of the liquid for the subsequent dilution...
[21:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grave Guns and Coffin Torpedoes - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:42] <exec> 08└─My sentiments exactly. It's up to my survivors, I suspect I'll be cremated and thrown into a close by body of water. We dumped my MiL's ashes into the Pacific, I'll probably go into the guest toilet.
[21:26:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:54] <exec> 08└─That is exactly why the pyramids were originally built.
[21:26:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:56] <exec> 08└─Analogies are not a direct comparisons, they are meant to establish an idea through examining the common aspects of two subjects.
[21:26:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:58] <exec> 08└─Buildings and massive tombs are not good analogies to monuments of actual people apart from the basic idea of it being a historical structure.
[21:26:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 869 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:00] <exec> 08└─These statues were built the better part of 140 years ago. We're talking something that happened in your father's father's father's father's father's father's time. At this time scale, these things have become a part of our history. Your comparisons are inappropriate since they're all in relation to...
[21:27:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:02] <exec> 08└─I'll just leave this here; I can't comment on whether Stalin and Lenin's statues are treated with respect, or ridiculed. At least they're still around for the people to look at. I agree with TMB that it is important to never forget that yes, one day a long time ago, Lithuania was an SSR and filled w...
[21:27:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:04] <exec> 08└─When a mind cannot comprehend reason, it gets whipped up in a frenzy of emotions. Most of these "advocates" are 2 stories short of a double-decker bus.
[21:27:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:07] <exec> 08└─It's a very bad president, I agree it's a dangerous one. First they came for President Jefferson Davis and General Robert E. Lee. And I asked what's next. Are President Thomas Jefferson and General George Washington next, I asked. A question, but also a warning. And just like I said, they're coming...
[21:27:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:09] <exec> 08└─Your ignorance of Jefferson Davis is showing. He was a US Congressman, US Secretary of War, and US Senator. Both he and Lee were traitors and -that- is what should go at the top of every bio about them/plaque mentioning them. ...and, yes, where someone is considered significant enough to have a stat...
[21:27:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:11] <exec> 08└─http://www.google.com/search?q=precedent [google.com] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[21:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CovertBand: Activity Information Leakage using Music - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:25] <exec> 08└─Yes, they'll know what you have and if you happen to be wielding one when they arrive. Isn't technology and freedom great?
[21:27:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CovertBand: Activity Information Leakage using Music - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:27] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5wbGjdSHUs [youtube.com] Elderly edition: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] And a little something for the kids: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[21:28:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:16] <exec> 08└─But if enough people have more money than you then your standard of living can change as prices rise since there are now more people able to pay more.
[21:28:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 1151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:17] <exec> 08└─How is this in any way a counterpoint? Ancient Rome did have central banking. Why do you think they stamped the face of the leaders on their coins? What do you think currency debasement is? The points your raise about disparities in Ancient Roma and Russia are straw men. The article does not deny di...
[21:28:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:19] <exec> 08└─OK, if a person has more money than you could ever hope to get, why does it bother you whether he has $1 billion or $1 trillion? What is the difference in your eyes? And please explain it without trying to spend that money for him.
[21:28:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:21] <exec> 08└─That wasn't REAL "trickle down." REAL "trickle down" has never really been tried!
[21:28:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:23] <exec> 08└─Economic inequality has always been rampant, but it was much more severe in the caveman times. There you had the haves, who had food, and the have-nots, who fucking died of starvation. All other "inequality" is a fucking joke compared to this. But out of nostalgia, the Communists wish to recreate th...
[21:30:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Effect: Andromeda Officially Shuts Down its Single-Player Updates - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:30:16] <exec> 08└─Must buy!
[21:32:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Couple Accused of Using Lowes Website Flaw to Steal Expensive Goods - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:46] <exec> 08└─"Consideration" can be waived, if both parties agree.
[21:35:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silent 10-Minute Track Reaches Top 100 on iTunes - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:03] <exec> 08└─There is actually a huge difference. Cage's work is 4'33" of environmental sounds. This is 10' of utter silence. As to copyright, it seems like silence has been around long enough it must be public domain. Even the bit about using the silence to give you time to decide what to play is not new. I've...
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[22:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin Upgrade at Block 494,784 - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:19] <exec> 08└─But I've got this really high-quality inkjet printer. Couldn't I just print the coins somehow? It works for me whenever I have to pay rent.
[22:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin Upgrade at Block 494,784 - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:20] <exec> 08└─So does this mean that someone who, hypothetically, owned some bitcoins now has two separate sets? Bitcoins on both block chains? Which can be spent separately? 🇺🇸
[22:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin Upgrade at Block 494,784 - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:22] <exec> 08└─From the second link [medium.com]: The group of signed companies represents a critical mass of the bitcoin ecosystem. As of May 25, this group represents: 58 companies located in 22 countries83.28% of hashing power
[22:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin Upgrade at Block 494,784 - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:25] <exec> 08└─It's decentralized 58. 58 is the amount of decentralized it is.
[22:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin Upgrade at Block 494,784 - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:27] <exec> 08└─It is another cabal, or ponzi scheme, depending on which angle you follow it from. If some of those companies also manufacture the difficult to acquire mining hardware, it becomes even more dangerous, since they very well might control that remaining 17 percent of the network indirectly. This is als...
[22:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Whisky Tastes Better When Diluted With Water - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:41] <exec> 08└─That explained it, didn't it?
[22:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Whisky Tastes Better When Diluted With Water - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:43] <exec> 08└─I think at that point you can't really use the word "drink." Maybe "pour down my throat" or "force down" or "suffer."
[22:27:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:19] <exec> 08└─The Civil War was never about slavery
[22:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:21] <exec> 08└─> Racism only goes one direction in this country in any significant way right now, straight towards white people. You're trolling better when you leave some room for interpretation, rather than go for blatant falsehoods. When even Chinese people, in California, are complaining about the jump in raci...
[22:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:23] <exec> 08└─Actually, while far from a complete historical record, many statues do have a paragraph or two explaining the historical significance of the person depicted. A much as I find it unlikely, I completely agree with TMB on this one... <shudders>
[22:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:25] <exec> 08└─"Our new government is founded upon exactly [this] idea; its foundations are laid, its corner- stone rests upon the great truth, that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery -- subordination to the superior race -- is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the f...
[22:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:27] <exec> 08└─I mean, by that reasoning George Washington and the rest of the Founding Fathers were traitors, too. Difference is, they won.
[22:27:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:29] <exec> 08└─They were traitors, they won, and it was a wonderful, wonderful thing. Which the alt-left wants us to erase. They want us to forget that a traitor can win hugely and do great things for a country. 🇺🇸
[22:28:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:39] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0QhxF4OmhQ [youtube.com]
[22:33:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Couple Accused of Using Lowes Website Flaw to Steal Expensive Goods - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:03] <exec> 08└─Dat's raci—oh wait, you said "guys", not "black guys". It's okay then. Carry on.
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[23:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Bitcoin Upgrade at Block 494,784 - 3160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:29] <exec> 08└─No, this is a different split. The split you heard about was the Bitcoin Cash split that occurred on Aug 1. If you held bitcoin prior to that date, you will have equal amounts of Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and Legacy Bitcoin (BTC). The article is talking about another, upcoming split. The story behind the s...
[23:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin Upgrade at Block 494,784 - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:31] <exec> 08└─I think that AMD is starting to produce mining cards, so that should help.
[23:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Whisky Tastes Better When Diluted With Water - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:48] <exec> 08└─Works every time [youtube.com].
[23:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Whisky Tastes Better When Diluted With Water - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:49] <exec> 08└─Marajuana
[23:26:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03meustrus [4961] 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 1240 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:50] <exec> 08└─"Never" is a pretty strong word. There is a case to be made that it was a bigger issue, sure, but "never about slavery" is pure historical revisionism. Revisionism by reconstruction racists who couldn't accept that they had lost, abetted by northern racists who were tired of fighting. But the reason...
[23:27:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 1248 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:05] <exec> 08└─If you'll pay very close attention you'll see that the reasoning behind taking these down is in no way about "offensive triggers" and is all about not celebrating racism. Read through this thread, enough people have posted info about when these statues were erected and the cultural reasoning behind...
[23:27:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 1326 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:08] <exec> 08└─Not about slavery? Hmmm, better tell that to the four states that had formal declarations as to why they left. Starting with Mississippi: A Declaration of the Immediate Causes which Induce and Justify the Secession of the State of Mississippi from the Federal Union. In the momentous step which our S...
[23:27:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 37 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:26] <exec> 08└─The Civil War was never about slavery
[23:27:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:33] <exec> 08└─You'll be glad to know that the white supremacist rally in Boston was a fizzle. The ratio of Civil Libertarians to bigots was 40,000:50. [google.com] The cops feared for the safety of the Alt-Reich and put them in vans to get them out of the area. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[23:27:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:35] <exec> 08└─Ah yes, I was imprecise: ...you only get outraged when YOU PERCEIVE white people are under attack.
[23:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:37] <exec> 08└─I'm sick today, I'm glad there weren't any worse typos :D
[23:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:39] <exec> 08└─Alright, time to address your inherent insanity of the day. The Lee, Johnston and Reagan statues will be added to the collection of the Briscoe Center for scholarly study. The statue of James Hogg, governor of Texas (1891-1895), will be considered for re-installation at another campus site.
[23:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 1014 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:42] <exec> 08└─I see, you thought this was a debate. Incorrect, my statement was an observation based on your past and current commentary. Your brain is stuck in some convoluted loop that runs through some logical and some emotional regions, can't see the forest for the trees. From what I've seen I wouldn't expect...
[23:27:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:44] <exec> 08└─In case you miss my other comment I'd like to reiterate that no one is destroying the statues. For the ones in this article they are being relocated to a museum, and some even put on display elsewhere. I did a quick search and all I could find was some people being charged with vandalism for pulling...
[23:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:46] <exec> 08└─George Washington, et al., were about less Authoritarianism[1] in government. Slavery is all about Authoritarianism/oppression. By the 1860s, it was way past time for civilized countries to dump that anachronism, as they had dumped monarchy.[2] ...and the Founding Fathers knew full well what the con...
[23:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University of Texas' Confederate Statues Relocated - 1020 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:48] <exec> 08└─Eh, you just try and repeat your point like there is more validity to be had. You're incorrect about the timeframes, there is a wide spread of when they were put up. Beyond that though it doesn't matter when they were put up, what they represent is still antithetical to the stated values of the USA....
[23:28:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06How Central Banking Increased Inequality - 87 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:16] <exec> 08└─It's not the money that trickles down, it is the rich people pissing on the rest of us.
[23:30:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Improve Brown Dwarf Weather Forecasts - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:30:01] <exec> 08└─Sunspots do the same. How do they know they are banded?
[23:30:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Secret Chips in Replacement Parts Can Completely Hijack Your Phone's Security - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:30:28] <exec> 08└─If you can wait 30 minutes, you can do what I did and put it in the washing machine's steam cycle.
[23:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Couple Accused of Using Lowes Website Flaw to Steal Expensive Goods - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:30] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty shocked huffpo would run such an article.
[23:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Reportedly Advising Companies to Ditch Kaspersky Apps - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:53] <exec> 08└─Do it anonymously. Behind seven proxies. And go through Tor twice.
[23:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Reportedly Advising Companies to Ditch Kaspersky Apps - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:54] <exec> 08└─I think I rather let the Russians search through my dirty laundry than the FBI. Besides, I rather enjoyed the job they did with the election.
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