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[00:39:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Music Piracy On Increase Worldwide: Industry Group - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:15] <exec> 08└─The Interwebs cheapify ALL bytes. You cannot buck the trend, only delay it.
[00:39:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Music Piracy On Increase Worldwide: Industry Group - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:16] <exec> 08└─In the old days people would tape song off the radio.
[00:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03slap [5764] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Music Piracy On Increase Worldwide: Industry Group - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:18] <exec> 08└─"the global recorded music industry group IFPI said". Not exactly coming from an unbiased source. If they said piracy is going down, the music industry would have a harder time getting new laws passed. The real crime is that the musicians are being ripped off by their labels and royalty collection...
[00:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Music Piracy On Increase Worldwide: Industry Group - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:20] <exec> 08└─Well, they need those very high royalties to fight the evil very high-tech pirates who would prevent artists from getting all the money the customers would otherwise pay.
[00:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Music Piracy On Increase Worldwide: Industry Group - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:23] <exec> 08└─And share them with friends. I mean, how many of us were in our rooms as teens with a stack of tapes, pack of blanks, and those fancy new CD's cranking tunes while the deck was running making mix tapes and bootlegs for our friends? How many of us copied tapes and CD's from friends? This Internet pir...
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[00:39:35] <exec> 08└─If they *could* do that without the help of a big chunk of 1860s style forged iron (or a 1990s style supercooled magnet of even more stupendous proportions), they'd have a Nobel price already.
[00:39:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Startup Pi Out to Slice the Charging Cord - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:36] <exec> 08└─strong enough to induce|rectify|generate 5VDC at 2 amps a foot away
[00:40:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:14] <exec> 08└─That isn't the case for me, Toys-R-Us locally is pretty good. Their problem, like all retailers not named Amazon or Walmart, is their pricing. So they lose all of the high volume popular items. But nothing is as much fun to turn a kid loose in. Will be a shame to see them go, but this is a trend tha...
[00:40:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:16] <exec> 08└─I am a big fan of having a balanced budget and the idea of removing the debt ceiling is disgusting to me. That said I got really tired of the "but look at his bankruptcies!" argument during the election. Very unfortunate that we are screwed no matter who we choose for office.
[00:40:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:18] <exec> 08└─Good point, lets bomb them to show that no American should ever have any business dealings with the great red menace. How much have we looked into similar business dealings by the Hiltons or any other family with large foreign operations? This is not to justify bad behavior by pointing out bad behav...
[00:40:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:20] <exec> 08└─With Amazon reviews, assuming you can weed out the fake one, you can find out how flimsy it is without touching it.
[00:40:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:22] <exec> 08└─None of the Hiltons are the President of the United States.
[00:40:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:25] <exec> 08└─> Very unfortunate that we are screwed no matter who we choose for office. Rumors has it that both major candidates got chosen by some of the most attended primaries ever. Whoever ended up on top of such a dense field was assuredly the candidates most qualified, and representative of the goals and i...
[00:40:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:27] <exec> 08└─Retail in general is heading for the dustbin of history.
[00:40:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03slap [5764] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:29] <exec> 08└─Before internet sales were significant Toys-r-us was already suffering from WalMart having expanded its toy selections for the holiday season.
[00:41:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IC Insights Predicts Additional 40% Increase in DRAM Prices - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:09] <exec> 08└─I meant from a consumers' standpoint. Tim Cook and Mark Zuckerberg obviously loves oligopolies.
[00:41:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Jim Channon, Corporate Shaman and Basis for Hollywood Character, Dies at 77 - 129 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:16] <exec> 08└─Corporate executives are sociopaths who think they occupy an important place in the Universe; this guy played them like a fiddle.
[00:42:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] 02 - 06China Detains Man for Selling Service to Evade Internet Firewall - 219 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:04] <exec> 08└─Nah, for mob mentality, I still blame the mob. You are welcome to use the temporary insanity defense. But turning people into the state's bots is not cool. Censorship is still evil. And your propaganda sounds suspicious
[00:42:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06China Detains Man for Selling Service to Evade Internet Firewall - 717 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:07] <exec> 08└─Honestly, what did this guy expect? I could have told him right away that this was a stupid business plan. China obviously put the Great Firewall in place for a reason, and has banned VPNs for getting around it. Selling VPN service isn't anywhere near lucrative enough to justify the risks; he made o...
[00:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China Detains Man for Selling Service to Evade Internet Firewall - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:49] <exec> 08└─What was immediately necessary was preventing the money supply from collapsing. Making sure the banks had the cash to back peoples' deposits was the key mechanism for it. It was loaned to them, or provided in exchange for equity in the banks. To a substantial extent, much of this was repaid later an...
[00:42:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03zeigerpuppy [1298] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Detains Man for Selling Service to Evade Internet Firewall - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:50] <exec> 08└─As an Australian; I deeply apologise for our Prime Minister's ignorance and stupidity. He has caused so much damage to internet infrastructure in Australia (by carving up the NBN for his mates to make more profit). Ignore everything he says, it's all slime.
[00:42:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Detains Man for Selling Service to Evade Internet Firewall - 779 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:53] <exec> 08└─Really starkly revealing that you're one of the 'nothing to fear, nothing to hide' crowd. I'm quite surprised to see that viewpoint promulgated here, given everything we know as fact about the .gov - not to mention large corporate players (or have I repeated myself?) - surveilling literally everythi...
[00:42:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China Detains Man for Selling Service to Evade Internet Firewall - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:55] <exec> 08└─You are missing the point of what I ever meant by *censorship*. Censorship is also weeding out the crap from the real. Any filtering is CENSORSHIP, be that self-censorship or otherwise. People like Germany censor NAZI messages - is it so bad?
[00:42:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Detains Man for Selling Service to Evade Internet Firewall - 640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:57] <exec> 08└─was immediately necessary This would be a good point to mention that the reason the banks were in hot water was that that what the banksters were doing was CRIMINAL. When this happened years before with the Savings & Loans, the feds moved in and took over the S&Ls. S&L executives were sent to prison...
[00:44:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Giant Sea Snail Plan to Rescue Barrier Reef - 63 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:09] <exec> 08└─Please tell me That it's the giant sea snail that has the plan.
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[01:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Music Piracy On Increase Worldwide: Industry Group - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:28] <exec> 08└─Back in the 70's I used to trade cassettes with friends. I often wished I could send a buck directly to the band, cutting out the middle man, the label, all the parasites that fed off the band. That never became an option. Now, in 2017, I wish when I find a good album I could send a buck to the band...
[01:39:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Music Piracy On Increase Worldwide: Industry Group - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:29] <exec> 08└─Every dumbfuck (this means you) gets music from YouTube. Smarter-than-average dumbfucks use youtube-dl. Dumber-than-average dumbfucks use shitty webapp youtube downloaders.
[01:39:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Music Piracy On Increase Worldwide: Industry Group - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:31] <exec> 08└─My younger boy is 17 and listens to all sorts of music, I mean his tastes are really wide, and he will give anything a go. He doesn't bother pirating music because Spotify gives him all the music he wants at a reasonable price. Isn't that the lesson the music business has failed to learn over the la...
[01:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Music Piracy On Increase Worldwide: Industry Group - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:34] <exec> 08└─Every dumbfuck (this means you) gets music from YouTube.
[01:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Music Piracy On Increase Worldwide: Industry Group - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:36] <exec> 08└─Turned out, the youtube to mp3 converter I'd used last October now wanted to install a Chrome toolbar.
[01:39:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Startup Pi Out to Slice the Charging Cord - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:51] <exec> 08└─Or even more simplistically, who's to say it isn't just mechanically orienting its coils or something to that effect? There could even be a mu-metal shield involved. I'll admit the cone would be a crappy shape for that sort of arrangement though.
[01:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Startup Pi Out to Slice the Charging Cord - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:52] <exec> 08└─Well, if he's rolling on a contactless paypoint, with his credit cards in his pocket, he could pay several times..
[01:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Startup Pi Out to Slice the Charging Cord - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:54] <exec> 08└─so, with enough VC money, could they make this an EMP generator?
[01:40:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 116 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:18] <exec> 08└─Amazon is pretty good about returns and refunds. It's the Amazon third party sellers that you have to watch out for.
[01:40:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 877 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:40] <exec> 08└─Doesn't really matter. At one time there were many toy retailers, now there is Toys-R-Us and a very few struggling mom and pop shops. Soon there will be none because the small fry have little chance of obtaining inventory once the whole supply chain is a nozzle feeding direct into Amazon and Walmart...
[01:40:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03chewbacon [1032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:42] <exec> 08└─My local Toys/Babies R Us is pretty clean and well taken care of and they have good service. Shit, we take my 4 year old in there when we can't under stand what toy he's talking about and their employees know exactly what he's asking about. TRU's problem is that they're expensive and they often fail...
[01:40:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:44] <exec> 08└─when you take on a shit ton of debt for reasons, then suddenly you can't pay the mortgage. The business model of Toys-R-Us needs to die a sudden and painful death.
[01:40:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:46] <exec> 08└─In all fairness it is Sears own fault for allowing their tool and appliance quality to degrade.
[01:40:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:49] <exec> 08└─Your opulent air-conditioned Toys-R-Us is apparently an unsustainable business model. Go to Wal-Mart instead.
[01:40:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:51] <exec> 08└─The manufacturer would pay for shelf space instead of the customer paying for the product.
[01:40:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:53] <exec> 08└─Interesting, I've been trying to find some painting advice for gunpla and other model kits recently. I can probably find the products for cheap on amazon but at this point I am looking for good, reliable advice from somebody who can show me something (no, YouTube does not do it for me sorry). I'd be...
[01:40:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:55] <exec> 08└─Way to miss the point.
[01:40:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:58] <exec> 08└─There are other ways to fail other than bankruptcy. Plus, a huge number of those companies are obvious shells and managing corporations, which inflates the number of "successful businesses."
[01:42:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Octlantis is a Just-Discovered Underwater City Engineered by Octopuses - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:20] <exec> 08└─No, no you wouldn't. [wikia.com]
[01:42:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06China Detains Man for Selling Service to Evade Internet Firewall - 239 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:59] <exec> 08└─they really DO agree and this IS what Progs believe. "Loser terrorists must be dealt with in a much tougher manner," he wrote. "The internet is their main recruitment tool which we must cut off & use better!" - Donald J Trump four days ago
[01:43:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Detains Man for Selling Service to Evade Internet Firewall - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:22] <exec> 08└─What USA.gov did WRT banksters was Neoliberalism/Crony Capitalism. The crooks and their enablers should all be in prison.
[01:43:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Detains Man for Selling Service to Evade Internet Firewall - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:24] <exec> 08└─I'd also add that the guys managing the SN codebase regularly publish what they're working on, which they do for free. They also take community feedback seriously. The slashdot guys get paid, don't give a fuck what their community thinks, and try to force-feed them what nobody wants. Take a moment a...
[01:43:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Detains Man for Selling Service to Evade Internet Firewall - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:26] <exec> 08└─HTTPS as traditionally implemented is completely broken. Rogue Certificate Authorities that issue wildcard certs to enable you to be transparently man-in-the-middled are commonplace, and even if you take the trouble to nuke all Chinese CAs, etc., you still have to deal with US National Security Lett...
[01:44:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slack Valued at Over $5 Billion - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:21] <exec> 08└─Actually, all they seem to care about is slick marketing. As a result, we are being driven ever faster to a society of slick marketing and no substance.
[01:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What the World’s Emptiest International Airport Says About China’s Influence - 1200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:57] <exec> 08└─It's been done that way in the Slashdot and Soylent communities for 20 years. Links to the source material are placed within an excerpt of TFA to emphasize a pertinent point or underscore the title. I remember being thrown by it when I was a young(er) Slashdot reader in the late 90's, but eventually...
[01:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What the World’s Emptiest International Airport Says About China’s Influence - 686 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:58] <exec> 08└─I am perfectly comfortable with my writing, thanks. What you're talking about is copy editing, and about that I could give a rat's ass. If better copy editing matters to you, then address your remarks to the site editors, or much better, to the guys maintaining the code base so that story submission...
[01:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What the World’s Emptiest International Airport Says About China’s Influence - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:00] <exec> 08└─WTF are you talking about? It's clearly indicated that the only thing that Phoenix666 wrote is the very last line ("Empire building is expensive..."), as that's the only part that's not blockquoted and has a white background. The rest is clearly blockquoted. EVERY article on this site is exactly lik...
[01:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What the World’s Emptiest International Airport Says About China’s Influence - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:02] <exec> 08└─As such, my statement wasn't a knock on the editors, rather it was to point out what normal practices are around here.
[01:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electronic Frontier Foundation Resigns From W3C Over Encrypted Media Extensions DRM - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:32] <exec> 08└─Downloader extensions make it easy to upload YouTube videos to other sites. VLC and other programs can stream the videos. Both options could deprive the company of ad revenue, which is AlphaGooTube's lifeline. YouTube also offers paid services, including live TV streaming [wikipedia.org] and premium...
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[02:39:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Rare, Potent Fuel Powering North Korea's Weapons - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:16] <exec> 08└─Innovation? By Norks? <head asplode /> </comments>
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[02:39:18] <exec> 08└─AC submitter here -- I was short on time and barely sent in the two links. Thanks for taking the time to write a good summary. Hydrazine (various flavors, I guess) has been around as a rocket fuel for a long time (in USA/Russia/China??) Very difficult to make and not blow up the production facility....
[02:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Rare, Potent Fuel Powering North Korea's Weapons - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:20] <exec> 08└─WTF are you talking about? UDMH is not an "innovation" -- it was investigated and used as a rocket fuel by both USA and USSR back in the 50s, and is still used today (e.g. Proton-M).
[02:39:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Rare, Potent Fuel Powering North Korea's Weapons - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:22] <exec> 08└─...and "rare" is an odd adjective to use for something that doesn't exist in nature: there's not much of it because we don't make much. Other forms of hydrazine are used more commonly, like in the F-16 emergency power unit.
[02:39:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Music Piracy On Increase Worldwide: Industry Group - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:39] <exec> 08└─I listen to Jango Radio for 24 hours each day, 25 hours when Daylight Time ends. Jango doesn't care about DRM, all the MP3 files have permanent URLs, and download links are not made obvious, but anyone who can open Developer Tools in a web browser can find the URLs. I'm guessing Jango is apathetic a...
[02:39:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Music Piracy On Increase Worldwide: Industry Group - 1402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:41] <exec> 08└─My experience has been that I have stopped pirating anything because it all bores the crap out of me. There's scarcely a song out there that I haven't heard 10,000 times, and I can pretty much do without hearing it a 10,001st time. Same thing with movies or TV. If somebody happens to hand me a thumb...
[02:39:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Music Piracy On Increase Worldwide: Industry Group - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:43] <exec> 08└─The real crime is that the musicians are being ripped off by their labels and royalty collection organizations.
[02:39:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Music Piracy On Increase Worldwide: Industry Group - 716 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:45] <exec> 08└─'tape trees' were a thing. someone would tape a show, then 'seed' the show. top levels were people who could turn around the tape copies fast. usually 3 children for 1 parent; parent asks 3 children for their tape lists; the children receive a copy of the seed and the parent gets 3 new shows he didn...
[02:39:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Music Piracy On Increase Worldwide: Industry Group - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:47] <exec> 08└─I want local copies. fuck the 'stream'. the net is not always up and I'm less and less happy about being 'tracked' each time I click or do something. the only thing I like about streams is that they are usually rippable. even for youtube, I download via 'youtube-dl' and watch the local copy. local c...
[02:39:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Music Piracy On Increase Worldwide: Industry Group - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:50] <exec> 08└─While true, you didn't have to be an audiophile to appreciate the difference between radio recordings, and almost anything else. If you wanted a copy of something, you borrowed a buddy's tape or record, and figured out how to wire an output to an input.
[02:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 1, Redundant) 02 - 06Music Piracy On Increase Worldwide: Industry Group - 1174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:52] <exec> 08└─The majority of the music I purchase comes from Bandcamp. Of course Bandcamp takes a reasonable cut, but the rest goes straight to the artists. And it's a flexible payment model -- the last album I bought was a $1 minimum but I chose to pay $25. Although in that case it was also a charity deal -- on...
[02:41:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:03] <exec> 08└─No local "toy and hobby" or warhammer/mechwarrior store?
[02:41:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:05] <exec> 08└─Ya, something like that, but taken to the extreme. The store wouldn't make any profit on a sale. They only profit from selling shelf space. It almost certainly wouldn't work, but fun to think about :/
[02:43:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Detains Man for Selling Service to Evade Internet Firewall - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:37] <exec> 08└─You are a big fool. Humans naturally form hierarchies, and these reinforce themselves in the manner of a positive feedback: power to power, money to money, privilege to privilege, in an ever-escalating spiral. Removing any sort of check against this would only accelerate it.
[02:43:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Detains Man for Selling Service to Evade Internet Firewall - 1616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:38] <exec> 08└─We could start by declaring every corporation that is "Too big to fail" to also be too big to exist and break them up. The Joint Stock Corporation does have certain advantages in raising large sums for really large projects so outright banning them is probably a cure worse than the disease but the c...
[02:44:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ledow [5567] 02 - 06Slack Valued at Over $5 Billion - 1849 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:04] <exec> 08└─Yup, I thought the same. But it's simply not worth that amount of money. Never believe an investment figure like that. It's what the previous INVESTORS say it's worth. Why would they do that? To encourage more investment, spread the risk, cash out and leave someone else holding the hot potato. This...
[02:44:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slack Valued at Over $5 Billion - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:37] <exec> 08└─There an opensource clone called mattermost for in-prem usage. Its pretty good in terms of the core features that Slack has. But yea... billions of valuation for an online chat is ridiculous.
[02:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What the World’s Emptiest International Airport Says About China’s Influence - 1775 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:18] <exec> 08└─It's the story's author's job to summarize the gist of the article in the opening paragraphs. They usually do an adequate job of that, so why re-process what they wrote at the risk of introducing errors or inaccuracies? Occasionally the first couple of paragraphs do not convey that, in which case I...
[02:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What the World’s Emptiest International Airport Says About China’s Influence - 547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:19] <exec> 08└─Me, I think it's easier to modify the story submission form to require the story source in a separate box, and then output it as something like "From this source:" instead of "[submitter] writes:". But that's on you guys. What I'm not gonna do is worry about how I'm attributing the story, because I...
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[03:39:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Cassini Spacecraft Post-Mortem - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:12] <exec> 08└─We alive! Dick Nіggers. You know Dick Nіggers never fuck no old pussy. Dick Nіggers fuck a whole lotta young pussy. Pussy-Mortem ....... Ah, hell, no! Dick Nіggers ain't gonna fuck no dead pussy no way.
[03:39:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Rare, Potent Fuel Powering North Korea's Weapons - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:23] <exec> 08└─I guess they stopped using Estes C6-7 engines then. I would've went with the Aerotech hybrid N2O/AP myself
[03:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Rare, Potent Fuel Powering North Korea's Weapons - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:24] <exec> 08└─"Crazier than nitromethane" is a frightening thought. Between reading Ignition! a few times and frequenting Dr. Lowe's "Things I Won't Work With" sub-blog I've gained a healthy respect for anything with more nitrogens than nature intended.
[03:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06The Rare, Potent Fuel Powering North Korea's Weapons - 1184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:26] <exec> 08└─The spread of weapons technology, especially rocketry, has a well established pattern. The US or Russia makes some advance. The new tech is stolen, or sold through various shadow corporations to China. China uses it for some years, then sells it to North Korea. NK then keeps it "secret" for a few ye...
[03:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Rare, Potent Fuel Powering North Korea's Weapons - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:29] <exec> 08└─https://euclidsbridge.wordpress.com/2011/11/21/drag-racing-pioneers-or-suicidal-nutjobs/ [wordpress.com] http://www.dragzine.com [dragzine.com]
[03:39:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Rare, Potent Fuel Powering North Korea's Weapons - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:31] <exec> 08└─Unsymmetrical Dimethyl Hyrazine
[03:39:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Rare, Potent Fuel Powering North Korea's Weapons - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:33] <exec> 08└─Does it snort well?
[03:39:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Music Piracy On Increase Worldwide: Industry Group - 690 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:57] <exec> 08└─musicians are almost all at or near the bottom of the food chain ...but they can do something that all the other folks can't. If you are a musician and want to make money, PERFORM LIVE. One day's work; one day's pay. Same as with a carpenter or electrician or plumber. If you consider recordings to b...
[03:39:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Music Piracy On Increase Worldwide: Industry Group - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:58] <exec> 08└─If you are a musician and want to make money, PERFORM LIVE. One day's work; one day's pay.
[03:40:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03leftover [2448] 02 - 06Startup Pi Out to Slice the Charging Cord - 611 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:08] <exec> 08└─An oscillating magnetic field strong enough to induce|rectify|generate 5VDC at 2 amps a foot away, no problem. Just don't reach for your phone wearing a ring or a bracelet. Or walk by wearing any of several body piercing loopy things. (Ouch!) They don't mention the frequency but it can't be allowed...
[03:41:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:13] <exec> 08└─As an aside, TMB, if you haven't noticed, the first post always shows up even if its score is at -1 (Threaded-TOS mode with a threshold of 0 and a breakthrough of +1).
[03:41:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fujitsu Develops World's First Wearable, Hands-Free Speech Translation Device - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:27] <exec> 08└─Sounds fishy.
[03:41:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jelizondo [653] 02 - 06IC Insights Predicts Additional 40% Increase in DRAM Prices - 709 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:46] <exec> 08└─The market is working as advertised! Just like evolution, the market prunes the inefficient, the lazy and the unfortunate leaving just one or two players, which then dominate the market and can do whatever they please. (I know there are three players now in this market, watch it shrink to maybe two,...
[03:41:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06IC Insights Predicts Additional 40% Increase in DRAM Prices - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:56] <exec> 08└─I prefer a monopoly on which everyone has influence to a monopoly on which only those with money have influence.
[03:43:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Detains Man for Selling Service to Evade Internet Firewall - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:48] <exec> 08└─You forgot to say "And Fuck Beta"
[03:44:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03pdfernhout [5984] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Slack Valued at Over $5 Billion - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:47] <exec> 08└─By me: http://www.pdfernhout.net [pdfernhout.net] What if the Clojure community tried MatterMost or Matrix.org?
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[04:40:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Music Piracy On Increase Worldwide: Industry Group - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:03] <exec> 08└─They've got more people engaged in licensed music overall, but continue to complain that things are getting worse. I wonder if RIAA counts music bought from independent labels as licensed or not. I stopped giving money to the associated labels years ago, and when soundcloud and bandcamp came along I...
[04:40:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Music Piracy On Increase Worldwide: Industry Group - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:05] <exec> 08└─While true, you didn't have to be an audiophile to appreciate the difference between radio recordings, and almost anything else.
[04:40:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Music Piracy On Increase Worldwide: Industry Group - 1488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:07] <exec> 08└─My experience has been that I have stopped pirating anything because it all bores the crap out of me. There's scarcely a song out there that I haven't heard 10,000 times, and I can pretty much do without hearing it a 10,001st time. WTF? Maybe you've run out of music in your narrow preferred niche ge...
[04:41:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:21] <exec> 08└─They spent so much money on custom fonts for their reversed Я that they went bankrupt just when typing that became easy. Killed by quirky typography.
[04:41:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 966 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:23] <exec> 08└─This is the classic "Bust-Out" scam, done at LBO scale. Done to KB Toys, Hostess Foods, and now Toys-R-Us.. to "legally" steal all the value of a company, rip off worker's pensions and walk off with the loot... and not go to jail.. http://www.rollingstone.com
[04:43:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Detains Man for Selling Service to Evade Internet Firewall - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:56] <exec> 08└─Well, then you've got nothing to worry about. Hard to think up a more powerful combination that a mercantilist world-empire with "private" corporations pulling the strings of a massive federal government. Which is of course exactly what you have now. Enjoy that "positive" feedback!
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[05:39:11] <exec> 08└─Those kind of fuels are excellent mechanisms by which to store energy: Let's produce those fuels on large energy "farms", and then transport them to centralized locations that can be designed to burn them cleanly for the purpose of local electricity generation/distribution; the "end user" need only...
[05:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03XivLacuna [6346] (Score: 0) 02 - 06Solar-to-Fuel System Recycles CO2 to Make Ethanol and Ethylene - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:13] <exec> 08└─That sad feel when we don't have self-flying VTOL aircraft for the masses and a dyson swarm. Streets are overrated.
[05:39:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Solar-to-Fuel System Recycles CO2 to Make Ethanol and Ethylene - 992 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:15] <exec> 08└─Basically, when you strip away the propaganda included to get the next round of funding you are left with an improved device to crack CO2 into very simple hydrocarbons. it is only "solar" in the sense you can use a photoelectric cell to get the electricity to drive it, but ANY source of electricity...
[05:39:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Rare, Potent Fuel Powering North Korea's Weapons - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:39] <exec> 08└─It's so awesome though! Ever been to a top-fuel (nitromethane fueled) race? I've been to a few, and they had both jet and rocket cars too. The jets and rockets were just stupid compared to the nitro cars. Everyone should experience it- you just can't describe it.
[05:39:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Rare, Potent Fuel Powering North Korea's Weapons - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:40] <exec> 08└─Nitromethane isn't so bad. It's often used in model airplanes and cars. Of course, it's a single nitrogen. Tetranitromethane on the other hand...
[05:39:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Rare, Potent Fuel Powering North Korea's Weapons - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:43] <exec> 08└─Can we hope this is at least the B-story background for an upcoming Bond film?
[05:40:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Music Piracy On Increase Worldwide: Industry Group - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:12] <exec> 08└─but you're going to have to find independent stuff you like. Even then a bit will go to the label (and/or distributor) usually, but it's less awful. Like I'd rather bandcamp got their take than have to deal with random donations and paypal and all that stuff myself.
[05:40:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Music Piracy On Increase Worldwide: Industry Group - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:13] <exec> 08└─yah that's all I have to say
[05:41:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:31] <exec> 08└─Yup, it's all about short-term profit. Immediate greed, driven also by high-speed stock trading greed. I will not buy new Craftsman junk. If I can't find the good stuff used, I'll buy SnapOn, S-K, Proto, Channellock, Chapman, Klein, etc. http://www.stillmadeinusa.com [stillmadeinusa.com]
[05:42:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IC Insights Predicts Additional 40% Increase in DRAM Prices - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:15] <exec> 08└─Surely, you're not suggesting such a government has ever existed.
[05:46:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What the World’s Emptiest International Airport Says About China’s Influence - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:48] <exec> 08└─A world where CxOs evolved from apes? It's a madhouse! A ... well, maybe it wouldn't be *that* bad.
[05:47:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06Electronic Frontier Foundation Resigns From W3C Over Encrypted Media Extensions DRM - 2459 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:52] <exec> 08└─Much about this decision is disappointing. The technically savvy aren't standing their ground. DRM is a broken concept at a very fundamental level. Anyone can copy a DRM protected item to unprotected media, breaking the DRM for everyone. More than that, anyone can disable obedience to copy protectio...
[05:48:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Electronic Frontier Foundation Resigns From W3C Over Encrypted Media Extensions DRM - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:48:20] <exec> 08└─Yeh, I installed it too, and had the same result. Unusable. Trashed it as unworkable with consumer-grade ISPs.
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[06:39:20] <exec> 08└─Basically, when you strip away the propaganda included to get the next round of funding you are left with ... And it is only 5% efficient.
[06:39:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mainframe Bloke [1665] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cassini Spacecraft Post-Mortem - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:29] <exec> 08└─I saw the Horizon (BBC) / Catalyst (ABC) special on this and was a bit sad to see it go. The way they could track the Ka, X and S-band signals right to the end was really cool. Then there was the drop in signal to "nothing", with a small burst of S being the last. An amazing piece of work by all con...
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[06:39:49] <exec> 08└─The interesting thing is that currently we rely on what is basically 'security through obscurity' when it comes to things like nukes and other weaponry. It should be apparent with even the briefest glance through history that that's not going to work in the longterm. Neither is trying to make sure o...
[06:40:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Music Piracy On Increase Worldwide: Industry Group - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:40:21] <exec> 08└─... just after I stopped listening to any music 5 years go.
[06:40:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Music Piracy On Increase Worldwide: Industry Group - 868 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:40:23] <exec> 08└─I don't know what genre of music you play or how popular you are, so I'll speak in generalities instead. The percentage of musicians that should expect to make a living wage from their craft should probably be roughly proportional to the percentage of painters, tennis players, dancers, writers, come...
[06:40:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Music Piracy On Increase Worldwide: Industry Group - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:40:25] <exec> 08└─Except for the annoying DJs talking over half the song.
[06:43:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Octlantis is a Just-Discovered Underwater City Engineered by Octopuses - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:43:10] <exec> 08└─Octopus cities suck.
[06:44:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Detains Man for Selling Service to Evade Internet Firewall - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:20] <exec> 08└─Who are you and what have you done with the real J-Mo? Please, please, please tell me you threw him into an active volcano or something...
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[07:39:40] <exec> 08└─The spread of weapons technology, especially rocketry, has a well established pattern. The US or Russia makes some advance. The new tech is stolen, or sold through various shadow corporations to China. China uses it for some years, then sells it to North Korea. NK then keeps it "secret" for a few ye...
[07:39:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06The Rare, Potent Fuel Powering North Korea's Weapons - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:39:48] <exec> 08└─Yes! Relieves nasal congestion better than Dristan!
[07:39:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Rare, Potent Fuel Powering North Korea's Weapons - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:39:50] <exec> 08└─*unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine
[07:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Rare, Potent Fuel Powering North Korea's Weapons - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:39:53] <exec> 08└─Someone is going to claim the solution is DRM...
[07:40:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondrake [2658] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Music Piracy On Increase Worldwide: Industry Group - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:40:27] <exec> 08└─I can actually relate to what Phoenix says. It is not so much that there is really no movie or music that I have not seen/hear before, but that I have perhaps aged enough to not significantly care about it. And a lot what is produced is actually similar enough to things I have listened to/seen that...
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[07:41:44] <exec> 08└─The debt ceiling has little to do with spending limits. The money has already been spent. Failing to raise the debt ceiling is the same as deciding not to pay your credit card bill. You've already spent the money, you should pay the bill. Balanced budgets would be great if they actually got balanced...
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[08:39:12] <exec> 08└─What have happen with Dick N...? This FA is missing relevant opinions already!
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[08:39:14] <exec> 08└─This kind of data, an ordered stream of changes, is inherently optimized compared to raw capture, might simplify the encoding of the information too, instead of making the cam look at the whole picture each frame. So > no exposure probs > no framerate probs > easier encoding > small uncompressed str...
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[08:39:25] <exec> 08└─Also confusion, contrast and compare efficiencies far greater than plants
[08:39:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06The Rare, Potent Fuel Powering North Korea's Weapons - 1151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:39:58] <exec> 08└─I didn't think unsymmetrical was an English word, and if it had not been for the Google Ngram viewer [google.com], I would probably have gone off on a rant about how people can't speak or write proper English these days. However, I'm not so old that I can't check my thinking, and while I would have...
[08:40:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Rare, Potent Fuel Powering North Korea's Weapons - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:40:00] <exec> 08└─I take it you are ahappy with the aintentional amodernness of the term. (sidenote: the unnaturalness of typing the above is an almost physical sensation).
[08:40:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Rare, Potent Fuel Powering North Korea's Weapons - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:40:02] <exec> 08└─I was going to make the same comment. It's "the obsolete, toxic, dangerous rocket fuel", it was abandoned decades ago when better alternatives were found. The fact that DPRK has to resort to using this sixty-year-old toxic stuff shows just how bad things are there.
[08:40:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Music Piracy On Increase Worldwide: Industry Group - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:40:38] <exec> 08└─I don't want Mickey-Mouse lossy MP3s. I want my CD quality 16-bit stereo PCM full dynamic range audio that I can archive and transcode myself as and when I see fit. I don't want to be subject to Digital Restrictions Management and I don't want the corporations compiling a database of all the music I...
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[08:40:40] <exec> 08└─reasonable price.
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[08:41:59] <exec> 08└─None of the Hiltons are the President of the United States.
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[09:39:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Butterfly Wing Patterns Altered with CRISPR - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:16] <exec> 08└─Ads on butterfly wings.
[09:39:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02 - 06Solar-to-Fuel System Recycles CO2 to Make Ethanol and Ethylene - 992 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:34] <exec> 08└─Basically, when you strip away the propaganda included to get the next round of funding you are left with an improved device to crack CO2 into very simple hydrocarbons. it is only "solar" in the sense you can use a photoelectric cell to get the electricity to drive it, but ANY source of electricity...
[09:39:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Solar-to-Fuel System Recycles CO2 to Make Ethanol and Ethylene - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:37] <exec> 08└─Many systems have successfully reduced carbon dioxide to chemical and fuel precursors, such as carbon monoxide or a mix of carbon monoxide and hydrogen known as syngas. This new work, described in a study published in the journal Energy and Environmental Science, is the first to successfully demonst...
[09:40:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Rare, Potent Fuel Powering North Korea's Weapons - 606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:40:12] <exec> 08└─Sabotage? As if we needed any more evidence that North Korea is absolutely right about being under attack and needing weapons to defend themselves. By now, it should be clear to anyone that when politicians say that NK should not be allowed to have nukes, what they really mean that they should not b...
[09:40:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Rare, Potent Fuel Powering North Korea's Weapons - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:40:14] <exec> 08└─The new tech is stolen, or sold through various shadow corporations to China.
[09:40:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Rare, Potent Fuel Powering North Korea's Weapons - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:40:16] <exec> 08└─No, I'm not unhappy. It's nice when I can demonstrate to myself I'm wrong, and thereby learn something. Contemplating the possibility of being wrong is a luxury many people do not afford themselves. You may find reading these untypical texts provides some solace for your unnatural sensation: http://...
[09:40:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Music Piracy On Increase Worldwide: Industry Group - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:40:53] <exec> 08└─I wonder if RIAA counts music bought from independent labels as licensed or not.
[09:40:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Music Piracy On Increase Worldwide: Industry Group - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:40:55] <exec> 08└─"With the wealth of licensed music available to fans, these types of illegal sites have no justifiable place in the music world," she said, calling for greater regulation of the digital music sector.
[09:40:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Music Piracy On Increase Worldwide: Industry Group - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:40:57] <exec> 08└─Where I lived, they actually announced songs in advance and said "get your tape decks ready!" and then played the entire single.
[09:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:42:16] <exec> 08└─Yup. That was by design and not my call. Da boss said make top-level comments always show, so that's what I did.
[09:42:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:42:18] <exec> 08└─The problem for Toys 'R' Us is that everything they sell is cheap flimsy crap. When I went to university, I lived near one for the first time. Even during my PhD, it was fun to walk around and find a load of things that you either wished you'd had as a child or still wanted now. I went back to one f...
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[09:42:20] <exec> 08└─The same thing applies for the third-party sellers. I recently bought some speaker wire from a third-party seller on Amazon. They'd misconfigured their store so that it said 50m in the summary and then 10m in the small print (with an option to select 50m). I didn't notice this until 10m appeared (I...
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[11:39:15] <exec> 08└─Hell yeah, we Dick Niɡցers. We ain't never fuckin no old pussy. We only fuck a lotta young pussy. Fer sure, if we fuck Schrödinger pussy, she's a young one, aliv'an squirmin
[11:39:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Solar-to-Fuel System Recycles CO2 to Make Ethanol and Ethylene - 138 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:40] <exec> 08└─Basically, when you strip away the propaganda included to get the next round of funding you are left with ... And it is only 5% efficient.
[11:39:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cassini Spacecraft Post-Mortem - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:51] <exec> 08└─R.I.P.
[11:40:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Rare, Potent Fuel Powering North Korea's Weapons - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:40:22] <exec> 08└─Sure it's toxic and dangerous, but neither obsolete, nor abandoned decades ago. Like I said, it's still used today.
[11:40:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03urza9814 [3954] 02 - 06Music Piracy On Increase Worldwide: Industry Group - 1174 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:40:46] <exec> 08└─The majority of the music I purchase comes from Bandcamp. Of course Bandcamp takes a reasonable cut, but the rest goes straight to the artists. And it's a flexible payment model -- the last album I bought was a $1 minimum but I chose to pay $25. Although in that case it was also a charity deal -- on...
[11:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Paradise Pete [1806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:25] <exec> 08└─Walmart is not air-conditioned? Toys-R-Us is opulent? The few times I've been in a Broke-R-Us store I thought it was even worse than Walmart.
[11:42:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:26] <exec> 08└─Way to miss the sarcasm.
[11:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Paradise Pete [1806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:28] <exec> 08└─Was that site designed in 1993? I think I saw it on Mirsky's Worst of the Web.
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[12:39:47] <exec> 08└─No, seriously guys. What are you thinking when you post stories so "interesting" that, 2 hours after publishing it, there's no comment? How long do you think S/N can survive if the level of the stories are "Yeah, immm, nteresting. Sorta. Maybe. Meh... can't be bothered to think of it enough to post...
[12:39:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Celex - Nanosecond Image Acquisition - 663 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:48] <exec> 08└─Do you have a crystal ball that can predict the interest in a particular story? I submit 3-5 articles/week (very rough long term average), and most are not political. Most of them are published. Perhaps 3 in 10 generate 40+ comments(?), and sometimes the comments head off on a tangent unrelated to t...
[12:40:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Rare, Potent Fuel Powering North Korea's Weapons - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:40:41] <exec> 08└─Perhaps un... was a choice of words to help in tracing information leaks? Or a trademark, or marketing exercise to make it seem more special than it was. Or just a King's English challenged Stem person. I think I'm with the OF on this one. A new word just makes more entrophy.
[12:40:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06The Rare, Potent Fuel Powering North Korea's Weapons - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:40:42] <exec> 08└─So if Kim's motives are about self preservation, then the international community needs to set up a situation where his survival depends on NK joining the community of nations. The question is, how do you do that? Offer a great retirement plan. Offer a stick and a carrot instead of a stick and a sti...
[12:40:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03slap [5764] 02 - 06Music Piracy On Increase Worldwide: Industry Group - 314 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:40:52] <exec> 08└─"the global recorded music industry group IFPI said". Not exactly coming from an unbiased source. If they said piracy is going down, the music industry would have a harder time getting new laws passed. The real crime is that the musicians are being ripped off by their labels and royalty collection...
[12:41:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] 02 - 06Music Piracy On Increase Worldwide: Industry Group - 352 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:05] <exec> 08└─I want local copies. fuck the 'stream'. the net is not always up and I'm less and less happy about being 'tracked' each time I click or do something. the only thing I like about streams is that they are usually rippable. even for youtube, I download via 'youtube-dl' and watch the local copy. local c...
[12:41:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Music Piracy On Increase Worldwide: Industry Group - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:24] <exec> 08└─I think the point still stands, though. Give the customers what they want, or they'll find someone else who will. Not everyone wants the same thing. I also like Spotify; I don't miss having to manually manage my entire library. But I know audiophiles for whom that is still important to them. Possibl...
[12:41:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06Startup Pi Out to Slice the Charging Cord - 114 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:41] <exec> 08└─Well, if he's rolling on a contactless paypoint, with his credit cards in his pocket, he could pay several times..
[12:42:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 1320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:53] <exec> 08└─As much as I loved going there as a kid, you reap what you sew. There used to be plenty of local toy stores until toys r us came around. Many of them went out of business by the 90's because toys r us was bigger, cheaper, carried more variety, and could more easily handle holiday rushes for the popu...
[12:43:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06IC Insights Predicts Additional 40% Increase in DRAM Prices - 975 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:33] <exec> 08└─Well, the exascale race should be heating up from around now to around 2023. Supercomputer centers may be building more machines during this period, targeting the 1 exaflops level, and ordering a lot of DRAM as a result. Businesses are buying into deep/machine learning and there are more chips targe...
[12:44:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Way to Create 'Soft Robots'—DNA Triggers That Cause Hydrogels to Change Shape - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:05] <exec> 08└─100x volume is 4.6x length on all three dimensions - pretty impressive.
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[12:44:24] <exec> 08└─In the tropics, lacking shade.
[12:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slack Valued at Over $5 Billion - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:33] <exec> 08└─I'm sure it would work, but its the dreaded network effect where ten guys go on slack and you can guess where the eleventh and following go.
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[13:39:07] <exec> 08└─... that it requires each statistically insignificant individual to be constantly vigilant of the activities of some far off body of strangers, then you're doing it wrong.
[13:39:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Call to Action: Write to the European Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee on Upcoming Copyright Law - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:09] <exec> 08└─you're doing it wrong.
[13:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Call to Action: Write to the European Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee on Upcoming Copyright Law - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:11] <exec> 08└─I know. Democracy is a bitch.
[13:39:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Call to Action: Write to the European Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee on Upcoming Copyright Law - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:13] <exec> 08└─It is not democracy when the "demo" has to actively intervene to avoid being shafted.
[13:39:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Celex - Nanosecond Image Acquisition - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:43] <exec> 08└─Do you have a crystal ball that can predict the interest in a particular story?
[13:39:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Celex - Nanosecond Image Acquisition - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:44] <exec> 08└─> ...please take it as constructive criticism Did you wake up on the wrong side of bed today? In your post you present significant information that could contribute to and improve the discussion, beyond what the original submitter/editors put in tfs. But instead of a normal reply you chose to go "me...
[13:40:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The Rare, Potent Fuel Powering North Korea's Weapons - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:40] <exec> 08└─community of nations.
[13:40:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Rare, Potent Fuel Powering North Korea's Weapons - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:41] <exec> 08└─Different old fart here. At first I thought entrophy was a simple typo for entropy...based on ancient memories from an intro thermo course. Turns out I was wrong, first usage on ngram is c.1880. But I think "entropy" is a better fit in your sentence: https://books.google.com
[13:40:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Rare, Potent Fuel Powering North Korea's Weapons - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:43] <exec> 08└─Do "stereotypical hillbillies" build tiny submarines to infiltrate their neighbors? When I visited S Korea (late 1980s) they were catching these little subs fairly often, each one was dropping off a spy or two. Since they are all Korean, it's relatively easy to blend in, I suppose the South also inf...
[13:42:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 841 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:51] <exec> 08└─Day care? Something like a tupperware party for kids? Youtube, kids love lets play videos? Also most gifts are bought by declared affinity (She likes hello kitty, here is the hello kitty fishing rod (a real product btw)) or looks nice enough to be a gift. It doesn't matter if it falls apart or looks...
[13:42:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 1205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:52] <exec> 08└─Income inequality: You don't need middle class shopping facilities if your political goal is the destruction of the middle class. You need a way for 1%ers to obtain kids toys for the nanny to keep them busy, and there's 3rd world grinding poverty where the kids aren't going to get chinese plastic cr...
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[14:39:09] <exec> 08└─The answer is the market: Organize yourself in ways that are demonstrably profitable and therefore self-sustaining; maybe it will be painful at first, but that is the only way to ensure that you'll get what you want. Concretely: Quit running to daddy; build your own fucking networks.
[14:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington DC Braces for Net Neutrality Protests Later This Month - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:10] <exec> 08└─The free market doesn't exist. The closest we've been to it in the past brought us charlatans and frauds and the race to the bottom. Go live in Somalia if you can't handle the truth. Maybe that will open your eyes. Myth of the Free Market: http://robertreich.org [robertreich.org]
[14:39:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington DC Braces for Net Neutrality Protests Later This Month - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:12] <exec> 08└─I liked where the OpenLibernet whitepaper (PDF) [openlibernet.org] was going, but it didn't go anywhere. I had minor objections, but I forgot them.
[14:39:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Call to Action: Write to the European Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee on Upcoming Copyright Law - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:23] <exec> 08└─Ah, but think of this as the "demo" version. If you paid up you'd get the full benefits. (Hint: corporates have already paid up)
[14:39:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Magazine Interview With European Southern Observatory Chief - 1046 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:30] <exec> 08└─If this was an AMA I'd ask how something that large and floopy deals with seismographic noise and occasional distant earthquakes. Do you just assume that sometimes its floopy and don't take data then, or do they have some kind of adaptive optics? I mean, anyone who's ever used a home telescope has t...
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[14:39:45] <exec> 08└─From table S2 we see they injected 5796 eggs total, of which 647 made it to the pupae stage. Of these, 240 made it to the butterfly stage and showed the "editing". http://www.pnas.org [pnas.org] For some reason there is no control group (how many eggs would make i...
[14:39:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Celex - Nanosecond Image Acquisition - 863 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:59] <exec> 08└─Well yeah you'd expect the first iteration of a new camera technology to sacrifice resolution and stuff, and machine vision is a great starter market because the images only need to be functional, unlike the consumer market where they need to be beautiful. That's an interesting idea combining it wit...
[14:40:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Celex - Nanosecond Image Acquisition - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:01] <exec> 08└─Here's some constructive criticism for you: shut up if you have nothing to interesting to say or add about the story. The story is somewhat interesting but seems most soylentils had nothing interesting to add to it and fortunately most didn't decide to post off-topic crap. If you want troll fests an...
[14:41:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02 - 06Music Piracy On Increase Worldwide: Industry Group - 393 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:12] <exec> 08└─My younger boy is 17 and listens to all sorts of music, I mean his tastes are really wide, and he will give anything a go. He doesn't bother pirating music because Spotify gives him all the music he wants at a reasonable price. Isn't that the lesson the music business has failed to learn over the la...
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[14:41:58] <exec> 08└─i think with a dual umbrella shaped mu-metall funnel you can pretty much "pour" the magnetic field of earth into a battery ...
[14:42:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 164 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:27] <exec> 08└─Kids these days ... hacking into the T-R-U customer database to find a credit card number and cross-referencing the Equifax leak to trace all the way back to Santa.
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[15:39:16] <exec> 08└─The answer is the market.
[15:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington DC Braces for Net Neutrality Protests Later This Month - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:17] <exec> 08└─The Somalians new nothing of voluntary exchange before the failure of their, and nothing of it afterwards. Yet, despite their culture of coercion which gave rise to warlords, the people's lives still improved immensely, because a market did develop where the authoritarians were too weak to control i...
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[15:39:19] <exec> 08└─There was long a clear need for hooking up geographically disparate computers. Just because government threw a pittance at one particular low-level project means shit. It's a total misrepresentation of the history of the Internet.
[15:39:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Washington DC Braces for Net Neutrality Protests Later This Month - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:22] <exec> 08└─Concretely: Quit running to daddy; build your own fucking networks.
[15:39:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington DC Braces for Net Neutrality Protests Later This Month - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:24] <exec> 08└─Obviously, you net neutrality folks should be putting time into getting government completely out of the business of the Internet.
[15:39:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington DC Braces for Net Neutrality Protests Later This Month - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:26] <exec> 08└─There was long a clear need for hooking up geographically disparate computers.
[15:39:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington DC Braces for Net Neutrality Protests Later This Month - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:28] <exec> 08└─Evolution by variation (supplier competition) and selection (consumer choice). You're betraying your innate misunderstanding of this process; why are you so partial to the ridiculous theory of Intelligent Design?
[15:39:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington DC Braces for Net Neutrality Protests Later This Month - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:31] <exec> 08└─Now why would we do that? If there's no regulation whatsoever, there's nothing to keep you big business types from using monopoly tactics to squeeze out competition. I've never, ever seen you "free market" cunts scream about regulation when it helps to shut down municipal broadband. Not once. Munici...
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[15:39:33] <exec> 08└─Regulation is what squeezes out the newcomer by making the barrier to entry that hurdle which a Big Business has already cleared. Indeed, a government regulatory agency is itself a goddamn monopoly; you want a monopoly to protect you from monopolies—it makes no sense!
[15:39:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington DC Braces for Net Neutrality Protests Later This Month - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:35] <exec> 08└─Yeah, because that'll work great! Hell, the 'free market' can't even do health care worth a crap. The U.S.'s free market is more expensive and no better to less effective than pretty much any other industrialized country on the planet. Did I mention your 'free market' is MORE expensive. LOL. And tha...
[15:39:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington DC Braces for Net Neutrality Protests Later This Month - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:37] <exec> 08└─Intelligent Design
[15:39:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington DC Braces for Net Neutrality Protests Later This Month - 2776 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:40] <exec> 08└─As usual, the "activists" and "community organizers" are beavering away at distracting everyone from the actual problems while helping the corporate overlords quietly funding them. This effort is nothing more than the other streamers not named Netflix trying to have everyone else pay for their distr...
[15:39:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Call to Action: Write to the European Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee on Upcoming Copyright Law - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:52] <exec> 08└─Democracy mimics capitalism in every way. That's why it's so popular... It allows people to think they have power. Totally fictional, but totally effective. You just can't argue with that. Except that we are approaching its logical conclusion
[15:39:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Call to Action: Write to the European Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee on Upcoming Copyright Law - 1538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:53] <exec> 08└─Okay, this thread got cynical real fast. Yes, there's a lot of corruption. Yes, copyright extension clear out to 75/95 years was deeply unpopular, and should never have been voted into law. But there are other ways to fight. And the first thing to keep firmly in mind is that government's power is ex...
[15:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Call to Action: Write to the European Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee on Upcoming Copyright Law - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:55] <exec> 08└─Capitalism is voluntary interaction. Democracy is one group dictating to another group. Try again?
[15:40:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Megahard [4782] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Butterfly Wing Patterns Altered with CRISPR - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:17] <exec> 08└─No wonder we're getting so many hurricanes.
[15:41:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Music Piracy On Increase Worldwide: Industry Group - 690 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:54] <exec> 08└─musicians are almost all at or near the bottom of the food chain ...but they can do something that all the other folks can't. If you are a musician and want to make money, PERFORM LIVE. One day's work; one day's pay. Same as with a carpenter or electrician or plumber. If you consider recordings to b...
[15:42:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Music Piracy On Increase Worldwide: Industry Group - 993 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:11] <exec> 08└─I'm probably being a little too literalist, but again I feel that you and Phx are basically saying, "I've seen all the stuff that I liked when I was younger", and you haven't bothered branching out and look at stuff outside that bubble. Have you tried watching, for instance, Arabic- or Chinese-langu...
[15:42:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Music Piracy On Increase Worldwide: Industry Group - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:12] <exec> 08└─Here's her likely response to your post: "You don't need to listen to any of that old, obscure stuff. You need to listen to the stuff that we've made available for you on the licensed music services."
[15:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Music Piracy On Increase Worldwide: Industry Group - 744 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:15] <exec> 08└─Which still would run into the regional limits - quite little japanese, korean, russian(!), irish(!), east european, indian, pakistani, iranian, isreali, somali, brazilian and chilean music is available on swedish spotify (immensely annoying since lots of the stuff is available in closest region-app...
[15:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Startup Pi Out to Slice the Charging Cord - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:34] <exec> 08└─But instead of cords or mats, the conical creation charges smartphones with magnetic waves.
[15:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:46] <exec> 08└─Walmart are relentless margin-squeezers, just assume any toy that can be made cheaply enough to satisfy them will break the first time your kid looks at it funny. There, saved you a trip.
[15:45:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06China Detains Man for Selling Service to Evade Internet Firewall - 64 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:25] <exec> 08└─How far away from having this happen in the West are we, really?
[15:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Detains Man for Selling Service to Evade Internet Firewall - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:27] <exec> 08└─And what makes you think that reason was to stop every VPN connection? If it was, they would all be stopped. Like you said it's almost trivial to detect. It's almost like they want to restrict access but not stop it completely. So why not sell a product if it's so obviously allowed/tolerated? Hundre...
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[16:39:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Uber: We Don't Have to Pay Drivers Based on Rider Fares - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:09] <exec> 08└─We the best, yeah. Dick Nіggers. Shit, we never fuck no old pussy. But damn do we fuck a whole lotta young pussy. Yo ain't gotta pay, girl, Dick Nіggers gonna fuck ya for free.
[16:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber: We Don't Have to Pay Drivers Based on Rider Fares - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:11] <exec> 08└─Fuck Yeah!
[16:39:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber: We Don't Have to Pay Drivers Based on Rider Fares - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:13] <exec> 08└─Free market relies on perfect information so that consumers and business owners can come to terms on the lowest, most efficient price. Modern technology is being used to hide and pollute information to introduce inefficiencies in the market in favor of the middleman. Should all corporate business so...
[16:39:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber: We Don't Have to Pay Drivers Based on Rider Fares - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:15] <exec> 08└─I was going to add those filters after breakfast along with the &#x versions. I think I'll have a nap first though.
[16:39:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Uber: We Don't Have to Pay Drivers Based on Rider Fares - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:17] <exec> 08└─Nah, that information is utterly unnecessary to wage negotiations. Look at unions, for instance. They've been arguing for higher wages with no regards for the company they're negotiating with even being able to stay afloat for quite some time now.
[16:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber: We Don't Have to Pay Drivers Based on Rider Fares - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:20] <exec> 08└─What caught my eye was the statement that the customer is shown and charged for a longer, slower route that they don't intend to take. That sounds like some sort of false advertising or some other misleading business practice.
[16:39:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber: We Don't Have to Pay Drivers Based on Rider Fares - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:22] <exec> 08└─Way to not only completely miss the point but somehow turn it into a shambling, zombified, perverse, antimatter parody of itself.
[16:39:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber: We Don't Have to Pay Drivers Based on Rider Fares - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:24] <exec> 08└─Can't be helped when the point is unable to stand on its merits.
[16:39:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber: We Don't Have to Pay Drivers Based on Rider Fares - 775 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:26] <exec> 08└─I was kind of surprised by this one: "Drivers could have simply asked a User how much he or she paid for the trip to learn of any discrepancy." This seems like a really awkward thing for a driver to do. What they're saying is, the information could have been transparent if the driver were willing to...
[16:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber: We Don't Have to Pay Drivers Based on Rider Fares - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:29] <exec> 08└─"Drivers," Uber told a federal judge, "could have simply asked a User how much he or she paid for the trip to learn of any discrepancy."
[16:39:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber: We Don't Have to Pay Drivers Based on Rider Fares - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:31] <exec> 08└─Are you one-at-a-timing it, Buzz, or did you get yourself a list of unicode-letters-that-look-like-other-letters?
[16:39:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber: We Don't Have to Pay Drivers Based on Rider Fares - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:33] <exec> 08└─If the point is unable to stand on it's merits, then there should be little difficulty making a clear and direct arguement against it. You're welcome to do so whenever you feel so inclined.
[16:39:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber: We Don't Have to Pay Drivers Based on Rider Fares - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:35] <exec> 08└─It does seem a little circular doesn't it? "We're not misleading the driver. All they had to do was assume we're misleading them to find out how we're misleading them. So we can't have been misleading them"
[16:39:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber: We Don't Have to Pay Drivers Based on Rider Fares - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:38] <exec> 08└─You wont get anything from TMB. When he makes up his mind no amount of facts or logical arguments will change it.
[16:39:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03canopic jug [3949] 02 - 06Washington DC Braces for Net Neutrality Protests Later This Month - 25 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:48] <exec> 08└─The answer is the market.
[16:40:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington DC Braces for Net Neutrality Protests Later This Month - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:00] <exec> 08└─Not gonna argue, 'cause you are at least mostly right. But, is the internet still working because of "government", or because of "standards"? What I think is, today's standards were adopted readily, and widely, because government was using and backing them. But, government didn't exactly write the s...
[16:40:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington DC Braces for Net Neutrality Protests Later This Month - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:02] <exec> 08└─Yes, I want a monopoly controlled by we the people to protect us from monopolies controlled by C-level sociopaths. How is that so hard to understand? Then again, on second thought, maybe you're right. "We the people" gave us fucking Trump and a Republican house and senate. CLEARLY "we the people" ca...
[16:40:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington DC Braces for Net Neutrality Protests Later This Month - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:04] <exec> 08└─I've never, ever seen you "free market" cunts scream about regulation when it helps to shut down municipal broadband. Not once. Municipal broadband is the very definition of that which you cling to, yet it's *crickets* from you whenever it comes under attack.
[16:40:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington DC Braces for Net Neutrality Protests Later This Month - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:06] <exec> 08└─Crazy meter is spiking everybody, this might be the big one!
[16:40:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington DC Braces for Net Neutrality Protests Later This Month - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:08] <exec> 08└─You haven't paid any attention whatsoever to what I've said on Capitalism and how Monopolies have no place in them then. You should try opening your eyes and reading once in a while.
[16:40:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington DC Braces for Net Neutrality Protests Later This Month - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:11] <exec> 08└─Err, over three years ago. Time is weird.
[16:40:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington DC Braces for Net Neutrality Protests Later This Month - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:13] <exec> 08└─The free market gave the US the most advanced healthcare industry on the planet despite massive government interference. Care to try again?
[16:40:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington DC Braces for Net Neutrality Protests Later This Month - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:15] <exec> 08└─Look up "peering agreements" soon please because you haven't a clue what you're speaking about.
[16:40:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Washington DC Braces for Net Neutrality Protests Later This Month - 2196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:17] <exec> 08└─"Bandwidth is not free." Well, THAT's fair enough. Charge for the bandwidth used. That's pretty much end of discussion on that account. Oh, wait, no - you can't say that "unlimited bandwidth" is restricted to 10 gig, then charge $1000/gig over that. That would be abuse of monopoly. "Infrastructure i...
[16:40:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Washington DC Braces for Net Neutrality Protests Later This Month - 730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:20] <exec> 08└─The only one running to daddy here are the large ISP corporations. They are paying local and federal representatives and policy makers to exclude competition and erect artificial barriers to new businesses entering the market. In an effort to restore competition and an open market, the populace has...
[16:40:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington DC Braces for Net Neutrality Protests Later This Month - 1258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:22] <exec> 08└─It's definitely the standards. But I make a distinction between the first two phases of the Internet which were the pre-commercialization and the post-commercialization. The solid government period was pre-commercialization. That is to say pre-1996 it was guided by government projects. However, for...
[16:40:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington DC Braces for Net Neutrality Protests Later This Month - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:24] <exec> 08└─1970s and 1980s
[16:40:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington DC Braces for Net Neutrality Protests Later This Month - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:26] <exec> 08└─What exactly do we have, other than high costs, that other countries don't? Other countries have lower rates of infant mortality. Other countries have longer life expectancy. Other countries have lower rates of obesity. The only thing we're "most advanced" at with health care is how much we spend on...
[16:40:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington DC Braces for Net Neutrality Protests Later This Month - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:29] <exec> 08└─Sell that garbage to someone that doesn't know that other countries rely on the advances in healthcare that the American market has created. Consider for a moment every healthcare advancement that's come out of the US and then picture the world without any of them.
[16:40:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington DC Braces for Net Neutrality Protests Later This Month - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:31] <exec> 08└─So - you're a swallower? I've a few things I'd like to discuss with you in private . . .
[16:40:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington DC Braces for Net Neutrality Protests Later This Month - 1543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:33] <exec> 08└─I think the problem is coverage, not quality. (I won't even get into who is eligble for said coverage and how to fund it) I have to wonder if some of our incredibly expensive cures would be less expensive of the economies of scale were to kick in -- or if only people like the pharma bro guy are resp...
[16:40:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington DC Braces for Net Neutrality Protests Later This Month - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:35] <exec> 08└─Thank you this is an excellent post we will make sure you are well compensated for your shilling Anonymous Coward.
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[16:40:57] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomy_in_the_medieval_Islamic_world [wikipedia.org]
[16:41:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Butterfly Wing Patterns Altered with CRISPR - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:15] <exec> 08└─Indeed. I can imagine a dating couple having a romantic evening in a pleasant rural setting: Girl: "Ahhh, nature is so lovely ... just look at that beautiful butterfly!" Guy: "Hey, there's words on its wings. I think it's an ad." Girl: "Hmm, can you catch it?" Guy: "I think I can ... there! Gottit!...
[16:41:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Butterfly Wing Patterns Altered with CRISPR - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:16] <exec> 08└─Massacring thousands of butterflies is legit if they are trying to figure out what changes in a gene can do rather than create a reliable supply of gene-edited butterflies.
[16:41:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Butterfly Wing Patterns Altered with CRISPR - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:19] <exec> 08└─They didn't achieve that goal since there was no control group. How many butterflys would have had the odd coloring anyway? Isn't that even one of the go-to examples of natural selection? Also, CRISPR/Cas9 treatment almost always kills 90+% of the cells. Anything less than 50% of the cells dying is...
[16:41:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Celex - Nanosecond Image Acquisition - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:34] <exec> 08└─This is pretty cool, and is a nice trend to moving computing away from a few central, general purpose processors and into specialized devices closer to the sensors and actuators of a system. This in particular seems like it could be expanded to trigger events back to the CPU (general decision maker)...
[16:41:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cassini Spacecraft Post-Mortem - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:57] <exec> 08└─http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/space/death-dive-to-Saturn.html [pbs.org]
[16:43:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Music Piracy On Increase Worldwide: Industry Group - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:19] <exec> 08└─For the love of all that's holy, could you please suggest to Bandcamp that they pay artists with some other technology than Paypal? I mean, the model's great, the people are fantastic, the good feels are amazing but paypal actually makes the Chase banking group look like the good guys.
[16:43:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Music Piracy On Increase Worldwide: Industry Group - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:20] <exec> 08└─It's like you're deliberately missing the point. The patterns and stories are not terribly new. Once you've seen 2-5 TV coo shows you've seen them all. Super hero movies? Done. Action? Done. Not a while lot of REALLY original stuff out there. I'm only in my mid 30s and already have trouble with a lo...
[16:43:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Music Piracy On Increase Worldwide: Industry Group - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:22] <exec> 08└─At this point in history it is unreasonable to expect to make your money off recordings. Especially if you are only good enough to pull in a couple hundred a performance. You should realize what you are doing is out of passion, not profit. As the saying goes, don't quit your day job.
[16:43:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Music Piracy On Increase Worldwide: Industry Group - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:24] <exec> 08└─Which still would run into the regional limits - quite little japanese, korean, russian(!), irish(!), east european, indian, pakistani, iranian, isreali, somali, brazilian and chilean music is available on swedish spotify (immensely annoying since lots of the stuff is available in closest region-app...
[16:43:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Music Piracy On Increase Worldwide: Industry Group - 2648 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:27] <exec> 08└─No, what you're saying might be true for others, but not for me. I have branched out to other musical genres and cultures for novelty. I have listened to Tuvan throat singing and Bollywood hits. For a time I had the dial set to Afro-Pop. For video I watched series like, "El Internado de la Laguna Ne...
[16:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 1531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:59] <exec> 08└─Being that the web was born in 1994, I don't think it could have been. But I get your sarcasm. Everyone's entitled to their opinions. I personally greatly prefer sites of that design, and hate hate hate much of the newest website design styles. I don't use the web for the fun of the ride or the arti...
[16:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:00] <exec> 08└─Wal-Mart has food and other items inside of it, rather than a giant selection of toys that nobody is touching or looking at. So they can have A/C.
[16:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:02] <exec> 08└─They're the exact same mass-produced cheap-crap toys that you'd get at Toys 'R Us.
[16:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:04] <exec> 08└─Very unfortunate that we are screwed no matter who we choose for office. The voters screwed themselves. They had the opportunity to elect better people during the Primaries, and instead they chose the worst possible candidates on both sides. This isn't a failure of the system so much as it's a failu...
[16:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 1642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:07] <exec> 08└─> Retail in general is heading for the dustbin of history. I'm not sure that's true. It is, unless something pretty big changes. It's not true of ALL retail, but generally speaking, any retail that tries to compete against Walmart and Amazon for mass-market stuff is doomed. The only retail that's go...
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[17:39:03] <exec> 08└─We be Dick Nіggers. You know it. Right yeah we never fuck no old pussy. Sure do fuck a lotta young pussy. Dick Nіggers gonna fuck ya rough, girl, best take off them glasses first.
[17:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon is Working on Smart Glasses to House Alexa AI, Says FT - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:04] <exec> 08└─I'd rather they just break into the eyeglasses market and put a dent in Luxottica's stranglehold. That's one market that'd really benefit from their disrupting it, and they'd make some sick crazy money.
[17:39:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber: We Don't Have to Pay Drivers Based on Rider Fares - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:27] <exec> 08└─Honestly, that would be pretty low on the awkward scale for (what is in my experience) an average Uber driver.
[17:39:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Uber: We Don't Have to Pay Drivers Based on Rider Fares - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:29] <exec> 08└─I'm no fan of Uber's "regulations don't apply because internet" stance but in what other industry does the cost to produce a widget have any bearing on the widget's price (other than as a floor)?
[17:39:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Uber: We Don't Have to Pay Drivers Based on Rider Fares - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:31] <exec> 08└─Modded up, not because I exactly agree with the Buzzard, but because his answer is ON TOPIC. Moderators, stop being asses.
[17:39:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Uber: We Don't Have to Pay Drivers Based on Rider Fares - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:33] <exec> 08└─If I see a scenic route being offered, pay for a scenic route, I'm going to be annoyed when they don't drive past the Houses of Parliament like they promised. I thought that one of the prime motivators for taxi alternatives was the route was the one you paid for, not the driver padding the fare. Now...
[17:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber: We Don't Have to Pay Drivers Based on Rider Fares - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:36] <exec> 08└─"I imagine most riders would rather think everything's fine between the driver and Uber." Yeah, and I imagine that dragons and unicorns live all over the earth. Don't you think that "most riders" have to work for a living? And, most of those riders are well aware that management is out to screw the...
[17:39:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber: We Don't Have to Pay Drivers Based on Rider Fares - 708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:38] <exec> 08└─<sarcasm> Freaking hipsters, asking questions and demanding a fair treatment... can't you just go back to the idea that we are the savior of modern transportation, that we are a "ride sharing" service and that we are the best? Wasn't better when everybody was blinded by the Uber factor? People love...
[17:39:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Uber: We Don't Have to Pay Drivers Based on Rider Fares - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:40] <exec> 08└─Free market relies on perfect information
[17:39:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber: We Don't Have to Pay Drivers Based on Rider Fares - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:42] <exec> 08└─That, and simply having the ability to ask someone else for information doesn't mean that the information is available, as that other person can always refuse to answer. This makes Uber look utterly sleazy. Almost everything about how they operate has some kind of sleaziness to it. The quicker they...
[17:39:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber: We Don't Have to Pay Drivers Based on Rider Fares - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:44] <exec> 08└─> Middlemen serve a purpose, however good or bad a job they do at it. Nope, you need to see /Office Space/ again. Specifically the "I'm a people person" scene.
[17:39:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber: We Don't Have to Pay Drivers Based on Rider Fares - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:47] <exec> 08└─they just need to address the corruption in the political system (too much pay-to-play) that's making the free market and competition impractical.
[17:39:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber: We Don't Have to Pay Drivers Based on Rider Fares - 1015 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:49] <exec> 08└─Such an epic strawman. Consumers have no choice anymore, the overwhelming majority of products are owned by massive umbrella corps. Collusion has been going on for a long time and the consumers have next to no power while the corps can buy there way through any obstacle. This is the free market end-...
[17:39:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Uber: We Don't Have to Pay Drivers Based on Rider Fares - 863 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:51] <exec> 08└─"Free market relies on perfect information so that consumers and business owners can come to terms" I'm quite certain that Uber wants to maximize their profits, but let's talk about that perfect information, shall we? How do $million dollar taxi medallions flow into the information consumers have? A...
[17:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber: We Don't Have to Pay Drivers Based on Rider Fares - 993 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:53] <exec> 08└─Well, that seems like a rather pedantic rant, not totally on topic. Why should privately developed software used privately in a business require open source? Here's your estimated ride duration, driver, car, yadda yadda: Accept / Decline Here's what your fare: Accept / Decline. Here's your credit ca...
[17:39:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber: We Don't Have to Pay Drivers Based on Rider Fares - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:56] <exec> 08└─No, free market relies solely on absence of regulation. You must pay for the goods you take is a regulation. Free Market's don't work so great without that one.
[17:39:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber: We Don't Have to Pay Drivers Based on Rider Fares - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:58] <exec> 08└─his answer is ON TOPIC. Moderators, stop being asses.
[17:39:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber: We Don't Have to Pay Drivers Based on Rider Fares - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:00] <exec> 08└─The free market, strangled by monopoly powers backed by the guns of government, fighting subsidies from stolen tax monies, its customers lured away by unpunished fraud, has failed,
[17:40:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber: We Don't Have to Pay Drivers Based on Rider Fares - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:02] <exec> 08└─I agree; there is nothing to see here. This just seems like social justice for what should be a regular business transaction. As the Uber lawyer had stated, the driver could ask the rider what the charge was. Nothing was hidden behind the scenes and there was no skimming off the top. If drivers were...
[17:40:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber: We Don't Have to Pay Drivers Based on Rider Fares - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:04] <exec> 08└─why can't I find them living anywhere near my home?
[17:40:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03crafoo [6639] 02 - 06Washington DC Braces for Net Neutrality Protests Later This Month - 730 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:36] <exec> 08└─The only one running to daddy here are the large ISP corporations. They are paying local and federal representatives and policy makers to exclude competition and erect artificial barriers to new businesses entering the market. In an effort to restore competition and an open market, the populace has...
[17:40:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington DC Braces for Net Neutrality Protests Later This Month - 1067 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:45] <exec> 08└─Xeer [wikipedia.org] must be the model we're looking for. An overview: Different groups within Somali society undertake oral agreements with each other to define xeer law. Despite this informal nature there is a series of generally accepted principles, agreements and ideas that constitute xeer, refe...
[17:40:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington DC Braces for Net Neutrality Protests Later This Month - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:47] <exec> 08└─you can't say that "unlimited bandwidth" is restricted to 10 gig
[17:40:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington DC Braces for Net Neutrality Protests Later This Month - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:49] <exec> 08└─US the most advanced healthcare industry on the planet
[17:40:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington DC Braces for Net Neutrality Protests Later This Month - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:52] <exec> 08└─Yes, I want a monopoly controlled by we the people to protect us
[17:40:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington DC Braces for Net Neutrality Protests Later This Month - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:54] <exec> 08└─"Most people are perfectly happy with their current, much less expensive, service. You have a math error somewhere or missed some major expenses. Doesn't even pass the smell test." I am currently paying $75/month for 2 meg service. The next - and highest - level of service is $99/month for 3 meg. Ye...
[17:40:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington DC Braces for Net Neutrality Protests Later This Month - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:56] <exec> 08└─Care to separate those advances which were developed at public universities or using research grants from NIH or other government agencies vs. those made by for-profit health institutions using their own moneys?
[17:40:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scrutinizer [6534] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington DC Braces for Net Neutrality Protests Later This Month - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:58] <exec> 08└─Look up "peering agreements" soon please
[17:41:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington DC Braces for Net Neutrality Protests Later This Month - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:00] <exec> 08└─I doubt that is the case, people hear you and try and point out your naivety but you refuse to accept that your model is broken. The free market inevitably leads to behemoth corporations since putting everything under one umbrella enables ever higher profit margins. The behemoths influence legislati...
[17:41:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington DC Braces for Net Neutrality Protests Later This Month - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:03] <exec> 08└─hahahahaha, yeah the US is the sole inventor of all modern technology. Get off your high horse you nit.
[17:41:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Call to Action: Write to the European Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee on Upcoming Copyright Law - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:17] <exec> 08└─So if I get sick, my interactions with my doctors are not capitalism. I am not seeing them voluntarily. I am seeing them because if I don't I'll get sicker and may die. In the same way, my interactions with someone selling food are also not capitalism. I am not interacting with them voluntarily. I a...
[17:41:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Call to Action: Write to the European Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee on Upcoming Copyright Law - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:19] <exec> 08└─Competition and free markets are central to capitalism, there is always a choice. You interact voluntarily with the doctor or food seller _of your choice_, and if you don't like them you have the right to find another. In contrast under socialism or communism or dictatorships you may be told which d...
[17:42:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Shinobi [6707] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Celex - Nanosecond Image Acquisition - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:02] <exec> 08└─My idea for it was sort of a two-sensor approach. This CeleX sensor to catch motion data etc, and the lightfield to catch a lightmap, and then merge them afterwards.
[17:43:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Music Piracy On Increase Worldwide: Industry Group - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:51] <exec> 08└─They used to install rootkits on people's PCs, shake down people in the streets to see if they were listening to pirated music and sue people at random hoping or settlements. Who knows what they want to do now.
[17:43:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Music Piracy On Increase Worldwide: Industry Group - 654 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:52] <exec> 08└─but you do limit yourself to music made before, say, 1990, there's so much music that's been recorded that there should be no way you could run out of new things to listen to. You'll have to venture beyond the Top 40 though. These days, there's a ridiculous amount of music available that's been reco...
[17:43:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Music Piracy On Increase Worldwide: Industry Group - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:55] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but Taylor Swift and Katy Perry are not interesting to me. I should hope not; that's corporate-manufactured crap. I hear them and all I get are echoes of Tiffany or Debbie Gibson, which I didn't care about the first time around. That stuff was crap too, but at least the mass-produced crap in...
[17:45:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:32] <exec> 08└─The best place to get hand tools now is Harbor Freight. They're pretty inexpensive, the quality is pretty good now (a lot better than Crapsman), they're made in Taiwan (not China like Crapsman, Stanley, etc.), and they have a lifetime warranty. SnapOn has gone the way of Crapsman: the quality has go...
[17:45:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 967 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:34] <exec> 08└─My kids have buckets and buckets of toys. Most of it we got for free, because our neighborhood is chock-full of young families that are forever putting old/unwanted toys out on the sidewalk for anyone to take. Some of it we bought at Target or the like. The kids played with any given thing for a day...
[17:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:36] <exec> 08└─Most of us advocate impeaching Trump, not bombing Russia. Nice strawman.
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[18:39:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon is Working on Smart Glasses to House Alexa AI, Says FT - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:11] <exec> 08└─Amazing that I've worn eyeglasses since the 5th grade and never heard of this Luxottica which you love to loath. Everybody from America's Best to Walmart is in the eyeglasses market. Now it seems everyone wants to put a camera and a microphone in my home 24/7. And its amazing how many millennial-tar...
[18:39:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon is Working on Smart Glasses to House Alexa AI, Says FT - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:12] <exec> 08└─Alexa is a real girl and I'm in love with her.
[18:39:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon is Working on Smart Glasses to House Alexa AI, Says FT - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:14] <exec> 08└─Alex is happy when she's helping you.
[18:39:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon is Working on Smart Glasses to House Alexa AI, Says FT - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:17] <exec> 08└─Me either They own everyone's mall favorite LensCrafters http://www.luxottica.com [luxottica.com]
[18:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon is Working on Smart Glasses to House Alexa AI, Says FT - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:19] <exec> 08└─They also own the majority of eyeglass brands sold in stores in the US, whether or not they own the actual chain. They don't like to advertise they're nearly a monopoly.
[18:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon is Working on Smart Glasses to House Alexa AI, Says FT - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:21] <exec> 08└─Amazon is working on building a pair of smart glasses to house its Alexa voice assistant,
[18:40:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scrutinizer [6534] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Uber: We Don't Have to Pay Drivers Based on Rider Fares - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:02] <exec> 08└─"You must pay for the goods you take" is a regulation. Free Market's don't work so great without that one.
[18:40:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber: We Don't Have to Pay Drivers Based on Rider Fares - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:03] <exec> 08└─you need to see /Office Space//quote. Yeah. No. We don't have to base real life on movies. Time to get out of your basement. Your mom want's to sell the house.
[18:40:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber: We Don't Have to Pay Drivers Based on Rider Fares - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:05] <exec> 08└─Regulation [dictionary.com] noun 1. a law, rule, or other order prescribed by authority, especially to regulate conduct.
[18:40:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber: We Don't Have to Pay Drivers Based on Rider Fares - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:08] <exec> 08└─You seem not to understand the function of parody.
[18:40:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber: We Don't Have to Pay Drivers Based on Rider Fares - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:10] <exec> 08└─The legal term is Larceny, generally regulated a the State level: Here's a bunch of regulations that apparently don't exist. [findlaw.com]
[18:40:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber: We Don't Have to Pay Drivers Based on Rider Fares - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:12] <exec> 08└─Conclusion: we can have free markets only with true Scottish regulations.
[18:40:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber: We Don't Have to Pay Drivers Based on Rider Fares - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:14] <exec> 08└─Stop replying to them, because your replies make them visible with my preferences. Or reply as an AC.
[18:40:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Uber: We Don't Have to Pay Drivers Based on Rider Fares - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:17] <exec> 08└─Tell me again how Uber isn't a taxi company when there is no direct connection between what the rider pays and what Uber pays the driver. Uber can't claim to merely be an app that connects riders and drivers, taking a fee for this, when Uber decides exactly how much to pay the driver.
[18:40:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber: We Don't Have to Pay Drivers Based on Rider Fares - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:19] <exec> 08└─> "regulations don't apply because internet" But it's not that, it's "regulations don't apply, because *shaaaaring*, not business". Which is even more bullshit - if it was really sharing, then you wouldn't demand money for it.
[18:40:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber: We Don't Have to Pay Drivers Based on Rider Fares - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:21] <exec> 08└─I got several lists and globbed them all together about the middle of last week. I'm just trying to not get too far ahead of him so he doesn't feel bad, so I've only been putting them in one method (glyphs, decimal entities, hex entities, etc...) at a time.
[18:40:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber: We Don't Have to Pay Drivers Based on Rider Fares - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:24] <exec> 08└─I did. That tactic's well established enough that the Romans named it back when they had an empire.
[18:40:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber: We Don't Have to Pay Drivers Based on Rider Fares - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:26] <exec> 08└─Litotes, dear boy, litotes.
[18:40:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber: We Don't Have to Pay Drivers Based on Rider Fares - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:28] <exec> 08└─Tell me again how Uber isn't a taxi company when there is no direct connection between what the rider pays and what Uber pays the driver.
[18:40:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Washington DC Braces for Net Neutrality Protests Later This Month - 2196 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:59] <exec> 08└─"Bandwidth is not free." Well, THAT's fair enough. Charge for the bandwidth used. That's pretty much end of discussion on that account. Oh, wait, no - you can't say that "unlimited bandwidth" is restricted to 10 gig, then charge $1000/gig over that. That would be abuse of monopoly. "Infrastructure i...
[18:41:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington DC Braces for Net Neutrality Protests Later This Month - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:18] <exec> 08└─Netflix is not a network operator, and just because it is one way traffic does not mean the users are not paying for it. Is there some poor ISP at the bottleneck which is losing money? Nope, didn't think so, otherwise they would be front and center crying like little babies. Just more of the telco g...
[18:41:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scrutinizer [6534] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington DC Braces for Net Neutrality Protests Later This Month - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:20] <exec> 08└─Netflix is not a network operator
[18:41:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington DC Braces for Net Neutrality Protests Later This Month - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:22] <exec> 08└─If you'd bother to check your history books, we damned near have been in healthcare for the past hundred years or so. This attitude of superiority comes from being genuinely superior.
[18:41:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington DC Braces for Net Neutrality Protests Later This Month - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:24] <exec> 08└─Let's do it the easy way instead. You point out a significant medical advancement from a nation that at the time had socialized medicine and I'll point out two from just the US.
[18:41:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington DC Braces for Net Neutrality Protests Later This Month - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:26] <exec> 08└─"My model" has created essentially every prosperous nation the world has ever seen. I'll stand by that record any day.
[18:42:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Butterfly Wing Patterns Altered with CRISPR - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:11] <exec> 08└─rather than create a reliable supply of gene-edited butterflies.
[18:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03justinb_76 [4362] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Rare, Potent Fuel Powering North Korea's Weapons - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:27] <exec> 08└─if the grounds a rumblin and the flames are green, they must be burnin' that hydrazine... (or something like that, read that on some old car enthusiast site way back)
[18:44:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Music Piracy On Increase Worldwide: Industry Group - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:21] <exec> 08└─You're way off base. Big names get a fair chunk of change. I have seen very, very skilled people play their gigs for pittances - and then go back to their day jobs. Luckiest guy I know in context is a professor of music. Chops? Has them for days. Plays music that leaves other professionals amazed. P...
[18:44:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Startup Pi Out to Slice the Charging Cord - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:41] <exec> 08└─I think the difference is that the mat is a magnet that can charge things directly above (or below) itself. It sounds like this thing somehow manages to seek and destr.... charge up the remote device.
[18:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:04] <exec> 08└─Said a spokesman for Toys R Us: We didn't want to grow up.
[18:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 1109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:05] <exec> 08└─Thanks for that info. Yes, I have a few (too few) awesome German and Swiss tools. I've bought a few things at Harbor Freight. Trouble is, after going into a Harbor Freight or Walmart, I feel like I need a shower. I forgot to mention Blackhawk tools as being good. I've always liked things that are we...
[18:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:07] <exec> 08└─They're the exact same mass-produced cheap-crap toys that you'd get at Toys 'R Us. I cannot imagine how TRU can expect to survive when they are selling the same crap as everyone else, but for a higher price. The shops are always a mess, and neither child nor adult friendly.
[18:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:10] <exec> 08└─Bankruptcy is the extreme form of failure - what percentage of his businesses have returned a profit > simple investment in a S&P 500 index fund? Overall, how's his business' performance compared to an S&P 500 index fund?
[18:48:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Detains Man for Selling Service to Evade Internet Firewall - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:51] <exec> 08└─All is forgiven. Look elsewhere in the anglosphere. We have Boris Johnson, and the Americans? Well, say no more.
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[19:39:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Scientists Want to Explore Asteroids With a Fleet of Nanoprobes - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:12] <exec> 08└─Here we be. Dick Nіggers. Nope we never fuck no old pussy. You know we fuckin a whole lot of young pussy. Ain't nothin nano bout this big thick nigger dick Dick Nіggers gonna use to probe ya.
[19:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Want to Explore Asteroids With a Fleet of Nanoprobes - 790 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:13] <exec> 08└─That's a neat idea. Ultimately we want one probe or flyby per every asteroid over a certain size. There are apparently up to 1.9 million asteroids [nasa.gov] in the asteroid belt with an average diameter of 1 km or greater. So that's how many small spacecraft we should be building. 5kg might be too...
[19:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Want to Explore Asteroids With a Fleet of Nanoprobes - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:16] <exec> 08└─And here I thought nanoprobes were just a cheap deux ex machina device used in Star Trek Voyager. Whoda thought that they were actually real?
[19:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Want to Explore Asteroids With a Fleet of Nanoprobes - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:18] <exec> 08└─Miniprobe maybe, but nanoprobe means technology working on the nanometer scale (1-100). This would be like saying human sized, but referring to something bigger than a planet.
[19:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Want to Explore Asteroids With a Fleet of Nanoprobes - 1787 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:20] <exec> 08└─There is a precedent [wikipedia.org] for the nano- prefix being misused in this context: The term "nanosatellite" or "nanosat" is applied to an artificial satellite with a wet mass between 1 and 10 kg (2.2 and 22.0 lb).[2][5][6] Designs and proposed designs of these types may be launched individuall...
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[19:39:22] <exec> 08└─The five kilogram probes
[19:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Want to Explore Asteroids With a Fleet of Nanoprobes - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:25] <exec> 08└─I know they were big, but I don't think her "probes" weighed 5kg.
[19:39:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon is Working on Smart Glasses to House Alexa AI, Says FT - 1067 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:39] <exec> 08└─It's a fucking gig, like hearing aids still need to cost 5k per pair, except much, much, much, much worse. There is no way on God's green Earth, that a pair of glasses can cost over $100. Add another $100 for detachable UV-polarized-whatever shades with it. How do FRAMES all of the sudden start cost...
[19:40:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Uber: We Don't Have to Pay Drivers Based on Rider Fares - 1140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:35] <exec> 08└─Let's take it a step farther. Uber is arguing in court that they (not the customer) are the ones responsible for paying the drivers. They are also arguing that a legal agreement exists between Uber and the drivers, to which the passenger is NOT a party, which determines the amount that Uber will pay...
[19:40:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber: We Don't Have to Pay Drivers Based on Rider Fares - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:36] <exec> 08└─you have so many original ideas. karl, is that you?
[19:40:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber: We Don't Have to Pay Drivers Based on Rider Fares - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:39] <exec> 08└─in what other industry does the cost to produce a widget have any bearing on the widget's price (other than as a floor)?
[19:40:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber: We Don't Have to Pay Drivers Based on Rider Fares - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:41] <exec> 08└─On one hand, Uber is an underhanded, regulation-evading, sociopathic corporation more than willing to throw their drivers under the bus and risk their passenger safety to make a buck; one the other hand, you have the local taxi company. Is there a way we can have both sides lose?
[19:40:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber: We Don't Have to Pay Drivers Based on Rider Fares - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:43] <exec> 08└─Yeah, apparently their definition of "regulation" is "any regulation I don't like."
[19:40:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scrutinizer [6534] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber: We Don't Have to Pay Drivers Based on Rider Fares - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:45] <exec> 08└─Regulation: a law, rule, or other order prescribed by authority, especially to regulate conduct.
[19:40:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber: We Don't Have to Pay Drivers Based on Rider Fares - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:47] <exec> 08└─tell me why there should be any relation at all between the two
[19:40:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber: We Don't Have to Pay Drivers Based on Rider Fares - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:50] <exec> 08└─Law, your "legal terms", follow the commons. Theft existed before governments. "The commons" is just a term for how people conducted themselves before governments butted in, usually in the form of conquering warlords.
[19:40:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber: We Don't Have to Pay Drivers Based on Rider Fares - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:52] <exec> 08└─Okay, that's a solid logical argument. In this specific case I agree it does matter.
[19:40:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber: We Don't Have to Pay Drivers Based on Rider Fares - 2099 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:54] <exec> 08└─Except that you're looking at it all wrong. IF Uber is NOT an employer, then it is a service company. No different than SaaS company offering accounting services like FreshBooks. They collect your payments, issue invoices automatically, provide reporting, and basically give you what a good accountan...
[19:40:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber: We Don't Have to Pay Drivers Based on Rider Fares - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:56] <exec> 08└─You need to watch the IT Crowd again. Specifically the first episode, and the scene where the IT worker gets the shit beaten out him till the "people person" intervenes. Sometimes it is a good thing to have a person capable of speaking with normal people, being understood, and not causing the pitchf...
[19:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington DC Braces for Net Neutrality Protests Later This Month - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:51] <exec> 08└─it's not that simple. you're detailing a failure of proprietary shitware compared to a more open source approach. i doubt the fucking government helped anything.
[19:41:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington DC Braces for Net Neutrality Protests Later This Month - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:53] <exec> 08└─I'll stand right beside you with the sign saying "This man suffers from clinical psychosis." I wouldn't trust you beyond managing a 7/11, and even then I'd be worried you'd shoot a customer carrying a non-weapon in their jacket.
[19:41:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington DC Braces for Net Neutrality Protests Later This Month - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:55] <exec> 08└─This effort is nothing more than the other streamers not named Netflix trying to have everyone else pay for their distribution system. Well that is the overt part, we all know Soros isn't really interested in any of that, he wants to have his people making the decisions of who gets banished or not f...
[19:41:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington DC Braces for Net Neutrality Protests Later This Month - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:57] <exec> 08└─Yes, the US was the world leader for a long time after WWII due to our economic maneuvering. That doesn't make us inherently better, we were just lucky to be positioned so well after the war. But hey, you never let extenuating circumstances stop you from making stupid statements so please, do contin...
[19:41:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington DC Braces for Net Neutrality Protests Later This Month - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:00] <exec> 08└─Netflix does pay for their bandwidth, but some greedy bastards in the middle want to charge double for that traffic. If those middle-men interconnects can't figure out their own business model then its time we replaced them with a simple utility common carrier model. Can't stand making too much mone...
[19:42:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington DC Braces for Net Neutrality Protests Later This Month - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:02] <exec> 08└─TOO MUCH COMMON SENSE!!! Get the fuck outta here, we only want Libertarian ideologies and facts that support them. Everything else is ignorant ramblings of the enslaved.
[19:42:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington DC Braces for Net Neutrality Protests Later This Month - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:04] <exec> 08└─S'what they get for walking around a chicken leg under their arm. Nice complete dodge of the issue, by the way.
[19:42:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington DC Braces for Net Neutrality Protests Later This Month - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:06] <exec> 08└─Yes, yes it very much does make us better when the metric is what system has produced the most medical advances in the world. Do please tell us how socialism or communism is better even though it has failed to produce anything worthwhile every single time it has been tried at a national level.
[19:42:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington DC Braces for Net Neutrality Protests Later This Month - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:08] <exec> 08└─Netflix does pay for their bandwidth, but some greedy bastards in the middle want to charge double for that traffic.
[19:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Call to Action: Write to the European Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee on Upcoming Copyright Law - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:25] <exec> 08└─But I live in the U.S till I can escape :)
[19:43:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Celex - Nanosecond Image Acquisition - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:11] <exec> 08└─Current lightfield cameras are just an array of tiny fish-eye lenses over a standard camera sensor, so I don't see why you couldn't take the same approach and monitor every point in the lightfield for changes in intensity. It seems easier than making sure the same light gets to two sensors. And as l...
[19:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Music Piracy On Increase Worldwide: Industry Group - 883 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:04] <exec> 08└─yes, that's because the music market is severely restricted/almost bled dry from the years of vampires drinking it's blood. when people talk about "musicians can play live and make money" they are saying over time, with a reversal of the whole system. you would have more independent venues, more dem...
[19:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:50] <exec> 08└─80+ years of success in the "new technologies" market is a pretty good run. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[19:46:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:52] <exec> 08└─Sears has been "on the ropes" as far as I have been concerned since about 1985. The Discover credit card was the beginning of the end for them. Maybe this is the precedent for Equifax's CSO having a music major? >Ray Kennedy, Sr, father of country singer Ray Kennedy and the credit manager for Sears,...
[19:46:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:54] <exec> 08└─You reap what you sow. You rip what you sew.
[19:46:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 1990 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:56] <exec> 08└─I really hate having a tool break, strip, etc., in the middle of a major job- mine or for others. With cheap tools you'd better buy 2 for when you have your car apart and the tool breaks and you can't get to the store to buy another tool. I have a lot of tools, both really cheap stuff and some decen...
[19:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:58] <exec> 08└─"The shops are always a mess" lmao. fat little corn syrup coated brats playing with everything their dumb parents can't afford. they haven't been taught any manners, so they leave the Kid Grease covered chinese shit on the ground. toy-r-us ignored the internet so they died. what a waste. they had co...
[19:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:00] <exec> 08└─I think there's got to be some insidious middle at work in the last several decades. I've seen too many middle class bedrooms packed floor to ceiling with plastic Chinese crap - it's like the "voluntary tax on those who can't do math" that is the lottery, Toys'R'Us et.al. was a voluntary donation of...
[19:47:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:03] <exec> 08└─online trend? that's funny. go watch terminator 2 for a more accurate representation of the future.
[19:47:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:05] <exec> 08└─I take our son "yard sale-ing" every saturday. For $5 cash (plus another $5 in mileage expense), we come home with 4 to 6 items every week - each of which usually cost $10-20 at retail, sometimes more, often less than a year prior to our buying it at yard sale.
[19:47:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:07] <exec> 08└─that was not true when i was a kid. they had some good stuff but they were always higher $. after walmart beat their ass for way too long toys-r-us probably tried to lower quality and price. not gonna work. neither did ignoring the internet. dumb fucking suits.
[19:47:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:09] <exec> 08└─oh lordy, i'm agreeing with grisnahk!
[19:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 3798 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:12] <exec> 08└─Soon there will be none because the small fry have little chance of obtaining inventory once the whole supply chain is a nozzle feeding direct into Amazon and Walmart. As I said in another post here, the only way to survive in retail is to offer something that Amazon and Walmart simply cannot, such...
[19:47:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:14] <exec> 08└─if you haven't already maybe take a look at some nootropics. maybe they can help. l-theanine, etc. http://www.lifeextension.com [lifeextension.com] https://www.autismspeaks.org
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[20:39:07] <exec> 08└─Hard. Black. 🅳🅸🅲🅺 🅽🅸🅶🅶🅴🆁🆂. Only thing we never fuck no old pussy. But damn do we fuck all the young pussy. Yo gonna be infrared and raw by time 🅳🅸🅲🅺 🅽🅸🅶🅶🅴🆁🆂 finish fillin yo gap wit this black hot nigger cum.
[20:39:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Infrared Signals in Surveillance Cameras Let Malware Jump Network Air Gaps - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:08] <exec> 08└─Every six months there's some retarded article about "air-gapped malware" that basically consists of "it's possible to compromise a machine by having physical access to it first and installing software to allow it to use novel input methods". No duh. Call me when you can do it to a machine you don't...
[20:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Infrared Signals in Surveillance Cameras Let Malware Jump Network Air Gaps - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:10] <exec> 08└─Breaking news: home security system compromised by guy standing behind you watching you input your passkey.
[20:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Want to Explore Asteroids With a Fleet of Nanoprobes - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:24] <exec> 08└─20-kilometer-long tether
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[20:40:41] <exec> 08└─tell me why there should be any relation at all between the two
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[20:40:47] <exec> 08└─That's not the question. I agree with you, but that only applies if Uber is the employer, the customer is the fare paying passenger, and the driver is employed by Uber. Otherwise, Uber is the 3rd party vendor, the driver is the customer of the 3rd party services, and the fare paying passenger is in...
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[20:40:49] <exec> 08└─right, and then when Uber uses rush pricing at a peak time the driver may not feel comfortable asking the price the rider paid there could be other reasons that asking the rider about the fare could be problematic. I fail to see why Uber can't publish this information to the drivers, as well. It isn...
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[20:41:22] <exec> 08└─It's definitely the standards. But I make a distinction between the first two phases of the Internet which were the pre-commercialization and the post-commercialization. The solid government period was pre-commercialization. That is to say pre-1996 it was guided by government projects. However, for...
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[20:41:53] <exec> 08└─That is precisely what I advocated, turn it into a utility that doesn't give two shits about what data is going where. You fail reading comprehension, you fail critical thinking. All bandwidth is paid for, the ISPs pay the interconnects for their service, and they charge customers for the bandwidth....
[20:41:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington DC Braces for Net Neutrality Protests Later This Month - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:54] <exec> 08└─Because all the data on socialized healthcare shows it is better for the citizens and private healthcare options are still able to exist, but they must compete on a level playing field instead of their monopolistic insurance influenced field. Suck a dick you red herring piece of crap.
[20:41:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington DC Braces for Net Neutrality Protests Later This Month - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:57] <exec> 08└─The issue was capitalism and monopolies, and it was addressed by pointing out that capitalism leads to monopolies unless you have massive government regulation (non free market). You responded with a red herring "My model" has created essentially every prosperous nation the world has ever seen. I'll...
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[20:41:59] <exec> 08└─ongoing socialized medicine [nhsggc.org.uk] Nice goal post moving, you're an intellectual GIANT TMB, GIIIANNNT /s Guess you just can't face the facts that so much of the US advances are funded by tax payers, your poor model of perfection is so iiiiignoraaant. You're an ignorant FOOL TMB, ignorant as...
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[20:42:17] <exec> 08└─Well, there is this [huffingtonpost.com]. Whether it's a failing in your society that you should pay attention to the most powerful one is up for debate.
[20:42:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Megahard [4782] 02 - 06Butterfly Wing Patterns Altered with CRISPR - 43 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:41] <exec> 08└─No wonder we're getting so many hurricanes.
[20:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Music Piracy On Increase Worldwide: Industry Group - 1074 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:58] <exec> 08└─Nope, it isn't (at least not in acceptable quality). Well, at least not the stuff I can search for - language and characters are quite different. For me music is either an very active process via a setup picked to work for classical music (which means it exposes pretty much any encoding flaws as wel...
[20:44:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Music Piracy On Increase Worldwide: Industry Group - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:00] <exec> 08└─That's the point I was making. The major labels have resisted any new delivery methods for so long their customers have found new methods of getting what they want, Spotify, YouTube or pirates. (I'm sure there are others).
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[21:39:11] <exec> 08└─Not only that, but each and every time I heard about such "air gapped malware", it seems to always be from Israel's Ben-Gurion University. I suspect they have a very good online PR person. Perhaps getting this exposure is how they can turn around and claim more funding. It does get a bit boring thou...
[21:39:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Infrared Signals in Surveillance Cameras Let Malware Jump Network Air Gaps - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:12] <exec> 08└─Subject full of nigger block letters. Works in preview. For fucks sake.
[21:39:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Infrared Signals in Surveillance Cameras Let Malware Jump Network Air Gaps - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:15] <exec> 08└─More precisely: Breaking news: Your infrared TV remote can actually send information to a receiver programmed to decode infrared signals.
[21:39:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Infrared Signals in Surveillance Cameras Let Malware Jump Network Air Gaps - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:17] <exec> 08└─Kill yourself.
[21:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Infrared Signals in Surveillance Cameras Let Malware Jump Network Air Gaps - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:19] <exec> 08└─Only if you promise to eat me, buzzard.
[21:39:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Want to Explore Asteroids With a Fleet of Nanoprobes - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:34] <exec> 08└─Those craft will also use sails although they will be propelled by lasers instead of solar wind.
[21:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Want to Explore Asteroids With a Fleet of Nanoprobes - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:35] <exec> 08└─And all from Finland no less.
[21:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03sbgen [1302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon is Working on Smart Glasses to House Alexa AI, Says FT - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:52] <exec> 08└─Which business is that, any links?
[21:40:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03crafoo [6639] 02 - 06Uber: We Don't Have to Pay Drivers Based on Rider Fares - 585 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:03] <exec> 08└─Free market relies on perfect information so that consumers and business owners can come to terms on the lowest, most efficient price. Modern technology is being used to hide and pollute information to introduce inefficiencies in the market in favor of the middleman. Should all corporate business so...
[21:41:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber: We Don't Have to Pay Drivers Based on Rider Fares - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:01] <exec> 08└─If you don't know what the word "or" means you should probably avoid semantic arguments.
[21:41:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber: We Don't Have to Pay Drivers Based on Rider Fares - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:03] <exec> 08└─This is the free market end-game
[21:41:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber: We Don't Have to Pay Drivers Based on Rider Fares - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:05] <exec> 08└─Indeed it is often useful to have a middle layer as a buffer to protect both sides of the interface, particularly in cases where you need impedence matching. But I'm curious what gave you the opinion that I thought otherwise? GPP: "\forall x \in X, P(x) is true" Me: "\exists x_f \in X : P(x_f) is fa...
[21:42:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington DC Braces for Net Neutrality Protests Later This Month - 1018 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:14] <exec> 08└─If you're referring to the ancient practice of ISPs oversubscribing their available bandwidth, that is a fraud issue with offering "unlimited* (*no, not really unlimited) Internet access; so-called Net Neutrality won't fix that, but prosecutions for fraud, closing down and selling off at auction the...
[21:42:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington DC Braces for Net Neutrality Protests Later This Month - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:15] <exec> 08└─You refuse to address the issue because you are wrong and you know it. Capitalism has created the vast majority of the world's wealth. Socialism and Communism have destroyed more wealth than they have created.
[21:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington DC Braces for Net Neutrality Protests Later This Month - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:17] <exec> 08└─Oh, you mean they're funded by capitalists who've had their money stolen? Yeah, no shit. There wouldn't be anything to steal if it weren't for capitalism.
[21:42:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington DC Braces for Net Neutrality Protests Later This Month - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:19] <exec> 08└─No, it most certainly does not. All the data shows that you get shitty care and insane waits for any kind of treatment. Even if you're willing to pay more. Why the hell do you think so many people come to the US for treatment?
[21:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington DC Braces for Net Neutrality Protests Later This Month - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:22] <exec> 08└─There was a bit more to it. For example, one thing that has kept things somewhat open is carriers not wanting to be on the wrong side of liability by looking too closely at the data they carry. We need to be careful not to erode that fear of liability if we want to maintain a free internet.
[21:45:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Music Piracy On Increase Worldwide: Industry Group - 1022 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:21] <exec> 08└─Genre: My bread and butter is performing for contra dances (if you've never tried it, it's vaguely similar to square dances, but a lot less formal and more common north of the Mason-Dixon line). It's so not-profitable that my teacher, who was the recipient of national awards, had about 15 albums, an...
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[22:39:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06US Navy to Use Xbox 360 Controllers for Submarine Periscopes - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:09] <exec> 08└─My telescoping cock shoots straight into your ass before retracting. You can't even figure out who or where I am, but I am there and your ass is mine!
[22:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06US Navy to Use Xbox 360 Controllers for Submarine Periscopes - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:10] <exec> 08└─I confess myself... disappointed. Where's the awesomeness of d¡ck n¡ggers, you technical illiterate troll? At the least, you could wait for stories so bland you can have you frost piss 2-3 hours after publishing, that would show some moral motives. Fuck off, you poser. You are useless, can't even...
[22:39:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Navy to Use Xbox 360 Controllers for Submarine Periscopes - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:12] <exec> 08└─A while back the military or maybe Congress decided it's a bad idea to design and build custom computers. They went for COTS (or COT, I don't recall). This had the result that some contractors designed special-purpose computers then called them COTs. I once interviewed at such a company. They were d...
[22:39:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Navy to Use Xbox 360 Controllers for Submarine Periscopes - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:15] <exec> 08└─So, instead of IDDAD (or IDDQD), they'll have to enter the Konami code?
[22:39:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Infrared Signals in Surveillance Cameras Let Malware Jump Network Air Gaps - 698 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:29] <exec> 08└─Nah, this is semi-important. The whole point of an air gap is supposed to be stopping communication in both directions. So that even if somebody gets malware in there isn't supposed to be a way to ex-filtrate data or do command and control. This does both, and since the security cams are usually on...
[22:39:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Infrared Signals in Surveillance Cameras Let Malware Jump Network Air Gaps - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:31] <exec> 08└─Thought the same. But it wasn't the usual list of people from previous papers that were like "cause {fan, cpu, disk lights, ...} to generate morse code, detect it, and get paper published".
[22:39:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Infrared Signals in Surveillance Cameras Let Malware Jump Network Air Gaps - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:33] <exec> 08└─Not always. Many are "stupid device is listening for commands on an input device that shouldn't be trusted", which isn't the same.
[22:39:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Scientists Want to Explore Asteroids With a Fleet of Nanoprobes - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:50] <exec> 08└─The asteroid belt is about 1-2 AU away. Proxima Centauri is about 268,332 AU away. They can use smaller lasers for the test. In fact, they can fire the lasers at the StarChips at a lower wattage for a longer period of time since the StarChips would not be accelerating to 15-20% of light speed in ord...
[22:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Want to Explore Asteroids With a Fleet of Nanoprobes - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:52] <exec> 08└─They could aim heavier 100 gram StarChips at the asteroid belt using less powerful lasers.
[22:39:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Want to Explore Asteroids With a Fleet of Nanoprobes - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:54] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I went on a tangent, commenting in the context of Breakthrough Starshot. Sorry about that. For inside-the-Solar-system navigation, I believe a solar sail is just enough - the Sun's pumping enough flux around (at 1AU, the solar constant is just above 1kW/sqm in space. At 4AU, it will be just 60...
[22:39:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Want to Explore Asteroids With a Fleet of Nanoprobes - 938 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:56] <exec> 08└─Regardless of how sophisticated the electronics on a "nanoprobe" might be, human intuition, interpretation and judgement on such missions would be much more productive. As I've suggested elsewhere [soylentnews.org], missions like these would be better served by the terminally ill, the elderly and th...
[22:39:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Want to Explore Asteroids With a Fleet of Nanoprobes - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:58] <exec> 08└─Seems like a good opportunity to set up the Interplanetary Internet and Phone services. Communication relay satellites in various orbits around the Sun, planets, Ceres, etc. Couldn't be any more of a waste of money than those billions spent on making America the world's broadband leader [huffingtonp...
[22:41:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber: We Don't Have to Pay Drivers Based on Rider Fares - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:26] <exec> 08└─Try diagramming that sentence to realize that the word "or" being in your definition supports my post and has no bearing on your latest criticism of it. Otherwise you are claiming that laws and rule do not come from governments aka "authority", which I doubt, as that's my post's primary point.
[22:42:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington DC Braces for Net Neutrality Protests Later This Month - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:41] <exec> 08└─Why the hell do you think so many people come to the US for treatment?
[22:42:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington DC Braces for Net Neutrality Protests Later This Month - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:42] <exec> 08└─If net neutrality were the only issue in the election, I would've voted for Hillary Clinton. Trouble is, on 100% of the other issues with disagreement, she was horrible. Unlike her and her voters, I don't hate America. I don't feel guilty for being part of the greatest civilization ever, and I have...
[22:43:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Shinobi [6707] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Celex - Nanosecond Image Acquisition - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:48] <exec> 08└─My thought was to make use of the high compression rate and effective frame rate of the CeleX sensor, and use the lightfield data to add colour afterwards, at a lower frame rate.
[22:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Rare, Potent Fuel Powering North Korea's Weapons - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:49] <exec> 08└─So, in TFS, UDMH is... a rare, potent rocket fuel... highly volatile fuel... [to disrupt it one need only to] take advantage of its volatile properties... Toxic Propellant Hazards... It's really nasty stuff...
[22:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Rare, Potent Fuel Powering North Korea's Weapons - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:50] <exec> 08└─Do "stereotypical hillbillies" build tiny submarines to infiltrate their neighbors?
[22:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Rare, Potent Fuel Powering North Korea's Weapons - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:52] <exec> 08└─Nearly all of the little tiny thrusters use it. You'll find it on SpaceX stuff (called the "SuperDraco" I think) and it was used on the Space Shuttle. We use it on planetary probes. We use it for stationkeeping.
[22:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Music Piracy On Increase Worldwide: Industry Group - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:51] <exec> 08└─Well, you do realize of course that if Bandcamp isn't paying IFPI their stippend, they're *clearly* contributing to global piracy. The spi^H^H^H music must flow (through IFPI). There can be no music without IFPI.
[22:47:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:49] <exec> 08└─What you are forgetting about Sears is that the stuff that many people think of when shopping there (Large Appliances, yard machines, etc.) last for a long time and require maintenance. They also have autoshops and small engine repair. So all those people who buy their stuff are likely to also be on...
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[23:39:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Stanislav Petrov, Credited for Averting Nuclear War, Dies at Age 77 - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:11] <exec> 08└─Dark. Riɢid. 🅳🅸🅲🅺 🅽🅸🅶🅶🅴🆁🆂. Sure don't fuck no old pussy. Sure do fuck a hole lotta younɢ pussy. 🅳🅸🅲🅺 🅽🅸🅶🅶🅴🆁🆂 ɢonna blow a radioactive load of nuclear niɢɢer cum in yo slick wet box.
[23:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Stanislav Petrov, Credited for Averting Nuclear War, Dies at Age 77 - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:13] <exec> 08└─why did Colonel Petrov decide it wasn't a missile?
[23:39:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Stanislav Petrov, Credited for Averting Nuclear War, Dies at Age 77 - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:15] <exec> 08└─During the Cuban missile crisis, Soviet submariner Vasili Alexandrovich Arkhipov [wikipedia.org] cast the sole vote against launching a nuclear torpedo. The captain and the political officer wanted to launch.
[23:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Navy to Use Xbox 360 Controllers for Submarine Periscopes - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:26] <exec> 08└─So they are going to install controllers from the XBox360 in, train for, etc. on a weapon system that will be in production for twenty years and probably still in service in 2050.... but the XBox360 is already out of production and only a custom order will be able to produce a new controller in five...
[23:39:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Navy to Use Xbox 360 Controllers for Submarine Periscopes - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:27] <exec> 08└─Common Off The Shelf Technology
[23:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Navy to Use Xbox 360 Controllers for Submarine Periscopes - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:29] <exec> 08└─You don't think they'll just buy a whole crate of these things and keep them stored? You can't use Bluetooth on a submarine; it has to be wired, for security. And the Xbox controllers use a simple API; there's already a bunch of compatible controllers out there. They really standardized on the inter...
[23:39:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Navy to Use Xbox 360 Controllers for Submarine Periscopes - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:31] <exec> 08└─Same here. I miss the trials and tribulations of the bathroom coder. At least he maintained some sort of software on git....
[23:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Navy to Use Xbox 360 Controllers for Submarine Periscopes - 2141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:34] <exec> 08└─Has to work in extreme conditions because the military works in places (open desert for months/years at a time, under the sea, etc.) that, for example, the xbox wasn't designed for (think "climate-controlled living room"). Wrong. This has to work in an environment not very different from a living ro...
[23:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Navy to Use Xbox 360 Controllers for Submarine Periscopes - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:36] <exec> 08└─BTW, COTS stands for Commercial Off-The-Shelf. Seriously, if you don't even know that, you have no business pointing to mil-specs.
[23:39:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Navy to Use Xbox 360 Controllers for Submarine Periscopes - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:38] <exec> 08└─To be fair, this is on a submarine. The oils, dirt, sand, etc. are well mitigated already, and the environment in the control room is controlled. The size of the 360 controller is fairly small compared to other equipment, and I don't see any reason why they couldn't have two replacements ready to go...
[23:39:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Navy to Use Xbox 360 Controllers for Submarine Periscopes - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:40] <exec> 08└─See the problem here? weapon system that will be in production for twenty years... XBox360 is already out of production and only a custom order will be able to produce a new controller in five years... Bet they end up paying $100 ea over the life of the sub.
[23:40:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Want to Explore Asteroids With a Fleet of Nanoprobes - 1828 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:20] <exec> 08└─What can an elderly person in a tin can do that sensors can't? Dig a hole? Maybe sending the elderly to the big and important targets like Mars, Ceres, and Europa would be a good idea. But if you want to visit 300 asteroids (or a million), sending batches of tiny spacecraft in every single launch is...
[23:40:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03nnet [5716] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Amazon is Working on Smart Glasses to House Alexa AI, Says FT - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:37] <exec> 08└─alexa, attack my face and rip out my eyeballs.
[23:43:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington DC Braces for Net Neutrality Protests Later This Month - 689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:06] <exec> 08└─Why bother arguing with an ideologue? Common sense doesn't matter, just your crappy simplistic viewpoint of the world. China would beg to differ, it took them a while to catch up but they're about to leave the US and other Western countries in the dust. You'll be that old semi-senile guy yelling "ca...
[23:43:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington DC Braces for Net Neutrality Protests Later This Month - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:07] <exec> 08└─You're really swinging for the fences here. I guess you really are the taxation is theft guy, TMB the bloody idiot.
[23:43:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington DC Braces for Net Neutrality Protests Later This Month - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:10] <exec> 08└─He doesn't care about facts, he only cares about propaganda. Dude is fucking dumb. All this same shit has been trotted out before, but he always returns to the same crap arguments that ignore reality. My guess is he just can't BELIEVE the US empire is falling so he's falling back on the comfortable...
[23:43:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington DC Braces for Net Neutrality Protests Later This Month - 4459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:12] <exec> 08└─I agree more or less completely, the way network neutrality is being framed is a pure distraction from the really important internet issues. "Internet freedom" is not about who pays what rate to stream video from which site and how fast... The easiest way to explain why this is retarded is to point...
[23:43:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington DC Braces for Net Neutrality Protests Later This Month - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:14] <exec> 08└─You're the one who made the assertion. It's your responsibility to provide evidence for your claim.
[23:43:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Magazine Interview With European Southern Observatory Chief - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:40] <exec> 08└─> do they have some kind of adaptive optics? Quoth TFS, not even TFA: "lasers for the adaptive optics system" > [racist drivel] I was going to enquire how you manage to live with yourself. However, the stupidity you demonstrate provides a simple answer to that question.
[23:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03nnet [5716] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Music Piracy On Increase Worldwide: Industry Group - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:21] <exec> 08└─this is why you want a universal basic income, so you can pursue dreams.
[23:48:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy Protection in US - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:21] <exec> 08└─Jawohl herr Grammatikführer!
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