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[00:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 2431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:04] <exec> 08└─Look at the fights over sex ed. Look at how shop class died. Here are some of the life skills I want: Learn how to shoot a pistol and shotgun for self-defense. Learn how to short a stock, buy options, etc. (heck I still need this) Learn how to change a flat tire. Learn how to replace a light fixture...
[00:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:06] <exec> 08└─Can't boil water? What idiots! You just toss your phone into the pot and wait ten minutes. Use your second phone to activate your next-day warranty service and pickup your new phone off the doorstep in the morning. So simple.
[00:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:08] <exec> 08└─No, if you remove the home then his parents ate him for supper. He must be a vampire now too.
[00:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:10] <exec> 08└─My parents didn't eat my brain.
[00:10:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06South Korean Lawmaker Claims North Korea Nabbed U.S.-South Korean War Plans - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:37] <exec> 08└─One of the articles I read earlier said that USA/S.Korea stole the N.Korea war plans several years ago, so our cyber-warriors got there first. Sorry, it was yesterday, can't find the link now.
[00:10:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06South Korean Lawmaker Claims North Korea Nabbed U.S.-South Korean War Plans - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:38] <exec> 08└─Shhhhhhhh it's secret! He's got to remain clueless... unpredictable... strong... opposite of what the previous guy did shit, anything just do SOMETHING quick everyone's watching.... to keep his edge.
[00:11:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Smartest Americans are Heading West - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:55] <exec> 08└─Ahem no.2 and 3 on the list?
[00:11:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Smartest Americans are Heading West - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:57] <exec> 08└─Those damn knee-jerks been on my ass for 20 years non-stop.
[00:11:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Smartest Americans are Heading West - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:59] <exec> 08└─FREEDOM! That's the smell of right-to-work that I know and love. The losers can suck it up when I stand-my-ground on their ass. Frreeeedom ain't free! I can only remember 3 word slogans, keep sending them - thx.
[00:12:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Smartest Americans are Heading West - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:01] <exec> 08└─Exactly! That's what the mainstream stats won't tell you, people are LOVING Kansas! Everyone except the dirty LIIIEEEEBRILLS are moving there. The top 10 list WON'T TELL YOU THAT NEWS!11!1111111 Or the top 100.
[00:12:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06Facebook's Zuckerberg Wants to Get One Billion People in VR - 126 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:32] <exec> 08└─Hmm, some might say you're a virtual dick already. C'mon, you had to know you were leaving yourself wide open on that one. :-)
[00:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cities See Benefits of Taking Narrow Approach to Start Adapting to Climate Change - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:40] <exec> 08└─> Everyone now realizes that Katrina was "JUST WAITING" to happen It isn't just hindsight. An episode of PBS' Nova [youtube.com] prior to Katrina warned, "When Hurricane Ivan barreled into the Gulf of Mexico, it was on a collision course with New Orleans, a city with a unique vulnerability to hurric...
[00:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla May Begin Offering Freemium Services in the Future - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:37] <exec> 08└─+1 on that!
[00:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla May Begin Offering Freemium Services in the Future - 698 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:39] <exec> 08└─Oh, if I was to restart the browser it'd come back with ~1.2gig in use. No manner of gc/minimize-memory-usage makes a dent while it's running though. It has to be a full restart. And note that this is on my work system, and despite running NoScript. The open tabs are gmail+calendar, a few google spr...
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[00:14:41] <exec> 08└─I think you missed the "Mac" part of the original observation.
[00:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla May Begin Offering Freemium Services in the Future - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:43] <exec> 08└─Never even noticed that button until now. Clicked on it to see wtf a "Pocket" is, then headed right over to about:config to turn the thing off - thanks for the pointer!
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[01:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Kaspersky AV Was Caught Helping Russian Hackers Steal NSA Secrets - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:35] <exec> 08└─We report, you decide.
[01:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Kaspersky AV Was Caught Helping Russian Hackers Steal NSA Secrets - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:37] <exec> 08└─" the Russian hackers were caught in the act by spies from Israel "
[01:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Fabricate 3-D Silicon Structures with a Focused Infrared Laser - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:44] <exec> 08└─So it's a laser fake boobs maker? Oh, no 'e', nevermind.
[01:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Fabricate 3-D Silicon Structures with a Focused Infrared Laser - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:47] <exec> 08└─I'm just happy it was a diverse team. What if it were a monolithic team? The results might be invalid then!
[01:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 755 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:17] <exec> 08└─So you want everyone to join the Boy Scouts? The breastfeeding and rhythm birth control methods aren't currently taught, but I wouldn't be surprised if they create merit badges which cover those activities since they're going to allow females to join in mass. Well, circumcision isn't talked about ei...
[01:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:18] <exec> 08└─Teach kids it's ok to disagree with someone. Teach them how to have a civil conversation with someone even when they disagree. Teach them that the world doesn't owe them anything. Teach them how to be a good neighbour.
[01:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:20] <exec> 08└─FUckin roughneck, noone never leanrt you paragraphs.
[01:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:23] <exec> 08└─Oh, the poor public... so intelligent, and responsible too... and yet paying for raising the children of irresponsible. (yeah right, 49% of the people are no longer "public")
[01:10:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:25] <exec> 08└─So you are advocating abolishing state schools and not providing any funding for education whatsoever?
[01:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:27] <exec> 08└─As much as I appreciate the kudos, those should be directed to our prolific submitter Phoenix666 [soylentnews.org] as the Babylon 5 reference was in the original submission. You can verify that by clicking the link "Original Submission" that appears at the bottom of the story summary.
[01:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 1678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:29] <exec> 08└─If you had better financial training you'd know you shouldn't be playing the stock market I am at about 700k on the stockmarket for 200k in ~10 years. I did that with passive investments in decent stocks. Something I had to teach myself how to do. It was not terribly hard but took a decent amount of...
[01:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:32] <exec> 08└─Now, they can't even play sports like baseball in public school (in Ontario) because they might get hurt and have their parents sue the school board. Monkey bars gone: those twirly things that makes kids sick by goin' round and round and round and round.... {ralph}....and round.... GONE! Helicopter...
[01:11:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber's US$360 Million Loss on Subprime Car Leases - 936 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:11] <exec> 08└─> Why are the IRS rules irrelevant? Because they don't enforce them, that's why. Wrong. Just last week someone I know (keeps the books for a 10-person business) had to deal with this problem. The story started when the boss hired a new guy to do field installation work. For a probationary/learn-the-...
[01:12:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Smartest Americans are Heading West - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:13] <exec> 08└─Bay-area home prices are rising due to foreign investment and trust-fund babies. The implosion has already begun, and will reach its totality soon. And with all the raging wildfires having razed the immediate north, the doctrine of Disaster Capitalism will dictate that property costs will rise even...
[01:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook's Zuckerberg Wants to Get One Billion People in VR - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:14] <exec> 08└─Well, that tech should not run non-free proprietary user-subjugating software. Will Zuck's VR do that, as well as violate the privacy of its useds? Without a single doubt. The tech industry is an unethical abomination that needs to be nuked from orbit.
[01:15:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Southern Observatory to Announce "Unprecedented Discovery" on Monday - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:59] <exec> 08└─Trump just says "get me a bill" and gripes when they can't. This is where my disconnect is with his supporters. What is it that is appealing to you because he's good at making slogan-like statements, and demanding results, but he doesn't seem to be good at actually leading or even leading by example...
[01:16:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Southern Observatory to Announce "Unprecedented Discovery" on Monday - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:16:00] <exec> 08└─They've already got a picture of gods sign language, https://sites.google.com [google.com] so that wouldn't be unprecedented.
[01:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06iPhone 8 Plus Batteries Are Swelling on Some Phones - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:56] <exec> 08└─Exactly, this is why more women refuse to date men without new iPhones than the reverse.
[01:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06iPhone 8 Plus Batteries Are Swelling on Some Phones - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:57] <exec> 08└─People do those sorts of things because they're dumb sheep, and like to follow the herd. All their friends have iPhones, because they're hyped up with marketing, so they have to get one too. My girlfriend ran into this; she thinks iPhones are stupid too, but a bunch of her friends have them. But it'...
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[02:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Kaspersky AV Was Caught Helping Russian Hackers Steal NSA Secrets - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:40] <exec> 08└─Someone had sex and someones virginity got taken. Someone else put their laptop down and stuff got stolen. Someone ELSE used Windows and shit hits fan. News at, well, meh. News at ........ EVERY FUCKING TIME! Stupid is as stupid does! EVERY FUCKING TIME! Stop being stupid or go be stupid somewhere e...
[02:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Kaspersky AV Was Caught Helping Russian Hackers Steal NSA Secrets - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:42] <exec> 08└─Yeah, yeah... pull the other one The democrats are stopping at nothing
[02:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Kaspersky AV Was Caught Helping Russian Hackers Steal NSA Secrets - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:44] <exec> 08└─There was no doubt they spy on us. We spy on them. Israel spys on everyone too. They all spy on each other. Why do you think manning was arrested, assanage sits in a lonely 1 room apartment, and snowden is in exile? Not because the other spy agencies didnt know about it. They just did not want the...
[02:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06How Kaspersky AV Was Caught Helping Russian Hackers Steal NSA Secrets - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:46] <exec> 08└─Probably the Israelites wanted Trump in power instead of Hillary, so they hacked the election but then had all traces stop at Russia to implicate them. Jewish revenge for...... hmmmmm....... Get the alt-right to rise up, the Nazi party to be reformed in the U.S. and then..... TAX THE HELL OUT OF RAC...
[02:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Kaspersky AV Was Caught Helping Russian Hackers Steal NSA Secrets - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:48] <exec> 08└─Well, Trump did just meet with a U.S.S. Liberty Survivor and Israel did just admit to knowing the U.S.S. Liberty was an American ship when they attacked it. Though they blamed LBJ for authorizing the attack, and they may be right about that.
[02:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Kaspersky AV Was Caught Helping Russian Hackers Steal NSA Secrets - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:51] <exec> 08└─These computers are running Windows, that's what. Using Windows to do official government business or store classified or sensitive information should be prosecutable as treason.
[02:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Kaspersky AV Was Caught Helping Russian Hackers Steal NSA Secrets - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:53] <exec> 08└─This breach of the NSA happened in 2015 and they just announced it earlier this month. Equifax was breached in May and announced it in September. The NSA should hire former Equifax CEO Rick Smith.
[02:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Kaspersky AV Was Caught Helping Russian Hackers Steal NSA Secrets - 888 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:55] <exec> 08└─Republicans have treated Russia like a frenemy for 3 decades. Democrats can't make up their mind, it always pure friend or enemy, with no memory of the past times they have been useful or screwed us over. Remember 2008, when Palin was mocked for pointing out that Russia was a threat. Soon afterward,...
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[02:09:58] <exec> 08└─If Russia is subverting America, it is through Alinsyist elements that they placed and spread decades ago... ...elements that the left have embraced since then, and continue to embrace aggressively to this day.
[02:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Kaspersky AV Was Caught Helping Russian Hackers Steal NSA Secrets - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:00] <exec> 08└─Shit, I'm more drunk than you.
[02:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Researchers Fabricate 3-D Silicon Structures with a Focused Infrared Laser - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:10] <exec> 08└─Well its about goddamn time the Turkish vermin, or anybody in the Middle-East other than Israel, makes a scientific breakthrough on their own. Seems like everybody else is just getting fat, sucking at warfare, and making secret trips to Dubai to have haram gay sex.
[02:10:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:49] <exec> 08└─Let's make social functioning another grade in school
[02:10:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:50] <exec> 08└─> Learn how to put out a fire. Learn how to make a fire first, then learn how to put it out... More generally, learn some of the basic skills required to live before the industrial revolution. Then learn how to do more modern things. If you have access to rural property, scouting isn't necessary (I...
[02:10:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:52] <exec> 08└─I loved public school even when I hated it but I grew up in different times. We could start Making Public Schools Great Again by eliminating Common-core and no child left behind and stick the minority kids in their own idiot-classes where they belong.
[02:10:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:54] <exec> 08└─Shit man, firemaking is one of those things every boy knows by instinct, although more recent generations have been more adamant about suppressing that vestigial behavior. Whether its nuking ants with a magnifying glass, burning up G.I. Joes with matches, hairspray torches, or pretty much anything w...
[02:10:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:57] <exec> 08└─I had somewhat more restrictive parents - I was not allowed to venture so deep into the forest that I got lost. Oh, and falling into the river and drowning was also not permitted.
[02:10:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:59] <exec> 08└─That's going to work out well for the country when there are 10s of millions of uneducated people.
[02:11:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:01] <exec> 08└─Intelligent people see what a mess this whole system is and are opting out of having kids altogether. It's just too much of a liability, not to mention a huge expense: you can't even get them out of the house after 18-20 years any more, since now they're staying at home into their 30s or beyond. And...
[02:11:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:03] <exec> 08└─eliminating Common-core and no child left behind and stick the minority kids in their own idiot-classes where they belong.
[02:11:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:06] <exec> 08└─most people are far from educated (including most of the ones who graduated from a college or university).
[02:11:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 1334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:08] <exec> 08└─Learn to touchtype and to write well in cursive. This one is wrong, on both counts. Cursive is obsolete, and downright stupid. It's hard as hell to read. People should be writing in plain print, even if it takes a bit longer to write. There's a reason you don't see engineering drawings in cursive, a...
[02:12:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Smartest Americans are Heading West - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:51] <exec> 08└─Add Google, SAP, and Intel. But thanks for the list.
[02:12:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Smartest Americans are Heading West - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:52] <exec> 08└─Or make normal tea in a pressure cooker, raise the boiling point a bit for the altitude...
[02:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cities See Benefits of Taking Narrow Approach to Start Adapting to Climate Change - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:35] <exec> 08└─One Soylentil is well-prepared for sea level rise. He lives "high" in Colorado. [soylentnews.org] 🌲🔥
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[03:09:52] <exec> 08└─It is a good day to get drunk...and the day is not yet over. -- Lt. Worf
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[03:09:53] <exec> 08└─So, I'm a Cold War veteran. We were eyeball to eyeball with the Russ many times, from the Arctic to the mideast. We stared at each other over gunsights, on radar, in person with guns in our hands. "Russian" was almost synonymous with "boogeyman". But, today, what we are hearing from Washington is, "...
[03:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Kaspersky AV Was Caught Helping Russian Hackers Steal NSA Secrets - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:55] <exec> 08└─Remember how they used to tell us in school we're better than the Reds as a country because we don't do X Y and Z?
[03:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Kaspersky AV Was Caught Helping Russian Hackers Steal NSA Secrets - 1148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:58] <exec> 08└─Bingo. My operating system is pretty secure without the need of an antivirus. Note that I don't claim that it is totally secure - only that it is more secure than Windows. Note that I don't claim that it can't be hacked. It's just a tougher to hack than Windows. In fact, I'm not aware of any operati...
[03:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Kaspersky AV Was Caught Helping Russian Hackers Steal NSA Secrets - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:00] <exec> 08└─"Israel did just admit to knowing the U.S.S. Liberty was an American ship when they attacked it" Fuck did you say? Huh? Citations, please? If that's for real, I've entirely missed it! The fuckwits finally admitted what any half-assed sailor knew all along? DAMNED RIGHT THEY KNEW THEY WERE SHOOTING U...
[03:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Kaspersky AV Was Caught Helping Russian Hackers Steal NSA Secrets - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:02] <exec> 08└─Tell me, Grishnakh, how do we get people to wake up and smell the coffee? I have absolutely no idea. I wish I knew.
[03:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Kaspersky AV Was Caught Helping Russian Hackers Steal NSA Secrets - 1043 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:04] <exec> 08└─Russia is our frenemy. Frequently they cause us trouble. Never mind if they are "evil" or not. A hurricane isn't evil, yet it can sure cause trouble. For the issue of how to deal with Russia, it really doesn't matter if "the US is somehow better than Russia" or not. It really doesn't matter if one c...
[03:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Kaspersky AV Was Caught Helping Russian Hackers Steal NSA Secrets - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:07] <exec> 08└─"Frequently they cause us trouble." This part appears to be not just false, but a blatant inversion of the truth. "Yes, I'm going to fight for the home team." Gul'dan thanks you.
[03:10:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 2431 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:42] <exec> 08└─Look at the fights over sex ed. Look at how shop class died. Here are some of the life skills I want: Learn how to shoot a pistol and shotgun for self-defense. Learn how to short a stock, buy options, etc. (heck I still need this) Learn how to change a flat tire. Learn how to replace a light fixture...
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[03:11:04] <exec> 08└─Yes, let's increase the problem of schools being indoctrination facilities.
[03:11:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:06] <exec> 08└─Touch typing is useful as long as everyone refuses to abandon their QWERTY keyboards.
[03:11:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03hoeferbe [4715] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:08] <exec> 08└─martyb [soylentnews.org] wrote [soylentnews.org]: as the Babylon 5 reference was in the original submission. You can verify that by clicking the link "Original Submission" that appears at the bottom of the story summary.
[03:11:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 1083 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:10] <exec> 08└─I was careful not to merely have "write in cursive". It was "write well in cursive". The point is that most cursive is in fact hard as hell to read. It needn't be that way. For those with skill, cursive is fast and readable. I'm a programmer. I mostly write in C and assembly, plus I do email and soy...
[03:11:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:12] <exec> 08└─If you think that there isn't a significant difference between people who have not attended any school and people who have attended state school, you are the uneducated idiot here. Yes, state schools are not perfect. Yes, they could be improved, but denying state education to millions of kids isn't...
[03:11:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:15] <exec> 08└─How is being a civilized human being "indoctrination"?
[03:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Smartest Americans are Heading West - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:59] <exec> 08└─But that would be hard, because we don't even have a good way of measuring intelligence to begin with (despite some people's faith in IQ pseudoscience).
[03:13:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Smartest Americans are Heading West - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:00] <exec> 08└─There is no indication that they even have an adequate definition of "smart" that really makes sense.
[03:13:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Smartest Americans are Heading West - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:02] <exec> 08└─Being responsive to the majority's calls to take away people's rights is actually a bad thing; that is one of the situations where the government should be entirely unresponsive.
[03:13:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06The Smartest Americans are Heading West - 696 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:05] <exec> 08└─People mark this funny but it's not. These vermin move into a peaceful, balanced community in the Pacific NW and then begin to implement the same insane, ignorant laws and policies that ruined the last place they lived. They are so completely clueless they do not understand THEY are what is wrong. T...
[03:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Committee Endorses Gene Therapy for a Form of Childhood Blindness - 694 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:19] <exec> 08└─The only problem is that if you have a dangerous disease, taking ineffective treatments is NOT "safe". How can you call an ineffective "treatment" for, say, cancer, safe when taking it will do nothing to stop the disease and just give the cancer the time it needs to kill you? When my life is on the...
[03:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook's Zuckerberg Wants to Get One Billion People in VR - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:08] <exec> 08└─So that's really how it begins.
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[04:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Both Transunion Central America and Equifax Redirected Visitors to Malware Sites - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:34] <exec> 08└─One line of obfuscated JavaScript can be several kilobytes, as in this malware. https://pastebin.com
[04:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Both Transunion Central America and Equifax Redirected Visitors to Malware Sites - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:36] <exec> 08└─The SoylentNews.org web site is properly coded. so that users need not run even a single line of Javascript.
[04:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Both Transunion Central America and Equifax Redirected Visitors to Malware Sites - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:38] <exec> 08└─"The SoylentNews.org web site is coded so that users need not run even a single line of Javascript." SN Awesome. - AC
[04:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Kaspersky AV Was Caught Helping Russian Hackers Steal NSA Secrets - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:05] <exec> 08└─friendly reminder that national identity in Israel is not built by religion (which they have many shades of), but by anti-semitism. USA, Soviet Russia, Soviet China, and Israel, all of them nations without a proper culture when created, all of them cemented by fear of the enemy, all of them made bea...
[04:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Kaspersky AV Was Caught Helping Russian Hackers Steal NSA Secrets - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:06] <exec> 08└─> Kaspersky admitted that they were hacked into. Now we know who did it. Technically you can play chess and say that story is their cover. I'll throw in two more data points. 1. Secret services is a worldwide network that basically does not care about who rules what. The lower ranks are always worki...
[04:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Kaspersky AV Was Caught Helping Russian Hackers Steal NSA Secrets - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:08] <exec> 08└─If Equifax doesn't do it, there is no hope.
[04:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Kaspersky AV Was Caught Helping Russian Hackers Steal NSA Secrets - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:10] <exec> 08└─Hint: I am now NOT living the life I want because doing so would compromise the reasons America was once great, and most importantly require voluntarily giving up my privacy for reasons far less than obtaining security clearance to enroll as part of the military industrial complex, which is just abo...
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[04:10:13] <exec> 08└─The word "evil" was not used. Anyway, the denial and whataboutism towards Russian activities is getting fucking old.
[04:10:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 140 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:37] <exec> 08└─We will lose a war because our soldiers are afraid to attack. When I was a kid I could go anywhere I wanted, provided I was home for supper.
[04:11:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:11:16] <exec> 08└─If you want to get a quick smackdown and mostly get ignored, keep doing what you're doing. If you want to get up-modded and get lots of replies, put some thought into your trolling and use your sockpuppets to give your posts an upboop or two.
[04:11:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 731 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:11:17] <exec> 08└─> If you had better financial training you'd know you shouldn't be playing the stock market. You could not be more wrong. The stock market is the primary means the rich use to get richer. Just don't be stupid. DON'T PANIC. All you need do is dump your savings in the market after a crash, then ride t...
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[04:11:19] <exec> 08└─Generally speaking, there's a lot of good stuff on your list. I find the opening gambit to be a bit odd, though: Learn how to shoot a pistol and shotgun for self-defense.
[04:13:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Smartest Americans are Heading West - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:08] <exec> 08└─People shooting back at a maniac killer(s) aren't likely to carry a bunch of extra ammunition. Your gun is useful for self-defense only as long as it has ammunition.
[04:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Ships 17-Qubit Quantum Chip to Researchers - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:29] <exec> 08└─Didn't know about "flip-chip-in-package". Mine were bare-neckid on substrate and this was long ago. Thinned silicon too.
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[05:09:38] <exec> 08└─Say it with me kids: CAPITALISM HURTS EVERYONE. This is no surprise. Government cronies do the absolute bare minimum, or even worse, whatever's easiest to just be able to say that "they did what was necessary." At this rate, it's no secret that the American Capitalist system will utterly collapse in...
[05:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Kaspersky AV Was Caught Helping Russian Hackers Steal NSA Secrets - 1273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:11] <exec> 08└─Let’s just talk about Puerto Rico. Is Russia treating Crimea the same as the U.S. is dealing with Puerto Rico? Let’s talk about Guam. Is Russia treating Crimea the same as the U.S. deals with Guam? I’m not against your point, I want whoever wants to go against it to explain to me how the U.S....
[05:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Kaspersky AV Was Caught Helping Russian Hackers Steal NSA Secrets - 1124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:12] <exec> 08└─Suppose that Russia had never bothered any other country. They didn't just rip two chunks off of Georgia, invade the Ukraine, violate Baltic borders both land and sea, or any of the other crap that they've been up to. Suppose they only swiped secrets from the USA. Suppose the the USA had been up to...
[05:10:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gaaark [41] 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 55 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:34] <exec> 08└─Yes: the PARENTS should be teaching them how to behave!
[05:11:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:11:20] <exec> 08└─That's alright then. The US being afraid to attack for a change would be a major improvement in world safety.
[05:11:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:11:22] <exec> 08└─How to ride a horse, shoot straight, and tell the truth.
[05:11:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:11:24] <exec> 08└─No need to put these skills down as "stupid" merely because you can't master them.
[05:11:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 841 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:11:26] <exec> 08└─And all children should learn how to do many things, including social skills. Often, much of that should be done by parents. However, reading TFS, I get the sense that many of those who want their kids taught "social skills" are immigrant parents who want their kids to be immersed in an Australian c...
[05:11:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03toph [5509] (Score: 1) 02 - 06South Korean Lawmaker Claims North Korea Nabbed U.S.-South Korean War Plans - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:11:46] <exec> 08└─Will Microsoft ultimately be responsible for a nuclear war, and possibly the extinction of the human race?
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[05:15:01] <exec> 08└─transcript [pbs.org]
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[06:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Morgan Stanley Analysts See Big Value in SpaceX Following "Mundane" Launches - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:33] <exec> 08└─His other venture (Tesla) loses money hand over fist. Do you really think SpaceX, with bigger technical challenges and less financial motivation, will ever have a positive return on capital? Musk is creation of the bubble economy, and he and his investors want to run away to Mars if SHTF.
[06:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Both Transunion Central America and Equifax Redirected Visitors to Malware Sites - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:45] <exec> 08└─CAPITALISM HURTS EVERYONE
[06:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Both Transunion Central America and Equifax Redirected Visitors to Malware Sites - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:46] <exec> 08└─Well, you're probably still not paying for most things on the Javascript Web.
[06:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Both Transunion Central America and Equifax Redirected Visitors to Malware Sites - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:48] <exec> 08└─Yeah, noscript blocks JS from SN, and everything works in my browser.
[06:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Smartest Americans are Heading West - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:22] <exec> 08└─they havevestablishedctheir beachhead in Boise. Thats where Micron is HQ, and they have a fab there too. HP/HPE basically moved their Oregon offices to Boise too. So there is your high tech pipeline.
[06:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Smartest Americans are Heading West - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:24] <exec> 08└─Coal? in Colorado? Not on the Front Range (Boulder, Ft Collins...). Thats either up in Wyoming (Wind River, Powder River basins) or western Colorado, Utah etc. But the big coal mines are in Wyoming.
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[06:13:41] <exec> 08└─People that support the repeal of efficacy requirements typically do so because they have the misguided assumptions that government beurocracy is the main thing limiting medical progress and that the market will do a better job.
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[07:09:47] <exec> 08└─IMO, non-profit solutions fit the 'best outcome' of a market economy. Profit, beyond the need to re-invest in improvement is essentially theft. Why is any profit allowed in the Medical sector? Providing critical services that people require should not be 'profitable'. The fidget spinner - coca-cola...
[07:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Both Transunion Central America and Equifax Redirected Visitors to Malware Sites - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:49] <exec> 08└─No, capitalism hurts ALMOST everyone. The C-level sociopaths, politicians, and banksters are all doing very, very well and will continue to do well.
[07:11:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:11:33] <exec> 08└─If you hated the regimentation (you wild little rebel), you probably would have benefitted from being in the scouts and learning some discipline. Conversely, those who love the regimentation and uniforms (little authoritarians in training) should be made to spend time in a hippie commune. You learn...
[07:11:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 1337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:11:34] <exec> 08└─If you've got a safe nest egg then great, but isn't real estate much faster? That 200k can be used for four down payments of 50k and you can end up with 4k a month after all expenses if you invested nationally (your local real estate market costs may be much higher than other areas). Once you find t...
[07:11:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:11:36] <exec> 08└─Charting fertility is the most effective form of birth control when you're taught how to do it. I think that's what the original posting was trying to get at.
[07:11:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06South Korean Lawmaker Claims North Korea Nabbed U.S.-South Korean War Plans - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:11:57] <exec> 08└─I think the human race might be interested.
[07:12:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03mattTheOne [1788] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber's US$360 Million Loss on Subprime Car Leases - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:12:20] <exec> 08└─Tons of companies have been losing money for years (ya I mean you AMD). Uber only needs to survive until it perfect Johnny cab. Once self driving cars take off, and its only a handful of years away before complete autonomy takes over, Uber will be rolling in cash. They;re interesting in leasing cars...
[07:16:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla May Begin Offering Freemium Services in the Future - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:16:20] <exec> 08└─Try reading something before writing...
[07:18:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02 - 06Boy Scouts of America to Allow Girls in 2018 - 703 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:24] <exec> 08└─Missing the point snowflake. The purpose of the Boy Scouts was not the merit badges, it was to teach boys to be men. If you put your daughters through the exact same program you would teach your daughters to be men and you will have mentally unstable freaks as a result. If you mix them you can do ne...
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[08:10:33] <exec> 08└─I have to disagree. I love my homeland, my country, the United States. There is nothing in my nature that says I have to love my government, or any administration in charge of that government. In fact - careful reading of our constitution, and the various papers and letters penned by our founding fa...
[08:13:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06The Smartest Americans are Heading West - 765 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:01] <exec> 08└─White people have been leaving California for the Pacific Northwest for 30 years. People in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming call it "californication." They have raised hackles among the natives because they tend to be holier-than-thou post-hippies who drove up all the local housing p...
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[08:16:31] <exec> 08└─There is a way to remove unwanted items from (context) menus. This is how it at least worked at some point http://kb.mozillazine.org [mozillazine.org]
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[08:16:33] <exec> 08└─Firefox's browser share is almost nothing and continues to drop.
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[09:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Temporarily Locks Rose McGowan's Account - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:34] <exec> 08└─Twitter has been locking thousands of accounts for over a year, we are supposed to get worked up over some thot getting a 12 hour suspend because she is famous? And she at least did break a clearly defined rule, fixed the post they flagged and got back on so the system actually worked. Sorry, she is...
[09:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Temporarily Locks Rose McGowan's Account - 693 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:35] <exec> 08└─No sympathy for her, really - people like her have cheered Twitter on, when it has locked right-wing accounts. However, to answer the question: yes. Yes, social media platforms really ought to be treated as common carriers. This for two entirely distinct reasons: - First, it is completely unrealisti...
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[09:09:38] <exec> 08└─Sorry, Sorry, she is the sort of SJW
[09:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Temporarily Locks Rose McGowan's Account - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:40] <exec> 08└─Dear Twitter, please block, lock, or emasculate bradley13. He is a toxic account, probably well under 6', and has no female children! Please!
[09:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Morgan Stanley Analysts See Big Value in SpaceX Following "Mundane" Launches - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:49] <exec> 08└─The cash cow, to Morgan Stanley, is the SpaceX plan to launch a satellite broadband network in two years and send humans to Mars in seven.
[09:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Morgan Stanley Analysts See Big Value in SpaceX Following "Mundane" Launches - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:51] <exec> 08└─The U.S. govt. will pay for it?
[09:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Both Transunion Central America and Equifax Redirected Visitors to Malware Sites - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:07] <exec> 08└─Why doesn't somebody sue these assholes?
[09:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Both Transunion Central America and Equifax Redirected Visitors to Malware Sites - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:08] <exec> 08└─Are You an Equifax Breach Victim? You Could Give Up Right to Sue to Find Out [soylentnews.org] (not a full answer to your question, but ain't that something)
[09:10:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Kaspersky AV Was Caught Helping Russian Hackers Steal NSA Secrets - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:44] <exec> 08└─If Equifax doesn't do it, there is no hope.
[09:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Ships 17-Qubit Quantum Chip to Researchers - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:15:13] <exec> 08└─As long as there are no room-temperature superconductors, room-temperature superconducting quibits should be a bit hard, don't you think? About what's the problem with high-temperature superconductors for qubits (note that as far as superconductors are concerned, liquid nitrogen temperature is alrea...
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[10:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Temporarily Locks Rose McGowan's Account - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:40] <exec> 08└─Is social media an utility indispensable to a civilized life, like phone or internet? How "common" is social media? Can I post a tweet using Facebook - the way I can call a fixed line from a mobile? If social media is a common carrier, is Soylentnews a common carrier? Why?
[10:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Temporarily Locks Rose McGowan's Account - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:42] <exec> 08└─Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. H. L. Mencken
[10:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Temporarily Locks Rose McGowan's Account - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:44] <exec> 08└─"But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.” (from the gospel of Richard MATTHEW Stallman, ch...
[10:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Temporarily Locks Rose McGowan's Account - 781 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:46] <exec> 08└─NO, we are supposed to get worried because people like you respond like this. You are an example of how ordinary people can be turned into Nazis by propaganda. She is famous, her opponent is famous too. If you remove fame from both sides of the equation, it is quite obvious you are supporting the ra...
[10:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Both Transunion Central America and Equifax Redirected Visitors to Malware Sites - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:13] <exec> 08└─Things that make you go hmmm...
[10:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Both Transunion Central America and Equifax Redirected Visitors to Malware Sites - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:14] <exec> 08└─You're mistaken: For a lot of things you are paying. Just not in the form of money. Well, at least not directly; you don't know how your tracking data costs you money elsewhere.
[10:10:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06How Kaspersky AV Was Caught Helping Russian Hackers Steal NSA Secrets - 178 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:28] <exec> 08└─These computers are running Windows, that's what. Using Windows to do official government business or store classified or sensitive information should be prosecutable as treason.
[10:10:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Kaspersky AV Was Caught Helping Russian Hackers Steal NSA Secrets - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:51] <exec> 08└─Geographically, a major part of the the dividing line between Europe and Asia is the Ural mountains. The conventional boundary [wikipedia.org] between Europe and Asia is along the Turkish Straits, the Caucasus and the Urals (historically also north of the Caucasus, along the Kuma–Manych Depression...
[10:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06How Kaspersky AV Was Caught Helping Russian Hackers Steal NSA Secrets - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:52] <exec> 08└─> Lithuania, Estonia, Crimea, etc. are NOT in the European continent Alternative geography.
[10:10:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Kaspersky AV Was Caught Helping Russian Hackers Steal NSA Secrets - 784 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:54] <exec> 08└─It's not just Windows that is the problem, but proprietary software in general. Why is our government relying on software that it is not in full control of? Governments should only use software that respects the freedom of its users: Free Software. This has practical benefits (you can improve it, yo...
[10:12:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:12:08] <exec> 08└─When I was a boy we had nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash.
[10:15:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook's Zuckerberg Wants to Get One Billion People in VR - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:15:06] <exec> 08└─That was intentional, yes. If you can't laugh at yourself, you have no sense of humor at all.
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[11:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Temporarily Locks Rose McGowan's Account - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:48] <exec> 08└─When you're the President, they let you do what you want. I love Twitter but they'd better not try that "lock" bullshit on me. Or their stock will be in the shitter the next trading session. Will drop by billions in the very, very next session. By billions and billions. Which they know. Believe me,...
[11:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Temporarily Locks Rose McGowan's Account - 1022 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:49] <exec> 08└─Twitter well is known to ignore/excuse policy violations from the famous, powerful and certain political philosophies that are congruent with internal Twitter culture. Twitter is just as well known to ban users for voicing opposition to any of those groups without any objective policy violation. At...
[11:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Twitter Temporarily Locks Rose McGowan's Account - 1234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:51] <exec> 08└─An important societal question now is what to do now that speech on the public commons has moved into the hands of private companies with political agendas. I've seen common carrier status mentioned, but that's got downsides and seems easy to game. It may make things worse AND not work. Maybe a hybr...
[11:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Temporarily Locks Rose McGowan's Account - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:54] <exec> 08└─Are social media platforms common carriers, or not?
[11:10:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06How Kaspersky AV Was Caught Helping Russian Hackers Steal NSA Secrets - 114 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:42] <exec> 08└─Remember how they used to tell us in school we're better than the Reds as a country because we don't do X Y and Z?
[11:10:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06How Kaspersky AV Was Caught Helping Russian Hackers Steal NSA Secrets - 796 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:55] <exec> 08└─I have to disagree. I love my homeland, my country, the United States. There is nothing in my nature that says I have to love my government, or any administration in charge of that government. In fact - careful reading of our constitution, and the various papers and letters penned by our founding fa...
[11:11:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Kaspersky AV Was Caught Helping Russian Hackers Steal NSA Secrets - 1407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:11:01] <exec> 08└─I'd rather try to improve the country I live in, like by forcing the government to actually follow the highest law of the land. Right now, the US government is conducting unconstitutional democracy-destroying mass surveillance on the populace. Right now, we are fighting numerous unconstitutional (Co...
[11:12:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:12:16] <exec> 08└─Personally, I prefer the old indian fire-building trick. Goes over great with kids. You build the fire pile, have them bring you all kinds of fire-buildy type stuff, then light the fire with your cigarette lighter. When them complain you say: I'm old, I'm indian, I built a fire, and I tricked you. O...
[11:12:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:12:18] <exec> 08└─Don't touch-type; just teach yourself to type on your own in whatever way works best for you.
[11:12:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:12:20] <exec> 08└─Beg to differ. Sodomy is more effective.
[11:15:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook's Zuckerberg Wants to Get One Billion People in VR - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:15:19] <exec> 08└─In case you haven't seen it, the Colombian short film: https://vimeo.com [vimeo.com]
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[12:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Study Finds Even Publishers Oppose the "Link Tax" - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:32] <exec> 08└─This is why we can't have nice things. Seriously though, fuck em. They can sue us in the EU all they like but we're a US company (with all the speech/journalism protections that implies) and our servers are all in the US.
[12:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Temporarily Locks Rose McGowan's Account - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:51] <exec> 08└─An argument could be made that our comments should be considered under common carrier (which they're essentially already treated as excepting spam) but TFAs have always been curated.
[12:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Temporarily Locks Rose McGowan's Account - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:53] <exec> 08└─The "common carrier" status applies to organizations that transport private communications between people over a common medium. It should not apply to public speech at all. In these cases, Twitter et al should be considered publishers more than carriers.
[12:12:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:12:19] <exec> 08└─Because your civilized is another's barbarian. Some things are parents' responsibility, schools shouldn't have so much foisted onto them because parents are lazy or incompetent.
[12:12:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:12:21] <exec> 08└─What? Brake pads are the easiest things to replace. Asked if it takes two people to change your oil, you're doing it wrong.
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[13:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tech Giants, Once Seen as Saviors, Are Now Viewed as Threats - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:34] <exec> 08└─Is it that the tech companies are creating problems for society as a whole, or merely disrupting the status quo for the old Powers-That-Be?
[13:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Study Finds Even Publishers Oppose the "Link Tax" - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:42] <exec> 08└─Europe may not have a 1st Amendment enshrining Freedom of Speech, but they do have a real Pirate Party that actually won a few elections. Copyright extremists are so weak. That they prefer to hide their despicable proposals and trick people into accepting them with especially poor quality propaganda...
[13:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Temporarily Locks Rose McGowan's Account - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:03] <exec> 08└─How about, handle it the way it's always been handled? That is, let people be responsible for their own words? Anyone can be sued for slander or libel. Odds of being sued and losing go way up if you tell not just any lie, but vicious, hurtful lies. And, if those lies spread further. Why should it ma...
[13:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Temporarily Locks Rose McGowan's Account - 870 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:05] <exec> 08└─> people like her have cheered Twitter on, when it has locked right-wing accounts. Has she herself done that? If no, can you really say "people like her"? Because it sounds like those hypothetical people you speak of aren't like her. They want to censor right wingers, and she does not. Censoring is...
[13:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jiro [3176] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Temporarily Locks Rose McGowan's Account - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:07] <exec> 08└─1) She broke a clearly defined rule about doing something (posting a phone number) which it's a bad idea to allow in general. This isn't like all the right-wing bans where the reason for the ban is vague so that Twitter (or Google, etc.) doesn't have to defend their decision. 2) What's the alternati...
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[13:11:15] <exec> 08└─Jokes on you, buddy. I'm not allowed to leave the state, let alone the country, because I refuse to follow the rules of your so-called "home team." Give me a plane ticket and right of passage I'd be gone. Fuck the USA. Flat out!
[13:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:36] <exec> 08└─We called it a lazy Sunday afternoon...
[13:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06South Korean Lawmaker Claims North Korea Nabbed U.S.-South Korean War Plans - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:59] <exec> 08└─Obama loves wiretapps. But he doesn't care about protecting the cyber.
[13:15:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06Facebook's Zuckerberg Wants to Get One Billion People in VR - 1046 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:09] <exec> 08└─Google had the correct evil vision, but Google Glass failed in its first attempt. Zuckerberg might be able to pull it off. He has the necessary greed and lack of empathy. Only Google may be able to challenge. Not true. Apple and Microsoft can also challenge; they have the money. The Apple VR set wil...
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[14:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Tech Giants, Once Seen as Saviors, Are Now Viewed as Threats - 1020 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:31] <exec> 08└─Standard Oil and AT&T were forcibly broken up after decades of having their monopoly status protected and subsidized by much less publicized laws. I don't see any laws overtly propping up Bitcoin, Netflix, or Miley Cyrus, but the free market seems to be concentrating far more money on them than roug...
[14:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tech Giants, Once Seen as Saviors, Are Now Viewed as Threats - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:32] <exec> 08└─Sure, tech giants have too much concentrated power. That said, WTF does this have to do with Russia? That story never made any sense, still doesn't, and tossing it in here is just WTF.
[14:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tech Giants, Once Seen as Saviors, Are Now Viewed as Threats - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:35] <exec> 08└─Money concentration doesn't concern me. Power over communication methods that can critically influence our culture does. Yes, Facebook/Twitter/etc... are not essential to life. They are extremely culturally significant at this point in time though. To anyone who doesn't understand this position, con...
[14:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tech Giants, Once Seen as Saviors, Are Now Viewed as Threats - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:37] <exec> 08└─Peddling enough legislative influence is a naturally emergent property of the "free" markets. The government is just another tool, basically serving as security of property, globally. True net neutrality would give us the dumb pipe we need to compete with Google, Amazon, and that handful of other gi...
[14:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Study Finds Even Publishers Oppose the "Link Tax" - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:46] <exec> 08└─If they are able to sneak this one through then it is likely that the cartels in the US will start whining about needing to "harmonize" with EU regulations. That's how things have worked in the past through the decades. They collude to ratchet downwards like that. Alternately, if it becomes a copyr...
[14:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Temporarily Locks Rose McGowan's Account - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:10] <exec> 08└─you are supporting the alleged rapist
[14:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Temporarily Locks Rose McGowan's Account - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:12] <exec> 08└─Are social media platforms common carriers, or not?
[14:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Temporarily Locks Rose McGowan's Account - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:14] <exec> 08└─Has she herself done that? If no, can you really say "people like her"? Because it sounds like those hypothetical people you speak of aren't like her. They want to censor right wingers, and she does not.
[14:10:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Morgan Stanley Analysts See Big Value in SpaceX Following "Mundane" Launches - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:24] <exec> 08└─A GoFundMe to send all the polititians and lawyers?
[14:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Morgan Stanley Analysts See Big Value in SpaceX Following "Mundane" Launches - 866 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:27] <exec> 08└─Back of envelope: What is the market? Worldwide, reasonably priced bandwidth. What are the applications? Military ops, disaster bandwidth, remote broadcast, airline in-flight Internet access, low latency, perhaps business customer's global coverage smart phone. What will it cost? Spending $10B (1k s...
[14:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Morgan Stanley Analysts See Big Value in SpaceX Following "Mundane" Launches - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:29] <exec> 08└─You don't have to dig very deep on Morgan Stanley. Even the Wikipedia page is an interesting read. 2005-2008 especially. $5b from China and $9b from Japan/Mitsubishi. Converted to a holding bank for the Federal Reserve. How is this country run? How are the important policies made? Morgan Stanley and...
[14:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Morgan Stanley Analysts See Big Value in SpaceX Following "Mundane" Launches - 741 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:31] <exec> 08└─I've looked through other reports and the information is all filtered through journalists (they have apparently not released the report to the public). It appears that the key thing is that the Morgan Stanley analysts think that SpaceX will be a dominant player in the space industry which they belie...
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[14:10:47] <exec> 08└─Are You an Equifax Breach Victim? You Could Give Up Right to Sue to Find Out [soylentnews.org] (not a full answer to your question, but ain't that something)
[14:10:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Both Transunion Central America and Equifax Redirected Visitors to Malware Sites - 749 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:51] <exec> 08└─Javascript was a mistake. It continues to be a mistake. Doubling down with web asm just reinforces the fact that we failed to learn the lesson. Oh, your website is unusable without javascript? It's not a web site. It's a proprietary "web app" you are asking me to execute on my personal hardware. You...
[14:11:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Kaspersky AV Was Caught Helping Russian Hackers Steal NSA Secrets - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:32] <exec> 08└─This the kind of thing you're looking for? https://kkkaraoke.wordpress.com [wordpress.com]
[14:17:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla May Begin Offering Freemium Services in the Future - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:42] <exec> 08└─Yes I did. Sorry for the noise.
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[15:09:42] <exec> 08└─Money concentration doesn't concern me. Power over communication methods that can critically influence our culture does. How do we separate the money from the communication methods?
[15:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tech Giants, Once Seen as Saviors, Are Now Viewed as Threats - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:43] <exec> 08└─Russia is the new Marsha Brady [youtube.com]... It's like we're jealous of their great power over the American public
[15:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Tech Giants, Once Seen as Saviors, Are Now Viewed as Threats - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:45] <exec> 08└─Money doesn't really have anything to do with it because money != power. Consider how many rich Republicans there are and then look at the mainstream media. Has all that money managed to get them anything remotely approaching an impartial hearing by the MSM?
[15:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tech Giants, Once Seen as Saviors, Are Now Viewed as Threats - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:48] <exec> 08└─I agree but I don't think grassroots is going to get your grandmother off of Facebook; that's where the pictures of her grandbabies are. Net neutrality is not a sufficient solution.
[15:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tech Giants, Once Seen as Saviors, Are Now Viewed as Threats - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:50] <exec> 08└─That said, WTF does this have to do with Russia? That story never made any sense, still doesn't, and tossing it in here is just WTF.
[15:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tech Giants, Once Seen as Saviors, Are Now Viewed as Threats - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:52] <exec> 08└─tech companies are under fire for creating problems instead of solving them. At the top of the list is Russian interference
[15:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tech Giants, Once Seen as Saviors, Are Now Viewed as Threats - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:54] <exec> 08└─"Money != Power" What planet do you live on?
[15:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tech Giants, Once Seen as Saviors, Are Now Viewed as Threats - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:57] <exec> 08└─Wow. If you think that the narrative has Russia as a positive actor in relation to the USA, you are completely off your rocker.
[15:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tech Giants, Once Seen as Saviors, Are Now Viewed as Threats - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:59] <exec> 08└─I was one of those Bernie or Busters that wouldn't vote for Hillary. I didn't realize last November that it was because I'd been brainwashed by Vladimir Putin. I was under the illusion that I was just voting according to my own thinking on the matter. The fact that Russia has access to technology th...
[15:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tech Giants, Once Seen as Saviors, Are Now Viewed as Threats - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:01] <exec> 08└─Consider TMB's point and observed reality that republicans, rich and otherwise, are routinely mocked throughout the MSM, while similarly vapid progs are lauded. It doesn't matter that avowed members of political parties are all buckets of putrid slime - some slime is definitely venerated over other...
[15:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tech Giants, Once Seen as Saviors, Are Now Viewed as Threats - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:03] <exec> 08└─Earth. I just understand power dynamics better than you. Money means options, power means control. They go together like chocolate and peanut butter but they are not the same thing.
[15:10:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Temporarily Locks Rose McGowan's Account - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:38] <exec> 08└─Overreacting and making false public accusations about Twitter's intentions. But everything else she says is rock solid 100% accurate.
[15:10:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Temporarily Locks Rose McGowan's Account - 1735 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:40] <exec> 08└─Pay attention and stop goal post shifting and thread hijacking. We aren't debating the bigger issue of whether she has a point, we are discussing whether @jack should be wielding the banhammer like a mad Thor. We are talking about whether she has a right to speak out or whether speech on twitter is...
[15:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Temporarily Locks Rose McGowan's Account - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:42] <exec> 08└─For the right wing to denounce it own pussy grabber
[15:10:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03http [1920] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Temporarily Locks Rose McGowan's Account - 1074 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:44] <exec> 08└─Despite your obvious concerntroll addition of strawman arguments (presented as deliberate misquotes), I'll bite. If your response to an allegation of rape is, "people shouldn't allege negative things outside of a courtroom", you'd do well to stop and reflect on the reasons such a small percentage of...
[15:11:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Both Transunion Central America and Equifax Redirected Visitors to Malware Sites - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:18] <exec> 08└─Sorry, Equifax just re-directed you to a malware website that said: "I hereby declare that I am in full agreement with Equifax' terms and conditions, and have no need to sue them, now or ever". And when you clicked on the cross on the top right corner it clicked on the "I accept" button.
[15:11:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Both Transunion Central America and Equifax Redirected Visitors to Malware Sites - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:20] <exec> 08└─(...) both hosted fireclick.js, a JavaScript file that appears to invoke the service serving the malicious content. When called, fireclick.js pulls content from a long chain of pages, (...)
[15:11:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03SrLnclt [1473] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Both Transunion Central America and Equifax Redirected Visitors to Malware Sites - 1321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:22] <exec> 08└─From the Experian Data Breach FAQ [equifaxsecurity2017.com] (under the Complimentary TrustedID Premier Product): Q: "Do the TrustedID and Equifax Terms of Use limit my options related to the cyber security incident?" A: "To confirm, enrolling in the free credit file monitoring and identity theft pro...
[15:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:24] <exec> 08└─you can't even get them out of the house after 18-20 years any more, since now they're staying at home into their 30s or beyond.
[15:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:26] <exec> 08└─Because your civilized is another's barbarian. Some things are parents' responsibility, schools shouldn't have so much foisted onto them because parents are lazy or incompetent.
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[16:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TV Stocks Tumble after AT&T Cord-Cutting Disclosure - 1458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:34] <exec> 08└─Why would someone in charge get fired? Wouldn't they just offshore more work to increase shareholder value? People out of work in the US, potential customers, don't really count as a metric because they wouldn't pay for the service anyway. The shrinking pool of available customers can only be remedi...
[16:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TV Stocks Tumble after AT&T Cord-Cutting Disclosure - 1486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:35] <exec> 08└─The cable industry will bleed until it fixes the problem driving people to streaming. The oversize bundle. They resist, the content providers really resist but everybody knows it is the primary driver of this cord cutting. And the heart of it is ESPN and the House of Mouse. If people had an option t...
[16:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TV Stocks Tumble after AT&T Cord-Cutting Disclosure - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:38] <exec> 08└─While it cited several causes — including hurricanes and changing its credit standards for new customers — it was this line in the filing that Wall Street keyed on: "The video net losses were driven by heightened competition in traditional pay TV markets and OTT services ..."
[16:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tech Giants, Once Seen as Saviors, Are Now Viewed as Threats - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:00] <exec> 08└─Sure, there is some potential for abuse with the market position these businesses have (though the article does a remarkably poor job of illustrating said abuse), but who's complaining? Looks like old media abusing its market position once again to weaken competitors (though at least the story has f...
[16:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tech Giants, Once Seen as Saviors, Are Now Viewed as Threats - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:02] <exec> 08└─Russia is a huge chunk of land.
[16:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tech Giants, Once Seen as Saviors, Are Now Viewed as Threats - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:04] <exec> 08└─Maybe the genetic engineering mega corps can fight back by doing something about humanity's propensity for lying and greed. Game on!
[16:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tech Giants, Once Seen as Saviors, Are Now Viewed as Threats - 2799 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:06] <exec> 08└─I can't think of any "giant" of any kind that has ever been viewed as a "savior". Has Russian interference actually been proved yet? I've seen no data, only a propaganda meme issued by Congress and their minions. Even if they did, it was certainly less than interference from other unconstitutional s...
[16:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1, Disagree) 02 - 06Tech Giants, Once Seen as Saviors, Are Now Viewed as Threats - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:08] <exec> 08└─Easy. Don't allow faggots and Jews to collect in large numbers within corporations. Actually, even better, kick all the Jews out of America. Israel is always welcoming to Jews, and so all Jews should go there and stay there.
[16:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tech Giants, Once Seen as Saviors, Are Now Viewed as Threats - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:11] <exec> 08└─It's no stretch of language to label the elites running that show as "Russia" for purposes of assigning blame
[16:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tech Giants, Once Seen as Saviors, Are Now Viewed as Threats - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:13] <exec> 08└─Has all that money managed to get them anything remotely approaching an impartial hearing by the MSM?
[16:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Tech Giants, Once Seen as Saviors, Are Now Viewed as Threats - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:15] <exec> 08└─I support your first amendment to express such stupidity.
[16:10:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Twitter Temporarily Locks Rose McGowan's Account - 36 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:32] <exec> 08└─Sorry, Sorry, she is the sort of SJW
[16:10:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Temporarily Locks Rose McGowan's Account - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:55] <exec> 08└─dont say that when logged in. your karma will drop faster than a lead brick
[16:10:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Temporarily Locks Rose McGowan's Account - 1086 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:56] <exec> 08└─My response to an allegation of a criminal offence is to presume innocence. Rape and sexual assault/harassment is a particularly difficult legal problem because of the obvious issues with evidence, conflicting testimony, and the delay in reporting. I'm skeptical of the idea that lowering the standar...
[16:11:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Morgan Stanley Analysts See Big Value in SpaceX Following "Mundane" Launches - 4300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:10] <exec> 08└─This goal can be more broadly framed as 'will colonizing Mars succeed?' If it does, then the question of profit is hardly a question. So will it succeed? The technical issues will be unlike anything like humanity has ever faced, but there's no hurdle that does not seem relatively straight forward to...
[16:12:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Kaspersky AV Was Caught Helping Russian Hackers Steal NSA Secrets - 695 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:17] <exec> 08└─Until they stop staring at the likes of the kardashians, and responding to advertising telling them what to think and what to look like... I would suspect we've already lost. And that most of us are proles anyway -- in our own way. no one here is at the top. you'd have thought previous major disclos...
[16:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:40] <exec> 08└─rubrics
[16:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:42] <exec> 08└─Well, if you're gonna be anal about it.
[16:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:44] <exec> 08└─Give the names of 3 individuals who belong to "The modern left". ...and if you name someone who has never said "the collective ownership of the means of production by The Workers", I'm going to call you a fool. thrive on creating victim culture Again, specific examples of this would be apt. ...and w...
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[17:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TV Stocks Tumble after AT&T Cord-Cutting Disclosure - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:33] <exec> 08└─those are business practices
[17:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TV Stocks Tumble after AT&T Cord-Cutting Disclosure - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:35] <exec> 08└─Doing it with no mind for the long term health or viability of the company is more like a modern MBA practice. It's not good business.
[17:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tech Giants, Once Seen as Saviors, Are Now Viewed as Threats - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:07] <exec> 08└─Imprecise words muddy the meaning, leading to confusion the miscommunicators use to their advantage. Later, they can say "Amazon shipped a package to Russia" and now suddenly OMG Amazon is part of The Plot!!!
[17:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tech Giants, Once Seen as Saviors, Are Now Viewed as Threats - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:08] <exec> 08└─No, I really don't. Not when the vast majority of news outlets publish from a left-of-center position. The term "mainstream" has an actual meaning.
[17:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tech Giants, Once Seen as Saviors, Are Now Viewed as Threats - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:10] <exec> 08└─Has Russian interference actually been proved yet?
[17:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tech Giants, Once Seen as Saviors, Are Now Viewed as Threats - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:12] <exec> 08└─It's convenient to prop up the political narrative of some people, and as such it is treated as though it is given fact by them.
[17:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tech Giants, Once Seen as Saviors, Are Now Viewed as Threats - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:14] <exec> 08└─No, I really don't. Not when the vast majority of news outlets publish from a right-of-center position. The term "mainstream" has an actual meaning.
[17:10:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Temporarily Locks Rose McGowan's Account - 2037 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:56] <exec> 08└─Words have meanings and the term "common carrier" has a specific meaning in Federal law/regulations. It's also inappropriate in this case. While on a much smaller scale, SoylentNews does much the same thing as Twitter. SN needn't worry about "common carrier" regulations (and, it seems, the actual co...
[17:10:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Temporarily Locks Rose McGowan's Account - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:57] <exec> 08└─Neither social media platforms, nor any other websites, are common fucking carriers. Asserting they are is abject legal nonsense. Websites aren't responsible for illegal stuff their users do because of Section 230(c) of the Communications Decency Act and because of the safe harbor provision of the D...
[17:11:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Both Transunion Central America and Equifax Redirected Visitors to Malware Sites - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:35] <exec> 08└─Don't worry pal I have it on the highest authority that the swamp will be swiftly drained!
[17:12:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Kaspersky AV Was Caught Helping Russian Hackers Steal NSA Secrets - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:19] <exec> 08└─1. Some suit copied NSA binaries to his home computer. 2. His Kaspersky antivirus automatically submitted the suspected binaries to cloud virus scanning like every other virus scanner does. 3. A while later some Israeli hacker was looking around Kaspersky's network and their script flagged them. 4....
[17:12:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Kaspersky AV Was Caught Helping Russian Hackers Steal NSA Secrets - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:21] <exec> 08└─We have the ability to work on more than one thing at a time.
[17:12:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Kaspersky AV Was Caught Helping Russian Hackers Steal NSA Secrets - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:23] <exec> 08└─Let’s just talk about Puerto Rico. Is Russia treating Crimea the same as the U.S. is dealing with Puerto Rico? When was the last time we invaded and occupied Puerto Rico?
[17:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:49] <exec> 08└─The Japanese, recognizing that there's just not enough hours in the school day to fully traumatize a kid, have invented the cram school. [google.com] Did anybody see the "Married with Children" episode where Kelly Bundy was preparing for the sports quiz show? "I'm full." -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentne...
[17:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:51] <exec> 08└─I can easily exceed 90wpm. I can't do that with strict touch typing; it's a stupid system, because of the stupid QWERTY keyboard, and a great way to get a horrible case of RSI.
[17:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:53] <exec> 08└─rubrics
[17:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:55] <exec> 08└─QWERTY keyboards *are* stupid, it's a fact. Any scientific comparison of keyboard types will quickly show you QWERTY is horribly inefficient and very mechanically bad for your fingers (they have to move and contort too much). There's a reason Dvorak invented his keyboard decades ago, and why other...
[17:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 873 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:57] <exec> 08└─My reaction to the root poster was similar: - Learn how to make a columnar list. - Learn how to break up a text blob by using paragraph breaks. . From the list: Learn how to prep a house for a hurricane Doesn't this consist of 1) Get a house built with proper weatherstripping and heavy-duty storm sh...
[17:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Ships 17-Qubit Quantum Chip to Researchers - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:17] <exec> 08└─There've been various proposals using things like spin that aren't temperature sensitive. Quantum computers aren't the same as superconductors, it's just that many implementations mix the two. There've even been proposals depending on light traps. OTOH, it's true that all the working proposals I've...
[17:17:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Ships 17-Qubit Quantum Chip to Researchers - 936 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:18] <exec> 08└─Flip chip, also known as controlled collapse chip connection or its abbreviation, C4, is a method for interconnecting semiconductor devices, such as IC chips and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), to external circuitry with solder bumps that have been deposited onto the chip pads. The technique...
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[18:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06IGN Acquires Humble Bundle - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:32] <exec> 08└─...or did they get it for free?
[18:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IGN Acquires Humble Bundle - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:34] <exec> 08└─Once upon a time Humble Bundle sold exclusively multi-platform and DRM-free games. This was really awesome and I supported it with my dollars. It was also super easy to give them money. Then they started selling DRM-encumbered crap, so I stopped paying them.
[18:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TV Stocks Tumble after AT&T Cord-Cutting Disclosure - 1036 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:46] <exec> 08└─Thanks to internet enabled cable boxes they could even use symmetric key encryption by branch and do individual channel unlocks for *EVERY* customer, or even *EVERY INDIVIDUAL CABLE BOX*. Imagine being able to unlock the porn channels only on the TV in the parents bedroom. Only unlock the kids chann...
[18:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tech Giants, Once Seen as Saviors, Are Now Viewed as Threats - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:23] <exec> 08└─That was like if Russia got Mexico to leave the US sphere of influence for Russia's
[18:10:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tech Giants, Once Seen as Saviors, Are Now Viewed as Threats - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:24] <exec> 08└─AT&T? Alright, JoeMerchant - would you tell me what heinous crimes AT&T committed? I lived through that breakup, just as many other Soylentils did. I should actually remember some of those heinous acts, since I'm among the oldest Soylentils. But, to be perfectly honest, I don't remember any terrible...
[18:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tech Giants, Once Seen as Saviors, Are Now Viewed as Threats - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:26] <exec> 08└─Consider TMB's point and observed reality that republicans, rich and otherwise, are routinely mocked throughout the MSM, while similarly vapid progs are lauded.
[18:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tech Giants, Once Seen as Saviors, Are Now Viewed as Threats - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:28] <exec> 08└─Ho-hum. Sometimes, your monologue on Jews gets tiresome. Once again - I've met real asshole Jews, and I've met other Jews who were as good as any men and women anywhere. As near as I can tell, Jews are just people. I'm far more worried about the lizard people. If you ever figure out how to identify...
[18:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tech Giants, Once Seen as Saviors, Are Now Viewed as Threats - 1028 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:31] <exec> 08└─It is easy to say 'dont be evil' when you are the underdog. But once you are on top you need to stop and think. What if my definition of 'evil' is wrong? Saying you like Hillary or Trump does not seem particularly evil to me. "Russians"/"Nazis" is just a way for people to sooth over their feelings t...
[18:10:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Twitter Temporarily Locks Rose McGowan's Account - 781 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:54] <exec> 08└─NO, we are supposed to get worried because people like you respond like this. You are an example of how ordinary people can be turned into Nazis by propaganda. She is famous, her opponent is famous too. If you remove fame from both sides of the equation, it is quite obvious you are supporting the ra...
[18:11:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Jiro [3176] 02 - 06Twitter Temporarily Locks Rose McGowan's Account - 565 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:03] <exec> 08└─1) She broke a clearly defined rule about doing something (posting a phone number) which it's a bad idea to allow in general. This isn't like all the right-wing bans where the reason for the ban is vague so that Twitter (or Google, etc.) doesn't have to defend their decision. 2) What's the alternati...
[18:11:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Morgan Stanley Analysts See Big Value in SpaceX Following "Mundane" Launches - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:29] <exec> 08└─When you have investor money then you shouldn't aim to be profitable (yet). You need to INVEST IT and spend it on the company. Just like you would if you had profits. If Tesla wanted to be profitable then they could stop building factories and stores but that would drastically slow their company gro...
[18:11:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Both Transunion Central America and Equifax Redirected Visitors to Malware Sites - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:55] <exec> 08└─I usually see it with 3rd-party services. A small business wants to add a live help chat thing to their website but they don't know how to do it. They pay another company for the service which is delivered like a turn-key solution. "Add this snippet of js to your website." Large companies have a sim...
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[18:14:13] <exec> 08└─I also smiled at GP's suggestion of switching to a different keyboard layout. That's fine--until you encounter a kiosk. Just for good measure, let's make it a well-used kiosk where the keyboard is QWERTY and the letters on the keys are worn away. My county library runs Windoze (and Internet Exploder...
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[18:14:14] <exec> 08└─Q: What do you call people who use the "rhythm" method of birth control? A: Parents. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[18:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:17] <exec> 08└─You're making way too much sense, dude. If everybody read between the lines, that would take all the fun out of sniping at Liberal|New Age|"Leftist" parents. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[18:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 681 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:19] <exec> 08└─Dvorak is the whole reason I can touch type. After using it long enough, my fingers finally learned where all the letters are, to the point where I can touch type on a standard QWERTY keyboard that's been remapped to Dvorak by the OS. Since the labels on the physical keys are still QWERTY and almost...
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[19:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IGN Acquires Humble Bundle - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:40] <exec> 08└─Not entirely fair. They were always about charity first, and then the anti-drm positions second. Plus, you could say how much you wanted to pay for the bundles. The DRM-encumbered crap from the larger outfits was only sold because it raised dollars for charity. You can still get DRM-free games from...
[19:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06IGN Acquires Humble Bundle - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:42] <exec> 08└─Always look deeper when somebody says they are raising money for "charity" because they vary widely. Many are disguised political organizations, others just money pits that exist only to raise more money to pay defective people who couldn't survive in the real world, yet others actually try to do go...
[19:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IGN Acquires Humble Bundle - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:44] <exec> 08└─The last bastion of sanity in video gaming
[19:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IGN Acquires Humble Bundle - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:46] <exec> 08└─to pay defective people who couldn't survive in the real world You say that like it's a bad thing.
[19:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03mth [2848] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IGN Acquires Humble Bundle - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:48] <exec> 08└─Humble always specifies which charities will receive money from bundles. For store purchases, you can choose which charity gets a slice of the money, or get store credit. So you don't have to blindly trust their selection of charity.
[19:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TV Stocks Tumble after AT&T Cord-Cutting Disclosure - 2272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:01] <exec> 08└─There is another facet to all of this too. Flexibility of scheduling with DVR and on demand streaming. Those are also eating into what people see as valuable. They overcharge for a DVR then hobble the thing so you can only skip the commercials sometimes. They are smashing 'live' with 'pre recorded'...
[19:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TV Stocks Tumble after AT&T Cord-Cutting Disclosure - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:03] <exec> 08└─I have a degree in economics. It is more 2xx/3xx level classes. 101 is more along the lines of here is how you define a supply curve, here is how you define a demand curve. With a bit of 'what is maximal profit'.
[19:10:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06Tech Giants, Once Seen as Saviors, Are Now Viewed as Threats - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:45] <exec> 08└─Incorrect TL;DR. Should have read "I hate Republicans because I blindly believe whatever the Democrats tell me to." There are legit reasons to hate most any politician. Because they're from the other party is not one of them.
[19:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tech Giants, Once Seen as Saviors, Are Now Viewed as Threats - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:46] <exec> 08└─I'm speaking for the US though, so...
[19:10:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tech Giants, Once Seen as Saviors, Are Now Viewed as Threats - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:48] <exec> 08└─Money means options, power means control. They go together like chocolate and peanut butter but they are not the same thing.
[19:10:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tech Giants, Once Seen as Saviors, Are Now Viewed as Threats - 922 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:50] <exec> 08└─You say you do your "own thinking on the matter." Yet here you are, discussing the news. You seem to be asserting that your thoughts form in a vacuum. Perhaps through sheer strength of will you ignore what people say to you and what the mass media tell you. If so, you're exceptional. Advertising is...
[19:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tech Giants, Once Seen as Saviors, Are Now Viewed as Threats - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:52] <exec> 08└─Slavic languages don't have articles - the a and an
[19:10:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tech Giants, Once Seen as Saviors, Are Now Viewed as Threats - 785 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:55] <exec> 08└─Money is survival, then it is comfort, then power over your own life, then power over other people's lives. Corporations generally start at the power over other people's lives level, then work their way up from there: shaping laws and policies to their own benefit, first locally, then moving on to g...
[19:10:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tech Giants, Once Seen as Saviors, Are Now Viewed as Threats - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:57] <exec> 08└─MSM like Fox news, talk radio, etc.? They and their "base" live in their own echo chambers, and disregard NPR, MSNBC and the rest just like the libtards disregard Rush Limbaugh. The world was a simpler place when everybody listened to Walter Cronkite (or a carbon copy of his script) 5 times a week....
[19:10:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tech Giants, Once Seen as Saviors, Are Now Viewed as Threats - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:59] <exec> 08└─You can have chocolate without peanut butter, and vice versa. Money is a requirement for power, and "power" without money exists only in fiction. There may not be a fixed exchange rate, but they definitely circulate through the same hands.
[19:11:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Temporarily Locks Rose McGowan's Account - 2401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:43] <exec> 08└─I've lived without social media my entire life, and I strongly suspect, that I will for the rest of it. About as certain as the sun rising. It isn't a requirement, unless... you are one of the addicts needing to check on your fellow Twits every 30 seconds. Seriously, social media is a requirement li...
[19:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:45] <exec> 08└─Thus the "unless" clause of my statement. If you can manage it, more power to you.
[19:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:46] <exec> 08└─You sure pulled that one right out of your ass.
[19:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:48] <exec> 08└─> I can easily exceed 90wpm me too, look wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww filter won't be happy
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[20:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Western Digital to Use Microwave Assisted Magnetic Recording to Produce 40 TB HDDs by 2025 - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:34] <exec> 08└─"Microwave oven? Whaddya mean, it's a microwave oven? I've been watching Channel 4 on the thing for two weeks."
[20:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Western Digital to Use Microwave Assisted Magnetic Recording to Produce 40 TB HDDs by 2025 - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:36] <exec> 08└─This is a non-starter for me. I could never back up 40TB to my stack of floppies.
[20:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Western Digital to Use Microwave Assisted Magnetic Recording to Produce 40 TB HDDs by 2025 - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:38] <exec> 08└─Will it heat up my soup without splattering it all over the inside of the microwave?
[20:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IGN Acquires Humble Bundle - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:51] <exec> 08└─They used to be the Woot! of video games, but when Amazon bought Woot! it took a nose dive into bullshitted savings. Humble used to have good deals and there are still some occasionally but not like they used to.
[20:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IGN Acquires Humble Bundle - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:53] <exec> 08└─I always say no to stores etc selling things to raise money for charity, research, etc. They do it to get a tax break for themselves: you give them your money and they get a charitable donation to reduce the taxes that they already pay too little of. DON'T. DO. IT! Don't give them another reason to...
[20:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IGN Acquires Humble Bundle - 1637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:55] <exec> 08└─At a minimum, Wikimedia Foundation [wikipedia.org] and the American Red Cross [wikipedia.org], two orgs that have been supported by Humble Bundle, have some problems. Thought about including it in the summary for a second, but pulled back. https://www.propublica.org
[20:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IGN Acquires Humble Bundle - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:57] <exec> 08└─to pay defective people who couldn't survive in the real world You say that like it's a bad thing.
[20:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TV Stocks Tumble after AT&T Cord-Cutting Disclosure - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:12] <exec> 08└─Back in my day, Econ 101- microeconomics, covered all of supply / demand, including exactly what you mentioned (maximum profit point). But that does NOT take into account what your market will do in response in the long term. It just looks at the instantaneous math; as if nothing else in the univers...
[20:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TV Stocks Tumble after AT&T Cord-Cutting Disclosure - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:13] <exec> 08└─They _used_ to teach long-term planning and investment That is called finance and macroeconomics.
[20:10:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NotSanguine [285] 02 - 06Tech Giants, Once Seen as Saviors, Are Now Viewed as Threats - 148 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:50] <exec> 08└─No, I really don't. Not when the vast majority of news outlets publish from a right-of-center position. The term "mainstream" has an actual meaning.
[20:11:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tech Giants, Once Seen as Saviors, Are Now Viewed as Threats - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:04] <exec> 08└─Not when the vast majority of news outlets publish from a left-of-center position. The term "mainstream" has an actual meaning.
[20:11:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tech Giants, Once Seen as Saviors, Are Now Viewed as Threats - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:05] <exec> 08└─Absolutely, Israel is propped up with money sent there by Jews living overseas... it would never work, economically, if they all went back to the motherland permanently.
[20:11:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tech Giants, Once Seen as Saviors, Are Now Viewed as Threats - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:08] <exec> 08└─O.K. pedant, read the quote: Russian generally refers to the people, not the geographic territory, that would be the Russia to which you refer.
[20:11:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tech Giants, Once Seen as Saviors, Are Now Viewed as Threats - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:10] <exec> 08└─Your definition of "not evil" is somebody else's definition of "positively evil." It's inherent in any competitive society, which the free market strives to be.
[20:11:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tech Giants, Once Seen as Saviors, Are Now Viewed as Threats - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:12] <exec> 08└─I'm speaking for the US though, so...
[20:11:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tech Giants, Once Seen as Saviors, Are Now Viewed as Threats - 877 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:14] <exec> 08└─Exactly my point. If you pick 'dont be evil' you may need to rethink that. As there will be those who think what YOU do, is... H v T was more along the lines of Coke v Pepsi. But stating my like for one over the other is not terrible good but not terribly evil ether. To treat it as your line in the...
[20:11:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tech Giants, Once Seen as Saviors, Are Now Viewed as Threats - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:17] <exec> 08└─Money concentration concerns me because it MEANS power: the more money you have the more potential power you have. Money means you can corrupt others with less money. Money means you can make laws in your favour. Money means you can make things how you want them: pervert the internet how you want li...
[20:11:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Spamalope [5233] 02 - 06Twitter Temporarily Locks Rose McGowan's Account - 1022 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:42] <exec> 08└─Twitter well is known to ignore/excuse policy violations from the famous, powerful and certain political philosophies that are congruent with internal Twitter culture. Twitter is just as well known to ban users for voicing opposition to any of those groups without any objective policy violation. At...
[20:12:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Temporarily Locks Rose McGowan's Account - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:02] <exec> 08└─If you remove fame from both sides of the equation, it is quite obvious you are supporting the rapist at the expense of his victim.
[20:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Kaspersky AV Was Caught Helping Russian Hackers Steal NSA Secrets - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:30] <exec> 08└─> Jewish revenge for...... hmmmmm....... "we will lead every revolution against us" (theodor herzl, coincidentally a jew) The above of course is "poisoning the well", implying no true uprising is possible. Maybe us bots will manage that. Anyway, for all the might of the evil system, I sense their de...
[20:17:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Facebook's Zuckerberg Wants to Get One Billion People in VR - 1595 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:28] <exec> 08└─Zuckerberg is visionary enough to realize the importance of getting everyone to use VR and Augmented Reality, all the time, every day. This will accomplish two very important things. 1. It will get people to stop having their head down stuck in a smart phone while walking or driving. People should n...
[20:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook's Zuckerberg Wants to Get One Billion People in VR - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:11] <exec> 08└─I fail to see how replacing one small screen with two really small screens is going to make much of a difference
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[21:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Western Digital to Use Microwave Assisted Magnetic Recording to Produce 40 TB HDDs by 2025 - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:38] <exec> 08└─Get a tape drive. [newatlas.com]
[21:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Western Digital to Use Microwave Assisted Magnetic Recording to Produce 40 TB HDDs by 2025 - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:40] <exec> 08└─How dependable is your storage device?
[21:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Western Digital to Use Microwave Assisted Magnetic Recording to Produce 40 TB HDDs by 2025 - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:42] <exec> 08└─You'll have to trust WD on this for the moment: https://images.anandtech.com [anandtech.com] https://images.anandtech.com [anandtech.com]
[21:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Western Digital to Use Microwave Assisted Magnetic Recording to Produce 40 TB HDDs by 2025 - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:44] <exec> 08└─I think there is a formula for that. If a 1TB drive is bound to fail shortly after the end of the two year warranty, we can extrapolate that a 2TB drive fails at one year, and let's see... carry the 2... take the reciprocal of the exponent... a 40TB drive is guaranteed to fail before you can ever ge...
[21:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IGN Acquires Humble Bundle - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:02] <exec> 08└─With Humble Bundle, you have been able to choose which charity you want to give too... for at least two years or so. Your rant doesn't apply in this case.
[21:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IGN Acquires Humble Bundle - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:03] <exec> 08└─A lot of the bundles listed here [wikipedia.org] only seem to have raised money for 2-3 charities, not "which charity you want to give too" which implies that you could pick from thousands of recognized charities. Several bundles from its earlier history only raised money for one charity, and only o...
[21:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IGN Acquires Humble Bundle - 3494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:06] <exec> 08└─Love them. They often do just good, cheap software deals. And audiobooks and PDF e-books and all kinds. A lot of the bundles I never buy (but I think I own about the first dozen or so as they were fabulous) and now I just buy the value-for-money ones. Their latest was a set of Pathfinder (D&D) books...
[21:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IGN Acquires Humble Bundle - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:08] <exec> 08└─The stores here in the U.S.A. do that too. The difference is, our stores give receipts. If the IRS ever asks, we show the receipts to document our charitable giving.
[21:11:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tech Giants, Once Seen as Saviors, Are Now Viewed as Threats - 666 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:21] <exec> 08└─money != power That's right. The power is in the exploitation of desire, the object is irrelevant. Has all that money managed to get them anything remotely approaching an impartial hearing by the MSM? Jeeze, man, they won the election. What more can you ask for? And how do you distinguish rich repub...
[21:12:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03http [1920] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Temporarily Locks Rose McGowan's Account - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:08] <exec> 08└─Look in the mirror. You're still part of the problem. My response to an allegation of a criminal offence is to presume innocence.
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[21:12:09] <exec> 08└─pretty much every police officer, lawyer, judge, and juror that a victim will encounter post-assault won't even consider the possibility of guilt, which is what they should be open to as a matter of due process when a complaint comes up
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[22:09:46] <exec> 08└─Obligatory "40 TB is a hell of a porn collection".
[22:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IGN Acquires Humble Bundle - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:08] <exec> 08└─Wikimedia is fully prog-converged [conservapedia.com]. Its leader, the outlaw Jimmy Wales, is a known atheist. [conservapedia.com]
[22:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IGN Acquires Humble Bundle - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:10] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2017-02-27/Op-ed [wikipedia.org]
[22:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IGN Acquires Humble Bundle - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:12] <exec> 08└─Agreed. I supported Electronic Frontier Foundation when they were all about Internet freedom, but then they turned into a transsexual traitor support group and I stopped donating.
[22:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IGN Acquires Humble Bundle - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:14] <exec> 08└─I don't usually give a lot of money to charities, so I see this as a chance to contribute a little. I always select EFF. With indie developers I leave about as much to the developers, but larger studios only get 5 percent or so (0 is such a nasty number). Same with the Humble Tip, +- 5%. Other than...
[22:11:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tech Giants, Once Seen as Saviors, Are Now Viewed as Threats - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:28] <exec> 08└─Wow! If you think positive and negative are even relevant in this context, you are definitely off your rocker. The real issue is one of undue credit, and its diversionary purpose. The sad part is to see supposedly intelligent people swallow it.
[22:12:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Temporarily Locks Rose McGowan's Account - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:17] <exec> 08└─As most sexual assault/harassment reports are of repeat offenders, I believe that it would be helpful to adopt a plan involving an "allegation escrow" that would leverage multiple independent low confidence (by the standards of evidence) allegations to reach a threshold of guilt.
[22:12:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Temporarily Locks Rose McGowan's Account - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:19] <exec> 08└─Because certain people feel you shouldn't be able to speak your opinion. Those certain people are often surprised when the same is applied to them.
[22:17:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Committee Endorses Gene Therapy for a Form of Childhood Blindness - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:35] <exec> 08└─Original AC here. As noted, the FDA panel didn't have any problem with concluding efficacy despite that the researchers failed to use basic tools like blinding the people collecting data. They also didn't seem to be concerned that there are other equally as good explanations for the results. Regardl...
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[23:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Steve Wozniak to Launch an Online Tech Education Platform - 883 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:34] <exec> 08└─I took shop in both seventh and eighth grade. My high school offered lots of different shop classes. Shop students could even bring their own cars to work on during class. All the emphasis on STEM has resulted in shop classes being dropped from the curriculum. Now a whole lotta people who cannot or...
[23:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Steve Wozniak to Launch an Online Tech Education Platform - 813 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:35] <exec> 08└─Plumbers can easily make $300+ on a relatively simple fix. There are millionaire plumbers. Truckers are never out of work and those with TWIC cards can make a lot of money. Also, there are companies offering $10k sign-on bonuses [schneiderjobs.com] for drivers, among other benefits. If a company lik...
[23:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Western Digital to Use Microwave Assisted Magnetic Recording to Produce 40 TB HDDs by 2025 - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:50] <exec> 08└─No, it's just a drop in a sea of c*m [boingboing.net].
[23:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Western Digital to Use Microwave Assisted Magnetic Recording to Produce 40 TB HDDs by 2025 - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:52] <exec> 08└─A man can't walk down the street these days without tripping over two or more people fucking on camera.
[23:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Western Digital to Use Microwave Assisted Magnetic Recording to Produce 40 TB HDDs by 2025 - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:54] <exec> 08└─A long time ago I lost hope of ever using a clean microwave oven. Salmonella nearly killed me back in the day, but I survived. It no longer scares me.
[23:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Western Digital to Use Microwave Assisted Magnetic Recording to Produce 40 TB HDDs by 2025 - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:57] <exec> 08└─It was an elaborate wrapper around wget. Unfortunately wget doesn't have a way to create a checkpoint, exit then resume at the checkpoint. This resulted in me downloading a good chunk of training manuals[*] but never entire sites. [*] My father was a Naval officer.
[23:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Western Digital to Use Microwave Assisted Magnetic Recording to Produce 40 TB HDDs by 2025 - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:59] <exec> 08└─The splattering soup is an iq-test, if you fail to figure out to use an upside down plate (or suitable paper packaging) you get penalized with cleaning the microwave oven ;)
[23:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Western Digital to Use Microwave Assisted Magnetic Recording to Produce 40 TB HDDs by 2025 - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:03] <exec> 08└─Can you post some tagged map locations? I uh seem to be in an area devoid of such wildlife.
[23:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Western Digital to Use Microwave Assisted Magnetic Recording to Produce 40 TB HDDs by 2025 - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:05] <exec> 08└─-c ( or --continue ) skips files that are of equal or smaller size on server compared with local copy. But yeah, no way to create checkpoints (but it can avoid re-downloading files).
[23:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IGN Acquires Humble Bundle - 715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:31] <exec> 08└─The way I see it, even if you have to beat a high average to get all the titles (and I don't think the averages have been very high - like $10-15? - considering you get around 5 games usually), it's a chance to support a charity that you (hopefully) want to donate to. People give plenty of money to...
[23:10:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02 - 06TV Stocks Tumble after AT&T Cord-Cutting Disclosure - 1486 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:39] <exec> 08└─The cable industry will bleed until it fixes the problem driving people to streaming. The oversize bundle. They resist, the content providers really resist but everybody knows it is the primary driver of this cord cutting. And the heart of it is ESPN and the House of Mouse. If people had an option t...
[23:10:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RS3 [6367] 02 - 06TV Stocks Tumble after AT&T Cord-Cutting Disclosure - 280 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:41] <exec> 08└─While it cited several causes — including hurricanes and changing its credit standards for new customers — it was this line in the filing that Wall Street keyed on: "The video net losses were driven by heightened competition in traditional pay TV markets and OTT services ..."
[23:10:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TV Stocks Tumble after AT&T Cord-Cutting Disclosure - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:50] <exec> 08└─The big thing that keeps most on Cable is sports. With the NFL flag spitting protests, This is undoubtedly accelerating the number of cancellations.
[23:11:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03srobert [4803] 02 - 06Tech Giants, Once Seen as Saviors, Are Now Viewed as Threats - 44 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:08] <exec> 08└─"Money != Power" What planet do you live on?
[23:11:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Study Finds Even Publishers Oppose the "Link Tax" - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:58] <exec> 08└─This law would be like reverse SEO for news publishers. The idea that those site pay thousands of euro's to shady SEO companies to get top ranks in Google, but then don't because Google will refuse to pay link tax makes me laugh.
[23:12:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Temporarily Locks Rose McGowan's Account - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:40] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, this would be easily gamed
[23:13:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fritsd [4586] 02 - 06Both Transunion Central America and Equifax Redirected Visitors to Malware Sites - 189 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:17] <exec> 08└─(...) both hosted fireclick.js, a JavaScript file that appears to invoke the service serving the malicious content. When called, fireclick.js pulls content from a long chain of pages, (...)
[23:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Kaspersky AV Was Caught Helping Russian Hackers Steal NSA Secrets - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:08] <exec> 08└─On July 25, 1898, during the Spanish–American War, the U.S. invaded Puerto Rico [wikipedia.org]
[23:15:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Parents Want More Life Skills to Be Taught in School - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:47] <exec> 08└─Perhaps he is an elderly dotard? A similar uproar as a result of a collective lack of comprehension ensued. As an American myself, I was agog at my compatriots lack of literary awareness. Then I had to explain the word 'agog' to them as well. The far side of the moon is not far enough away for me to...
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