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[00:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Take a Walk On Mars—in Your Own Living Room - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:43] <exec> 08└─Nah, that's easy. Sit in one of those pneumatic chairs and quickly let the air out.
[00:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Lancet Report Says Pollution Caused 9 Million Premature Deaths in 2015 - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:04] <exec> 08└─Again with the stupidity. Boring.
[00:10:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03KiloByte [375] 02 - 06Ubuntu 17.10 Released - 290 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:16] <exec> 08└─Even more of a reason to stay clear. Wayland is pretty solidly in my "do not want" land, as I use "hard-to-discover easter eggs" such as mouse paste [gnome.org] or first-class network transparency. Not to mention Wayland doesn't support most graphics drivers, especially if you go past x86.
[00:10:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu 17.10 Released - 597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:47] <exec> 08└─Mir got a LOT of flak, and deservedly IMO: they started development of it *after* Wayland was announced and started its development, so it became in effect a competitor, though Mark later tried to argue that they had different goals. There was every indication that they were doing it because of thei...
[00:10:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu 17.10 Released - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:49] <exec> 08└─Sounds completely backwards to me. Linux will run whatever software has been ported to it. Again: Your single-platform software vendors suck. To give an example, there are thousands of games (a traditional Windoze-only stronghold) that run just fine under Linux. (It's a fair bet that those vendors (...
[00:10:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu 17.10 Released - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:51] <exec> 08└─Enlightenment is moving to Wayland so you know Wayland is awesome. Fuck! I mean not Awesome, because that's all X all the way. Wayland is Enlightened. Yes. That's it, so very Enlightened.
[00:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu 17.10 Released - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:53] <exec> 08└─Linux doesn't run the vast majority of useful software for industry and engineering. We are talking about massively complex systems. And no, it's not the fault of the people writing these pieces of software, for the most part. Linux is a massive pile of shit to support a binary distribution on. Part...
[00:11:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] 02 - 06Prototypes for Trump's Wall, Including Israeli Model, Take Shape on Border - 1493 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:35] <exec> 08└─Trump himself has made the wall totally pointless. I'm about to actually say something good about Trump, I may need to shower afterwards. He proved that just by enforcing existing laws in a publicly visible way, that border crossings dropped dramatically. Obama did not achieve that even though he ha...
[00:12:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prototypes for Trump's Wall, Including Israeli Model, Take Shape on Border - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:25] <exec> 08└─It can't be done, but they did it? Huh?
[00:12:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prototypes for Trump's Wall, Including Israeli Model, Take Shape on Border - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:27] <exec> 08└─Jews are a race. Judaism is not a religion like other religions. Adopting Judaism does not make one a Jew. You have to be born to real Jews to be a Jew. The Israelis are not Jews.
[00:12:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prototypes for Trump's Wall, Including Israeli Model, Take Shape on Border - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:29] <exec> 08└─Because Democrats raise holy hell when anyone tries to verify someone is eligible to vote before they do. Why is that, do you think?
[00:12:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prototypes for Trump's Wall, Including Israeli Model, Take Shape on Border - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:31] <exec> 08└─Your link says the price can be as little as $100 per round.
[00:12:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prototypes for Trump's Wall, Including Israeli Model, Take Shape on Border - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:33] <exec> 08└─>I am a bit surprised that there doesn't seem to be more concertina- or barbed-wires or just more spikes and razors. Don't blame me; I voted for Ted Cruz.
[00:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Volcanic Eruptions Linked to the Downfall of the Last Ancient Egyptian Dynasty - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:01] <exec> 08└─Here's the part of that I liked especially: the scientists are proposing to use the heated water as a source of geothermal energy, potentially powering the entire Yellowstone region with heat from the volcano
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[01:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Take a Walk On Mars—in Your Own Living Room - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:49] <exec> 08└─The headline talks of "taking a walk" on Mars with this VR tech. The chair thing is kinda fun (I just tried it), but it's not a simulation for walking.
[01:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Take a Walk On Mars—in Your Own Living Room - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:50] <exec> 08└─"Open your miiind...Open your miiiiind"
[01:10:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu 17.10 Released - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:57] <exec> 08└─The Windows10 of Linux distros
[01:10:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu 17.10 Released - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:59] <exec> 08└─So the 18.04 LTS (which I would wait for and not install betaware) will be codenamed Bashful Bear or Basking Baboon? Followed by Cunning Centipede, Darting Deer, ...
[01:11:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hemocyanin [186] 02 - 06Prototypes for Trump's Wall, Including Israeli Model, Take Shape on Border - 312 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:48] <exec> 08└─The Berlin wall was designed to keep citizens IN more than non-citizens OUT. Not exactly a great analogy. Look, I'm a pinko lefty and all that. But even I can comprehend why the oligarchy is for open immigration - it means they get to import third world wages right here at home without the bother of...
[01:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prototypes for Trump's Wall, Including Israeli Model, Take Shape on Border - 832 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:36] <exec> 08└─Let me handle that. Voting when you aren't registered to is a felony. If it was the slightest bit true, the prisons would be full of those folks and Buzzard could give us a long list--instead of zip, the way he did. ...and when you hear about this stuff, it's always Republicans who are the offenders...
[01:12:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Prototypes for Trump's Wall, Including Israeli Model, Take Shape on Border - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:37] <exec> 08└─To be pedantic, the second link says Perhaps the primary reason RPG-7s are so popular is the low cost—anywhere from $500-2 000 for a launcher and $100-500 per rocket.
[01:12:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prototypes for Trump's Wall, Including Israeli Model, Take Shape on Border - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:39] <exec> 08└─Illegally exploiting cheap labor from across the border needs to be stopped I never thought that I would hear Buzzard say "Workers of the world, unite!" That's what you're saying. Right? -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[01:12:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prototypes for Trump's Wall, Including Israeli Model, Take Shape on Border - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:42] <exec> 08└─As of April 2015, the list included 6 more: Adam Gadahn Ahmed Farouq Samir Khan Bottom Jude Kenan Mohammed Warren Weinstein -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[01:12:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Prototypes for Trump's Wall, Including Israeli Model, Take Shape on Border - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:44] <exec> 08└─I promised the great, great American people that I would stop the illegals. Building the Wall is a huge part of that. And I also promised to stop the green cards. President Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of foreign workers entering the United States, until our country's...
[01:12:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Prototypes for Trump's Wall, Including Israeli Model, Take Shape on Border - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:46] <exec> 08└─100% correct. The #FakeNews #MSM never covers those alt-left protesters, I call them rioters, in Berkeley. ZERO coverage. Because it doesn't serve the Dem agenda. I know that President Obama said global warming is the biggest threat. I totally disagree. I say that the alt-left is the greatest immedi...
[01:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Bans Foreign Waste – But What Will Happen to the World's Recycling? - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:10] <exec> 08└─> Even if we handle our own recycling in this country we can't afford to do anything with the recycled materials. I think this says something about the price (very cheap) of petroleum based plastics. The refining process is highly developed/optimized, so it's tough to compete against it with recycle...
[01:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Approves Gene Therapy for Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:38] <exec> 08└─Is it as simple as two types? I read up on this (a friend died from it) several years ago and my memory is that there were many varieties.
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[02:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03https [5248] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Canada's CSE Spy Agency Releases Malware Analysis Tool - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:34] <exec> 08└─Someone named a repository tool after the digital equivalent of a black hole.
[02:10:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu 17.10 Released - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:55] <exec> 08└─Bullshit. Those developers want the proprietary lock-in black box they get from windows. They see 'other' OS's as a risky waste of time and money.
[02:10:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu 17.10 Released - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:56] <exec> 08└─I dual booted my new Windows 10 preloaded laptop a year ago thinking I would switch back to Windows for games. I never did. Now I am working out how I can blat the Windows partition nicely to have another version of Linux on the hardware instead of in a VM
[02:12:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prototypes for Trump's Wall, Including Israeli Model, Take Shape on Border - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:39] <exec> 08└─Yeah. The "history" related by TheGratefulNet is pretty weak. The Battle of the Alamo (Republic of Texas): 1836 The Mexican-American War: 1846 - 1848 The Balfour Declaration which established British support of a Jewish homeland in Palestine: 1917 The State of Israel founded: 1948 -- OriginalOwner_...
[02:12:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Prototypes for Trump's Wall, Including Israeli Model, Take Shape on Border - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:41] <exec> 08└─That's totally wrong, and a very mean thing to say. The Wall is not for me. Trust me, it's not a monument to my greatness. There are beautiful statues and monuments to me all around the world. Many with gold leaf, they call it gilt. Some nudes, very classy nudes. Which is tremendous and very appropr...
[02:12:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Prototypes for Trump's Wall, Including Israeli Model, Take Shape on Border - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:43] <exec> 08└─I don’t think there’s anything *wrong* with that.
[02:12:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prototypes for Trump's Wall, Including Israeli Model, Take Shape on Border - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:45] <exec> 08└─So, local governments are not using local taxes to do the jobs of federal employees in rounding up "illegal immigrants". What if those local cops did the efficient thing and rounded up the folks who are hiring the "illegal immigrants" and held those folks for the feds? Seems so much easier. -- Origi...
[02:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Senators Question Apple on Chinese App Store VPN Ban - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:07] <exec> 08└─The Chinese version is better. It tells you clearly and without doubt that this here link is not secured. Do not use it for anything that you wouldn't want printed in a newspaper; that includes your bank account, your healthcare reports, and the like. The Western version pretends that there is secur...
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[03:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada's CSE Spy Agency Releases Malware Analysis Tool - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:43] <exec> 08└─Now they've stolen and released Canada's Top Secret Protection Tools, and made it look like Canada is at fault!! Or something like that. We're just gonna have to nuke Russia.
[03:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Lancet Report Says Pollution Caused 9 Million Premature Deaths in 2015 - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:16] <exec> 08└─Yes, Jesus Christ would say such things in this day and age. Even a Judas like you would be given loving treatment.
[03:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lancet Report Says Pollution Caused 9 Million Premature Deaths in 2015 - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:18] <exec> 08└─I like to imagine that EF is asking questions and recording the answers of people who seriously try and answer. "What do you say when dumbshits say blah blah shit blah blah puke?" The incompetent way of gathering better responses.
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[03:11:09] <exec> 08└─It's more like buying a car that can't drive on the roads that I need to travel No. It's more like a company saying "We'll make oil filters for Fords but not for Chevys." -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[03:11:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu 17.10 Released - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:11] <exec> 08└─Now I am working out how I can blat the Windows partition nicely to have another version of Linux on the hardware instead of in a VM I heard that gparted (the GNOME Partition Editor), which comes with just about every Linux distro, can handle the task. I've also heard that you should only use MICROS...
[03:11:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu 17.10 Released - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:13] <exec> 08└─The moment before the vendor clicked "Compile", it wasn't a binary. What's keeping them from selecting "Compile as a Linux binary"? As rylyeh notes, this isn't a choice made to expand the company's user base--which your typical company would like to do. This choice is about lock-in. ...and the idea...
[03:13:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Prototypes for Trump's Wall, Including Israeli Model, Take Shape on Border - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:00] <exec> 08└─See, I wonder if Trump even knows about the wall that came down in 1989? That one started construction in 1961 and had a pretty successful run reducing border crossings for 28 years. A lot to learn from that experience: frontier zones, shoot to kill towers, etc. Also: what people on both sides thoug...
[03:13:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jelizondo [653] 02 - 06China Bans Foreign Waste – But What Will Happen to the World's Recycling? - 909 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:22] <exec> 08└─I think you’re right, with few employees manufacturing can come back to U.S. and it will probably do so: reduced cost of shipping, more availability of raw materials, no language difficulties, no danger of import tariffs, etc. However, all those jobs are gone, no matter what anyone says. And no, m...
[03:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Approves Gene Therapy for Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma - 994 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:55] <exec> 08└─Two types is probably an oversimplification, two groups would be closer, but the the effect is almost the same. Chemo either cures or does nothing, it doesn't seem to have a range of delaying responses like chemo does with most cancers. I too did a lot of reading on it a few years back when a close...
[03:16:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Links Pregnant Women's Exposure to Air Pollution to Shorter Telomeres in Babies - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:27] <exec> 08└─BBQ contributes, no doubt, as does auto exhaust, but when you stand next to the big chemical plants you can clearly see that they are what sets SouthEast Houston apart from other places - sure they're filtered, but not effectively, not all the time, and not for every chemical. BBQ and auto exhaust d...
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[04:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada's CSE Spy Agency Releases Malware Analysis Tool - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:49] <exec> 08└─The Canadian spy agency seems to concentrate on defence first. Unlike NSA, preferring to shoot itself in the foot first (and ask questions later).
[04:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada's CSE Spy Agency Releases Malware Analysis Tool - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:50] <exec> 08└─We're just gonna have to nuke Russia.
[04:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Lancet Report Says Pollution Caused 9 Million Premature Deaths in 2015 - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:25] <exec> 08└─I am not trying to gather data. What I am trying to do is see how others gather data.
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[04:11:19] <exec> 08└─Barfing Butterfly Crapping Camel Domineering Donkey Eloping Earwig Ducking Ferret
[04:13:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Prototypes for Trump's Wall, Including Israeli Model, Take Shape on Border - 885 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:08] <exec> 08└─You weren't paying attention, State and local governments are forbidden from enforcing immigration law, Obama took that to SCOTUS. Yes it is insane, yes the States should have raised Hell and stopped enforcing any other Federal Law they didn't particularly love in protest. Coulda, woulda, shoulda, d...
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[04:13:16] <exec> 08└─That trash was paying part of the cost of ships going back and forth to China. It thus reduced the cost of good bought from China, making the American worker less competitive. That trash was raw material. China does all the factory work, and the USA is just a consumer. It's better that the USA find...
[04:15:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Volcanic Eruptions Linked to the Downfall of the Last Ancient Egyptian Dynasty - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:40] <exec> 08└─just under 1 foot of uplift per year, lately.
[04:18:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Over 75% Decline in Insect Biomass Measured in German Nature Reserves - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:50] <exec> 08└─The problem with your wall of text is that as technology improves, resources become reserves and things that weren't considered resources now will be considered resources in the future. They also go on and point out that phosphate rock is a limited resource, and not renewable.
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[05:09:34] <exec> 08└─How To Play... Marble GalleryGGYYYEAAHHAHA? [youtube.com] Hell Yeah You Do, niggah!
[05:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06F-Droid 1.0 for Android Released 2017/10/20 - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:42] <exec> 08└─Ok, I updated F-Droid and it didn't show as an update. Looked at the F-Droid app manually and it showed the 1.0 update available. Installed and it lost the shortcut icon but it is still listed in the full list of apps and it runs. Looks much nicer. Congrats to the F-Droid team for yet more awesome F...
[05:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Canada's CSE Spy Agency Releases Malware Analysis Tool - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:53] <exec> 08└─CSE works hand-in-glove with the NSA and GCHQ, the leaders of the spy-on-all-citizens movement. Do we really trust software from any of that crew?
[05:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lancet Report Says Pollution Caused 9 Million Premature Deaths in 2015 - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:30] <exec> 08└─Experts on topic like economists, psychologists, astrologers, medical researchers. You are a boot-licking, authority ass-kissing sheep.
[05:11:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu 17.10 Released - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:11:25] <exec> 08└─I had to Google up some magic (rebuild three packages) to get MATE working on a Thinkpad with power management. But it has been a year now and Praise Bob it 'just works!' Devuan is the answer to "What the Hell happened to Linux? How do I get a traditional distro back?" And if Stable is too old for y...
[05:11:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu 17.10 Released - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:11:26] <exec> 08└─No. A TRS-80 better than Windows 10? Yea, it actually does something useful and doesn't betray you. A ZX-10? I played with one of those once. Oh Hell no.
[05:11:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rice University Expert: Be Concerned that Apps Collect, Share Health Data - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:11:52] <exec> 08└─To be fair health insurance is changing to allow charging more for preexisting conditions. Hence it matters more to the users that their insurance rates could go up instead of just getting more poorly targetted marketing aimed at them.
[05:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Prototypes for Trump's Wall, Including Israeli Model, Take Shape on Border - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:18] <exec> 08└─Has the Onion moved into real jornalism?
[05:18:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spain Moves Forward With Plan to Suspend Catalonia's Autonomy - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:41] <exec> 08└─America has always had fascist tendencies, ask General Butler (if he was alive). Don't forget that it was Germany that declared war on the USA first.
[05:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Over 75% Decline in Insect Biomass Measured in German Nature Reserves - 2011 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:04] <exec> 08└─You're right. As technology shifts, so do reserves. However, there's nothing on the horizon that promises a revolution in chemistry that changes the kinds of rocks that prompt that sort of re-evaluation of reserves versus resources. Is it hypothetically possible? Sure. In the same sense that it's to...
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[06:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Great Tits May be Evolving Longer Beaks to Adapt to Bird Feeders - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:38] <exec> 08└─But I only read it for the articles.
[06:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lancet Report Says Pollution Caused 9 Million Premature Deaths in 2015 - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:33] <exec> 08└─Ah ha...so you are another Russian bot out to fuck with us.
[06:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Lancet Report Says Pollution Caused 9 Million Premature Deaths in 2015 - 763 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:35] <exec> 08└─They will do everything they can to place the burden of proof upon everybody they can except for themselves. They preach diversity, but hire 75% Whites and 25% Asians and the vast majority of those combined are males. But that's a risk they are willing to take, because if they actually practiced wha...
[06:10:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] 02 - 06Ubuntu 17.10 Released - 548 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:52] <exec> 08└─At this point I'm seriously convinced that Canonical has long been infiltrated by Microsoft loyalists and others who don't want it to succeed. Ubuntu had plenty of chances to be THE Windows killer. It had the chance to usher in Linux as being "ready for the desktop." Then their business decisions we...
[06:11:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06Ubuntu 17.10 Released - 1873 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:11:04] <exec> 08└─At this point I'm seriously convinced that Canonical has long been infiltrated by Microsoft loyalists and others who don't want it to succeed. Ubuntu had plenty of chances to be THE Windows killer. It had the chance to usher in Linux as being "ready for the desktop." Then their business decisions we...
[06:11:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu 17.10 Released - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:11:33] <exec> 08└─Since the software is several orders of magnitude more expensive than the OS, that's more like "No, we won't change our Ford to use a Chevy oil filter."
[06:11:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu 17.10 Released - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:11:34] <exec> 08└─If cross platform graphics support is so easy, why wouldn't everyone do it? The fact is that you can't just recompile Windows software to run on Linux. Do you know anything about how professional grade software is developed? Especially software that's been continually added onto since 1980, and stil...
[06:11:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu 17.10 Released - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:11:36] <exec> 08└─They don't want to spend millions of dollars on cross platform development and support for a tiny niche market. There's a bit more to it than clicking "compile for Linux."
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[07:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Great Tits May be Evolving Longer Beaks to Adapt to Bird Feeders - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:45] <exec> 08└─British birds are smarter than European, right?
[07:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Great Tits May be Evolving Longer Beaks to Adapt to Bird Feeders - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:46] <exec> 08└─Wait - is this a Buzzard submission? Part of that massive submission of massive boobies, or whatever the hell Ari was bitching about? The lack of attribution for the submission confuses me . . .
[07:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Great Tits May be Evolving Longer Beaks to Adapt to Bird Feeders - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:48] <exec> 08└─Look again (don't get distracted by the tits).
[07:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Great Tits May be Evolving Longer Beaks to Adapt to Bird Feeders - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:50] <exec> 08└─Ahhh, my bad, must have been something in my eye?
[07:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Great Tits May be Evolving Longer Beaks to Adapt to Bird Feeders - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:53] <exec> 08└─No. The smart British birds are not a myth, but a mythunderthtanding. They did exist, but mass migrated to North America centuries ago, leaving only the slowest and stupidest behind to produce the current British population, which manages today to make even the French look quick-witted and urbane as...
[07:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada's CSE Spy Agency Releases Malware Analysis Tool - 1071 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:11] <exec> 08└─Ehhh - AC's are kinda like me - they're going to do whatever they are going to do. I suppose a wee bit of background is in order. At work, we have this nutso guy in charge of our department. He's all the time telling us stupid shit, and even stupider shit that he wants us to do. His every order has...
[07:10:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lancet Report Says Pollution Caused 9 Million Premature Deaths in 2015 - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:51] <exec> 08└─Save the gay whales
[07:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Bans Foreign Waste – But What Will Happen to the World's Recycling? - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:06] <exec> 08└─No, I don't think so, else it would be simple to explain, given so few words in your post. Who are these "fat cats" keeping you from starting to recycle in bulk? If they're government agents (regardless of who supports them), it is a political problem involving coercion using lethal force. If you cl...
[07:17:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Study Links Pregnant Women's Exposure to Air Pollution to Shorter Telomeres in Babies - 1222 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:01] <exec> 08└─Pollution moved us out of Houston, plain and simple. Salary and benefits were better there, job market was more robust there, cost of living was lower there, good BBQ restaurants on every corner there, people were friendly and happy there (being able to afford to live well, did I mention BBQ?, will...
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[08:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Great Tits May be Evolving Longer Beaks to Adapt to Bird Feeders - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:48] <exec> 08└─I'd be surprised if this wasn't happening, but the speed of microevolution can often surprise us. This effect is very close to what was noticed in the early research [wikipedia.org] done by none other than Charles Darwin himself on Galapagos finches. These isolated populations of birds diverged sign...
[08:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Great Tits May be Evolving Longer Beaks to Adapt to Bird Feeders - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:49] <exec> 08└─Tits are not boobies! Don't get the two confused. A booby [wikipedia.org] is a sea bird. A tit [wikipedia.org] is found inland.
[08:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Great Tits May be Evolving Longer Beaks to Adapt to Bird Feeders - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:51] <exec> 08└─Birdfeeders? I thought they were evolving to help attract potential mates.
[08:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06F-Droid 1.0 for Android Released 2017/10/20 - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:00] <exec> 08└─Before going to google play I try f-droid. Much easier to find gpl stuff that just work needing the minimum amount of privilege. Highly recommended.
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[09:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alphabet Deploys Project Loon Balloons to Puerto Rico - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:37] <exec> 08└─Don't spy those poor bastards!
[09:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Great Tits May be Evolving Longer Beaks to Adapt to Bird Feeders - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:54] <exec> 08└─I thought they were evolving to help attract potential mates.
[09:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06F-Droid 1.0 for Android Released 2017/10/20 - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:04] <exec> 08└─Is there built-in support for PGP signatures or the like?
[09:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canada's CSE Spy Agency Releases Malware Analysis Tool - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:17] <exec> 08└─Yes, Canada is, along with the US, UK, New Zealand, and Australia, part of the Five Eyes [wikipedia.org].
[09:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Take a Walk On Mars—in Your Own Living Room - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:30] <exec> 08└─yeah! best song in the.... 80s. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[09:11:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu 17.10 Released - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:11:57] <exec> 08└─Mouse paste is a hard-to-discover Easter egg? Actually it took me years to find out that it was not the only way to do Copy/Paste under X.
[09:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Bans Foreign Waste – But What Will Happen to the World's Recycling? - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:14] <exec> 08└─I think joblessness is here to stay.
[09:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Bans Foreign Waste – But What Will Happen to the World's Recycling? - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:16] <exec> 08└─It goes even further. I read a story recently about European bottles water being shipped to Asia from Europe and Asian bottled water shipped back to Asia. Production and transport of these bottles was lower than its price for which it was sold on the market. The people doing that also had large stak...
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[10:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Bank Downgrades Chipotle, Complaining It Pays Workers Too Much - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:35] <exec> 08└─When kid wants to know why we can't have nice things. Money is about control, the less money, the most control. This is why mafia literally swimming in money keep their territory poor. This is why this downgrade means nothing. People, and nations, who followed the finance guru institutions, got fsck...
[10:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hardness [4766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Great Tits May be Evolving Longer Beaks to Adapt to Bird Feeders - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:00] <exec> 08└─"Great Tits..." You have my attention, Soylent. "...May be evolving..." Okay, yeah, Fuck yeah. "...Longer..." What? Nipples? Viens? Streams of Milk? How has evolution impacted Great Tits? I hope it's not the breast itself. My National Geographic days are far behind me! "...Beaks..." Fuck you, Soylen...
[10:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Great Tits May be Evolving Longer Beaks to Adapt to Bird Feeders - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:02] <exec> 08└─Do you mean a European Great Tit, or an African Great Tit?
[10:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada's CSE Spy Agency Releases Malware Analysis Tool - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:25] <exec> 08└─Not really. The CSE is just as determined to have a file on every Canadian citizen as the NSA is doing on every US citizen, even though in both cases it's illegal.
[10:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada's CSE Spy Agency Releases Malware Analysis Tool - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:26] <exec> 08└─The "file on each citizen" is one issue, the preference to defence first, offence second is something different.
[10:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada's CSE Spy Agency Releases Malware Analysis Tool - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:29] <exec> 08└─Do we really trust software from any of that crew?
[10:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada's CSE Spy Agency Releases Malware Analysis Tool - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:31] <exec> 08└─Ehhh - AC's are kinda like me - they're going to do whatever they are going to do.
[10:12:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu 17.10 Released - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:12:12] <exec> 08└─the UI is boring as fuck
[10:14:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Prototypes for Trump's Wall, Including Israeli Model, Take Shape on Border - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:05] <exec> 08└─> Has the Onion moved into real jornalism? The fact nobody can tell, or be sure, says a lot about the state of the modern world.
[10:18:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Beryllium Sphere (r) (5062) 02 - 06NASA Unlikely to Have Enough Plutonium-238 for Missions by the Mid-2020s - 251 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:08] <exec> 08└─Chalk and cheese. There's all the difference in the world between Pu-238 and PU-239. Pu-238 can't sustain a chain reaction and spends its activity making alpha particles which even very light shielding will stop. So it just sits there generating heat.
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[11:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Bank Downgrades Chipotle, Complaining It Pays Workers Too Much - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:36] <exec> 08└─...saying that they pay their executives too much?
[11:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Disagree) 02 - 06Bank Downgrades Chipotle, Complaining It Pays Workers Too Much - 1809 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:37] <exec> 08└─Money is just a logistics technology; not only does money make it possible to account for resources, but when combined with capitalism, it allows for finding which allocation of resources makes the most sense to society, including finding which people should be the ones making the decisions about re...
[11:09:38] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06Bank Downgrades Chipotle, Complaining It Pays Workers Too Much - 240 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:39] <exec> 08└─In other news, Chipotle downgraded Bank of America and warned workers that the employer will "underperform", complaining that the bank is paying its investors too much, and that cutting investor costs further will be difficult for the bank.
[11:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Bank Downgrades Chipotle, Complaining It Pays Workers Too Much - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:41] <exec> 08└─The problem is that workers are treated as resources rather than as humans.
[11:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 0, Flamebait) 02 - 06Bank Downgrades Chipotle, Complaining It Pays Workers Too Much - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:44] <exec> 08└─The more we get the Jews fighting against their own kind, the more we win. Actually, I didn't mean that. What I meant was getting the Jews fighting against the good goys. Social Justice! We control the means of production! In Boston! In San Francisco!
[11:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bank Downgrades Chipotle, Complaining It Pays Workers Too Much - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:46] <exec> 08└─Technically you probably could. If you become a stockholder. But to actually lower bonuses and such you probably need to be the absolute majority stockholder so it will probably be somewhat expensive.
[11:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bank Downgrades Chipotle, Complaining It Pays Workers Too Much - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:48] <exec> 08└─Maybe he can get it posted on a billboard near the NYSE, and do a blurb on his show about it to boot :)
[11:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Great Tits May be Evolving Longer Beaks to Adapt to Bird Feeders - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:14] <exec> 08└─Why does this make me want to go motor-boating?
[11:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Great Tits May be Evolving Longer Beaks to Adapt to Bird Feeders - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:16] <exec> 08└─Bird feeders may not be the best way to attract great tits.
[11:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06F-Droid 1.0 for Android Released 2017/10/20 - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:26] <exec> 08└─Why should I bother with application binaries when android phones and tablet likely ship with closed source drivers, too big and frequent to be custom rebuilt android updates, radio modem chips that can access memory? If you need a trusted platform for mobile, you have much work to do. Reduced privi...
[11:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06F-Droid 1.0 for Android Released 2017/10/20 - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:28] <exec> 08└─Yes, they are all signed. Applications in the main repository are signed by the f-droid keys, and the system will complain if you try to install the same application from a different source, such as the Play store (you are required to uninstall the application from one repository before installing i...
[11:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada's CSE Spy Agency Releases Malware Analysis Tool - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:46] <exec> 08└─"You can lead a horse to water..." but if you take your eyes off of him, he'll drink your beer.
[11:12:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu 17.10 Released - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:12:29] <exec> 08└─It was auto-magical: everything worked out of the box for me. No messing with config files, was pretty. Basically, the Ubuntu of back then. It was scary enough for MS to shut it down. Just....memories, basically. Great memories. And Canadian!
[11:13:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Prototypes for Trump's Wall, Including Israeli Model, Take Shape on Border - 105 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:13:34] <exec> 08└─Enough room for a mine field perhaps or the option to shoot to kill anything that gets close to the wall.
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[12:09:34] <exec> 08└─Does anyone know how to visit the site and see public profiles without logging in? lately, no matter the browser or source ip address, i get blocked by an authentication wall that prompts me to log in i just want to see more about the recruiter that emailed or texted me. it i am the product then at...
[12:09:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06Bank Downgrades Chipotle, Complaining It Pays Workers Too Much - 75 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:45] <exec> 08└─The problem is that workers are treated as resources rather than as humans.
[12:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bank Downgrades Chipotle, Complaining It Pays Workers Too Much - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:50] <exec> 08└─Brian Moynihan, CEO of Bank of America, took $20.2 million in pay in 2016. Steve Ells, CEO of Chipotle, took $25.1 million in pay in 2013. Ells has been criticized for taking more pay than the executives of Ford, Boeing, and AT&T, and investors actually rejected a pay plan that would have paid Ells...
[12:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Great Tits May be Evolving Longer Beaks to Adapt to Bird Feeders - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:18] <exec> 08└─why not? it's where all the peckers are at!
[12:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Great Tits May be Evolving Longer Beaks to Adapt to Bird Feeders - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:20] <exec> 08└─"...Beaks..." Fuck you, Soylent.
[12:11:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lancet Report Says Pollution Caused 9 Million Premature Deaths in 2015 - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:11:30] <exec> 08└─It's not that straightforward. More people -> more research -> greater industrial efficiency -> less pollution.
[12:12:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rice University Expert: Be Concerned that Apps Collect, Share Health Data - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:12:58] <exec> 08└─do not participate in "employee wellness", especially if they have contests that involve fitness trackers and $150 or so in potential reward money for your willing involvement. those tend to have leaky privacy policies
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[12:15:18] <exec> 08└─fucking 'loot crates' and daddies credit card are to blame, and the occasional whale that and curated content. fuck that. dont want their opinions never asked why cant i turn it off. i so wish i could turn off updates to skyrim or fo4 and never have gotten that commercial club or whatever that store...
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[13:09:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Bank Downgrades Chipotle, Complaining It Pays Workers Too Much - 50 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:44] <exec> 08└─...saying that they pay their executives too much?
[13:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bank Downgrades Chipotle, Complaining It Pays Workers Too Much - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:53] <exec> 08└─Ford, yep the company that paid its workers top dollar so they could eventually afford Fords.
[13:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada's CSE Spy Agency Releases Malware Analysis Tool - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:52] <exec> 08└─but if you take your eyes off of him, he'll drink your beer.
[13:11:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06Ubuntu 17.10 Released - 787 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:11:58] <exec> 08└─the UI is boring as fuck This point is wrong and stupid, simply because there is no "Mint UI", there's 4 of them: KDE, Cinnamon, MATE, and Xcfe. If you don't like one of them, that's fine, but I'm quite sure you haven't tried all four of them and found them to be "boring as fuck". As for crashing a...
[13:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu 17.10 Released - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:37] <exec> 08└─Bullshit. If you are making a binary-only distribution, you just have to ship all your libraries with your binary and set your library load path accordingly. That's already the standard Windows way of doing things for the most part.
[13:13:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rice University Expert: Be Concerned that Apps Collect, Share Health Data - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:04] <exec> 08└─"Health data" should not be treated any differently than other 'data' on you. Data is data is data is data.
[13:15:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 Adds "TruePlay" Anti-Cheating Feature - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:26] <exec> 08└─More nonsense that's only possible because Windows is a proprietary piece of trash that no one should ever use.
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[14:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03fliptop [1666] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bank Downgrades Chipotle, Complaining It Pays Workers Too Much - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:53] <exec> 08└─workers are treated as resources rather than as humans
[14:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bank Downgrades Chipotle, Complaining It Pays Workers Too Much - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:54] <exec> 08└─No, because that would imply that HR themselves are human.
[14:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bank Downgrades Chipotle, Complaining It Pays Workers Too Much - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:56] <exec> 08└─Bank of America Merrill Lynch downgraded Chipotle and warned investors that ... the restaurant chain is paying its workers too much, and that cutting labor costs further will be difficult for the chain.
[14:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hardness [4766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Great Tits May be Evolving Longer Beaks to Adapt to Bird Feeders - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:27] <exec> 08└─In a world of misread headlines, No one has better Tits than Virginia D. Ntata...
[14:12:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu 17.10 Released - 3574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:43] <exec> 08└─This simply isn't true. I'm sitting here on a fresh install of 17.10 and the default installation includes X: root@skynet:~# lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 17.10 Release: 17.10 Codename: artful root@skynet:~# dpkg -l | grep...
[14:12:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu 17.10 Released - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:45] <exec> 08└─Sure. Last time I logged back into Windows just to change the partitions without buggering up the whole disk. The Windows partition is reporting as being "locked" (wtf), so right now I am seriously considering just wiping the whole disk and starting again. One partition for Linux daily use, one for...
[14:12:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu 17.10 Released - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:47] <exec> 08└─+1 for Knoppix back in the day :)
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[15:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$417 Million Talc Cancer Verdict Against Johnson & Johnson Tossed Out - 1589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:36] <exec> 08└─At first glance, this obscene verdict may seem to resemble ones like a certain Ms Bullock being awarded $28,000,000,000 (later reduced to merely $28,000,000) because she innocently smoked like a chimney for five decades and somehow unexpectedly contracted cancer. [legalzoom [legalzoom.com]] But once...
[15:09:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06Bank Downgrades Chipotle, Complaining It Pays Workers Too Much - 628 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:58] <exec> 08└─Brian Moynihan, CEO of Bank of America, took $20.2 million in pay in 2016. Steve Ells, CEO of Chipotle, took $25.1 million in pay in 2013. Ells has been criticized for taking more pay than the executives of Ford, Boeing, and AT&T, and investors actually rejected a pay plan that would have paid Ells...
[15:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Bank Downgrades Chipotle, Complaining It Pays Workers Too Much - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:03] <exec> 08└─The problem is that workers are treated as resources rather than as humans.
[15:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bank Downgrades Chipotle, Complaining It Pays Workers Too Much - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:05] <exec> 08└─So the HR department should change their title to just H? Problem solved!
[15:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bank Downgrades Chipotle, Complaining It Pays Workers Too Much - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:08] <exec> 08└─workers are treated as resources rather than as humans.
[15:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bank Downgrades Chipotle, Complaining It Pays Workers Too Much - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:10] <exec> 08└─Any suit who can say the word "personnel" and *mean it* is gonna fry...
[15:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bank Downgrades Chipotle, Complaining It Pays Workers Too Much - 634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:12] <exec> 08└─OK. I'll take a stab at it. Necessity never strikes a good bargain. If you pay your employees a little bit more than they need for the present, they will have savings. When they negotiate for the next round of wages with money in their savings accounts, they will not be bargaining in desperation, he...
[15:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bank Downgrades Chipotle, Complaining It Pays Workers Too Much - 802 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:14] <exec> 08└─There's a larger problem at work: if you become a majority stockholder in one institution and you start squeezing C-level compensation in your institution, the C-levels in other institutions can start squeezing your bottom line in response. I think this eventually happened to Ben and Jerry's. Save m...
[15:10:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03lx [1915] 02 - 06Great Tits May be Evolving Longer Beaks to Adapt to Bird Feeders - 36 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:28] <exec> 08└─But I only read it for the articles.
[15:10:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03julian [6003] 02 - 06Great Tits May be Evolving Longer Beaks to Adapt to Bird Feeders - 382 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:35] <exec> 08└─I'd be surprised if this wasn't happening, but the speed of microevolution can often surprise us. This effect is very close to what was noticed in the early research [wikipedia.org] done by none other than Charles Darwin himself on Galapagos finches. These isolated populations of birds diverged sign...
[15:10:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03lx [1915] 02 - 06Great Tits May be Evolving Longer Beaks to Adapt to Bird Feeders - 127 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:36] <exec> 08└─Tits are not boobies! Don't get the two confused. A booby [wikipedia.org] is a sea bird. A tit [wikipedia.org] is found inland.
[15:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Prototypes for Trump's Wall, Including Israeli Model, Take Shape on Border - 1531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:57] <exec> 08└─There must also be another form of godwin for a person who swallows propaganda hook, line, and sinker. Assertion #1: There are "hundreds of years of 'I want to wipe you off the earth!'" feelings between arabs and the world's population of Jews. In fact, the Palestinians were the only ones who took i...
[15:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Prototypes for Trump's Wall, Including Israeli Model, Take Shape on Border - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:58] <exec> 08└─Yes, the same is also true when described in economic terms. They want 100% mobility in capital markets but none in labor markets, or else markets might clear. They like the resulting imbalance because it supplies them with coercive pricing power.
[15:15:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Prototypes for Trump's Wall, Including Israeli Model, Take Shape on Border - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:01] <exec> 08└─We don't do that because what policymakers want is not to end illegal immigration, but to have an underclass workforce willing to put up with absolutely any horrific treatment you can imagine (and a few you can't) for pay that's a joke. And that's true regardless of political party.
[15:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Volcanic Eruptions Linked to the Downfall of the Last Ancient Egyptian Dynasty - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:40] <exec> 08└─Articles quoted a couple of layers above were saying 10 inches per year. Anyway, my limited understanding of large-scale vulcanology would suggest that as long as the ground above Yellowstone appears pliable, moving up and down in response to changes below, that's probably a good sign for continued...
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[16:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score: 1, Redundant) 02 - 06$417 Million Talc Cancer Verdict Against Johnson & Johnson Tossed Out - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:37] <exec> 08└─Some informed discussion about talc and Cancer [cancer.org]. At least we're not talking about Capricorn.
[16:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$417 Million Talc Cancer Verdict Against Johnson & Johnson Tossed Out - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:38] <exec> 08└─Yep, parent already had that link. Who knew?!
[16:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$417 Million Talc Cancer Verdict Against Johnson & Johnson Tossed Out - 832 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:40] <exec> 08└─"as a way to stay fresh and prevent vaginal odors, a practice that has since been linked to an increased risk of ovarian cancer." It may not be so very clear cut, after all. I was thinking that it was a frivolous lawsuit, actually. But, I didn't know that J&J actually recommended the stuff for inter...
[16:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LinkedIn Mulls Producing Videos; May Buy Rights From Sports Leagues - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:49] <exec> 08└─If you want to enjoy rich web content, you will have to log in and activate javascript, etc like any other modern person.
[16:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LinkedIn Mulls Producing Videos; May Buy Rights From Sports Leagues - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:52] <exec> 08└─I was on linkdin for about 3 days, then realized it was just facebook for people who use facebook but need to have more socializing. If i was an employer, i would NOT use linkin to hire. I'd rather pick names randomly from the phone book: "Let's see.... Navin Johnson. He looks like a good target-- f...
[16:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Bank Downgrades Chipotle, Complaining It Pays Workers Too Much - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:18] <exec> 08└─Technically you're right, but only if they're willing to fire the people making the higher wages, which would significantly harm employee morale and give bad publicity if on a large scale. Lowering wages of current employees effectively results in the same. The issue is compounded by the fact that w...
[16:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bank Downgrades Chipotle, Complaining It Pays Workers Too Much - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:19] <exec> 08└─HP? Mmmmmm.... that and sriracha sauce.....makes Gaaark something something
[16:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Bank Downgrades Chipotle, Complaining It Pays Workers Too Much - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:21] <exec> 08└─Another problem is rewarding failure: Sears executives fail INCREDIBLY well, but get big bonuses for their excellence at being shite. So long as you're not a grunt, you get rewarded no matter how badly you SUCK AT YOUR FUCKING JOB!!! Should not be allowed: their bonuses should go to covering credito...
[16:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bank Downgrades Chipotle, Complaining It Pays Workers Too Much - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:23] <exec> 08└─A comic for Ethanol! http://pbfcomics.com [pbfcomics.com] I'd get a t-shirt of this, but i'm not that tall, lol.
[16:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bank Downgrades Chipotle, Complaining It Pays Workers Too Much - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:26] <exec> 08└─We knew you would pop up with a bit of stupid. You never disappoint in that area.
[16:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bank Downgrades Chipotle, Complaining It Pays Workers Too Much - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:28] <exec> 08└─^Brilliant!!
[16:12:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lancet Report Says Pollution Caused 9 Million Premature Deaths in 2015 - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:10] <exec> 08└─Nope. You're just being stupid. There will always be dumb people doing/saying dumb things but we should all call them out on it.
[16:14:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03purple_cobra [1435] 02 - 06Prototypes for Trump's Wall, Including Israeli Model, Take Shape on Border - 131 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:42] <exec> 08└─So that means it'll be a couple of hundred miles over the border and into Mexico, which will then become part of the US by default?
[16:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Prototypes for Trump's Wall, Including Israeli Model, Take Shape on Border - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:14] <exec> 08└─It doesn't help those people to a better life
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[17:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Purism Disables Intel Management Engine on Librem Laptops - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:40] <exec> 08└─Will there be some general solution to disable this that won't involve soldering and voiding warranties? For more machines, not only Librem laptops, and motherboard manufacturers or are they all deep in the Intel pocket(s)?
[17:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Purism Disables Intel Management Engine on Librem Laptops - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:42] <exec> 08└─"Neutralize", "disable", "fighting", all vague marketing speak. Unless they explicitly disclose their method and a procedure to verify its efficacy, you would be better off spending the money on lottery tickets.
[17:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Purism Disables Intel Management Engine on Librem Laptops - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:44] <exec> 08└─So - do you want a computer, or a prophet? Hell, I'll take a stab at prophesying. Yes, one day, everyone will be able to bypass Intel's management. At least within ten years after Intel has gone bankrupt, and some other corrupt investors have taken over for them. Of course, then you'll be wanting so...
[17:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$417 Million Talc Cancer Verdict Against Johnson & Johnson Tossed Out - 1882 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:55] <exec> 08└─The IARC monograph, very dense and detailed reading, gives a pretty good hearing to the studies that indicate increased cancer risk associated with the use of baby powder as a feminine hygiene product. Their results are at times very strongly in favor of such a correlation, but the IARC wasn't impre...
[17:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06$417 Million Talc Cancer Verdict Against Johnson & Johnson Tossed Out - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:56] <exec> 08└─It may not be so very clear cut, after all.
[17:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$417 Million Talc Cancer Verdict Against Johnson & Johnson Tossed Out - 698 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:58] <exec> 08└─That sounds reasonable enough. Except, a few short decades ago, there was no evidence that smoking caused cancer. Over the course of a couple decades, the tobacco companies were finding that evidence, and suppressing it. Are you old enough to remember the commercials touting tobacco's health BENEFIT...
[17:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LinkedIn Mulls Producing Videos; May Buy Rights From Sports Leagues - 606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:09] <exec> 08└─What? I know I don't understand this whole social-media thing. But Linkedin started out as some kind of professional job-seeking website. Then Microsoft bought them for about $26B and now they are transitioning them into a original show streamer as a side-business to their social-networking-job-what...
[17:10:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] 02 - 06Bank Downgrades Chipotle, Complaining It Pays Workers Too Much - 75 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:29] <exec> 08└─The problem is that workers are treated as resources rather than as humans.
[17:10:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gaaark [41] 02 - 06Bank Downgrades Chipotle, Complaining It Pays Workers Too Much - 413 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:38] <exec> 08└─Another problem is rewarding failure: Sears executives fail INCREDIBLY well, but get big bonuses for their excellence at being shite. So long as you're not a grunt, you get rewarded no matter how badly you SUCK AT YOUR FUCKING JOB!!! Should not be allowed: their bonuses should go to covering credito...
[17:10:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alphabet Deploys Project Loon Balloons to Puerto Rico - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:49] <exec> 08└─FTFA: Thanks to improvements in balloon design and durability, many balloons stay airborne for more than 100 days, with our record breaking balloon staying aloft for 190 days.
[17:10:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alphabet Deploys Project Loon Balloons to Puerto Rico - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:50] <exec> 08└─We may never know. If only there was a way to look up answers to questions. Maybe some sort of network of computers or something.
[17:15:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prototypes for Trump's Wall, Including Israeli Model, Take Shape on Border - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:33] <exec> 08└─Here is a great example of you speaking very confidently about something when you have zero proof. Just FYI, in many stores you'll see magazines with quite amazing stories. We call these tabloids, and they should not be taken seriously. Also, the guy on infowars is also an admitted actor "playing a...
[17:15:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Prototypes for Trump's Wall, Including Israeli Model, Take Shape on Border - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:35] <exec> 08└─And maybe we could go after the bankers in the USA who undermine democracy in those countries of origin, fostering corruption and incompetence there to facilitate their looting of those countries, such that the citizens of those countries could improve things for themselves where they are. (See: Una...
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[18:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Purism Disables Intel Management Engine on Librem Laptops - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:36] <exec> 08└─Alternativbely, you could click a link or two and satisfy yourself rather than just rant and gibber: https://puri.sm
[18:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Purism Disables Intel Management Engine on Librem Laptops - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:38] <exec> 08└─Agreed. Also, they have chosen Debian as the basis for their distro, which means it will include a huge, opaque systemd blob. No thanks!!!
[18:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Purism Disables Intel Management Engine on Librem Laptops - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:40] <exec> 08└─The link provides nothing specific/concrete, just more mush nonsense.
[18:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Purism Disables Intel Management Engine on Librem Laptops - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:42] <exec> 08└─Added related IME story from the 15th
[18:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Purism Disables Intel Management Engine on Librem Laptops - 1176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:44] <exec> 08└─Some of the costs seem weird. I have ESXi hosts with 2TB SATA SSDs and I paid roughly "six hundred bucks" per SSD. Purism charges a mere $1199 or about 2x. The ESXi hosts are on kind of obscure supermicro hardware using unusual high speed ECC ram that painfully costs me a hair over three hundred buc...
[18:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06$417 Million Talc Cancer Verdict Against Johnson & Johnson Tossed Out - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:58] <exec> 08└─My view is, rather, "if the last 999,999 nutty hoaxes were flat-out false, and they were, I should not act on this one unless I have really strong and specific evidence that it's not also nonsense."
[18:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$417 Million Talc Cancer Verdict Against Johnson & Johnson Tossed Out - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:59] <exec> 08└─I'll keep an open mind here. I'm not siding with the women yet, but I'm certainly not going to consigne the women to the looney bin.
[18:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$417 Million Talc Cancer Verdict Against Johnson & Johnson Tossed Out - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:02] <exec> 08└─The fact is that too many of these whacky theories wind up being true.
[18:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$417 Million Talc Cancer Verdict Against Johnson & Johnson Tossed Out - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:04] <exec> 08└─Except, a few short decades ago, there was no evidence that smoking caused cancer.
[18:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$417 Million Talc Cancer Verdict Against Johnson & Johnson Tossed Out - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:06] <exec> 08└─To further muddy the water, the theory was that asbestos fibers contaminating the talc were responsible for the cancer risk. But cosmetic talc hasn't had any asbestos fiber in it since the '70s. As far as I know, nobody has yet claimed that the industry knew of a danger and suppressed the evidence,...
[18:10:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bank Downgrades Chipotle, Complaining It Pays Workers Too Much - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:48] <exec> 08└─If this were true, how would people get filthy stinking rich by pushing paper around?
[18:10:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bank Downgrades Chipotle, Complaining It Pays Workers Too Much - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:49] <exec> 08└─When they negotiate for the next round of wages with money in their savings accounts, they will not be bargaining in desperation,
[18:11:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Canada's CSE Spy Agency Releases Malware Analysis Tool - 37 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:43] <exec> 08└─We're just gonna have to nuke Russia.
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[19:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Purism Disables Intel Management Engine on Librem Laptops - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:51] <exec> 08└─There is MEcleaner https://github.com [github.com] I disabled Intel ME on my i5 7600k with a modded BIOS and flash.
[19:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Purism Disables Intel Management Engine on Librem Laptops - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:53] <exec> 08└─systemd is not an opaque blob, just a bad implementation of a horrific architectural decision.
[19:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Purism Disables Intel Management Engine on Librem Laptops - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:55] <exec> 08└─Pretty damn "opaque" if you are used to text logs.
[19:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Purism Disables Intel Management Engine on Librem Laptops - 962 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:57] <exec> 08└─Yeah, a quick look had me thinking that Purism charges a high premium for their hardware. I'd like a PC without a potential backdoor, but not for that much more money, Perhaps an AMD Ryzen based laptop would be better, when AMD gets around to it? Yet I've heard AMD has backdoors of their own. Disabl...
[19:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$417 Million Talc Cancer Verdict Against Johnson & Johnson Tossed Out - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:16] <exec> 08└─I'm not siding with the women yet, but I'm certainly not going to consigne the women to the looney bin.
[19:11:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bank Downgrades Chipotle, Complaining It Pays Workers Too Much - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:01] <exec> 08└─Chipotle could overpay on many things, and get great deals on other things. What does it matter? The final numbers are what the banks should care about. If the bank actually knew how to run a profitable restaurant, then it would be profitable for them to do so. Well? Start cooking food and prove it.
[19:11:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03PlasticCogLiquid [3669] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bank Downgrades Chipotle, Complaining It Pays Workers Too Much - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:02] <exec> 08└─Fuck you guys, He's right.
[19:11:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bank Downgrades Chipotle, Complaining It Pays Workers Too Much - 782 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:04] <exec> 08└─Well BoA needed to hire John Kerry to help them with this chain of events. What else did you expect? Moynihan is scared Hardly. At that level in the bank they probably do not care. Having worked at the bank for awhile now I can say they are rolling around in trillions and screw over anyone they can...
[19:11:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03PlasticCogLiquid [3669] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bank Downgrades Chipotle, Complaining It Pays Workers Too Much - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:06] <exec> 08└─Are you guys paid to hate on EF? Been reading and loving his comments for years, any other lurkers out there that love Ethanol Fueled?
[19:15:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Prototypes for Trump's Wall, Including Israeli Model, Take Shape on Border - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:00] <exec> 08└─I'd be in favor of that policy too. One reason I was (and still am) a Sanders backer is that he more than any other candidate seemed like he would have told the bankers to go straight to hell.
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[20:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:32] <exec> 08└─In before someone starts blaming one American party for doing it more than the other. They BOTH do it. They both usually end up suing each other in court because of some loss. In my state it has flipped a couple of times because of that. Remember districts usually only count mostly at the congress s...
[20:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03GlennC [3656] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:33] <exec> 08└─How about Global Thermonuclear War? For those who may not get the reference: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[20:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:35] <exec> 08└─How about a nice game of chess [instead]?
[20:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:38] <exec> 08└─Like I've said before... The only winning move is not to play.
[20:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:40] <exec> 08└─Were society organized around capitalism rather than "government" coercion, then people would be voting continuously every single day, as they interact within the market; either someone finds a service profitable for himself, or he doesn't, and thereby "votes" to fund that service (or not) via volun...
[20:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:42] <exec> 08└─Just curious, if someone rubs your ears, do you jizz in your pants?
[20:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:44] <exec> 08└─And a supercomputer? :) First strike always wins, amirite?
[20:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:47] <exec> 08└─Well, California is a problem. Let's hope Bannon can rally right, reducing retardism. I don't like San Francisco and Boston dictating terms and behavioral guidelines to the rest of the proud White nation. The leftists will be stopped.
[20:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:49] <exec> 08└─Obviously. I mean, the answer is known to anybody who has even a passing familiarity with the Rules of Acquisition.
[20:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Purism Disables Intel Management Engine on Librem Laptops - 1314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:08] <exec> 08└─From everything I've heard, minecraft is a bigger cpu hog, before including mods and addons and other items. That said, the VC4 in the Pi, while good enough to render some semi-modern games, just doesn't have the throughput required to run anything complex above 640x480 at an acceptable framerate. I...
[20:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Purism Disables Intel Management Engine on Librem Laptops - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:09] <exec> 08└─The 2 plus years Purism's laptop was running a bog standard AMI bios, even though they'd sworn it was going to be open source from top to bottom and developed as such. Purism is a scam pure and simple. It is FINALLY after a number of years (and like 4 generations of CPUs) living up to its hype and i...
[20:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Purism Disables Intel Management Engine on Librem Laptops - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:11] <exec> 08└─On the other hand if Debian works, Devuan should also. I will always love Arch and Gentoo best but I've used Devuan and it's really good. It feels nice, less corporate and more techie.
[20:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Purism Disables Intel Management Engine on Librem Laptops - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:14] <exec> 08└─Has anybody though of using U-BOOT for this kind of BIOS/UEFI stuff? It seems to be widely adopted in everything but Intel architectures and is extremely powerful and has lots of resources available.
[20:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Purism Disables Intel Management Engine on Librem Laptops - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:16] <exec> 08└─Intel == Jews, and Jews have no loyalty to the nations subject to Jew infestations.
[20:11:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bank Downgrades Chipotle, Complaining It Pays Workers Too Much - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:23] <exec> 08└─Uh... please explain, given that men aren't angels, how we prevent anarcho-capitalism, because you're not talking about libertarianism, dipshit, from devolving into mafia.
[20:11:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bank Downgrades Chipotle, Complaining It Pays Workers Too Much - 712 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:25] <exec> 08└─Don't worry, the lizard people have used the moon matrix media to completely destroy the idea of labor unions. Until humans evolve into angels, they'll keep being convinced by the crap on the moon matrix, encouraged by their tribal identity and status as temporarily embarrassed millionaire. It would...
[20:11:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bank Downgrades Chipotle, Complaining It Pays Workers Too Much - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:27] <exec> 08└─Why would your solution to "men aren't angels" be a centralized monopoly on violence? That makes no sense, dipshit.
[20:11:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bank Downgrades Chipotle, Complaining It Pays Workers Too Much - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:29] <exec> 08└─I don't recognize your handle; I'm glad you stopped lurking. Eth's comments genuinely rile some people. I know he does it on purpose because I have seen him write well-thought out, cogent posts. He's perfectly capable of doing that all the time, but chooses not to.
[20:11:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bank Downgrades Chipotle, Complaining It Pays Workers Too Much - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:31] <exec> 08└─Think how much the world could save by replacing all the bankers with algorithms. All PHBs, too. Billions upon billions in salaries and bonuses, saved and re-distributed to shareholders or invested in R&D.
[20:11:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bank Downgrades Chipotle, Complaining It Pays Workers Too Much - 957 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:34] <exec> 08└─Currently, society exists with a huge distorting force: The Government, which is an authoritarian, coercive, anti-capitalist organization that has used violent imposition to place itself near the very foundations of social interaction; it's not surprising that a lot of people use this coercive mecha...
[20:11:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alphabet Deploys Project Loon Balloons to Puerto Rico - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:44] <exec> 08└─Never happen 'cause: the 'Guvrnmunt'!
[20:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lancet Report Says Pollution Caused 9 Million Premature Deaths in 2015 - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:22] <exec> 08└─It is really annoying how badly pro-pollution propaganda has messed with the minds of you keebler elves. Stick to making cookies, the lame "many sides" crap is getting tiresome. The TL:DR of your comment is "there is no absolute way to tell anything, therefore who cares about this study on pollution...
[20:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lancet Report Says Pollution Caused 9 Million Premature Deaths in 2015 - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:24] <exec> 08└─Oh come on, is affirmative action destroying meritocracy or is it just a vast conspiracy that doesn't matter to upstanding white folks? Come on asshole, try to at least be consistent. Of all the people on here you are the last to be making house of cards accusations.
[20:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu 17.10 Released - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:31] <exec> 08└─If you approach your vendor with "I already have a license and would like to switch that to Linux; I'm willing to pay a small processing fee." and they say "No", then, again, your software vendor sucks. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[20:16:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Prototypes for Trump's Wall, Including Israeli Model, Take Shape on Border - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:34] <exec> 08└─Dammit, Thexalon, when will we learn that Jamie Dimon has the solution? Clearly the answer is to eliminate all taxes on banks, not punish them for being successful! Jamie Dimon for president.
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[21:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:45] <exec> 08└─Under the two party system you get to fight the same battles over and over, and no matter which team wins, the grunts (ie. cannon fodder) always lose.
[21:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:46] <exec> 08└─Lol, whoever modded you insightful is a sociopath and/or moron.
[21:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:48] <exec> 08└─Always? Voting would be more relevant if people voted intelligently, but gerrymandering robs power from the voter and gives it to party X. Don't throw that at me - I said, IF!
[21:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:50] <exec> 08└─Lol, whoever modded you insightful is a sociopath and/or moron.
[21:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:53] <exec> 08└─Except, there has to be organized resistance to prevent the use of force in coercion, both on large and small scales. This organization is known as "government". Without such an organized protection, the strong dominate the weak by force. Other nations invade and subjugate your nation. Gangs kill yo...
[21:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:55] <exec> 08└─... your opponent could concentrate their own troops and easily win a majority of the fights. You could try to overwhelm several locations yourself, but there's no guarantee you'll win ...
[21:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03https [5248] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Purism Disables Intel Management Engine on Librem Laptops - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:19] <exec> 08└─Systemd originators have acknowledged that they won't make any didactic documentation available. Well, not literally said so, but actions are pretty loud. The only available docs are post-hoc by third parties, and you have to be careful of the dates on them because... They openly admit to having no...
[21:10:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03requerdanos [5997] 02 - 06$417 Million Talc Cancer Verdict Against Johnson & Johnson Tossed Out - 1589 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:26] <exec> 08└─At first glance, this obscene verdict may seem to resemble ones like a certain Ms Bullock being awarded $28,000,000,000 (later reduced to merely $28,000,000) because she innocently smoked like a chimney for five decades and somehow unexpectedly contracted cancer. [legalzoom [legalzoom.com]] But once...
[21:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$417 Million Talc Cancer Verdict Against Johnson & Johnson Tossed Out - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:39] <exec> 08└─We have excellent evidence that oxygen causes death from cancer. How so? Anyone deprived of oxygen does not die of cancer. They may well have cancer but vanishingly few of those deprived of oxygen die of the cancer. I demand that those companies that supply oxygen, Airgas, Linde, Praxair and all the...
[21:11:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03tomtomtom [340] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bank Downgrades Chipotle, Complaining It Pays Workers Too Much - 2380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:34] <exec> 08└─Because that isn't what the research analyst said. This article unfortunately makes the Intercept look like a complete joke given they apparently misread the CNBC article, didn't bother going to the primary source and to top it off misunderstand what a research analyst's job is in a pretty fundament...
[21:11:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bank Downgrades Chipotle, Complaining It Pays Workers Too Much - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:36] <exec> 08└─I'm not referring to engineering and design or process engineering, I'm referring to those who amass their wealth by moving fiat currency around into different piles, and making wagers with other people's money.
[21:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu 17.10 Released - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:33] <exec> 08└─Now, see. You started from "Windoze software" and I started from "software". cross platform graphics support Games have already been mentioned. Your apps are more graphics-intensive than games?? I'm not buying that for 1 second. Again: This is about sloth and lock-in. Your excusing your lazy, greedy...
[21:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu 17.10 Released - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:34] <exec> 08└─Then all vendors of professional grade CADCAM suck by your definition, as well as most software vendors in general.
[21:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu 17.10 Released - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:36] <exec> 08└─I have asked, and there is no vendor of professional grade five axis CAM who is willing to consider developing for Linux. Not one. Why is this my fault again?
[21:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu 17.10 Released - 956 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:38] <exec> 08└─There's fat binaries as well: Compile in all the dependencies. This makes it possible to e.g. run very old apps under newer versions of Linux. It also gets rid of the .deb|.rpm|many distros "problem". (...and newer packaging paradigms have already made mention of this an anachronism.) You can also p...
[21:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu 17.10 Released - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:41] <exec> 08└─I forgot to address your other points. Yes it is more graphics intensive, just in a different way. It's not worried about fancy visual effects, but representing a model which may be several feet across with a facet every .002" or less is pretty intensive. And all the software that currently exists i...
[21:16:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prototypes for Trump's Wall, Including Israeli Model, Take Shape on Border - 954 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:43] <exec> 08└─Yes, Consistency. Why don't you tear down the walls in your home then? Tearing down the Berlin wall was a huge accomplishment, but for reasons that are entirely unapplicable to this discussion. The USSR held half a city captive, made the conditions there terrible, and prevented them from leaving. We...
[21:16:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prototypes for Trump's Wall, Including Israeli Model, Take Shape on Border - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:45] <exec> 08└─Border walls between neighbouring countries won't really matter in that regard for people in the United States. The country is so huge, 90% of the people living in the US aren't going to get to a neighbouring country in time to prevent their impending death. When backed into a corner, the only optio...
[21:16:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Prototypes for Trump's Wall, Including Israeli Model, Take Shape on Border - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:47] <exec> 08└─when will we learn that Jamie Dimon has the solution?
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[22:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 795 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:56] <exec> 08└─As somebody else noted, gerrymandering mostly affects the federal government because of the way that house seats are allocated. Similarly state senate and house are commonly allocated like that as well. But, you see the same basic patterns in those other races that are based on county and city lines...
[22:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:58] <exec> 08└─doesn't it seem like the other guy has better soldiers then the first guy? The fight seems kinda rigged.
[22:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:00] <exec> 08└─We had a field of 21 to choose from in the primary of which there was only one or two that were actually qualified, but neither of them wound up in the final election. .... As long as qualified candidates don't run
[22:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Purism Disables Intel Management Engine on Librem Laptops - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:25] <exec> 08└─No, that is old news. They did at least get the message about proper documentation. You don't have to follow Pottering's blog anymore to know how it works, there are manpages and stable webpages. Gotta give credit where due, if only from a purely selfish desire to make my objections to the concept i...
[22:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Purism Disables Intel Management Engine on Librem Laptops - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:26] <exec> 08└─Disabling the Management Engine is all very well, but perhaps a better way to handle this issue is put a firewall and packet sniffer and analyzer between the afflicted Intel PC and the Internet.
[22:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Purism Disables Intel Management Engine on Librem Laptops - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:29] <exec> 08└─Just stop with the stupidity already. We get it - you're not bright and you're okay with it. Please don't inflict your ignorance on the rest of us.
[22:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Purism Disables Intel Management Engine on Librem Laptops - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:31] <exec> 08└─p.s. I meant the consumer Desktop market... There are already a few such cores we can trust in the embedded and server world.
[22:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06$417 Million Talc Cancer Verdict Against Johnson & Johnson Tossed Out - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:52] <exec> 08└─Sigh, not this again. Some of the claims about chiropractic medicine are overblown or outright wrong, but claiming that the specialty is on the same level as homeopathy is why nobody takes skeptics seriously. Or are you seriously saying that having an incorrectly aligned spinal column has no possibl...
[22:10:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06$417 Million Talc Cancer Verdict Against Johnson & Johnson Tossed Out - 1401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:53] <exec> 08└─It's interesting to see how people form alternative facts. J&J may win in court (hopefully), but they cannot win the PR here. It's now been established that J&J is the Bad Guy™, and while we should ever remain sceptical, especially given how easily corporations can create alternative facts such as...
[22:12:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Great Tits May be Evolving Longer Beaks to Adapt to Bird Feeders - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:26] <exec> 08└─Based on this temp map (https://i.imgur.com/Qm1jtqU.gif?noredirect). In general, perhaps, smarter than the Mediterranean part, but less intelligent than the Scandinavian part. But then, the British isle might still be small enough to get the island dumbification.
[22:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu 17.10 Released - 982 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:56] <exec> 08└─The US Army developed their own CAD software (BRL-CAD) and made that GPL. ...so, no. There's a bunch of pros who value their freedom and don't chain themselves to closed-source proprietary apps. FreeCAD, LibreCAD, OpenSCAD, or QCAD are more examples of FOSS software that does all that they need (blu...
[22:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu 17.10 Released - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:57] <exec> 08└─Not one word in that whole message had anything to do with professional grade five axis CAM.
[22:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu 17.10 Released - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:59] <exec> 08└─That's one reason I like i3. Reason I don't like i3: my memory sucks for remembering some program names.
[22:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu 17.10 Released - 759 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:01] <exec> 08└─If you're trying to impress me, you're failing. Going in a different direction, but on a related theme, I remember DJ Delorie (a developer of the gEDA suite) mentioning how for laughs he had demonstrated that, by tweaking a parameter in the setup file, the software would (assuming that you have enou...
[22:16:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] 02 - 06Prototypes for Trump's Wall, Including Israeli Model, Take Shape on Border - 2101 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:01] <exec> 08└─How do you define a country if you don’t have borders? If we're going to have a country, we need a border. As far as Mexico is concerned I believe strongly in a very, very strong border. We have no border right now, it’s like a sieve. It’s like water pouring through. It’s ridiculous. I just...
[22:16:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Prototypes for Trump's Wall, Including Israeli Model, Take Shape on Border - 131 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:10] <exec> 08└─The Democrats need a porous border or they don't get a steady supply of illegal voters and people dependent on government handouts.
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[23:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Paying Up to $1,000 for Vulnerabilities in Some Third-Party Android Apps - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:39] <exec> 08└─> Google's new bug bounty program now incentivizes hackers to unearth software vulnerabilities in some of the more popular third-party apps on the Play Store. The new program will presumably result in more secure Android apps Rewarding the existence of bugs? That will encourage the creation of more...
[23:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Paying Up to $1,000 for Vulnerabilities in Some Third-Party Android Apps - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:41] <exec> 08└─Tinder and Dropbox both store loads of embarrassing user data. It would not be worth it for either company or one of their programmers to sneak in a bug. Come to think of it, Dropbox has a multibillion dollar valuation... maybe they should be paying the bug bounties, not Google.
[23:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:06] <exec> 08└─While a bit inflammatory California does have a major gerrymandering problem plus an extra issue. In many cases they have worked it out so there is no republican representation.
[23:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:08] <exec> 08└─I had to read 90% of TFA to actually figure out what they were proposing. And it's dumb... or, rather, somewhat trivial. There's all this language of an "efficiency gap" and how minimizing it would lead to fairer elections. But what is "fair"? After reading almost to the end, we finally discover wha...
[23:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03WalksOnDirt [5854] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:10] <exec> 08└─California has no gerrymandering, though they used to. The district boundaries are now set by a non-partisan commission, not politicians.
[23:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:12] <exec> 08└─There are places where gerrymandering simply isn't a choice, but a requirement. Remember that we have regions where there are supposed to be electoral areas effectively rigged to favour minority votes. If you assume (true across much of the south) that minority voters are usually on the side of the...
[23:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:15] <exec> 08└─Fairness is definitely not an outcome measured in simple party dick measuring contests, in the USA system. Regionalism was explicitly, deliberately baked into the system. In fact, parties have no official, constitutional existence except as a nebulous consequence of freedom of association, but the s...
[23:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03fliptop [1666] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:17] <exec> 08└─Voting would be more relevant if people voted intelligently
[23:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:19] <exec> 08└─If the R team were interested in shrinking the size of government, which means getting rid of the drug war and wars abroad to protect the interests of the oligarchs... Oh screw it. I think you know damned well why the R team is in evil territory these days. Stop worrying about distractions like iden...
[23:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:21] <exec> 08└─This isn't funny anymore though. When your humor starts pinging peoples' Poe sensors, it's time to re-evaluate. He should stick to toilet humor and similar, as it's all he's really good at. I don't think he's joking anymore, either.
[23:11:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03BK [4868] 02 - 06$417 Million Talc Cancer Verdict Against Johnson & Johnson Tossed Out - 198 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:03] <exec> 08└─My view is, rather, "if the last 999,999 nutty hoaxes were flat-out false, and they were, I should not act on this one unless I have really strong and specific evidence that it's not also nonsense."
[23:11:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03theluggage [1797] 02 - 06$417 Million Talc Cancer Verdict Against Johnson & Johnson Tossed Out - 103 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:08] <exec> 08└─I'm not siding with the women yet, but I'm certainly not going to consigne the women to the looney bin.
[23:11:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$417 Million Talc Cancer Verdict Against Johnson & Johnson Tossed Out - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:13] <exec> 08└─Finally, an unequivocal conclusion from a study in 1954 that smoking leads to increased risk of lung cancer.
[23:11:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$417 Million Talc Cancer Verdict Against Johnson & Johnson Tossed Out - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:16] <exec> 08└─Personally I keep my ladybits fresh with a combination of daily showers, careful diet, proper washing (around, NOT inside--soap is alkaline!), and cotton undergarments. There's not enough evidence one way or another about talc, and as some have said it may be asbestos fibers rather than talc itself...
[23:12:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Bank Downgrades Chipotle, Complaining It Pays Workers Too Much - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:14] <exec> 08└─You can only imagine how many times I say that at my screen in a week's time as I traverse the internet. Any instructor|tech book author who doesn't understand the "DEGRADES GRACEFULLY" thing should be taken out and beaten with a stick. So, it's not only applicable to C-level jerks. -- OriginalOwner...
[23:12:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bank Downgrades Chipotle, Complaining It Pays Workers Too Much - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:15] <exec> 08└─https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question#firstHeading [wikipedia.org] Begging the question is commonly known as circular reasoning
[23:12:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Hardness [4766] 02 - 06Great Tits May be Evolving Longer Beaks to Adapt to Bird Feeders - 302 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:44] <exec> 08└─"Great Tits..." You have my attention, Soylent. "...May be evolving..." Okay, yeah, Fuck yeah. "...Longer..." What? Nipples? Viens? Streams of Milk? How has evolution impacted Great Tits? I hope it's not the breast itself. My National Geographic days are far behind me! "...Beaks..." Fuck you, Soylen...
[23:15:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06Ubuntu 17.10 Released - 24 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:07] <exec> 08└─the UI is boring as fuck
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