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[00:05:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03LVDOVICVS [6131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gene Therapy and Skin Grafting for Junctional Epidermolysis Bullosa - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:05:48] <exec> 08└─If you don't know about this disease, this will fill you in. But be warned; whatever you think is hard in your life isn't. And perhaps like me whenever you think of this boy in the future, or children with this disease, you may find a tear in your eye, and an ache in your heart. I first saw this a y...
[00:07:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Founding President Sounds Alarm, Criticizes Facebook - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:27] <exec> 08└─Many of my friends and relatives don't understand email
[00:07:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Founding President Sounds Alarm, Criticizes Facebook - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:28] <exec> 08└─-- hn user "Not anymore." -- Jacques Clouseau
[00:07:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Founding President Sounds Alarm, Criticizes Facebook - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:30] <exec> 08└─If you wanted to "round up a million or two" of the worst troublemakers, whatever faction you might imagine seizing power and wanting to "round up a few million", would any possible informer network be worth more than a day of unfettered access to Facebook's network with a few brainiacs who understa...
[00:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flaw Crippling Millions of Crypto Keys is Worse Than First Disclosed - 674 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:30] <exec> 08└─The PIN secures against card loss, if you have the card then you have the name - it's on the card. Also if you nicked the whole wallet, you probably also have other ID information to uniquely ID the person (names are not unique, although as it happens, just the name, initial and country will do it i...
[00:10:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flaw Crippling Millions of Crypto Keys is Worse Than First Disclosed - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:32] <exec> 08└─Still not sure it's relevant - it shows the certification process is crap, but that is independent of this flaw. In fact in this case the obscurity was never broken, the security flaw was found by analyzing generated public keys. It's rather hard to do SbO with public keys because the whole point is...
[00:13:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06These 9 Places in America Will Pay You to Move There - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:06] <exec> 08└─Its frustrating that we haven't yet solve the transport problem in the modern world. Even here in Australia, we have so much land and yet the rat race has everyone congregating in the big cities creating over inflated prices due to lack of supply yet there's plenty of beautiful prime real-estate in...
[00:13:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06These 9 Places in America Will Pay You to Move There - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:08] <exec> 08└─ssh generally doesn't need that much bandwidth.
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[01:05:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US-CERT Warns of Crypto Bugs in IEEE Standard - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:05:49] <exec> 08└─Since it's about encryption of Imaginary Property, the crypto weakness is a feature. Those academics in their ivory towers, they never get the mindset of engineers. (grin)
[01:05:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US-CERT Warns of Crypto Bugs in IEEE Standard - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:05:51] <exec> 08└─But am please that the 'intellectual' part doesn't extend to the encryption methodology, but leads me to question the value of the property contained.
[01:06:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coinbase Escalates Showdown on U.S. Tax Probe as Bitcoin Surges - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:54] <exec> 08└─would not care to fund police, fire, or medical services let alone parks and rec and other such minor programs
[01:06:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coinbase Escalates Showdown on U.S. Tax Probe as Bitcoin Surges - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:55] <exec> 08└─Are you making an argument for or against income tax? I can't really tell. I assume you know the wealthy aren't really affected by income tax. Capital gains tax is maybe what you mean? Income inequality is fine and expected. The is a pretty big variation in people's capabilities, motivation, and ind...
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[01:06:58] <exec> 08└─Exactly. Every bank account has them. Some, it's outright fees per transaction. Others require a minimum balance, which is essentially the same thing. They give you 0% (or maybe 0.1%) interest on your balance. Usually though it's 0% in checking. They make money off of your money. You do not. You cou...
[01:07:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Founding President Sounds Alarm, Criticizes Facebook - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:07:44] <exec> 08└─it always amazes me how many guys miss the really hot girl walking by
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[02:05:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US-CERT Warns of Crypto Bugs in IEEE Standard - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:05:51] <exec> 08└─The most common use of this standard is to encrypt design documents of SoC Designs, So any processors, radios, GPUs have probably already had their designs stolen. Apparently DHS didn't get the memo from the NSA about keep mum about this weakness.
[02:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alibaba's "Singles' Day" Sales Reach $25 Billion - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:13] <exec> 08└─The M/F imbalance also allows the 40% female population to be very selective, leaving a lot of males to be 光棍子, or terminal branches on the family tree.
[02:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nintendo to More Than Double Production of Switch; Success Rooted in Wii U's Failure - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:24] <exec> 08└─Well if we are lucky EA won't be around too much longer. From what I hear, the latest round of games includes quite a few aspects of gambling - randomized rewards for real money. Season Passes, DLC, real-money payments for "cheat codes", obnoxious DRM, network checks, never-to-be-fixed bugs that bre...
[02:07:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coinbase Escalates Showdown on U.S. Tax Probe as Bitcoin Surges - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:00] <exec> 08└─"That has to be one of the more evil things written" But its true. People ( as a whole, not the individual ) need to be lead. They can not function without one.
[02:07:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coinbase Escalates Showdown on U.S. Tax Probe as Bitcoin Surges - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:01] <exec> 08└─Late to this thread, but no one has mentioned that if your son earned more than $600 (in the USA), a 1099-MISC income tax reporting form should be filed with the IRS by the payer (your brother). Then, the payee (your son) needs to file a tax return (probably there will be no taxes due, if that was h...
[02:07:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coinbase Escalates Showdown on U.S. Tax Probe as Bitcoin Surges - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:03] <exec> 08└─Except the US government does not like their livestock trading gold, and they tax it at higher "collectible" rates.
[02:07:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Founding President Sounds Alarm, Criticizes Facebook - 1246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:51] <exec> 08└─My wife and I don't have cell phones: it always amazes me how many guys miss the really hot girl walking by because they've got their noses stuck in the damn phone! (When I was young, that was one of the great pleasures in life: standing on the corner, watching all the girls go by.) I don't see the...
[02:09:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06DOJ: Strong Encryption That We Don't Have Access to is “Unreasonable” - 438 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:20] <exec> 08└─""And I think that's a legitimate issue that we can debate—how much risk are we willing to take in return for the reward?" he said." What he's saying is that the legitimate conversation concerns just how much risk WE will be required to assume in order to make HIS job easier. The moment one of us...
[02:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DOJ: Strong Encryption That We Don't Have Access to is “Unreasonable” - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:19] <exec> 08└─and in effect: Outlaws will be the only ones with freedom..
[02:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06DOJ: Strong Encryption That We Don't Have Access to is “Unreasonable” - 832 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:20] <exec> 08└─I doubt there is anything of importance on the phone that they can't get by other means. Texts, phone calls, will all be on pen register down at the phone company. They quickly find out where these guys live, and track down their landlord, friends, credit cards and where they were used, and who's ph...
[02:11:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Snake Man's Venom Habit Holds Hope for New Antidote - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:29] <exec> 08└─Included in that amazing tally of handlings were the three king cobras brought out each sunday, one after each venom collection demonstration as an extra added attraction or that he normally kept for venom production even after the public part of his work ended.
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[03:05:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Forest Service Fire Experts Blocked From Attending Conference; Censorship Alleged - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:05:47] <exec> 08└─Twitter let's Trump account go down for 11 minutes everyone loses their mind and cries censorship. Actual censorship of important science? That's just fine...
[03:05:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Techwolf [87] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Forest Service Fire Experts Blocked From Attending Conference; Censorship Alleged - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:05:48] <exec> 08└─While climate change may be a contributing factor, the real cause for those damaging fires is Smokey The Bear. By suppressing what mother nature has done regularity for millions of years, we suppress that natural fire and allow buildup of flammable materials over the past 50 or so years. And now we...
[03:05:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Forest Service Fire Experts Blocked From Attending Conference; Censorship Alleged - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:05:51] <exec> 08└─You're right, they have the same problem in Australia where the eucalyptus forest actually needs fire to seed properly. People have moved into the bush however, in their lifestyle blocks and so the fire service is obliged to put the fires out. It's a real problem.
[03:05:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forest Service Fire Experts Blocked From Attending Conference; Censorship Alleged - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:05:53] <exec> 08└─/I've always wanted to do this. It's Smokey Bear, not Smokey THE Bear. And, for the record: Santa Claus, not Santa THE Clause. etc.
[03:06:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RamiK [1813] 02 - 06Alibaba's "Singles' Day" Sales Reach $25 Billion - 657 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:19] <exec> 08└─Alibaba has been reported to have undug Mao's tomb and rigged his remains to an electric generator. Bids for the 永興发电电动发电机 Mark 1 will begin at 150 million dollars. All verified bidders will be given 5000 AliExpress points with each bid. At least 50% of the revenues will be investe...
[03:06:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alibaba's "Singles' Day" Sales Reach $25 Billion - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:25] <exec> 08└─The point is you *can* just buy random shit if you're single.
[03:06:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alibaba's "Singles' Day" Sales Reach $25 Billion - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:27] <exec> 08└─...instead of just getting it for Christmas (bonus: wrapping paper!)
[03:06:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Nintendo to More Than Double Production of Switch; Success Rooted in Wii U's Failure - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:39] <exec> 08└─According to the Nintendo website, there's already a fair bit available - about 235 released items [nintendo.com]. Of course this includes DLC and multiple versions of some titles (e.g. 'premium edition'), so the actual number of titles is probably closer to 100 or so. In terms of originality, I tho...
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[03:06:53] <exec> 08└─Maybe universal income tax should go away then. We can eliminate most of the IRS, tax services, and other undocumented drags on the economy. If something is too difficult to be done, that doesn't mean we should toss out inalienable rights to get it done. We must look hard at what we are doing, why,...
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[03:07:18] <exec> 08└─You're a moron on pretty much everything other than technical discussions. There is a middle ground between totalitarian regimes and anarchy, but apparently you're a windbag that can't figure it out. We don't have saintlike leaders but we do have a system in place (democracy lite) that keeps a const...
[03:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DOJ: Strong Encryption That We Don't Have Access to is “Unreasonable” - 555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:37] <exec> 08└─But what if they hypothetically did encrypt their messages? Or what if they saved the name of a contact who was using an otherwise hard to trace burner phone? Accepting that the government gained nothing from a couple of anecdotal cases doesn't disprove the general principle. We can't simultaneously...
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[04:05:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02 - 06Forest Service Fire Experts Blocked From Attending Conference; Censorship Alleged - 266 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:05:51] <exec> 08└─You're right, they have the same problem in Australia where the eucalyptus forest actually needs fire to seed properly. People have moved into the bush however, in their lifestyle blocks and so the fire service is obliged to put the fires out. It's a real problem.
[04:05:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forest Service Fire Experts Blocked From Attending Conference; Censorship Alleged - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:05:54] <exec> 08└─The best corn, period. Probably works for starting brush fire, too. Them "scientists" might know a thing or two.
[04:05:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forest Service Fire Experts Blocked From Attending Conference; Censorship Alleged - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:05:56] <exec> 08└─Smokey was put out to pasture almost 20 years ago. The goal and theme of the Smokey Bear campaign was adjusted in the 2000s, from "Only you can prevent forest fires" to "Only you can prevent wildfires".
[04:05:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forest Service Fire Experts Blocked From Attending Conference; Censorship Alleged - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:05:58] <exec> 08└─Here's an idea, why not hold the International Fire Congress someone international rather than in a country where science is subject to politically-motivated censorship? Or is the International Fire Congress like the World Series where "World" = "USA only"?
[04:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Forest Service Fire Experts Blocked From Attending Conference; Censorship Alleged - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:00] <exec> 08└─The goal and theme of the Smokey Bear campaign was adjusted in the 2000s, from "Only you can prevent forest fires" to "Only you can prevent wildfires".
[04:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forest Service Fire Experts Blocked From Attending Conference; Censorship Alleged - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:02] <exec> 08└─In Florida there are increasing areas of prescribed burns, keeping the (semi)native pine trees happy, the way they were 300 years ago. The sand pine needs fire to release its seed, and almost all pines are more fire resistant than their competition, so it gives them a competitive advantage. Still, n...
[04:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forest Service Fire Experts Blocked From Attending Conference; Censorship Alleged - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:05] <exec> 08└─Controlling the dialog at a conference is one thing... at least they're not taking it as far as firing anyone who publishes research with politically unpopular findings. Also, I'd bet the Streisand effect is stronger than any reduction in climate-science talk at the conference.
[04:06:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alibaba's "Singles' Day" Sales Reach $25 Billion - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:38] <exec> 08└─The US has our DINKs, with the one-child policy generation (and the higher number of men than women), I'd bet China is going to have a lot of people choosing to stay single or at least have no children, and just go for the US' 1970s brass ring: "He who dies with the most toys, wins."
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[04:07:30] <exec> 08└─The is a pretty big variation in people's capabilities, motivation, and industriousness.
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[04:08:19] <exec> 08└─well done!
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[05:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forest Service Fire Experts Blocked From Attending Conference; Censorship Alleged - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:06] <exec> 08└─Driving down to Florida, I noticed long swaths of forested areas that could have used some fire breaks. Waiting for God's smiting hand!?!
[05:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forest Service Fire Experts Blocked From Attending Conference; Censorship Alleged - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:08] <exec> 08└─Keep whining, scientists, as if the work you do at taxpayer expense should not be directed by policymakers. That attitude will surely help keep the Rs in charge.
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[05:06:10] <exec> 08└─An article for E&E News, reprinted in Scientific American [scientificamerican.com] covers the same story.
[05:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forest Service Fire Experts Blocked From Attending Conference; Censorship Alleged - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:12] <exec> 08└─Is it BK pedant, or BK THE pedant? :) OMG! I pedanted a pedant. Does that make me a pedo?
[05:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forest Service Fire Experts Blocked From Attending Conference; Censorship Alleged - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:14] <exec> 08└─They are chopping down forests now to feed power plants that used to be coal fired. If they went back to coal, forests would benefit.
[05:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forest Service Fire Experts Blocked From Attending Conference; Censorship Alleged - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:17] <exec> 08└─In 1952, Steve Nelson and Jack Rollins wrote the popular anthem that would launch a continuous debate about Smokey’s name. To maintain the rhythm of the song, they added “the” between “Smokey” and “Bear.” Due to the song’s popularity, Smokey Bear has been called “Smokey the Bear”...
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[05:06:19] <exec> 08└─Scientists seem to think, correctly or not, that tying everything to climate change will get them funding, no matter how absurd the connection. That is an abuse of the trust placed in scientists. Here we have a conference supposedly on fire, but 2 of the 4 people have decided to make their talks abo...
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[05:06:21] <exec> 08└─Where is that happening? In California, tens of millions of trees died due to a drought. Two years ago, the governor gave permission for dead and "dying" (whatever that means) trees to be chopped down and burned for energy. http://www.sfchronicle.com
[05:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forest Service Fire Experts Blocked From Attending Conference; Censorship Alleged - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:23] <exec> 08└─And while we're at it, fuck all this clean water legislation and the FDA and stuff. Because making sure we're not mainlining dimethylmercury gets in the way of PROFITS. God, you people are stupid.
[05:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forest Service Fire Experts Blocked From Attending Conference; Censorship Alleged - 794 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:25] <exec> 08└─We have plenty of firebreaks, we call them highways. Before European settlement, a single lightning strike could start a statewide blaze, and apparently they were frequent. Pines are very fire adapted, and with regular burns, they will survive a fire. However, if you let the fuel load build up for 3...
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[05:06:28] <exec> 08└─Pretty much. The first was held in London in 1903. The second was in Orlando in 2004. This will be the seventh and will also be in Orlando. It's also been held in other places in the USA: Portland, Oregon; San Diego; San Antonio and in Savannah, Georgia.
[05:06:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forest Service Fire Experts Blocked From Attending Conference; Censorship Alleged - 661 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:30] <exec> 08└─Seriously! Our competition is not restricted. Our competition is eating our lunch. We can't survive as a nation of web developers, beggars, and government bureaucrats. Our options: cut our regulatory burden, give up and die, genocide the competition via nukes... and that's about it. There is a short...
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[05:06:41] <exec> 08└─DHS' US-CERT warned the IEEE P1735 standard ...
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[05:06:50] <exec> 08└─Shit like this is why I believe the Judeo-Christian-Islamic God is either mythical, or else it is every morally-upright soul's solemn duty to go all Shin Megami Tensei on its ass if it exists. Evidential Problem of Evil is a bitch.
[05:08:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Facebook Founding President Sounds Alarm, Criticizes Facebook - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:08:49] <exec> 08└─If you wanted to "round up a million or two" of the worst troublemakers
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[06:05:48] <exec> 08└─This is like running an OS on an app...
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[06:06:18] <exec> 08└─I looked at the titles of the work that are mentioned in the summary. In my opinion, it isn't absurd to suppose that global warming could bring more episodes of hot weather. Nor is it absurd to suppose that fires could be more frequent if the weather were hotter. I say "global warming" rather than "...
[06:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forest Service Fire Experts Blocked From Attending Conference; Censorship Alleged - 639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:19] <exec> 08└─If a conference doesn't stay in one spot, you should suspect that most participants treat it as an excuse to see the world with their employers paying. Heck, that is true of conferences in general. The actual research is available on the internet, either fully free or as pre-publication "draft" copi...
[06:06:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forest Service Fire Experts Blocked From Attending Conference; Censorship Alleged - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:21] <exec> 08└─Easy. Take the long view (rather than the short view you are taking). In 50 years all of those countries with no health regulations will be full of cancer-induced cripples wading through piles of filth to reach their lead-tainted water. Lets see them rule the world with that! Or are you seriously su...
[06:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forest Service Fire Experts Blocked From Attending Conference; Censorship Alleged - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:24] <exec> 08└─The other day I even heard somebody suggesting that changing climate was related to climate change! Fake news! What arrogance!
[06:06:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forest Service Fire Experts Blocked From Attending Conference; Censorship Alleged - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:26] <exec> 08└─On the positive side, the increasing water levels brought on by climate change will reduce the land mass susceptible to fire. Win!
[06:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forest Service Fire Experts Blocked From Attending Conference; Censorship Alleged - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:28] <exec> 08└─We can't survive as a nation of web developers, beggars, and government bureaucrats.
[06:07:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nintendo to More Than Double Production of Switch; Success Rooted in Wii U's Failure - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:07:17] <exec> 08└─Penny Arcade said it best ages ago. There'll be lots of new retreads of old Nintendo titles. Frankly, I'm way more excited for the news that KORG Gadget will be ported to the Switch. Games are entirely secondary on that ecosystem, to me.
[06:08:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Founding President Sounds Alarm, Criticizes Facebook - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:08:47] <exec> 08└─And by then it will be all too late.
[06:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmn32480 [443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06These 9 Places in America Will Pay You to Move There - 689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:31] <exec> 08└─As a side note, Baltimore is considering a plan to sell off a large numbers of the blighted properties for $1 each. Aplan that was done in the mid-1980's (I think, but am too lazy to look up) with some success The fact is, Baltimore's issues are far more systemic. They are a few years behind Detroit...
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[07:05:52] <exec> 08└─"hey, there's probably an app for that."
[07:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forest Service Fire Experts Blocked From Attending Conference; Censorship Alleged - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:28] <exec> 08└─Twitter let's Trump account go down for 11 minutes everyone loses their mind and cries censorship
[07:06:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forest Service Fire Experts Blocked From Attending Conference; Censorship Alleged - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:29] <exec> 08└─We have no desire to fund a campaign to disadvantage American industry while giving India and China a free pass.
[07:06:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forest Service Fire Experts Blocked From Attending Conference; Censorship Alleged - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:31] <exec> 08└─If you are trying to deal with fire, you don't waste time on stuff that is way out of scope. Going on about possible climate change effects is unproductive. You may as well propose to pave the world like a giant parking lot to prevent fire -- which is sort of correct but completely out of scope of a...
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[07:09:11] <exec> 08└─7) Eat less: http://www.bbc.com [bbc.com] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov [nih.gov] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
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[08:05:50] <exec> 08└─They leave me feeling like either I'm an idiot, or the author is an asshat. Every time.
[08:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03petecox [3228] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Samsung Shows Off Linux Desktops on Galaxy 8 Smartphone - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:05:59] <exec> 08└─Android running GNU/Linux inside an app/chroot/container of some sort. So yes this would be the inverse of libhybris/halium based solutions such as Sailfish/Plasma Mobile/Lune OS that run a glibc-based GNU/LInux bootstrapping a minimal bionic Android image for hardware support. (and optionally anoth...
[08:06:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forest Service Fire Experts Blocked From Attending Conference; Censorship Alleged - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:38] <exec> 08└─We can't keep things pristine and actually get stuff done. In 50 years, we will be gone if we keep going with the regulations. You can see some effects now, with tiny families and badly nourished children. We either don't breed at all or we actually starve... possibly starving with stomachs full of...
[08:07:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03rob_on_earth [5485] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nintendo to More Than Double Production of Switch; Success Rooted in Wii U's Failure - 815 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:07:28] <exec> 08└─My family has a Wii U after having had so much fun with the original Wii. But the kids were 7 & 9 and had 0 interest in the social aspects of the Wii U universe (or whatever marketing name it was given). That meant every time you started the console you had to log in to get your game saves. It sites...
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[09:05:52] <exec> 08└─My tip is to bet on the first.
[09:05:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ALMA Captures Best-Ever Image of Red Giant W Hydrae - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:05:53] <exec> 08└─... we index based on zero.
[09:05:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ALMA Captures Best-Ever Image of Red Giant W Hydrae - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:05:55] <exec> 08└─Nitpicking - first is first no matter which index you start with. E.g. sort an array ascendingly and the first element will contain the minimum irrespective what index you assign to it.
[09:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Shows Off Linux Desktops on Galaxy 8 Smartphone - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:06] <exec> 08└─It looks like the video is sped up somewhat and probably edited to cut waiting time out.
[09:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Shows Off Linux Desktops on Galaxy 8 Smartphone - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:08] <exec> 08└─Every time I hear app I just wanna fapp! Anyone have some sweet badonkadonk apps available?
[09:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Samsung Shows Off Linux Desktops on Galaxy 8 Smartphone - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:10] <exec> 08└─This is like complaining somebody sped up a video of a person breaking a glass bottle in their anus.
[09:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Shows Off Linux Desktops on Galaxy 8 Smartphone - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:13] <exec> 08└─Is this some kind of User Mode Linux running on top of Android - which is already running on top of Linux - or is it the usual falsely advertising Bash as Linux? Like Microsofts "Subsystem for Linux" is often referred to as Linux running on top on Windows, even though Linux is the only thing it's NO...
[09:06:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Forest Service Fire Experts Blocked From Attending Conference; Censorship Alleged - 196 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:38] <exec> 08└─And while we're at it, fuck all this clean water legislation and the FDA and stuff. Because making sure we're not mainlining dimethylmercury gets in the way of PROFITS. God, you people are stupid.
[09:06:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Forest Service Fire Experts Blocked From Attending Conference; Censorship Alleged - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:52] <exec> 08└─Actually no, the science done by various departments should not be very beholden to the whims of some politician. The EPA, FDA, FCC, and etc. should be held to their actual founding charters. They should not be responsible to whatever jerkoff politician gets a hardon for some lobbying group. We are...
[09:06:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forest Service Fire Experts Blocked From Attending Conference; Censorship Alleged - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:53] <exec> 08└─The quickest and cheapest way to listen to it is using your beloved gun on yourself
[09:06:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forest Service Fire Experts Blocked From Attending Conference; Censorship Alleged - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:56] <exec> 08└─Actually it's the people who pay for this knowledge in order to get advantageous policy decisions. What is the knowledge and who gets the advantages, that's the question?
[09:06:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forest Service Fire Experts Blocked From Attending Conference; Censorship Alleged - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:58] <exec> 08└─Can we apply this standard to everyone or just scientists? No work travel unless you are LITERALLY saving the planet RIGHT NOW.
[09:06:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forest Service Fire Experts Blocked From Attending Conference; Censorship Alleged - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:07:00] <exec> 08└─Solution: stop monitoring it, end all research into it, MAGA.
[09:07:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forest Service Fire Experts Blocked From Attending Conference; Censorship Alleged - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:07:02] <exec> 08└─False dichotomy. Trash everything now OR everyone dies.
[09:07:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forest Service Fire Experts Blocked From Attending Conference; Censorship Alleged - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:07:04] <exec> 08└─Don't worry, we'll soon be buying Chinese solar panels and importing Chinese technology while we sell Real American coal to any country more backward than we are.
[09:07:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forest Service Fire Experts Blocked From Attending Conference; Censorship Alleged - 727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:07:07] <exec> 08└─Actually much of it depends on rocket science since we use satellites for a lot of our global studies. Climate science is still an evolving field, so one might say it is even more complicated than rocket science. As for twitter, it was just a reference to how wildly out of proportion people reacted...
[09:07:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nintendo to More Than Double Production of Switch; Success Rooted in Wii U's Failure - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:07:57] <exec> 08└─I do want to link my account to FaceBook and any other dodgy social system.
[09:07:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nintendo to More Than Double Production of Switch; Success Rooted in Wii U's Failure - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:07:59] <exec> 08└─How about something original for a fucking change?
[09:08:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coinbase Escalates Showdown on U.S. Tax Probe as Bitcoin Surges - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:08:40] <exec> 08└─If the income (above $600) was not reported, both sides of the transaction are potentially in trouble...
[09:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mushrooms: A Rich Source of Antioxidants - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:53] <exec> 08└─Elemental caesium - include it in your diet and you'll burp hydrogen from de-oxydized water.
[09:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers: Aaron Hernandez Had the Worst Case of CTE Ever Seen in an Athlete So Young - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:17] <exec> 08└─No, I trust 4chan to find teh bad guys.
[09:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers: Aaron Hernandez Had the Worst Case of CTE Ever Seen in an Athlete So Young - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:18] <exec> 08└─There's going to be so few players in 5 years that NFL and all those beautiful State-funded stadiums will be all about the "1/2 time" entertainment and only a sprinkle of heavily sanitized football. Think of it like pro wrestling but with jock straps.
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[10:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Shows Off Linux Desktops on Galaxy 8 Smartphone - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:14] <exec> 08└─Totally! I scour the internet for videos of persons breaking glass bottles in their anuses, and then complain about them speeding the video up. It's my raison d'être.
[10:07:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forest Service Fire Experts Blocked From Attending Conference; Censorship Alleged - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:07:02] <exec> 08└─while we sell Real American coal to any country more backward than we are.
[10:07:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forest Service Fire Experts Blocked From Attending Conference; Censorship Alleged - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:07:04] <exec> 08└─Oh, and global warming will reduce fire because flooded land is wet.
[10:07:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forest Service Fire Experts Blocked From Attending Conference; Censorship Alleged - 893 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:07:06] <exec> 08└─Missoula: Hell's Gate. Everyone who knows the Salish origin of the name knows what it means. But usually it referred to that path to the West, the Buffalo Trail, to the lands of the Blackfeet. But now, Missoula has become Minas Tirith, the last city of Men, and they fight both the goblin forces of...
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[11:05:49] <exec> 08└─SOPA is being pushed again. Anyone give a shit any more!?
[11:05:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FreeGuard: A Faster Secure Heap Allocator - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:05:51] <exec> 08└─If you're talking about SESTA, I'll put it in.
[11:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03letssee [2537] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Shows Off Linux Desktops on Galaxy 8 Smartphone - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:16] <exec> 08└─My guess would be it's just chroot. chrooted ubuntu has been possible on any rooted android phone for a long time now. Just add a decent X server on the android side and you're ready to go. but I didn't read TFA, su it's all just handwaving (though handwaving based on having used Ubuntu on various a...
[11:07:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forest Service Fire Experts Blocked From Attending Conference; Censorship Alleged - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:07:07] <exec> 08└─In 50 years all of those countries with no health regulations will be full of cancer-induced cripples wading through piles of filth to reach their lead-tainted water. Lets see them rule the world with that!
[11:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mushrooms: A Rich Source of Antioxidants - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:54] <exec> 08└─http://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/2017/11/12/most-popular-weight-loss-diet-on-reddit-would-never-be-recommended-by-nutritionists.html [foxnews.com]
[11:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mushrooms: A Rich Source of Antioxidants - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:56] <exec> 08└─Most of us get it from animal blood.
[11:11:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06DOJ: Strong Encryption That We Don't Have Access to is “Unreasonable” - 140 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:11:14] <exec> 08└─This is end-stage political-power narcissism. This is when people start thinking they can rewrite reality to suit their ends. Fuck this guy.
[11:12:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DOJ: Strong Encryption That We Don't Have Access to is “Unreasonable” - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:12:10] <exec> 08└─If terrorists go free because of encryption, so be it. Fuck the government.
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[12:05:44] <exec> 08└─Yes. Though there will still be some level of recreational driving happening. Presumably in "vintage" cars, which won't have access to a lot of "roads".
[12:05:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:05:45] <exec> 08└─Country pubs will thrive when self-driving vehicles become ubiquitous. An investment opportunity?
[12:05:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:05:48] <exec> 08└─there will be a spike in 'adventure' travel, where you get to drive (control!) an actual car, in exotic locations, like Brazil, or, some African or Australian deserts. then there will be an underground of groups keeping 'old' cars on the road (models with 'hackable' software) Some time later, MSF an...
[12:05:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:05:50] <exec> 08└─"sir, I understand you commanded this vehicle to drive you to 'anywhere I can score'?, so I am going to have to charge you with corrupting an AI"
[12:05:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:05:52] <exec> 08└─Probably safer to go by horse. They know the way home.
[12:05:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 958 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:05:54] <exec> 08└─Probably more than just "some level". 1. such a transition will not happen all over the world at the same time, so there will not only be different generations doing different things with their cars, there will be different nationalities doing different things. 2. horses are still routinely kept for...
[12:05:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Webweasel [567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:05:56] <exec> 08└─For the majority of people, yes this is probably true. Us pertrol heads will be around for as long as we can afford it. There's no experience better than nailing a corner, feeling the car grip and booting it out of a turn. Eventually we will have to move to electric cars, but so many of us love driv...
[12:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:05:59] <exec> 08└─already got that covered. http://www.dailymail.co.uk [dailymail.co.uk] http://www.acclaimperformancehorses.com [acclaimperformancehorses.com] https://www.newsoneplace.com
[12:06:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FreeGuard: A Faster Secure Heap Allocator - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:08] <exec> 08└─Don't know what SESTA is. Just saw SOPA on NHK OTA news.
[12:07:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forest Service Fire Experts Blocked From Attending Conference; Censorship Alleged - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:07:24] <exec> 08└─Why do you want us extinct?
[12:08:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alibaba's "Singles' Day" Sales Reach $25 Billion - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:08:02] <exec> 08└─Do you actually know what the one-click patent covered? Hint: It wasn't just putting a button on a web site, it also covered a lot of the coalescing of orders to minimise postage costs, but not introduce noticeable latency for customers. There were lots of ways of adding a one-click order button to...
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[13:05:50] <exec> 08└─It would be better and cheaper to just legalize prostitution. But this is the U.S., we can't have that because Jesus. (Despite the fact that the Bible says that he hung out with prostitutes, and avoiding the moralizing goody-two-shoes of his era.)
[13:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 758 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:06] <exec> 08└─Governments all around are pushing for backdoors - they will be legislated into these new driverless vehicles. If boats/ships and planes become completely driverless as well it's even worse. Someone who figures out how to access those backdoors can remotely shut down 99% of global economic activity...
[13:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:07] <exec> 08└─Life's just not fair sometimes.
[13:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:09] <exec> 08└─Yeaa... naaah! I'll buy myself a tractor. Or two. Chinese ones - simple, no software, just gear and engine.
[13:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:12] <exec> 08└─You can take my ICE from my cold dead hands!
[13:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:14] <exec> 08└─The vehicles, however, will no longer be driven by humans because in 15 to 20 years — at the latest — human-driven vehicles will be legislated off the highways. The tipping point will come when 20 to 30 percent of vehicles are fully autonomous. Countries will look at the accident statistics and...
[13:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:16] <exec> 08└─). Argh.
[13:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:18] <exec> 08└─It will happen if we allow it. I suspect that large groups of motivated people will fight for their right to drive. I suspect large city cores will be the first to mandate automated driving. Hopefully smaller cities should be safe for a long time.
[13:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:21] <exec> 08└─Wait - check what sort of car it is first - don't want to kill some one for the wrong car.
[13:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:23] <exec> 08└─Governments all around are pushing for backdoors - they will be legislated into these new driverless vehicles.
[13:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 1178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:25] <exec> 08└─So, as to that "Adventure travel" - a surprising amount of travel happens in the Continental US on surfaces that are only charitably called "roads." Private land has internal road systems, when you get into timber tracts and ranches over 200 acres you'll have miles of internal road system, some of w...
[13:06:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 757 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:27] <exec> 08└─I'm fine with moving from petrol to electric - if I could afford $100K+ for a performance electric vehicle I'd already have one, the tech is "out there" but the high performance electric power systems are unreasonably expensive, today. Giving up human control of the vehicle is the real issue here. O...
[13:06:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:29] <exec> 08└─Wait - check what sort of car it is first - don't want to kill some one for the wrong car
[13:07:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Shows Off Linux Desktops on Galaxy 8 Smartphone - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:07:03] <exec> 08└─Year of the (Mobile) Linux Desktop (App) is almost here!
[13:07:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Shows Off Linux Desktops on Galaxy 8 Smartphone - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:07:05] <exec> 08└─I had a strange thought, that this would be an amazing hackers device, no? Ok I know the device itself will have binary blobs to run the display and radio, but just having a distro platform converge with android is quite nice - and better still on decent hardware. Of course, they'll find some way to...
[13:07:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forest Service Fire Experts Blocked From Attending Conference; Censorship Alleged - 713 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:07:58] <exec> 08└─From TFA, first, we have the person complaining "Those folks are doing critical analysis on fire suppression effectiveness, which is a new area of research.” But his complaint was that people giving papers on AGW were cut - now, suddenly, they were actually on-topic? Anyway, the person handling th...
[13:08:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alibaba's "Singles' Day" Sales Reach $25 Billion - 1551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:37] <exec> 08└─I think Mao, if he could see it, would be amazed at the many great things happening to China, economically and otherwise. Mao was a terrific builder. I think he would be very pleased to see his amazing buildings in use. The Forbidden City, the Grand Canal, the Three Gorges Dam. I know one thing abou...
[13:10:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mushrooms: A Rich Source of Antioxidants - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:49] <exec> 08└─Is this just another study funded by parties with a financial interest in the product? "Study paid for by the mushroom marketers association of America shows mushrooms are healthy for you" Similar to: "Study paid for by the dairy association shows Margarine is bad for you" "Study paid for by the can...
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[14:05:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Senate Commerce Committee Approves Stop Enabling Sex Trafficking Act (SESTA) - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:05:50] <exec> 08└─Thing is that prostitution (sex workers) is not exactly the same as sex trafficking. People in the sex trafficking should be more seen as sex slaves. My guess is that this bill wants to tackle the second, but takes collateral damage in the process.
[14:05:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Commerce Committee Approves Stop Enabling Sex Trafficking Act (SESTA) - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:05:52] <exec> 08└─Not quite precise enough language. He was no fan of self-righteousness or malice. He had no problem with anyone trying to do the best they knew how though; pretty damned righteous or not so much wasn't really relevant to him. And, no, still not a christian. No need to subscribe to a religion to educ...
[14:05:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Senate Commerce Committee Approves Stop Enabling Sex Trafficking Act (SESTA) - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:05:54] <exec> 08└─Sez right here: For anyone dealing with user-generated content, the result could be a dangerous new source of legal risk, one that only the largest companies are fully equipped to handle. Can it be any more obvious what this is about? Please, let's put away the philosophical mumbo-jumbo. It doesn't...
[14:05:55] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03lgsoynews [1235] 02 - 06Senate Commerce Committee Approves Stop Enabling Sex Trafficking Act (SESTA) - 2306 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:05:56] <exec> 08└─I find it astonishing that NONE of the articles I've read on the subject, on a range of websites, does provide a link to the bill itself. NONE. Even on the EFF website you have to dig to find it! Here is the link : https://www.congress.gov [congress.gov] Ano...
[14:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Commerce Committee Approves Stop Enabling Sex Trafficking Act (SESTA) - 975 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:05:59] <exec> 08└─The parent post is very informative - thanks! FWIW, I see three motivations for this bill: - Electioneering: "think of the children" feel-good crap. Who cares what side-effect this bill will have, as long as the Congresscritters can wave around their support while campaigning in 2018? - Expand gover...
[14:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Commerce Committee Approves Stop Enabling Sex Trafficking Act (SESTA) - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:01] <exec> 08└─On the other hand, it's propaganda value is enormous. Do what it takes to make the sale
[14:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Commerce Committee Approves Stop Enabling Sex Trafficking Act (SESTA) - 656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:03] <exec> 08└─I've been lazy about finding spaces on darknets for discussion about, you know, normal stuff like we discuss here. It sounds like it's time for me to get my ass in gear about it. This will pass, because why would anybody enrage feminism (indeed cisgendered women are the only ones who have the privil...
[14:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Commerce Committee Approves Stop Enabling Sex Trafficking Act (SESTA) - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:05] <exec> 08└─Yes, I know, "you own your comments, yadda-yadda". IANAL, but seems to me that under SESTA if the (who? operators? owners?) know about illegal content, they must (do what?) or suffer consequences. E.g. does the "Deuter0n0my, young wives" troll fall under illegal content? Seems to me as an encouragem...
[14:06:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:32] <exec> 08└─When you say "safe", you mean 40k deaths per year? Just trying to calibrate.
[14:06:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 943 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:34] <exec> 08└─This future scenario of "homogenized driverless modules", how will it help people such as tinkerers and junk scavengers? I currently have an old pickup car (tray, utility, or whatever else you call it) and most of the time it lives a sedentary life outside my house. 99% of the time I ride bicycles a...
[14:06:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:36] <exec> 08└─Maybe there's a future when google doesn't own all the maps and you can edit them yourself.
[14:06:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:38] <exec> 08└─Don't worry, you'll still be able to shit your pants and buy more guns.
[14:06:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:42] <exec> 08└─Well, unfortunately "all the technology" amounts to "shit beeping" all the time. It got to the point in my previous car, I located the beep and put a nail through it - that fixed all the technology.
[14:06:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:44] <exec> 08└─You click on the "homogenous scary thingy" button and select a different "homogenous OMG scary" vehicle. It arrives. You do your shit. Life continues for another day.... but watch out, they're coming after you.
[14:06:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:46] <exec> 08└─Google maps are fine when you're in the big city. They become useless out in the less-travelled parts of the country. In the West there are vast tracts with roads that Google maps shows as undifferentiated green or gray.
[14:06:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:49] <exec> 08└─I'm fine with this. It's a pretty good filter.
[14:06:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03j-beda [6342] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:51] <exec> 08└─http://openstreetmap.org/ [openstreetmap.org]
[14:06:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 722 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:53] <exec> 08└─It's almost like all of these people live in cities and only very rarely venture outside of their metro bubbles. Quite a lot of people in the USA live off of dirt and gravel roads. Many of them are not mapped accurately. What do you do once you've reached your major hub town but now need to travel 5...
[14:06:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:55] <exec> 08└─When you say "safe", you mean 40k deaths per year?
[14:06:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:58] <exec> 08└─There's no experience better than nailing a corner, feeling the car grip and booting it out of a turn.
[14:07:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Shows Off Linux Desktops on Galaxy 8 Smartphone - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:34] <exec> 08└─Where's the keyboard? Show me a hardware keyboard on the phone, then we'll talk.
[14:07:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Shows Off Linux Desktops on Galaxy 8 Smartphone - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:35] <exec> 08└─The title of the video is "Concept Demo".
[14:08:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forest Service Fire Experts Blocked From Attending Conference; Censorship Alleged - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:30] <exec> 08└─Leader A is in charge and encourages research to whip up fear that benefits him politically. Then leader B gets elected, and his political allies don't want to hear about the topic. So B shuts down the research. Big whoop.
[14:08:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forest Service Fire Experts Blocked From Attending Conference; Censorship Alleged - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:32] <exec> 08└─I thought the taxpayers paid for this knowledge. Silly me.
[14:08:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forest Service Fire Experts Blocked From Attending Conference; Censorship Alleged - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:34] <exec> 08└─There is no Sanity Clause.
[14:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nintendo to More Than Double Production of Switch; Success Rooted in Wii U's Failure - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:28] <exec> 08└─They'd need to drag Rare out of Microsoft's clutches first.
[14:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DOJ: Strong Encryption That We Don't Have Access to is “Unreasonable” - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:41] <exec> 08└─I agree, I'm just saying they might!
[14:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DOJ: Strong Encryption That We Don't Have Access to is “Unreasonable” - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:42] <exec> 08└─That does not prove that such a solution is not possible.
[14:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DOJ: Strong Encryption That We Don't Have Access to is “Unreasonable” - 875 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:44] <exec> 08└─Yeah. Some people pretend it can't happen because when pressed for evidence that this is an actual problem, the FBI gives out a list of dogshit examples [theintercept.com]. Or because they have other means to catch criminals (which may be true in many cases). Encryption could aid terrorism if used p...
[14:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Snake Man's Venom Habit Holds Hope for New Antidote - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:55] <exec> 08└─Maybe you didn't read the above story - but you really can't NOT see a doctor for that type of wound. Figure out payment later - you are IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR ARM AND LIFE.
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[15:05:48] <exec> 08└─MAGA?
[15:05:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:49] <exec> 08└─Did he promise the mexicans will pay for the wall? Since their government doesn't want to, mexicans working in US will pay for it in taxes. (grin) --- Careful what you wish for [wikia.com]
[15:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Senate Commerce Committee Approves Stop Enabling Sex Trafficking Act (SESTA) [Updated] - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:07] <exec> 08└─Also, I'm stunned by the hypocrisy of those laws. Don't be. This is strictly business. Prohibition is a form of regulation, a way to close the market to all but a select few. The "morality" angle makes it an easy sell to the public and still allows for the occasional... "indulgence"?
[15:06:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Senate Commerce Committee Approves Stop Enabling Sex Trafficking Act (SESTA) [Updated] - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:08] <exec> 08└─:-) Don't confuse the observer with an advocate.
[15:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Commerce Committee Approves Stop Enabling Sex Trafficking Act (SESTA) [Updated] - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:10] <exec> 08└─Check. Message received.
[15:06:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 910 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:50] <exec> 08└─It is always risky to predict if/when/how a new technology will roll out. The man has a lot of domain knowledge in the area, so he's probably correct that something will happen in this area. But his what and how seem unlikely. The most glaring thing in his statement is that performance won't matter...
[15:06:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:51] <exec> 08└─The end state will be the fully autonomous module with no capability for the driver to exercise command.
[15:06:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 956 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:53] <exec> 08└─Forget the hacking - though that will undoubtedly be fun. How much rejoicing will there be in police departments, when they have this power? Need to stop a criminal? Why, just stop all traffic in the whole city, lock people in the cars, and start searching! Who cares that you've just inconvenienced...
[15:06:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 1937 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:56] <exec> 08└─The Autoextremist commented on the Lutz article, http://www.autoextremist.com [autoextremist.com] I thought his title was suitably SF-like-- "THE LINGERING INTERREGNUM" Now that Bob Lutz has dropped his dire predictions for the future of the au...
[15:06:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:58] <exec> 08└─And that is how it should be. You use your car the way you like and I'll use mine the way I like. No way am I going to order a random driverless box and sit in other peoples dirt. I'll always own my own cars.
[15:07:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FreeGuard: A Faster Secure Heap Allocator - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:08] <exec> 08└─The code itself is dual licensed GPL and proprietary.
[15:08:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06US-CERT Warns of Crypto Bugs in IEEE Standard - 708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:44] <exec> 08└─Encryption doesn't care what it's encrypting. The entire concept of domain-specific encryption seems like wrong-think. IP is just data, encrypt it as you would encrypt data. So why does it exist? Shall we get cynical? Is it perhaps to simply provide a veneer of acceptability around a proprietory fil...
[15:08:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US-CERT Warns of Crypto Bugs in IEEE Standard - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:45] <exec> 08└─Encryption doesn't care what it's encrypting.
[15:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03rob_on_earth [5485] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nintendo to More Than Double Production of Switch; Success Rooted in Wii U's Failure - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:32] <exec> 08└─drat! why could it not have auto corrected :) The problem with the Wii U games is that they do not offer to save n number of saved games meaning different users have to have their own account hense the having to login each time. In the past all games used to offer a minimum of 4 slots any one could...
[15:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03j-beda [6342] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Coinbase Escalates Showdown on U.S. Tax Probe as Bitcoin Surges - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:14] <exec> 08└─If the income (above $600) was not reported, both sides of the transaction are potentially in trouble...
[15:11:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Founding President Sounds Alarm, Criticizes Facebook - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:06] <exec> 08└─Masochist.
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[16:05:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fishscene [4361] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Keeping Your Phone-Based Data Secure? - 1674 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:47] <exec> 08└─Requirements: - keep my data safe (iPhone is probably best for keeping on-device data safe) - GPS/navigation (Any Android and iPhone will do this) - listening to podcasts (Any Android and iPhone will do this) - making phone calls. (Any Android and iPhone will do this) - multiple email accounts (Any...
[16:05:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:56] <exec> 08└─Let's see the Trump-lovers rationalize this one. Trump: "We need to put Americans to work! Build a wall! Mexicans are putting American workers out of a job!" Trump supporters: "YAY! MAGA!" Trump: "I need foreign workers to work at my resort because no Americans are willing to take the low pay I offe...
[16:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 1353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:58] <exec> 08└─Ho-hum. As time passes, Trump most certainly exposes himself to be a hypocritical ass, who cares nothing for anyone "beneath" him. But - why so some insist on comparing him to the alternative, and pretending that the alternative might have been better? I repeat myself: the choice was between the cou...
[16:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 1053 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:01] <exec> 08└─I've said there has to be a pause. Before any new green cards are issued to foreign workers abroad, there will be a pause where employers will have to hire from the domestic pool of unemployed immigrant and native workers. This will help reverse women's plummeting workplace participation rate, grow...
[16:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:03] <exec> 08└─Trump! Trump! Trump!
[16:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:05] <exec> 08└─Wow, just wow! You really are in denial about the Republicans aren't you. Blame the current state of affairs on Clinton, Wasserman-Schultz, and their close cadre. Corruption lost the election.
[16:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:07] <exec> 08└─Is this really President Trump talking? I would be very surprised to see him on Soylent News.
[16:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Commerce Committee Approves Stop Enabling Sex Trafficking Act (SESTA) [Updated] - 3087 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:27] <exec> 08└─A lot, a lot of our great politicians are supporting this bill. Senator Feinstein, one of our greatest Democrats and a beautiful woman, loves it. She's not beautiful, she's got a beautiful heart. A heart of gold, which I love. Senator Portman, a great Republican. Probably a great Republican. Very bi...
[16:06:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Commerce Committee Approves Stop Enabling Sex Trafficking Act (SESTA) [Updated] - 833 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:29] <exec> 08└─I am surprised nobody has mentioned a major driver behind this: feminists. (They are riding a high wave right now, with girls promoted over boys at all times.) Feminists are the allies of the Bible thumpers in the effort to prohibit the unerradicated "scourge" of prostitution because feminists don't...
[16:06:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Commerce Committee Approves Stop Enabling Sex Trafficking Act (SESTA) [Updated] - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:31] <exec> 08└─I'd rather hear about real cops busting those rings
[16:06:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Senate Commerce Committee Approves Stop Enabling Sex Trafficking Act (SESTA) [Updated] - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:33] <exec> 08└─Yep. I'm going to be doing some research today on viable nations to move SN's hosting, incorporation, and banking to without causing all kinds of extra issues for ourselves. The only real alternative I see if this bill passes as-is is to completely disable comments for everyone on staff so we can't...
[16:06:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Commerce Committee Approves Stop Enabling Sex Trafficking Act (SESTA) [Updated] - 802 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:35] <exec> 08└─Thing is that prostitution (sex workers) is not exactly the same as sex trafficking. It's not, but I'll be that if you could perform a controlled experiment (perhaps involving parallel universes), you'd find that in the universe where prostitution is legalized and properly regulated, sex trafficking...
[16:06:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Commerce Committee Approves Stop Enabling Sex Trafficking Act (SESTA) [Updated] - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:37] <exec> 08└─Well, I'm not certain we need a parallel universe. How does this work out in Amsterdam? I'm curious to hear a feminist perspective on that, since I know we have a few on here.
[16:06:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Commerce Committee Approves Stop Enabling Sex Trafficking Act (SESTA) [Updated] - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:40] <exec> 08└─Among third-wave (i.e. most modern) feminists, sex work is generally seen as something to be supported. There's the derogatory term “SWERF [wiktionary.org]” (Sex Worker Exclusionary Radical Feminist) used to describe those who identify as feminists but don't support sex workers. So blaming femin...
[16:06:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Commerce Committee Approves Stop Enabling Sex Trafficking Act (SESTA) [Updated] - 859 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:42] <exec> 08└─I'm also not certain, but with sex-negativity comes a general neglect of women's health issues. This will backfire--is backfiring--in feminism's face badly. I wish I could care, but feminism has shown me personally with force and threats that it is not for me to worry about, because I do not have th...
[16:07:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:27] <exec> 08└─Translation - you're losing freedom hand-over-fist on daily basis, how are those guns working for yea?
[16:07:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03starvingboy [6766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:28] <exec> 08└─I can't wait. It'd be nice to be able to read a book or watch a movie instead of pilot a car down another boring stretch of highway for hours on end. Whoo! Or, heck, just do an overnight drive, and not lose any sleep :D
[16:07:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 960 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:30] <exec> 08└─It's not an "A" or "B"- there will be incremental steps. Cars more and more have GPS, LTE, etc., and your back roads will be mapped. That map info will be aggregated and sold. If you're wealthy or "important", there will be human-less pods which will check road conditions ahead of the human occupied...
[16:07:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:33] <exec> 08└─There are a lot of deaths due to car accidents and the technology is ready to the point where it can be driven in traffic. I doubt we will have to wait a lifetime to see some adoption. They won't be popular in rural areas though.
[16:07:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:35] <exec> 08└─"The vehicles, however, will no longer be driven by humans because in 15 to 20 years — at the latest — human-driven vehicles will be legislated off the highways." My bet is that insurance costs will practically eliminate human drivers before legislation will. Leave the car under AI control and g...
[16:07:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 1077 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:37] <exec> 08└─Maybe there's a future when google doesn't own all the maps and you can edit them yourself. I doubt it. We already have exactly what you're talking about: it's called OpenStreetMap. I hear it's actually pretty popular outside the US, probably mostly in Europe. However, here in the US, no one knows w...
[16:07:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03knarf [2042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 1598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:39] <exec> 08└─Cue Rush' "Red Barchetta" [1], based on the short story "A nice morning drive" by Richard S. Foster [2]: My uncle has a country place That no one knows about He says it used to be a farm Before the Motor Law And on Sundays I elude the eyes And hop the turbine freight To far outside the wire Where my...
[16:07:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:41] <exec> 08└─Give me liberty or give me death
[16:07:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:44] <exec> 08└─Making a point of closing your bracket gave me a nice fuzzy feeling. The closest mod I could find to say thank you for that was a Touché.
[16:07:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:46] <exec> 08└─It all depends on whether they have a clear view of an empty road beyond the corner. It's a shame that too few drivers seem to bother to make this distinction.
[16:07:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:48] <exec> 08└─> You can file a correction request, ... I've filed several, a couple in the suburbs (correcting names) and one in a rural area (dirt road, their "road" was parallel to the actual road, offset about ~100 meters). All were fixed within a few weeks and they sent me a thank-you email for my contributio...
[16:07:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 2070 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:50] <exec> 08└─This guy is spelling out a model that lots of business's are investing in, that really has no hope of implementation. Particularly not in the U.S. The economic utility of vehicles extends way beyond passenger moving. If you look at all the respective utility provided by a car, vs. the cost of the va...
[16:08:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Samsung Shows Off Linux Desktops on Galaxy 8 Smartphone - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:30] <exec> 08└─Bluetooth keyboards.
[16:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forest Service Fire Experts Blocked From Attending Conference; Censorship Alleged - 724 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:27] <exec> 08└─You may applaud Trump's actions thinking it is the draining of the swamp, and so I guess the ignorant must learn the truth by bringing the shit down upon us all. I honestly don't see the problem here, or why they need to have this conference at all. What use is it? To prevent forest fires, or lessen...
[16:09:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03LVDOVICVS [6131] 02 - 06Gene Therapy and Skin Grafting for Junctional Epidermolysis Bullosa - 434 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:46] <exec> 08└─If you don't know about this disease, this will fill you in. But be warned; whatever you think is hard in your life isn't. And perhaps like me whenever you think of this boy in the future, or children with this disease, you may find a tear in your eye, and an ache in your heart. I first saw this a y...
[16:12:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers: Aaron Hernandez Had the Worst Case of CTE Ever Seen in an Athlete So Young - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:50] <exec> 08└─Let's play ball is a phrase I would more likely associate with Baseball.
[16:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DOJ: Strong Encryption That We Don't Have Access to is “Unreasonable” - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:44] <exec> 08└─The problem is that it's not worth it to ban/restrict encryption to stop a fraction of a tiny threat.
[16:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DOJ: Strong Encryption That We Don't Have Access to is “Unreasonable” - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:45] <exec> 08└─existence federal
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[17:05:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 0, Offtopic) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Keeping Your Phone-Based Data Secure? - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:51] <exec> 08└─Hhdghhggffdfggh
[17:05:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Keeping Your Phone-Based Data Secure? - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:53] <exec> 08└─One the one hand, you say things like this: Just be careful with the apps you install (for example, don't install apps or disable permissions of apps that harvest your data and sync your contacts with them (I'm looking at you, Facebook and Linkedin).
[17:05:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Keeping Your Phone-Based Data Secure? - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:55] <exec> 08└─Me personally? I wouldn't pay less than $1500 for a laptop
[17:05:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Keeping Your Phone-Based Data Secure? - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:57] <exec> 08└─I go with none of the above and assume a phone is not secure and they never will be. I never put sensitive information on or across it. That said, I go through all the steps I can find or think up to secure it anyway. No sense in making it easy on them.
[17:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Keeping Your Phone-Based Data Secure? - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:00] <exec> 08└─No networked device is secure. [nytimes.com]
[17:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Keeping Your Phone-Based Data Secure? - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:02] <exec> 08└─Just be careful with the apps you install (for example, don't install apps or disable permissions of apps that harvest your data and sync your contacts with them (I'm looking at you, Facebook and Linkedin).
[17:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Keeping Your Phone-Based Data Secure? - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:04] <exec> 08└─Well those appear to be the OP's requirements, not the person you were replying to. Although I do agree about iphone currently being the most safest. I begrudgingly switched from android to iphone for this reason after apple held their ground after the San Bernardino attack. For all I know, Apple di...
[17:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Keeping Your Phone-Based Data Secure? - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:06] <exec> 08└─So you carry around a pocket address book? I must admit I have started carrying around a pocket calendar as it's too difficult to sync work and home events and I can't reference a phone based calendar while talking on the cell trying to schedule something for next month.
[17:06:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Keeping Your Phone-Based Data Secure? - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:09] <exec> 08└─Probably but I can damned sure make them earn it on a desktop.
[17:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03iWantToKeepAnon [686] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Keeping Your Phone-Based Data Secure? - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:11] <exec> 08└─> - multiple email accounts (Any Android (gmail app) and iPhone (mail app) will do this) If you want to avoid having your contacts slurped up, avoid the gmail app. First thing I do on my droids is root it and quarantine all google pre-installed apps. There isn't, AFAIK, a setting to tell google not...
[17:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Keeping Your Phone-Based Data Secure? - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:14] <exec> 08└─I don't use a calendar; I just remember. And I don't consider my address book any more sensitive than a phone book. The most sensitive thing on my phone are the texting records and the phone company has a copy of those that they're all too willing to hand over anyway.
[17:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Keeping Your Phone-Based Data Secure? - 2308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:16] <exec> 08└─You're going to have to compromise. The fact of the matter is that there is *nothing* in the entire industry that is ideal. Android is very flexible, and is about as secure as swiss cheese. iPhones are very secure, but are also very locked down, have poorer compatibility with other devices (Their bl...
[17:06:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Keeping Your Phone-Based Data Secure? - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:18] <exec> 08└─Funnily enough, I thought we would end up with separate personal organisers and phones for precisely this reason. My expectation was a personal organiser with a phonebook, and once I'd found who I wanted to talk to, I hit a button, and the organiser would, through the magic of Bluetooth, initiate a...
[17:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03cosurgi [272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Keeping Your Phone-Based Data Secure? - 2800 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:20] <exec> 08└─The OP has a great question. And I so much hope that sometime it would have a better answer than it has currently. I look forward very much towards https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] and it is very saddening right now that the options are so little right now an...
[17:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Keeping Your Phone-Based Data Secure? - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:23] <exec> 08└─Depends on your requirements. Some people just need more horsepower. My work laptop was around $3600, with a Quaddro card.
[17:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03cosurgi [272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Keeping Your Phone-Based Data Secure? - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:25] <exec> 08└─lol, forgot a "not" i critical place ;) Should be "If you do NOT go this way (of privacy), then still spark is a good email client"
[17:06:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Keeping Your Phone-Based Data Secure? - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:27] <exec> 08└─I'm getting an error on your link.
[17:06:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Keeping Your Phone-Based Data Secure? - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:29] <exec> 08└─Found it by searching on the store. Thanks!
[17:06:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 1353 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:40] <exec> 08└─Ho-hum. As time passes, Trump most certainly exposes himself to be a hypocritical ass, who cares nothing for anyone "beneath" him. But - why so some insist on comparing him to the alternative, and pretending that the alternative might have been better? I repeat myself: the choice was between the cou...
[17:06:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:46] <exec> 08└─Talking of corruption, Trump's administration recently nominated and the Senate appear to be ready to approve the most unqualified judge in recent history. His only qualification for the post is loyalty to Trump. This is what you voted for.
[17:06:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:48] <exec> 08└─"President Trump is permitted by his staff, by Congress, and by the Judiciary to postpone handling issues of national and global importance to personally direct and oversee the hiring managers' business practices at the Trump Mar-A-Lago resort, under the ownership of a company he is no longer the he...
[17:06:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:51] <exec> 08└─No, I was never a Trump supporter. I voted for Johnson, this time around. I refused to give my blessing, however grudging, to either of the royal asses the rest of the country was fighting over. Denial? What on earth am I denying? I'm openly admitting that neither Trump nor Hillary are fit for any o...
[17:06:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:53] <exec> 08└─Horse shit. If you're any kind of a leader, you lead by example. Talking out your ass to make excuses for Trump doesn't make you any points.
[17:06:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:55] <exec> 08└─Apparently, you voted for that very same thing. Democrats appoint judges with precisely the same qualification. Loyalty to the party, if not loyalty to the president. Wake up and smell the coffee - the two party system is broken and corrupted. You apparently support one of those two corrupt parties,...
[17:06:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:57] <exec> 08└─Almost all politicians are slimy; that's just the way our system works (or non-works). Honest people won't go far in politics. That being said, T is damaging our reputation overseas by having the attention span of a goldfish. Venezuela's neighbors used to be fairly friendly to the US. But when T thr...
[17:06:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:59] <exec> 08└─So you're hiring undocumented workers.
[17:07:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03number11 [1170] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:02] <exec> 08└─Is this really President Trump talking?
[17:07:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 886 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:04] <exec> 08└─I'm not 100% sure what your comment is... but you don't see the hypocrisy and problem with this? Donald Trump, who has campaigned and constantly spoken of on "Put America First" and "Make America Great Again" is importing low wage foreign workers despite Americans looking for work? Even if Trump did...
[17:07:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:06] <exec> 08└─You really do need to take a step back and listen to Runaway: BOTH candidates you had were shite. Trump is an ass, but Hillary corrupted her party from the inside SOLELY for the purpose of winning. Both candidates are losers, and America lost no matter who won. You DO need to start supporting a 3+ p...
[17:07:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Senate Commerce Committee Approves Stop Enabling Sex Trafficking Act (SESTA) [Updated] - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:34] <exec> 08└─This “exclusionary” subspecies of feminism is multiplying! When do we admit that feminism as a whole has some huge problems, that these are not inconsequential nutbags that nobody listens to? Obviously, somebody is listening to them: men with power! How many more exclusionary subspecies of femin...
[17:07:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Commerce Committee Approves Stop Enabling Sex Trafficking Act (SESTA) [Updated] - 1326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:36] <exec> 08└─Anymore, education sucks! How many kids graduating today/recently can't read, write or do basic maths. It seems you can't hold kids back, it hurts them socially and emotionally. You can't give kids a lot of homework, it pisses off the helicopter parents. You can't suspend kids who AREN'T there to le...
[17:07:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Commerce Committee Approves Stop Enabling Sex Trafficking Act (SESTA) [Updated] - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:38] <exec> 08└─> My guess is that this bill wants to tackle the second, but takes collateral damage in the process. Collateral damage in the sense that they want to kill a cockroach in the house basement, so they literally nuke it from orbit, obliterating the entire city in the process.
[17:07:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Commerce Committee Approves Stop Enabling Sex Trafficking Act (SESTA) [Updated] - 775 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:40] <exec> 08└─As the AC commenter that Grishnakh commented on, I live in The Netherlands. Sex trafficking is still a problem here, although you don't hear much about it, most of the news you get are problems regarding "Loverboys" as we call them. I expect this to be just the top of the iceberg regarding sex traff...
[17:07:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Commerce Committee Approves Stop Enabling Sex Trafficking Act (SESTA) [Updated] - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:42] <exec> 08└─"...only the largest companies are fully equipped to handle." Can it be any more obvious what this is about?
[17:07:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Commerce Committee Approves Stop Enabling Sex Trafficking Act (SESTA) [Updated] - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:44] <exec> 08└─Senator Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, has issued a press release about his having placed a hold on SESTA [senate.gov]. Techdirt compared this hold to a prior hold seven years ago by Sen. Wyden [techdirt.com] on the predecessor of SOPA and PROTECTIP.
[17:07:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Senate Commerce Committee Approves Stop Enabling Sex Trafficking Act (SESTA) [Updated] - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:47] <exec> 08└─Sad to say there is no place to run. There is no safe space on this planet. Our only hope is to make censorship technically impractical right here and everywhere.
[17:07:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Commerce Committee Approves Stop Enabling Sex Trafficking Act (SESTA) [Updated] - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:49] <exec> 08└─This is the first I've heard of this legislation, and my 15-second skimming of the bill (summary?) suggests it's just some superficial language changes. So what is the bill doing that's so bad?
[17:08:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03t-3 [4907] 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 758 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:05] <exec> 08└─Governments all around are pushing for backdoors - they will be legislated into these new driverless vehicles. If boats/ships and planes become completely driverless as well it's even worse. Someone who figures out how to access those backdoors can remotely shut down 99% of global economic activity...
[17:08:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 1178 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:14] <exec> 08└─So, as to that "Adventure travel" - a surprising amount of travel happens in the Continental US on surfaces that are only charitably called "roads." Private land has internal road systems, when you get into timber tracts and ranches over 200 acres you'll have miles of internal road system, some of w...
[17:08:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 956 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:31] <exec> 08└─Forget the hacking - though that will undoubtedly be fun. How much rejoicing will there be in police departments, when they have this power? Need to stop a criminal? Why, just stop all traffic in the whole city, lock people in the cars, and start searching! Who cares that you've just inconvenienced...
[17:08:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:47] <exec> 08└─I'd argue the opposite, given the size of the system, there are very few highway deaths. Think about how much time people spend in hospitals (many less hours than most spend in cars)...and compare to deaths from getting a hospital-infection that you didn't have when you went in for some other proble...
[17:08:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:48] <exec> 08└─Us pertrol heads will be around for as long as we can afford it.
[17:08:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:50] <exec> 08└─what city? not a great place for new businesses to move to, sadly
[17:08:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:52] <exec> 08└─Give me liberty or give me something of lesser or equal value. Or a coupon for it.
[17:08:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:55] <exec> 08└─The car will know the identity of it's occupants through some security measure or other. The government will edit an approved list of destinations for each occupant. If you're a known political dissident you'll be kept away from protests. The lower classes will be kept out of rich neighborhoods and...
[17:08:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:57] <exec> 08└─Q for bradley13 --what city is this near? I want to make sure and not visit anytime soon.
[17:08:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:59] <exec> 08└─large groups of motivated people will fight for their right to drive.
[17:09:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:01] <exec> 08└─I suspect that autonomous vehicles will eventually be able to navigate offroad, at least as well as people do. Not in the near future, of course, but eventually. When Geronimo's picture was taken, sitting in a Locomobile*, few people really thought that automobiles would dominate the landscape in th...
[17:09:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:04] <exec> 08└─You seem to be mixing the petrol vs electric with self-driven / human-driven. You might have a superior experience in electric cars that have higher torque than a fossil fueled vehicle. You want to be able to drive your vehicle manually. Some people enjoy shooting firearms. Or smoking. Or listening...
[17:09:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:06] <exec> 08└─There's no experience better than nailing a corner, feeling the car grip and booting it out of a turn. Eventually we will have to move to electric cars, but so many of us love driving that we won't want an AI car.
[17:09:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:08] <exec> 08└─If your dirt road is like my dirt road, it is actually two lane. Everyone who drives on it feels compelled to drive right down the center of the road, for poorly understood reasons like, "the ride is smoother" or "don't want to scratch the car on the limbs sticking out". A trip or three up and down...
[17:09:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:10] <exec> 08└─It is always risky to predict if/when/how a new technology will roll out.
[17:09:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 1111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:13] <exec> 08└─> I drive a 50foot RV rig which depending on weather is unstable in the 50-80Mph range. Does it smooth out over 80 mph? Just asking... Possibly related? A motorhead friend insisted that every car had it's "happy speed" (or speed range) where it felt the best on the freeway. Often this was pretty fas...
[17:09:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:15] <exec> 08└─"I suspect that autonomous vehicles will eventually be able to navigate offroad" ... Not unless the GPS maps improve. I live in a community of small ranches, with the roads maintained (albeit poorly) by an owner's association. The private roads have recently shown up on Garmin maps, but are highly i...
[17:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FreeGuard: A Faster Secure Heap Allocator - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:25] <exec> 08└─this is supposedly comparable to the Linux malloc implementation (that would be the GNU malloc implementation?)
[17:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06FreeGuard: A Faster Secure Heap Allocator - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:27] <exec> 08└─The malloc() in Linux proper is either kmalloc() or vmalloc(). The difference [stackoverflow.com] is that vmalloc() is for large allocations, and kmalloc() is for anything that might be used for DMA. But reference 22 in the paper makes it clear that the authors are using "Linux" to mean glibc, a GNU...
[17:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FreeGuard: A Faster Secure Heap Allocator - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:29] <exec> 08└─Maybe it was about Lamar Smith retiring. Include a link next time.
[17:10:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forest Service Fire Experts Blocked From Attending Conference; Censorship Alleged - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:57] <exec> 08└─Or if you fix windows for a living you could just figure out how to fix windows better... or as an alternative stop the kid throwing rocks at the windows in order to have less windows to fix.
[17:10:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forest Service Fire Experts Blocked From Attending Conference; Censorship Alleged - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:58] <exec> 08└─Wow, that was a twisted line of reasoning! Hate to break it to you, but the best way to help those tiny families with badly nourished children is to raise taxes and reform welfare. Those people in polluted countries will then just move to our depopulated country. (which they will pollute) Why do you...
[17:11:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forest Service Fire Experts Blocked From Attending Conference; Censorship Alleged - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:01] <exec> 08└─Going on about possible climate change effects is unproductive.
[17:11:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gene Therapy and Skin Grafting for Junctional Epidermolysis Bullosa - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:22] <exec> 08└─What the young man was saying in the video, and how he said it, reaffirmed my belief that there is a direct correlation between pain and strength of character. As you say, it seems to separate what is important, what is difficult, and what isn't very quickly and reliably.
[17:11:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alibaba's "Singles' Day" Sales Reach $25 Billion - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:44] <exec> 08└─Yes they can be very selective, OR they can get kidnapped and forced to marry someone against their will. SUCH CHOICE!
[17:12:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nintendo to More Than Double Production of Switch; Success Rooted in Wii U's Failure - 1143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:03] <exec> 08└─It depends on how obscenely rich they become off the current loot box / gambling cycle. I mean Ultima Online is still around and they just have a "normal" subscription based service. At one time, I thought that was crazy to pay a monthly fee to play a game. At least they're up front about the whole,...
[17:12:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nintendo to More Than Double Production of Switch; Success Rooted in Wii U's Failure - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:05] <exec> 08└─Admittedly -> PS3, but most games had multiple saves available. I haven't had a chance to play with PS4. Last console we got was a Wii, we played that thing quite a bit. Still fire it up on occasion, but I've mostly transitioned to Steam / GoG. Mostly due to GoG being awesome, Steam having sales, an...
[17:12:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nintendo to More Than Double Production of Switch; Success Rooted in Wii U's Failure - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:07] <exec> 08└─Not stepping on the unsuccessful efforts of the Wii U's development teams to appear that much taller in the eyes of investors and business rivals at large, but instead saying that their contributions were valuable, is a great thing to see. EA, Activision, M$, any of the rest, would have pulled out t...
[17:13:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gaaark [41] 02 - 06Facebook Founding President Sounds Alarm, Criticizes Facebook - 612 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:17] <exec> 08└─"And if you walk around without looking at your phone, you will see just how many people are trapped." My wife and I don't have cell phones: it always amazes me how many guys miss the really hot girl walking by because they've got their noses stuck in the damn phone! (When I was young, that was one...
[17:13:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gaaark [41] 02 - 06Facebook Founding President Sounds Alarm, Criticizes Facebook - 246 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:31] <exec> 08└─Wrong; I'm a nerdy, nerdy old man who was too nerdy/autistic to realise it until he was old, lol. Too nerdy/autistic to talk to females; my wife had to teach me how, although she still wishes I'd talk more. I'm not dirty, I just look that way. ;)
[17:13:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] 02 - 06Mushrooms: A Rich Source of Antioxidants - 527 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:47] <exec> 08└─Not all of them know this. Some vegan wrote about why she went back to eating meat: vitamin b12 deficiency caused brain damage. It's not found in plants. Most of us get it from animal blood. Vitamin B12 injections are an effective and safe treatment for a particularly cruel form of anemia, that once...
[17:14:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] 02 - 06Researchers: Aaron Hernandez Had the Worst Case of CTE Ever Seen in an Athlete So Young - 670 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:19] <exec> 08└─True; it should have been phrased as, “could football–related CTE have increased Aaron Hernandez's tendency to lash out violently enough to result in a homicide?” Based on the effects of CTE, that's unfortunately a real possibility. I tried to look into the NFL crime situation, and found that...
[17:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French Institute Suspects Nuclear Accident in Russia or Kazakhstan in September - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:12] <exec> 08└─Yeah and most of us are likely to be more than a few km away from the site. Anyway it seems to be beta decay stuff, so that makes me even less worried.
[17:16:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03slap [5764] 02 - 06DOJ: Strong Encryption That We Don't Have Access to is “Unreasonable” - 719 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:02] <exec> 08└─These are some of the problems with "access" 1) The law enforcement agencies have continually demonstrated that they will break the law when given the chance. The backdoor keys will be abused. 2) The law enforcement agencies have demonstrated that they cannot be trusted with secrets -...
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[18:05:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoftBank to Invest Billions in Uber - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:05:45] <exec> 08└─is worth billions of dollars to some people. Fools and their money, I guess.
[18:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03garrulus [6051] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Keeping Your Phone-Based Data Secure? - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:13] <exec> 08└─which I call with rsnapshot to sync this will atleast backup all photos and videos and documents
[18:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Keeping Your Phone-Based Data Secure? - 950 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:15] <exec> 08└─I have to agree with mhajicek. The laptops in your price range are adequate for Grandma, who only does Facefook. My son (the mathemmatician) quickly found that the cheaper laptops are only adequate to transfer work between real computers. He eventually purchased a Gen 7 Intel in the $3000 to $3500 p...
[18:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Keeping Your Phone-Based Data Secure? - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:17] <exec> 08└─There is an extra slash at the end. I can't get the hang of the sites URL format.!
[18:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Keeping Your Phone-Based Data Secure? - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:19] <exec> 08└─I do a complete wipe and install LineageOS. It doesn't come with gapps at all by default. You have to install a separate package for that if you want them and you get to pick and choose which you want and which you don't.
[18:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Keeping Your Phone-Based Data Secure? - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:21] <exec> 08└─#1 Make sure they (whomever) don't have physical access to your phone. Assuming, anyone has physical access to your phone other than yourself. Consider it compromised. #2 Is it connected to a network? Duh, it's a phone. You're screwed. Please note, Phone + Security != Secure device. If you truly nee...
[18:06:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 2701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:47] <exec> 08└─Hillary is the one that refuses to look in the mirror. She has blamed everyone else for her losing the election to Trump. It was Bernie disrupting loyal democrat voters, it was Comey and mentioning email issues, it was Russia hacking. After all, she deserved it and was entitled to the presidency. Wh...
[18:06:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:49] <exec> 08└─Instead of bullshitting, name a similarly unqualified judicial nomination made by a Democrat.
[18:06:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 1865 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:51] <exec> 08└─"don't see the hypocrisy and problem with this" That word doesn't mean what you think it means. Hypocrisy means "behavior that contradicts what one claims to believe or feel." Let's objectively examine the situation: President Donald Trump feels that American businesses should hire more American wor...
[18:06:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:53] <exec> 08└─Of course this comes from the person that hires foreign wives as well as foreign workers.
[18:06:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:56] <exec> 08└─Wow, you don't think Trump, who *owns* the resort, has some sort of say in its policies, even if he doesn't run its day-to-day operations? You're seriously deluded. Typical Trump supporter.
[18:06:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 800 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:58] <exec> 08└─It does our country no good to have Trump properties stubbornly go out of business, crushed by competition that hires cheaper workers. We need to make it so that hiring American workers is competitive. This isn't something that an individual company can fix. Once the government cuts off the supply o...
[18:06:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:00] <exec> 08└─More coherent, but very accurately articulates Trump's mentality and thought processes.
[18:07:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 759 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:02] <exec> 08└─The quote is a summary of the apparent belief of the original commenter. For Trump to be responsible for the hiring practices of the Trump Mar A Lago Resort, he must be the hiring manager or general manager of the Trump Mar A Lago Resort, or at a CEO, or perhaps hold a seat on the Board of Directors...
[18:07:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 1157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:04] <exec> 08└─I'm setting a great example. Because the greatest businessmen always, always put money first. And so do the greatest presidents. A lot of people are saying I'm the best. I'm a winner. I don't leave money on the table. When I'm golfing I play with a handicap, a very low handicap. 2.8. I'm not going t...
[18:07:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Disagree) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 1019 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:07] <exec> 08└─Old reputation: basically a doormat that anybody could walk all over, trying desperately to buy friends New reputation: the 800-pound gorilla you must respect Nobody respected the old America. Ripping off the USA was a game that every country did and enjoyed. Not that he needs it, and you don't see...
[18:07:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 939 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:09] <exec> 08└─https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/10/31/obama-judges-democrat-republican-senate/3286337/ [usatoday.com] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Each and every judge who works to promote his/her own version of social engineering....
[18:07:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:11] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonia_Sotomayor [wikipedia.org] - for the Hispanic vote, ties to Clinton https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] - for the ties to Clinton and Chicago Both sides nominate based on loyalty But don't mod this touche, mod it down because only those dirty...
[18:07:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:13] <exec> 08└─I don't have to rationalize it. He has done this for years, and that is his right because the laws suck ass. If everyone takes advantage of the system, only a moron would not do it. Fix the system.
[18:07:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:16] <exec> 08└─You're still making shitty excuses. Morals "trump" money. If it's alright for a businessman to "put money first", then we have to stop arresting robbers, muggers, and burglars. They are doing the same damned thing, "put money first". The only thing you are doing is stating the obvious. Rich bastards...
[18:07:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:18] <exec> 08└─MAGA MAGA!
[18:07:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:20] <exec> 08└─Where's the Facepalm mod when I need it? Step away from Fox (or the white house), and read some foreign media for a change.
[18:07:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 1539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:22] <exec> 08└─New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez had spent the last couple months on trial for corruption, bribery, and fraud. All mainstream media avoided the story. This is a sitting senator on trial for corruption, bribery, and fraud. Something is rotten here. Most TV networks gave the story a minute or so in non...
[18:07:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:24] <exec> 08└─Hey, that's no way to talk about the First Titties! :D :D
[18:07:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:27] <exec> 08└─> late 2016 - the last time Donald Trump had anything to do with the Trump business. For someone with no interest in it, he sure loves to give the Trump organization a lot of free advertising ! That's clearly a terrible business move on his part.
[18:07:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03crafoo [6639] 02 - 06Senate Commerce Committee Approves Stop Enabling Sex Trafficking Act (SESTA) [Updated] - 338 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:42] <exec> 08└─Barriers to entry, bought and paid for by the large tech corporations "reluctantly" agreeing with this. Paid-for legislation, probably written by the tech companies. We didn't meekly accept the internet control and censorship our masters so desperately want. Now they will ask us to please think of t...
[18:08:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Commerce Committee Approves Stop Enabling Sex Trafficking Act (SESTA) [Updated] - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:03] <exec> 08└─"Woman's Christian Temperance Union" -- This shit goes way back. Women are more authoritarian than men. Aside from that, liberalism is dead anyway.
[18:08:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Commerce Committee Approves Stop Enabling Sex Trafficking Act (SESTA) [Updated] - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:04] <exec> 08└─Yay! I think.
[18:08:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Commerce Committee Approves Stop Enabling Sex Trafficking Act (SESTA) [Updated] - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:06] <exec> 08└─It's not censorship that concerns me about SESTA, it's putting liability on us no matter what we do if anyone ever posts anything (or even a link to anything) running afoul of SESTA. We can't afford to defend ourselves in a lawsuit without having to ratchet up the beg-o-meter's numbers rather drasti...
[18:08:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Commerce Committee Approves Stop Enabling Sex Trafficking Act (SESTA) [Updated] - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:09] <exec> 08└─Yup. It really doesn't matter which group of greedy fucks you're selling pre-tipped scales to. All I have to say on the matter is that under Emperor of North America Buzzardicus I, doing so will be a capital offense.
[18:08:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03crafoo [6639] 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 722 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:45] <exec> 08└─It's almost like all of these people live in cities and only very rarely venture outside of their metro bubbles. Quite a lot of people in the USA live off of dirt and gravel roads. Many of them are not mapped accurately. What do you do once you've reached your major hub town but now need to travel 5...
[18:08:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03srobert [4803] 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 413 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:57] <exec> 08└─"The vehicles, however, will no longer be driven by humans because in 15 to 20 years — at the latest — human-driven vehicles will be legislated off the highways." My bet is that insurance costs will practically eliminate human drivers before legislation will. Leave the car under AI control and g...
[18:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 863 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:20] <exec> 08└─Nice rant but you need to work on the facts: > We know what the future looks like, because the Germans have already built it. Not sure what you mean here, but Germany doesn't have anything like our "flyover country" in the middle like the USA, so the needs of the country are quite different. If you...
[18:09:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:21] <exec> 08└─Mate, nobody younger than you even experienced "the good times" in the first place. They ended with the oil crisis, and by the time you guys dragged engine technology forward to a point where we could have horsepower (and speed limits above 55) again in the 90s, there were too damn many people on th...
[18:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 1122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:24] <exec> 08└─I've been pulled over for 'I don't like the way you look' citations in the 30 years I've been driving. (Wish my dashcam was available back in the day) I can't believe speed trap cash is going to be given up easily. So, what will the ticket trap for a self driving car look like? Pop up speed limit si...
[18:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:26] <exec> 08└─It all depends on whether they have a clear view of an empty road beyond the corner.
[18:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:28] <exec> 08└─Why do you assume the demand for alcohol will not plummet during the next generation? Or better yet, why do you assume people will not just drink on the way to a place to avoid paying 1000% markup for alcohol? Also, even if there was high demand, investing in literally anything else (save maybe for...
[18:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Shows Off Linux Desktops on Galaxy 8 Smartphone - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:11] <exec> 08└─The real problem is screen size. Phone screens aren't well adapted to desktop OS systems. Keyboards and mice can be attached separate from the phone, but the screen is a different problem. If you're going to cart a monitor around, then a laptop is a far better solution.
[18:10:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Techwolf [87] 02 - 06Forest Service Fire Experts Blocked From Attending Conference; Censorship Alleged - 455 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:21] <exec> 08└─While climate change may be a contributing factor, the real cause for those damaging fires is Smokey The Bear. By suppressing what mother nature has done regularity for millions of years, we suppress that natural fire and allow buildup of flammable materials over the past 50 or so years. And now we...
[18:12:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coinbase Escalates Showdown on U.S. Tax Probe as Bitcoin Surges - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:58] <exec> 08└─No, the minimum-balance/no-interest thing is a holding fee. That is, you are paying even if you do nothing at all with your money. With bitcoin, as long as you don't move it, you don't pay.
[18:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03cykros [989] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Founding President Sounds Alarm, Criticizes Facebook - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:52] <exec> 08└─The only reason privacy is an issue with Facebook is because people use Facebook and continue to give it information, both theirs, and that of other people. And they do this for the dopamine rush.
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[19:05:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoftBank to Invest Billions in Uber - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:50] <exec> 08└─Lots of old things still work perfectly well, and thus continue to be manufactured, sold, and used. What's unusual or news worthy about it? Hammers. Candles. Knives. Not me.
[19:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Keeping Your Phone-Based Data Secure? - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:24] <exec> 08└─Want to run Linux on your phone? Wait and see whether Samsung's "concept demo" is vaporware, or get a Nokia N9 or N900 today.
[19:06:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Keeping Your Phone-Based Data Secure? - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:25] <exec> 08└─> I assume Androids can be instantly cracked by state-actors Yes, and even Fort Knox can be taken over with enough tanks. Start by setting your requirements based on actual realistic threats. Unless you're in the drugs, smuggling, slavery or political businesses, the effort of protecting yourself fr...
[19:06:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 536 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:35] <exec> 08└─Let's see the Trump-lovers rationalize this one. Trump: "We need to put Americans to work! Build a wall! Mexicans are putting American workers out of a job!" Trump supporters: "YAY! MAGA!" Trump: "I need foreign workers to work at my resort because no Americans are willing to take the low pay I offe...
[19:06:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 240 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:41] <exec> 08└─Talking of corruption, Trump's administration recently nominated and the Senate appear to be ready to approve the most unqualified judge in recent history. His only qualification for the post is loyalty to Trump. This is what you voted for.
[19:06:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03number11 [1170] 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 39 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:49] <exec> 08└─Is this really President Trump talking?
[19:06:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 93 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:55] <exec> 08└─Instead of bullshitting, name a similarly unqualified judicial nomination made by a Democrat.
[19:07:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:13] <exec> 08└─Someone needs to learn the difference between H1-B and H2-B. I also recently heard that there were tens of thousands of US citizens available for menial jobs, desperate as they are to reconstruct their lives after fleeing a devastated tropical island.
[19:07:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:14] <exec> 08└─Shit, win by technicality, every geek's worst secret weakness!
[19:07:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 2843 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:17] <exec> 08└─The Republicans are better than the Democrats, in my opinion, in that the people refused the party's choices, and in fact, chose their own alternative. This isn't really correct I think, though I guess it depends on your definition of "better". What this race showed is that, at least at that time, t...
[19:07:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 1246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:19] <exec> 08└─"For someone with no interest in it, he sure loves to give the Trump organization a lot of free advertising !" Whether or not he has "interest" in Trump MarALago's hiring practices, or in SpaceX, or in Russia, is completely irrelevant; he has no control over any of them. "That's clearly a terrible b...
[19:07:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:21] <exec> 08└─You really do need to take a step back and listen to Runaway:
[19:07:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:23] <exec> 08└─Apparently to you "unqualified"means "does not agree with my world view". That is an immature and self-centered view of the world. The people you point to may well have biases (although pointing to a bio of the person doesn't provide any evidence of such), but they were qualified. They had experienc...
[19:07:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:26] <exec> 08└─"depends on your definition of "better"." Take a look at The Party, sitting in front of the gramophone. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] In this election, the R's eventually caved in to the "master's voice". The D's stauchly ingnored the "master's voice". The D's ta...
[19:07:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:28] <exec> 08└─Wow, you don't think Trump, who *owns* the resort, has some sort of say in its policies, even if he doesn't run its day-to-day operations?
[19:07:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:30] <exec> 08└─A judge who actively undermines the will of the people is unfit to be a judge. The same goes for almost any other official position. Immature and self centered? You have probably just described the entire Democratic party. The party rallies groups around idiot slogans, promising to cater to each gro...
[19:07:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:32] <exec> 08└─Are we talking about the same Donald Trump who, had he a shred of decency, would have divested himself of the ownership of Mar-A-Lago as all recent Presidents have done with their business interests? Trump chose self-dealing. People are responsible for the businesses they own.
[19:07:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:35] <exec> 08└─Bob, you are less super in my estimation, since, apparently, Step away from Fox (or the white house), and read some foreign media for a change.
[19:07:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 751 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:37] <exec> 08└─Step 1: read the comment you're replying to. President Trump, since Jan 20th, has said many times that the Trump hotels and the Mar-a-Lago resort are fantastic places. You can find that information. You contend that he has no business relationship whatsoever with the Trump organization. Taking that...
[19:07:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:39] <exec> 08└─Loving the Troll modifiers I'm getting. Certainly, my entire comment was constructed with the sole purpose of inflaming someone else; namely "you" (the down-modder) as your feelings are my top priority. After all, you are the Special Snowflake - the ones everyone's opinions and worldviews are based...
[19:08:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Commerce Committee Approves Stop Enabling Sex Trafficking Act (SESTA) [Updated] - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:19] <exec> 08└─Check Ireland first. Something tells me Apple & Co. didn't stop with just the tax code.
[19:08:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Commerce Committee Approves Stop Enabling Sex Trafficking Act (SESTA) [Updated] - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:21] <exec> 08└─Additionally, people participating into a legal business (suppliers and customers) tend to be a lot more cooperative, when law enforcement tries to stamp out despicable actors operating in the same activity branch.
[19:08:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Commerce Committee Approves Stop Enabling Sex Trafficking Act (SESTA) [Updated] - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:23] <exec> 08└─> This is the first I've heard of this legislation You should really read more tech-related news. SESTA has been dissected and criticized for months. > So what is the bill doing that's so bad? There's like half a dozen links in the summary that elaborate on that :/
[19:08:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Senate Commerce Committee Approves Stop Enabling Sex Trafficking Act (SESTA) [Updated] - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:25] <exec> 08└─It is a form of censorship, designed explicitly to shut you(collective) down via litigation. You still have no place to go if the law passes. I'm not expecting much from this supreme court to strike it down, even though it is direct violation of the 1st amendment. So, how do we defeat it, make it un...
[19:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:41] <exec> 08└─Autonomous cars can drift really well. A university actually tried it for parallel parking. The car would parallel park facing the opposite direction by drifting into the spot. The rear of the car would swing around, the car would go sort of backwards and sideways while skidding, and finally the car...
[19:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03redbear762 [5576] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:43] <exec> 08└─'Little Red Barchetta' come to mind...
[19:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 1174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:45] <exec> 08└─Don't be blindered1 by current state of the art. GPS is only an intermediate step. It will be continually useful in "new locations", but in the future (10 years? 15 years?) cars will learn the local terrain the same way people and rats do. They'll remember where they've been and the path they took t...
[19:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 1295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:47] <exec> 08└─You're confusing intelligence with motivation, and also assuming the existing of such a thing as general intelligence. The "find your way from here to there" part of intelligence doesn't require sophisticated AI. Things like Alexa show that reasonable interactive guidance can be achieved with only m...
[19:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:49] <exec> 08└─I live in a state that horse drawn buggies and wagons are still on the toads. (55 mile hr narrow two lane roads at that). Along with tractors and truck pulling tobacco leaves. Will there be a day when drivers are gone no. One reason is the vecials are being built large enough. I am 6'7" (2m) the on...
[19:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:52] <exec> 08└─What insurance cost? Insurance is for the driver since the car is "auto" then GMC or Toyota pays all insurance.
[19:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ALMA Captures Best-Ever Image of Red Giant W Hydrae - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:15] <exec> 08└─For the last year, I've had a feeling that many people, who care deeply about sorting values, have serious endianess issues.
[19:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ALMA Captures Best-Ever Image of Red Giant W Hydrae - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:16] <exec> 08└─until next time
[19:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ALMA Captures Best-Ever Image of Red Giant W Hydrae - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:19] <exec> 08└─Now that we can see the star pretty precisely, we just need to find a 9th-level Wizard to get us there... Too bad they were outlawed by people trying to protect SLS pork.
[19:11:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forest Service Fire Experts Blocked From Attending Conference; Censorship Alleged - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:41] <exec> 08└─It is only reasonable to believe that these talks are about climate change. Forest fire management doesn't need to be concerned with climate change. We already know the deal and handle everything: At the extremes, which won't be going away, there is no fire. The glaciers won't burn. The bare rock in...
[19:11:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forest Service Fire Experts Blocked From Attending Conference; Censorship Alleged - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:42] <exec> 08└─In Georgia, USA: https://www.washingtonpost.com [washingtonpost.com] Slovakia and Italy: https://www.google.com
[19:12:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nintendo to More Than Double Production of Switch; Success Rooted in Wii U's Failure - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:47] <exec> 08└─[the Wii U sits] idle now even though it has some really great games.
[19:15:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Possible Earliest Eutherian Mammal Fossils Found - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:26] <exec> 08└─"The teeth likely belonged to ancient creatures that nibbled on insects and went out only at night" - or likely not, we're not really sure. But based on the teeth alone, they somehow know it only went lurking after dark.
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[20:05:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America is Running Out of Cassette Tape - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:51] <exec> 08└─My roommate is a DJ who does some of her own stuff too. It seems it's become popular for artists to record their music to cassette tape for distribution at anime conventions and the like. I don't pretend to understand why. I asked why not buy thumb drives in bulk, like little 1 gb drives, but she sa...
[20:05:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06America is Running Out of Cassette Tape - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:53] <exec> 08└─Crap! Where am I going to store my TRS-80 programs now?
[20:05:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America is Running Out of Cassette Tape - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:55] <exec> 08└─And you can use a hole punch and flip it over to double the capacity!
[20:05:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America is Running Out of Cassette Tape - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:57] <exec> 08└─Devil's advocate time. Given the DRM that's invading every aspect of personal computing, such as Intel TPM, doesn't it make sense to fall back to a more free (as in freedom) format such as simple magnetic tape, especially for something that tends to attract free spirits like music? (No, I don't expe...
[20:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06America is Running Out of Cassette Tape - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:59] <exec> 08└─Speaking as a (real-life, gig-playing, self-managing, indie) musician, in small runs tape is still cheaper to publish than even CD. The reasons can come from the supply and the demand ends of the spectrum.
[20:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06America is Running Out of Cassette Tape - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:01] <exec> 08└─I did the math. For small runs (under a thousand), especially for long albums and so on, tape is cheaper than USB sticks, SD cards, CDs and (duh) vinyl. It's not bad to hand out cards with links to your bandcamp/soundcloud/cdbaby/whatever, but fans like physical things. Some will take a card if it's...
[20:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America is Running Out of Cassette Tape - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:04] <exec> 08└─I told you darling. That giant box of old tapes in the basement is gonna be worth all those times it fell on you! And YOU wanted to throw it away, ten years ago!
[20:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America is Running Out of Cassette Tape - 806 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:06] <exec> 08└─No, where did you get that idea? Digital audio is superior in every way to analog, given a high enough bitrate and sampling frequency. TPM is a canard: a standard audio CD does not have DRM on it, it's just simple PCM audio. There's many audio formats that support higher quality with lossy and lossl...
[20:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America is Running Out of Cassette Tape - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:08] <exec> 08└─How much can it possibly cost to hand out 500 tapes? You can buy very small (big enough for some MP3s) USB sticks for next to nothing these days, and you can write your music on them yourself easily. CDs are also dirt cheap, with CD-Rs. And how the hell do these fans play these cassettes anyway? I h...
[20:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America is Running Out of Cassette Tape - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:10] <exec> 08└─Maybe it's related to ease of self-production, or mass-production? Can you order 500 USB sticks with specific data on them easily? Is there an easy way make many USB stick copies at once? I know this is easy with tapes and CDs/other discs, but I've never heard of a USB stick duplicator. A quick sear...
[20:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America is Running Out of Cassette Tape - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:13] <exec> 08└─Serious question: were there 8" flippy disks, or did that only happen with the 5 1/4" variety?
[20:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America is Running Out of Cassette Tape - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:15] <exec> 08└─For 500? About $700-1000 depending on options, length per side, etc. This is for a professional release, cased, printed, J-Card, shrink wrapped etc. Much better presentation than some sharpie-scrawled CDRs in slim cases. As for players they are still out there. Just check Amazon. Jensen still makes...
[20:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America is Running Out of Cassette Tape - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:17] <exec> 08└─Well despite the vast weight of your two kid's purchasing decisions on the market, the year-over-year sales have increased for the last two years in a row.
[20:06:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Keeping Your Phone-Based Data Secure? - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:59] <exec> 08└─Safe as in backed up, retrievable. Or safe as in you're the only one that can get to it?
[20:07:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03iWantToKeepAnon [686] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Keeping Your Phone-Based Data Secure? - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:01] <exec> 08└─I've wiped and installed CyanogenMod in the past, before the current bad blood stuff happened. But I have tmobile now and no non-tmobile build can use wifi text and calling. That's a nice enough feature to keep me on a rooted but commercial build. I've used wifi text and calling on my foreign travel...
[20:07:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Keeping Your Phone-Based Data Secure? - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:03] <exec> 08└─This is the sad truth. You certainly are not in charge on "your" smartphone. https://www.replicant.us [replicant.us]
[20:07:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Keeping Your Phone-Based Data Secure? - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:05] <exec> 08└─As others, I don't expect phones to be secure, period. But if you want long battery life and a phone that doesn't break easily, buy a Cat. I've got a Cat S60 and it has great battery life with its 3800 mAh battery. If you don't care for the FLIR you could go for the Cat S41 with 5000 mAh battery, wh...
[20:07:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Keeping Your Phone-Based Data Secure? - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:07] <exec> 08└─It's one of the options when you install Cydia. I don't remember what it's called, but it comes with a full suite of development tools. And it only installs on jailbroken iDevices. If you use an iPad and get a bluetooth keyboard it's a highly portable coding environment.
[20:07:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 123 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:49] <exec> 08└─Where's the Facepalm mod when I need it? Step away from Fox (or the white house), and read some foreign media for a change.
[20:08:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:06] <exec> 08└─H1-B, H2-B, whatever... might as well be some kind of refugee or diplomatic visa for all I care! If hiring foreigners is cheaper, either here or in their own countries, we have a problem. It's a national problem that can not be fixed by a business ignoring economics and thus failing.
[20:08:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 1914 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:08] <exec> 08└─The D's tail wagged the party, the R's tail finally obeyed the party. That is how and why I see the R's as being better than the D's - this time around, at least. Again, it depends on your definition of "better". If you just mean "winning the 2016 election", then yep, the GOP's system worked wonders...
[20:08:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 673 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:10] <exec> 08└─Wow, you are a seriously stupid, stupid, stupid person, and you'll defend Trump no matter what. Trump owns the resort, yes? His hiring manager therefore still answers to him, and can be assumed to be acting in Trump's interests. His hiring manager should have known that hiring foreigners would look...
[20:08:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:12] <exec> 08└─A judge who actively undermines the will of the people is unfit to be a judge.
[20:08:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:14] <exec> 08└─You're such a clown I can't wait until we return to serfdom so I can laugh when you get sent to work in the dirt mines for being a poor hick. I already gave up on the country now the only thing that makes me happy is the satisfaction I'll be a rich lord while you peons get the dicks you've been begg...
[20:08:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:17] <exec> 08└─Ho-hum. As time passes, Trump most certainly exposes himself to be a politician after all.
[20:08:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:19] <exec> 08└─Just like every other campaign trail politician before the Tweeter-in-Chief?
[20:09:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Commerce Committee Approves Stop Enabling Sex Trafficking Act (SESTA) [Updated] - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:04] <exec> 08└─You still have no place to go if the law passes.
[20:09:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Commerce Committee Approves Stop Enabling Sex Trafficking Act (SESTA) [Updated] - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:05] <exec> 08└─Part of the EU, so it's right out because of credible threats of them passing hate speech laws.
[20:09:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Commerce Committee Approves Stop Enabling Sex Trafficking Act (SESTA) [Updated] - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:07] <exec> 08└─Well, what sounds like a simple edit can turn out as a major change. For example, imagine a law proposes the following changes to the Ninth Amendment: After "be" add "."Before "construed", add "They are" That's just some superficial language changes, right? Well, let's look at the text: The enumerat...
[20:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 861 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:29] <exec> 08└─That happened before the oil crisis, depending on where you lived. In fact, depending on where you lived the "open road" was gone by the early 1950's. Even when it existed it was always the "property" of a small minority. In the late 1950's I lived in a rural setting, and there we generally had an...
[20:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:31] <exec> 08└─The comment about vehicles not being built large enough resonates we me, and I'm only a bit over 6 foot. Some are large enough for me, but it's amazing the number that aren't. Even when they're large enough internally it's often a topological maneuver to get through the door to the seat. That said,...
[20:10:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 1292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:33] <exec> 08└─It depends - for people just doing the common A to B on well-maintained major roads and in cities it will probably come soon. However for those living out in the countryside or where roads are temporary manual control will last a bit longer... And even longer where roads are truly seasonal (being fl...
[20:10:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:35] <exec> 08└─Are you autistic, sonny?
[20:10:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:37] <exec> 08└─Or... cities like Jacksonville that are a rural-urban mix. The real problem with Google maps and our house is that the Google mapping car was afraid to drive down our shared driveway, maybe it was the sound of dueling banjoes or maybe it was the rebel flags on the big house, or maybe it just looked...
[20:11:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Shows Off Linux Desktops on Galaxy 8 Smartphone - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:25] <exec> 08└─I think the most important missing thing is freedom. Smartphones are a trap.
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[21:05:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Saves Big With Commercial Cargo Program - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:05:46] <exec> 08└─the supply services offered by SpaceX and Orbital ATK have cost NASA two to three times less than if the space agency had continued to fly the space shuttle.
[21:05:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Saves Big With Commercial Cargo Program - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:05:48] <exec> 08└─For his analysis, Zapata attempted to make an "apples to apples" comparison between the commercial vehicles, through June 2017, and the space shuttle.
[21:05:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Saves Big With Commercial Cargo Program - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:05:50] <exec> 08└─But It was never designed to run cheap launches of routine supply missions.
[21:05:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03dltaylor [4693] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Saves Big With Commercial Cargo Program - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:05:52] <exec> 08└─1/2 to 1/3 is less. Additionally, are any of the current unmanned rockets even capable of reliably launching a manned vehicle.
[21:06:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America is Running Out of Cassette Tape - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:17] <exec> 08└─I doubt that, because 8" existed practically only in the professional realm. The personal computer market only took off after 5 1/4" disks were already on the market, as far as I can remember. Those drives were already extremely expensive so nobody would buy a more expensive 8" drive just for a hobb...
[21:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America is Running Out of Cassette Tape - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:18] <exec> 08└─All my mix tapes done gone, I will never pass them on to my grandchildren
[21:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zedrick [2648] (Score: 1) 02 - 06America is Running Out of Cassette Tape - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:21] <exec> 08└─"planning to build the U.S.'s first high-grade tape manufacturing line in decades." "Crap! Where am I going to store my TRS-80 programs now?" uh, how about storing them on some of the new high-grade tapes they apparently are going to make in the near future. You know, the stuff they talk about in th...
[21:06:22] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06America is Running Out of Cassette Tape - 1133 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:23] <exec> 08└─I'll tell you what is impossible with tape. Malware. My fear with using a USB stick handed to me is: Is it a USB stick really?Is it a trojan horse designed to give physical access to my computer?Does it have malware in general on it? That's the benefit of the analog cassette tape. Very bad medium to...
[21:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America is Running Out of Cassette Tape - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:25] <exec> 08└─Look at the autos from that era; they'll outlast anything produced today.
[21:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America is Running Out of Cassette Tape - 920 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:27] <exec> 08└─It breaks down like this: The small run cost of professionally packaged tapes is (ballpark) $2 each. This number does not change substantially as your volume picks up. The small run cost of professionally packaged (in this case often meaning an imprinted design) USB devices starts at around three ti...
[21:06:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America is Running Out of Cassette Tape - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:30] <exec> 08└─I bought a beat up old car just for running around town in. Didn't cost much, runs well, and has a old school cassette radio in it. I'm not buying any new tapes, but I dug up a box of old ones from out in my shed, and I've been playing all the old tapes I made twenty to thirty years ago. It's awesom...
[21:06:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America is Running Out of Cassette Tape - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:32] <exec> 08└─in small runs tape is still cheaper to publish than even CD.
[21:06:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06SoftBank to Invest Billions in Uber - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:42] <exec> 08└─Softbank is pure capitalism, if you have capital you just buy markets, mercenaries, regulations laws.. I think there might be another name for this... Oh right it's Fascism
[21:06:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoftBank to Invest Billions in Uber - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:44] <exec> 08└─You haven't seen my IHammer, the cloud connected hammering hammer, you can scan your nails for QR codes to see if they are IHammer compatible https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] The IHammer is crowed sourced
[21:06:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoftBank to Invest Billions in Uber - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:46] <exec> 08└─I invested in SoftBank when they acquired ARM... coincidentally, they also got a Trump "enhancement" shortly thereafter and increased in value rather quickly. Now... Uber, I can't see this going well long-term, so, maybe if the rest of the market disagrees with me and bids SFTBY way up, it might be...
[21:06:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoftBank to Invest Billions in Uber - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:49] <exec> 08└─In this case it's not just that. They also have customers accustomed to buying their service, and drivers who rely on them for employment (and car loans apparently)... The app itself is not the point.
[21:07:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Keeping Your Phone-Based Data Secure? - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:28] <exec> 08└─The cops arrested a suspected heroin dealer. Afterwards, two of his customers texted requests for delivery. That convicted him. But they didn't have a warrant to search the phone. Washington's constitution has stronger protections for privacy than the US constitutions. The state supreme court threw...
[21:08:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 189 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:00] <exec> 08└─Wow, you don't think Trump, who *owns* the resort, has some sort of say in its policies, even if he doesn't run its day-to-day operations? You're seriously deluded. Typical Trump supporter.
[21:08:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 475 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:20] <exec> 08└─Apparently to you "unqualified"means "does not agree with my world view". That is an immature and self-centered view of the world. The people you point to may well have biases (although pointing to a bio of the person doesn't provide any evidence of such), but they were qualified. They had experienc...
[21:08:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:36] <exec> 08└─A creative outlet for his ghostwriter perhaps.
[21:08:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:38] <exec> 08└─I think she wouldn't have come off as sooooooo insane, but I think she would have fucked Americans as much, she just would have hidden it better. That aside, yes you need s third party down there. Bernie should run independently and have his slogan as "I won't fuck your asses like the other guys hav...
[21:08:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:40] <exec> 08└─A judge who actively undermines the will of the people is unfit to be a judge.
[21:08:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:42] <exec> 08└─Hey, they get the job done [youtube.com], apparently.
[21:08:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:44] <exec> 08└─Given a few $million, could you end up with a few $billion? Could a person with "limited intelligence" do this? (without taking bribes to sell uranium!) Heck, could a person with "limited intelligence" get elected president? I suggest you try. The fact that Trump does things you find offensive or co...
[21:08:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:47] <exec> 08└─If you thought he was just the court fool, then you ignored 30 or 40 years' worth of publicity about his business and personal dealings in NYC. My feeling about 3rd party voters is that they do indeed make a statement; sadly, that statement is "we ignore the fact that American elections are winner-t...
[21:08:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 1059 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:49] <exec> 08└─Old reputation: gorilla of plus-size weight willing to lie/cheat to get its way in invading wherever it wants New reputation: confused octopus that each hand does whatever it wants and is corrupt in each arm and is in the process of making America a police state where it spies on everyone, takes awa...
[21:08:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:51] <exec> 08└─Maybe he could say they'd pay for it in cost savings on the labor. That way he can sort of say he kept his promise.
[21:08:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:53] <exec> 08└─Trump: "I need foreign workers to work at my resort because no Americans are willing to take the low pay I offer." Trump supporters: "YAY! MAGA!"
[21:08:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:56] <exec> 08└─Wow, you are a seriously stupid, stupid, stupid person, and you'll defend Trump no matter what.
[21:08:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:58] <exec> 08└─Well, yeah, in the same vein, he can bring mexicans to work those coal mines or whatevs his electorate hoped he'll create jobs in.
[21:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Commerce Committee Approves Stop Enabling Sex Trafficking Act (SESTA) [Updated] - 877 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:46] <exec> 08└─Apparently I haven't been keeping up the news and I've been living under a proverbial rock. So you could either spend 2 minutes and quickly explain the high-level bullet-points to somebody (who has and does call his Senators and Representatives with opinions, for the little good it does... albeit li...
[21:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Commerce Committee Approves Stop Enabling Sex Trafficking Act (SESTA) [Updated] - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:47] <exec> 08└─Read the techdirt link, it explores the consequences. https://www.techdirt.com [techdirt.com]
[21:11:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:15] <exec> 08└─I think the near-term solution will be manual takeover mode, illegal on the public roads, but permitted and necessary when off of them.
[21:11:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:17] <exec> 08└─When I read this I pictured a track or private property... It seems a bit unreasonable to force casual racers to have two cars (one for racing and one for regular roads), when they could just have one.
[21:11:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:19] <exec> 08└─Ours is right at 10' wide, dirt tracks with grass on either side and down the middle... half of it is a bit wider, maybe 18-20', but that's quasi-paved and bumpy. There are places where you can pull into the grass to get past each other, turnouts into driveways, and spots where somebody is just goin...
[21:11:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:21] <exec> 08└─That'll happen right after they take the 2nd amendment way. Nothing would give the government more control over the populace than being able to, at any time, isolate their ability to move freely. With bikes, dirt bikes, all kinds of off-road vehicles, motorcycles, etc, you're not going to be able to...
[21:11:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:23] <exec> 08└─It saddens me to say that Bob Lutz hasn't driven off of a paved road since he went too senile to remember what the implications of "offroad" are to self-driving vehicles.
[21:11:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:25] <exec> 08└─Alexa: If you want an exciting ride, go to Disney World.
[21:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US-CERT Warns of Crypto Bugs in IEEE Standard - 673 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:27] <exec> 08└─> leads me to question the value of the property contained. Lots of tech companies use this to distribute their designs to customers, without giving away the source code (RTL in my case). If people start to design in those features, without paying the company which invested hundreds or thousands of...
[21:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alibaba's "Singles' Day" Sales Reach $25 Billion - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:59] <exec> 08└─"He who dies with the most toys, is still dead. he who has the most criers at his funeral actually wins. That said, my new pyramid has finally surpassed Grandpa's, and will accommodate a bigger funeral procession"
[21:14:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alibaba's "Singles' Day" Sales Reach $25 Billion - 725 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:00] <exec> 08└─While I have spent the last 20 years attempting to downsize my toy collection, I must argue: that which one enjoys for one's self in life is far more important to one's self than whatever might follow one's death. That said, I do think that what we are doing to the planet - including sticking our he...
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[22:05:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Saves Big With Commercial Cargo Program - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:51] <exec> 08└─After the first launch, NASA announced that it wouldn't be reusing them. I've often wondered why they didn't try launching an SRB all by itself, just for testing its reusability.
[22:05:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Saves Big With Commercial Cargo Program - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:52] <exec> 08└─No it really was never sold as that. That it was sold this way was simply the hit-piece claim made by opponents when the Shuttle was extended past its main purpose, and sucked other projects dry of funding. It was sold as the only way to get things like the ISS built. Even NASA was running routine I...
[22:05:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Saves Big With Commercial Cargo Program - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:54] <exec> 08└─Wanna save money? Call Geico. You'll save 15%. How did I do, uncle Warren?
[22:05:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Saves Big With Commercial Cargo Program - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:57] <exec> 08└─http://dilbert.com/strip/2000-03-30 [dilbert.com] "I compared appropriate cost models to ensure our current policy has appropriate support, with actual Research(tm)" Also, poor bloke hasn't been able to keep up with Russia good/Russia bad, so didn't include cost comparisons for Russian rockets.
[22:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06NASA Saves Big With Commercial Cargo Program - 609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:59] <exec> 08└─Because they found it really wasn't reusable. Once it lands in the ocean the serviceability is just about all gone. It requires a total rewire, and the internal heat damage was way worse than expected. It had no shutdown and restart capability, it couldn't return to the pad. https://www.quora.com
[22:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Saves Big With Commercial Cargo Program - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:01] <exec> 08└─Indeed. Two to three times less would put it in the negative.
[22:06:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America is Running Out of Cassette Tape - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:36] <exec> 08└─The small run cost of professionally packaged tapes is (ballpark) $2 each.
[22:06:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America is Running Out of Cassette Tape - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:38] <exec> 08└─Furthermore, I doubt your claim. 5 minute of web searching turned up: Tape tends to be more like $20/tape.
[22:06:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America is Running Out of Cassette Tape - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:40] <exec> 08└─ronaldrecords.limitedrun.com/ordertapes store.crypticcarousel.com/collections/cassette-manufacturing/products/100-duplicated-cassette-tapes-with-j-cards-shell-print-or-labels-cases www.audiogeography.com/tapes/ Just a few quick google searches. Did you go out of your way to find the most expensiv...
[22:06:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03number11 [1170] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America is Running Out of Cassette Tape - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:42] <exec> 08└─And how the hell do these fans play these cassettes anyway? I haven't even seen a cassette player in years, except maybe at the museum
[22:06:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America is Running Out of Cassette Tape - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:44] <exec> 08└─Yes there were 8 inch floppies and pc-accessory drives for them. These were used for data-entry (key-"punch" replacement) and, for a while, you could by 8 inch drives packaged as externals for PCs. Some are still available on Ebay. https://www.ebay.com
[22:06:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America is Running Out of Cassette Tape - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:46] <exec> 08└─Bullshit. I have CDs that I bought new back in 1990 and they still work just fine. I've never seen a CD (the aluminum kind) die from bit-rot, though I've read reports of some having problems, probably from bad batches. CD-Rs, on the other hand, are another matter altogether. I have gold ones that st...
[22:06:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America is Running Out of Cassette Tape - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:49] <exec> 08└─Yes, they did. I used them for about 1 year while in Uni.
[22:06:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America is Running Out of Cassette Tape - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:51] <exec> 08└─Yes, but the question was if they were used as flippy disks (cut a hole and use the flip side).
[22:06:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America is Running Out of Cassette Tape - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:53] <exec> 08└─Or here: http://www.duplication.ca [duplication.ca] Dual side, 24 min per side, pad printed both sides (white print, standard art, single hit), j-card, shrink wrapped. 100 for $301 USD or $3.01 per cassette. Far cry from $10.
[22:06:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America is Running Out of Cassette Tape - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:56] <exec> 08└─Why would you need to order 500 USB sticks with data? Just copy it yourself. One album's worth of MP3s is maybe 50MB, guessing; it shouldn't take more than 10 seconds to copy that much. Find some kid to do it for you if you're that busy, but the whole thing shouldn't take more than 4 hours. You can...
[22:06:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America is Running Out of Cassette Tape - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:58] <exec> 08└─I'll tell you what is impossible with tape. Malware. Use Linux and you won't have that problem. Or just turn off Auto-Run.
[22:06:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06America is Running Out of Cassette Tape - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:00] <exec> 08└─Except people have no where to play it. Cassette players have vanished from cars, nobody is really building home component audio systems with tape players any more, and you can't even find a walkman anymore.
[22:07:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America is Running Out of Cassette Tape - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:02] <exec> 08└─Try more like 400MB for FLACs. But it'll still fit on a dirt cheap USB stick. The thing is, making it nice and memorable and a touchstone for fans means it costs more. Then you're talking engraving or printing or embossing or something like that, and that costs money. It's not like you're handing ou...
[22:07:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Keeping Your Phone-Based Data Secure? - 902 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:54] <exec> 08└─you should ask for a commission; I never heard of this before and I bet others have not, either. a phone series with many buttons, built to be physically strong and also comes with a FLIR if you pay for the top model. did not know such a thing existed. $600 - but its mid-line for many smart phones,...
[22:09:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03GlennC [3656] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:14] <exec> 08└─And here I am out of mod points...please accept a virtual +1.
[22:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 1102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:16] <exec> 08└─Bernie chose to align himself with the democrats rather than remaining on the Independent ticket and catapulting a third party into the election discussions. If either the Green or Libertarian parties had gotten the 5+ percent this election we could start having a real discussion about change in Ame...
[22:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 785 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:18] <exec> 08└─It was rigged and #CrazyBernie [twitter.com] got schlonged. Donna Brazile said so in her book Hacked. But now she says it wasn't rigged. She told the #FakeNews [twitter.com] ABC and CBS it wasn't rigged. Because that's what they want to hear. That's the only way they'll cover her, is if she says it...
[22:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:20] <exec> 08└─President Trump, since Jan 20th, has said many times that the Trump hotels and the Mar-a-Lago resort are fantastic places. You can find that information.
[22:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:23] <exec> 08└─'Make America Great Act' - Any person or business making more than 1/330 millionth of America's GDP is fair game for American citizens to steal from, with no criminal charges brought against independent citizens choosing to steal from them. Criminal charges as well as RICO still apply for gangs, oth...
[22:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:25] <exec> 08└─Donald Trump is not a hiring manager or marketing rep for Trump Mar A Lago Resort, he is the President of the United States, and has absolutely nothing to do with Trump Mar A Lago Resort's hiring or business practices and policies.
[22:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:27] <exec> 08└─Foreign media is often government controlled. It represents not what the government or people think, but what the government wants an audience to think. If you read the English-language version, that audience is often mostly intended to be Americans. Foreign media can be lazy. Parroting CNN is easie...
[22:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:29] <exec> 08└─The gorilla gets respect... but whatever. The goal is power, influence, control, dominance, etc. Sometimes it pays to be rude.
[22:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:31] <exec> 08└─Yes, really. I probably give him more of the internet equivalent of catapult-launched sacks of flaming shit than anyone else on this site and I still mod him up when he says something insightful or informative. A true thing is true no matter who says it. He's not intellectually disabled; he's evil....
[22:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:34] <exec> 08└─But for how long? The biggest bully on the playground gets respect of a sort, but after he's gotten fat and lazy from stealing everyone's lunches, eventually some of the scrappier victims are going to gang up on him, beat the shit out of him, and put him in the hospital for a while. You're shortsigh...
[22:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:36] <exec> 08└─Virginia had a democrat governor, and they got another. This isn't a gain. It's just keeping a seat. The new governor won the state by less than Hillary won the state. So, he still won, but the margin of victory was lower. To say that the GOP did not do well in the election last week is thus wrong....
[22:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:38] <exec> 08└─A judge who actively undermines the applicable law is unfit to be a judge.
[22:09:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] 02 - 06Senate Commerce Committee Approves Stop Enabling Sex Trafficking Act (SESTA) [Updated] - 394 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:49] <exec> 08└─Sez right here: For anyone dealing with user-generated content, the result could be a dangerous new source of legal risk, one that only the largest companies are fully equipped to handle. Can it be any more obvious what this is about? Please, let's put away the philosophical mumbo-jumbo. It doesn't...
[22:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Commerce Committee Approves Stop Enabling Sex Trafficking Act (SESTA) [Updated] - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:29] <exec> 08└─When do we admit that feminism is just an idea that many people come to support without any overarching organization to set any kind of standards? How many more feminist-bashers will pop up until there are no more rational discussions, only various angry internet trolls?
[22:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Commerce Committee Approves Stop Enabling Sex Trafficking Act (SESTA) [Updated] - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:30] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, the loss of critical thinking skills makes fixing the problem that much more difficult.
[22:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Senate Commerce Committee Approves Stop Enabling Sex Trafficking Act (SESTA) [Updated] - 1188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:32] <exec> 08└─What is feminism? It seems to be a concept that's become so dilute that it's become a concept controlled entirely by people who see it as a cudgel. What feminism is to me is a cudgel, because that's how it was used against me time and time again. The people who use that cudgel always know better tha...
[22:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Commerce Committee Approves Stop Enabling Sex Trafficking Act (SESTA) [Updated] - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:34] <exec> 08└─Well, our local MtF up there has such a massive bee in her bonnet over a small group of TERF assholes in Michigan that she's willing to throw every feminist on the planet under the bus because of it. I've tried pointing out to her how fucked up and counterproductive this is and she doesn't care. So...
[22:12:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:08] <exec> 08└─Red Barchetta or Little Red Corvette?? Or did Prince cover Rush songs?
[22:12:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03dierdorf [5887] (Score: 1) 02 - 06ALMA Captures Best-Ever Image of Red Giant W Hydrae - 697 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:36] <exec> 08└─Well,W Hyd is the 7th brightest star if you happen to have superpowers and can see in the Infrared. For us mere mortals it isn't visible at all, having visual magnitude which varies from about +6 to +10 or so. (It's a "Mira" variable, which pulsates. At its largest diameter, almost ALL its energy is...
[22:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Forest Service Fire Experts Blocked From Attending Conference; Censorship Alleged - 947 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:01] <exec> 08└─I've noticed that a lot of climate change deniers seem to believe in a conspiracy by scientists to push the climate change agenda. Researchers are being disingenuous about the climate for some nefarious purpose, usually boiling down to something akin to globalism. Well let me ask you this: When scie...
[22:14:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forest Service Fire Experts Blocked From Attending Conference; Censorship Alleged - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:03] <exec> 08└─Here's one way: get thorium fission in modular reactors, thermal-mass solar, and a shitload of wind power going. Change farming to work more with the available soils and resources. Cut ties with foreign powers for basic things like oil. Oh, and round up all the fucking corrupt greedheads and burn th...
[22:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nintendo to More Than Double Production of Switch; Success Rooted in Wii U's Failure - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:12] <exec> 08└─Original, like 90% of the me-too first-person shooters? There's no difference between Call of Duty, Halo, etc. etc. Just different software skins.
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[23:05:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06IoT Sex Toy Control App Records Audio Without Couple's Knowledge - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:52] <exec> 08└─In order to provide continued high quality service, this session may be monitored for training porpoises.
[23:05:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06IoT Sex Toy Control App Records Audio Without Couple's Knowledge - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:53] <exec> 08└─"Thank you for calling Lovense. This call may be recorded. - Please press 1 if this is an emergency where both your app and your partner have become unresponsive. - Please press 2, and hold the phone up to your partner, if your app has become unresponsive but your partner is still responsive. - Plea...
[23:05:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IoT Sex Toy Control App Records Audio Without Couple's Knowledge - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:55] <exec> 08└─That's ok as long as it doesn't involve mynas and state lions.
[23:05:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IoT Sex Toy Control App Records Audio Without Couple's Knowledge - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:57] <exec> 08└─You've given the app access to your microphone and your data connection. The shareholders demand satisfaction too!
[23:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IoT Sex Toy Control App Records Audio Without Couple's Knowledge - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:00] <exec> 08└─Now I know where the porn industry gets the overdubs for all of their videos!
[23:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IoT Sex Toy Control App Records Audio Without Couple's Knowledge - 592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:02] <exec> 08└─I know some people enjoy the ability to remotely buzz their partner when they are far apart. I know most users are clueless when it comes to cellphone safety. But can anyone tell me why people would want to have to fiddle with their cell phones, to control the sex toy when they are with their partne...
[23:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IoT Sex Toy Control App Records Audio Without Couple's Knowledge - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:04] <exec> 08└─I don't know if I should rag on the fucks who buy the shit or the ones who make the shit. They deserve each other.
[23:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IoT Sex Toy Control App Records Audio Without Couple's Knowledge - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:06] <exec> 08└─Aren't there enough dildos on the Internet already?
[23:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Saves Big With Commercial Cargo Program - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:23] <exec> 08└─The odd part is they continued to parachute them down and recover them. Why?
[23:07:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America is Running Out of Cassette Tape - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:14] <exec> 08└─I have a stack of 8" floppies on a shelf somewhere.
[23:07:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America is Running Out of Cassette Tape - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:16] <exec> 08└─Wow, you're surely skipping a decimal place there. But you know what? It's cool. If you'll pay that for tapes I'll gladly handle all the administrivia for you, and do it at a good bulk rate. What say, $8 each? You'll love that 20% discount!
[23:07:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America is Running Out of Cassette Tape - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:18] <exec> 08└─Why would you need to order 500 USB sticks with data? Just copy it yourself. One album's worth of MP3s is maybe 50MB, guessing; it shouldn't take more than 10 seconds to copy that much. Find some kid to do it for you if you're that busy, but the whole thing shouldn't take more than 4 hours.
[23:07:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America is Running Out of Cassette Tape - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:20] <exec> 08└─Look at the autos from that era; they'll outlast anything produced today.
[23:07:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America is Running Out of Cassette Tape - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:22] <exec> 08└─I generally concur, but add: I remember these but I don't know how many were sold, especially to home users: http://www.cedmagic.com [cedmagic.com]
[23:07:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America is Running Out of Cassette Tape - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:25] <exec> 08└─Use Linux and you won't have that problem [with malicious usb devices].
[23:07:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoftBank to Invest Billions in Uber - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:37] <exec> 08└─Softbank's market cap is hovering around $100B - that's more than the GDP of Nicaragua and Costa Rica combined, or about half the GDP of Portugal. So, yeah, they have the means to influence countries, and even easier: lawmakers.
[23:08:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fishscene [4361] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Keeping Your Phone-Based Data Secure? - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:19] <exec> 08└─That might be the behavior on Android, but I use iPhone with the Google Voice app and the default mail app and this is not the behavior at all. I wasn't aware this was occurring on Android. Sorry about that. Thanks for posting!
[23:08:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fishscene [4361] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Keeping Your Phone-Based Data Secure? - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:21] <exec> 08└─I did a poor job of elaborating on this. Basically, laptop price ranges can be quite subjective and very dependent on each person's use-case. For me, I play games and run multiple virtualmachines (although not both games and VM's at the same time) plus a little bit of "future proofing". So $1500 for...
[23:08:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 192 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:36] <exec> 08└─Wow, just wow! You really are in denial about the Republicans aren't you. Blame the current state of affairs on Clinton, Wasserman-Schultz, and their close cadre. Corruption lost the election.
[23:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:53] <exec> 08└─States have the constitutional right to choose electors as they wish: * by lottery * by auction * the governor picks * the state supreme court picks * the state legislature picks * first-past-the-post voting (normal) * approval voting * ranked voting * the state's members of the US congress are auto...
[23:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:55] <exec> 08└─On the plus side, Melania proves that immigrants do jobs Americans don't want to do! :D
[23:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 1293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:57] <exec> 08└─> Foreign media is often government controlled. It represents not what the government or people think, but what the government wants an audience to think. Holy fuck you have no clue on an epic scale... > If you read the English-language version, that audience is often mostly intended to be Americans...
[23:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 1368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:59] <exec> 08└─The gay marriage, that's a terrific example. Who do some of these judges think they are? The folks in California voted fair and square to amend the Constitution. But some judge says, "Oh no, you can't, that's unconstitutional." How can the Constitution be unconstitutional? I'll tell you, it can't. A...
[23:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 819 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:01] <exec> 08└─I don't think there is a hope in hell of the US ever getting new parties elected, as the Democrats and Republicans have gerrymandered the entire system from top to bottom. When I point out to Americans that the UK, a nation of 64 million (or so) has 8 parties in their parliament, even with the awfu...
[23:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers - 988 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:04] <exec> 08└─Let me tell you, President Obama picked a huge, huge number of UNQUALIFIED judges. But you never hear about that. Because he didn't nominate them. He would go to the American Bar Association -- which is very liberal -- and ask, is this guy qualified? And a lot, a lot of times they would tell him "no...
[23:10:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Commerce Committee Approves Stop Enabling Sex Trafficking Act (SESTA) [Updated] - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:58] <exec> 08└─It's not, but that doesn't stop the government from labeling a lot of prostitution as sex trafficking to inflate the numbers so they can scare people.
[23:10:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Commerce Committee Approves Stop Enabling Sex Trafficking Act (SESTA) [Updated] - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:59] <exec> 08└─You could also ask an Aussie, or a Kiwi. As far as I am aware, sex-trafficking is not much of a problem here, (NZ) since prostitution was made legal. The issue always has been that it makes no difference how legal it is, there will always be prostitutes, so why not just give them the same protecti...
[23:11:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Commerce Committee Approves Stop Enabling Sex Trafficking Act (SESTA) [Updated] - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:01] <exec> 08└─Legalize all drugs or get out, not just weed. Stop creating black markets. It is actually possible to regulate what goes into legal drugs so that people don't randomly die of overdoses when the drug they usually get is laced with something else.
[23:11:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Commerce Committee Approves Stop Enabling Sex Trafficking Act (SESTA) [Updated] - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:03] <exec> 08└─Sex trafficking is still a problem here
[23:12:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03curril [5717] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Former General Motors Vice Chair Bob Lutz: Kiss the Good Times Goodbye - 1031 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:38] <exec> 08└─Odd that I haven't seen comments on how this affects people who turn cars into their own personal spaces. People often turn their cars into an extension of their identity, with bumper stickers and decals on the outside and various accessories on the inside. This is especially true of people who do b...
[23:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Shows Off Linux Desktops on Galaxy 8 Smartphone - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:29] <exec> 08└─https://www.theonion.com/apple-introduces-revolutionary-new-laptop-with-no-keybo-1819594761 [theonion.com] Otherwise, I have three old phones with slider keyboards. Maybe they'll be going up in value :)
[23:13:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gaaark [41] 02 - 06Forest Service Fire Experts Blocked From Attending Conference; Censorship Alleged - 89 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:50] <exec> 08└─Is it BK pedant, or BK THE pedant? :) OMG! I pedanted a pedant. Does that make me a pedo?
[23:15:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Mykl [1112] 02 - 06Nintendo to More Than Double Production of Switch; Success Rooted in Wii U's Failure - 550 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:30] <exec> 08└─According to the Nintendo website, there's already a fair bit available - about 235 released items [nintendo.com]. Of course this includes DLC and multiple versions of some titles (e.g. 'premium edition'), so the actual number of titles is probably closer to 100 or so. In terms of originality, I tho...
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