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[00:47:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bacteria Development Marks New Era in Cellular Design - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:10] <exec> 08└─Normal GMO stuff doesn't provide a huge selective advantage in the wild or, if it does, it's in an organism that already sucks at survival in the wild. This one pretty much puts the eukaryotic advantage of a cytoskeleton into a very common type of bacteria. This type of bacteria can even breed via p...
[00:47:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bacteria Development Marks New Era in Cellular Design - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:12] <exec> 08└─So what happens when (not if) this gets into the ocean?
[00:47:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:41] <exec> 08└─Damn! Now you make me want to find a way of 'burying' myself in the sewer system: if you have to pay for it anyway, it's a cheap funeral. BAWOOOOOSH, "bye Daddy!" :)
[00:47:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:42] <exec> 08└─tax me when I die
[00:47:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:44] <exec> 08└─Chicago enacted a "soda tax", ostensibly to discourage drinking all that horrible sugar laden stuff. Guess how long that lasted? (Especially when evidence was uncovered that it was done just to collect more revenue.) It'll be lucky to get out of committee, let alone last until the next election cycl...
[00:47:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:47] <exec> 08└─Hippie isn't bad stew meat if you boil all the dirt and grease off it first. Kind of like possum.
[00:47:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:49] <exec> 08└─Do I need to continue?
[00:48:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02 - 06Another Former Facebook Exec Speaks Out - 174 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:12] <exec> 08└─don't think, yeah, not me, I'm a genius, I'm at Stanford. You're probably the most likely to fall for it. Because you are check-boxing your whole damn life. No offense, guys.
[00:48:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Former Facebook Exec Speaks Out - 1239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:16] <exec> 08└─Almost totally agree. "Street smarts" are a real thing, and intellectuals aren't best known for them. But I think all kinds of smarts are orthogonal to the attraction that Facebook holds. For me, there was none, I have no account, and no desire for an account, and the reasons for that are simply tha...
[00:49:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:37] <exec> 08└─or like, don't like, play like, video gamez like.
[00:49:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 1015 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:38] <exec> 08└─IANAL, and I can tell you are not, either. What you say sounds very legalistic, but not actually true. You are correct that all contracts require Consideration. What you missed, though, is that both sides had Consideration. The Hasboro/Wizards of the Coast lawyers would casually walk into court, and...
[00:51:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top-Selling Handgun Safe Can be Remotely Opened in Seconds—No PIN Needed - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:49] <exec> 08└─The brain trust at work eventually decided the remotely locked condom dispenser was the most social idea because a "like" could be interpreted in so many socially interesting ways. Or a lack or "like". Many topics in a binary yes/no answer, is it a social decision on the basis of slut shaming, disea...
[00:51:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Algae Could Feed And Fuel Planet With Aid Of New High-Tech Tool - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:58] <exec> 08└─Soylent red and yellow on the way.
[00:52:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Algorithm Goes From Sorting Cat Pics to Analyzing DNA - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:15] <exec> 08└─Well, it's certainly good for punishing heretics with.
[00:52:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pentagon to Audit the Department of Defense - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:55] <exec> 08└─"required to follow precisely the same rules as every company". They do. Or weren't you around for the 2008 bank fraud epidemic that tanked the world economy, with no criminal charges ever brought?
[00:54:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hormonal Birth Control Linked to Increased Risk of Breast Cancer - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:40] <exec> 08└─On the internet, no one really knows if you're a batshit crazy, extreme hater of men. (Though it's far more likely you're just a clueless 50 something fat computer geek.)
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[01:47:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06All 535 Members of Congress, and How Much Money They Got From ISPs - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:16] <exec> 08└─Steny H Hoyer (D-MD05) = Democrat from Maryland's 5th congressional district. and so on.
[01:47:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06All 535 Members of Congress, and How Much Money They Got From ISPs - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:17] <exec> 08└─What all those telecom surcharges actually go.
[01:47:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06All 535 Members of Congress, and How Much Money They Got From ISPs - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:19] <exec> 08└─What all those telecom surcharges actually go went.
[01:48:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:01] <exec> 08└─Sin-tax error! Don't read on meat!
[01:48:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 1283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:02] <exec> 08└─The problem, whether cattle is grazed on grass or fed soybeans, is that cows eat a lot of solar power (and release a fair amount of methane) - so, for every person on the planet who consumes 1/4lb of beef per day - 100lbs of beef per year, there's about 6000 square feet of productive pastureland (or...
[01:48:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:05] <exec> 08└─*tread. That'll teach me to proffread only once.
[01:48:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:07] <exec> 08└─+ Monetary transactions involving a bank or credit union (FDIC) The FDIC is funded by bank premiums not taxes + Own a house connected to a municipal water supply + Own a house connected to a municipal sewer line Paid through user fees not tax + Own a house with trash/recyclable pickup service Paid t...
[01:48:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03number11 [1170] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 688 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:09] <exec> 08└─If the people of the world want to pack themselves into high-rise cities, fine, let they eat paste. One of the benefits of owning and caring for your own land is the harvesting the "fruits of the land." Now, if I want to commercially exploit my land and sell beef into the cities, then, sure, tax the...
[01:48:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:11] <exec> 08└─Yup. A good start would be getting rid of all the rules and regulations telling them they can't do that. Lord knows we wouldn't want them durn rednecks gettin' all uppity and independent...
[01:48:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:14] <exec> 08└─if you boil all the dirt and grease off it first
[01:48:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:16] <exec> 08└─A pressure cooker is the only thing that works on Red Neck.
[01:48:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:18] <exec> 08└─Check your math at auction prices. Those little cow-calf operations are being quite deliberately driven out of business. Don't forget the costs of animal handling systems, fuel related to haying and various veterinary costs and specialty supplements and all the costs attendant slaughter (if you can...
[01:48:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:20] <exec> 08└─The IRS is equipted with AK47s, right?
[01:51:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Nature' Editorial Juxtaposes FOIA Email Release With Illegal Hacking - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:51:32] <exec> 08└─Why exactly are you bragging about the lack of falsifiability of current computer models?
[01:51:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 1) 02 - 06'Nature' Editorial Juxtaposes FOIA Email Release With Illegal Hacking - 664 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:51:33] <exec> 08└─>> I dunno, but the emails definitely showed that they were working to hide original data and actual methods. The exact quote you are looking for is "used Mike's trick to hide the decline" Which expands to, paraphrasing, "The tree ring data was weird, so we substituted in measured temperature data f...
[01:52:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Algorithm Goes From Sorting Cat Pics to Analyzing DNA - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:49] <exec> 08└─Well, it's certainly good for punishing heretics with.
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[03:12:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06All 535 Members of Congress, and How Much Money They Got From ISPs - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:32] <exec> 08└─Actually, those guys are pretty cheap. The surcharges pay more in executive bonuses than in lobbying. Best Democracy money can buy...
[03:12:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03BananaPhone [2488] (Score: 2) 02 - 06All 535 Members of Congress, and How Much Money They Got From ISPs - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:33] <exec> 08└─Make them captive customers, treat them like shit and buy all the government officials as cheap as you can. You have the freedom! (tm) Thank you Corp...err.. Citizens United /s
[03:12:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06All 535 Members of Congress, and How Much Money They Got From ISPs - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:35] <exec> 08└─John McCain has been voting with the democrats. In the election, he didn't vote for the republican candidate. In the senate, he votes to keep Obamacare. He does this even though he refuses to use socialized healthcare himself. He is entitled to Medicare, to Veterans Administration care, and of cours...
[03:12:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06All 535 Members of Congress, and How Much Money They Got From ISPs - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:38] <exec> 08└─The only reason this got past the house with only Republicans is because that was all that was necessary to do so. Dems and Reps do a good job at protecting themselves when the vote is going to go the "correct" way anyways, but had they needed a couple more people the Dems would have kicked in a few...
[03:12:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06All 535 Members of Congress, and How Much Money They Got From ISPs - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:40] <exec> 08└─McCain has done his best possibe job at fucking America. 2012 NDAA detention amendment, getting weapons to isis and syrian rebels, bombing his own aircraft carrier, pushing the canceling of the f22 program, and on and on. If there is a bill that serves to fuck americans, you can bet he is for it.
[03:12:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06All 535 Members of Congress, and How Much Money They Got From ISPs - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:42] <exec> 08└─https://www.mccain.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=C5A24E2D-B28D-4CCF-8037-E8C2E6562051 [senate.gov] He identifies as a (cis-male) Republican.
[03:12:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06All 535 Members of Congress, and How Much Money They Got From ISPs - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:44] <exec> 08└─Best Democracy money can buy...
[03:12:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06All 535 Members of Congress, and How Much Money They Got From ISPs - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:47] <exec> 08└─In the senate, he votes to keep Obamacare. He does this even though he refuses to use socialized healthcare himself. He is entitled to Medicare, to Veterans Administration care, and of course to Obamacare. None of that is good enough for McCain, but he thinks the rest of us should use it.
[03:13:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03caffeine [249] 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 262 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:07] <exec> 08└─What is the bet that the Farm Animal Investment Risk and Return (Fairr) plans to made a tidy profit from taxing guilt. I think the finance sector is having a negative impact on society. We should set up an investor network to promote a tax on the finance sector.
[03:13:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gaaark [41] 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 310 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:15] <exec> 08└─I'd like to see a tax on junk food, used to bring down the price of raw fruits and veggies. 'Real' food is more expensive than junk food, and this is wrong. It makes eating junk the food of the poor. Pricing junk up above veggies would make it more cost effective to feed your family decent food. #Tw...
[03:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03number11 [1170] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:39] <exec> 08└─The problem, whether cattle is grazed on grass or fed soybeans, is that cows eat a lot of solar power (and release a fair amount of methane) - so, for every person on the planet who consumes 1/4lb of beef per day - 100lbs of beef per year, there's about 6000 square feet of productive pastureland (or...
[03:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:41] <exec> 08└─Deed you aksoolly ment "thread"?
[03:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:43] <exec> 08└─Use the grill. Maybe chewy, but good for you to try different textures once in a while.
[03:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:45] <exec> 08└─Ultimately, to get to a sustainable population level, we should have a tax on air, similar to the property tax. Failure to pay results in forfeiture. Finally, an effective solution.
[03:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DrkShadow [1404] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:47] <exec> 08└─We can graze cattle, sheep, and goats on land that is unsuitable for farming. [...] just tax the meat produced that way
[03:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 724 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:49] <exec> 08└─You're pretending an acre is an acre, but surely you realize that's not true? Much of the land used for cattle is used because it's unsuitable for most other crops. You can't just turn 1,000 acres of grazing land into wheat or broccoli or whatever, typically. And where you see cattle kept on land th...
[03:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:52] <exec> 08└─Nah, the trick to redneck meat is you gotta marinate it heavily in beer before slaughtering. Shouldn't be especially difficult.
[03:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:54] <exec> 08└─Dunno. They sure bought a hell of a lot of ammo over the twenty-teens though. Regardless, try not paying your taxes and see what happens. I guarantee you'll meet up with armed men wanting to imprison or kill you, depending on your reception to the idea of imprisonment.
[03:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:56] <exec> 08└─That'll teach me to proffread only once.
[03:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:58] <exec> 08└─In general, sin taxes are the correct reaction once a behaviour is deemed undesirable. People are very passionate about eating meat, so perhaps it is a bad example, as emotions flair. A better example could be the power industry: if society deems fossil fuel consumption a poor choice, taxing carbon...
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[03:17:10] <exec> 08└─>> I would wager every one of those models are described in great detail in journal publications because that's what you do when you write a complex scientific model Part of the climategate debacle was that they would not share the data to feed that model, first informally and later formally by deny...
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[04:12:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Secure Apps Exposed to Hacking via Flaws in Underlying Programming Languages - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:27] <exec> 08└─And can we please send a dunce-cap to the fine individual who thought they could program a 'secure app' as a script for some insecure interpreter?
[04:12:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06All 535 Members of Congress, and How Much Money They Got From ISPs - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:46] <exec> 08└─It's probably a sure sign of how unhinged you folks have become.
[04:12:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06All 535 Members of Congress, and How Much Money They Got From ISPs - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:47] <exec> 08└─It's hilarious how easily they divide you. Policy-wise, McCain is virtually indistinguishable from Hillary Clinton. Yet they both seem to be very successful at marketing themselves as candidates to people that detest everything they stand for.
[04:12:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bacteria Development Marks New Era in Cellular Design - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:58] <exec> 08└─Seaside sunlight? :)
[04:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:52] <exec> 08└─The flat tax seems like a good option, paired with probably a few other things. Know why we can't easily play around with such models? The insanely rich don't want to rock the boat.
[04:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:54] <exec> 08└─"A better example could be the power industry: if society deems fossil fuel consumption a poor choice, taxing carbon sources is the best method of reducing this consumption." Utter nonsense. If society deems it a bad choice then society would enforce that judgement by social tools - ranging from rid...
[04:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:56] <exec> 08└─s/planes/plains (For those trying to improve their vocabularies.) Cattle are no worse than the large herds that used to roam the planes of many continents Got a citation WRT those earlier critters being fattened at a feedlot on taxpayer-subsidized corn which had been fertilized with taxpayer-subsidi...
[04:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03terrab0t [4674] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:58] <exec> 08└─Furthermore, many people already eat far too much meat, seriously damaging their health and incurring huge costs.
[04:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:00] <exec> 08└─If that was effective, wouldn't all the pre-processing suffice? 25 Best "Hold my beer and watch this" Memes [me.me] 8-) More [google.com] 8-D before slaughtering That too is often self-inflicted. (See above.) -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[04:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:03] <exec> 08└─Their estimates for AGW have long long ago been debunked, why is this crap still being published? They make NO allowance for the short half-life of methane in the atmosphere. They nicely forget that Dairy contributes significantly more than meat production. There is no allowance for the carbon SINK...
[04:15:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:52] <exec> 08└─Just because it's written into a contract doesn't make it legally binding. There are plenty of contracts that try to enforce illegal terms which are later found invalid. Also, if there wasn't quid pro quo, "consideration" in contract law, the specific term of the contract they invoked may be unenfor...
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[04:15:54] <exec> 08└─Mistakes were made. Paying money for not-real things, not controlled by you and that you cannot re-sell at your discretion (and therefore you do not own) Posting anything meaningful to the internet under your real name. How did this even come about? Why do people do this? Corporation with an SJW inf...
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[04:15:56] <exec> 08└─I agree with this. This is probably the only realistic way to get things changed. The reality is that laws are bought and paid for. We need to put lobbying money behind citizens' interests. I know, our representatives should be doing this by default. "should". What does that mean in the age of money...
[04:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06'Nature' Editorial Juxtaposes FOIA Email Release With Illegal Hacking - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:21] <exec> 08└─If these models are indeed un-falsifiable**, why bring them into discussion at all? Either you have faith in something or you don't. Bringing post-hoc justifications for one's belief makes one a hypocrite.
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[05:12:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Secure Apps Exposed to Hacking via Flaws in Underlying Programming Languages - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:30] <exec> 08└─You can make secure applications in these languages if you scope the problem correctly. Control your inputs to something reasonable (ex: less than 500MB string or something), and sanitize the data before passing it around to creepy duck typing functions, avoid massive allocations etc. These language...
[05:12:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Secure Apps Exposed to Hacking via Flaws in Underlying Programming Languages - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:31] <exec> 08└─What is this? Reason in my Soylent? Be gone, heathen!
[05:12:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06All 535 Members of Congress, and How Much Money They Got From ISPs - 289 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:49] <exec> 08└─In the senate, he votes to keep Obamacare. He does this even though he refuses to use socialized healthcare himself. He is entitled to Medicare, to Veterans Administration care, and of course to Obamacare. None of that is good enough for McCain, but he thinks the rest of us should use it.
[05:12:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06All 535 Members of Congress, and How Much Money They Got From ISPs - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:52] <exec> 08└─"Blame a person which doesn't want the limited heath budget to be spent on his account when he can afford it from his own pocket." Spoken like someone that's never had to rely on the VA for medical care. No altruistic motive needs to be invented here. No one willingly submits to socialized health ca...
[05:12:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06All 535 Members of Congress, and How Much Money They Got From ISPs - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:54] <exec> 08└─Spoken like someone that's never had to rely on the VA for medical care.
[05:12:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06All 535 Members of Congress, and How Much Money They Got From ISPs - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:57] <exec> 08└─"So... you reckon McCain should be vilified because he doesn't need socialized health care?" No, he should be vilified on entirely different grounds. The point about health care simply demonstrates his deep hypocrisy. He won't touch it himself, none of his friends would either, the thought is laugha...
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[05:14:06] <exec> 08└─s#s/.*/.*#&/# (For those trying to improve their sed skills ;)
[05:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:07] <exec> 08└─Right idea but your number is WAY off. It's more like 99.95 percent. The current threshold is $5.5 million--or $11 million for married couples. [google.com] Reactionaries (who consume the crap coming out of Faux Noise|Breitbart) like to call it The Death Tax. (Dead people don't pay taxes.) A better...
[05:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:09] <exec> 08└─of productive pastureland
[05:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:11] <exec> 08└─Their estimates for AGW have long long ago been debunked, why is this crap still being published?
[05:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 854 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:14] <exec> 08└─I don't find that to be true. It's been quite some time since I paid more than $0.50/pound for veggies|fruit. ...and in that case it was an elective choice; there was other stuff cheaper. I often get produce for as low as $0.20/pound. At Thanksgiving, the price of canned veggies gets good. I picked...
[05:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:16] <exec> 08└─Cockatoo and rock stew. Serves 2. Boil cockatoo and rock until rock is soft. Throw away cockatoo. Eat rock.
[05:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:18] <exec> 08└─Tax inspectors and collectors make a great BBQ. Just sayin.
[05:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:20] <exec> 08└─Maybe where you live. Not where I live. Rates and taxes all the way.
[05:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:22] <exec> 08└─Nah, the trick to redneck meat is you gotta marinate it heavily in beer before slaughtering.
[05:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03fakefuck39 [6620] (Score: -1) 02 - 06Another Former Facebook Exec Speaks Out - 766 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:50] <exec> 08└─The point of your conversations is to get to the end as fast as possible? Do you also watch videos sped up, because the point of a movie is to get to the end real fast? Hey - awesome. Guess what - no one gives a fuck about what you prefer. The rest of us normal people prefer a relaxed background 45...
[05:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another Former Facebook Exec Speaks Out - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:52] <exec> 08└─It's okay VLM, you can stop pretending. We know that it was you.
[05:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another Former Facebook Exec Speaks Out - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:54] <exec> 08└─Just like we knew all the time. With love (yeah that's bullshit), from Berkeley
[05:16:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 929 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:16:19] <exec> 08└─This guy [soylentnews.org] already said it pretty well. And, as I pointed out in another post [soylentnews.org]: But this guy *did* agree to the contract, and (at least AFAICT) received value and consideration -- for a time. As to whether or not the terms to which he *explicitly* agreed are enforcea...
[05:17:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing CEO Says His Company Will Carry Humans to Mars Before SpaceX - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:29] <exec> 08└─That's our khallow! Rocket Scientist! Entreprenuer! Privatiser of the Torture Dungeons of Abu Ghraib! More for less, he says! (Wait, does khallow actually know anything about rocket science? Did he fire an Estes once? Is he blowing smoke up our arses and telling us it is raining, AGAIN?)
[05:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing CEO Says His Company Will Carry Humans to Mars Before SpaceX - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:31] <exec> 08└─How's that 787 Dreamliner working out, Boeing shill?
[05:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing CEO Says His Company Will Carry Humans to Mars Before SpaceX - 719 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:33] <exec> 08└─What is the ratio of engineers to total staff at both companies? So, which is an actual engineering company and which is a company that employes "documentation officers" and government program managers? What components are built in-house and what components are outsourced at each company? By this I...
[05:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing CEO Says His Company Will Carry Humans to Mars Before SpaceX - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:35] <exec> 08└─I fly internationally 50-100 times per year. Most flights that used to be on a 74x or a 3xx are on a dreamliner these days. People with lack of knowledge talking down to others, despite being wrong. Lemme guess - you're a millennial?
[05:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Nature' Editorial Juxtaposes FOIA Email Release With Illegal Hacking - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:51] <exec> 08└─Because they've a pretext for near future real world decisions that affect people on a global scale.
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[06:12:35] <exec> 08└─No, you can't. No matter how perfect your script, the actual program here is still the interpreter, and if it's broken (and it is!) then nothing you do in your script can change that.
[06:12:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Sulla [5173] 02 - 06All 535 Members of Congress, and How Much Money They Got From ISPs - 423 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:12:49] <exec> 08└─The only reason this got past the house with only Republicans is because that was all that was necessary to do so. Dems and Reps do a good job at protecting themselves when the vote is going to go the "correct" way anyways, but had they needed a couple more people the Dems would have kicked in a few...
[06:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06All 535 Members of Congress, and How Much Money They Got From ISPs - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:12:59] <exec> 08└─Yet he works tirelessly to make sure that the rest of us, the 'little people' that are called upon to pay for, and sometimes to die for, this mans hair-brained schemes, have no other choice.
[06:13:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06All 535 Members of Congress, and How Much Money They Got From ISPs - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:01] <exec> 08└─"As opposed to a certain orange character, which works restlessly to make sure the 'little people' have no choice at all... and yet the orange one should not be shamed for it." What are you even talking about? Trying to reply to a different post?
[06:13:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06All 535 Members of Congress, and How Much Money They Got From ISPs - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:03] <exec> 08└─Latest I heard of: https://www.nytimes.com [nytimes.com]
[06:13:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06All 535 Members of Congress, and How Much Money They Got From ISPs - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:05] <exec> 08└─That's still a non-sequitur. We were talking about McCain, not Trump. Trump's issues are not relevant to McCains in any way that is readily apparent, and you haven't provided any rationale otherwise. You appear to be making an utterly transparent attempt to change the topic. Was it making you uncomf...
[06:13:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06All 535 Members of Congress, and How Much Money They Got From ISPs - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:07] <exec> 08└─We were talking about McCain, not Trump.
[06:13:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06All 535 Members of Congress, and How Much Money They Got From ISPs - 950 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:09] <exec> 08└─"Was it making you uncomfortable in the topic?" Not at all, only a little unsettling when the topic seems to have been shifted abruptly and for no apparent reason. Going back and re-reading your post several times doesn't render it any less abrupt. On the surface it appears, and I pick this word car...
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[06:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:28] <exec> 08└─It varies by weight but at least five kegs and as many days.
[06:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:29] <exec> 08└─I think I'll stay with with Wagyu steaks, thank you. At about $400-$600/kg [beefcentral.com] price in the top range, is still more affordable than redneck.
[06:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:31] <exec> 08└─+ Put your kids into public school
[06:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Another Former Facebook Exec Speaks Out - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:02] <exec> 08└─It feels like a weight has been lifted from my shoulders.
[06:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Former Facebook Exec Speaks Out - 698 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:03] <exec> 08└─You're just redefining the label from your perspective. Others view it as an addiction, so yea fine if you view it as stupidity. That's yer opinion. I used to a smoker too and yes I stopped because I just willed it. There was a struggle much like you put it. It was only stupid in so far as I knew th...
[06:16:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:16:30] <exec> 08└─Actually, I wasn't thinking that when I wrote it, but that's a very good point, especially considering that Windows 10 blatantly sends data ("telemetry") to MS.
[06:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing CEO Says His Company Will Carry Humans to Mars Before SpaceX - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:44] <exec> 08└─nor would any government have private company employees around in a government bulding (unless appropriate rent/contracts/costs had been sorted, and certainly NOT where government work was being done!) That's not true. There's a LOT of government contractors working on-site in government facilities,...
[06:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Boeing CEO Says His Company Will Carry Humans to Mars Before SpaceX - 1177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:46] <exec> 08└─You know, you could read my posts on the subject. That would give you a better idea of how knowledgeable I am on the subject than saying stupid shit on the internets would. What can I say of you, who can't say anything useful or intelligent, but has this burning need to say something anyway? Sad. M...
[06:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06'Nature' Editorial Juxtaposes FOIA Email Release With Illegal Hacking - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:05] <exec> 08└─Those aren't going to lead humanity to extinction. Inaction on the other side might.
[06:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Nature' Editorial Juxtaposes FOIA Email Release With Illegal Hacking - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:06] <exec> 08└─Not much point to having opinions on a scientific matter, if you don't have the evidence to back it up.
[06:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06'Nature' Editorial Juxtaposes FOIA Email Release With Illegal Hacking - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:08] <exec> 08└─The same goes for your position as well.
[06:21:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hormonal Birth Control Linked to Increased Risk of Breast Cancer - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:48] <exec> 08└─Whoops, you're right. This new method blocks the sperm ducts above the testes, inside the scrotum. The semen is produced by the prostate gland inside the abdomen.
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[07:14:27] <exec> 08└─Those are poor manners, but do they map to Facebook? When i was young adults blamed poor manners on tv and rock and roll. Later they switched to blaming dungeons & dragons and video games. Specifically, trailing off in mid-chat is something people started doing the moment chat was invented. Thus was...
[07:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Former Facebook Exec Speaks Out - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:49] <exec> 08└─Most voters for example
[07:15:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 299 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:15] <exec> 08└─Exactly, I don't see the problem here. If you don't want some company to ban you from an online game or from your own garage, don't buy their internet-connected products or services. Don't hand over control of your life to some company that can restrict you at any time in the future on a mere whim.
[07:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Nature' Editorial Juxtaposes FOIA Email Release With Illegal Hacking - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:52] <exec> 08└─No sense in repeating again and again same discussions we had in the past, I don't think it will change the results and I value my time. I hear you value your as well, so it should be a mutual feeling (unless, of course, you are actually paid for the replies. Are you?)
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[08:13:16] <exec> 08└─Dem or Rep the only thing they care about is their sponsors. If they want to keep receiving "donations", they have to serve the "donors". Couldn't be more obvious. It's up to the voters to look past them and vote independent. Nobody else can clean the house.
[08:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06All 535 Members of Congress, and How Much Money They Got From ISPs - 1529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:17] <exec> 08└─I'll tell you what. I will tell you that our system is broken. I gave to many people. Before this, before two years ago, I was a businessman. I give to everybody. When they call, I give. And you know what? When I need something from them, two years later, three years later, I call them. They are the...
[08:13:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 670 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:54] <exec> 08└─Its really the vegans at work, they've slowly working toward this for some time. Cattle are no worse than the large herds that used to roam the planes of many continents. But they do offend the vegans. Besides, with the recent discovery of massive natural gas leaks that have been going on for centur...
[08:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 898 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:40] <exec> 08└─The trouble isn't just that. It's that it amounts to a corporate giveaway. If it's a family where the assets are mostly liquid, they shrug their shoulders, take a short term loan secured with some bonds or something, and pay it off. Done. The real screwups are the land rich/cash poor family farms th...
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[08:14:41] <exec> 08└─Incorrect. You can get B12 from various plant-related, most notably some fungal sources. The problem is you can't get enough for the whole world. Not if you flattened every forest in Canada. We could go vegan, worldwide, tomorrow. A lot of people would just plain die of malnutrition, that's all.
[08:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another Former Facebook Exec Speaks Out - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:16] <exec> 08└─I didn't see Facebook as cult-like: to me it was just stupid. "My chef baked too many cookies, so i'm sending you 100 cookies." "I just had a poo and now i'm going to my shitty job"
[08:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another Former Facebook Exec Speaks Out - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:18] <exec> 08└─Hey, don't knock it... It was his version of the Psiloon's TA [scientologyhandbook.org], y'know merely by his exaltedness actually being there, Mr Farcebook Incarnate provided the poor dis conn e cted Puerto Ricans with their connection to his divine creation...
[08:17:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Researchers Discover "Excitonium" - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:12] <exec> 08└─And presumably knowing the amount of energy put in to put the electron into the excited state, one can calculate the probability of it falling back into the ground state emitting a packet of energy (photon?) in a give period of time?
[08:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing CEO Says His Company Will Carry Humans to Mars Before SpaceX - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:03] <exec> 08└─As replacement employees, not as employees of a private company working in partnership with the government. Worse, they may be technically employees of ServiceCompanyXYZ Ltd, adding its 30% to the hourly rate of te supplied contractor. The key word was partnership (with private company, as, well, eq...
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[09:12:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scrutinizer [6534] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Director Christopher Wray Keeps War on Encryption Alive - 1493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:12:28] <exec> 08└─With the FBI et al making so much noise over the "problem" of easy-to-use, on-by-default, strong encryption, this suggests that people who value the ability to keep their data and communications private should earnestly pursue and encourage development of more of this easy-to-use, on-by-default, str...
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[09:12:30] <exec> 08└─Although it might not be enabled. The ARM TrustZone stuff dates back to at least the A20 era hardware and I believe earlier. The real solution at this point is coming up with VHDL/Verilog/etc chip designs, then process specific designs, then a set of unit tests against each with integrated support f...
[09:12:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Secure Apps Exposed to Hacking via Flaws in Underlying Programming Languages - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:12:48] <exec> 08└─If you have shell access, you can gain... *gasp* shell access! In other news, water is wet, and some security people are f*cking morons [iu.edu].
[09:14:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 22 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:02] <exec> 08└─Do I need to continue?
[09:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:43] <exec> 08└─US spends billions on subsidizing CORN. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] And this corn is then used to make cheap meat. So how about subsidizing healthy foods instead? You know, subsidizing vegetables and fruit production and cutting subsidies on corn?...
[09:16:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DBCubix [553] 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 507 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:16:23] <exec> 08└─Please help me because I am really not understanding this. If Hasbro were instead General Motors (GM) and GM was trolling through social media and saw a post that said "Chevy Trailblazers suck," then using the same logic they could use OnStar and disable your vehicle? Is this the right analogy? I me...
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[09:16:46] <exec> 08└─It is a contract of adhesion and it is possible that the section could be found unconscionable: https://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com [thefreedictionary.com] It might be worth trying a lawsuit -- the terms are so broad that this provision can amount to pure theft. Contract...
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[10:12:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06List of 72 Ultra HD Blu-Ray Keys Leaked - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:12:27] <exec> 08└─The only secret that can be kept is the one that nobody knows exists. That is a lesson of history. And then there are still people who believe that secrets in plain sight can be kept secret. Reminds me of the crypto-backdoor debate. Does anybody seriously believe that a secret can be kept secret?
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[10:12:28] <exec> 08└─Does anybody seriously believe that a secret can be kept secret?
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[10:12:55] <exec> 08└─BTW, Perl can provide a secure sandbox if one wants to interpret external strings as code: http://perldoc.perl.org [perl.org]
[10:13:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 84 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:13:49] <exec> 08└─Hunt and fish, too. towards a sin tax, a levy on harmful products to cut consumption
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[11:12:35] <exec> 08└─But then there still will be a person who knows the secret... The one who wrote it to write-only memory is vulnerable to attack and the secret can be retrieved by means of https://www.xkcd.com [xkcd.com]
[11:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06All 535 Members of Congress, and How Much Money They Got From ISPs - 1951 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:13:32] <exec> 08└─The point about health care simply demonstrates his [McCain's] deep hypocrisy. He won't touch it himself, none of his friends would either, the thought is laughable. Yet he works tirelessly to make sure that the rest of us, the 'little people' that are called upon to pay for, and sometimes to die fo...
[11:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06All 535 Members of Congress, and How Much Money They Got From ISPs - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:13:34] <exec> 08└─Which makes this a bit interesting. The companies that benefit from network neutrality are a lot bigger than the ISPs, combined. Why aren't they able to outbid them? Are they too ethical to engage in bribery? Doesn't seem likely. Are they just naive?
[11:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06All 535 Members of Congress, and How Much Money They Got From ISPs - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:13:36] <exec> 08└─You should look up the term 'safety net'. There's nothing hypocritical about believing that there should be a minimum standard of healthcare available for everyone, but that people who can afford to should be able to pay for a higher standard.
[11:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06All 535 Members of Congress, and How Much Money They Got From ISPs - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:13:38] <exec> 08└─American People Hire High-Powered Lobbyist To Push Interests In Congress [theonion.com]
[11:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:15:03] <exec> 08└─I've heard that myth and I went looking for corroboration. I didn't find any. What I did find, instead, refuted the myth. B12 in Plant Foods - by Jack Norris, Registered Dietitian - Last updated: October 2015 [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [veganhealth.org] plants have no B12 requirement for any fun...
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[11:19:36] <exec> 08└─Some lighter gun safes with electronic locks can be unlocked simply by dropping them about a foot onto a solid surface.
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[12:12:30] <exec> 08└─for technical or editorial errors or omissions contained herein.The information provided is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind.To the extent permitted by law, neither HP or its affiliates, subcontractors or suppliers will be liable for incidental, special or consequential damages includin...
[12:12:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Hundreds of HP Laptop Models Contain Keylogging Code - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:12:32] <exec> 08└─Translation for mere mortals: Fuck You; we do the fuck we want and the only thing you, the customer, are supposed to do is pay us. Now shut up and pay us some more.
[12:12:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Director Christopher Wray Keeps War on Encryption Alive - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:12:50] <exec> 08└─From the link [youbroketheinternet.org]: Others focus on anarchic technologies designed to undermine democracy, as if it was democracy's fault that digital offences produce no evidence. They thereby foster platforms for bypassing social obligations like contributing taxes, but taxes are fundamental...
[12:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Secure Apps Exposed to Hacking via Flaws in Underlying Programming Languages - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:10] <exec> 08└─How it's specifically broken is very important. Quite a lot of these bugs would require you have write access to the source of the script to be run to cause any problems. Which impacts "secure apps" not at all if you trust your developers.
[12:13:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondrake [2658] (Score: 2) 02 - 06All 535 Members of Congress, and How Much Money They Got From ISPs - 890 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:46] <exec> 08└─In principle I agree with socialized health care. I live in Europe, and we have some of that here. And it works fine I think (and there is not much of the funny 2-tier healthcare system for people with money and people without money). HOWEVER, at some point, my home country at the time started to fo...
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[12:14:26] <exec> 08└─tax me when I die
[12:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:15:13] <exec> 08└─Well now, that depends. It's not that uncommon to find a redneck weighing in at over 200lbs that's not overly fatty. If you're hunting them instead of buying them that drops the overall cost to around $3-4/lb if you only use the proper meat. Mind you, this does not account for the cost of five days...
[12:15:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Former Facebook Exec Speaks Out - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:15:49] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it can be hard: I just hate all the "it's a disease, I am helpless, I need GOD!!" bullshit. You just need to want it and do it. Don't hide and say you're helpless. Congrats on quitting smoking! :)
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[12:17:22] <exec> 08└─It is a contract of adhesion and it is possible that the section could be found unconscionable: https://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com [thefreedictionary.com] [thefreedictionary.com] It might be worth trying a lawsuit -- the terms are so broad that this provision can amount...
[12:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:24] <exec> 08└─That's mostly correct, but you missed two conditions. You also need to add that you're never allowed to take a ride in or use any GM product again for the next year and you're not allowed to talk about GM in anyway. If you have an older GM fridge, well sorry, you'll need to ship it back to GM and bu...
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[13:12:30] <exec> 08└─...could radically reshape the way the internet works.
[13:12:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03BsAtHome [889] 02 - 06Hundreds of HP Laptop Models Contain Keylogging Code - 164 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:38] <exec> 08└─Translation for mere mortals: Fuck You; we do the fuck we want and the only thing you, the customer, are supposed to do is pay us. Now shut up and pay us some more.
[13:12:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hundreds of HP Laptop Models Contain Keylogging Code - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:40] <exec> 08└─I find your views interesting and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
[13:12:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06List of 72 Ultra HD Blu-Ray Keys Leaked - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:51] <exec> 08└─Nothing a lobotomy can't solve.
[13:13:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03ewk [5923] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FBI Director Christopher Wray Keeps War on Encryption Alive - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:02] <exec> 08└─How cute... this concept of you... *your* money... Here kid, have a nickel and buy yourself some clues... it's only *yours* if *your* autograph on it validates its value (and if other people think the same). The supply of money (the bills, coins etc... not necessarily the concept) is in fact an almo...
[13:15:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:25] <exec> 08└─Surely you are difficult to figure out, meatbags. You ship 2 tons of packaging for one ton of goods, and the problem is cow farts and CO2. You discover vegetables are sensible just like other beings, and you consider eating them less wrong. You care about how the animal is slaughtered, but only to e...
[13:16:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DiarrhoeaChaChaCha [264] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Another Former Facebook Exec Speaks Out - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:16:02] <exec> 08└─Well...you clearly have never truly been addicted to alcohol, if you could just quit drinking 'cold turkey'. Either that, or you're letting your own smugness get in the way of understanding that addictions, whatever form they take, are as bad as whatever debilitating effect they have on each addict....
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[14:12:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Leaked Screener of the Season: Unreleased Louis C.K. Film "I Love You, Daddy." - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:28] <exec> 08└─...may I just say "ewwwww". The casting couch is now out in the open, lots of Hollywood movers and shakers turn out to be dirty old men, and the slime-pit that is Hollywood actually made a movie about...exactly this, that apparently tries to spin it in a positive light? Yeah, I know there's lots of...
[14:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Support Net Neutrality Day / FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's Tone-Deaf "Verizon Puppet" Skit - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:36] <exec> 08└─Going by nations that actually have net neutrality installed in law, you have a strange definition of "the modern world".
[14:12:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Support Net Neutrality Day / FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's Tone-Deaf "Verizon Puppet" Skit - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:38] <exec> 08└─I think Steve Earle already said it [youtube.com] better than I could. Well not better than I could say it but better than I could sing it at least.
[14:12:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Support Net Neutrality Day / FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's Tone-Deaf "Verizon Puppet" Skit - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:41] <exec> 08└─It's only in the US where your system is so fucked, you might as well nuke it from orbit and start again.
[14:12:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Support Net Neutrality Day / FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's Tone-Deaf "Verizon Puppet" Skit - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:43] <exec> 08└─But established corporations have a God-given right to bleed everyone else dry otherwise COMMIES!!!!!!!
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[14:13:12] <exec> 08└─Gladly. And just because a project's PR is stating one thing, it doesn't necessitate that the stated words are held truly by some or even all of the project's participants. If you were working on projects that could be used to undermine the power of a crazed, murdering lunatic, would you be open and...
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[14:13:14] <exec> 08└─Funny. Bernard von NotHaus [wikipedia.org] was doing so well without resorting to taxes that the taxing powers picked him up and threw him in a cage for *snrk* counterfeiting. I'd be laughing harder except that there is, you know, an innocent human rotting away in a cage...
[14:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Director Christopher Wray Keeps War on Encryption Alive - 945 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:16] <exec> 08└─In my parents' day, the FBI and similar organizations enjoyed a huge amount of respect. Today, as soon as they open their mouths, we call them out for the corrupt, power-hungry idiots that they have become. Never talk to the FBI [popehat.com], FBI entrapment [businessinsider.com], etc, etc, etc. How...
[14:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03ewk [5923] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FBI Director Christopher Wray Keeps War on Encryption Alive - 734 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:18] <exec> 08└─So, tell me: How did he get to the point of being able to start all this? Oh yeah... taxes that co-provided for his upbringing, education, health, etc. etc... Although from the page you provided, it seems his mental health could use some improvement. But that's probably a matter of opinion. Besides,...
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[14:15:40] <exec> 08└─That depends on whether you use beer or Budweiser.
[14:16:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03ewk [5923] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Another Former Facebook Exec Speaks Out - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:16:19] <exec> 08└─Tubes... How many times do we have to repeat it: The internet is made of tubes!
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[14:17:50] <exec> 08└─I hope he takes them to court to see how that actually plays out. This clause basically states that wotc is allowed to steal from you, as it costs money to access the service and to buy the specific cards, it may be successfully argued that is property theft. And when a contract doesn't respect the...
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[15:12:27] <exec> 08└─um. the title is a reference to the fact that the movie is about kids and parents. he has this whole routine where he explains the logic behind parents saying "shut up and eat your " to their kids; I assume that grew into a movie because money. OK, the guy is an asshole and he thinks women are just...
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[15:12:29] <exec> 08└─Considering how many apparently-intelligent people are involved in the making of movies, perhaps this was indeed a propaganda piece? As an aside, I had occasion to read about the creation of Hollywood, and how its sudden change in tenor came about very shortly after the US government forcibly broke...
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[15:12:41] <exec> 08└─Proof?
[15:12:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Support Net Neutrality Day / FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's Tone-Deaf "Verizon Puppet" Skit - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:42] <exec> 08└─Net Neutrality is what enables a free market in online services. Pai is nothing more than a puppet who is bought by his rent seeking masters. In other words (sadly), a Republican. Republicans only support BIG businesses that PAY them.
[15:12:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Support Net Neutrality Day / FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's Tone-Deaf "Verizon Puppet" Skit - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:45] <exec> 08└─I'll add to my post that like any game, capitalism requires rules to keep people from using fraud and extortion against their competition. The free market isn't free (gratis).
[15:12:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Support Net Neutrality Day / FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's Tone-Deaf "Verizon Puppet" Skit - 836 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:47] <exec> 08└─i always wondered by republicans were religous. seems that its the obey authority thing that attracts conservatives? can't have people with their own ideas breaking the power structure i guess. i mean look what happens when a religion loses its monopoly. at least people aren't so fervent about their...
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[15:13:06] <exec> 08└─In the case where the information cannot be externally verified (e.g. write-only device), torture is completely useless. You tell them anything to make it stop, and they have no way to confirm.
[15:13:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06List of 72 Ultra HD Blu-Ray Keys Leaked - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:08] <exec> 08└─So, are we getting close to the point where we can start paying for Bluray movies instead of downloading them?
[15:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Director Christopher Wray Keeps War on Encryption Alive - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:23] <exec> 08└─So, tell me: How did he get to the point of being able to start all this? Oh yeah... taxes that co-provided for his upbringing, education, health, etc. etc...
[15:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03ewk [5923] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FBI Director Christopher Wray Keeps War on Encryption Alive - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:25] <exec> 08└─facetious
[15:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Use Electric Currents to Detect Cancer in Human Tissue - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:33] <exec> 08└─No comments yet so I'll start. I see a market for this. Imagine a clinic where this could happen: "please get undressed, one of my lovely assistants will come by shortly to brush you gently."
[15:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Secure Apps Exposed to Hacking via Flaws in Underlying Programming Languages - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:48] <exec> 08└─Somewhat related to Ken Thompson's compiler hack scenario.
[15:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Secure Apps Exposed to Hacking via Flaws in Underlying Programming Languages - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:49] <exec> 08└─Really. An interpreted program cannot avoid holes introduced by the interpreter, just as a compiled program cannot avoid holes introduced by the compiler.
[15:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Secure Apps Exposed to Hacking via Flaws in Underlying Programming Languages - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:51] <exec> 08└─WTF? So, if I make a shell script, that makes me a programmer? A shell script is a language? Really? Javascript is a language? Hey, Buzzard! Move over, bro, I'm a programmer too! Come on, fat chicken, make room for me, I wanna diddle with the thingamabob!! Whoohoo, this is fun! Pale Moon is unable t...
[15:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06All 535 Members of Congress, and How Much Money They Got From ISPs - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:28] <exec> 08└─I would say they are naive, hence why they don't engage in cash = speech nonsense.
[15:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06All 535 Members of Congress, and How Much Money They Got From ISPs - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:29] <exec> 08└─The Orange Stallion works tirelessly for the American people and THEIR Dream*. *Not to be confused with law-breaking invaders of this great nation which feel entitled to everything because they worked so hard not to work hard for anything.
[15:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06All 535 Members of Congress, and How Much Money They Got From ISPs - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:31] <exec> 08└─Some people tried to hire Bernie Stalin... I mean Sanders to lobby on their behalf. He turned around and gave the money to Clinton,w ho has been bought out long ago by a rainbow coalition of foreign interests (including Russia).
[15:16:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 784 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:00] <exec> 08└─Something like 25% of central Florida ag-land is used for cattle grazing. This is land suitable for citrus, vegetable and all sorts of other production, but since the Lykes Brothers want to use it for cattle, it's used for cattle (along with several other large - for Florida - ranching concerns.) Ha...
[15:16:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:02] <exec> 08└─+ Purchase alcoholic beverages from a liquor store (FDA again AFAIK, but I could be wrong on this one)
[15:16:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:04] <exec> 08└─Remove the hair. I know there is a lot, but trust me you have to.
[15:16:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:06] <exec> 08└─https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2017/10/20/why-are-federal-bureaucrats-buying-guns-and-ammo-158-million-spent-by-non-military-agencies/#661a0e7064a1 [forbes.com] AR-15s, but close enough.
[15:16:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another Former Facebook Exec Speaks Out - 1071 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:45] <exec> 08└─must you refer to SJWs in everything you write? it's like ethonal fueled yelling about jews. it gets old to hear a common source of blame laid out with no bearing on the conversation. completionists, authoratarians, introverts, extroverts. they all exist. and they aren't SJWs because it explains you...
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[16:12:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Leaked Screener of the Season: Unreleased Louis C.K. Film "I Love You, Daddy" - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:33] <exec> 08└─Who is Louis CK? What previous work of his should I have known about?
[16:12:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Leaked Screener of the Season: Unreleased Louis C.K. Film "I Love You, Daddy" - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:35] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_C.K. [wikipedia.org]
[16:12:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Support Net Neutrality Day / FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's Tone-Deaf "Verizon Puppet" Skit - 2371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:51] <exec> 08└─Should the Post Office be an ISP? Delivering information reliably and fairly is, after all, supposed to be the reason they are part of the government. Private entities were not trusted with such a delicate and vital function. AT&T was allowed to monopolize telephony for decades; the Post Office neve...
[16:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06List of 72 Ultra HD Blu-Ray Keys Leaked - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:14] <exec> 08└─Does anybody seriously believe that a secret can be kept secret?
[16:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06List of 72 Ultra HD Blu-Ray Keys Leaked - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:15] <exec> 08└─I used to have these in stock. Many black hole projects have been successfully completed with no remaining evidence present of their existence. Maybe someone can check for and triangulate some Hawking radiation? Maybe this could locate my old projects?
[16:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Director Christopher Wray Keeps War on Encryption Alive - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:33] <exec> 08└─Taxation is theft, pure and simple.
[16:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Director Christopher Wray Keeps War on Encryption Alive - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:35] <exec> 08└─Banks. Credit Card Companies. Payment Processors. These (and other) parties will demand strong encryption. People who don't want their computers / laptops / phones / tablets hacked into will demand strong encryption. Or the vendors will demand this on their customers' behalf. The morons will be forc...
[16:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Director Christopher Wray Keeps War on Encryption Alive - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:37] <exec> 08└─The poster your replied to fell afoul of Poe's Law since his vitriol would have been muted by the addition of smiley faces or sarcasm tags... ... but would one of those services and protection from government be keeping you safe from that nasty, wicked easy-to-use, on-by-default, strong encryption?...
[16:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Director Christopher Wray Keeps War on Encryption Alive - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:39] <exec> 08└─It depends on who is currently in power. At present, yes, your government will keep you safe from: * strong encryption * science * education * starving children at school (if school doesn't provide education, why should it provide food?) * non-white people * non-christian people * an open neutral in...
[16:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Director Christopher Wray Keeps War on Encryption Alive - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:41] <exec> 08└─Man, a choice between protecting from all that versus being protecting from: * personal financial success * practical personal safety * independent thought * "harmful" information * the possibility of harming others' feelings * your own self Ehh... was there a third option we missed somewhere?
[16:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Use Electric Currents to Detect Cancer in Human Tissue - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:50] <exec> 08└─"But first we are going to need to encapsulate you in paraffin wax and slice you into thin slices on this microtome. "
[16:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Secure Apps Exposed to Hacking via Flaws in Underlying Programming Languages - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:08] <exec> 08└─No matter how perfect your code, the actual program here is still the compiler, and if it's broken (and it is!) then nothing you do in your code can change that.
[16:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Secure Apps Exposed to Hacking via Flaws in Underlying Programming Languages - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:09] <exec> 08└─All high level languages are suspect, C isn't some magical exception.
[16:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Secure Apps Exposed to Hacking via Flaws in Underlying Programming Languages - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:12] <exec> 08└─"Which impacts "secure apps" not at all if you trust your developers." I cannot agree. "Trust your developers" and "secure apps" are mutually exclusive. Security is not created by a mind which trusts.
[16:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06All 535 Members of Congress, and How Much Money They Got From ISPs - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:51] <exec> 08└─As the other gentleman pointed out, you can only spend the dollars once. There are a few folks like McCain with large fortunes to call on, there are many more that work hard and make enough money to pay for their needs - once. With Obamacare, we're required to purchase the mandatory coverage with th...
[16:16:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:25] <exec> 08└─Ultimately, to get to a sustainable population level
[16:16:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Another Former Facebook Exec Speaks Out - 111 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:38] <exec> 08└─Facebook does a lot of good for its customers* *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) *advertisers
[16:18:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:37] <exec> 08└─No, they didn't delete it. I suppose somebody got butthurt when I pulled out the term "white knight," lol.
[16:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top-Selling Handgun Safe Can be Remotely Opened in Seconds—No PIN Needed - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:08] <exec> 08└─It's too bad there's no way to prove an electronic lock on the market is built according to your design. Marketing doesn't need proof because customers will buy shit based on misplaced trust in the manufacturer, retailer, and government regulations keeping them safe.
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[17:12:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Breaking: Gas Pipe Explosion in Austria - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:30] <exec> 08└─Breaking: Gas Pipe Explosion in Austria
[17:12:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breaking: Gas Pipe Explosion in Austria - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:32] <exec> 08└─Getting those pipelines passing gas again is important especially in winter time. I hope people hurt in the explosion will recover.
[17:12:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Breaking: Gas Pipe Explosion in Austria - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:34] <exec> 08└─Kidding!
[17:12:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Launches Preview Version of Q# Quantum Programming Language - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:42] <exec> 08└─Q-sharp? Maybe it will be as good as J-sharp. Did they ever release a Python-sharp, or maybe an MSBASIC-sharp?
[17:12:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Leaked Screener of the Season: Unreleased Louis C.K. Film "I Love You, Daddy" - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:53] <exec> 08└─Do they not have google where you live?
[17:12:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Leaked Screener of the Season: Unreleased Louis C.K. Film "I Love You, Daddy" - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:55] <exec> 08└─"Spiceworld - The Director's Cut"
[17:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Support Net Neutrality Day / FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's Tone-Deaf "Verizon Puppet" Skit - 751 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:12] <exec> 08└─There's one thing that bothers me about this whole thing because I don't have an explanation. Of course net neutrality is needed to keep the internet free and open, and to keep innovation alive. But why do the big internet companies support it? Shouldn't Google and Netflix and the others be against...
[17:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Support Net Neutrality Day / FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's Tone-Deaf "Verizon Puppet" Skit - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:14] <exec> 08└─This is getting so ridiculous that I wouldn't be surprised if Pai is a NN "double agent", and specifically doing everything in such a half-cocked braindead irrational and illogical fashion, that the courts will be forced to smack these changes down so hard that no US politician will want to touch th...
[17:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Support Net Neutrality Day / FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's Tone-Deaf "Verizon Puppet" Skit - 1120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:16] <exec> 08└─Republicans are religious for historical reasons having to do with the wild times in the 50s-60s. A lot of it was birth control. Liberals, led by secular academics, wanted to reduce human suffering by reducing unwanted pregnancies. They wanted to free our sexual urges from their biological shackles....
[17:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Support Net Neutrality Day / FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's Tone-Deaf "Verizon Puppet" Skit - 1107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:18] <exec> 08└─I don't want to start a political discussion, and I have no more love for the "Democrats" than the "Republicans," but I want to share some observations about the current political climate in the United States. The president, I believe, is being genuinely "for the people" in many ways, including this...
[17:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bill Dimm [940] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Support Net Neutrality Day / FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's Tone-Deaf "Verizon Puppet" Skit - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:20] <exec> 08└─This video [youtube.com] on net neutrality is pretty interesting (though the presentation style is a little strange and includes some obscenities).
[17:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Support Net Neutrality Day / FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's Tone-Deaf "Verizon Puppet" Skit - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:22] <exec> 08└─Because net neutrality isn't good for ALL big business, and Google, Netflix, etc would very likely be hurt by ISPs "managing" traffic.
[17:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Support Net Neutrality Day / FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's Tone-Deaf "Verizon Puppet" Skit - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:25] <exec> 08└─But why do the big internet companies support it? Shouldn't Google and Netflix and the others be against net neutrality because a closed internet would cement their success by protecting them from disruptors?
[17:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of HP Laptop Models Contain Keylogging Code - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:35] <exec> 08└─From the linked post by Michael Myng: [github.io] TL;DR: HP had a keylogger in the keyboard driver. The keylogger saved scan codes to a WPP trace. The logging was disabled by default but could be enabled by setting a registry value (UAC required)... ...So, I messaged HP about the finding. They repli...
[17:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of HP Laptop Models Contain Keylogging Code - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:38] <exec> 08└─So it's all okay then. Enabling the keylogger requires changing a registry setting with UAC required. I wonder how technically feasible it is for anyone who controls Intel Management Engine to change this registry setting? Of course, with Intel ME, one could probably implement a key logger completel...
[17:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06List of 72 Ultra HD Blu-Ray Keys Leaked - 603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:52] <exec> 08└─Looks like the pirates will always be able to decrypt these disks. So the movies will always be on the Pirate Bay. Meanwhile, the cat and mouse game the MafIAA keeps losing continues to hurt people who buy physical disks and want to load them into a digital library for personal convenience. As long...
[17:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06List of 72 Ultra HD Blu-Ray Keys Leaked - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:54] <exec> 08└─The MPAA holes are simply trying to hone everyone's cryptanalysis skillz by presenting interesting puzzle challenges to maintain everyone's proficiency.
[17:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Director Christopher Wray Keeps War on Encryption Alive - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:16] <exec> 08└─Banks. Credit Card Companies. Payment Processors. These (and other) parties will demand strong encryption. Those institutions and various others will be granted a license, with the appropriate backdoors of course. There is insufficient public resistance. In fact, most people are for the restrictions...
[17:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FBI Director Christopher Wray Keeps War on Encryption Alive - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:18] <exec> 08└─So, tell me: How did he get to the point of being able to start all this? Oh yeah... taxes that co-provided for his upbringing, education, health, etc. etc...
[17:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Secure Apps Exposed to Hacking via Flaws in Underlying Programming Languages - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:47] <exec> 08└─I didn't say blindly trust. I'd expect any code additions to anything but a single-coder project to be reviewed before being merged.
[17:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Secure Apps Exposed to Hacking via Flaws in Underlying Programming Languages - 1182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:48] <exec> 08└─"I didn't say blindly trust." Didn't say you did. You said: "a lot of these bugs would require you have write access to the source of the script to be run to cause any problems. " And that's true enough in a literal sense, of course, but the 'tone' seems a bit dismissive. Oh, it would require write...
[17:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Secure Apps Exposed to Hacking via Flaws in Underlying Programming Languages - 799 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:50] <exec> 08└─I seem to remember a serious PHP vulnerability some months back. A web app processing a URL could be compromised. Because it uses CURL to do the URL processing. And CURL, which was never designed to be used in a web application, has buckets and ooodles of fantastical flexible goodness in complex way...
[17:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Secure Apps Exposed to Hacking via Flaws in Underlying Programming Languages - 1810 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:53] <exec> 08└─C, and probably other languages, like Java, aren't so much the problem. It is their libraries that are the problem. Why did anyone ever think that null terminated strings were a good idea? Why did someone think that library string operations given a string pointer shouldn't also require a max buffer...
[17:15:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06All 535 Members of Congress, and How Much Money They Got From ISPs - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:33] <exec> 08└─That's because policy-wise Hillary Clinton is a Republican from a decade or two ago. It's amazing how the entirety of US politics keeps drifting to the right :/
[17:17:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:08] <exec> 08└─Try again. http://www.southmill.com [southmill.com] (April 2016) Even if you think that's too low an amount, it's a hop, skip and jump in breeding terms from being adequate. The bigger point: B12 isn't the real problem in the sense of some insurmountable challenge. It's a sides...
[17:17:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:10] <exec> 08└─Fungi are not technically plants, so that might account for the discrepancy between what you and the parent AC are arguing about. https://en.m.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[17:17:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 971 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:12] <exec> 08└─Agreed that rural (especially US) area are subsidized on the infrastructure front - roads being the big one, but everything else is also more expensive when you're spread apart, too. However, the stress reduction that comes from not dealing with idiot neighbors close on all sides would be well worth...
[17:17:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:14] <exec> 08└─Time to update your understanding of reality.
[17:19:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:26] <exec> 08└─And the more they work toward Social Justice the less time and energy can be devoted to growth and profit, beyond the obvious destructive side effects of their actions.
[17:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:27] <exec> 08└─You are quite correct in your line of reasoning. The part about you not signing a contract like that would be that you never use Windows, or pretty much any for profit software. As nearly all of them have similar language to cover the software creator's / publisher's backside. Some of it is reasonab...
[17:19:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:29] <exec> 08└─What I expect will happen (which is probably, given the situation the best-case scenario for this guy) is that he will eventually be paid however much money he spent on in-game purchases. This may happen as a result of the bad PR or as a result of an out-of-court settlement after a lawsuit is filed....
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[18:12:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tasmanian Tigers Were in Poor Genetic Health Prior to Extinction - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:26] <exec> 08└─Since they've sequenced the genome of this extinct and famous animal, they should figure out how to revive it, Jurassic Park-style. Even if it has to be kept in zoos, it'd still be interesting to see living examples.
[18:12:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tasmanian Tigers Were in Poor Genetic Health Prior to Extinction - 1158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:27] <exec> 08└─Thylacines weren't hunted to extinction by "humans" in general, they were hunted to extinction specifically by Europeans. Meanwhile, humans had already been living alongside them in Australia for at least 48,000 years, possibly as long as 65,000 years if recent archaeological discoveries are to be b...
[18:12:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tasmanian Tigers Were in Poor Genetic Health Prior to Extinction - 1534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:30] <exec> 08└─https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-017-0417-y The Tasmanian tiger or thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) was the largest carnivorous Australian marsupial to survive into the modern era. Despite last sharing a common ancestor with the eutherian canids ~160 million years ago, their phenotypic re...
[18:12:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breaking: Gas Pipe Explosion in Austria - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:41] <exec> 08└─https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Major_Russian_Gas_Pipelines_to_Europe.svg [wikimedia.org]
[18:12:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Breaking: Gas Pipe Explosion in Austria - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:43] <exec> 08└─Don't you think it would sound better if the article said, "Breaking: Wind Generator Fire in Austria"? (They do occasionally burn too)
[18:12:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Breaking: Gas Pipe Explosion in Austria - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:45] <exec> 08└─Damn! Sure shows why everybody is so desirous of Ukraine...
[18:12:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breaking: Gas Pipe Explosion in Austria - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:47] <exec> 08└─We should send a shipload of Navy beans to Austria?
[18:12:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Breaking: Gas Pipe Explosion in Austria - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:49] <exec> 08└─Yup! The Ukraine is worth every bit of the US$14billion the Cock brothers invested to destabilize it!
[18:12:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breaking: Gas Pipe Explosion in Austria - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:52] <exec> 08└─Doesn't the Austrian Navy have it's own beans? Oh, wait...
[18:12:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Breaking: Gas Pipe Explosion in Austria - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:54] <exec> 08└─Why don't they just get their American friends to bail them out with liquid gas shipments. It's not like the Russians were important to them, the way the US satellites in Europe have been pissing on them in every arena.
[18:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03BananaPhone [2488] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Leaked Screener of the Season: Unreleased Louis C.K. Film "I Love You, Daddy" - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:15] <exec> 08└─I found it uncomfortable to watch. I know it's supposed to be funny but I couldn't see the humour in it. Maybe Roy could help with that once he gets elected today.
[18:13:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03meustrus [4961] 02 - 06Support Net Neutrality Day / FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's Tone-Deaf "Verizon Puppet" Skit - 1120 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:34] <exec> 08└─Republicans are religious for historical reasons having to do with the wild times in the 50s-60s. A lot of it was birth control. Liberals, led by secular academics, wanted to reduce human suffering by reducing unwanted pregnancies. They wanted to free our sexual urges from their biological shackles....
[18:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Support Net Neutrality Day / FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's Tone-Deaf "Verizon Puppet" Skit - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:40] <exec> 08└─No, Pai is a sex trafficker. He's arranging to provide us to be fucked by ISPs.
[18:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Support Net Neutrality Day / FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's Tone-Deaf "Verizon Puppet" Skit - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:42] <exec> 08└─But why do the big internet companies support it? Shouldn't Google and Netflix and the others be against net neutrality because a closed internet would cement their success by protecting them from disruptors?
[18:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hundreds of HP Laptop Models Contain Keylogging Code - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:54] <exec> 08└─... HP bundled some useful software with their laptops.
[18:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of HP Laptop Models Contain Keylogging Code - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:55] <exec> 08└─Can you say, "NSA"? Sure you can! It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood....
[18:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03ewk [5923] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FBI Director Christopher Wray Keeps War on Encryption Alive - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:36] <exec> 08└─Not slavery, just simply being part of the social framework/contract (sorry... still using that word, even if you do not like it) that enabled you to achieve something (I assume nobody put a gun against your head to get an education and so on)... So really, like if you don't like it, just GTFO... Ru...
[18:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Director Christopher Wray Keeps War on Encryption Alive - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:37] <exec> 08└─You apparently don't understand what Democracy is and instead confuse it for complete and total personal freedom. It is truly difficult to understand how a person gets to such a ridiculous point. But then again people believe Jesus resurrected and we celebrate his "rebirth" with rabbit eggs??? lol....
[18:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Director Christopher Wray Keeps War on Encryption Alive - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:39] <exec> 08└─I bet its a combination. There are active conspiracies, the problem is that the word was deliberately tied to craziness. Even saying the word conspiracy makes people look at you funny. Why do you think that is? Many conspiracies don't require entire departments be in on it, just those at the top. Ev...
[18:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Director Christopher Wray Keeps War on Encryption Alive - 829 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:41] <exec> 08└─Incorrect, it isn't a problem with Democracy, it is the age old problem of corruption. No matter what system you have it can be corrupted, the current problem is that the system has become so corrupt that individual action hardly matters. Majority rule would work very nicely if citizens actually had...
[18:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Secure Apps Exposed to Hacking via Flaws in Underlying Programming Languages - 3299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:14] <exec> 08└─"C, and probably other languages, like Java, aren't so much the problem. It is their libraries that are the problem." Oh libraries are a big part of it. But in practice, they might as well be the language, they're how the language is actually used and in most cases they're why it's used. But the lan...
[18:15:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Secure Apps Exposed to Hacking via Flaws in Underlying Programming Languages - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:15] <exec> 08└─...a half-hearted effort is effectively a total failure.
[18:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Secure Apps Exposed to Hacking via Flaws in Underlying Programming Languages - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:17] <exec> 08└─Naw, you gotta write your bugs in such a way that they function properly on dev but not on prod if you want to break SN like we do. Or be martyb.
[18:15:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Secure Apps Exposed to Hacking via Flaws in Underlying Programming Languages - 1118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:19] <exec> 08└─Assuming you can write functional javascript, you can likely write a functional program. Personally, I've been dabbling with Python. It may not be the greatest language in the world, but it's quite fun to work with. I created my own little program to give me a call number cutter given a specific wor...
[18:15:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06All 535 Members of Congress, and How Much Money They Got From ISPs - 243 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:39] <exec> 08└─It's hilarious how easily they divide you. Policy-wise, McCain is virtually indistinguishable from Hillary Clinton. Yet they both seem to be very successful at marketing themselves as candidates to people that detest everything they stand for.
[18:16:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06All 535 Members of Congress, and How Much Money They Got From ISPs - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:01] <exec> 08└─That's a terrible idea, because you end up splitting the insurance pool into two groups: rich and poor. The state-provided healthcare then is then only funded by the poor people and so, because a large subset of those will have no income and therefore no ability to pay towards it, will be underfunde...
[18:16:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06All 535 Members of Congress, and How Much Money They Got From ISPs - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:02] <exec> 08└─No one willingly submits to socialized health care when they can afford something else.
[18:16:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06All 535 Members of Congress, and How Much Money They Got From ISPs - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:04] <exec> 08└─Build a wall around the swamp and make the swamp pay for it.
[18:16:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06All 535 Members of Congress, and How Much Money They Got From ISPs - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:07] <exec> 08└─Let us all just agree that Trump and McCain are both dirtbags. McCain seems to have a streak of honor left in his dark soul, but it is too infrequently called upon. It seems clear McCain is too old with a bit of dementia creeping up, but that isn't a very good excuse. Trump is just garbage, from sta...
[18:16:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06All 535 Members of Congress, and How Much Money They Got From ISPs - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:09] <exec> 08└─I could afford something else if I had the money that was stolen from me under the pretense of providing me health care just over the past few years.
[18:17:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 724 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:08] <exec> 08└─You're pretending an acre is an acre, but surely you realize that's not true? Much of the land used for cattle is used because it's unsuitable for most other crops. You can't just turn 1,000 acres of grazing land into wheat or broccoli or whatever, typically. And where you see cattle kept on land th...
[18:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03infodragon [3509] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 1411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:48] <exec> 08└─You are giving to the wrong church if that is the case! The church I go to/give to/volunteer time to is in an old building, we don't have a paved parking lot (we've been saving donations for that specific project for years.) We put on big meals as often as we can to help out the homeless and working...
[18:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:49] <exec> 08└─I'd go with another option: grow my own.
[18:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 681 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:51] <exec> 08└─Assuming XYZ person / company owns the land, and it's not zoned for XYZ thing. Leave them alone. Complaining that a company / person that raises cattle on land that could be used for something else is the definition of busybody. I could use my land to raise goats (not enough room for cattle), or pla...
[18:18:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02 - 06Another Former Facebook Exec Speaks Out - 1239 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:19] <exec> 08└─Almost totally agree. "Street smarts" are a real thing, and intellectuals aren't best known for them. But I think all kinds of smarts are orthogonal to the attraction that Facebook holds. For me, there was none, I have no account, and no desire for an account, and the reasons for that are simply tha...
[18:18:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Former Facebook Exec Speaks Out - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:32] <exec> 08└─You know, every Fiber cable I've heard of has been laid in a PVC Pipe.
[18:20:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:09] <exec> 08└─It was probably King David, but it's not specifically attributed to someone. Though, it's very likely whomever wrote it had at one time said "all men are liars" or at least felt that. The sentiment I get from it is that he spoke "hastily" which means "Done or made without due consideration or attent...
[18:20:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:11] <exec> 08└─The part about you not signing a contract like that would be that you never use Windows, or pretty much any for profit software. As nearly all of them have similar language to cover the software creator's / publisher's backside. Some of it is reasonable some of it isn't, but we've grown accustomed t...
[18:20:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Discover "Excitonium" - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:39] <exec> 08└─As a layman, and on behalf of all laymen, thank you! That was actually a solid reason why "+6 Really Informative" mod should exist.
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[19:12:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Executive Details Self-Driving Car Research - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:25] <exec> 08└─That's why nothing works. But hey, at least it's more expensive than the next car.
[19:12:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Executive Details Self-Driving Car Research - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:26] <exec> 08└─I got the impression that they don't plan to release an Apple car, but will instead sell a hardware/entertainment package to automakers that adds autonomous capabilities. 2021 Ford® Fusion with Apple® Inside, etc.
[19:12:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Executive Details Self-Driving Car Research - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:28] <exec> 08└─No design patent opportunity, all cars already have rounded corners.
[19:12:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tasmanian Tigers Were in Poor Genetic Health Prior to Extinction - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:39] <exec> 08└─Why would you revive something which was a genetic dead-end? This would be like some sort of a sick genetic-socialism.
[19:12:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breaking: Gas Pipe Explosion in Austria - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:58] <exec> 08└─The Italians would really like a time machine to go back and prevent the fall of the friendly stable dictator of Lybia, who was providing energy and preventing migrations. He even gave up nukes and bought weapons. What a nice guy!
[19:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Breaking: Gas Pipe Explosion in Austria - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:59] <exec> 08└─I'm no Koch fan but it seems like being annexed and occupied by Russia is a bit higher on the grievances list...
[19:13:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breaking: Gas Pipe Explosion in Austria - 787 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:02] <exec> 08└─People really need to look at things from more than one angle. Those portions of the Ukraine "annexed" by Russia were predominantly Russian people. If you remember, the Ukraine government were acting like royal asses toward Russian people in eastern Ukraine, going so far as to dictate that they coul...
[19:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Breaking: Gas Pipe Explosion in Austria - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:04] <exec> 08└─People really need to look at things from more than one angle. Those portions of the Ukraine "annexed" by Russia were predominantly Russian people.
[19:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Leaked Screener of the Season: Unreleased Louis C.K. Film "I Love You, Daddy" - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:25] <exec> 08└─don't accuse him of things that he didn't actually do.
[19:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Leaked Screener of the Season: Unreleased Louis C.K. Film "I Love You, Daddy" - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:27] <exec> 08└─Sorry - meant director seducing a teen (not actor, though the director is played by John Malkovich)..
[19:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Leaked Screener of the Season: Unreleased Louis C.K. Film "I Love You, Daddy" - 1073 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:29] <exec> 08└─I see the shit for brains fucktards at Hive-CM8 still haven't figured out how to do a proper release. No inverse-telecine, avi container, ancient version of XviD. Shit release from a shit release group. At least they put their name on their garbage so everyone knows to stay the hell away from it if...
[19:13:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03WizardFusion [498] 02 - 06Support Net Neutrality Day / FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's Tone-Deaf "Verizon Puppet" Skit - 54 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:37] <exec> 08└─...could radically reshape the way the internet works.
[19:13:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03requerdanos [5997] 02 - 06Support Net Neutrality Day / FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's Tone-Deaf "Verizon Puppet" Skit - 1107 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:49] <exec> 08└─I don't want to start a political discussion, and I have no more love for the "Democrats" than the "Republicans," but I want to share some observations about the current political climate in the United States. The president, I believe, is being genuinely "for the people" in many ways, including this...
[19:13:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheRaven [270] 02 - 06Support Net Neutrality Day / FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's Tone-Deaf "Verizon Puppet" Skit - 208 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:54] <exec> 08└─But why do the big internet companies support it? Shouldn't Google and Netflix and the others be against net neutrality because a closed internet would cement their success by protecting them from disruptors?
[19:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Support Net Neutrality Day / FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's Tone-Deaf "Verizon Puppet" Skit - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:56] <exec> 08└─And yet, Jesus said to give unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and unto God that which is God's. It was an eloquent response to a question meant to entrap Him. In essence, He supported being a good citizen. So long as that didn't involve going against God's will. So, a Christian in the South, being...
[19:13:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Support Net Neutrality Day / FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's Tone-Deaf "Verizon Puppet" Skit - 1540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:59] <exec> 08└─Actually, saying to give unto Caesar that which is Caesar's was still a revolutionary answer. Part of the context is the money changers in the temple. Jesus effectively said that your Roman currency was no good to God, asserting that a good Jew must be primarily invested in the local Jewish economy...
[19:14:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03meustrus [4961] 02 - 06Hundreds of HP Laptop Models Contain Keylogging Code - 443 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:10] <exec> 08└─From the linked post by Michael Myng: [github.io] TL;DR: HP had a keylogger in the keyboard driver. The keylogger saved scan codes to a WPP trace. The logging was disabled by default but could be enabled by setting a registry value (UAC required)... ...So, I messaged HP about the finding. They repli...
[19:14:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06List of 72 Ultra HD Blu-Ray Keys Leaked - 64 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:25] <exec> 08└─Does anybody seriously believe that a secret can be kept secret?
[19:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06List of 72 Ultra HD Blu-Ray Keys Leaked - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:30] <exec> 08└─Bah. I'm more traditional, I'm using discrete fast monodes, get to write rates in the Gbps with a hand tied behind my back.
[19:14:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Scrutinizer [6534] 02 - 06FBI Director Christopher Wray Keeps War on Encryption Alive - 1493 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:38] <exec> 08└─With the FBI et al making so much noise over the "problem" of easy-to-use, on-by-default, strong encryption, this suggests that people who value the ability to keep their data and communications private should earnestly pursue and encourage development of more of this easy-to-use, on-by-default, str...
[19:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FBI Director Christopher Wray Keeps War on Encryption Alive - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:59] <exec> 08└─You apparently don't understand what Democracy is and instead confuse it for complete and total personal freedom.
[19:15:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FBI Director Christopher Wray Keeps War on Encryption Alive - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:00] <exec> 08└─So really, like if you don't like it, just GTFO... Rumour has it Somalia still has plenty of room and possibilities.
[19:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Director Christopher Wray Keeps War on Encryption Alive - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:02] <exec> 08└─The corruption is in the voters who reelect corrupt politicians because they, too, want a piece of the action (bring home the bacon). The voters can choose not to do that if they want. Don't try to externalize personal problems. Besides you won't get any of those so-called "reforms" anyway until the...
[19:16:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06All 535 Members of Congress, and How Much Money They Got From ISPs - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:25] <exec> 08└─Nope, what should be available to you is separate insurance that only covers you when out of the country. Pretty sure you can get that, but I'm the price is probably rather high since traveling is a higher risk.
[19:16:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06All 535 Members of Congress, and How Much Money They Got From ISPs - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:27] <exec> 08└─The ACA is a pile of garbage only slightly better than the previous setup. As has been stated many times, if you believe all taxation is theft then you're not fit for society. Sadly we don't have a re-education camp to send you to /s
[19:16:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06All 535 Members of Congress, and How Much Money They Got From ISPs - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:29] <exec> 08└─Every single Democrat voted against this bill. And your only rebuttal is "what if we lived in an alternate universe where they didn't?"
[19:17:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 440 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:03] <exec> 08└─> Are they going to give tax breaks to the poor for staving off diseases of malnutrition? This is the US. The poor die because they are lazy people who make bad choices. Cut my taxes, and I may give some money to my church, so after its brand new high-tech building is done, what's left may help feed...
[19:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:11] <exec> 08└─I thought the problem was that legislators from the Democrat party consider a flat tax "regressive", and prefer the current system of tax percentage increasing with income? As I understand it, the reasoning goes that poor people are already spending the largest fraction of their income (compared to...
[19:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Former Facebook Exec Speaks Out - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:54] <exec> 08└─So you're immune, please pat yourself in your back for me. The people who think they're immune are the least immune.
[19:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Former Facebook Exec Speaks Out - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:56] <exec> 08└─I think the Puerto Rico demo might have gone better if he had interviewed someone live on the ground. Instead they went the easy route and played some prerecorded 360-degree video, not very exciting either.
[19:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Former Facebook Exec Speaks Out - 697 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:58] <exec> 08└─And you know all this how? Tell me: If I don't buy liquor, can I drink liquor? If I am HONEST with myself, and I occupy myself when I start wanting a drink (which I wanted (again) today) instead of driving to the liquor store, HOW CAN I DRINK? Tell me how? How do you drink booze when you have no boo...
[19:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Former Facebook Exec Speaks Out - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:00] <exec> 08└─I didn't see Facebook as cult-like: to me it was just stupid. Gaaark would never do something as stupid as posting things on a website in the hope of earning internet points.
[19:20:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 1220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:38] <exec> 08└─Not exactly. I'm saying seeking to maximize shareholder value should be the prime mission of Hasbro, as a joint stock corporation. Pure neutral profit maximization is the least destructive goal for a corporation. Personally I think their government charters should be reopened for debate and severely...
[19:20:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 961 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:39] <exec> 08└─I think those are good ideas. However, it seems unlikely that (at least in the current environment) that sellers of such items will voluntarily liberalize their contract terms absent a legal requirement that they do so. I imagine that much of this would hinge on legal precedent regarding digital it...
[19:21:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Discover "Excitonium" - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:09] <exec> 08└─> and/or improbably large lycra-clad boobs Where can one obtain some, for experimental purposes?
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[20:12:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Executive Details Self-Driving Car Research - 1218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:25] <exec> 08└─Signs you have just bought an Apple autonomous car: 8. windshield covers half of the car's body 7. the exhausts are 1 mm thick. 6. there is only one door, if you need more you can buy an adapter. 5. you can fill'er up while driving with a wonderfully secure magnetic connection, ofc it's incompatible...
[20:12:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Executive Details Self-Driving Car Research - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:26] <exec> 08└─David Letterbot
[20:12:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tasmanian Tigers Were in Poor Genetic Health Prior to Extinction - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:38] <exec> 08└─Genetically robust species can make a comeback. Ones that lack that (like cheetahs) struggle. You could say that Thylacines were already ripe for extinction.
[20:12:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tasmanian Tigers Were in Poor Genetic Health Prior to Extinction - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:39] <exec> 08└─I wonder... how did they infer poor genetic diversity by scanning the genome of one specimen.
[20:12:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Tasmanian Tigers Were in Poor Genetic Health Prior to Extinction - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:41] <exec> 08└─The paper is entirely open access this time. Be the change you want to see in the world and RTFA lul.
[20:12:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Tasmanian Tigers Were in Poor Genetic Health Prior to Extinction - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:43] <exec> 08└─I can't. Sleepless night.
[20:12:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tasmanian Tigers Were in Poor Genetic Health Prior to Extinction - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:46] <exec> 08└─The arrival of humans in Australia seemed to have had a huge impact on the megafauna. As usual Wikipedia has a good article [wikipedia.org] The Marsupial lion [wikipedia.org] seems to have died out about 46,000 years ago, and I don't imagine anyone wanted a 130 kg ambush predator living near the c...
[20:12:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tasmanian Tigers Were in Poor Genetic Health Prior to Extinction - 1199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:48] <exec> 08└─Not quite. The "robustness" that's in question is diversity. The mere fact that a species has been driven close enough to extinction that it has to make a comeback, will likely deprive it of much of that diversity going forward. Given enough time to prosper, mutation will eventually reintroduce dive...
[20:12:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tasmanian Tigers Were in Poor Genetic Health Prior to Extinction - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:50] <exec> 08└─Indeed, I referred to that article when looking for info. From what I can tell there was lots of megafauna, but very few megafauna *predators* prior to human's arrival, at least on land. The marsupial lion that you mention (which I somehow overlooked as being a thylacine), the giant monitor lizard M...
[20:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breaking: Gas Pipe Explosion in Austria - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:13] <exec> 08└─No, they eat Edelweisszszes.
[20:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Breaking: Gas Pipe Explosion in Austria - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:15] <exec> 08└─Doesn't the Austrian Navy have it's own beans?
[20:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breaking: Gas Pipe Explosion in Austria - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:17] <exec> 08└─The Italians would really like a time machine to go back and prevent the fall of the friendly stable dictator of Lybia, who was providing energy and preventing migrations. He even gave up nukes and bought weapons. What a nice guy!
[20:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Breaking: Gas Pipe Explosion in Austria - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:19] <exec> 08└─Whatever you're buying, if you don't have another option - you're Doing It Wrong.
[20:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Launches Preview Version of Q# Quantum Programming Language - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:28] <exec> 08└─The then-unnamed language was intended to bring traditional programming concepts—functions, variables, and branches, along with a syntax-highlighted development environment complete with quantum debugger
[20:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Launches Preview Version of Q# Quantum Programming Language - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:31] <exec> 08└─The quantum debugger means that you don't find out if your code has any bugs until you start looking for them.
[20:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Leaked Screener of the Season: Unreleased Louis C.K. Film "I Love You, Daddy" - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:49] <exec> 08└─They do, but I would have felt cheated when it turned out that he's just some no-name two bit person on the periphery of Hollywood.
[20:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Support Net Neutrality Day / FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's Tone-Deaf "Verizon Puppet" Skit - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:18] <exec> 08└─You don't think the countries in the EU are "the modern world?" WizardFusion's definition of "the modern world" seems perfectly normal to me. Perhaps you should turn off Faux News before it rots what little of your brain is left.
[20:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Support Net Neutrality Day / FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's Tone-Deaf "Verizon Puppet" Skit - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:19] <exec> 08└─I think TMB has managed to effectively turn his brain into wetware, it now operates on strict function calls and static globals: GLOBAL Taxes = 'theft', etc.
[20:14:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06List of 72 Ultra HD Blu-Ray Keys Leaked - 152 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:49] <exec> 08└─The MPAA holes are simply trying to hone everyone's cryptanalysis skillz by presenting interesting puzzle challenges to maintain everyone's proficiency.
[20:15:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Director Christopher Wray Keeps War on Encryption Alive - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:22] <exec> 08└─Is it just Pournelle's Iron Law, i.e., a powerful bureaucracy wanting to preserve and expand its power, at the expense of its actual mission? It is the 1% living in their own bubble, having no idea that the rest of us view them with all the tenderness we reserve for leprosy and the Black Death? Or i...
[20:15:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Director Christopher Wray Keeps War on Encryption Alive - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:23] <exec> 08└─I for one would like to ban all types of political advertising. Have a government hosted website where citizens can register their intent to run for office, and allow a single campaign website. All info in one convenient place, fair and balanced. No campaign contributions, no glory. Just service to...
[20:15:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Director Christopher Wray Keeps War on Encryption Alive - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:25] <exec> 08└─No one is cleansing anyone, what is wrong with you?? Racists and bigots are now shunned quite heavily, the majority of people now realize that such prejudice is DUMB! Please, elaborate on the cleansing for "ungoodthink", I'm curious as to what stories I've missed that could possibly be so construed.
[20:15:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Director Christopher Wray Keeps War on Encryption Alive - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:28] <exec> 08└─If getting caught using disallowed strong encryption is better than getting nailed for the information you are protecting (such as evidence of tax evasion, murder, sexcapades, etc.) then strong encryption will live on.
[20:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Director Christopher Wray Keeps War on Encryption Alive - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:30] <exec> 08└─Representative tyranny is not going to stop the use of strong encryption. #Resist
[20:16:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Secure Apps Exposed to Hacking via Flaws in Underlying Programming Languages - 3168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:07] <exec> 08└─"And yet, that's the best you can do if you ever want to ship anything." Yes, exactly, that is the commercial reality which has lead inexorably to our current swampland of widely distributed and fundamentally insecurable systems. The question is, how to get from here to anywhere else? "A full on eff...
[20:16:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Secure Apps Exposed to Hacking via Flaws in Underlying Programming Languages - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:09] <exec> 08└─> No matter how perfect your script, the actual program here is still the interpreter No matter how perfect your interpreter, the actual program here is still the microcode running in the CPU, firmware in the bus controllers, etc. Also, >nothing you do in your script can change that. Wrong. From TFA...
[20:16:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Secure Apps Exposed to Hacking via Flaws in Underlying Programming Languages - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:11] <exec> 08└─Sooo did anyone else read the paper? One of the "remote exploitable" vuln categories is "don't use a hardcoded name in a .php that is called from another .php, when serving to the web, because calling the first directly with a parameter in the URL lets users specify arguments." It's like, really? Th...
[20:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:07] <exec> 08└─Not exactly. I'm saying seeking to maximize shareholder value should be the prime mission of Hasbro, as a joint stock corporation. Pure neutral profit maximization is the least destructive goal for a corporation.
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[21:12:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lyft Courts Drivers With Discount Education Program - 768 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:23] <exec> 08└─Pole dancing is a legitimate job. Though, very much not from a conservative stand point and very much a hot topic. I don't support the idea that people should be frequenting such an establishment. I do support the idea that people should be free to make their own choice. It would also be a net posit...
[21:12:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lyft Courts Drivers With Discount Education Program - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:24] <exec> 08└─"It is important that drivers feel loyalty to Lyft," Cohen says.
[21:12:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lyft Courts Drivers With Discount Education Program - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:26] <exec> 08└─> Your post is rather sexist It might have been a comment on the (former) Uber executives and company culture.
[21:12:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Executive Details Self-Driving Car Research - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:38] <exec> 08└─I didn't RTFA, but knowing Apples I make the following predictions: The iCar only works on special iRoads. You must get subscription to iRoads in order to charge your iCar. Youc an only use special iCessories with your iCar and only genuine parts (iTires etc).
[21:12:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tasmanian Tigers Were in Poor Genetic Health Prior to Extinction - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:56] <exec> 08└─Have you ever seen a Pug ?
[21:12:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tasmanian Tigers Were in Poor Genetic Health Prior to Extinction - 831 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:58] <exec> 08└─Awful EE analogy coming in... genetic code is noisier than the typical executable linux elf files we're used to and analysis of the degraded signals and noise in the code indicates if the code went thru weird filters in the past in addition to the usual white noise that accumulates over time. Made p...
[21:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breaking: Gas Pipe Explosion in Austria - 606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:25] <exec> 08└─Uh-huh. We're back to the arguments against invading Iraq. Saddam Hussein provided a kind of stability, no matter how rotten a bastard he may have been. Saddam's greatest sin was, he misjudged the reactions of the US and it's allies. Ditto Colonel Quadaffy, in his turn. Fact is that some asshole is...
[21:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Leaked Screener of the Season: Unreleased Louis C.K. Film "I Love You, Daddy" - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:54] <exec> 08└─I hope AV1 beats H.265 on quality and filesize. Even though hardware acceleration for it won't be on devices until mid-2019 maybe.
[21:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Support Net Neutrality Day / FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's Tone-Deaf "Verizon Puppet" Skit - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:24] <exec> 08└─You're not cynical enough. What we have here is the ruling class of vampires and Pai, their Renfield in the field of telecommunications, feeling like it's safe to stop even pretending to be on the side of people any longer. This is a giant Neronian "fuck you."
[21:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Support Net Neutrality Day / FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's Tone-Deaf "Verizon Puppet" Skit - 3589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:26] <exec> 08└─There's another side here as well. I'm very liberal, at least I always have been. But lately in my life I've been trying to start a business as a man who hasn't come from very much. And my god it is a nightmare. I used to always think republicans talking about regulations deterring entrepreneurship...
[21:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06List of 72 Ultra HD Blu-Ray Keys Leaked - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:58] <exec> 08└─> A user who posted the leaked keys on MyCe has already removed them due to possible copyright problems Can you actually copyright a set of huge prime numbers? Do I need to check some kind of central US-approved registry every time I generate, duplicate, or reuse a key ? Even Intel could trademark n...
[21:15:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Director Christopher Wray Keeps War on Encryption Alive - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:35] <exec> 08└─He's angry because calling people Nazis when they wear Nazi regalia and call for blacks and Jews to be killed is allowed. Hallow is fucking nuts; just read his post history.
[21:15:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Director Christopher Wray Keeps War on Encryption Alive - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:37] <exec> 08└─Hanlon's Razor has long since lost its edge in cases like this. When stupidity leads to national problems, it's malice.
[21:15:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FBI Director Christopher Wray Keeps War on Encryption Alive - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:39] <exec> 08└─No one is cleansing anyone, what is wrong with you??
[21:15:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Director Christopher Wray Keeps War on Encryption Alive - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:41] <exec> 08└─Sooooo having a negative opinion about someone else is "cleansing"? Trigger harder little snowflake.
[21:15:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Director Christopher Wray Keeps War on Encryption Alive - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:43] <exec> 08└─Hanlon's Razor has long since lost its edge in cases like this. When stupidity leads to national problems, it's malice.
[21:15:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FBI Director Christopher Wray Keeps War on Encryption Alive - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:45] <exec> 08└─Hallow is fucking nuts; just read his post history.
[21:15:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Director Christopher Wray Keeps War on Encryption Alive - 743 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:48] <exec> 08└─Civil disobedience has a place anywhere it is called for. Unjust laws should be pushed back. The price of such disobedience is always some form of punishment, and it is up to the rest of society to either agree that your punishment is justified or not. None of this has a bearing on Democracy. Go ahe...
[21:15:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FBI Director Christopher Wray Keeps War on Encryption Alive - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:50] <exec> 08└─Sooooo having a negative opinion about someone else is "cleansing"?
[21:15:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Director Christopher Wray Keeps War on Encryption Alive - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:52] <exec> 08└─Why do you think "if you don't like it, just GTFO" merely means having a negative opinion? It's passive-aggressive for "We don't want your kind here, get out." We already have groups that have gone beyond that sentiment to actually advocating for other groups to leave. For example, I have a whiny AC...
[21:17:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06All 535 Members of Congress, and How Much Money They Got From ISPs - 933 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:22] <exec> 08└─If you want to believe that your Dems are all saints go ahead because you are only screwing yourself. Senate Democrats held the majority in 2012 for the 2012 NDAA Senate Democrats held the majority in 2002 when we voted to go to war in Iraq And on and on This "us vs them" of Dems vs Reps is a smokes...
[21:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:07] <exec> 08└─The point that the researcher in my link was making is that production of B12 by a CO2-breathing non-animal would be an investment in resources with zero return for the organism. ...and any B12 found in|on a non-animal is contamination (from an animal source). From the AC responder's link: The major...
[21:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 1184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:08] <exec> 08└─Speaking of history, we have some recent history [soylentnews.org]. At first, I was grumpy, why did Joe forget that we talked about overpopulation and the recent (since 1950) decline in fertility and birth rate globally? Well, it was because that part was hidden inside an EPIC thread [soylentnews.or...
[21:19:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:10] <exec> 08└─I thought the problem was that legislators from the Democrat party consider a flat tax "regressive", and prefer the current system of tax percentage increasing with income?
[21:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 1736 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:12] <exec> 08└─So, while the best curve-fit for population growth since 1950 might not be exponential, I'd call an increase of 3x in 70 years to still be worringly fast - and I'll note that all these graphs that show an inflection point turning over to decreasing growth rate have always shown such a point in the f...
[21:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:15] <exec> 08└─Thank you for also taking the time to restate your opinions, khallow.
[21:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:17] <exec> 08└─Lur: Whoa. Must be something in that hippie I ate.
[21:19:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:19] <exec> 08└─All science related to AGW is so politically charged that it is more akin to religious faiths. Both sides of the debate conveniently leave out data which doesn't support their thesis, and when one side doesn't they end up looking like John Scopes defending evolution against William Jennings Bryan. F...
[21:19:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:21] <exec> 08└─Not complaining, quite the opposite, but pointing out that not all cattle are ranched on land that isn't suited for other things - quite the opposite.
[21:19:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03https [5248] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:24] <exec> 08└─It's OK if you don't want to be a citizen, you do you better than anyone. But you really should be honest with yourself (and others) about it. You are mistaking government for business. This is the fundamental error made by neoliberals, neocons, and fascists. While both normally deal with money and...
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[22:12:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:31] <exec> 08└─NASA's main mission isn't space exploration, it's making Muslims feel good! Trump is just so wrong about everything. http://www.foxnews.com [foxnews.com]
[22:12:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:32] <exec> 08└─*facepalm*
[22:12:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:35] <exec> 08└─The policy calls for the NASA administrator to "lead an innovative and sustainable program of exploration with commercial and international partners to enable human expansion across the solar system and to bring back to Earth new knowledge and opportunities." The effort will more effectively organiz...
[22:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:37] <exec> 08└─We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things not because they are easy, but because they are hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to post...
[22:12:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain_nifty [4252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:39] <exec> 08└─If congress isn't messing with their funding by earmarking it for their constituents, we have a new executive every 4-8 years giving them new long term plans. You can't have effective long term planning, when the plans constantly change in the relative short term.
[22:12:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:41] <exec> 08└─The directive should call for putting a Congressman on the Moon by 2018 elections, and all Congressmen by 2020.
[22:12:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:44] <exec> 08└─While that is true, the space race was initiated by a president that was only active for 2 years after the pledge. What really motivated the Space Race wasn't Congress or a consistent President. It was the fact that America as a whole was pitted against Russia/USSR as a whole during the entirety of...
[22:12:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lyft Courts Drivers With Discount Education Program - 978 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:54] <exec> 08└─In many cases loyalty may be more valuable than ability. You can find plenty of skilled and talented people out there, but people willing to take the fall, keep their mouths shut, or otherwise support you 100% typically must be cultivated over a long period of time. The promise of rewards can make p...
[22:12:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lyft Courts Drivers With Discount Education Program - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:55] <exec> 08└─You are the greatest treaure of all! -- Flintheart Glomgold also by Flintheart Glomgold -- Treasure is the greatest treasure of all! (In response to a confused employee who thought he was the greatest treasure of all.) Admittedly, Lyft does seem to be much more on the side of a good company, if not...
[22:12:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lyft Courts Drivers With Discount Education Program - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:58] <exec> 08└─Uber has proven itself to be a sexist and hostile environment to women, the comment was funny and appropo. And please we don't need a 'miss manners' lecture from someone who has no idea what they are talking about. Pole dancing is a legitimate job... I don't support the idea that people should be fr...
[22:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lyft Courts Drivers With Discount Education Program - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:00] <exec> 08└─> Uber and Lyft are likely to throw their drivers under the driverless bus. That would explain why Uber has its own autonomous car effort. You can't rely on the big automakers, or waymo, to properly code the extra reverse-over maneuver, nor to queue in the car wash trip.
[22:13:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lyft Courts Drivers With Discount Education Program - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:02] <exec> 08└─It would be nefarious, but they could make the software pretend the trunk isn't locked properly. And when they detect the driver fiddling with it, backup over them.
[22:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Executive Details Self-Driving Car Research - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:15] <exec> 08└─The standard version costs $45,999. The version with 30% more battery capacity costs $95,999.
[22:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Executive Details Self-Driving Car Research - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:16] <exec> 08└─Does the upgrade add a second door? Probably not...
[22:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tasmanian Tigers Were in Poor Genetic Health Prior to Extinction - 1013 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:37] <exec> 08└─Why not? Besides, the "dead-endedness" can be fixed by some more genetic engineering or cross breeding. If you could bring back this and maybe a few other extinct animals, and keep them in zoos in habitats closely resembling those they used to live in, just imagine how many people would pay for a ti...
[22:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tasmanian Tigers Were in Poor Genetic Health Prior to Extinction - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:38] <exec> 08└─Genetically speaking, humans are also extremely non-diverse. By all rights, we should be going extinct. Unfortunately, we don't have any real predators.
[22:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tasmanian Tigers Were in Poor Genetic Health Prior to Extinction - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:40] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, we don't have any real predators.
[22:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tasmanian Tigers Were in Poor Genetic Health Prior to Extinction - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:43] <exec> 08└─I get that lead researcher Dr Andrew Pask, from the University of Melbourne, a totally smart guy who is better at this than I ever will be, says that the population was in bad shape anyway: "The population today would be very susceptible to diseases, and would not be very healthy."
[22:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tasmanian Tigers Were in Poor Genetic Health Prior to Extinction - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:45] <exec> 08└─Forgot to add this to the article: Huge Population and Lack of Genetic Diversity Killed Off the Passenger Pigeon [soylentnews.org] Plenty of things get hunted or killed off by humans, sure. Lack of genetic diversity could be a factor that pushes populations over the edge and into extinction.
[22:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tasmanian Tigers Were in Poor Genetic Health Prior to Extinction - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:47] <exec> 08└─The Demon Duck of Doom [wikipedia.org] was what I was really looking for, but it lived about 15 million years ago, so did not predate humans, which is nice. A 2.5 metre tall, 250 kg bird with a head bigger than a horse would not make a great neighbour, except the article says it is now thought to h...
[22:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breaking: Gas Pipe Explosion in Austria - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:15] <exec> 08└─Goes back along way.. 1928! https://digital.library.unt.edu [unt.edu]
[22:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Leaked Screener of the Season: Unreleased Louis C.K. Film "I Love You, Daddy" - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:44] <exec> 08└─The casting couch is now out in the open
[22:14:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stretch611 [6199] 02 - 06Support Net Neutrality Day / FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's Tone-Deaf "Verizon Puppet" Skit - 105 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:55] <exec> 08└─It's only in the US where your system is so fucked, you might as well nuke it from orbit and start again.
[22:15:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Support Net Neutrality Day / FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's Tone-Deaf "Verizon Puppet" Skit - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:17] <exec> 08└─Something tells me you've never been to Europe. Because Europeans live with more modern conveniences than most US citizens.
[22:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Support Net Neutrality Day / FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's Tone-Deaf "Verizon Puppet" Skit - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:19] <exec> 08└─No, that's not what you need to destroy. Zombies can only be destroyed by attacking the head, and the head of that beast isn't in Washington DC, it's in the Hamptons and southern Connecticut.
[22:15:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Support Net Neutrality Day / FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's Tone-Deaf "Verizon Puppet" Skit - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:21] <exec> 08└─Pai was until recently employed by Comcast to try to convince the FCC that net neutrality should go away. So if he's a "double agent", his real employers are morons. As for the legality of those changes, net neutrality exists only in FCC regulation, so the courts can't say "no you can't do this". Co...
[22:15:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06List of 72 Ultra HD Blu-Ray Keys Leaked - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:53] <exec> 08└─Is it the embodiment of a "creative spark"? Or was it generated with no possibility of human crafting, a mere artifact of natural processes? :)
[22:16:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06FBI Director Christopher Wray Keeps War on Encryption Alive - 456 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:14] <exec> 08└─It depends on who is currently in power. At present, yes, your government will keep you safe from: * strong encryption * science * education * starving children at school (if school doesn't provide education, why should it provide food?) * non-white people * non-christian people * an open neutral in...
[22:16:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03ewk [5923] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FBI Director Christopher Wray Keeps War on Encryption Alive - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:40] <exec> 08└─Dude, believe me... I am most definitely NOT one of those in power. Trust me, if I were in power things would be soooo much different :-) But lately I am getting just a wheee bit irritated about seemingly over-privileged whiners that take the investment society made in them for granted and assume th...
[22:16:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Director Christopher Wray Keeps War on Encryption Alive - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:41] <exec> 08└─You do realize that someone saying "deport whiteys" is an attempt at getting you to realize what "deport mexicans" sounds like? For all the vitriol that comes from conservative groups it is shocking how thin your skins are. Would your feelz be better if we changed it to "If you don't like it GTFO or...
[22:16:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FBI Director Christopher Wray Keeps War on Encryption Alive - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:43] <exec> 08└─Civil disobedience has a place anywhere it is called for. Unjust laws should be pushed back. The price of such disobedience is always some form of punishment, and it is up to the rest of society to either agree that your punishment is justified or not. None of this has a bearing on Democracy. Go ahe...
[22:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Secure Apps Exposed to Hacking via Flaws in Underlying Programming Languages - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:24] <exec> 08└─They aren't really huge exploits and most of this is overhyped. For example, one of the Python vulnerabilities requires changing the environment the program is in so that the PAGER variable points somewhere else. Hate to break it to you, but if you can change the pager, you can do a lot more than ho...
[22:17:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Secure Apps Exposed to Hacking via Flaws in Underlying Programming Languages - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:26] <exec> 08└─Well, that's a bit of a permission-upgrade possibility, one must grant.
[22:18:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06All 535 Members of Congress, and How Much Money They Got From ISPs - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:17] <exec> 08└─They aren't the same, but they are both corrupt as hell. The GOP is the Devil, DNC by comparison is Phil ruler of heck.
[22:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06All 535 Members of Congress, and How Much Money They Got From ISPs - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:18] <exec> 08└─Which makes this a bit interesting. The companies that benefit from network neutrality are a lot bigger than the ISPs, combined. Why aren't they able to outbid them? Are they too ethical to engage in bribery? Doesn't seem likely. Are they just naive?
[22:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06All 535 Members of Congress, and How Much Money They Got From ISPs - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:20] <exec> 08└─That's because policy-wise Hillary Clinton is a Republican from a decade or two ago. It's amazing how the entirety of US politics keeps drifting to the right :/
[22:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06All 535 Members of Congress, and How Much Money They Got From ISPs - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:23] <exec> 08└─Is he campaigning for a law to prevent people who use socialized health-care from purchasing health-care services? Provision of socialized health care does not prevent people with the means to do so from either (a) buying health-care directly or (b) buying additional health-insurance. If he doesn't...
[22:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bacteria Development Marks New Era in Cellular Design - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:33] <exec> 08└─So the bacteria prefer a different type of smartphone than the humans? Is that what will usher in a new age of Cellular design? I just hope they don't prefer flip-phones.
[22:20:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:17] <exec> 08└─So, while the best curve-fit for population growth since 1950 might not be exponential, I'd call an increase of 3x in 70 years to still be worringly fast - and I'll note that all these graphs that show an inflection point turning over to decreasing growth rate
[22:20:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 873 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:18] <exec> 08└─Your royal we amuses us. The empowered women argument sounds nice... travel a bit in Latin America, Asia, and even the UK and tell me just how empowered the women are there? Better than 1800, sure, but "in control" of their reproductive destiny? Hell, half of the US wants to ban abortion clinics, an...
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[23:12:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:39] <exec> 08└─Go on, read the whole speach, you can find it online. External enemies, in war, in a space race, whatever, always serve to distract from internal trouble. It was true then, it's been true since, and it's true today, with this announcement. Kennedy's moon speech was a carefully crafted work of propag...
[23:12:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 3175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:41] <exec> 08└─A lot of NASA's cheaper unmanned missions have proceeded as planned (and they were planned over many years). Even expensive boondoggles like the JWST are pretty secure in their funding. Congress does interfere a little bit, such as the mandated mission to Europa, but it's not too bad. It's manned sp...
[23:12:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:43] <exec> 08└─The one thing we really ought to get is a lunar sample that isn't contaminated by air. All the sample return containers for Apollo leaked. We can do this with a robot. Probably the way to deal with air is to weld the container's lid shut.
[23:12:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:45] <exec> 08└─"...organize government, private enterprise.." So, more money for Boeing?
[23:12:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:47] <exec> 08└─s/go to the moon/build the wall/ Also, this is actually the first time we're going to the moon [space.com], right?
[23:12:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:49] <exec> 08└─I seem to remember a similar proclamation from W... if Trump is lucky enough to stay out of a major military conflict, this might just get enough traction to launch a few guys.
[23:12:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:52] <exec> 08└─Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos both have private space programs. Boeing, not so much.
[23:12:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:54] <exec> 08└─We had a persistent, steady and formidable opponent. Today, we've got Silicon valley startups and Kiwi-tech for competition. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE Rocket Lab, but... it hardly inspires middle America to forego a cost-of-living increase in their Social Security checks.
[23:12:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:56] <exec> 08└─We can at least put them all out of house... Cheaper and quicker than firing them off into space. Of course we could make it suborbital, with no heat shield. Would that be too cruel [youtube.com]?
[23:12:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:58] <exec> 08└─Or we could do the analysis on-site. Curiosity and the upcoming Mars 2020 [wikipedia.org] rover can do that, although the Mars 2020 mission involves a possible sample return to Earth. Or do the analysis on-site with fleshbag astronauts. Beyond the orbital lunar space station plans, Japan [soylentnew...
[23:13:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:01] <exec> 08└─And then what? Collect some rocks. Take a photo of Earth. Hang out for a couple days. Maybe lose a couple astronauts on re-entry. -1 would not do again
[23:13:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:03] <exec> 08└─Asteroid mining, out. Conversion of Moon to a Death Star, begin. Now if only Trump only wanted some fricking sharks . . .
[23:13:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:05] <exec> 08└─Sorry, I'm thinking of the Eastern Bloc. Will the Great Profit Musk make it to the Moon before Fake President Pull-My-Finger of the People's Democratic Republic of America? And why isn't that nice Mr Putin n the race?
[23:13:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 776 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:07] <exec> 08└─The United Launch Alliance (Boeing + Lockheed Martin) have Atlas V and Delta rockets. Some of ULA's payloads have been commercial. Although ULA certainly are scumbags who have [soylentnews.org] shit-talked [floridatoday.com] SpaceX [soylentnews.org] frequently in recent years, they see the writing o...
[23:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 899 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:10] <exec> 08└─The commercial asteroid mining ventures like Planetary Resources and Deep Space Industries have little or no interest in sending humans to asteroids. In the near-term they want to send asteroid-prospecting satellites into orbit around Earth or asteroids. In the long-term they want to send spacecraft...
[23:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lyft Courts Drivers With Discount Education Program - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:26] <exec> 08└─I expect all Lyft employees get stock options; many of them will be rich after its IPO. The drivers aren't employees and won't get squat after the IPO. Personally I'm puzzled that Lyft and Uber drivers aren't advancing on their corporate headquarters with torches and pitchforks.
[23:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lyft Courts Drivers With Discount Education Program - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:27] <exec> 08└─Let's not forget that Lyft, not just Uber, is interested in offering ride-hailing of autonomous vehicles: Lyft and Waymo (Google) Team Up for Autonomous Cars [soylentnews.org] Lyft to Offer Autonomous Car Rides by the End of the Year [soylentnews.org] (Boston)
[23:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Lyft Courts Drivers With Discount Education Program - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:29] <exec> 08└─Personally I'm puzzled that Lyft and Uber drivers aren't advancing on their corporate headquarters with torches and pitchforks.
[23:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tasmanian Tigers Were in Poor Genetic Health Prior to Extinction - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:09] <exec> 08└─Enough with the bullshit nationalist attacks. Go fuck a head cow.
[23:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Breaking: Gas Pipe Explosion in Austria - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:39] <exec> 08└─Don't the Koch Bros want to sell a bunch of coal to Europe? /facetious
[23:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Launches Preview Version of Q# Quantum Programming Language - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:49] <exec> 08└─(deadcat(livecat cat cat(deadcat livecat())) cat )
[23:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Launches Preview Version of Q# Quantum Programming Language - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:51] <exec> 08└─It also means Microsoft is both brain-dead and zombie-alive at the same time!
[23:15:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Support Net Neutrality Day / FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's Tone-Deaf "Verizon Puppet" Skit - 234 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:25] <exec> 08└─Net Neutrality is what enables a free market in online services. Pai is nothing more than a puppet who is bought by his rent seeking masters. In other words (sadly), a Republican. Republicans only support BIG businesses that PAY them.
[23:15:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Support Net Neutrality Day / FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's Tone-Deaf "Verizon Puppet" Skit - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:47] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, Canada is becoming more American every day: we are fighting for net-neutrality at this moment....
[23:15:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Support Net Neutrality Day / FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's Tone-Deaf "Verizon Puppet" Skit - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:49] <exec> 08└─WizardFusion's definition of "the modern world" seems perfectly normal to me.
[23:15:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Support Net Neutrality Day / FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's Tone-Deaf "Verizon Puppet" Skit - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:51] <exec> 08└─Oh, we're going by "stuff and things" rather than respect for and protection of fundamental human rights? Call me old fashioned then.
[23:17:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FBI Director Christopher Wray Keeps War on Encryption Alive - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:12] <exec> 08└─But lately I am getting just a wheee bit irritated about seemingly over-privileged whiners that take the investment society made in them for granted and assume they can only cut the cords THEY want.
[23:17:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Director Christopher Wray Keeps War on Encryption Alive - 1355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:13] <exec> 08└─* personal financial success Hmmm. Plenty of people seem to have that. And it does not seem to change as different parties come into power over the last 20 years. * practical personal safety I assume you're talking about guns. Has anything significantly materially changed in this regard over the las...
[23:20:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 2027 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:47] <exec> 08└─Sigh, I should have read your other reply [soylentnews.org] before responding. My apologies for coming in strong. Moving on, to summarize, here's my opinion on this overall matter. We want the world to be a mess because we have solutions looking for a problem. For example, the meat tax idea is one...
[23:20:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:48] <exec> 08└─That's no longer a flat tax. It's a two-bracket progressive tax. You might as well do away with income taxes at that point and use sales taxes, with exemptions for basic necessities such as food and medical items.
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