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[00:12:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Once Again Requires That You Register Your Drone - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:32] <exec> 08└─US Once Again Requires That You Register Your Drone
[00:12:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06US Once Again Requires That You Register Your Drone - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:33] <exec> 08└─Won't even discuss gun regulations, but UAV's can't grab his pen fast enough? Wow . . .
[00:12:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03J053 [3532] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06US Once Again Requires That You Register Your Drone - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:36] <exec> 08└─So, we have to register drones, cars, boats, airplanes...but just try to suggest registering guns and see what happens - even though the 2d amendment talks about the right to "keep and bear arms", not to "keep and bear arms in secret from the government". See also Heller vs. DC.
[00:12:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Once Again Requires That You Register Your Drone - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:38] <exec> 08└─Won't even discuss gun regulations Have you actually TRIED to buy a gun ever? There is a decent amount of regulation there. One guy I know they were asking about a fight he had when he was 12. The guy is in his 60s.
[00:12:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Once Again Requires That You Register Your Drone - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:40] <exec> 08└─He should have gone to a gun show . . .
[00:12:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Once Again Requires That You Register Your Drone - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:42] <exec> 08└─but just try to suggest registering guns You do realize almost all guns sold have a serial number. It is written down and recorded. Your local police usually keep track of it. The federal gov also tracks it. Go try to buy a gun. You will find out *very* quickly there is a decent amount of red tape t...
[00:12:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Once Again Requires That You Register Your Drone - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:45] <exec> 08└─This requires the pilot be registered and not the individual aircraft. The confusion comes because the requirements are that the registration number of the pilot be affixed to the aircraft being flown.
[00:12:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Once Again Requires That You Register Your Drone - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:47] <exec> 08└─Why? Do you think it works faster? https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[00:12:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Once Again Requires That You Register Your Drone - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:49] <exec> 08└─Or a street corner.
[00:12:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Once Again Requires That You Register Your Drone - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:51] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it is so difficult and convoluted the Vegas shooter was barely able to assemble a mobile arsenal . . .
[00:12:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Once Again Requires That You Register Your Drone - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:53] <exec> 08└─Name one regulation that would have stopped that other than banning them. People dead set on committing a crime will do it. But somehow magically 'the law' would have stopped him from doing it? Is that your proposition?
[00:12:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Once Again Requires That You Register Your Drone - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:56] <exec> 08└─He wants to keep his gun not have to hide the thing. If he gets found with an illegal gun he would go to jail for a decent amount of time. You know those non existent regulations we are talking about...
[00:13:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Geminid Meteors to Peak on December 13–14 - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:07] <exec> 08└─I will see none of these, because it's been snowing all day long, as it has for most of the last week.
[00:13:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 247 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:26] <exec> 08└─I fully expected Alabama voters to happily elect a molesting pedophile over a Democrat, just because the molester was religious and Trump supported him. I'm glad I was proven wrong, though not by much considering the narrow margin of victory here.
[00:13:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NotSanguine [285] 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 454 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:47] <exec> 08└─Also... A state Trump won by nearly 30 percentage points. (The biggest republican stronghold in the country according to one news report I read.) Had the support of Trump and most republicans despite the accusations. In a state that allowed marriages to 16 year olds at the time of the accusations. (...
[00:13:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 119 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:55] <exec> 08└─No, we should still talk about it [snopes.com] because apparently people like you still think there is something to it.
[00:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:14] <exec> 08└─Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God? --Epicurus (341 BCE - 270 BCE) ...and the White churchgoers in Ala...
[00:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:15] <exec> 08└─More than 22k voters made a difference here. Here's the last several Alabama Senate election results: *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) 2016: (R) Richard Shelby - 1,335,104 (63.9%) (D) Ron Crumpton - 748,709 (35.8%) 2014: (R) Jeff Sessions - 795,606 (97.3%) (he was the only candida...
[00:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:18] <exec> 08└─So, it's okay, so long as the girls' parents agree? Isn't there a name for that?
[00:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:20] <exec> 08└─Those would largely be the folks who aren't descended from slaveholders, in particular, those whose ancestors were enslaved. ...and that bunch recently got a law pushed through in Alabama which says that folks who have served their prison time are no longer disenfranchised for life. Ex-convicts adde...
[00:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:22] <exec> 08└─Let me quote from a previous campaign: "Ma, ma, where's my pa? Gone to the whitehouse, ha, ha, ha" "Blaine, Blaine, James G. Blaine, Continental liar from the state of Maine."
[00:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:25] <exec> 08└─From the summary: By a margin of 49.5 to 48.9 with 91% of precincts reporting, Jones dealt a major blow to Donald Trump and his efforts to pass tax reform on Capitol Hill... The Democratic victory will reduce the Republican majority in the Senate to 51-49 once Jones takes his seat on Capitol Hill. T...
[00:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:27] <exec> 08└─Yep. With that logic, John Gotti [wikipedia.org], prior to his conviction, should have been able to get at least 70% of the (R) (and he was a NY Republican voter) vote if he ran for the senate. Because he was just an honest businessman being harassed by the media until then.
[00:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 804 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:30] <exec> 08└─Being able but not willing doesn't make him malevolent, he could just not give a flying fuck. Just because you don't care doesn't make you evil. OTOH, if you assert that he caused it, then that would make him evil. I don't donate to every good cause that comes begging me for money, but that's not be...
[00:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:32] <exec> 08└─In US elections, third parties are a snare and a delusion. If we had IRC or Condorcet voting, then I'd agree that you should vote for the best candidate. As it is... the only reason to vote for a third party is because you are so disgusted with both of the candidates that have a chance that you migh...
[00:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:35] <exec> 08└─It's quite a bit more difficult now that they've banned me from the stall.
[00:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:37] <exec> 08└─Is he really religious, or does he just use religion to con the rubes who are likely to vote that way?
[00:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:39] <exec> 08└─Mark Foley is an ephebophile [slate.com] [Congressman] Foley's creepy electronic communications with 16- and 17-year-olds about masturbatory techniques, penis length, and other sexually explicit topics clearly crossed a moral line, and possibly a legal one too.
[00:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:42] <exec> 08└─I understand that you're upset that he lost. Maybe if you ask him nice he'll still get you some dates.
[00:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Android 8.0 Oreo Running on 0.5% of Android Devices - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:13] <exec> 08└─Most manufacturers will upgrade your OS if the device is capable. At least for the first three years.
[00:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Android 8.0 Oreo Running on 0.5% of Android Devices - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:15] <exec> 08└─Americans will soon buy them in this size. [pimpthatsnack.com] (burp)
[00:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bryan [29] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Android 8.0 Oreo Running on 0.5% of Android Devices - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:17] <exec> 08└─Store the phone in a microwave. Microwaves make for a pretty good Faraday cage because they are designed to keep their own microwaves contained without radiating the user standing next to it. Then, if you are really paranoid, just turn the microwave on for a few seconds. That will, for sure, keep th...
[00:15:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Mocks Christmas Film Viewing Habits in "Creepy" Tweet - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:55] <exec> 08└─I personally have well over 1500 movies. 6000+ individual tv shows. 3500+ CDs. I watch/listen to a lot of the same stuff over and over. I find it relaxing.
[00:15:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Mocks Christmas Film Viewing Habits in "Creepy" Tweet - 695 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:56] <exec> 08└─From times when story books were more common than TV-es - very young kids like to be read the same bedtime story again and again. Do you find it surprising? Anecdote: about 20-25 years ago, while still in the (non-English speaking) country of origin, the kid (about 4yo) of some friends of mine start...
[00:15:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Mocks Christmas Film Viewing Habits in "Creepy" Tweet - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:58] <exec> 08└─Face/fingerprint login to p**nhub is still going to be more worrying though...
[00:16:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Mocks Christmas Film Viewing Habits in "Creepy" Tweet - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:01] <exec> 08└─It's about the pleasure they get from knowing what's about to happen, kind of like how people like to sing along to their favourite songs. It's an important development stage. My kids really struggle not to blurt out spoilers because they want to show everyone that they know what's happening next! T...
[00:16:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Human-Sized Penguins Once Roamed New Zealand - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:24] <exec> 08└─Giant... Penguins? 2018 confirmed as the year of the Linux Desktop!
[00:16:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human-Sized Penguins Once Roamed New Zealand - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:26] <exec> 08└─Sounds like these penguins might have become lost when trying to reach the Mountains of Madness [wikipedia.org]. Tekeli-li!
[00:16:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] 02 - 06Breakthrough Listen to Observe Interstellar Asteroid 'Oumuamua for Radio Emissions - 355 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:43] <exec> 08└─The evidence for the asteroid shape is pretty flimsy. It is all based on brightness oscillation (not direct observation). It seems quite plausible that one side of the asteroid is more diffusive than the other (e..g due to surface roughness), so when the asteroid rotates it makes a different brightn...
[00:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Full Moons Linked to Increased Motorcyclist Deaths - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:05] <exec> 08└─On the other hand, letting one or a handful of central authorities have command over all automobiles would have a large practical effect.
[00:18:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Depth of Jupiter's Great Red Spot Studied, and Two New Radiation Zones Found - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:52] <exec> 08└─Jupiter is actually Ζεύς, "physical" is actually φύσις, so more Διόφύσις than Διόνυσος. I leave the Latin to some Medievals, or early modern Astrophysites.
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[01:12:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Surgeon Branded Initials Into Patients' Livers With Argon Beam - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:32] <exec> 08└─Well, how the hell did he get away with it at all? You'd think that the OR, especially one in which a transplant was occurring, was fully staffed. Were they all in on the joke, or was he just slick about it? Anyway, such an act is more something a Mexican would do, as they feel the need to write the...
[01:12:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Surgeon Branded Initials Into Patients' Livers With Argon Beam - 1039 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:33] <exec> 08└─Get tested for bone marrow transplant. This is vital if you are an ethnic minority, as donors of other races are less likely to be compatible with a minority recipient. Many jurisdictions permit live donations of kidneys - you only _need_ one you know - and liver lobes. Your liver will continue to f...
[01:12:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Surgeon Branded Initials Into Patients' Livers With Argon Beam - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:35] <exec> 08└─This reminds me of the gun that cop used to execute a drunk dude in Az. His receiver was etched with "You're fucked". How the jury let that asshat off I'll never understand, but watching that video scares the fuck out of me. How many of you haven't been drunk in a hotel room on a business trip? How...
[01:12:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Surgeon Branded Initials Into Patients' Livers With Argon Beam - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:37] <exec> 08└─I was first to moderate your post as -1, Troll.
[01:12:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Surgeon Branded Initials Into Patients' Livers With Argon Beam - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:40] <exec> 08└─He's out of a job over this? Signing your work is a sign you take pride in it. I hope he gets another job quickly and without any cut in pay. If I ever need a surgeon, I want that guy.
[01:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03J053 [3532] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Once Again Requires That You Register Your Drone - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:59] <exec> 08└─For first sale through a licensed FFL holder, you're right. What happens when that first buyer sell the gun to his cousin? How about if someone buys a gun at a show in one state, then takes it home? Yeah, the original sale is recorded but nothing any further down the line. Internet sales?
[01:13:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06US Once Again Requires That You Register Your Drone - 1066 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:01] <exec> 08└─Since you are allowed to manufacture up to 3(??) guns a year if you build them yourself, serial-free! Part of the scam with this whole thing is there are plenty of ways to avoid the regulations for someone dedicated enough, but also lots of pitfalls once you do (like if said gun gets used in commiss...
[01:13:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Once Again Requires That You Register Your Drone - 2257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:03] <exec> 08└─SEC. 1092. COLLABORATION BETWEEN FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION AND DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE ON UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS. (a) Collaboration.-- (1) In general.--The Administrator of the Federal...
[01:13:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Once Again Requires That You Register Your Drone - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:05] <exec> 08└─The US has assembled ample video evidence of drones terrorizing and causing thousands of deaths all over the Middle-East and SW Asia. You wouldn't want them operating uncontrolled, and breaking local laws with full impunity.
[01:14:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 959 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:05] <exec> 08└─A lot, a lot of people THREW AWAY their votes. Because they did what they call a write in. They wrote in the name of somebody who wasn't a candidate. Somebody who lost. If they'd voted for Judge Roy Moore, they'd be voting for a WINNER. Judge Roy is asking for a recount, they're doing a recount. But...
[01:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:34] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhfuGNDcdaA [youtube.com]
[01:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:36] <exec> 08└─Yep. With that logic, John Gotti [wikipedia.org], prior to his conviction, should have been able to get at least 70% of the (R) (and he was a NY Republican voter) vote if he ran for the senate. Because he was just an honest businessman being harassed by the media until then.
[01:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:38] <exec> 08└─Original poster here... Apologies, I hadn't realized there was an interim Senator in Alabama posted. As such, Luthar Strange (Republican, acting Senator since February 9) will be replaced by Doug Jones. As such, this will change the Senate makeup from 52-49 to now be 51-49. I think my first point st...
[01:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 1259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:40] <exec> 08└─Democrats’ demands to delay tax-bill action rejected [marketwatch.com] Republican Tax Bill in Final Sprint Across Finish Line [nytimes.com] Party leaders in the House and Senate agreed in principle to bridge the yawning gaps between their competing versions of the $1.5 trillion tax bill, keeping R...
[01:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:42] <exec> 08└─Or hit up Jeff Epstein [wikipedia.org] again. He's out of prison.
[01:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Android 8.0 Oreo Running on 0.5% of Android Devices - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:16] <exec> 08└─...and on top of that it's AN OS UPDATE--FROM THE VENDOR'S OWN SITE. No exemption for that bandwidth?? Corporations these days just plain suck. . I'm liking how our guys are coming up with foil pouch|unplugged microwave|airplane mode solutions. Too bad you didn't realize beforehand that you were gon...
[01:15:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Mocks Christmas Film Viewing Habits in "Creepy" Tweet - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:59] <exec> 08└─What happens when you use the Netflix socks [netflix.com] another way?
[01:17:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06Google and NASA to Reveal Mysterious New Space Find - 1544 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:08] <exec> 08└─But in this case, the answer is not that hard to figure out, even if the article hadn't all but revealed it anyway. Google is making a big splash in AI, with these recent triumphs in the classic strategy games Go and chess. Now, what uses are there for this superhuman AI that is so good at learning...
[01:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Urge Endangered Species Classification for Cheetahs - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:16] <exec> 08└─And don't get me started on goats - those bastards will push you off any high point with glee. And if there's no high point around, they'll settle for plain ground and still push you off. #banthegoats
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[02:12:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Surgeon Branded Initials Into Patients' Livers With Argon Beam - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:37] <exec> 08└─This doctor's unprofessional behavior doesn't surprise me. Every doctor I've interacted with (except for perhaps one who was not acting as a doctor at the time) in a business relationship has been a lying, gaslighting asshole. I have two death threats against me from doctors during my time working a...
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[02:12:39] <exec> 08└─I've had a chance to work with a few surgeons on non-medical issues (like re-zoning in our neighborhood). With few exceptions, they are insufferable people to deal with, completely full of themselves and unwilling to believe that anyone else might have something useful to say or contribute. As I got...
[02:12:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Surgeon Branded Initials Into Patients' Livers With Argon Beam - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:41] <exec> 08└─Surgeons are cocky assholes. But it's probably alright. You don't want your hands in the life of a meek, squirmy, second and third guessing people pleaser. What this guy did was in bad taste. It doesn't sound like it's a permanent mark, and even if it was, had no real effect on organ function.
[02:12:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03sgleysti [56] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Surgeon Branded Initials Into Patients' Livers With Argon Beam - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:43] <exec> 08└─Curious about the story you mentioned so I dug up a link https://slate.com [slate.com] Insane. The guy yelling in the video is the police sergeant, a different person from the officer who fired.
[02:12:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Surgeon Branded Initials Into Patients' Livers With Argon Beam - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:45] <exec> 08└─Really? First I've heard of this. Still, the executioner was responsible for watching the hotel doorsay. He shifted his aim to execute the poor rat executioner guy. That whole video is a 5 minute sequence of fucked up. If that's the way they are trained then we are all in danger of our lives if we e...
[02:12:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Surgeon Branded Initials Into Patients' Livers With Argon Beam - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:48] <exec> 08└─There's probably uglier and unhealthier scarring on the livers of Ethanol Fueled and others ;-) There really is no medical risk from those initials. Livers will work fine with such scars. And they're not visible externally.
[02:12:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Surgeon Branded Initials Into Patients' Livers With Argon Beam - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:50] <exec> 08└─Maybe the robotic [ieee.org] surgeon [wikipedia.org] operators will have smaller egos.
[02:12:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Surgeon Branded Initials Into Patients' Livers With Argon Beam - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:53] <exec> 08└─[quote]Get tested for bone marrow transplant.[/quote] I did, some 30-40 years ago. Don't remember the deets but some kid got me to get tested. Turns out I had some rare disease as a kid that showed in in the blood tests that said not only can I not donate bone marrow, I can't donate blood. Can't say...
[02:12:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Surgeon Branded Initials Into Patients' Livers With Argon Beam - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:55] <exec> 08└─Not if they ate beef while they were traveling in Great Britain.
[02:12:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Surgeon Branded Initials Into Patients' Livers With Argon Beam - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:57] <exec> 08└─Oops, was still fucking with variations of , , [quote], [/quote], you get the idea. Why does every website have different ways of, hell, choosing vs [? Not kidding, I frequently post on 3 websites and all 3 have different variations?
[02:12:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Surgeon Branded Initials Into Patients' Livers With Argon Beam - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:59] <exec> 08└─I'm sure those small egos can be fixed.
[02:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Once Again Requires That You Register Your Drone - 649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:23] <exec> 08└─What, there's still something worth blowing up in the middle east? Who Knew?! By the time you can carry a payload big enough to do any real harm you are right up against that 55 pound threshold where full pilot accreditation and drone registration kick in, not to mention that $100,000 price tag. htt...
[02:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Once Again Requires That You Register Your Drone - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:25] <exec> 08└─Registration would be a governmental restriction of the right of the people to keep and bear arms; it would give government a say, but the government expressly does not get a say. The American theory of government is based around checks and balances of the powers. Well, one of the most important che...
[02:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Once Again Requires That You Register Your Drone - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:27] <exec> 08└─10 pounds of C4 or equivalent per drone would start to make some nice holes in whatever you target, especially, as we see now, if you target something flammable on a windy day (or a plane loaded for takeoff). The Li-ion battery secondary explosion is the cherry on the cake.
[02:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Once Again Requires That You Register Your Drone - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:29] <exec> 08└─" What, there's still something worth blowing up in the middle east? Who Knew?! "
[02:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:03] <exec> 08└─Yes, a looney bible-thumping ex-judge was narrowly defeated. By a globalist corporate puppet. The only real victor here is the Establishment.
[02:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:05] <exec> 08└─I follow your logic, and actually I agree with it. The more dirt thrown by more people tends to make a story more believable, that much is true. On the other hand, we've had so many "me too" stories and accusations - sometimes it just looks like women trying to grab their fifteen minutes of fame. Bu...
[02:15:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:07] <exec> 08└─Is it true they are destroying the electronic ballots in Alabama?
[02:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 811 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:09] <exec> 08└─Almost always, religion is just one of the many planks in a candidate's platform. The candidate isn't in church on Sunday (or Saturday, depending on religion). His business dealings don't reflect his "faith". It's just propaganda for the chumps he is courting. In Moore's case, I think he's a believe...
[02:16:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Mocks Christmas Film Viewing Habits in "Creepy" Tweet - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:27] <exec> 08└─"penultimate" I don't think that means what you think that means.
[02:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breakthrough Listen to Observe Interstellar Asteroid 'Oumuamua for Radio Emissions - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:14] <exec> 08└─It's the same Milner - early investor in Twitter and Facebook - allegedly using Putin's money. https://www.nytimes.com [nytimes.com]
[02:18:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Full Moons Linked to Increased Motorcyclist Deaths - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:34] <exec> 08└─Say we have really smart AI driving and it behaves like I do. If I see a dog in a difficult turn, I run the dog over so not to increase risk of a crash. However, if I see a child, I do whatever it takes to save her and would crash my car, if necessary, let alone take additional risk. The question is...
[02:18:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Full Moons Linked to Increased Motorcyclist Deaths - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:35] <exec> 08└─According to Karl Marx, workers would own businesses and enjoy all the benefits. It is obvious now he meant corporate executives.
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[03:12:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive DNA Collection Campaign Continues in Xinjiang, China - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:32] <exec> 08└─China has the cure for Islam, and they're busy ensuring everyone is cured. What's not to like? Imagine . . . https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[03:12:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06Surgeon Branded Initials Into Patients' Livers With Argon Beam - 184 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:44] <exec> 08└─He's out of a job over this? Signing your work is a sign you take pride in it. I hope he gets another job quickly and without any cut in pay. If I ever need a surgeon, I want that guy.
[03:12:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Surgeon Branded Initials Into Patients' Livers With Argon Beam - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:56] <exec> 08└─It was an air gun - pellets. He hunted birds inside Wallmart stores for living. He had a bag with two air rifles and a dead sparrow to brag about. Somebody saw him through 5th floor window and called. The police "officer" was a young son of a 20 years on the job decorated detective. He was looking f...
[03:12:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Surgeon Branded Initials Into Patients' Livers With Argon Beam - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:58] <exec> 08└─I fail to see your point. He didn't have the air gun on him. He was begging for his life. Today was the first I heard the executioner wasn't the guy calling the shots. IMHO, both the executioner and the shot caller should be in prison for more than a handful of years now. And the city should be sues...
[03:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Surgeon Branded Initials Into Patients' Livers With Argon Beam - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:00] <exec> 08└─We have a word for this: "battery". What the doctor did was a crime. He should be prosecuted, not just given some administrative penalty.
[03:13:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Disagree) 02 - 06Surgeon Branded Initials Into Patients' Livers With Argon Beam - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:02] <exec> 08└─What a waste of moderation and a comment, Crawford. All that just to feel proud of yourself. Jesus, if you don't care for the comment, just let it be.
[03:13:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Surgeon Branded Initials Into Patients' Livers With Argon Beam - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:04] <exec> 08└─Orange Alert! Your stupidity level approaches that of Trump's.
[03:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Once Again Requires That You Register Your Drone - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:33] <exec> 08└─Internet sales are tracked so long as the sellers play by the rules. Shipments go exclusively to registered dealers who then file the transactions. The problem is back to the crooks not being lawful.
[03:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Once Again Requires That You Register Your Drone - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:35] <exec> 08└─You'd think, like any sane entity with a pest problem, our government would tire of swatting the insects bug-by-bug and start thinking in terms of exterminating the whole colony.
[03:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Once Again Requires That You Register Your Drone - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:37] <exec> 08└─So, how's that armed revolution going? Or is only "tyranny, beyond a point, which maybe the point at which I have already been locked up"?
[03:14:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 48 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:48] <exec> 08└─Which party do they reside in today? Republican.
[03:14:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 650 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:54] <exec> 08└─More than 22k voters made a difference here. Here's the last several Alabama Senate election results: *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) 2016: (R) Richard Shelby - 1,335,104 (63.9%) (D) Ron Crumpton - 748,709 (35.8%) 2014: (R) Jeff Sessions - 795,606 (97.3%) (he was the only candida...
[03:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:16] <exec> 08└─That sounds exactly like the kind of shit a professor would say when one of his own students makes him look like a dumbass. Maybe Trump had too many street smarts to tolerate jargon and bullshit?
[03:15:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:17] <exec> 08└─Better the Establishment candidate than the Bible-thumping nut job and bigot.
[03:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:19] <exec> 08└─" A (likely apocryphal) story that went around the neighborhood for years was that a young, black kid "
[03:15:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:21] <exec> 08└─There are some answers to this classic philosophical problem.
[03:15:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:24] <exec> 08└─Just keep rationalizing, no way your guy could be wrong
[03:15:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:26] <exec> 08└─Good enough for Elvis! https://www.biography.com [biography.com]
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[04:12:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Massive DNA Collection Campaign Continues in Xinjiang, China - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:41] <exec> 08└─Well, i'm rather conflicted on this: Uyghurs are more White than mainland Chinese. Well, fuck it. Subscribe to dumb beliefs, die by them. And by "dumb" I mean "Islam."
[04:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Surgeon Branded Initials Into Patients' Livers With Argon Beam - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:10] <exec> 08└─It's all about what the cops think they can get away with / what will happen to them if they machine gun a citizen. Each acquittal and weak prosecution will get them to push their limits further. There's already a shift from blowing away the poor, black, and hispanic to taking on targets from the mi...
[04:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Surgeon Branded Initials Into Patients' Livers With Argon Beam - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:12] <exec> 08└─I don't think so. The beauty of this place is that we can mod each other down and not get banned for it.
[04:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Surgeon Branded Initials Into Patients' Livers With Argon Beam - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:14] <exec> 08└─Aye, same with links. Is it <a href="http://somesite.example.com">linky</a>, [url=somesite.example.com]linky[/url], [linky](somesite.example.com), or maybe [somesite.example.com][linky]? For the block quotes, leading a line with a > would be a nice and convenient extension though. Of course, https:/...
[04:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Surgeon Branded Initials Into Patients' Livers With Argon Beam - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:16] <exec> 08└─Maybe I could add a check to my extension that automatically converts BBCode to HTML. But wait, if you use my extension, you have buttons for all of these things that should be faster to use than typing it.
[04:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Surgeon Branded Initials Into Patients' Livers With Argon Beam - 2216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:18] <exec> 08└─Personally, I don't want to get tested for anything. The main problem in getting tested is the generation of data, which MUST be shared with people who demand answers to questions in order to receive any sort of medical care or apply for insurance. If I do not know, I can truthfully answer NO to mos...
[04:15:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:33] <exec> 08└─Age of consent in alabama is 16 so maybe it was legal, you don't know?
[04:15:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:34] <exec> 08└─I'm assuming it has to do more with the republicans thinking "if dems are gonna override our filibusters so are we gonna override theirs." I don't blame them on that.
[04:15:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:37] <exec> 08└─Really? Right now the "real left" are raging impotently inside the DNC about the ~1 billion dollars in donations has gone to 5 consultants, while state offices are being defunded [youtube.com]. This Dem corporatist will confirm all Alabamas worst fears about corrupt Democrats and "big government". M...
[04:15:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:39] <exec> 08└─Oops, link should have gone to 85s rather than 125s
[04:16:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Mocks Christmas Film Viewing Habits in "Creepy" Tweet - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:16:58] <exec> 08└─But boys rarely get called "girl"
[04:16:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Mocks Christmas Film Viewing Habits in "Creepy" Tweet - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:16:59] <exec> 08└─You mean like Jean Claude Van Damme on the beach?
[04:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Full Moons Linked to Increased Motorcyclist Deaths - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:07] <exec> 08└─I'd speculate that the opposite is true. Full moons reduce the chance of accidents, but more people drive motorcycles during this time due to more favorable driving conditions. It's kind of like how people stop driving when road conditions get poor. For example, snow in the south. There might be les...
[04:19:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Devuan ASCII Sprint -- 15-17 Dec. 2017 - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:34] <exec> 08└─If there's an astronomer reading this: please discover a minor planet and name it CentOS. :)
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[05:12:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 063.5 Mbps Broadband Through a "Wet String" - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:33] <exec> 08└─It's a high-resistance, broadband conductor?
[05:12:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 063.5 Mbps Broadband Through a "Wet String" - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:35] <exec> 08└─Do you hire people to keep it wet? I suppose it is job creation.
[05:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 063.5 Mbps Broadband Through a "Wet String" - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:37] <exec> 08└─You use yarn for the next undersea cable project.
[05:12:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massive DNA Collection Campaign Continues in Xinjiang, China - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:47] <exec> 08└─China is your guy, not the US. Go after them ChiComs, the TRUE INFIDEL (TM).
[05:12:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive DNA Collection Campaign Continues in Xinjiang, China - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:50] <exec> 08└─You could have said this without the racist remark.
[05:12:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive DNA Collection Campaign Continues in Xinjiang, China - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:52] <exec> 08└─No he couldn't. This is Eth we're talking about. Eth, the living, breathing, walking (or, to be fair, tottering) poster child for why a dealer is *not* supposed to get high on his own supply. Eth has long since stopped being an amusing troll and is now down in the same circle of Hell as J-Mo and for...
[05:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Surgeon Branded Initials Into Patients' Livers With Argon Beam - 1627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:25] <exec> 08└─Well, speaking from the Engineering side, I have worked with some pretty good engineers - as far as technical stuff went. They weren't "people pleasers", rather their main concern was perfection. Generally, the "leadership" types seemed to hate them, and spent a lot of time trying to figure how to...
[05:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Surgeon Branded Initials Into Patients' Livers With Argon Beam - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:26] <exec> 08└─To my brother's car with some sort of sharp implement (we don't give him argon beam guns) when he was nine. I mean he wrote his name. It's not like folks wouldn't know who did it. And, AFAICT, my nephew got in more trouble for that than this surgeon did.
[05:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Surgeon Branded Initials Into Patients' Livers With Argon Beam - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:29] <exec> 08└─Does the patient have anything to say about this crime you speak of (battery)? If this surgeon just saved my life (or greatly improved my quality of life), then I wouldn't really care if he tagged the new liver--I would be grateful to him.
[05:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Surgeon Branded Initials Into Patients' Livers With Argon Beam - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:31] <exec> 08└─Bad car analogy! It takes work (or money) to repair automotive paint. The little initials that the surgeon left behind will disappear in time, and have no effect on liver function. I would hope that surgeons would get into a lot more trouble if they left a sponge or tool in the patient--something th...
[05:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Surgeon Branded Initials Into Patients' Livers With Argon Beam - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:33] <exec> 08└─And that's why we're hearing about it now. It's taken white folks starting to suffer what every black man could have told you about 20, 40, 70, 100 years ago for this to reach the national conscience. The longer I live the more I hate humanity in general.
[05:14:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Once Again Requires That You Register Your Drone - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:04] <exec> 08└─Anyone with "evil intent" will just steal a drone. Just like madmen will use a rental truck for their "incident", or a stolen car for a ram raid on a store, or a stolen firearm for another crime. Laws are only for those who care for any law at all. Completely ineffective against those with "evil int...
[05:15:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 74 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:29] <exec> 08└─It's quite a bit more difficult now that they've banned me from the stall.
[05:15:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:53] <exec> 08└─First past the post only applies to the Presidential Electoral College. It has nothing to do with Statewide Senate General Election. Thanks for playing though.
[05:15:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:54] <exec> 08└─Did you know that Doug Jones was the U.S. Attorney for northern Alabama and prosecuted Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr. and Bobby Frank Cherry, 2 of the KKK jackasses that bombed that church in 1963?
[05:15:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:56] <exec> 08└─Maybe you should research and proofread before you post. It's not 52-49. That equals 101.
[05:20:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Urge Endangered Species Classification for Cheetahs - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:20:40] <exec> 08└─A paper that touches on WHY wolves were hunted to extinction... "When do wolves become dangerous to humans?" Short answer: any time humans are not in groups and armed with guns. http://www.vargfakta.se [vargfakta.se]
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[06:12:38] <exec> 08└─no one tell the Australian Government.. If it gets out that *string* is better than some of our coax cable connections, we might just get upset enough to whinge on the internet. http://www.abc.net.au\ [abc.net.au]...
[06:12:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive DNA Collection Campaign Continues in Xinjiang, China - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:12:51] <exec> 08└─why pick on just one magic sky fairy? aren't they all as bad as each other (over, say, the last 1500 years)?
[06:12:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive DNA Collection Campaign Continues in Xinjiang, China - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:12:52] <exec> 08└─I wonder what they think they will gain from this level of detail in their data collection. Are they planning to start hostaging the families to control the likely combatants? Tracing malcontents through families? As a preventative measure this would only work if the subjects knew what dna was or at...
[06:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Surgeon Branded Initials Into Patients' Livers With Argon Beam - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:31] <exec> 08└─You could hear it the murderers voice. He had a rage boner at the thought of getting to kill someone. He desperately wanted to kill that guy.
[06:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Surgeon Branded Initials Into Patients' Livers With Argon Beam - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:33] <exec> 08└─Except white men have also been regularly shot, if they were of the underclass, that is thought not to have family that can afford to or wants to press charges. Thexalon put it well in this posting [soylentnews.org].
[06:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Surgeon Branded Initials Into Patients' Livers With Argon Beam - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:35] <exec> 08└─http://pbfcomics.com/comics/transfer-patient/ [pbfcomics.com]
[06:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Geminid Meteors to Peak on December 13–14 - 771 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:17] <exec> 08└─Given the immense size of the Universe, why are we being treated to basically dust particles which make for good show, but are not fine/numerous enough to sandpaper the hell out of our satellites, or big enough to cause kinetic damage to the earth? What graded them to this size? Its been my experien...
[06:16:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:16:00] <exec> 08└─Being able but not willing doesn't make him malevolent, he could just not give a flying fuck. Just because you don't care doesn't make you evil.
[06:16:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:16:01] <exec> 08└─No. The term refers to being able to be declared the victor without receiving a majority of the votes cast. Another name for first-past-the-post is "plurality rules". -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[06:16:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 776 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:16:03] <exec> 08└─All Dem senators opposed the senate version, so that's 48 votes against. Corker was against it because of the impact on the deficit and the committee has done nothing to affect that. All it would take is 2 GOP senators to band together and demand X, Y, and Z or we don't vote for it, and the bill is...
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[07:12:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tiny Moon Possibly Orbiting 2014 MU69 - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:12:39] <exec> 08└─If there's at least one moon, there may be many. That poses a danger to the probe because by the time it's close enough to photograph the area, it will be too late to change course. The probe is moving quite fast. Radio waves take about 6 hours to get there such that a round trip plus analysis time...
[07:12:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 063.5 Mbps Broadband Through a "Wet String" - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:12:50] <exec> 08└─If they'd use a G-string, staying wet would have been easy.
[07:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massive DNA Collection Campaign Continues in Xinjiang, China - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:13:04] <exec> 08└─When the chinese purge is finished on ethnic grounds, all we will have left are mostly Han, and we won't have to feel TOO bad about knocking that 2 billion down to 300 million or less. Just remember to start with the top 1 percent this time, and not the bottom 15 percent like they did during Mao's e...
[07:13:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive DNA Collection Campaign Continues in Xinjiang, China - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:13:05] <exec> 08└─Government has already collected infer prints, iris scans and etc. of all the citizens and is now passed a law that will close your bank account, investments, birth and death certificate, mobile phones and internet connection if all those are not linked to this 'identity' in next month. This is what...
[07:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Once Again Requires That You Register Your Drone - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:19] <exec> 08└─The US has assembled ample video evidence of drones terrorizing and causing thousands of deaths all over the Middle-East and SW Asia.
[07:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Once Again Requires That You Register Your Drone - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:20] <exec> 08└─Stop government from subsidizing the creation or importation of low quality people. Not everyone is equal; not everyone's life is worthwhile; you must prove your worth by paying your own way. The most humane philosophy for achieving your goal is pure capitalism.
[07:15:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 178 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:02] <exec> 08└─Roy Moore is not a pedophile. He is an Ephebophile [wikipedia.org]! Ephebophilia is the primary sexual interest in mid-to-late adolescents, generally ages 15 to 19. [14 is fine.]
[07:15:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03HiThere [866] 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 804 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:45] <exec> 08└─Being able but not willing doesn't make him malevolent, he could just not give a flying fuck. Just because you don't care doesn't make you evil. OTOH, if you assert that he caused it, then that would make him evil. I don't donate to every good cause that comes begging me for money, but that's not be...
[07:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human-Sized Penguins Once Roamed New Zealand - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:02] <exec> 08└─Why would you let a giant penguin babysit in the first place?
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[08:13:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive DNA Collection Campaign Continues in Xinjiang, China - 1325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:01] <exec> 08└─Uhhhh, yes. If a family has two or three malcontents, they may presume that there are more, and go after them. Doesn't matter whether you call it genetic, or nurturing, or education - they can do it. Hostage the families? Yes, again. Each individual has his priorities. Some will do what they see as...
[08:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Surgeon Branded Initials Into Patients' Livers With Argon Beam - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:43] <exec> 08└─The pride in workmanship for an American Doctor is supposed to be in the size of the bill, isn't it?
[08:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Surgeon Branded Initials Into Patients' Livers With Argon Beam - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:45] <exec> 08└─But proving who left the sponge, knife, or whatever is hard. This was easy!
[08:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Surgeon Branded Initials Into Patients' Livers With Argon Beam - 1201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:47] <exec> 08└─Show me someone without an ego, and I'll show you a LOSER. Having a healthy ego, or high opinion of yourself, is a real positive in life! If you don’t tell people about your success, they probably won’t know about it. You put your name out there, in the public eye. On someone's liver, on top of...
[08:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Mocks Christmas Film Viewing Habits in "Creepy" Tweet - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:36] <exec> 08└─But boys rarely get called "girl"
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[09:12:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electromagnetic Water Cloak Eliminates Drag and Wake - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:12:34] <exec> 08└─Hmm.. "Urzhumov says that for an actual ship or submarine to ever use such a device, it would need a nuclear reactor to power it, given the enormous energy requirements to cloak an object of that size. That does not mean, however, that a smaller diesel vessel could not power a smaller cloaking devic...
[09:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electromagnetic Water Cloak Eliminates Drag and Wake - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:12:36] <exec> 08└─From TFA Urzhumov says that for an actual ship or submarine to ever use such a device, it would need a nuclear reactor to power it, given the enormous energy requirements to cloak an object of that size. That does not mean, however, that a smaller diesel vessel could not power a smaller cloaking dev...
[09:12:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Men Plead Guilty to Operating Mirai Botnet - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:12:44] <exec> 08└─How you know things are pretty bad. The IoT crap needs to die in a fire.
[09:13:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 063.5 Mbps Broadband Through a "Wet String" - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:02] <exec> 08└─Remind me never to borrow your fiddle.
[09:13:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 063.5 Mbps Broadband Through a "Wet String" - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:04] <exec> 08└─JunkID Category Location ItemNM =if(or(D2="string",D2="yarn",D2="salt",D2="coax",D2="ethernet"),"internet","worthless") I am finally at a point in my life where my number of miscategorized ethernet and coax cables vastly outnumbers the amount of salt, string, or yarn.
[09:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Geminid Meteors to Peak on December 13–14 - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:50] <exec> 08└─Went outside, looked up, saw a few amazing ones. Thanks $Deity for the atmosphere. Those would hurt.
[09:16:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:16:35] <exec> 08└─Yeah, what AC said. Remember, he's the damned court fool who ran against the evil witch. IMO, the court fool was the better choice, but not a hell of a lot better. Where Hillary would have sold the nation to any buyer, Trump is busy selling the nation to rich Americans. We're still sold down the riv...
[09:16:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:16:37] <exec> 08└─Young, not old. New Guinea Eggplant.
[09:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Human-Sized Penguins Once Roamed New Zealand - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:26] <exec> 08└─"Science Reveals Kim Dotcom DNA Source"
[09:20:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MadTinfoilHatter [4635] 02 - 06Devuan ASCII Sprint -- 15-17 Dec. 2017 - 33 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:20:21] <exec> 08└─38086 Beowulf, 1 Ceres, and so on
[09:20:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MadTinfoilHatter [4635] 02 - 06Devuan ASCII Sprint -- 15-17 Dec. 2017 - 62 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:20:26] <exec> 08└─Thankfully it's pretty easy to install Debian without systemd.
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[10:12:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electromagnetic Water Cloak Eliminates Drag and Wake - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:12:30] <exec> 08└─Fucking autocorrect!!! Assuming one doesn't eliminate the wake by electrolysing...
[10:12:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electromagnetic Water Cloak Eliminates Drag and Wake - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:12:31] <exec> 08└─Does it count if you only use your thumbs?
[10:12:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electromagnetic Water Cloak Eliminates Drag and Wake - 1131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:12:33] <exec> 08└─Well now, most submarines already HAVE nuclear reactors. So, speaking as a destroyer man, WTF? We can't track them with sonar anymore? Tracking subs has always been as much a matter of luck, as skill and technology. Our ship had a trick of it's own, which tipped the odds in our favor, most of the ti...
[10:12:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Electromagnetic Water Cloak Eliminates Drag and Wake - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:12:36] <exec> 08└─If it is only the wake and drag they are reducing, then there would be no change, unless something weird happens at the boundary between the electrohydrodynamic water and the rest of the ocean. This "apparatus" covers the whole submerged parts of any vessel, so without power, any vessel so equipped...
[10:12:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny Moon Possibly Orbiting 2014 MU69 - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:12:50] <exec> 08└─"Moony McMoonFace" sadly absent from list of potential names.
[10:13:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 063.5 Mbps Broadband Through a "Wet String" - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:13:04] <exec> 08└─Not needed. The string will be routed through your bathroom.
[10:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massive DNA Collection Campaign Continues in Xinjiang, China - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:13:22] <exec> 08└─The Crusades only happened because muslims were being abusive to christians. Lots of christian violence is a reaction to muslim violence. Christians do not have a requirement to continuously invade other lands and do violence to non-belivers. Muslims do have such a requirement. Muhammed is considere...
[10:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massive DNA Collection Campaign Continues in Xinjiang, China - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:13:23] <exec> 08└─China sees a problem and deals with it. They do what is required. Meanwhile, we have unruly muslims planning to riot in DC this Saturday. CAIR, linked to terrorist groups, is helping to organize it. Why must we stupidly allow this shit? We should bury the participants in pig waste retention ponds. W...
[10:15:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 74 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:15:38] <exec> 08└─Had her middle initial also been K, he would have married her on the spot?
[10:16:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 1113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:16:40] <exec> 08└─Nice stat - well done everyone who voted, now was not the time to play the "democracy's flawed, why bother?" card - but the demographic breakdown holds even more gems. I think the NY Post story I read mentioned that (and these numbers are made up, but believably ballparky) the blacks represented onl...
[10:16:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:16:41] <exec> 08└─Yeah, Elvis. I wonder how different his part of the world might be from Alabama... https://www.openstreetmap.org
[10:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breakthrough Listen to Observe Interstellar Asteroid 'Oumuamua for Radio Emissions - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:55] <exec> 08└─If the object is speeding away from our solar system, and assuming that it is a spaceship, why would it be broadcasting? It is unlikely that it would be communicating with its home planet, and, assuming it wanted to communicate with any possible inhabitants of our solar system, it would have done so...
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[11:12:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electromagnetic Water Cloak Eliminates Drag and Wake - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:12:50] <exec> 08└─Fat fingers. I'm using a stylus - equiv 1-finger typing. Fortunately, 2 hours/day only, while travelling.
[11:12:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electromagnetic Water Cloak Eliminates Drag and Wake - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:12:52] <exec> 08└─Cloaking the electromagnetic emissions themselves seems like a bigger problem.
[11:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 063.5 Mbps Broadband Through a "Wet String" - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:13:22] <exec> 08└─We need a fallback for connectivity that doesn't rely on a government or corporation, who can and will take it away. I've been thinking quantum entanglement would be best, but wet string? OK, sure, but let's hope there aren't birds around hunting for nest-building material.
[11:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive DNA Collection Campaign Continues in Xinjiang, China - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:13:42] <exec> 08└─No. The Aztec sky fairies demand that I invade your home, drag out your children, bring them to an altar and slit their throats to appease them so that they won't destroy the world. This is objectively worse even than Islam whose sky fairy merely demands that I enslave non-believers.
[11:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive DNA Collection Campaign Continues in Xinjiang, China - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:13:43] <exec> 08└─I hate to break it to you, but the attacks against the US are symbolic in nature. The Islamists are wrongfully labelled terrorists - certainly they are violent extremists, but their goal is not to instill fear, rather it is the expression of malicious hatred [clarionproject.org] that drives them.
[11:13:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massive DNA Collection Campaign Continues in Xinjiang, China - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:13:45] <exec> 08└─Okay, I'm half joking but I can think of plenty of ways mass DNA collection could happen here in the U.S. Regardless, the fact this type of database is being built anywhere is cause for global concern. Nobody should welcome this...
[11:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive DNA Collection Campaign Continues in Xinjiang, China - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:13:48] <exec> 08└─Dude, you have not thought this thing through. Islam lets you have a harem. A harem. Not so dumb after all, eh?
[11:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Surgeon Branded Initials Into Patients' Livers With Argon Beam - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:32] <exec> 08└─You do not have to get tested. You do not have to spare a kidney nor a liver lobe. Just become a donor. If everyone were to be an organd donor upon exitus, we could all have three kidneys and two livers. Bone marrow transplants are a different though and testing would help. I am personally an organ...
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[12:12:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Possible Photo of Kim Jong-il Inspecting Atomic Bomb Appears on North Korean TV - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:12:47] <exec> 08└─I guess the question is if it is real or not, or are we talking about Sovjet style photographic manipulation to glorify the great leader? It's not like that isn't or wasn't a thing.
[12:13:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electromagnetic Water Cloak Eliminates Drag and Wake - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:02] <exec> 08└─So, not really helpful for my john boat then. And here I was all ready to get a bigger trolling motor.
[12:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 063.5 Mbps Broadband Through a "Wet String" - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:32] <exec> 08└─you pee on it.
[12:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 063.5 Mbps Broadband Through a "Wet String" - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:34] <exec> 08└─Adding salt to water makes it a better connector because it leaves free sodium and chlorine ions in the solution, but as far as I am aware salt is a pretty poor conductor.
[12:13:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive DNA Collection Campaign Continues in Xinjiang, China - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:58] <exec> 08└─China will eventually be homogenous, or nearly so, racially and religiously. Politically - maybe not. We may expect to see an upheaval in the party, but I'm not even guessing how long that might take.
[12:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive DNA Collection Campaign Continues in Xinjiang, China - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:59] <exec> 08└─We cannot trust governments, we cannot trust corporations. Any time you have a small group of people who can exercise power over large numbers of people to their own benefit, they will and we will not like it. Democracy was supposed to make that power revocable, but we all know that's not true. We m...
[12:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive DNA Collection Campaign Continues in Xinjiang, China - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:01] <exec> 08└─I believe they did this in Iceland for epidemiological reasons [wired.com].
[12:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Surgeon Branded Initials Into Patients' Livers With Argon Beam - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:47] <exec> 08└─What is used here is just plain HTML tags, the very same that end up being served to your browser (well, except for some additions; e.g. to the best of my knowledge HTML doesn't know the sarcasm tag). Why other sites had to invent that [] syntax when the <> syntax was around since the web itself was...
[12:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Surgeon Branded Initials Into Patients' Livers With Argon Beam - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:49] <exec> 08└─this is (monkey) business as usual.
[12:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Surgeon Branded Initials Into Patients' Livers With Argon Beam - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:51] <exec> 08└─Would you put yourself in the care of a surgeon that wasn't completely confident in their ability?
[12:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Surgeon Branded Initials Into Patients' Livers With Argon Beam - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:53] <exec> 08└─You mean, the liver could be used for storing electricity afterwards? :-)
[12:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Surgeon Branded Initials Into Patients' Livers With Argon Beam - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:55] <exec> 08└─Wasn't that very link already in the summary?
[12:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Android 8.0 Oreo Running on 0.5% of Android Devices - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:05] <exec> 08└─Who needs a new phone every week? Madness. I'm glad I don't have to take part in any of that.
[12:21:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Devuan ASCII Sprint -- 15-17 Dec. 2017 - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:32] <exec> 08└─It's nice if you don't have gotten any grief because it. But are you aware of the design decisions like the "root by default" thing? It's not exactly awe inspiring. Also the devs have a not-so-small god complex and brush aside everybody they disagree with just because. Then there's the Linux == Red...
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[13:12:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electromagnetic Water Cloak Eliminates Drag and Wake - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:58] <exec> 08└─A caterpillar drive, but turned inside out. Good news for sub-chasers, the IR signature of this beast will be huge.
[13:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electromagnetic Water Cloak Eliminates Drag and Wake - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:59] <exec> 08└─Water is a great heat sink, especially when you are moving through it at speed. Get up to 5 knots before engaging the drive - just don't think that you won't be visible to every IR satellite looking at your piece of ocean.
[13:13:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electromagnetic Water Cloak Eliminates Drag and Wake - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:02] <exec> 08└─Your john boat would benefit more from passive nanomaterial coatings, a good hydrophobic should help getting on-plane faster, once on-plane all this hydrodynamics stuff is much less important. Of course, instead of mucking around with hydrophobic coatings, an extra 10hp in the motor will get you eve...
[13:14:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massive DNA Collection Campaign Continues in Xinjiang, China - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:00] <exec> 08└─[Citation needed] Also https://www.hrw.org [hrw.org]
[13:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Surgeon Branded Initials Into Patients' Livers With Argon Beam - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:51] <exec> 08└─Yeah indeed, it is an innocent enough joke. Just make him pay for the wasted argon, and tattoo "I AM AN IDIOT" on his forehead and let him back to work. Sheesh.
[13:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Surgeon Branded Initials Into Patients' Livers With Argon Beam - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:52] <exec> 08└─HA, YOU WISH.
[13:16:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 73 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:16:09] <exec> 08└─Dirty campaigns go all the way back to 1800 with Jefferson against Adams.
[13:16:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 544 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:16:46] <exec> 08└─Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God? --Epicurus (341 BCE - 270 BCE) ...and the White churchgoers in Ala...
[13:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Android 8.0 Oreo Running on 0.5% of Android Devices - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:04] <exec> 08└─Step 1: get new phone. Step 2: Turn on. Step 3: Configure WiFi. Step 4: Install updates. Step 5: Set mobile data use policies. Step 6: Insert SIM. Both Android and iOS can be configured to download updates only on WiFi. Putting your SIM in a phone without checking what the default settings are...
[13:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Android 8.0 Oreo Running on 0.5% of Android Devices - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:06] <exec> 08└─It qualifies as remotely exploitable. As long as you have WiFi, Bluetooth, and cellular data disabled then it's probably safe. If you're still using a system the same age as your kernel then you might have Heartbleed patched, but you're still vulnerable to KRACK, StageFright and around 700 other vul...
[13:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Android 8.0 Oreo Running on 0.5% of Android Devices - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:08] <exec> 08└─You're very lucky to get 3 years from most Android manufacturers. Mine got two and in the second year it took six months before a high-profile vulnerability being announced and Motorola bothering to push out the fix.
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[14:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electromagnetic Water Cloak Eliminates Drag and Wake - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:03] <exec> 08└─I don't think EMR goes far underwater.
[14:13:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electromagnetic Water Cloak Eliminates Drag and Wake - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:05] <exec> 08└─If you can seriously reduce the drag of boats, that's huge. Perhaps air planes too? Having said that I would like to gawk at the nekkid ladies just as much as the next guy...
[14:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 063.5 Mbps Broadband Through a "Wet String" - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:38] <exec> 08└─Oh you thought we were going to run "fiber" to your home? No, we're running "fibre" string. Guess you thought it was a typo in the contract. ;)
[14:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 063.5 Mbps Broadband Through a "Wet String" - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:39] <exec> 08└─I made/installed a set of spark plug wires made out of 3/16" rubber vacuum hose on a co-workers car, his car started and ran fine on vacuum hose. There's no wire in the hose and no conductivity testing it with a DVOM. Figure that one out.
[14:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03fakefuck39 [6620] (Score: -1) 02 - 06Surgeon Branded Initials Into Patients' Livers With Argon Beam - 796 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:00] <exec> 08└─and moderation does what exactly? I have this theory. put a spinning wheel in a hamster cage and the dumb rat will run in it. give a dumb annoying baby a noise maker and it'll stop crying. give some millennial social rejects a button to click that makes their opinion show up on a website and their u...
[14:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Surgeon Branded Initials Into Patients' Livers With Argon Beam - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:01] <exec> 08└─Sure, they would have to pay for the Large Ego package otherwise.
[14:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Android 8.0 Oreo Running on 0.5% of Android Devices - 818 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:14] <exec> 08└─This "negligence in seller's favor", a default setting that just happens to cost you more money, is everywhere. Every time I've had to get a new phone or upgrade the OS, settings that I turned off to save money somehow are turned back on, and I didn't learn of it until the bill came. You can fight w...
[14:19:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Mocks Christmas Film Viewing Habits in "Creepy" Tweet - 1286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:02] <exec> 08└─How do you account for streaming content licensing? We generally license content for a fixed fee and a defined time period with payment terms varying by agreement. The signing of a license agreement to obtain future titles creates a streaming content obligation which we include in our Contractual...
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[15:12:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Putin Ordered Theft of Clinton's Emails from DNC, Russian Hacker Confesses - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:35] <exec> 08└─Is this the hacker FBI paid/coerced to confess?
[15:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Putin Ordered Theft of Clinton's Emails from DNC, Russian Hacker Confesses - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:36] <exec> 08└─FINALLY! As if there weren't enough smoking guns on the GOP side, FINALLY the Russians admit to rigging the damn election! I guess it's just a matter of time before the hammer of the SCOTUS sends the Orange Terror to Elba! YES!
[15:12:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Putin Ordered Theft of Clinton's Emails from DNC, Russian Hacker Confesses - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:39] <exec> 08└─Just because there's an old adage that states 'a lie repeated often enough becomes the truth' doesn't mean we'll start believing you after you've lied about everything else except from which direction the sun will rise. Like it or not, not all the constituency is as dumb as Hank Johnson [youtube.com...
[15:12:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Putin Ordered Theft of Clinton's Emails from DNC, Russian Hacker Confesses - 744 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:41] <exec> 08└─The linked article casts a lot of doubt on the confession. But for the sake of argument, let's say the confession is 100% correct and factual. If so, I say we give the guy and the Russians a big fat medal of freedom for letting the American people know how corrupt the highest levels of its governmen...
[15:12:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Putin Ordered Theft of Clinton's Emails from DNC, Russian Hacker Confesses - 692 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:43] <exec> 08└─We can certainly hope. But if we don't trust the Russians in general, why would we suddenly trust them when they say they hacked the election? We already know their propaganda efforts, like China's, are focused more on undermining the very idea of objective truth, rather than advancing a particular...
[15:12:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Putin Ordered Theft of Clinton's Emails from DNC, Russian Hacker Confesses - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:45] <exec> 08└─rigging the damn election
[15:12:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Possible Photo of Kim Jong-il Inspecting Atomic Bomb Appears on North Korean TV - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:58] <exec> 08└─Is he looking at an A-bomb or an H-bomb? They're quite different (and one's way scarier).
[15:13:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possible Photo of Kim Jong-il Inspecting Atomic Bomb Appears on North Korean TV - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:00] <exec> 08└─It could be a real photo of him with a mockup bomb. I don't see what the big deal about having a photo is. We know they have the potential to make them. It doesn't matter hugely if it gets photo ops. No publicity picture is going to give away that much useful information anyway besides perhaps a dis...
[15:13:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possible Photo of Kim Jong-il Inspecting Atomic Bomb Appears on North Korean TV - 998 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:02] <exec> 08└─The first photo of il looking at a globe is so blurry that it be a globe of the earth for all we know. Next we have a photo of un showing a bunch of missile stuff with some blurry posters followed by a news anchor lady. The most laughable photo is un next to what looks like a cylindrical Aluminum de...
[15:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possible Photo of Kim Jong-il Inspecting Atomic Bomb Appears on North Korean TV - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:04] <exec> 08└─Prop.
[15:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electromagnetic Water Cloak Eliminates Drag and Wake - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:25] <exec> 08└─Or, the enormous energies go largely to generating magnetic fields within the vehicle, so that relatively low currents in the water will generate the same thrust.
[15:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electromagnetic Water Cloak Eliminates Drag and Wake - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:27] <exec> 08└─the water will do that for you free of charge.
[15:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 063.5 Mbps Broadband Through a "Wet String" - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:02] <exec> 08└─Americans use fiber, Brits use fibre. Maybe that's why UK internet is faster than US internet. :-)
[15:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive DNA Collection Campaign Continues in Xinjiang, China - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:30] <exec> 08└─Do we plan ahead less far?
[15:15:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Surgeon Branded Initials Into Patients' Livers With Argon Beam - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:25] <exec> 08└─Hah, I didn't notice that link. But yes, same one.
[15:16:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Once Again Requires That You Register Your Drone - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:00] <exec> 08└─There's nothing fancy about a "reaper drone". It's a glider with a snowmobile engine, some cameras on gimbals, and a satellite data transceiver. They are unsexy tools whose primary usefulness comes from their ability to stay up in the sky while pilots swap out before they die of boredom. I broke out...
[15:19:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Mocks Christmas Film Viewing Habits in "Creepy" Tweet - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:29] <exec> 08└─When I was a kid I never saw the same film twice - what would be the point? - but that was before DVDs or Netflix.
[15:19:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Human-Sized Penguins Once Roamed New Zealand - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:58] <exec> 08└─I think it should be called the god emperor penguin.
[15:21:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03canopic jug [3949] 02 - 06Devuan ASCII Sprint -- 15-17 Dec. 2017 - 144 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:55] <exec> 08└─Thanks. Another link that I should have added to the summary is to a blog post about why Devuan has become increasingly important [ungleich.ch].
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[16:12:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Pentagon to Allow Transgender People to Enlist in Military - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:37] <exec> 08└─Would have loved this when I was in. Could've identified as a female and gave those horny ladies in basic some deep dickin'. Showered with 'em too.
[16:12:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pentagon to Allow Transgender People to Enlist in Military - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:38] <exec> 08└─As long as the military isn't using public money to provide non-necessary medical procedures to soldiers, this shouldn't be a problem. Not that the military isn't wasting public money on tons of other stuff they shouldn't be like gay bombs, combat vehicles to pad the budget and make friends with sma...
[16:12:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon to Allow Transgender People to Enlist in Military - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:41] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure why the pseudo-left cares so much about this empty victory. The Pentagon and US Military, as well as the CIA and NSA, are the capitalist tentacles that (try to) crush any non-capitalist enemy in its way. This is just encouraging our allies to fight for the capitalist enemy's causes and...
[16:12:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon to Allow Transgender People to Enlist in Military - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:43] <exec> 08└─Hell with the naked chicks. I could have taken the lower PT standards!
[16:12:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon to Allow Transgender People to Enlist in Military - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:45] <exec> 08└─https://www.va.gov/HEALTH/NewsFeatures/2017/January/Transgender-Vets-the-VA-and-Respect.asp [va.gov] https://www.theverge.com [theverge.com] http://online.liebertpub.com [liebertpub.com] The...
[16:12:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon to Allow Transgender People to Enlist in Military - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:47] <exec> 08└─It's a trick to get transgender people sent to die in Asia and Africa.
[16:12:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pentagon to Allow Transgender People to Enlist in Military - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:49] <exec> 08└─There is a 45% suicide rate. Surgery doesn't change it. If somebody is suicidal, should we be giving them weapons? Should we let them fly planes? NO. Just NO. (and these are REAL assault rifles, with selective fire, not just black scary plinkers)
[16:12:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon to Allow Transgender People to Enlist in Military - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:52] <exec> 08└─Unless of course that knowledge of combat can help us after our trans* allies leave the military... Just a thought >:)
[16:13:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06Putin Ordered Theft of Clinton's Emails from DNC, Russian Hacker Confesses - 692 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:02] <exec> 08└─We can certainly hope. But if we don't trust the Russians in general, why would we suddenly trust them when they say they hacked the election? We already know their propaganda efforts, like China's, are focused more on undermining the very idea of objective truth, rather than advancing a particular...
[16:13:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Putin Ordered Theft of Clinton's Emails from DNC, Russian Hacker Confesses - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:05] <exec> 08└─What about the DNC rigging the primary? When I voted for Clinton♀, it was the first time in my life I've voted for a D/R teamer. I found that lizard people really aren't so bad once you get to know them, especially compared to the orangutan people! Then she lost. Get over it. I'll be going back to...
[16:13:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Putin Ordered Theft of Clinton's Emails from DNC, Russian Hacker Confesses - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:07] <exec> 08└─I confess. God ordered me to take all of your money. Now that my confession is out of the way, we can begin the process of using it as a substitute for objective evidence of my claim.
[16:13:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 0, Offtopic) 02 - 06Putin Ordered Theft of Clinton's Emails from DNC, Russian Hacker Confesses - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:09] <exec> 08└─Trump won. Deal with it.
[16:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Putin Ordered Theft of Clinton's Emails from DNC, Russian Hacker Confesses - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:11] <exec> 08└─While the DNC's pushing aside of Bernie Sanders in favor of not-yet-the-nominee Hillary Clinton was a huge scandal, and absolutely not okay, I'm not sure I've heard anything from these hacks that showed anything else. What corruption do you speak of?
[16:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Putin Ordered Theft of Clinton's Emails from DNC, Russian Hacker Confesses - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:13] <exec> 08└─Putin Ordered Theft of Clinton's Emails from DNC
[16:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Putin Ordered Theft of Clinton's Emails from DNC, Russian Hacker Confesses - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:16] <exec> 08└─Revealing the truth is "rigging the election" now, is it? Interesting. What's also interesting is a guy who's in trouble for breaking the law just to stir up shit for a political party is now unquestioningly believed when stirring up shit against another political party.
[16:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Putin Ordered Theft of Clinton's Emails from DNC, Russian Hacker Confesses - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:18] <exec> 08└─He WILL be impeached. Here's some bold text to emphasize my egoism.
[16:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possible Photo of Kim Jong-il Inspecting Atomic Bomb Appears on North Korean TV - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:35] <exec> 08└─A-bomb, most likely. the photograph has notable similarities to recent photographs of Kim Jong-un inspecting the country's first (claimed) hydrogen bomb.
[16:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Men Plead Guilty to Operating Mirai Botnet - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:06] <exec> 08└─I'm still waiting for the headline "people die in fire caused by IoT device." Hacked or not, I imagine that will be a wake up call of sorts.
[16:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Men Plead Guilty to Operating Mirai Botnet - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:07] <exec> 08└─Yeah, they'll add an evil bit [ietf.org] checker to all new IoT devices.
[16:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny Moon Possibly Orbiting 2014 MU69 - 644 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:18] <exec> 08└─If an object has gravity, it potentially has many "moons". Finding one, especially a relatively large one, probably actually reduces the number of other satellites you'd expect to find, since it will destabilize the orbits of anything it's not in orbital resonance with it. (If not collide with them...
[16:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 063.5 Mbps Broadband Through a "Wet String" - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:38] <exec> 08└─I see that string theory is finally gaining acceptance!
[16:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 063.5 Mbps Broadband Through a "Wet String" - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:40] <exec> 08└─I have long wanted to offer "non-metallic monster cables" for the audiophile market. They could be said to reduce the 'metallic twang' from copper wiring,you see, by replacing that conductor with a piss-filled tube.
[16:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive DNA Collection Campaign Continues in Xinjiang, China - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:09] <exec> 08└─This is what HRW is. Fucking hypocritical communist tool.
[16:16:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Geminid Meteors to Peak on December 13–14 - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:52] <exec> 08└─The Earth basically cleared out all the cruft many years ago. The stuff we mostly get now is the stuff from relatively recent interlopers (comets), stuff that occasionally gets kicked out of a debris belt every time Jupiter passes by, or stuff that we put up ourselves. Of course, every now and again...
[16:16:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Geminid Meteors to Peak on December 13–14 - 729 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:54] <exec> 08└─Space dust already covers many orders of magnitude: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] The most impressive im...
[16:17:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 58 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:18] <exec> 08└─So if Mitch McConnell believes something, it must be true?
[16:20:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Human-Sized Penguins Once Roamed New Zealand - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:41] <exec> 08└─Congratulations on winning the genetic height lottery. It's not like you did anything to accomplish such a feat so I'm not sure why you're looking down from that 6'11" high horse. Also: nobodycares.jpg
[16:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Full Moons Linked to Increased Motorcyclist Deaths - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:27] <exec> 08└─How in the hell is this "offtopic"? The study itself is wrong, as I proved; this couldn't be more on-topic.
[16:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Full Moons Linked to Increased Motorcyclist Deaths - 757 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:29] <exec> 08└─the immense self-control required not to kill the Harley and tuned-exhaust-sportbike riders. Maybe there's a geographical area factor at play here, but I've lived in several places around the US, and I've never noticed sportbike riders to have ridiculously loud exhausts. I've seen a few that were pr...
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[17:12:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:52] <exec> 08└─I never go out in public without wearing dazzle makeup. http://www.celestiellepaint.co.uk [celestiellepaint.co.uk]
[17:12:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:53] <exec> 08└─"Look mom, I have a vag!"
[17:13:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon to Allow Transgender People to Enlist in Military - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:09] <exec> 08└─Not that the military congress isn't wasting public money
[17:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Flamebait) 02 - 06Pentagon to Allow Transgender People to Enlist in Military - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:10] <exec> 08└─They'd get a $250,000 worth of surgery at military expense, then spend the whole term of enlistment recovering. The whole point of joining is usually to get free surgery.
[17:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Pentagon to Allow Transgender People to Enlist in Military - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:12] <exec> 08└─Yes, but you fail to understand why they are letting these people in. After years of study, they realized that suicide bombers are excellent form of anti-morale weaponry. These new transgender recruits will form the pilot suicide-bomber squads. We give them vests, and tell them to run into the enemy...
[17:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Pentagon to Allow Transgender People to Enlist in Military - 1434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:14] <exec> 08└─That is the point. Poz the military so it isn't a threat. The history of the 20th Century is best understood as a civil war between the Blue portion of the USG, centered in the State Dept and the Red side in the War / Defense Dept. The shooting parts of the war have of course been conducted elsewher...
[17:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pentagon to Allow Transgender People to Enlist in Military - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:16] <exec> 08└─They won't sign you up for gender transition surgery more than once, Eth! And the sutures might give way, if you over exert.
[17:13:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03idiot_king [6587] 02 - 06Putin Ordered Theft of Clinton's Emails from DNC, Russian Hacker Confesses - 227 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:26] <exec> 08└─FINALLY! As if there weren't enough smoking guns on the GOP side, FINALLY the Russians admit to rigging the damn election! I guess it's just a matter of time before the hammer of the SCOTUS sends the Orange Terror to Elba! YES!
[17:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Putin Ordered Theft of Clinton's Emails from DNC, Russian Hacker Confesses - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:38] <exec> 08└─This is exactly the strategy. It's also why sexual accusers show up 5 to 10 at a time. A lie repeated often enough becomes the truth, at least in public opinion.
[17:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Putin Ordered Theft of Clinton's Emails from DNC, Russian Hacker Confesses - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:39] <exec> 08└─Is that what you said to the MPAA lawyers in court?
[17:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Offtopic) 02 - 06Putin Ordered Theft of Clinton's Emails from DNC, Russian Hacker Confesses - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:41] <exec> 08└─Everybody "investigating" is tainted. There are emails now released under FOIA that show they all were planning to fight Trump from before the investigation started. Failure to disclose that is a huge problem for them. Right now, it's making Whitewater look minor. A sitting president orders a wireta...
[17:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Putin Ordered Theft of Clinton's Emails from DNC, Russian Hacker Confesses - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:43] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_in_the_United_States [wikipedia.org] Majority in the House of Representatives needed to initiate impeachment. 67 votes required in the Senate to remove Trump from office. The Democrats have three times as many Senate seats up for grabs in 2018 [wikipedia.org...
[17:13:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Putin Ordered Theft of Clinton's Emails from DNC, Russian Hacker Confesses - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:45] <exec> 08└─+1 Pedantic
[17:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Putin Ordered Theft of Clinton's Emails from DNC, Russian Hacker Confesses - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:48] <exec> 08└─trust you to try to reframe the discussion, your desparation is palpable. notice that trump slash republican emails were /not/ released? also, a reminder for those with a short attention span, manafort, kushner, and junior all agreed [nytimes.com] to work with the russian government's attempt to inf...
[17:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Putin Ordered Theft of Clinton's Emails from DNC, Russian Hacker Confesses - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:50] <exec> 08└─who said "rigging"
[17:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Putin Ordered Theft of Clinton's Emails from DNC, Russian Hacker Confesses - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:52] <exec> 08└─The Russians did not hack the DNC. It was an inside job by a disgruntled Bernie Bro. Hillary Clinton's people killed him but too late to achieve anything but revenge. Nobody has yet disputed the accuracy of the accuracy of the material in the WikiLeaks dumps. This whole "scandal" is outrage over som...
[17:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Putin Ordered Theft of Clinton's Emails from DNC, Russian Hacker Confesses - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:55] <exec> 08└─The media and DNC and Establishment have been crying up and down and five ways to Sunday about a theory where Russians may have influenced the Presidential election by buying ads on Facebook and astro-turfing social media, and they have been ginning it up into a veritable casus belli, but actual pro...
[17:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Putin Ordered Theft of Clinton's Emails from DNC, Russian Hacker Confesses - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:57] <exec> 08└─a goal advanced by both putting a compulsive liar like Trump in office
[17:14:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Target Buys Shipt Inc. for $550 Million, Will Offer Same-Day Delivery - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:05] <exec> 08└─keeping pace with Amazon.
[17:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny Moon Possibly Orbiting 2014 MU69 - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:58] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/11/08/2134252 [soylentnews.org] To prevent a Boaty McBoatface redux, the New Horizons team is allowing you to pick from a number of options or submit your own name for consideration by December 1st. The poll is only to gauge support; they will decide which n...
[17:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tiny Moon Possibly Orbiting 2014 MU69 - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:59] <exec> 08└─Finding one, especially a relatively large one, probably actually reduces the number of other satellites you'd expect to find
[17:15:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive DNA Collection Campaign Continues in Xinjiang, China - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:52] <exec> 08└─Okay I had no idea. This didn't get any coverage whatsoever.
[17:15:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massive DNA Collection Campaign Continues in Xinjiang, China - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:53] <exec> 08└─Enslave or kill...
[17:16:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Surgeon Branded Initials Into Patients' Livers With Argon Beam - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:50] <exec> 08└─most users have scores and moderation disabled - it takes up useless space.
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[18:12:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here - 1605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:37] <exec> 08└─Whether an image, or a stream of images in a video, there's no physical harm that takes place when photons hit a person's retina in any given pattern (subject to intensity limitations, etc.) O.K. - stepping back, some people have photo-sensitive epilepsy, and putting out videos that trigger that whe...
[18:12:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:38] <exec> 08└─I think we need to readjust the attitude that images represent truth
[18:12:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:40] <exec> 08└─Even having sex.
[18:12:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:43] <exec> 08└─I think we need to readjust the attitude that images represent truth - because it won't be long before false images are just as easy to make as true ones.
[18:12:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:45] <exec> 08└─Our political system isn't fucked up enough by all the lies, we need more capability to produce fake pictures that are near impossible to debunk. At least, the guys working for Stalin had to work hard, to remove people from photos. Now we except idiot voters to decide whether they should vote for th...
[18:12:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:47] <exec> 08└─The problem is that people make snap judgments on unreliable information. Most people still believe what they're told by whichever new site they watch. Often they'll deny it, but watch their actions later, and they actually believe it when they aren't consciously being cautious.
[18:12:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here - 901 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:49] <exec> 08└─"Whether an image, or a stream of images in a video, there's no physical harm that takes place when photons hit a person's retina" While I don't necessarily disagree with you, this is a hard concept to sell. Why should porno cartoons with Bart Simpson be illegal? Or certain porn-animes? Want to bet...
[18:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Pentagon to Allow Transgender People to Enlist in Military - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:09] <exec> 08└─Name checks out.
[18:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon to Allow Transgender People to Enlist in Military - 854 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:11] <exec> 08└─Enduring victory requires that the enemy stop being your enemy. The ways we have to do this are to make them a) dead, b) our slaves, or c) our friends. The American people lost their stomach for option A some time around the Vietnam War, and attempting option B tends to lead to more wars (Germany in...
[18:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon to Allow Transgender People to Enlist in Military - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:13] <exec> 08└─The left cares about this because the military is already the single largest employer of trans people in America. Because the prescribed treatment is a dramatic change in one’s relation to society, transgender individuals, who are much more likely to experience rejection and poverty, benefit great...
[18:13:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fishybell [3156] 02 - 06Putin Ordered Theft of Clinton's Emails from DNC, Russian Hacker Confesses - 250 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:29] <exec> 08└─While the DNC's pushing aside of Bernie Sanders in favor of not-yet-the-nominee Hillary Clinton was a huge scandal, and absolutely not okay, I'm not sure I've heard anything from these hacks that showed anything else. What corruption do you speak of?
[18:13:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Putin Ordered Theft of Clinton's Emails from DNC, Russian Hacker Confesses - 271 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:31] <exec> 08└─Revealing the truth is "rigging the election" now, is it? Interesting. What's also interesting is a guy who's in trouble for breaking the law just to stir up shit for a political party is now unquestioningly believed when stirring up shit against another political party.
[18:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Putin Ordered Theft of Clinton's Emails from DNC, Russian Hacker Confesses - 820 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:43] <exec> 08└─"The media and DNC and Establishment have been crying up and down and five ways to Sunday about a theory where Russians may have influenced the Presidential election by buying ads on Facebook and astro-turfing social media, and they have been ginning it up into a veritable casus belli, but actual pr...
[18:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Touché) 02 - 06Putin Ordered Theft of Clinton's Emails from DNC, Russian Hacker Confesses - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:45] <exec> 08└─FINALLY the Russians admit to rigging the damn election!
[18:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Putin Ordered Theft of Clinton's Emails from DNC, Russian Hacker Confesses - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:47] <exec> 08└─Can we please start asking questions about the strange and unfortunate deaths from within the DNC and the investigator looking into the DNC?
[18:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Putin Ordered Theft of Clinton's Emails from DNC, Russian Hacker Confesses - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:49] <exec> 08└─Can we please talk about what was in those e-mails? Can we discuss the meetings held in private with GS and other global investment banks? Can we discuss the inner workings of the DNC, and how it selected their nominee? Who and how the information was leaked is a distraction. We have real, documente...
[18:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Target Buys Shipt Inc. for $550 Million, Will Offer Same-Day Delivery - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:58] <exec> 08└─It's in purpose. I'd you don't pay for prime, you will wait, not because you have to, because they want to punish you for not purchasing prime. This is one of many reasons why I try to order direct from the manufacturer or distributor and try to avoid Amazon when at all possible.
[18:15:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Massive DNA Collection Campaign Continues in Xinjiang, China - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:44] <exec> 08└─"They started it?"
[18:15:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive DNA Collection Campaign Continues in Xinjiang, China - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:46] <exec> 08└─PC culture has turned me into a raging racist as well. When you turn everything to revolve around race, you get exactly this.
[18:15:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive DNA Collection Campaign Continues in Xinjiang, China - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:48] <exec> 08└─Mmmmmm. One woman isn't enough trouble?
[18:16:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Surgeon Branded Initials Into Patients' Livers With Argon Beam - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:45] <exec> 08└─So, you're saying that this is more like the mechanic drawing a penis in the condensation on a car's windshield. No lasting or permanent damage, but annoying as fuck to the driver and completely unprofessional.
[18:20:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobmorning [6045] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Android 8.0 Oreo Running on 0.5% of Android Devices - 746 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:03] <exec> 08└─Mine did the same thing day after thanksgiving. I have a 5x purchased in Oct 2015. I was able to get it to boot to desktop so I could do a factory reset by putting it into the freezer for 30 minutes. Call Google, tell them your 5x is bootlooping. You need your proof of purchase. I bought my phone...
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[19:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Google Researchers Discover an 8th Planet in the Kepler-90 System - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:36] <exec> 08└─It would sure be funny if we find a system with 9+ exoplanets before we find (if it exists) Planet Nine [wikipedia.org] (not Pluto). Note that all of the exoplanets found in Kepler-90 [wikipedia.org] and Kepler-80 [wikipedia.org] have an estimated radius above Earth's, so they are likely to be consi...
[19:12:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Google Researchers Discover an 8th Planet in the Kepler-90 System - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:37] <exec> 08└─nIGGERS.
[19:12:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Researchers Discover an 8th Planet in the Kepler-90 System - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:39] <exec> 08└─I had this reaction: The size of Kepler-90i is estimated at 1.32 ± 0.21 Earth radii...
[19:12:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:55] <exec> 08└─of being the death of Hollywood and of all the "celebrity" craze. When a layperson or two get an option to, basically, act a movie by their own selves and then reskin the result into an entire cast of "actors" - amateur cinema get its chance to compete with the megacorp-produced slop on the merits....
[19:12:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:57] <exec> 08└─Want to bet that entirely computer-generated kiddie-porn would be illegal?
[19:12:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:59] <exec> 08└─Whether an image, or a stream of images in a video, there's no physical harm that takes place when photons hit a person's retina in any given pattern Libel and slander don't cause physical harm either but they're both illegal for good reasons.
[19:13:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:01] <exec> 08└─There's a remarkably low threshold for terror these past couple decades. Nukes exploding in every major city... now that's scary. Unlikely perhaps, but if it happened, people might stop fretting about porn for a few minutes.
[19:13:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:03] <exec> 08└─As with scarily many other things, this was accurately predicted in the 1986 Arnold Schwarzenegger movie "The Running Man". It also predicted reality TV (to be fair, so did 1970's THX-1138, but Running Man's was much more accurate), and using the internet to make travel reservations.
[19:13:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here - 1810 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:05] <exec> 08└─More personally: Want your wife's/girlfriend's head pasted onto a YouPorn video and sent to the world? I'm going to step in here and opine that this is actually a different issue. It's like slander/libel: it constitutes character defamation. Saying lies about something that doesn't affect anyone ("t...
[19:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon to Allow Transgender People to Enlist in Military - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:29] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlFCMdBgTpE&list=PLmUMhnYbkDafuZS7EnJ61UrT-EgLoVjbS [youtube.com] Take me down to transgender city where the chicks have dicks and the boys have titties
[19:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon to Allow Transgender People to Enlist in Military - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:30] <exec> 08└─I'm glad you said "generally speaking". We do have examples to the contrary.
[19:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon to Allow Transgender People to Enlist in Military - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:32] <exec> 08└─Sounds like someone have been to Thailand.
[19:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03number6x [903] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Putin Ordered Theft of Clinton's Emails from DNC, Russian Hacker Confesses - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:06] <exec> 08└─That's right. Because primaries and the general election are TOTALLY DIFFERENT THINGS. There is no comparison. Stop with your whaddabouthillaryisms already!
[19:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Target Buys Shipt Inc. for $550 Million, Will Offer Same-Day Delivery - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:16] <exec> 08└─With the holiday rush, it's better to buy online and pick up at Target or -shudder- Walmart. A lot of stuff is backordered or bumped in price on Amazon since before Black Friday. Competition is good. Support your local store, rather than save $5. I don't want to live in a place with only hair and na...
[19:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possible Photo of Kim Jong-il Inspecting Atomic Bomb Appears on North Korean TV - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:29] <exec> 08└─> I smell propaganda. It's for internal consumption regardless of authenticity. For external propaganda, they rely on our seismographs.
[19:15:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 063.5 Mbps Broadband Through a "Wet String" - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:35] <exec> 08└─I am aware salt is a pretty poor conductor.
[19:16:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive DNA Collection Campaign Continues in Xinjiang, China - 4741 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:10] <exec> 08└─Curious. Why you capitalize "white"? It's just a color. And, very very few people are "white" anyway. I'm sure as hell not. I've met a few who are very white - places like Denmark - but if you did a spectrum scan on their asses, they probably aren't white either. Some strange flavor of off-white may...
[19:16:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive DNA Collection Campaign Continues in Xinjiang, China - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:11] <exec> 08└─People pay for the privilege to have their DNA taken and put into a database... What, you think 23AndMe and all the others throw away your sample and delete all the information they have after they tell you some bullshit about your ancestry?
[19:20:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Crash [1335] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Android 8.0 Oreo Running on 0.5% of Android Devices - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:28] <exec> 08└─Or just turn off mobile data. Swipe Down, Tap, Tap. I only enable mobile data & location when its required for something *I need*.
[19:20:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Crash [1335] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Android 8.0 Oreo Running on 0.5% of Android Devices - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:30] <exec> 08└─Sure sounds good in theory, but with the Nexus brand currently abandoned, and the Moto X4 somewhat of a wet dog -- are the Pixel phones (no aux, no microSD) really worth more $$ than a laptop?
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[20:12:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Researchers Discover an 8th Planet in the Kepler-90 System - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:40] <exec> 08└─it would have been nice to know there was a really proper Earthilke planet out there.
[20:12:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Researchers Discover an 8th Planet in the Kepler-90 System - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:42] <exec> 08└─Surface temperature is estimated at 435°C (709 K). Bugger! Not Earthlike. Nope, it's Venuslike. It sounds just like Venus, just a little bit more massive. It could still have aliens living there in cloud cities...
[20:12:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Researchers Discover an 8th Planet in the Kepler-90 System - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:44] <exec> 08└─Since we don't know yet which planet has an atmosphere and what those are made of, a lot more Earthlikes might turn out to be Venuslikes. And some Marslikes might be Earthlikes. Those estimates are purely based on star brightness/distance. As we see here, a few degrees can change a planet a lot.
[20:12:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Researchers Discover an 8th Planet in the Kepler-90 System - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:46] <exec> 08└─The pictures/photos of these newly discovered planets are amazing! Must be using at least a 4megapixel Kodak camera or better. I look in these same spots with my telescope and see only darkness. Amazing technology NASA has with these cameras.
[20:12:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Researchers Discover an 8th Planet in the Kepler-90 System - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:48] <exec> 08└─I was thinking that finding Planet 9 would break the tie and put our solar system back on top. As if "most planets" is a contest, and that it matters. What I'm really wondering is whether the stellar wobble exoplanet hunting technique can be applied right here in our solar system to find more planet...
[20:12:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Researchers Discover an 8th Planet in the Kepler-90 System - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:51] <exec> 08└─i have to say I am disappointed that they generated some excitement by stating they'd make an announcement, and all it is is oh look our advertising and marketing overlords of personal tracking have tracked new planets too i dont feel any better about it knowing they can find hidden planets in far a...
[20:12:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Researchers Discover an 8th Planet in the Kepler-90 System - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:53] <exec> 08└─wait what photos do you mean the artist intepretation?
[20:13:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here - 1605 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:03] <exec> 08└─Whether an image, or a stream of images in a video, there's no physical harm that takes place when photons hit a person's retina in any given pattern (subject to intensity limitations, etc.) O.K. - stepping back, some people have photo-sensitive epilepsy, and putting out videos that trigger that whe...
[20:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:15] <exec> 08└─"no physical harm that takes place when photons hit a person's retina in any given pattern" not true. you can rewire the brain with images.
[20:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here - 1240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:17] <exec> 08└─They've always been manipulated, particularly the context and what is not shown: cropping images, editing video (what happened 10 secs prior to this "horrible" event?). This is going to change how we interact with others. This will change how we identify ourselves and how we verify identification. T...
[20:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:19] <exec> 08└─And I will. So many brains out there to spoil.
[20:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:21] <exec> 08└─empire and control; pretty good reasons? http://www.theage.com.au [theage.com.au] https://archive.org [archive.org]
[20:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gault.Drakkor [1079] (Score: 1) 02 - 06AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:23] <exec> 08└─As the cost of synthetic creation and manipulation becomes cheaper... What this will probably come to is the content+geo-loc+time must be crypto signed to be considered real. You can't prevent world read+edit. But we should be able to optionally have cryptographically signed media(signed at creation...
[20:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:26] <exec> 08└─They actually depicted those computer generated scenes as actually computer generated scenes that looked realistic. They didn't have battles they pasted the faces on, they used the accurate body model/face images to create figures that were generated to realistically look like they were fighting. Th...
[20:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:28] <exec> 08└─Holewood will find a way to just sue these people :)
[20:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:30] <exec> 08└─can we put politician faces on these, then? maybe just their names as senders of text messages saying naughty things to women that are intended to present the texts as evidence? I mean its like the kids these days don't even know how to forge an email header anymore
[20:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:32] <exec> 08└─The stuff they used to paint battleships with [wikipedia.org] so you had a harder time telling how far away they were?
[20:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon to Allow Transgender People to Enlist in Military - 2676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:59] <exec> 08└─It is what it is. But I do wonder what this might or will do to unit cohesion. I expect the argument to heat up somewhat again. They are still debating and examining what adding women does to the/a fighting unit. The results are everything and everywhere from everything is fine (ie it has done no ha...
[20:14:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Pentagon to Allow Transgender People to Enlist in Military - 693 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:00] <exec> 08└─Everyone wants to be a unique, special snowflake...But the military isn't a place for unique, special snowflakes. It's a place for cogs in a greater machine. Please either 1) adapt to the group, shut up, and do your job; or 2) take your uniqueness elsewhere. Yes, I am uncomfortable with your inabi...
[20:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Putin Ordered Theft of Clinton's Emails from DNC, Russian Hacker Confesses - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:37] <exec> 08└─i'm sure an american haxxor arrested in russia would say whatever they told him to say too. do people really believe the shit that spews from the governments of the world?
[20:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Putin Ordered Theft of Clinton's Emails from DNC, Russian Hacker Confesses - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:38] <exec> 08└─CONSIDER THE SOURCE.
[20:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Putin Ordered Theft of Clinton's Emails from DNC, Russian Hacker Confesses - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:40] <exec> 08└─Of course, the reason why public money goes into running party elections is because 19th century society thought that otherwise parties would just degenerate to nominating candidates via backroom deals among the powerful. :)
[20:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Putin Ordered Theft of Clinton's Emails from DNC, Russian Hacker Confesses - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:42] <exec> 08└─Personally, I find the attempted coronation of Clinton to be a betrayal of the people. I find that whole process corrupt. BUT having said that, at the end of the day the DNC primary is nowhere near the same thing as the general presidential election. The DNC was within it's rights legally to do what...
[20:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Putin Ordered Theft of Clinton's Emails from DNC, Russian Hacker Confesses - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:45] <exec> 08└─You seem to have replied to the wrong message there.
[20:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Putin Ordered Theft of Clinton's Emails from DNC, Russian Hacker Confesses - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:47] <exec> 08└─Go sportspolitics team go. No I will not listen to reason I will just wave my flag no matter how much bullshit they feed me. I m now totally under the control of the gestalt. Go team you justify my hate.
[20:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03John Miller [6613] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Putin Ordered Theft of Clinton's Emails from DNC, Russian Hacker Confesses - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:49] <exec> 08└─The President had no knowledge of the story, and it’s completely untrue that he or the White House had involvement in the story.
[20:15:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electromagnetic Water Cloak Eliminates Drag and Wake - 691 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:34] <exec> 08└─Another thing that subs have that can reveal their position is the magnetic field of their hull. I worked with someone many years ago who had done work on subs for the US Navy (he was very vague on exact details). "Red October" had just come out and we were talking about magnetohydrodynamic engines....
[20:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Surgeon Branded Initials Into Patients' Livers With Argon Beam - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:51] <exec> 08└─Why other sites had to invent that [] syntax when the syntax was around since the web itself was is beyond me.
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[21:12:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Offers no Data for Latest Claim that Net Neutrality Hurt Small ISPs - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:40] <exec> 08└─they don't need to do anything the democrats thought was necessary. they are using their majority period. discussion just wastes time. if there is something that helps, great. otherwise its all irrelevant, fake, or desperation. at least he hasnt called the consumers a bundle of deplorables; that'll...
[21:12:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Offers no Data for Latest Claim that Net Neutrality Hurt Small ISPs - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:41] <exec> 08└─and that's a wrap https://arstechnica.com [arstechnica.com] still despite the warnings, they voted it in anyway. i guess its a matter of time then
[21:12:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Offers no Data for Latest Claim that Net Neutrality Hurt Small ISPs - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:43] <exec> 08└─Add an update, the FCC just scrapped Net Neutrality. https://www.theguardian.com [theguardian.com] Gee the people of the US must be cringing and unproud of who they voted in. Travel bans, walls, pipelines (XL), environmental protection re...
[21:12:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Offers no Data for Latest Claim that Net Neutrality Hurt Small ISPs - 690 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:45] <exec> 08└─The actual choice in the law: pretend that the internet is a landline phone, or pretend that the internet is something like a hardwired stock ticker service That is a stupid choice to be stuck with. Without net neutrality, large ISPs extract money from large internet companies, Small players can't n...
[21:12:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Offers no Data for Latest Claim that Net Neutrality Hurt Small ISPs - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:48] <exec> 08└─Gee the people of the US must be cringing and unproud of who they voted in.
[21:12:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Offers no Data for Latest Claim that Net Neutrality Hurt Small ISPs - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:50] <exec> 08└─Hoping the judges help, but that's far from a given. Completely unrelated, but let's pretend it's not: SN fells slow the last few days.
[21:12:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Flamebait) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Offers no Data for Latest Claim that Net Neutrality Hurt Small ISPs - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:52] <exec> 08└─Rightards love it up the ass.
[21:12:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Offers no Data for Latest Claim that Net Neutrality Hurt Small ISPs - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:54] <exec> 08└─Some are. Others are feeling like we're getting a better America because of it. Not me, but just because I see differently (and I believe more correctly) doesn't mean I can't see them also. In this particular instance, it will be the people who don't care if their Netflix bill goes up and they're on...
[21:12:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Offers no Data for Latest Claim that Net Neutrality Hurt Small ISPs - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:56] <exec> 08└─I'm convinced some percentage of economic conservatism among the working classes is a form of sexual masochism. They experience a form of erotic pleasure from being financially dominated.
[21:12:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Offers no Data for Latest Claim that Net Neutrality Hurt Small ISPs - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:59] <exec> 08└─Interesting, indeed. Soon, there won't be any small ISP's, nor will there be a whole lot of non-big-corporation offerings. Everything that looks profitable will be bought out by the big corps, and only big corps will be able to afford the fast lanes. And, we're all screwed. Well, all but the big cor...
[21:13:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Offers no Data for Latest Claim that Net Neutrality Hurt Small ISPs - 1909 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:01] <exec> 08└─Of course I can gripe. I don't want to register a drone. The loss of net neutrality is a bummer, though I can see why conservatives don't support it: over the last year especially, the net has been anything but neutral from an end-user perspective, with lots of conservative people being demonetized...
[21:13:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Offers no Data for Latest Claim that Net Neutrality Hurt Small ISPs - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:03] <exec> 08└─not in the communications services sense. He's talking about the information services that want to replace your communications services. Net Neutrality does hurt them, as it should.
[21:13:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Offers no Data for Latest Claim that Net Neutrality Hurt Small ISPs - 1255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:05] <exec> 08└─Was the PATRIOT act patriotic? Did the CAN SPAM act actually stop spammers? We have a long history of laws that do roughly the opposite of what they claim to do. Everybody knows this, conservatives included, so support for "net neutrality" is rightly suspected of doing the opposite just due to the n...
[21:13:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Offers no Data for Latest Claim that Net Neutrality Hurt Small ISPs - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:08] <exec> 08└─Travel bans
[21:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Offers no Data for Latest Claim that Net Neutrality Hurt Small ISPs - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:10] <exec> 08└─I haven't read such a wall of bullshit in a looong time.
[21:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Offers no Data for Latest Claim that Net Neutrality Hurt Small ISPs - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:12] <exec> 08└─How can there be so many fools on SN? It boggles the mind.
[21:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Offers no Data for Latest Claim that Net Neutrality Hurt Small ISPs - 1685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:14] <exec> 08└─They call it a security problem. It was a BOMB THREAT from ISIS. A strike at the heart of our government, our great FCC. Let me tell you, we have made tremendous strides at getting rid of ISIS. We have generals that don’t like to talk. They like to do. We were with general Mattis last night. The s...
[21:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Offers no Data for Latest Claim that Net Neutrality Hurt Small ISPs - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:17] <exec> 08└─BOGGLING IN PROGRESS! Seriously? You want to blame twitter / fb / google censorship on Net Neutrality? You shill! You moron! You traitor!
[21:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Offers no Data for Latest Claim that Net Neutrality Hurt Small ISPs - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:19] <exec> 08└─Yeah when was Net Neutrality when Facebook labeled ACTUAL NEWS as FAKE NEWS last week? What good is it when you have assholes at Google/Facebook controlling shit behind the scenes with fucking shady algorithms to bury shit that made Clinton look bad during the election cycle? Fuck your net neutralit...
[21:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Offers no Data for Latest Claim that Net Neutrality Hurt Small ISPs - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:21] <exec> 08└─Also, conservatives can see that "net neutrality" does nothing to block private censorship, and in fact that has dramatically increased in the past year
[21:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Google Researchers Discover an 8th Planet in the Kepler-90 System - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:38] <exec> 08└─Neptune is a dwarf planet. It hasn't cleared its orbit.
[21:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:10] <exec> 08└─Whether an image, or a stream of images in a video, there's no physical harm that takes place when photons hit a person's retina in any given pattern... it won't be long at all before such things can be forged, more or less effortlessly. .... I think we need to readjust the attitude that images repr...
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[21:14:38] <exec> 08└─Transwomen have diminished mental health-related quality of life compared with the general female population. However, surgical treatments (e.g. FFS [facial feminization surgery], GRS [gender reassignment surgery], or both) are associated with improved mental health-related quality of life.
[21:15:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Putin Ordered Theft of Clinton's Emails from DNC, Russian Hacker Confesses - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:21] <exec> 08└─lol
[21:15:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Putin Ordered Theft of Clinton's Emails from DNC, Russian Hacker Confesses - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:23] <exec> 08└─We are dealing with it. It's called protesting and calling for impeachment.
[21:15:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Putin Ordered Theft of Clinton's Emails from DNC, Russian Hacker Confesses - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:25] <exec> 08└─I'm just gonna put this out there as an FYI: it helps if you have credible suspicion of a crime having been committed by the President if you want to impeach him. The "muh Russians" narrative ain't managing it.
[21:15:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Putin Ordered Theft of Clinton's Emails from DNC, Russian Hacker Confesses - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:27] <exec> 08└─Ah well, shit happens.
[21:15:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Possible Photo of Kim Jong-il Inspecting Atomic Bomb Appears on North Korean TV - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:49] <exec> 08└─Either way, this won't end well, but end it must.
[21:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massive DNA Collection Campaign Continues in Xinjiang, China - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:33] <exec> 08└─China as a nation also has no friends. Nobody likes them and will go to war to fight with them if they're attacked.
[21:17:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massive DNA Collection Campaign Continues in Xinjiang, China - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:35] <exec> 08└─Why can't it just be a pork barrel project? The dna collection is just an excuse to buy lots of shiny DNA sequencers and massive storage arrays from some politicians favorite local supplier.
[21:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massive DNA Collection Campaign Continues in Xinjiang, China - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:37] <exec> 08└─I was under the assumption they pocketed the money and made up the bullshit about your ancestry. Occam's razor and all.
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[22:12:41] <exec> 08└─Add an update, the FCC just scrapped Net Neutrality. https://www.theguardian.com [theguardian.com] Gee the people of the US must be cringing and unproud of who they voted in. Travel bans, walls, pipelines (XL), environmental protection re...
[22:12:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] 02 - 06Ajit Pai Offers no Data for Latest Claim that Net Neutrality Hurt Small ISPs - 75 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:44] <exec> 08└─Gee the people of the US must be cringing and unproud of who they voted in.
[22:12:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03julian [6003] 02 - 06Ajit Pai Offers no Data for Latest Claim that Net Neutrality Hurt Small ISPs - 187 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:48] <exec> 08└─I'm convinced some percentage of economic conservatism among the working classes is a form of sexual masochism. They experience a form of erotic pleasure from being financially dominated.
[22:13:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Disagree) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Offers no Data for Latest Claim that Net Neutrality Hurt Small ISPs - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:00] <exec> 08└─Assuming that twitter / fb / google actually want net neutrality, which isn't a given despite what they claim, they were morons. They pissed off a lot of conservative people, then fought for net neutrality. To anybody unaware of the deep internal details of how the internet works, it sure looks like...
[22:13:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Offers no Data for Latest Claim that Net Neutrality Hurt Small ISPs - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:02] <exec> 08└─I need to cultivate the respect for and skill of the language that you demonstrate so well here. (same Anonymous you replied to)
[22:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Offers no Data for Latest Claim that Net Neutrality Hurt Small ISPs - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:04] <exec> 08└─For reference: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] You're clearly in one of the yellow, orange, or red zones. Are you saying that my text is bullshitty sounding (yellow zone) or that I'm a bullshitter (red zone)? It appears you don't like my me...
[22:13:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Offers no Data for Latest Claim that Net Neutrality Hurt Small ISPs - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:06] <exec> 08└─The other side spent the whole eight years on, well, domination; if you can attach any other name to the all-encompassing SJW activities, I applaud the flexibility of your logic. A team which would limit its... activities to just messing with the subjects' pockets, feels downright tame in comparison...
[22:13:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Offers no Data for Latest Claim that Net Neutrality Hurt Small ISPs - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:08] <exec> 08└─I don't like those companies, but your understanding of net neutrality if very flawed. It has nothing to do with the 1st amendment and what private networks are allowed to do. Removing Net Neutrality will not change any of that in the slightest, and will in fact make it worse.
[22:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Offers no Data for Latest Claim that Net Neutrality Hurt Small ISPs - 725 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:10] <exec> 08└─hey. there are people that claim to be conservative and are causing this. there are people that claim to be evangelical causing other problems. neither live up to their names. if you are a conservative and want to take responsibility back (I am not blaming you, I am saying you can fix it) then you k...
[22:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Offers no Data for Latest Claim that Net Neutrality Hurt Small ISPs - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:13] <exec> 08└─"just confuses people" That's not a bug its a feature.
[22:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Offers no Data for Latest Claim that Net Neutrality Hurt Small ISPs - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:15] <exec> 08└─and if Twitter doesn't want white nationalists on its network that's their choice to make
[22:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Offers no Data for Latest Claim that Net Neutrality Hurt Small ISPs - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:18] <exec> 08└─He explicitly argued reclassification as title i (info) services is necessary to allow competition from many players, and this was the only tangible benefit he mentioned. There is no other interpretation.
[22:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Offers no Data for Latest Claim that Net Neutrality Hurt Small ISPs - 788 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:21] <exec> 08└─How would you feel: "If you mean Trump-hating black nationalists then good riddance.", "If you mean Bernie-supporters with white guilt then good riddance." Implying that Trump supporters are white nativists doesn't make it so. BTW, they (both "they") are typically Americans, and they have a right to...
[22:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Offers no Data for Latest Claim that Net Neutrality Hurt Small ISPs - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:24] <exec> 08└─and if Twitter doesn't want white nationalists on its network that's their choice to make. The brave champions of the master race can start their own network.
[22:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Offers no Data for Latest Claim that Net Neutrality Hurt Small ISPs - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:26] <exec> 08└─Twitter isn't an ISP. There are a lot of beautiful symmetries in nature, but not here.
[22:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Offers no Data for Latest Claim that Net Neutrality Hurt Small ISPs - 1397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:28] <exec> 08└─actually, only 25% of all people are fools ("retarded" is the technical term), and this statistic is of course in effect here @ SN. unfortunately, an average retard produces 400% more verbal output than an average normal person, which is a pretty good way to detect them, but does tend to tilt the di...
[22:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Researchers Discover an 8th Planet in the Kepler-90 System - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:46] <exec> 08└─Well yeah, it doesn't take much for a planet to go from warm enough to support life like ours, to just a little too cold for it to really get anywhere (remember Hoth in Star Wars? There's no way significant life like taun-tauns would have evolved there, unless the planet used to be warmer). But when...
[22:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Researchers Discover an 8th Planet in the Kepler-90 System - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:48] <exec> 08└─"Neptune is a dwarf planet. It hasn't cleared its orbit." There are no planets. The planet is a lie.
[22:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Researchers Discover an 8th Planet in the Kepler-90 System - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:50] <exec> 08└─http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/68-our-solar-system/planets-and-dwarf-planets/neptune/1065-why-is-neptune-still-considered-a-planet-when-pluto-crosses-its-orbit-intermediate [cornell.edu]
[22:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Researchers Discover an 8th Planet in the Kepler-90 System - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:52] <exec> 08└─Also see what I wrote about Kepler-90h. All of the known gas giants in our solar system have moons. If we find a large Planet Nine, it will probably have moons. Titan happens to have an atmosphere thicker than Earth's. The search for the first confirmed exomoon is on. One candidate could be Neptune-...
[22:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:24] <exec> 08└─Srsly Soylentils, you're slipping! How can it be incest-themed if it's supposed to be her stepbrother? Maybe I'm missing some regional dialect but from where I'm from, "step" indicates someone who is not a blood relative. A half brother, sure, but not step. Personally I'm somewhat glad of this fact,...
[22:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here - 754 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:25] <exec> 08└─On a purely intellectual level, I agree with you, but I hasten to add that I recognize the practical flaws in that theory. A similar line of thinking did help get me through a very shitty job though and can work for other people: provided you're in a job that involves intellectual work rather than p...
[22:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:27] <exec> 08└─"themed" is a weasel-word, that is why. It is "incest-themed" and about as much incest as most "irish-themed pubs" are irish pubs. (i.e.: it is only intended to evoke the feeling of something, any actual similiarities are by pure coincidence)
[22:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pentagon to Allow Transgender People to Enlist in Military - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:57] <exec> 08└─Maybe some of them feel better after surgery. That doesn't make the suicide rate go away. Maybe blaming the cruelty of society is correct. (doubt it) That doesn't make the suicide rate go away. If you give a weapon to a person with a 45% suicide risk, and he kills himself, might you be charged with...
[22:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pentagon to Allow Transgender People to Enlist in Military - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:58] <exec> 08└─Option a) still working last time I checked. Wait, let me check again... yep, still working.
[22:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Pentagon to Allow Transgender People to Enlist in Military - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:00] <exec> 08└─No the whole point is to destroy Western society by eroding the family structure in order that radical Islam can impose Marxism on rural America. Duh!
[22:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon to Allow Transgender People to Enlist in Military - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:03] <exec> 08└─Just wondering, J-Mo, did you date a transwoman who turned out to be only partly-operated on or something? Did you have an overbearing mother and a weak father? Did a girl, maybe an older cousin or something, abuse you when you were very young? You seem to hate women, cisgender or otherwise.
[22:15:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06Putin Ordered Theft of Clinton's Emails from DNC, Russian Hacker Confesses - 744 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:13] <exec> 08└─The linked article casts a lot of doubt on the confession. But for the sake of argument, let's say the confession is 100% correct and factual. If so, I say we give the guy and the Russians a big fat medal of freedom for letting the American people know how corrupt the highest levels of its governmen...
[22:15:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03number6x [903] 02 - 06Putin Ordered Theft of Clinton's Emails from DNC, Russian Hacker Confesses - 156 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:37] <exec> 08└─That's right. Because primaries and the general election are TOTALLY DIFFERENT THINGS. There is no comparison. Stop with your whaddabouthillaryisms already!
[22:15:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Putin Ordered Theft of Clinton's Emails from DNC, Russian Hacker Confesses - 907 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:50] <exec> 08└─You first have to get the emails to release them. Was there any evidence that republicans were hacked? Remember, the democrats were 'hacked' because they directly told a 3rd party their password when answering a phishing email. That was the extent of the hacking. Is it conceivable that the republica...
[22:15:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Putin Ordered Theft of Clinton's Emails from DNC, Russian Hacker Confesses - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:51] <exec> 08└─They don't have the votes. And they won't have the votes. Because of the ECONOMY. Incredible growth in the stock market since my election. We're going to see #Dow30k [twitter.com] by November. At least 30k. I have no doubt about it and you don't have any doubt about it either. And it's going to be a...
[22:15:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Putin Ordered Theft of Clinton's Emails from DNC, Russian Hacker Confesses - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:53] <exec> 08└─They asked for the password to the email server and the DNC gave it to them. Due to that you could argue it was authorized access.
[22:15:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Putin Ordered Theft of Clinton's Emails from DNC, Russian Hacker Confesses - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:55] <exec> 08└─No he was only water-boarded.
[22:15:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Putin Ordered Theft of Clinton's Emails from DNC, Russian Hacker Confesses - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:58] <exec> 08└─That is precisely what we intend to do, Eth. Just sit tight--no, don't move, we JUST vacuumed all the Cheetos crumbs outta the rug, dammit!--and let the adults handle this.
[22:16:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electromagnetic Water Cloak Eliminates Drag and Wake - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:45] <exec> 08└─...the IR signature of this beast will be huge.
[22:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Surgeon Branded Initials Into Patients' Livers With Argon Beam - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:06] <exec> 08└─Here's a novel thought. Don't get drunk and shoot things from your hotel room. "Brailsford was one of six officers called to a Mesa motel on January 18, 2016, after someone reported seeing the barrel of a rifle sticking out of a window." http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com
[22:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Surgeon Branded Initials Into Patients' Livers With Argon Beam - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:08] <exec> 08└─More like a Tattoo Artist using a permanent marker to initial your thigh. Won't generally be noticed and will eventually wear off, but kinda messed up.
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[23:12:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10 Long Term Servicing Branch - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:37] <exec> 08└─it seems that only those that can afford to delay the inevitable can do so. everyone else gets unwanted updates for free
[23:12:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Windows 10 Long Term Servicing Branch - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:38] <exec> 08└─Critical infrastructure like ATMs, medical equipment, and PCs that control machines on a factory floor don't need whizbang features, they need long term stability and few updates that will potentially break things.
[23:12:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Windows 10 Long Term Servicing Branch - 1351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:40] <exec> 08└─Sounds like just what I would want, if I ran Windows. Why is it that what sounds like the most useful version has to be locked away and only available to special customers? Are there no regular users who value stability over "whizbang" features? That seems unlikely. It seems like maybe Microsoft onl...
[23:12:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 Long Term Servicing Branch - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:42] <exec> 08└─It seems like Microsoft is absolutely dedicated to destroying the PC.
[23:12:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 Long Term Servicing Branch - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:45] <exec> 08└─https://www.onmsft.com/news/microsoft-makes-money-revenues-broken-product-line [onmsft.com] Office and servers, now 1 and 2
[23:12:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 Long Term Servicing Branch - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:47] <exec> 08└─Maybe they should be running Debian stable, or OpenBSD, or some niche RTOS instead.
[23:12:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 Long Term Servicing Branch - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:49] <exec> 08└─So vanilla Win10 then?
[23:12:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 Long Term Servicing Branch - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:51] <exec> 08└─Interesting... It as if Microsoft doesn't care if Windows is on every PC in the future. So, if Microsoft allows the Windows product line to die, will Microsoft still be as evil as it was in the 90s?
[23:12:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10 Long Term Servicing Branch - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:54] <exec> 08└─It's a WinXP clone.
[23:12:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 Long Term Servicing Branch - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:56] <exec> 08└─Windows "no forced upgrade to Windows 11" edition.
[23:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Offers no Data for Latest Claim that Net Neutrality Hurt Small ISPs - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:37] <exec> 08└─Without net neutrality, large ISPs extract money from large internet companies, Small players can't negotiate.
[23:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Offers no Data for Latest Claim that Net Neutrality Hurt Small ISPs - 1854 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:38] <exec> 08└─Thank you for your tremendous support! Believe me, now that net neutrality is gone you are going to make a lot of money on Youtube. Because our kids are going to stop watching the ISIS Internet sites. And they're going to go to Youtube instead. And other American sites. I don't know about Twitter, t...
[23:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Offers no Data for Latest Claim that Net Neutrality Hurt Small ISPs - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:41] <exec> 08└─Under net neutrality: ISPs can't censor. Web sites can censor, and they do. The FCC can censor, but hasn't. Without net neutrality: ISPs can censor, and they will. Web sites can censor, and they do. The FCC can't censor. Either way, web sites can and will censor. One way the FCC can censor, and the...
[23:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Offers no Data for Latest Claim that Net Neutrality Hurt Small ISPs - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:43] <exec> 08└─> Yeah when was Net Neutrality when Facebook labeled ACTUAL NEWS as FAKE NEWS last week? What good is it when you have assholes at Google/Facebook controlling shit behind the scenes with fucking shady algorithms to bury shit that made Clinton look bad during the election cycle? That... has literally...
[23:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Offers no Data for Latest Claim that Net Neutrality Hurt Small ISPs - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:45] <exec> 08└─Facebook isn't neutral. It's far from neutral. It's the headquarters for the Zuckerberg 2020 campaign. Which is why they banned Sabo. Do you know about Sabo? He's the very talented street artist from California who did the beautiful F🖕CK ZUCK 2020 posters. Which I love.
[23:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Offers no Data for Latest Claim that Net Neutrality Hurt Small ISPs - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:47] <exec> 08└─What is this hypothetical FCC Internet censorship you're talking about? Because it seems guaranteed that any such thing would be slapped down by the courts on obvious first amendment grounds.
[23:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Offers no Data for Latest Claim that Net Neutrality Hurt Small ISPs - 2133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:50] <exec> 08└─There is absolutely nothing stopping you from being an anti-theocratic liberal in good standing with the wider community. I manage to do it with ease. I'll admit that WRT Islam it's particularly tricky because a great many of Islam's critics are genuine bigots. They're not trying to rid the world of...
[23:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Offers no Data for Latest Claim that Net Neutrality Hurt Small ISPs - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:52] <exec> 08└─Under net neutrality: ISPs can't censor. Web sites can censor, and they do. The FCC can censor, but hasn't..
[23:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Offers no Data for Latest Claim that Net Neutrality Hurt Small ISPs - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:54] <exec> 08└─When will You be gone?
[23:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Offers no Data for Latest Claim that Net Neutrality Hurt Small ISPs - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:56] <exec> 08└─As was illustrated again in Alabama, look at the average person (easier than sorting them to find the median), and remember that half of the population is worse.
[23:13:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Offers no Data for Latest Claim that Net Neutrality Hurt Small ISPs - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:58] <exec> 08└─Here is the EFF, supporting a theoretical net neutrality while opposing the one we ended up with: https://www.eff.org [eff.org]
[23:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:55] <exec> 08└─Want to campaign for legalization, on the entirely believable premise that it would provide an outlet for people who otherwise victimize real kids?
[23:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:57] <exec> 08└─That's the viewer's own problem, unless they are literally forced to view the images.
[23:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here - 1181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:59] <exec> 08└─The writers for Marlo Thomas' "That Girl" https://www.google.com [google.com] tackled this thorny issue in the 1960s - anybody's face can be attached to anybody's body doing anything... and published. The writers had Marlo shrug it off, seeing the bright side that her...
[23:15:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:01] <exec> 08└─As long as your makup doesn't contain Glitter. Recent Soylent article that Glitter is bad for the environment.
[23:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:03] <exec> 08└─It's only illegal if you claim something is true when it isn't. Parody is protected.
[23:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:05] <exec> 08└─there's no physical harm that takes place when photons hit a person's retina
[23:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:07] <exec> 08└─Ala Clockwork Orange... This mostly works because people have been taught to hate and fear the very idea of certain things. While advertising, marketing, etc. all try to reprogram people every day all day long, they have more of an influencing effect than a controlling one. What needs to be preserve...
[23:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:10] <exec> 08└─So now we won't be able to trust the veracity of the Russian Pee Pee tapes once they are "leaked".
[23:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:12] <exec> 08└─must be crypto signed to be considered real
[23:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:14] <exec> 08└─there is plenty of harm that can take place that is not "physical", like losing your job or causing a split with your partner.
[23:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:16] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I worked for a crappy boss who was all abluster about firing everybody every so often. It was clearly smoke, but he was also clearly insecure about the financial health of his company - a great sign that it's time to leave, and a real source of stress: if this jerk is that worried, then I may...
[23:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here - 1054 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:19] <exec> 08└─There's a certain happiness when the images and stories of Legendary Figures (such as Santa Clause, the Easter Bunny, Iron Man, etc.) appear real to you, and that's lost when you realize the images are false. There's a certain queasiness when watching real images of terrible things taking place, wel...
[23:15:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon to Allow Transgender People to Enlist in Military - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:52] <exec> 08└─If somebody is suicidal, should we be giving them weapons?
[23:15:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon to Allow Transgender People to Enlist in Military - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:54] <exec> 08└─Maybe I have some misconceptions. I'll readily admit that I might. But does radical Islam tolerate or allow transgender people to actually live? If transgender people can't get their surgery paid for by joining the military, then what are they going to do? Especially since we don't have universal ba...
[23:15:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Pentagon to Allow Transgender People to Enlist in Military - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:56] <exec> 08└─Hey, if the Boy Scouts are not accepting Girls to join, It seems only fair that the Girl Scouts should accept Boys into their organization. How many boys would rather be in Girl Scouts? Probably not very many.
[23:16:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Putin Ordered Theft of Clinton's Emails from DNC, Russian Hacker Confesses - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:48] <exec> 08└─And a disproportionately large amount of it spews from your keyboard, Uzzard. Might wanna get that checked. I'm starting to wonder if you're actually one of those two-layer sea creatures with a single orifice for eating and excreting, rather than an actual bird of carrion.
[23:16:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Putin Ordered Theft of Clinton's Emails from DNC, Russian Hacker Confesses - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:49] <exec> 08└─Consider the Russian lawyer who met with Trump Jr. She was on a list of people blocked from entering the USA. She was given a waiver. She met with democrats, went off to be purposely caught talking with Trump Jr., and then met with democrats again. Her whole reason for being here was to justify a wa...
[23:16:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Putin Ordered Theft of Clinton's Emails from DNC, Russian Hacker Confesses - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:51] <exec> 08└─All I've seen on the GOP side so far is smoking gums.
[23:16:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Putin Ordered Theft of Clinton's Emails from DNC, Russian Hacker Confesses - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:53] <exec> 08└─Sure, as opposed to them nominating candidates via backroom deals with a public funded charade.. that's better how?
[23:17:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Target Buys Shipt Inc. for $550 Million, Will Offer Same-Day Delivery - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:05] <exec> 08└─It's in[sic] purpose. I'd[sic] you don't pay for prime, you will wait
[23:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electromagnetic Water Cloak Eliminates Drag and Wake - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:44] <exec> 08└─I don't think it will be much E component, they'll probably use DC to drive the water around, AC will only slosh the water. So rather a largish static magnetic field.
[23:17:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electromagnetic Water Cloak Eliminates Drag and Wake - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:45] <exec> 08└─Save your money. Just go to the oar house and get bigger oars.
[23:20:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03etherscythe [937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Surgeon Branded Initials Into Patients' Livers With Argon Beam - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:09] <exec> 08└─Whoosh! Think about it.
[23:20:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Surgeon Branded Initials Into Patients' Livers With Argon Beam - 706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:11] <exec> 08└─While it is clearly not the algorithm done by this site, it is just as easy to safely support HTML tags: Convert all < to <, all > to > and all & to &. At this point you can be sure that there are no unwanted HTML tags and/or entites in the text.Convert specific sequences like <i> back to <i>. This...
[23:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Android 8.0 Oreo Running on 0.5% of Android Devices - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:34] <exec> 08└─Thanks, the two of us had three 5x-s purchased from Google for project Fi (one for parents who quit using it) - so, after many hours on help with project Fi, we managed to get exactly nowhere - but later did figure out how to transfer my wife's sim card to her parents phone, apparently there was a c...
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