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[00:12:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Disagree) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:40] <exec> 08└─"Won't programmers starve?" I could answer that nobody is forced to be a programmer. Most of us cannot manage to get any money for standing on the street and making faces. But we are not, as a result, condemned to spend our lives standing on the street making faces, and starving. We do...
[00:12:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 1003 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:41] <exec> 08└─There seems to be an assumption that people that can code will be immune to the impending doom of an AI or robot apocalypse. I don't think this is true. Yes, there are some easily automated tasks that don't require much thought. And there are some repetitive manual jobs that can easily be automated....
[00:12:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:43] <exec> 08└─Maybe some 'professional' careers, like ... lawyers [will be on the harder to do list]
[00:12:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:46] <exec> 08└─Twenty years ago tech nerds who installed linux in their basements predicted a world dominated by nerds. Ten years ago tech bros kicked the nerds to the curb as social media conquered the world instead. Tech bros are next to get fucked.
[00:12:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:48] <exec> 08└─Predicting and impending employment apocalypse? Better keep importing low-skill labor that doesn't want to integrate into the existing culture. Ironically, "coding" is far from a protected field. Specifying what task needs to get done and what datasets need to be operated on will be possible from pe...
[00:12:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:50] <exec> 08└─Yes, exactly. Procurement, supply chain, sales will be automated. Machine learning systems are collecting massive datasets right now to build these systems. It's coming in 10 years. Tasks that require 10-20 years of training and domain knowledge will be the last to automate. Plumbing, electricians,...
[00:12:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03WillR [2012] 02 - 06Windows 10 Long Term Servicing Branch - 214 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:59] <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.
[00:13:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10 Long Term Servicing Branch - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:09] <exec> 08└─They will use Rust on their iPhones, of course.
[00:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10 Long Term Servicing Branch - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:11] <exec> 08└─While its the only edition I'll use, there are still many components you have to remove to get it to stop talking to microsoft. Telemetry... yep its in there. Cortana too. It just doesn't come with as much garbage installed by default. The updates still happen, just not major re-installing the OS ev...
[00:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10 Long Term Servicing Branch - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:13] <exec> 08└─Which is a Windows 95 clone.
[00:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10 Long Term Servicing Branch - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:16] <exec> 08└─"The Enterprise edition gives you more control over telemetry," the article says.
[00:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 Long Term Servicing Branch - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:18] <exec> 08└─Are there no regular users who value stability over "whizbang" features? That seems unlikely.
[00:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 Long Term Servicing Branch - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:20] <exec> 08└─Not 3.1, then?
[00:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 Long Term Servicing Branch - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:22] <exec> 08└─It seems like maybe Microsoft only wants to cater to "whizbang" people, though, and everyone else can pound sand.
[00:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Offers no Data for Latest Claim that Net Neutrality Hurt Small ISPs - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:16] <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] [eff.org]
[00:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Offers no Data for Latest Claim that Net Neutrality Hurt Small ISPs - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:17] <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] [eff.org]
[00:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Offers no Data for Latest Claim that Net Neutrality Hurt Small ISPs - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:20] <exec> 08└─Not sure how this posted twice. Would someone please mod the second instance 'redundant'. Thanks.
[00:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Offers no Data for Latest Claim that Net Neutrality Hurt Small ISPs - 1176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:22] <exec> 08└─Ideally, we would all know the law. We would read it and learn it in school. We'd get notified of updates. The reality is that our law is significantly determined by court decisions. These court decisions are technically public, but that doesn't count for much. Theoretically, you could visit every c...
[00:15:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:31] <exec> 08└─Not all glitter is created equal. Use only mica and you're going to be all natural.
[00:15:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:33] <exec> 08└─But we should be able to optionally have cryptographically signed media(signed at creation time).
[00:15:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:35] <exec> 08└─Nothing really new here, people also believe what they read, or are told...
[00:15:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:37] <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.
[00:15:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:39] <exec> 08└─there's no physical harm that takes place when photons hit a person's retina in any given pattern
[00:15:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:42] <exec> 08└─If you have to believe something (ie can't avoid the issue), what happens when multiple alt-realities are presented to your attention?
[00:15:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:44] <exec> 08└─And the raise of Virtual Reality celebs. Including VR singers, anchor- and weatherman. Going up to VR POTUS.
[00:15:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03terrab0t [4674] (Score: 1) 02 - 06AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here - 1050 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:46] <exec> 08└─I remember when the video of Toronto mayor Rob Ford smoking a crack pipe surfaced. He tried to dismiss it as a fake, doctored video. At the time, that was ridiculous. It would have cost a lot of money and time to make something that convincing. There would have been enough people involved that the t...
[00:16:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Pentagon to Allow Transgender People to Enlist in Military - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:24] <exec> 08└─For all of those that are concerned about transgenders entering or re-entering the U.S. military, you have nothing to worry about. We're doing EXTREME VETTING. And we're fighting very hard in the courts. Very hard. Believe me, our military is going to be PERFECTO. MAGA! 🇺🇸
[00:16:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pentagon to Allow Transgender People to Enlist in Military - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:25] <exec> 08└─Iran has an unusually large amount of transition surgery. It's done all the time. See, a religious leader determined that it was a legit disease, but being homo does get you killed. Therefore, if two guys want to get married, one of them just transitions and then everything is 100% legal and accepte...
[00:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Putin Ordered Theft of Clinton's Emails from DNC, Russian Hacker Confesses - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:22] <exec> 08└─Time to put the crack pipe down. I know you're desperate, but the crack won't help.
[00:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electromagnetic Water Cloak Eliminates Drag and Wake - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:13] <exec> 08└─Even a thick layer of water will show high magnitude anomalous heating... IR satellites are sensitive to small fractions of a degree change in temperature, and a big area with a 0.2C increase in surface - tracking in a given direction at a given speed, would be quite a giveaway.
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[01:12:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wi-Fi at Starbucks Buenos Aires Has Computers Mine Crypto-Currency - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:31] <exec> 08└─Bitcoin Investment Trust is traded like a stock. And next year we'll have Bitcoin futures on NASDAQ. And maybe, probably, on other exchanges. But stocks are doing AMAZINGLY since I was elected. Dow record high yesterday, one of many! pic.twitter.com/jqKevWMofs [t.co]
[01:12:45] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 662 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:45] <exec> 08└─Capital Intensification. As capitalism develops, competition forces capitalists to cut labor costs. Early adopters gain some comparative advantage, but eventually a fair market in plant and machinery nullifies that, and eventually profit margins will be reduced to nothing. And worse, Capitalism's on...
[01:12:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 669 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:47] <exec> 08└─In the next 10-15 years most programming will be outsourced to the lowest price. Factory jobs will be replaced by robots. Truck drivers will be replaced by self driving trucks. Fast food will automate both order taking and cooking the food. Retail will be self-checkout, with robots restocking shelve...
[01:12:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:49] <exec> 08└─It's also possible that the trades will not be automated. "Let the plebs work for each other." Also, not sure that gutter installing is such a gold mine. Usually tradesmen are OK personally, but a larger company won't survive - the market is local by definition.
[01:12:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 1033 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:51] <exec> 08└─I agree that the trade skill jobs are going nowhere and likewise with doctors, bureaucrats, owners, and investors. Bankers, lawyers, and accountants can all be replaced with software and data entry specialists. There will be a few software people to write and maintain that code, but nothing on the s...
[01:12:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:53] <exec> 08└─hmmm.... let me know when the hot lesbian lingerie models get into programming, because I need to be in the following wave that fuc replaces them.
[01:12:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:56] <exec> 08└─It's not. It's mostly carol, but the robot operators don't need to write that--just a few of the robot vendors that program the cabinets. Once sold, the carol code isn't touched. The customer just jogs the robot to the next point on the path the robot has to make and then saves a coordinate. Where t...
[01:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 Long Term Servicing Branch - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:19] <exec> 08└─Sounds like just what I would want,
[01:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Windows 10 Long Term Servicing Branch - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:21] <exec> 08└─If they keep the same people, they will be exuding the same evil.
[01:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Offers no Data for Latest Claim that Net Neutrality Hurt Small ISPs - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:20] <exec> 08└─It was the lesser of 2 evils pumped up on steroids. HRC was unsuitable but we knew what she would do. Which was Bad Stuff (tm). DJT was unsuitable but we didn't know what he would do. He wanted to drain the swamp, which would be A Good Thing (tm). But he was clearly unstable and totally unsuitable....
[01:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Offers no Data for Latest Claim that Net Neutrality Hurt Small ISPs - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:21] <exec> 08└─We have a voting system that doesn't result in posts getting deleted. Posts do get deleted on sites like 4chan, even for reasons that have nothing to do with legality.
[01:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Offers no Data for Latest Claim that Net Neutrality Hurt Small ISPs - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:23] <exec> 08└─You are almost certainly trolling, but I'll feed you just this once. The 2015 FCC order has been published in US CFR [wikipedia.org]. The Federal Communications Act of 1934 (as amended numerous times) [wikipedia.org] is published in the US Code [wikipedia.org], 47 U.S.C. § 151 et seq. The courts ha...
[01:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Offers no Data for Latest Claim that Net Neutrality Hurt Small ISPs - 1229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:25] <exec> 08└─Trekkies, etc. Each group once popular has been productized, pandered to the lowest demographic and then genericized until its original niche was diluted past the point of having any meaning whatsoever. The real reason there are so many names for so many groups is because of dilution happening as gr...
[01:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Offers no Data for Latest Claim that Net Neutrality Hurt Small ISPs - 1686 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:28] <exec> 08└─Are such integral parts of a Lawyer's workflow. You know why? Because the government isn't required to annotate the laws with court cases which affect the interpretation of the laws, or amend the laws to more clearly reflect the law as determined by said court cases. Furthermore the cases themselves...
[01:15:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:45] <exec> 08└─What happens when networks like CNN stop editing and misinterpreting footage [youtu.be] and start fabricating their own?
[01:16:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon to Allow Transgender People to Enlist in Military - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:16:25] <exec> 08└─I thought the trick was to see how many times you could get the word capitalist into one rambling post.
[01:17:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02 - 06Putin Ordered Theft of Clinton's Emails from DNC, Russian Hacker Confesses - 563 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:04] <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...
[01:17:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Putin Ordered Theft of Clinton's Emails from DNC, Russian Hacker Confesses - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:23] <exec> 08└─No, no. Also those 16 women and the pussy grabbing tape, that was all allowed to happen to frame the President.
[01:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Putin Ordered Theft of Clinton's Emails from DNC, Russian Hacker Confesses - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:24] <exec> 08└─How does "plea deal with the FBI" work for you?
[01:17:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Putin Ordered Theft of Clinton's Emails from DNC, Russian Hacker Confesses - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:26] <exec> 08└─Put the crack pipe -----------------------------------------------------------------> over here.
[01:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possible Photo of Kim Jong-il Inspecting Atomic Bomb Appears on North Korean TV - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:51] <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.
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[02:12:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wi-Fi at Starbucks Buenos Aires Has Computers Mine Crypto-Currency - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:35] <exec> 08└─Looks like the software was handed out via the captive portal used to control internet access.
[02:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wi-Fi at Starbucks Buenos Aires Has Computers Mine Crypto-Currency - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:36] <exec> 08└─Forget DDoS, I'm building IOT botnets to mine coins. 100000 sucky processors do amount to a lot of cycles.
[02:12:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wi-Fi at Starbucks Buenos Aires Has Computers Mine Crypto-Currency - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:39] <exec> 08└─God, you insipid loser.
[02:12:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Wi-Fi at Starbucks Buenos Aires Has Computers Mine Crypto-Currency - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:41] <exec> 08└─rms was right again.
[02:12:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wi-Fi at Starbucks Buenos Aires Has Computers Mine Crypto-Currency - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:43] <exec> 08└─You actually pay for your WiFi with 10 seconds CPU time (and battery juice). Other than not being advertised (thus it was a steal of from resources you own), do you see it as a problem? On the same vein. - Mmmmm... would you be willing to donate some CPU cycle to Wikipedia to mine some cryptocurrenc...
[02:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:03] <exec> 08└─Don't blame RMS, put your effort where it will do some good. It's simple, follow the money and you will find the country club, "upper crust" class who have bought and cheated their way to riches at your expense.
[02:13:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:04] <exec> 08└─People who speak like this have never set up a CNC machine to do something as simple as drill a hole. Clue: coding is no longer necessary.
[02:13:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:06] <exec> 08└─I'm afraid that the curse, "May you live in interesting times", will be lived by my 9 year old.
[02:13:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:09] <exec> 08└─Once the entire demand side of what was the working class is eliminated, either capitalism will fail and be replaced
[02:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:11] <exec> 08└─It's worse than that. Teaching coding when kids are young is a cruel waste of time, unless it's something like Logo Turtles. You shouldn't even try to program in a computer language until you're ready of elementary algebra, since the thought skills required are about the same. This isn't to say that...
[02:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:13] <exec> 08└─Tell me again why everyone needs a college degree to do paperwork and the most routine of office duties?
[02:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:15] <exec> 08└─Capitalists are among the stupidest of parasites. Look at the Kock Bros, the Republican Party, Pharma Bro and Papa John's! You never heard of economic depressions in feudalism.
[02:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10 Long Term Servicing Branch - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:41] <exec> 08└─You can set it to "security only" whatever that means.
[02:14:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03julian [6003] 02 - 06Ajit Pai Offers no Data for Latest Claim that Net Neutrality Hurt Small ISPs - 2133 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:29] <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...
[02:16:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:03] <exec> 08└─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.
[02:16:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:04] <exec> 08└─But it will go the other way. Right now people see an image and think "oh it must be true, how else could there be a photo / video of it?" Especially older people, who remember a time when such things could not be easily or convincingly manipulated. But if it becomes so easy to fake anything, maybe...
[02:16:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:06] <exec> 08└─It's hard enough to catch the crooks. I'm not looking forward to a generalization of the Trump-style "if I say it didn't happen, all your evidence has to be fake".
[02:16:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:08] <exec> 08└─But we're there already. Anything can already be faked, and if it can't be (or if the fakers just can't be bothered) then loudly and shamelessly denying the obvious truth seems to be a remarkably effective alternative. If publicising this technology can inoculate the public with a shot of skepticism...
[02:16:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:11] <exec> 08└─"Trust nothing, not even the ballot box (whether I win or not, they cheated), except Me." Where is that Daily Show segment about African Dictators?
[02:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Putin Ordered Theft of Clinton's Emails from DNC, Russian Hacker Confesses - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:50] <exec> 08└─Site connected to Russian hackers posts Republican emails [thehill.com] A website tied to the hacking scandal of the Democratic Party has now posted a small batch of leaked emails from Republican campaigns and state GOP staffers.
[02:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Putin Ordered Theft of Clinton's Emails from DNC, Russian Hacker Confesses - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:52] <exec> 08└─Russia Hacked 'Older' Republican Emails, FBI Director Says [wired.com] FBI Director James Comey tells Congress the same hackers who breached the DNC also penetrated the RNC's older email domains and state-level GOP targets.
[02:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Android 8.0 Oreo Running on 0.5% of Android Devices - 1287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:31] <exec> 08└─Sadly, that backlash wasn't big enough to inspire fundamental change Businesses that have allowed themselves to be locked into MICROS~1 technologies will likely just bend over and continue to take it. The gov't of Virginia Beach, Virginia is historically 1 such entity. What's So Bad About Microsoft?...
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[03:12:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Louisiana Man Admits Misusing Trump’s Social Security Number - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:28] <exec> 08└─If this twit were a real hacker, he would have known that messing with any Trump data would be noticed. Gubbermint takes care of it's own, even when it's own are dumber than rocks.
[03:12:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Louisiana Man Admits Misusing Trump’s Social Security Number - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:29] <exec> 08└─Nope, they get send to PMITA prison now.
[03:12:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Wi-Fi at Starbucks Buenos Aires Has Computers Mine Crypto-Currency - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:42] <exec> 08└─A smarter dev would have popped up a window disclosing "I'm mining bitcoin to pay for the wifi. Closing me will disable the wifi. Ask your waiter about an alternative hourly/daily billing plan." and made sure it worked as specified. I'd even leave a little a running "tab" estimating how much bitcoin...
[03:12:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wi-Fi at Starbucks Buenos Aires Has Computers Mine Crypto-Currency - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:44] <exec> 08└─And, you're a rock star, right? Oh, wait, NO ONE has ever heard of you!! What are you, exactly? A sipid loser? That would be like an imaginiative loser? An inspiring loser? Interesting loser?
[03:12:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wi-Fi at Starbucks Buenos Aires Has Computers Mine Crypto-Currency - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:46] <exec> 08└─They aren't making money. People are going to plug their laptop in to charge, so Starbucks is paying for the electricity...to mine using an inefficient GPU miner. The only way this makes sense is if an employee is using it as a way to hide stealing electricity from the store.
[03:12:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wi-Fi at Starbucks Buenos Aires Has Computers Mine Crypto-Currency - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:48] <exec> 08└─Ah, just noticed the part about it being Monero. Is that still worth mining without an ASIC?
[03:12:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wi-Fi at Starbucks Buenos Aires Has Computers Mine Crypto-Currency - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:50] <exec> 08└─At this point I'm fully expecting the inevitable Harvard Gazette article "HMS study links oral consumption of Trichophyton and immunizations against oncovirus HPV, HHV-4, HHV-5 and HHV-8."
[03:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:17] <exec> 08└─Capital Intensification. As capitalism develops, competition forces capitalists to cut labor costs.
[03:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:19] <exec> 08└─never heard of economic depressions in feudalism
[03:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:21] <exec> 08└─Now it comes out - Aristarchus is a feudalist. He doesn't want to keep the darkies on the plantation - he wants to keep EVERYONE on the plantation.
[03:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Adamsjas [4507] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:24] <exec> 08└─A computer language is nothing like elementary algebra. 98% (number from ass) of programming is get it here. change it this way. put it there. count it. rinse. repeat. Maths departments have fucked up more good programmer/analysts than than they can count.
[03:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 1319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:26] <exec> 08└─I believe much of health care is safe for the next 30 years at least. The elderly, and the soon-to-be-elderly, prefer being waited on and treated by younger human beings. IBM's Watson will definitely be able to diagnose disease better and give more accurate advice, but people will still prefer a fla...
[03:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03fliptop [1666] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:28] <exec> 08└─Things on the harder to do list will be the old school tradesman like plumbers, electrician and handymen. Maybe some 'professional' careers, like doctors, lawyers, bankers, accountants, and other high end 'sales' and 'business development' positions.
[03:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:30] <exec> 08└─Unless you're a vibrator or something similarly genderless, I don't think any lesbian is going to want to fuck you. Sorry. It's a dictionary-definition sort of thing.
[03:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:33] <exec> 08└─Marx was a natural-born critic. That means that he's right when he's dumping on something but for the love of Cthulhu DON'T take his advice about what would be better.
[03:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 Long Term Servicing Branch - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:59] <exec> 08└─and the tablet will probably never change BWAHAHAHAHA. Tablet users are pretty much in lockstep with the random app gyrations where app developers play musical chairs with their UI interface daily. Seriously, practically everytime I open google maps on my phone its been rearranged. The tablet experi...
[03:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 Long Term Servicing Branch - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:01] <exec> 08└─The result of proper servicing is usually a colt. The stallion rears up on the mares back, and runs his long dong as close to the mare's uterus as possible, and hoses her with a gallon of jism. And, Microsoft is promising long term service? Well, at least they are being more honest than usual. Be re...
[03:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 Long Term Servicing Branch - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:03] <exec> 08└─Why do we have to re-learn that lesson yet again?
[03:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Offers no Data for Latest Claim that Net Neutrality Hurt Small ISPs - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:06] <exec> 08└─See the other anon's response about Lexus Nexus... or are you going to provide free Lexus Nexus access and maybe even an expert to go over it?
[03:15:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here - 1810 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:49] <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...
[03:16:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:30] <exec> 08└─The problem with that idea -- and I don't dispute it -- is that images frequently, in the overwhelming majority of cases, represent truth.
[03:16:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:31] <exec> 08└─Holewood[sic] will find a way to just sue earn money from these people opportunities. :)
[03:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Putin Ordered Theft of Clinton's Emails from DNC, Russian Hacker Confesses - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:13] <exec> 08└─You're thinking judicial system. They still like to keep up appearances that they're after justice. Congress is shackled by no such scruples.
[03:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Putin Ordered Theft of Clinton's Emails from DNC, Russian Hacker Confesses - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:15] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I know I manage to butthurt a lot of True Believers, snowflakes, and third-wave feminists. The truth is to them as soap is to hippies.
[03:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Putin Ordered Theft of Clinton's Emails from DNC, Russian Hacker Confesses - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:17] <exec> 08└─Er...you mean it comes in these big plastic bottles with obscure, schizophrenic-sounding quasi-religious writing on it...? Help me out here.
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[04:12:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Louisiana Man Admits Misusing Trump’s Social Security Number - 629 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:35] <exec> 08└─OK, I've been staring at a blank screen for a good 5 minutes without a snarky comeback. But "misusing" a SSN is a thing? WTF?* Guy is trying to steal Trump's identity and he gets a "misusing" charge? / WTF - What's This Feature? // what did you think it meant? /// actually snuck that into an interna...
[04:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Louisiana Man Admits Misusing Trump’s Social Security Number - 577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:36] <exec> 08└─Yea, "White Hat" hacker my hairy left nut. If he had succeeded the only question was where he was sending it and whether the moron would have used a cutout. DNC, WaPo or NYT? Or more likely all three. This obsession among progs to use the tax system as a political weapon needs to stop. Because if it...
[04:12:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Louisiana Man Admits Misusing Trump’s Social Security Number - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:38] <exec> 08└─But "misusing" a SSN is a thing?
[04:12:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wi-Fi at Starbucks Buenos Aires Has Computers Mine Crypto-Currency - 780 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:56] <exec> 08└─This was my thinking to, "... mine cryptocurrency via Starbucks' free WiFi". There is no such thing as that free cup of coffee/lunch or you know WiFi. It's getting paid for somehow. When overcharging for coffee isn't enough if you are going to sit there at Starbucks all day with the other hipsters (...
[04:13:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03pipedwho [2032] 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 1003 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:05] <exec> 08└─There seems to be an assumption that people that can code will be immune to the impending doom of an AI or robot apocalypse. I don't think this is true. Yes, there are some easily automated tasks that don't require much thought. And there are some repetitive manual jobs that can easily be automated....
[04:13:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03crafoo [6639] 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 598 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:10] <exec> 08└─Yes, exactly. Procurement, supply chain, sales will be automated. Machine learning systems are collecting massive datasets right now to build these systems. It's coming in 10 years. Tasks that require 10-20 years of training and domain knowledge will be the last to automate. Plumbing, electricians,...
[04:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 749 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:34] <exec> 08└─Like the robot-overlords are going to let some public school scrub compile their code. I don't find it all that surprising that the educational system has a hard time to adapt to things that are in the future. But to believe that if we all just teach the young once to code all things will be great i...
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[04:14:06] <exec> 08└─So the only once running it will be enterprise customers and pirates then or enterprising pirates? That said if (or when) I eventually get around to Win10 I guess this will be the version to snag from work and install.
[04:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Offers no Data for Latest Claim that Net Neutrality Hurt Small ISPs - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:12] <exec> 08└─How stupid and regtretful those idiots are! To think that America is doing good JUST because we have a record high stock market, a 15 year low unemployment, record high consumer confidence, 20 year high manufacturing investment, way less illegals, way less government red tape, and not being forced a...
[04:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Offers no Data for Latest Claim that Net Neutrality Hurt Small ISPs - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:13] <exec> 08└─What a shocking surprise that nobody could foresee! Everybody who disagrees with us Tolerant Liberals is Hitler!
[04:15:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Offers no Data for Latest Claim that Net Neutrality Hurt Small ISPs - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:15] <exec> 08└─RACIST RACIST RACIST RACIST RACIST RACIST RACIST RACIST There I feel so much better. My enorphins are flowing. Look at how morally superior I am.
[04:15:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Offers no Data for Latest Claim that Net Neutrality Hurt Small ISPs - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:18] <exec> 08└─Title II of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 Under that, an ISP needs a broadcasting license. This can be denied at any time, providing leverage over ISPs. Here is a walk-through of the scenario. Search down the page for "imagine what happens" if you want to skip to the meat of it. https://www.red...
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[04:15:20] <exec> 08└─This is one of the greatest users on here.
[04:16:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:16:45] <exec> 08└─Well, it's funny, but we're getting back to a place where human witnesses might start carrying more weight again. There will be a certain amount of "digital evidence veracity" weighting, but with digital it can always be forged perfectly, so again it comes down to whether or not you trust the humans...
[04:18:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Putin Ordered Theft of Clinton's Emails from DNC, Russian Hacker Confesses - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:30] <exec> 08└─This story is not on Fox, Breitbart, Hot Air, Instapundit. It's ALSO not on ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, PBS, or ANYWHERE ELSE. That's usually a sign you're accepting conspiracy theories from a wackjob with an ax to grind.
[04:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Putin Ordered Theft of Clinton's Emails from DNC, Russian Hacker Confesses - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:31] <exec> 08└─NOTICE SOMETHING: That the confession was signed 18 months ago, the images were publically posted 5 months ago, yet NO NEWS SOURCE has mentioned a word of it. In other words: MORE TOTAL BULLSHIT FAKE NEWS.
[04:21:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03fakefuck39 [6620] (Score: -1) 02 - 06Surgeon Branded Initials Into Patients' Livers With Argon Beam - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:49] <exec> 08└─your the people that moderation button was created for. you're also the people I put in random grammer errors for. keep pushing that button, keep correcting 3rd grade spelling errors, keep running in that hampster wheel. you are my personal clown. thanks for the entertainment - you'll never climb ab...
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[05:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Tells Jo(e) Sixpack to Become an Expert in IoT Security - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:36] <exec> 08└─...the coming shitshow will proceed spectacularly if you can avoid empathizing with the people burned by it. If you can't... it's gonna be a rough time.
[05:12:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Tells Jo(e) Sixpack to Become an Expert in IoT Security - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:38] <exec> 08└─That will be easy, I'm not buying any IoT devices...
[05:12:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06FBI Tells Jo(e) Sixpack to Become an Expert in IoT Security - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:40] <exec> 08└─Make someone financially liable and watch how quickly they can become an expert. Normies have no problem becoming experts in car insurance or sales tax, because it affects them. If companies were financially liable for their massive cock-ups from lax or non-existent security practices, they'll quick...
[05:12:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Tells Jo(e) Sixpack to Become an Expert in IoT Security - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:42] <exec> 08└─If you can't...
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[05:12:44] <exec> 08└─Connecting an unmaintained computer to the internet and operating it without the ability to safely do so is morally no different to driving an unmaintained car without training. In both cases one ought be liable for any harm a reasonable person could foresee, such as being made an accessory DDoSing,...
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[05:12:56] <exec> 08└─"Progs"?? Go read a little history! http://theweek.com [theweek.com] “In almost every administration since the IRS’s inception,” wrote David Burnham, author of A Law Unto Itself: Power, Politics and the IRS, “the information and power of the tax agency...
[05:12:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Louisiana Man Admits Misusing Trump’s Social Security Number - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:58] <exec> 08└─Indeed it shouldn't. And it isn't. It's an identifier, that's all, nothing more. Like a name, but more unique. Replase SSN with "name" in the story, and there should be the same level of shock. Man tries to acquire Trump's tax information using Trump's name. If that's not a story, and not a court ca...
[05:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:54] <exec> 08└─Do you know DECbot's gender?
[05:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:56] <exec> 08└─Not if the programmer did their job right. Maybe quick write a main that calls all the programs to run over night, but everything else should post without any need for edits. This is especially true with five axis and dynamic/HFM paths.
[05:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10 Long Term Servicing Branch - 1574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:29] <exec> 08└─software such as CAD, 3D design, Audio and Video, simulation, and other business software is propping up MS This sounds like sloth on the part of users to me: unwillingness to try something new. Whenever I encounter this sort of claim, I think back several years to when I first encountered an archit...
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[05:14:31] <exec> 08└─"...but I don't want ANY Spam^W Telemetry." [youtube.com] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[05:15:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Offers no Data for Latest Claim that Net Neutrality Hurt Small ISPs - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:41] <exec> 08└─Oh yeah, it was real torture for my brother to finally get health care. I'm so happy Trump is trying to lift that boot of regular cardiologist appointments from my brother's neck!
[05:15:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Offers no Data for Latest Claim that Net Neutrality Hurt Small ISPs - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:43] <exec> 08└─ISPs do not require broadcast licenses. They're not broadcasters. And why you're posting links to crap Alex Jones wouldn't even touch is an quite telling. Let it all out...JADE HELM! FEMA CONCENTRATION CAMPS! AGENDA 21! SHARIA IS COMING TO USA! If you're not a moron who's off his meds, I recommend...
[05:15:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Offers no Data for Latest Claim that Net Neutrality Hurt Small ISPs - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:45] <exec> 08└─It's the product of a wasted youth reading books instead of chasing girls; and a wasted adulthood, too, come to think about. Or in the event you were being sarcastic, so was I.
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[05:17:11] <exec> 08└─PTSD is very real, because comes from a very real experience. Nobody is claiming PTSD from watching "Saving Private Ryan," (without having experienced the war themselves) or playing video games, but the drone pilots in Nellis are getting it because they are doing real damage on the other side of the...
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[05:17:12] <exec> 08└─Easier to threaten a witness with perjury charges than an unknown VR-artist, isn't it?
[05:19:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Putin Ordered Theft of Clinton's Emails from DNC, Russian Hacker Confesses - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:00] <exec> 08└─"Ilya" ..? Seriously? The Man From U.N.C.L.E. That Ilya? Can't wait for the sequel. Anyone recall the TV series?
[05:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Putin Ordered Theft of Clinton's Emails from DNC, Russian Hacker Confesses - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:01] <exec> 08└─That wasn't for you to understand. I know you're severely handi-capable when it comes to comprehension. You were just a handy foil. Don't worry though, everyone else got it.
[05:20:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 063.5 Mbps Broadband Through a "Wet String" - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:20:37] <exec> 08└─So, tin cans and string really *would* be faster than what I get from CenturyLink....
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[06:12:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Traffic to Major Tech Firms Rerouted to Russia - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:12:34] <exec> 08└─This is a pretty obvious spying operation, yet easy to claim as a mistake. Redirect, collect data, then chew on the data.
[06:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Traffic to Major Tech Firms Rerouted to Russia - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:12:36] <exec> 08└─IP protocols were developed to accommodate regional autonomy and collaboration. It is supposed that, in the long run, the network as a whole will route around rogue players, but this event brings to the light that it can still do damage in the short term.
[06:12:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Traffic to Major Tech Firms Rerouted to Russia - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:12:38] <exec> 08└─BGP was designed so that rogue players could just say "you wanna talk to those guys? trust *me* to pass you packets on to them". It's surprising there aren't more hacks like this. Jesus designed the internet, but people keep asking for more of his shirts and he still won't learn.
[06:12:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Tells Jo(e) Sixpack to Become an Expert in IoT Security - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:12:50] <exec> 08└─That will be easy, I'm not buying any IoT devices...
[06:12:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Tells Jo(e) Sixpack to Become an Expert in IoT Security - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:12:51] <exec> 08└─Car insurance? I doubt the average person knows much about it. A sales tax is simple enough that even the average person can grasp it.
[06:12:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Tells Jo(e) Sixpack to Become an Expert in IoT Security - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:12:53] <exec> 08└─You can get therapy on airtasker?
[06:12:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Tells Jo(e) Sixpack to Become an Expert in IoT Security - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:12:56] <exec> 08└─Wait a sec, in't car insurance money stolen off the masses at the point of a gun - because if you don't cough up, yoy will be thrown in jail - or have I been reading the wrong posts? And since when did guns have "points"?
[06:12:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Tells Jo(e) Sixpack to Become an Expert in IoT Security - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:12:58] <exec> 08└─If your solution is fixing the unwashed masses, you don't have a solutioh.
[06:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Louisiana Man Admits Misusing Trump’s Social Security Number - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:12] <exec> 08└─> steal Trump's identity Congratulations, you win the "retard who doesn't understand the concept of theft, and how information can be replicated without removing it from the person who originally had it" award. Fancy a job with the MAFIAA?
[06:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Louisiana Man Admits Misusing Trump’s Social Security Number - 1090 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:13] <exec> 08└─If I want history I can do a lot better than a yellow rag like TheWeek but lets go with it for the sake of abusing you a bit.... First off, no; it enumerated the offenders: FDR, Truman, JFK, Nixon, Clinton and Obama. (ignoring J. Edgar Hoover who ran through many administrations doing good things, a...
[06:13:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RamiK [1813] 02 - 06Wi-Fi at Starbucks Buenos Aires Has Computers Mine Crypto-Currency - 443 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:27] <exec> 08└─A smarter dev would have popped up a window disclosing "I'm mining bitcoin to pay for the wifi. Closing me will disable the wifi. Ask your waiter about an alternative hourly/daily billing plan." and made sure it worked as specified. I'd even leave a little a running "tab" estimating how much bitcoin...
[06:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Wi-Fi at Starbucks Buenos Aires Has Computers Mine Crypto-Currency - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:33] <exec> 08└─You do realise that there's absolutely zero correlation between high Dow and the economy doing well, don't you? Try cross-correlating it with a few economic indicators some time. Dow is simply another one of the circusses thrown on to amuse people when their attention is drawn away from bread.
[06:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wi-Fi at Starbucks Buenos Aires Has Computers Mine Crypto-Currency - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:35] <exec> 08└─Erm, no, free is free. I live right in the goddamn centre of a tourist town, and if you walk down my street (between a very touristy street and another touristy street) you'll see the "FatPhil Guest" wifi available for use, no password. If someone desperately needing a drink were to ask for a glass...
[06:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wi-Fi at Starbucks Buenos Aires Has Computers Mine Crypto-Currency - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:38] <exec> 08└─An insipid finder?
[06:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wi-Fi at Starbucks Buenos Aires Has Computers Mine Crypto-Currency - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:40] <exec> 08└─Why did you run code from an untrusted source on your computer?
[06:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wi-Fi at Starbucks Buenos Aires Has Computers Mine Crypto-Currency - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:42] <exec> 08└─Interesting loser?
[06:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wi-Fi at Starbucks Buenos Aires Has Computers Mine Crypto-Currency - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:44] <exec> 08└─You've conflated two different things. If the provided no wifi, and injected no JS, the mains sockets would still be powering hipsters on their laptops with 3g connections. And the guys on tablets, powered by self-contained lithium ion batteries, who chose to run untrusted code from untrusted source...
[06:13:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wi-Fi at Starbucks Buenos Aires Has Computers Mine Crypto-Currency - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:46] <exec> 08└─Because they've used their data for the month and have several youtube videos they haven't watched yet!
[06:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wi-Fi at Starbucks Buenos Aires Has Computers Mine Crypto-Currency - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:49] <exec> 08└─In cryptography, it's called the "chinese television", and is a concept that goes back not justkdecades, but generations. Basically, imagine a threat. Now imagine 10^9 of that threat. Are you still secure?
[06:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 722 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:28] <exec> 08└─Except for fairly simple cases, no software will be replacing lawyers anytime soon. Any non-trivial case involves: - interpretation of the law and the applicability (or not) or precedents or case-law to each particular incident, looking for loop-holes, mitigating circumstances or other aspects to a...
[06:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 1393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:29] <exec> 08└─The alternative to capitalism killed over 100 million people in the 20th century. Now you can say that that wasn't "true communism" or "true socialism", but so what? If it is what we actually get when somebody claims to be implementing communism or socialism, why should we try again? Every attempt h...
[06:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:32] <exec> 08└─Oh, yeah, plagues, barbarian hordes, famines, years with no summer, and worse. All external causes, not endemic to the mode of production itself. In fact, that what was probably the greatest weakness of the mode of production. Under-production. That, and under-investment. And a lack of innovation....
[06:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:34] <exec> 08└─Do try not to comment when you do not understand what is being discussed, OK, Runaway? Oh, wait, yeah, that would silence you; alright, carry on. But you see, a plantation is capitalist agriculture, with capitalist ownership of the means of production, and slaves or wage-slaves doing the actual work...
[06:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:36] <exec> 08└─Fuck you, you libertariantard! I got mine, and you can't have it! So go away! There is nothing for you here, you scavenger!
[06:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:38] <exec> 08└─Marx never suggested an alternative, he only pointed out the natural tendencies of a Capitalist system. One thing most people seem not to grok is that tech is capital, knowledge and collective expertise is capital. The more workers learn to cooperate, because of the necessary complexity of modern pr...
[06:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 Long Term Servicing Branch - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:12] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't mind. I run linux, and all my computers still have Debian Jessie on them. I haven't bothered to upgrade yet, because things work "fine". Maybe there are a few annoyances that could be fixed, but I learned long ago that software updates usually cause more problems than they solve. And if s...
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[06:15:14] <exec> 08└─I'm guessing it's impossible (perhaps incompatible) to access the specific update and install it manually?
[06:15:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] 02 - 06Ajit Pai Offers no Data for Latest Claim that Net Neutrality Hurt Small ISPs - 552 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:29] <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...
[06:16:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Offers no Data for Latest Claim that Net Neutrality Hurt Small ISPs - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:16:27] <exec> 08└─You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know . . . morons
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[06:19:45] <exec> 08└─Dre. Bronner's soap for the win! Dilute, dilute...
[06:19:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Putin Ordered Theft of Clinton's Emails from DNC, Russian Hacker Confesses - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:46] <exec> 08└─See the guy below you gets it. You apparently have never heard of Dr. Bronner's. You should use it; it's an excellent value, fair-trade, works really well, and if you translate the label from gibberish to English it's some surprisingly enlightened if rather basic treatises on reciprocal morality. No...
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[07:12:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Tells Jo(e) Sixpack to Become an Expert in IoT Security - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:12:50] <exec> 08└─If only we could find one of these "reasonable person"s against which behaviour could be compared. Are you an economist?
[07:12:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Tells Jo(e) Sixpack to Become an Expert in IoT Security - 622 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:12:52] <exec> 08└─They don't become experts on car insurance. They call the number on the commercial they like most and say what state they need to be insured in. Then the agent sets them up with the legally required insurance and upsells them on any extras that seem likely. They may have no idea what the sales tax r...
[07:12:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Tells Jo(e) Sixpack to Become an Expert in IoT Security - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:12:54] <exec> 08└─You can get anything you want on airtasker, if you let them bid. Those people are hungry.
[07:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Louisiana Man Admits Misusing Trump’s Social Security Number - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:13:09] <exec> 08└─I, for one, did not need to know the hirsute status of jmorris's distaff testicle. Ewww! TMI, dude.
[07:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Louisiana Man Admits Misusing Trump’s Social Security Number - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:13:11] <exec> 08└─It's an identifier, that's all, nothing more.
[07:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Louisiana Man Admits Misusing Trump’s Social Security Number - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:13:13] <exec> 08└─Who cheer because it was Trump who was the victim of a crime here.
[07:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wi-Fi at Starbucks Buenos Aires Has Computers Mine Crypto-Currency - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:13:39] <exec> 08└─Erm, no, free is free. ... being so goddamn (American and) selfish.
[07:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03EETech1 [957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:26] <exec> 08└─A good smart toilet would know what's plugging it, and order the proper fix via drone delivery. Would you like the: Plunger or Super deluxe blockage kit (recommend based on your eating habits) How about some pepto to go with that (recommended based on your drinking habits)
[07:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:27] <exec> 08└─You never heard of economic depressions in feudalism.
[07:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:29] <exec> 08└─So what did bring about an end to the Feudal mode of production,
[07:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:32] <exec> 08└─Started collapsing well before steam did anything useful.
[07:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:34] <exec> 08└─Just gonna point out that access to that information doesn't make learning it easy. Learning modalities matter. Some people learn MUCH better with a teacher, or doing problems, or so on - generally (geeeenerally) the more active, the better. But yeah degree inflation and pumping out incompetent bach...
[07:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:36] <exec> 08└─How many millions has capitalism killed? Remember to include the results of the military industrial complex and it's perpetual wars.
[07:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:38] <exec> 08└─Of course, the collapse of Feudalism started much early. I'd say it started about the moment it was born, they just didn't know it.
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[07:14:40] <exec> 08└─Really strongly disagree with your examples: - in some cases, plea bargaining Negotiations are a particularly strong algorithmic suit. Very heavily studied in the abstract. - appealing to human emotions (i.e. juries) and explaining or discrediting (to the client’s advantage) expert testimony Jury...
[07:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:43] <exec> 08└─Progress is being made... https://mobile.nytimes.com [nytimes.com]
[07:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:45] <exec> 08└─There was very little trade, and hence no economy? Robots, khallow! It's all about the robots!
[07:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:47] <exec> 08└─WHy think, when you can know? http://www.kleinbottle.com [kleinbottle.com] Order your own klein bottle today, to remind you to always check your sources.
[07:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:49] <exec> 08└─And, what difference does it make to the guy chopping sugar cane, whether the asshole in the plantation house calls himself a duke, or a landowner, a lord, or a master? You with your airs are in no position to comment on the serfs, or the slaves.
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[07:16:39] <exec> 08└─> You assume that the people of the US have a clue about what is going on. The majority of the US believes in angry sky fairies (plural, as they don't all describe tha same one - ne loves gays, another hates gays, they can't be the same fairy), so at no point did anyone outside the US presume any ma...
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[07:16:40] <exec> 08└─Call me a kinkster, but I love a bit of BDSJWM.
[07:16:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Offers no Data for Latest Claim that Net Neutrality Hurt Small ISPs - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:16:42] <exec> 08└─Or, as we like to call them, "voters".
[07:16:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Offers no Data for Latest Claim that Net Neutrality Hurt Small ISPs - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:16:45] <exec> 08└─> Was the PATRIOT act patriotic? There was no PATRIOT act. There was a USA PATRIOT act. Because eagles, and guns, and fuck yeah!
[07:16:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Offers no Data for Latest Claim that Net Neutrality Hurt Small ISPs - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:16:47] <exec> 08└─Thank God for Mississippi [google.ee]
[07:16:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Offers no Data for Latest Claim that Net Neutrality Hurt Small ISPs - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:16:49] <exec> 08└─Erm, the pipelines were agreed to on Bush's watch, they were only *built* during Obama's.
[07:16:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Offers no Data for Latest Claim that Net Neutrality Hurt Small ISPs - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:16:51] <exec> 08└─> doing good "doing well". Adverb, not adjective. > way less illegals "fewer". They're countable, not a mass. Are all cent-per-post handle-turning presumably Russian battery chicken shills as illiterate as you, or are you special?
[07:17:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Researchers Discover an 8th Planet in the Kepler-90 System - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:13] <exec> 08└─What hasn't it cleared in its orbit?
[07:19:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03turgid [4318] 02 - 06Putin Ordered Theft of Clinton's Emails from DNC, Russian Hacker Confesses - 51 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:22] <exec> 08└─Is that what you said to the MPAA lawyers in court?
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[07:19:31] <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...
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[07:20:37] <exec> 08└─North Korea has made nuclear bombs, that is amply clear from their underground tests. Why should it be a surprise to anyone that there's a photo of one? Get over it people, they have joined the nuclear club which now requires the rest of the world to negotiate with them like adults. We may not like...
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[08:12:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Sorghum Cultivars Can Produce Thousands of Gallons of Ethanol - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:12:38] <exec> 08└─millennia
[08:12:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Sorghum Cultivars Can Produce Thousands of Gallons of Ethanol - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:12:39] <exec> 08└─Brazil has been doing it for 40 plus years. The real question is: Can they harvest the sorghum for ethanol feedstock while ALSO harvesting it for grain, or not? Sorghum will grow back from rootstock if it is frozen or harvested, and can grow additional shoots either off the cane or rootstock after s...
[08:12:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Traffic to Major Tech Firms Rerouted to Russia - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:12:49] <exec> 08└─Unlike the US spying operation, where most international traffic is routed via NSA servers anyway, and the rest is caught via a GCHQ tap.
[08:12:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Traffic to Major Tech Firms Rerouted to Russia - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:12:51] <exec> 08└─And the rest of the https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[08:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FBI Tells Jo(e) Sixpack to Become an Expert in IoT Security - 2290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:11] <exec> 08└─The problem is that we are not driving it. We have to install "drivers". Which are copyrighted works. If you think the internet is a problem, wait until we get self-driving cars, with Javascript ( legislated into cars so that businesses can enforce warranty terms or control who you have service you...
[08:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Tells Jo(e) Sixpack to Become an Expert in IoT Security - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:13] <exec> 08└─You're wrong. I have a Final Solution.
[08:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:57] <exec> 08└─Word to the wise: Proctology. Can't out-source sticking a finger up your butt! Recession proof. And the hours are reasonable, never on-call at all hours. If I were a young person in search of a trade, it would either be proctology or jmorris.
[08:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 779 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:59] <exec> 08└─I am groping you, right now, Runaway1956, exactly the way Hilary did, in 1982. You feel the tactile lubrication, the governorship of Arkansas, the difference between the explicit extraction of a tithe, and the subfurtuge of a profit makes no difference to you? I am telling you, you idiot, that as a...
[08:15:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:01] <exec> 08└─Get over your irrational hero worship and recognize that RMS HAD NO LONG TERM PLAN for how his free software movement would affect the future. The upper crust tech moguls are billionaires now because they built their empires upon the slave labor of naive volunteers who were paid nothing for their wo...
[08:20:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Putin Ordered Theft of Clinton's Emails from DNC, Russian Hacker Confesses - 1047 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:20:16] <exec> 08└─The "hacker" in question ALSO said in his testimony that he was also asked to create a "big red button" to destroy all western I.T infrustructure, but he didn't because of "ethical" reasons. Yeah, cred personified. Bill Binney (high level NSA cryptomathematician and whistleblower), Edward Snowden an...
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[09:12:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disney to Buy 21st Century Fox Assets for $52.4 Billion in Historic Hollywood Merger - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:12:35] <exec> 08└─Why not merge the entire entertainment industry into one corporation. The plebs care not by which hand they are fed their diet of bread and circuses.
[09:12:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:12:42] <exec> 08└─People are talking way over each other in the discussions. Pro side is talking about the principle, con side is talking about the law as written (and/or loopholes).
[09:12:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules - 666 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:12:45] <exec> 08└─If you don't like how your ISP shapes your traffic, switch to a different ISP. I've switched because I didn't like how my old ISP optimized images for my convenience. I didn't bitch and moan about it like you shitstained morons. If you don't feel like switching ISPs, learn to hack the traffic shapin...
[09:12:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:12:48] <exec> 08└─> If you don't like how your ISP shapes your traffic, switch to a different ISP. Good in principle, but wishful thinking. See "if you don't like how your congress shapes your laws, switch to a different congress". Tell me how well it works out, pal.
[09:12:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:12:50] <exec> 08└─Show those nerds who's boss by hurting them where they live: in the basement internet connection.
[09:12:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:12:52] <exec> 08└─You know if you would read one more sentence then you would see I did switch. I switched from an ISP that was doing image compression and speed throttling to an ISP that provided unmodified unthrottled traffic for a flat rate. Of course the particular ISP which I switched to was too cheap and too ge...
[09:12:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:12:54] <exec> 08└─GIMME MUH HARDCORE PR0N FAST
[09:13:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Sorghum Cultivars Can Produce Thousands of Gallons of Ethanol - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:05] <exec> 08└─Umm, sorghum is not a grain. It is like sugar cane, but it produces molasses.
[09:13:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Sorghum Cultivars Can Produce Thousands of Gallons of Ethanol - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:08] <exec> 08└─> up to 1,000 gallons of ethanol per acre. Up to ~4500 litres of ethanol per ~4000 square metres? Per day? Per century? That is not a production rate unless there's a time component. And, as that range includes the number 0, I can achieve the same rates in my freaking bellybutton.
[09:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Traffic to Major Tech Firms Rerouted to Russia - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:19] <exec> 08└─Each country should have their own internet so they don't muck it for others.
[09:14:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Louisiana Man Admits Misusing Trump’s Social Security Number - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:00] <exec> 08└─No, failures to properly authenticate an identity (to authentify in modern-speak) cause problems.
[09:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wi-Fi at Starbucks Buenos Aires Has Computers Mine Crypto-Currency - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:28] <exec> 08└─But the wi-fi is paid for by Starbucks (corporate), not the local management.
[09:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wi-Fi at Starbucks Buenos Aires Has Computers Mine Crypto-Currency - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:30] <exec> 08└─You actually pay for your WiFi with 10 seconds CPU time (and battery juice). Other than not being advertised (thus it was a steal of from resources you own), do you see it as a problem?
[09:15:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:15:31] <exec> 08└─At no point did the GPL prevent people making money from code, nor was that ever RMS's plan. Show me the clause in the GPL that you think means "you may not sell your software for profit".
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[09:19:37] <exec> 08└─Option C was a huge success with Germany and Japan. But I don't recall it being tried since. Probably because it was damn expensive (and the US car industry never recovered from it).
[09:20:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Putin Ordered Theft of Clinton's Emails from DNC, Russian Hacker Confesses - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:20:50] <exec> 08└─Not necessary. Anyone who has kids or remembers being one knows that if you get caught, the first thing you do is blame someone else. "It was my sisters idea". "Daddy said I could"...
[09:20:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Putin Ordered Theft of Clinton's Emails from DNC, Russian Hacker Confesses - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:20:51] <exec> 08└─It is to people who are against democracy, and wants the election to be a lottery. Leaking e-mails that tell the truth about the parties ruins the lottery and allows people to know who they are voting for.
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[09:20:53] <exec> 08└─trust you to try to reframe the discussion, your desparation is palpable. notice that trump slash republican emails were /not/ released?
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[10:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney to Buy 21st Century Fox Assets for $52.4 Billion in Historic Hollywood Merger - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:12:36] <exec> 08└─One or five, it's the same thing when they're all in bed with each other, and the government makes the bed.
[10:12:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney to Buy 21st Century Fox Assets for $52.4 Billion in Historic Hollywood Merger - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:12:38] <exec> 08└─Because they don't know how to carve up the profits without mergers and lawyers sorting it out.
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[10:12:51] <exec> 08└─> If you don't feel like switching ISPs, learn to hack the traffic shaping. I've done it and I know all the traffic shaping rules and I can hack my traffic to be as fast as I want. Wow, you so l33t. Now tell me about the time you hacked the CIA! > If you think your ISP doesn't have any competition a...
[10:12:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules - 643 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:12:53] <exec> 08└─It'd be nice if there were a way to be able to append to breaking news posts. Here is some additional coverage. The FCC just voted to repeal its net neutrality rules, in a sweeping act of deregulation [washingtonpost.com] The Washington Post. The move to deregulate the telecom and cable industry is...
[10:12:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules - 1567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:12:55] <exec> 08└─In the whole discussion, I get confused, as people do not seem to have any definition of net neutrality to begin with. When I contract an ISP, I get some bandwidth promises/guarantees. What do those mean? If they are defined as to be valid up to the internet exchange point of the ISP, I have not bou...
[10:13:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Yaa101 [4091] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Sorghum Cultivars Can Produce Thousands of Gallons of Ethanol - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:13:06] <exec> 08└─So we are going to exhaust topsoil for a little fuel? very smart...
[10:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Tells Jo(e) Sixpack to Become an Expert in IoT Security - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:13:41] <exec> 08└─And since when did guns have "points"?
[10:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Tells Jo(e) Sixpack to Become an Expert in IoT Security - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:13:43] <exec> 08└─"Change default usernames and passwords?" Brain shutting down. Too. Much. Techno-babble.
[10:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wi-Fi at Starbucks Buenos Aires Has Computers Mine Crypto-Currency - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:32] <exec> 08└─It's a *bit* easier to become famous if your parents leave you tens or hundreds of million of dollars, you know, to get you started.
[10:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wi-Fi at Starbucks Buenos Aires Has Computers Mine Crypto-Currency - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:34] <exec> 08└─Not really. Increased CPU and/or GPU load from mining means increased electricity usage. "Charging only" is the baseline, sure, but mining will still increase it. Not to mention, increased battery drain could even make more people charge. If the coins mined are worth less then the increased electric...
[10:15:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:15:37] <exec> 08└─> Marx never suggested an alternative ?!?!?!? It may be several decades since I read the Marx/Engels letters, but my memory is that he was *full* of suggestions, most of which were ill-founded, as they were purely speculative and based on nothing but high ideals that assumed humans were non-competit...
[10:15:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:15:38] <exec> 08└─They're half way there: https://en.wikipedia.org
[10:15:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:15:40] <exec> 08└─So, never actually read any of Marx, or Engels? Trade Unionism, and a central bank, that was the spectre haunting Europe, during the time of the Communist Manifesto. American, I take it? Even if an ex-pat?
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[10:18:22] <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...
[10:19:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:05] <exec> 08└─> it won't be long before false images are just as easy to make as true ones. You've missed the boat on that one by about 100 years: https://en.wikipedia.org
[10:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:06] <exec> 08└─Even earlier, and more poignantly: https://en.wikipedia.org
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[10:19:09] <exec> 08└─Some are saying that they've been doing that for a while: http://heavy.com And of course not forgetting http://www.imdb.com
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[11:12:33] <exec> 08└─1. Only relativiely wealthy, geeky early adopters had phones, and they called others on land lines ("I'm on my yacht"), then all the executives, then salesmen... 2. Not many people had phones, to start with: https://www.statista.com [statista...
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[11:12:34] <exec> 08└─... I was halfway through bashing out a pompous, indignant reply to say that AIM certainly did not make instant messaging what it is today; ICQ did that. Then I read it again, properly, and you're absolutely right. You said social media. AIM did indeed make social media what it is today. An enormous...
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[11:12:36] <exec> 08└─ICQ was a year earlier and was very popular in 1998 (I remember getting using it around then and most of my friends were on it). Apparently it peaked in 2001 with 100 million users. Apparently AOL bought ICQ in 1998. I didn't notice that, but I do remember them unifying the AOL and ICQ networks a fe...
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[11:12:47] <exec> 08└─Expect future Star Wars films to portray the Sith in a more sympathetic light.
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[11:13:00] <exec> 08└─It'd be nice if there were a way to be able to append to breaking news posts. Here is some additional coverage. The FCC just voted to repeal its net neutrality rules, in a sweeping act of deregulation [washingtonpost.com] The Washington Post. The move to deregulate the telecom and cable industry is...
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[11:13:03] <exec> 08└─In the whole discussion, I get confused, as people do not seem to have any definition of net neutrality to begin with.
[11:13:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:13:05] <exec> 08└─Yes, that is a definition, but one that has never been applicable. For example, point three is always violated whenever peering gets involved.
[11:13:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules - 847 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:13:07] <exec> 08└─Said with all the conviction and profanity of a thirteen year old whose entire world is quite small but generalizes it to the rest of creation. Even in Brooklyn, NY, there are very limited options for broadband. It was only two months ago they brought FiOS to my block, and I'm sure they only did tha...
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[11:13:20] <exec> 08└─I can tell you for a fact that unless you want added fertilizer/minerals for it to improve yield, you can literally grow sorghum or sugarcane in a bucket of water with sufficient sunlight, tropical heat (70-85 degrees or so, above or below and it tends to grow slowly/hibernate, too much above or bel...
[11:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Sorghum Cultivars Can Produce Thousands of Gallons of Ethanol - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:13:21] <exec> 08└─Hint for you: Sorghum GRAIN is the part most often used for feedstock. The sorghum syrup, fiber, and bagasse can be made from the cane of any variety, and if harvested early may lack grain, but all sorghum reaching maturity will produce grain. The quality and quantity of grain, cane fiber and syrup...
[11:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Sorghum Cultivars Can Produce Thousands of Gallons of Ethanol - 768 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:13:24] <exec> 08└─It's per harvest. If you scan the summary it says in Florida they can get two harvests per year. If you can use a very fertile soil like the terra preta the Indians in the Amazonian basin manufactured, you can get more crops per year than that. I have read, though don't have the citation at hand, th...
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[11:13:59] <exec> 08└─Your post puts me in mind of the good people in the Right to Repair movement. "If you can't fix it, you don't own it" is one of their mottos. So now that we're in the era of corporate lock-down, rent-not-own, what's the recourse? The average consumer will reflexively buy the new shiny in front of th...
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[11:14:01] <exec> 08└─The solution is actually pretty simple. Most of the 'unwashed masses' use a box provided by their ISP as a router, wireless access point, firewall, and so on. Many of these already support acting as multiple virtual APs, so you can have a guest network that gives people access to the Internet but no...
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[11:15:57] <exec> 08└─Serfs couldn't be sold? At all? Really? http://www.medieval-life-and-times.info [medieval-life-and-times.info] Definition of Medieval Serfs Medieval Serfs were peasants who worked his lord's land and paid him certain dues in return for the use of land, the possession...
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[11:15:58] <exec> 08└─But cars are becoming locked down "black boxes" not unlike mobile phones are. 30 years ago cars were mostly mechanical, and much simpler, so it was not hard to do mechanical work on them if you were not the OEM. Even ignoring people who spent their weekends tinkering with the car, people not into th...
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[11:16:00] <exec> 08└─Good point! Actually I would add dentistry and hygienists to that. They need fine motor control, a medical background, good manners to deal with patients, and there is no shortage of work (people always need their teeth done, especially hygienists as that is "maintenance work" that needs to be done...
[11:16:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 823 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:16:03] <exec> 08└─Futurist predictions have long erred on the 'optimistic' side that the average working day will decrease, and we will have more leisure than we know what to do with. However, these predictions have not turned out to be the case - see this reference from 2006, for example: Overturning the Modernist P...
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[12:12:44] <exec> 08└─"I was halfway through bashing out a pompous, indignant reply to say that AIM certainly did not make instant messaging what it is today; ICQ did that." AIM was just a shitty ICQ rewrite, true, but ICQ was just a shitty imitation of IRC. IRC was actually a major improvement on write(1). Those who for...
[12:12:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AOL Instant Messenger Made Social Media What It Is Today - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:12:46] <exec> 08└─IRC was actually a major improvement on write(1). Those who forget it are condemned to use increasingly shitty rewrites.
[12:12:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AOL Instant Messenger Made Social Media What It Is Today - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:12:48] <exec> 08└─Soylent *is* a BBS, of a sort.
[12:12:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AOL Instant Messenger Made Social Media What It Is Today - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:12:50] <exec> 08└─Yes, one badly implemented. Like Facebook is a IRC badly implemented.
[12:13:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney to Buy 21st Century Fox Assets for $52.4 Billion in Historic Hollywood Merger - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:01] <exec> 08└─Netflix and others, beware, the behemoth want to gulp a sizeable size of the streaming market.
[12:13:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Leebert [3511] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney to Buy 21st Century Fox Assets for $52.4 Billion in Historic Hollywood Merger - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:02] <exec> 08└─Does this mean we can have the proper intro returned to Star Wars movies?
[12:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:22] <exec> 08└─There is more to consider than the route and dropping the packet completely. Most important is prioritizing which packets get delivered first, and turning the faucet to a trickle on others. My ISP, which is also a content distributor, should not get to slow down Netflix just because they are a comp...
[12:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:23] <exec> 08└─There is if you're of a mind to take up editorial duties. That wall o text and links is too bloody long to slap in a story though.
[12:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules - 1517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:26] <exec> 08└─No phone call neutrality meant super expensive "long distance" charges. It meant $10/minute international calls (adjusted for inflation-- a typical charge in the 1970s was $3/minute). It meant 900 numbers. It even meant 800 numbers that were very expensive to the businesses that knew they had to hav...
[12:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Traffic to Major Tech Firms Rerouted to Russia - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:53] <exec> 08└─It's not a hacking incident, it's the internet trying to stay neutral. (grin)
[12:16:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:16:19] <exec> 08└─Amen. I don't know if it has been verified by scientific peers, but there was a researcher who used MRIs to identify sociopaths. It seems to me that being rated as one ought to disqualify you from any kind of position where you might have power over other people.
[12:16:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:16:20] <exec> 08└─They won't go away entirely, but they will largely go away because electric cars require much less maintenance than internal combustion engines.
[12:16:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:16:23] <exec> 08└─30 years into the Information Revolution and schools are only just now realizing they should teach kids how to code...
[12:16:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 966 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:16:25] <exec> 08└─Oh my goodness, it seems like both of you could use a refresher. The central driver of Marx's philosophy was his materialism. The means of production drove everything. That's why production had to be collectivized, to produce a culture that was just, where everyone was equal, and nobody owned or con...
[12:16:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:16:28] <exec> 08└─You mean that you're the one that wants to fill that hole!
[12:16:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:16:30] <exec> 08└─Amen indeed!
[12:16:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:16:32] <exec> 08└─Well, if DECbot has an RS-232 port, it should be a male DE-9 connector. Does that count?
[12:16:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:16:34] <exec> 08└─Wow, guilty by association much? There might be a correlation between impaired empathy and antisocial behavior but that doesn't make all such people antisocial. What you are proposing is de facto persecuting thoughtcrime.
[12:16:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:16:37] <exec> 08└─Installing gutters in Klondike might be a gold mine...
[12:16:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 1110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:16:39] <exec> 08└─Supply and demand loosely dictates the value of any career. Being a plumber, electrician, or mechanic is great until there are five hundred of them in two blocks (in the city) or within three miles (in a suburb). Likewise, in my particular suburbs owning a pizza shop, sandwich shop, or coffee shop w...
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[13:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Does China’s J-20 Rival Other Stealth Fighters? - 1017 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:36] <exec> 08└─Simply having a 'stealth fighter' is important to them for prestige/legitimacy at home, and also from a deterrence standpoint. Those are firm points. Now, will it work? Will it work as well as other 'stealth fighters?' Will it work well enough to succeed in combat missions that rely on it? At this p...
[13:12:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AOL Instant Messenger Made Social Media What It Is Today - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:51] <exec> 08└─That's where I lose you. It's not so badly implemented really. Why do you say that?
[13:16:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 1584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:16:29] <exec> 08└─I don't have an answer to your points - working only on free-as-in-freedom software does screw the software developer's chances of making a great living. However, I have a counter point: everyone that isn't a software developer. Why can't you play Atari, Intellivision, Nintendo 64, or Sega games on...
[13:16:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:16:30] <exec> 08└─Aw, you don't need dentists when you have dentics! https://m.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[13:17:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 Long Term Servicing Branch - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:07] <exec> 08└─Probably! :)
[13:17:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03ngarrang [896] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 Long Term Servicing Branch - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:09] <exec> 08└─Someone has to be the guinea pig, plebe. Now go and update your machine and see if those recent updates are stable. :)
[13:17:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Oakenshield [4900] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 Long Term Servicing Branch - 651 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:11] <exec> 08└─Don't need to. I already know they aren't. Fun fact: Every time Windows 10 updates, I get lost of calls to fix all the shit it breaks. Sometimes the network just disappears; sometimes the printers don't work anymore, sometimes color printers only print black and white; sometimes systems will randoml...
[13:20:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:04] <exec> 08└─Well, even today, it's a rare skill to be able to make an undetectable forgery. It won't be long before there's an app for that.
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[14:12:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Does China’s J-20 Rival Other Stealth Fighters? - 768 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:42] <exec> 08└─At this particular juncture, any other military in the world would be idiotic to attempt to develop a force capable of opposition to the US carrier fleet. Developing existing technology, yes... proofs of concept, yes... looking for disruptive technological advantage, yes... but to field a force with...
[14:12:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Does China’s J-20 Rival Other Stealth Fighters? - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:43] <exec> 08└─Did they design it themselves or did they steal the design plans from Lockheed? The planes look suspiciously similar if one look at the comparison images between say F22, T50 and the J20. Perhaps there is just one way of doing it but that seems doubtful.
[14:12:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Does China’s J-20 Rival Other Stealth Fighters? - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:46] <exec> 08└─According to the U.S. Navy, the carrier fleet (or other ships) are extremely vulnerable to relatively cheap missiles and drones. Which is why they are trying to deploy lasers on ships.
[14:12:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Does China’s J-20 Rival Other Stealth Fighters? - 1103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:48] <exec> 08└─China and it's military are an enigma. China is different than us, in that, they have millenia of history. It's army can trace it's history and/or heritage back five thousand years. It's been up, it's been down, but it has a hell of a lot of heritage to draw upon. China's Navy? Not so much. It's all...
[14:12:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Does China’s J-20 Rival Other Stealth Fighters? - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:50] <exec> 08└─We should sell them some F35s or let them steal the plans.
[14:12:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheRaven [270] 02 - 06AOL Instant Messenger Made Social Media What It Is Today - 2581 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:00] <exec> 08└─ICQ was a year earlier and was very popular in 1998 (I remember getting using it around then and most of my friends were on it). Apparently it peaked in 2001 with 100 million users. Apparently AOL bought ICQ in 1998. I didn't notice that, but I do remember them unifying the AOL and ICQ networks a fe...
[14:13:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AOL Instant Messenger Made Social Media What It Is Today - 1034 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:07] <exec> 08└─I wonder if this is very American-centric, I don't recall AIM being very popular over here in Euroland in the late '90s. The AOL part might explain it. That said ICQ was quite popular at one time. Then there was all the various little sites etc that did "Social Media" before Facebook, people in gene...
[14:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AOL Instant Messenger Made Social Media What It Is Today - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:10] <exec> 08└─Why don't we start calling it what it really is?
[14:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AOL Instant Messenger Made Social Media What It Is Today - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:12] <exec> 08└─Yes, and then they came and ruined it with the ANSI-interfaces, viva mode 02h :)
[14:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AOL Instant Messenger Made Social Media What It Is Today - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:14] <exec> 08└─Probably because the real psychopaths* would take offence ;) (* = antisocial behaviour is clinical phrase for psychopathy)
[14:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disney to Buy 21st Century Fox Assets for $52.4 Billion in Historic Hollywood Merger - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:27] <exec> 08└─Imperial Storm Troopers with Mickey Mouse ears?
[14:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:50] <exec> 08└─No phone call neutrality meant super expensive "long distance" charges. It meant $10/minute international calls (adjusted for inflation-- a typical charge in the 1970s was $3/minute). It meant 900 numbers. It even meant 800 numbers that were very expensive to the businesses that knew they had to hav...
[14:16:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:16:57] <exec> 08└─> Specifying what task needs to get done and what datasets need to be operated on will be possible from people in every field Ever seen someone design a database who doesn't know what they are doing? Someone untrained in concepts like "many-to-one", "one-to-many", "array", "set", "hash table", etc e...
[14:16:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03fliptop [1666] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:16:58] <exec> 08└─but they will largely go away because electric cars require much less maintenance than internal combustion engines
[14:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon to Allow Transgender People to Enlist in Military - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:13] <exec> 08└─Are the cookies better on the girl side?
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[15:12:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Business is Booming for America’s Survival Food King - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:37] <exec> 08└─...if much of their sales was due to Trump's election. But at this point, what's the difference between a natural disaster and Unser Fuhrer? But I guess that's a good thing about capitalism, no? If you collectively screw yourself hard enough, someone will be willing to sell you a disaster kit. They...
[15:12:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Business is Booming for America’s Survival Food King - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:39] <exec> 08└─If FEMA calls and says they got to have it, I'm not sure the food company can say no regardless of how many long term customers it upsets? If you just say no, the next step may be a priority rated order you can't turn down. https://www.bis.doc.gov
[15:12:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Does China’s J-20 Rival Other Stealth Fighters? - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:52] <exec> 08└─They have stolen, bought, and reverse engineered as much or more from the Russians, than they have stolen from us. But, why steal it, when so much of our stuff has been for sale, anyway? Clinton made it more or less kosher to sell military tech to China. "Most favored trading partner", remember? htt...
[15:12:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Does China’s J-20 Rival Other Stealth Fighters? - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:54] <exec> 08└─In a nutshell: drone rush. They need to be decent and many more than the enemy can shot down before being destroyed. I have a feeling China's capability to produce heaps of J-20-ies is higher than US's to produce F35 choke luxury machines.
[15:12:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Does China’s J-20 Rival Other Stealth Fighters? - 1561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:56] <exec> 08└─This article is more to the point than those linked to above: https://news.usni.org [usni.org] The fact that the Chinese commonly refer to today’s imitation products as “Shanzhai” indicates that they recognize the dubious nature of the curre...
[15:12:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Does China’s J-20 Rival Other Stealth Fighters? - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:58] <exec> 08└─But no one knows how they'll stand against the west at sea, or in the air.
[15:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Does China’s J-20 Rival Other Stealth Fighters? - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:00] <exec> 08└─Well, the Chinese may be smarter than the Canadians or Ozzies.
[15:13:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Does China’s J-20 Rival Other Stealth Fighters? - 798 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:03] <exec> 08└─It actually doesn't matter - stealth is too expensive to be fielded in significant numbers, the tradeoffs in airframes makes them vulnerable if targeted, and once beaten you'll only have a subpar and overly expensive flying target sign. And unless they have a very good range they will be kinda out o...
[15:13:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Does China’s J-20 Rival Other Stealth Fighters? - 2508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:05] <exec> 08└─"At this particular juncture, any other military in the world would be idiotic to attempt to develop a force capable of opposition to the US carrier fleet." How do you figure that? "Developing existing technology, yes... proofs of concept, yes... looking for disruptive technological advantage, yes.....
[15:13:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Does China’s J-20 Rival Other Stealth Fighters? - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:07] <exec> 08└─Hmmmm - depends on a lot of things, including the willingness to use nukes. Those islands aren't all that very stable - they can be swept away. A single tac nuke for each island, and that barrier is gone. But, only a bunch of suicidal fools would want to invade mainland China. How many nations would...
[15:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Does China’s J-20 Rival Other Stealth Fighters? - 1784 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:09] <exec> 08└─Of course, they won't cost anywhere near as much and they'll be able to produce them more quickly. They'll be able to fly them from land bases, in their own territory, rather than relying on carrier decks. And of course guided missiles are effectively a kind of 'drone.' They're quite a bit harder to...
[15:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Does China’s J-20 Rival Other Stealth Fighters? - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:12] <exec> 08└─Nuke their base and they'll nuke one of yours. You really want to trade Guam for some reef with a weather station and a landing strip?
[15:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AOL Instant Messenger Made Social Media What It Is Today - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:30] <exec> 08└─> ICQ was a year earlier and was very popular in 1998 Eh-oh!
[15:13:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disney to Buy 21st Century Fox Assets for $52.4 Billion in Historic Hollywood Merger - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:45] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCPj4JPbKtA [youtube.com]
[15:14:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules - 130 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:05] <exec> 08└─There is if you're of a mind to take up editorial duties. That wall o text and links is too bloody long to slap in a story though.
[15:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:09] <exec> 08└─OR it was companies with monopolies "increasing shareholder value" by maxing out marketing strategies. You need the local call package and the metro package and the state-2-state package and the international package and the multiple lines package and the non-ATT phone package.... in order to get fu...
[15:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules - 1207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:11] <exec> 08└─You may be an asshole. You may be an idiot. You may be both. How many Americans have the luxury of picking and choosing among internet service providers? In a recent poll, I pointed out that I have exactly three choices: dialup, satellite, or DSL. Each of those choices is offered by one, single prov...
[15:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:13] <exec> 08└─Don't feel lonesome with those crazy telephone toll schemes. Until relatively recently, calling our local sheriff's office was a toll call. When the 911 system was FINALLY implemented, we could call the sheriff for free - but for genuine emergencies only. Routine calls are still toll calls today. If...
[15:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Sorghum Cultivars Can Produce Thousands of Gallons of Ethanol - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:29] <exec> 08└─Per day? Per century? That is not a production rate unless there's a time component.
[15:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Sorghum Cultivars Can Produce Thousands of Gallons of Ethanol - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:30] <exec> 08└─you can literally grow sorghum or sugarcane in a bucket of water with sufficient sunlight, tropical heat
[15:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:23] <exec> 08└─Not if the programmer did their job right.
[15:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:24] <exec> 08└─You won't let a blind person drive a car. You wouldn't hire a quadraplegic to be the center on your basketball team. But you would put a sociopath in charge of a company or polity upon which thousands of normal, healthy people rely, because you trust his judgement? Me, I think that's a big part of t...
[15:17:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 1586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:27] <exec> 08└─Yes, health care is an activity that will continue to need doing, but who is going to pay for it? and with what exchange medium, because what are THEY getting paid for? And similarly how are the tools and consumables (sutures, bandages, medicine) to be paid for, if most people aren't working? The s...
[15:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:00] <exec> 08└─Photgraphs have been subject to fakery almost the entire time anyway... and your presumption of "in the overwhelming majority of cases" been provably wrong since almost the first day that images went high-color digital.
[15:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:01] <exec> 08└─Movies and videos are just sequences of still images. Altering moving image sequences in ways that are not easily detectable has been done for decades.
[15:21:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon to Allow Transgender People to Enlist in Military - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:44] <exec> 08└─Option A is genocide and is now considered a war crime.
[15:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon to Allow Transgender People to Enlist in Military - 802 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:46] <exec> 08└─It's being tried in Iraq, to middling success. Unlike Germany and Japan, Iraq is in the middle of an unstable region going through power struggles. And unlike Germany and Japan, Iraq is ethnically diverse. We're trying to be friends with Afghanistan too, but perhaps wisely our leaders don't seem wil...
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[16:12:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Business is Booming for America’s Survival Food King - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:43] <exec> 08└─Business is Booming for America’s Survival Food King
[16:12:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03starvingboy [6766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Business is Booming for America’s Survival Food King - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:45] <exec> 08└─Apparently I'm not the only one who uses this stuff as an Instant Picnic for the family. The price isn't too bad, and it's tastier than grabbing another pack of 'nuggets from the drivethrough.
[16:12:46] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] 02 - 06Business is Booming for America’s Survival Food King - 898 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:47] <exec> 08└─Sopacko, makers of SurePak civilian MRE rations is in the same boat. http://surepak-12.com [surepak-12.com] The sales website the Epicenter reports this is generally true for all manufacturers. https://theepicenter.com [theepicenter.com] I just happen...
[16:12:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Business is Booming for America’s Survival Food King - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:49] <exec> 08└─MRE's shelf life is only 3 years or so, not exactly meant for long term disaster preparedness.
[16:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Does China’s J-20 Rival Other Stealth Fighters? - 699 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:12] <exec> 08└─Not "base", but "bases". Oh yeah - Sun Tzu, remember? The Chinese aren't really into pyrrhic victories. They aren't into all-out war. They may be willing to sacrifice a few divisions, but the introduction of a few tac nukes WITHOUT hitting the homeland would convince them to back down. Unless, of co...
[16:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Does China’s J-20 Rival Other Stealth Fighters? - 697 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:14] <exec> 08└─And Zerg rushes; there was an exercise [cuttingedge.org] where the Red Team leader's strategy was to swarm a US Carrier group with small fast attack boats on a suicide charge and managed to "sink" a good chunk of the fleet before someone hit the pause button. And French submarines [theaviationist.co...
[16:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Does China’s J-20 Rival Other Stealth Fighters? - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:16] <exec> 08└─And unless they have a very good range they will be kinda out of luck once the defense takes out their support
[16:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AOL Instant Messenger Made Social Media What It Is Today - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:36] <exec> 08└─ICQ was a year earlier and was very popular in 1998
[16:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AOL Instant Messenger Made Social Media What It Is Today - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:37] <exec> 08└─Part of the problem with IM was fragmentation. I had friends who used ICQ / AIM, friends who used MSN, and a few who used YIM (though most of those also used one of the others).
[16:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disney to Buy 21st Century Fox Assets for $52.4 Billion in Historic Hollywood Merger - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:53] <exec> 08└─Also Fantastic 4 and X-Men movie rights reunite with Marvel.
[16:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:20] <exec> 08└─Easy for you to say. A lot of areas in the good ol' USA only have one ISP, me included. No other choices, and the one I do have is pathetic ($80/month for ~1mb download/200k upload). I wish I could call them and dump them. Satellite is not an option with 2 teenagers in the house wanting to stream v...
[16:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Sorghum Cultivars Can Produce Thousands of Gallons of Ethanol - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:38] <exec> 08└─There is plenty of carbon and nitrogen in the air... Most plants need the nitrogen from the ground (don't know about this one), but some can pick it out of the air, and the carbon (almost?) always primarily comes out of the air.
[16:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03MindEscapes [6751] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:34] <exec> 08└─sensible conversations about ideas like basic income without agonising over the possibility that people might get something for nothing.
[16:17:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:36] <exec> 08└─Which bit of "I read the Marx/Engels letters" above leads you to believe that I didn't read Marx or Engels? Given that you're the one claiming that stuff that's clearly written about at length in those letters isn't in any of Marx's works, it's you who looks like the one who's not read them.
[16:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 Long Term Servicing Branch - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:16] <exec> 08└─Every time we get a new big update, my student worker machines take forever to update. Usually, right when I need them to be functional. It doesn't help that they only have 4GB of RAM and a dual-core processor, but that's really not that awful. I can see needing more RAM / CPU speed when dealing wit...
[16:20:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Researchers Discover an 8th Planet in the Kepler-90 System - 1594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:00] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't it be potentially more beneficial to focus on our Solar System and finding everything there is here? Not that it's not cool to know we can detect planets orbiting star systems that are 2,000 light years away. Unless someone invents a warp drive equivalent, anything outside our solar system...
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[17:12:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Crash [1335] (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06"Game-Changing" Attack on Critical Infrastructure Site Causes Outage - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:35] <exec> 08└─Maybe it's "game changing," but written by Dan Goodin? Given the number of times he has purposely left relevant information out of a "so-called report," just for scare-mongering and clicks, makes him about as trust-worthy of a source as Fox News on Trump.
[17:12:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Star Citizen Developers Sued by Crytek - 693 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:43] <exec> 08└─> "Crytek doesn't have the resources to compete with this level of investment and have never been focused on the network or online aspects of the engine in the way we or Amazon are," Roberts wrote. That would certainly be a good reason to change engines - but is completely irrelevant to a contract o...
[17:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Does China’s J-20 Rival Other Stealth Fighters? - 986 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:21] <exec> 08└─Purely strategic wargames that place two opponents with equal economic resources to start with and build differing types of forces to engage the enemy with consistently come out with Zerg rush as the win. Lots of fast, cheap little units, a mix of ground, sea and air win, with or without nukes in th...
[17:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Does China’s J-20 Rival Other Stealth Fighters? - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:23] <exec> 08└─Slick Willie presided over some good times - as is our supreme Orange with the Russian wife and business partners. The best leadership would make treason irrelevant. Not that either of those clowns even approach worthiness of a nomination for "best leader."
[17:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Does China’s J-20 Rival Other Stealth Fighters? - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:25] <exec> 08└─All depends on the mission, and most mission profiling is about political considerations. If a stealth plane can pass a sensitive area unnoticed, that can be a huge advantage. They're not going to win a massive head-to-head confrontation, but for selective projection of force they give more flexibil...
[17:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Does China’s J-20 Rival Other Stealth Fighters? - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:27] <exec> 08└─The US is no angel, I'm hard pressed to decide which was worse: Tibet or Hawaii. I lean toward Tibet because the heavy-duty atrocities were more recent.
[17:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Does China’s J-20 Rival Other Stealth Fighters? - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:30] <exec> 08└─On the one hand, you can sort of say "China will be China" and let them play in their little corner of the globe. On the other hand, if they think what they did to Tibet is O.K.? that's playing out Nazi Germany's game, but on a long-slow boil instead of blitzkreig. Keeping a credible force just off...
[17:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Does China’s J-20 Rival Other Stealth Fighters? - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:32] <exec> 08└─Tzar Bomba makes silly little islands look silly.
[17:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AOL Instant Messenger Made Social Media What It Is Today - 653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:54] <exec> 08└─AIM and ICQ were a big part of my early computing use. One of my good friends was one of those assholes who went around searching people's profiles to find someone to mess with. Found my friend and joke was on him, he was just as big an asshole. Turns out he lived in NYC as well so the two of them m...
[17:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AOL Instant Messenger Made Social Media What It Is Today - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:55] <exec> 08└─The fonts are terrible.
[17:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AOL Instant Messenger Made Social Media What It Is Today - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:58] <exec> 08└─AIM was huge, because it was AOL. AOL was a monstrosity of a dial-up ISP. The same people who love(d) the Yahoo Search page, loved AOL.
[17:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney to Buy 21st Century Fox Assets for $52.4 Billion in Historic Hollywood Merger - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:13] <exec> 08└─I'm assuming, that things like this merger are partly why Netflix is seriously investing in Original content.
[17:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:41] <exec> 08└─Hey jackass, phones were automatically switched for a long time before ma bell was broken up. Ignoramus.
[17:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:43] <exec> 08└─Quote from industry shill Ajit Pai: What I am saying is that the government shouldn't be in the business of picking winners and losers in the Internet economy.
[17:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules - 1168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:45] <exec> 08└─VNPs slow your internet. Maybe not be a lot, but enough to make an already not great connection even worse. Perhaps, I just don't have a good VPN, or my ISP doesn't like VPNs, beats me. I've tried Mobile broadband and had it right up until the provider closed up shop. They were reselling Sprint data...
[17:15:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06New Sorghum Cultivars Can Produce Thousands of Gallons of Ethanol - 768 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:00] <exec> 08└─It's per harvest. If you scan the summary it says in Florida they can get two harvests per year. If you can use a very fertile soil like the terra preta the Indians in the Amazonian basin manufactured, you can get more crops per year than that. I have read, though don't have the citation at hand, th...
[17:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Sorghum Cultivars Can Produce Thousands of Gallons of Ethanol - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:04] <exec> 08└─Sorghum-Fueled?
[17:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Sorghum Cultivars Can Produce Thousands of Gallons of Ethanol - 671 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:06] <exec> 08└─Here is the problem with biofuels. Assume they are right and can get 1000 gallons per acre. Average consumption in the U.S. is about ~400 gallons / yr which works out to about 0.4 acres per person. Now Google turns up a figure of about 0.5 acres to feed a person if comparing apples to apples, arable...
[17:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Sorghum Cultivars Can Produce Thousands of Gallons of Ethanol - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:09] <exec> 08└─So to get to the sustainable green utopia, who dies?
[17:16:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Louisiana Man Admits Misusing Trump’s Social Security Number - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:06] <exec> 08└─No, failures to properly authenticate an identity (to authentify in modern-speak) cause problems.
[17:16:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Louisiana Man Admits Misusing Trump’s Social Security Number - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:08] <exec> 08└─You have nothing to worry about. Because NO ONE has more respect for taxpayers than I do.
[17:16:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Louisiana Man Admits Misusing Trump’s Social Security Number - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:10] <exec> 08└─Yea, "White Hat" hacker my hairy left nut. If he had succeeded the only question was where he was sending it and whether the moron would have used a cutout. DNC, WaPo or NYT? Or more likely all three. And yet, when a hostile foreign government does the same to one of our political parties they're ju...
[17:16:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Louisiana Man Admits Misusing Trump’s Social Security Number - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:12] <exec> 08└─I don't think hacking should be used to interfere with our political process.
[17:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:12] <exec> 08└─The GNU philosophy is a good, possibly great philosophy. Just not for making money. Personally, I wish all code was forced into the public domain after 20 years. 20 years should be plenty of time for you to capitalize on your initial creation. With the pace of technological innovations, a 20 year-ol...
[17:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:14] <exec> 08└─Or, plenty of jobs could still exist, but today's students could be locked in a fierce competition for a few richly rewarded positions requiring being in the rich upper class and interpersonal family connections... The rest will be relegated to a series of dead-end positions, serving the elites who...
[17:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:16] <exec> 08└─There was very little trade, and hence no economy?
[17:18:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Oakenshield [4900] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Windows 10 Long Term Servicing Branch - 778 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:56] <exec> 08└─A co-worker's son's laptop (Windows 10 home) got corrupted during this month's update. It went into a reboot loop. When he couldn't fix it, he did a factory restore. It has run for DAYS at 100% Disk IO trying to do updates. His mother brought it to me thinking it had a hardware problem. Looking at t...
[17:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 Long Term Servicing Branch - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:58] <exec> 08└─Every time we get a new big update, my student worker machines take forever to update. Usually, right when I need them to be functional. It doesn't help that they only have 4GB of RAM and a dual-core processor, but that's really not that awful. I can see needing more RAM / CPU speed when dealing wit...
[17:20:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Offers no Data for Latest Claim that Net Neutrality Hurt Small ISPs - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:20] <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, so net neutrality is looking useless at best and maybe even harmful.
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[18:12:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Game-Changing" Attack on Critical Infrastructure Site Causes Outage - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:37] <exec> 08└─Take a drink!
[18:12:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Game-Changing" Attack on Critical Infrastructure Site Causes Outage - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:38] <exec> 08└─The website for Triconex is content free but it is a safe bet we are talking about another Windows exploit, right? This is news why? If you run Windows on anything important you will lose, you deserve to lose and you should be fired for being a loser. If you use Windows on a system that can kill peo...
[18:12:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Game-Changing" Attack on Critical Infrastructure Site Causes Outage - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:40] <exec> 08└─There's a lot of guessing involved, with only the data provided, that a nation state was involved. I think it's both expecting too little of other groups. Of course maybe that guess is based partially on information they left out. The article at FireEye is a bit better about covering the actual inci...
[18:12:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Game-Changing" Attack on Critical Infrastructure Site Causes Outage - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:43] <exec> 08└─Maybe it's "game changing," but written by Dan Goodin?
[18:12:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Star Citizen Developers Sued by Crytek - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:51] <exec> 08└─Oh call the waaahhhmbulance for Crytek. Rather than seeking litigation to squeeze out every last cent, go out and get someone else (or many someone elses) to use your engine, or offer improve your engine in the areas it is deficient so as to make them switch back again. This insta-litigation thing c...
[18:12:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Star Citizen Developers Sued by Crytek - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:54] <exec> 08└─Nah. Crytek saw the Star Citizen devs wasting their huge pile of money and decided they wanted a piece of that action.
[18:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Does China’s J-20 Rival Other Stealth Fighters? - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:38] <exec> 08└─Ordering soldiers into a Zerg Rush in a real battle will turn out a bit differently than in exercises, for most, if not all military forces I'm betting.
[18:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Does China’s J-20 Rival Other Stealth Fighters? - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:39] <exec> 08└─No, I mean defence. If you come in with stealth-planes and find all your nice little air-refuelling planes and AA-supression units having started new career as fireballs you are out of luck on surviving/completing the return - especially if you are the only radar-interfering object still in the air...
[18:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AOL Instant Messenger Made Social Media What It Is Today - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:05] <exec> 08└─It is not badly implemented. It also has a moderation system (inherited from Slashdot, of course) that produces a much better signal to noise ratio than any other place I can think of.
[18:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AOL Instant Messenger Made Social Media What It Is Today - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:07] <exec> 08└─Because nobody had a modem or a home computer in 1940.
[18:14:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] 02 - 06Disney to Buy 21st Century Fox Assets for $52.4 Billion in Historic Hollywood Merger - 78 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:18] <exec> 08└─Expect future Star Wars films to portray the Sith in a more sympathetic light.
[18:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disney to Buy 21st Century Fox Assets for $52.4 Billion in Historic Hollywood Merger - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:26] <exec> 08└─Exactly. Another too-big-to-fail corp.
[18:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disney to Buy 21st Century Fox Assets for $52.4 Billion in Historic Hollywood Merger - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:28] <exec> 08└─Because changing the existing films would be sacrilege. ;)
[18:14:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02 - 06F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules - 249 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:38] <exec> 08└─> If you don't like how your ISP shapes your traffic, switch to a different ISP. Good in principle, but wishful thinking. See "if you don't like how your congress shapes your laws, switch to a different congress". Tell me how well it works out, pal.
[18:14:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules - 118 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:46] <exec> 08└─In the whole discussion, I get confused, as people do not seem to have any definition of net neutrality to begin with.
[18:14:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules - 1517 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:52] <exec> 08└─No phone call neutrality meant super expensive "long distance" charges. It meant $10/minute international calls (adjusted for inflation-- a typical charge in the 1970s was $3/minute). It meant 900 numbers. It even meant 800 numbers that were very expensive to the businesses that knew they had to hav...
[18:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:02] <exec> 08└─It reflected the view of the Trump administration and the new F.C.C. chairman that unregulated business will eventually yield innovation and help the economy.
[18:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:04] <exec> 08└─You cannot slow down a connection without dropping packets. If there is a certain number of packets per second arriving, then either you pass all of them, or you drop some of them. Prioritizing packets means changing the probability that a packet is dropped, and thus is covered by that point.
[18:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:06] <exec> 08└─#Trumpgropedyou
[18:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules - 677 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:08] <exec> 08└─Consider the blackouts in California caused by Enron and friends. Electrical power would be routed in "stupid" ways to purposely fill the capacity of various connections. This forced some areas to buy more expensive power, since the connection to cheap power was already at capacity. Profit! So in th...
[18:15:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Sorghum Cultivars Can Produce Thousands of Gallons of Ethanol - 718 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:30] <exec> 08└─The big three for plants (and other life) are C H O & N. Unfortunately, Nitrogen can't be absorbed from the air by multicellular plants, though some have made a deal with bacteria (see legumes). Even more unfortunately, there are lots of trace minerals that are also needed, e.g. Phosphorous. But as...
[18:15:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Traffic to Major Tech Firms Rerouted to Russia - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:45] <exec> 08└─It is not a problem that the NSA is spying on foreigners. This is what I pay them for. They'd damn well better be doing it.
[18:15:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03anotherblackhat [4722] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Traffic to Major Tech Firms Rerouted to Russia - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:46] <exec> 08└─>This is a pretty obvious spying operation ... A few years ago it would have been a "pretty obvious spamming operation". Before that it would have been a "pretty idiotic mistake". Grabbing IP blocks by announcing subnets via BGP is nothing new. There are lots of reasons blackhats do this, and while...
[18:16:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Louisiana Man Admits Misusing Trump’s Social Security Number - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:36] <exec> 08└─This breach [google.com] allowed hackers to get tax info from the Dept of Education site and IRS. I should know - I was hit by this.
[18:18:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:40] <exec> 08└─What people want, what they can afford, and what is available as the next best alternate are all different things. The elderly may want to be waited on by the generations that they robbed. They may get something much, much different instead.
[18:18:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:42] <exec> 08└─So what did bring about an end to the Feudal mode of production
[18:19:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10 Long Term Servicing Branch - 832 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:25] <exec> 08└─yes, there is LTSB, since 2015 i think. yes, it has less spyware built in. Yes, it still use a full core for some nefarious purposes and send alot of packets to god knows where, with minimal telemetry setting and added GPO objects with sane settings. I find that it runs okay, having installed it on...
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[19:12:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Listening In: Acoustic Monitoring Devices Detect Illegal Hunting and Logging - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:35] <exec> 08└─To this end, the researchers tested prototypes of 'AudioMoth', a low-power open-source acoustic monitoring device. The size of a matchbox and costing as little as US$43 per unit, the loggers can be configured to record sounds of human exploitation (shotguns and chainsaws) as well as target species i...
[19:12:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Game-Changing" Attack on Critical Infrastructure Site Causes Outage - 1087 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:48] <exec> 08└─They have three bits of supporting information. FireEye has not connected this activity to any actor we currently track; however, we assess with moderate confidence that the actor is sponsored by a nation state. The targeting of critical infrastructure as well as the attacker’s persistence, lack o...
[19:12:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Game-Changing" Attack on Critical Infrastructure Site Causes Outage - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:50] <exec> 08└─Its not game changing, or particularly new. Its the same as the Siemens vulnerabilities [wikipedia.org] except done directly in the internet, without having to sneak it in via a usb stick or a windows machine. It exposes yet another company that thought they could shortcut the security aspects of th...
[19:12:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Game-Changing" Attack on Critical Infrastructure Site Causes Outage - 781 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:52] <exec> 08└─Looks like it indeed was a windows issue given that the main executable is trilog.exe [fireeye.com]. To me this sounds a lot like companies not following current best practices. For ICS systems a close match would be things like NERC CIP [nerc.com], the Cybersecurity Procurement Language for Energy...
[19:12:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Game-Changing" Attack on Critical Infrastructure Site Causes Outage - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:54] <exec> 08└─Just DuckDuckGo "Triconex windows" and you'll see that your assumptions are correct: it runs on Microsoft's finest.
[19:13:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Star Citizen Developers Sued by Crytek - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:05] <exec> 08└─Actually it can still be copyright infringement. That's why there are licenses like BSD and GPL (and the different versions of GPL). Modifying someone else's code doesn't make the resulting stuff automagically yours by copyright law.
[19:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Does China’s J-20 Rival Other Stealth Fighters? - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:51] <exec> 08└─How about the USA "wonderful work" in Iran, Iraq, Libya, Syria? See also: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[19:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Does China’s J-20 Rival Other Stealth Fighters? - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:53] <exec> 08└─The US is no angel
[19:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Does China’s J-20 Rival Other Stealth Fighters? - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:55] <exec> 08└─Tell that to survivors of D-day. Cannon fodder rushes are a common thing. It might be harder these days as people are realizing that wars are about money and not right/wrong, but history shows that the tactic works out alright.
[19:15:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules - 1207 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:04] <exec> 08└─You may be an asshole. You may be an idiot. You may be both. How many Americans have the luxury of picking and choosing among internet service providers? In a recent poll, I pointed out that I have exactly three choices: dialup, satellite, or DSL. Each of those choices is offered by one, single prov...
[19:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03darnkitten [1912] (Score: 2) 02 - 06F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules - 2021 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:14] <exec> 08└─We had local toll in our rural county several years ago, courtesy of our (monopoly) telecom provider, which served about a third of the state. We kept asking for an end to it, at least within the county (county emergency services being a toll call, etc), as well asking for better internet speeds. No...
[19:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:16] <exec> 08└─Demolished your own argument in one sentence: Of course the particular ISP which I switched to was too cheap and too generous and soon went out of business. Sooo, your fantastic "bullet proof" solution was a pipe dream . . . precious
[19:15:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score: 1) 02 - 06F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:18] <exec> 08└─Yeah, yeah, sure, sure. Just like the "trickle down" in the '80s - I'm still yellow and wet.
[19:15:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:20] <exec> 08└─Of course it's nonsense. We know exactly why it's nonsense: Mr Pai's previous job was lobbying the FCC on behalf of the major ISPs with the specific goal of eliminating net neutrality rules. So the major ISPs certainly knew exactly who was going to win with their repeal. He just benefited Comcast, V...
[19:15:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:22] <exec> 08└─Mitch McConnell and Obama**
[19:17:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wi-Fi at Starbucks Buenos Aires Has Computers Mine Crypto-Currency - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:22] <exec> 08└─How efficient is the JS mining code? I'm thinking it's not that efficient. But if it's efficient enough and many people don't plug in then Starbucks could still make money since they're not paying for the mining hardware. Otherwise it's probably someone else making money from Starbucks and their cus...
[19:18:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mhajicek [51] 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 132 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:15] <exec> 08└─How many millions has capitalism killed? Remember to include the results of the military industrial complex and it's perpetual wars.
[19:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:57] <exec> 08└─At a loss. You do realize that with Marxism we have to kill all of the lumpenprolitariate or the system wont work, right? At least in capitalism those who refuse to work are still allowed to live.
[19:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:59] <exec> 08└─Once the entire demand side of what was the working class is eliminated, either capitalism will fail and be replaced, or capitalists will have to find some way to supply the masses with the means to create an effective demand. But that is just my reading.
[19:19:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:01] <exec> 08└─Why won't it work? We have the same technology. It is just that wage labor will no longer be the determinate of income?
[19:19:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:03] <exec> 08└─Luxury goods, perfumes, jewelry, weapons, sort of like the economy in yachts today.
[19:20:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02 - 06Ajit Pai Offers no Data for Latest Claim that Net Neutrality Hurt Small ISPs - 406 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:44] <exec> 08└─It was the lesser of 2 evils pumped up on steroids. HRC was unsuitable but we knew what she would do. Which was Bad Stuff (tm). DJT was unsuitable but we didn't know what he would do. He wanted to drain the swamp, which would be A Good Thing (tm). But he was clearly unstable and totally unsuitable....
[19:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Offers no Data for Latest Claim that Net Neutrality Hurt Small ISPs - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:08] <exec> 08└─Yes. Being an authoritarian follower generally has that effect. I just wasn't certain you actually were a left-wing authoritarian follower. Might you be a right-wing authoritarian follower? Either way, I'm glad that comment made you feel morally superior. Because whether you are left or right-wing,...
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[20:12:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Study Shows Tailgating Can Slow Everyone Down - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:41] <exec> 08└─You drive manual, couple of things you try to avoid is frequent shift and full stop, and you do that by monitoring ahead, modulating speed and the distance to the car ahead. Automatic drivers have no such sense.
[20:12:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Shows Tailgating Can Slow Everyone Down - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:43] <exec> 08└─This is why I'm definitely a proponent of software-controlled cars. They won't be perfect, but they will be better than human drivers by the time they'll be allowed in the "wild". The next best thing available now, adaptive cruise control, would also be an immense help for preventing this sort of th...
[20:12:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Listening In: Acoustic Monitoring Devices Detect Illegal Hunting and Logging - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:52] <exec> 08└─sure this sounds great. save the animals and all, but the cynic/paranoid in me thinks this is just one piece of the technical infrastructure(ai, sensors and drones) that will keep the hordes of starving zombies who escape from the mega cities/prison pods from making use of the elites' private resour...
[20:13:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Game-Changing" Attack on Critical Infrastructure Site Causes Outage - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:08] <exec> 08└─if you use slaveware on critical systems you should be held criminally liable when it is used by other masters on your slaves.
[20:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Game-Changing" Attack on Critical Infrastructure Site Causes Outage - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:09] <exec> 08└─What I find interesting is that the actual outage was triggered by the security system itself which is usually the case nowadays. Isn't it why Linus was screaming at Google's morons the other day? https://www.theregister.co.uk [theregister.c...
[20:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Star Citizen Developers Sued by Crytek - 1946 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:21] <exec> 08└─If you read the complaint, that was kind of what Crytek claim they were trying to do. According to Crytek, in return for a budget priced license for a single game CIG was supposed to help them promote their engine (by using it and through prominent display of the Crytek logo on startup), develop new...
[20:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Star Citizen Developers Sued by Crytek - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:22] <exec> 08└─"OMG the game sounds great! I wonder why no one has ever made a game like this before!" *100 million dollars later* "I think I'm starting to see the problem"
[20:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Business is Booming for America’s Survival Food King - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:35] <exec> 08└─MRE's shelf life is only 3 years or so, not exactly meant for long term disaster preparedness.
[20:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AOL Instant Messenger Made Social Media What It Is Today - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:39] <exec> 08└─VAX/VMS had the "phone" program back in the 1980s. Everything old is new again... Now get off my lawn!
[20:15:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:38] <exec> 08└─The Con side is difficult to understand because English isn't their first language (and a lot of them are dead).
[20:16:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gault.Drakkor [1079] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Sorghum Cultivars Can Produce Thousands of Gallons of Ethanol - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:01] <exec> 08└─Majority of plants are something like 0.1-2% efficient at turning sunlight into plant. Some plants, prime example sugar cane, are 4% efficient. Wikipedia article photosynthetic efficiency. Even if you can get 12 harvests a year it doesn't matter. The current theoretical max is incident solar influx...
[20:16:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Sorghum Cultivars Can Produce Thousands of Gallons of Ethanol - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:03] <exec> 08└─Taking the excessive waste of fuel in the US as base of the calculation is not reasonable, as a green utopia generally also includes a cut down on that waste.
[20:16:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Tells Jo(e) Sixpack to Become an Expert in IoT Security - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:45] <exec> 08└─There's a simple solution to fixing the unwashed masses. It involves soup. ;-)
[20:16:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Tells Jo(e) Sixpack to Become an Expert in IoT Security - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:47] <exec> 08└─Err … I of course meant soap, not soup!
[20:19:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:23] <exec> 08└─purely speculative and based on nothing but high ideals that assumed humans were non-competitive altruists
[20:19:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:24] <exec> 08└─You won't let a blind person drive a car. You wouldn't hire a quadraplegic to be the center on your basketball team. But you would put a sociopath in charge of a company or polity upon which thousands of normal, healthy people rely, because you trust his judgement?
[20:19:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:26] <exec> 08└─From each according to their ability and to each according to their need does not properly account for those who will and those who will not work. When everyone gets what they need if some people are allowed to refuse to work then they are the new masters. There would be no incentive to continue to...
[20:19:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:29] <exec> 08└─Incentive, inscmentives! Are you a Republican, or a Microsoftie? Pro tip for post capitalist society: all "incentives" are perverse incentives. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Besides, the issue is the demand side, not the desert side. With automatization, no one will be able to "work",...
[20:20:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Windows 10 Long Term Servicing Branch - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:12] <exec> 08└─> I'm guessing it's impossible (perhaps incompatible) to access the specific update and install it manually? Windows 10 does Cumulative Updates so it would be nontrivial to hack it out. I wouldn't say it's impossible, but it wouldn't be supported.
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[21:12:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Study Shows Tailgating Can Slow Everyone Down - 664 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:42] <exec> 08└─.... I think I understand the concept and can agree with it, but maintaining the even distance is something one would do for courtesy for those behind you. Likewise, if all drivers would obey turn signal requests to take a lane there would be less need to tailgate (put oneself in the best position t...
[21:12:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Uncle_Al [1108] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Study Shows Tailgating Can Slow Everyone Down - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:44] <exec> 08└─because they get sick of asshats cutting them off if you open a gap wide enough to fit a car (BMW, or Prius) into.
[21:12:45] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03srobert [4803] 02 - 06Study Shows Tailgating Can Slow Everyone Down - 213 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:46] <exec> 08└─I try to maintain at least 3 seconds between my car and the one in front of me. But as for the car behind me I can't do much. In fact if he gets too close I start slowing down. The closer he gets, the slower I go.
[21:12:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Shows Tailgating Can Slow Everyone Down - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:48] <exec> 08└─Anyone who has driven for any time in NYC knows this. I've driven during rush-hour traffic at close to 60mph, 5 feet behind the car in front. Someone 15 cars ahead taps their break lights, its a ripple all the way down. ALL slow down for whatever caused that initial event, each slowing a little more...
[21:12:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Shows Tailgating Can Slow Everyone Down - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:50] <exec> 08└─It's those phucking Prius owners causing bottlenecks.
[21:12:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Shows Tailgating Can Slow Everyone Down - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:53] <exec> 08└─roundabouts. You don't see these traffic issues in Europe.
[21:12:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Shows Tailgating Can Slow Everyone Down - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:55] <exec> 08└─As I recall, the theoretically optimal solution is to attempt to always remain equidistant between the person in front of you and the one behind. I hear you about slowing down for tailgaters though. I've been keeping an eye out for a nice "I brake for tailgaters (safety first)" bumper sticker. With...
[21:12:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03beckett [1115] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Shows Tailgating Can Slow Everyone Down - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:57] <exec> 08└─monitoring ahead, modulating speed and the distance to the car ahead.
[21:12:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Shows Tailgating Can Slow Everyone Down - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:59] <exec> 08└─Imposter! Real race drivers use the throttle control very precisely. I've seen the data...
[21:13:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Shows Tailgating Can Slow Everyone Down - 765 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:02] <exec> 08└─Not true, at least of all automatic drivers. Avoiding unnecessary speed changes and full stops is good for fuel economy on any car, so if you have that mindset, you're going to drive that way regardless of the transmission. But casting herky-jerky driving as being unique to auto drivers is unfair. F...
[21:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Shows Tailgating Can Slow Everyone Down - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:04] <exec> 08└─Bullocks. One of the longest traffic jams I've ever been in was outside Bristol, England. We shut the engine off while waiting. No accident, no obvious cause, just an extremely full motorway.
[21:13:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Shows Tailgating Can Slow Everyone Down - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:06] <exec> 08└─So you're saying that there are other ways to slow down traffic besides tailgating. I believe you.
[21:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Listening In: Acoustic Monitoring Devices Detect Illegal Hunting and Logging - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:16] <exec> 08└─Jaguars and pumas are hazardous to humans. It's like smallpox... an endangered species that we fucking hate. Anybody want to volunteer to provide habitat? Some things need to be eradicated.
[21:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Listening In: Acoustic Monitoring Devices Detect Illegal Hunting and Logging - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:18] <exec> 08└─Lay off the faux-news teat a bit there Boris.
[21:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Game-Changing" Attack on Critical Infrastructure Site Causes Outage - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:36] <exec> 08└─The Sun should not be used as a dumping ground for that level of filth.
[21:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Game-Changing" Attack on Critical Infrastructure Site Causes Outage - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:37] <exec> 08└─You're absolutely right about Windows, but I don't quite agree with the last part. It's true: using Windows for critical infrastructure is incompetent and stupid. Worse, was this "critical infrastructure" system connected to the internet? That too is incompetent and stupid. But firing people into th...
[21:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Game-Changing" Attack on Critical Infrastructure Site Causes Outage - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:40] <exec> 08└─I'm reasonable, whatever gets the point made. I'm like the left head of the three headed giant, "All right, all right, all right. We'll kill him first and then have tea and biscuits."
[21:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Star Citizen Developers Sued by Crytek - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:52] <exec> 08└─If they had just licensed an engine and then changed their mind, I'd be with you. However, it sounds like Crytek invested a fair amount in helping them make proof-of-concept demos, etc. while they were seeking crowdfunding, with the payoff to be promotion and collaborative development of the CryEngi...
[21:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Star Citizen Developers Sued by Crytek - 923 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:54] <exec> 08└─Assuming the Lumberyard engine is fully legal, and that the developers abandoned the original CryEngine for Lumberyard, I don't see how that angle holds any water. You're free to write a piece of software built upon a GPLed codebase, and then later replace that codebase with some other roughly drop-...
[21:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Does China’s J-20 Rival Other Stealth Fighters? - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:45] <exec> 08└─Did they design it themselves or did they steal the design plans from Lockheed?
[21:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03ese002 [5306] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AOL Instant Messenger Made Social Media What It Is Today - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:14] <exec> 08└─AIM was just a shitty ICQ rewrite, true, but ICQ was just a shitty imitation of IRC. IRC was actually a major improvement on write(1). Those who forget it are condemned to use increasingly shitty rewrites.
[21:16:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Sorghum Cultivars Can Produce Thousands of Gallons of Ethanol - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:38] <exec> 08└─The big three... are C H O & N.
[21:16:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Sorghum Cultivars Can Produce Thousands of Gallons of Ethanol - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:39] <exec> 08└─So to get to the sustainable green utopia, who dies? Why is it that every plan for a utopia always seems to begin with step one: mass graves.
[21:16:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Sorghum Cultivars Can Produce Thousands of Gallons of Ethanol - 998 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:42] <exec> 08└─Math and logic, learn it. The U.S. is a huge exporter of food at the moment. If we suddenly divert a large portion of our arable land to grow fuel, how much food goes off the market? How many people die? The U.S. is not likely to reduce fuel consumption all that much, as new tech comes energy use te...
[21:17:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Tells Jo(e) Sixpack to Become an Expert in IoT Security - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:25] <exec> 08└─Do you plan to drive a donkey?
[21:17:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Tells Jo(e) Sixpack to Become an Expert in IoT Security - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:27] <exec> 08└─And since when did guns have "points"?
[21:17:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Tells Jo(e) Sixpack to Become an Expert in IoT Security - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:29] <exec> 08└─Social determinants of health [wikipedia.org] would suggest that maybe soup could help the unwashed masses as well. :)
[21:19:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 263 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:37] <exec> 08└─Amen. I don't know if it has been verified by scientific peers, but there was a researcher who used MRIs to identify sociopaths. It seems to me that being rated as one ought to disqualify you from any kind of position where you might have power over other people.
[21:20:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:09] <exec> 08└─In feudalism, the fundamental economic activity is giving a portion of your livelihood in the form of taxes and receiving in turn protection from the vagaries of the world, including bandits and other feudal lords. When that system breaks down, it's not a case of "Oh dear, I don't have enough pepper...
[21:20:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:10] <exec> 08└─At least in capitalism those who refuse to work are still allowed to live.
[21:20:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:13] <exec> 08└─The alternative to capitalism […]
[21:20:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:15] <exec> 08└─A lot of the problems triggered by the low oil prices revolved around the expense of oil extraction. When it costs close to a hundred dollars to extract a barrel of oil from the tar sands/shale and suddenly oil is trading for less then $50 a barrel, profit margins drop into the negatives.
[21:20:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:17] <exec> 08└─Apples and oranges. A blind person is incapable of driving. A sociopath is capable of reasoning and determining what is amoral.
[21:20:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:19] <exec> 08└─Because there's still one thing the haves want to have that they need the have-nots for: Power. You cannot have power without people over whom you can exert that power.
[21:20:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03i286NiNJA [2768] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Now - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:21] <exec> 08└─Fuckoff these people ruin the whole world for everyone and then scare the peons into giving them more power. They'd be the first in line to tell you life isn't fair if you were the one getting fucked and not them.
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[22:13:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York Woman Accused of Money Laundering for ISIS Using Bitcoin - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:06] <exec> 08└─We simply can't make a dent in the problem: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[22:13:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York Woman Accused of Money Laundering for ISIS Using Bitcoin - 665 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:07] <exec> 08└─However that is answered, we obviously fucked up. Just yesterday, soylentnews had an article about running out of jobs for people. https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] So, we bring in more people with low qualifications while we're seeing automation take the simp...
[22:13:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York Woman Accused of Money Laundering for ISIS Using Bitcoin - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:10] <exec> 08└─Wimminz are good for sum fuk for the patriarchy, and rarely commit violent crimes. She couldn't even do this crap right. FIB has all the coins.
[22:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York Woman Accused of Money Laundering for ISIS Using Bitcoin - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:12] <exec> 08└─dey turk ur jerbs! (tukur jerb)! We should only allow good God fearin' (and hopefully) white folk enter this country because that was really what the founding fathers wanted; white utopia or whitopia!
[22:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York Woman Accused of Money Laundering for ISIS Using Bitcoin - 762 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:14] <exec> 08└─On March 21, 1851, it became the utopian community named Modern Times. The colony was established on 750 acres (3.0 km2) of land by Josiah Warren and Stephen Pearl Andrews. In 1864, it was renamed Brentwood after the town of Brentwood, Essex, in England. By contract, all the land in the colony was b...
[22:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Shows Tailgating Can Slow Everyone Down - 1437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:36] <exec> 08└─It's true that you cannot control the distance between you and the car behind you. If the guy behind you wants to tailgate, there's nothing you can do without sacrificing the safe following distance you're maintaining between you and the guy ahead of you. If you speed up to recover equidistance betw...
[22:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Shows Tailgating Can Slow Everyone Down - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:38] <exec> 08└─Drive a POS high clearance vehicle with a garbage hitch on it. They learn real fast when the ball and mount goes through their radiator.
[22:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Shows Tailgating Can Slow Everyone Down - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:40] <exec> 08└─Take the Northern State instead. Outbound it slows down around the Meadowbrook but it's always much faster than the LIE/BQE/GCP unless you're doing the latter at 4am Christmas morning.
[22:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Shows Tailgating Can Slow Everyone Down - 935 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:42] <exec> 08└─Meh. I've stopped using the rear-view mirror in my car. I hate tailgaters, but for whatever reason this year has been especially bad. Every time I'd look into the rear-view mirror, all I'd see would be the blinding headlights of the Ford F-Teen Fifty tailgating me. Sort of defeats that purpose of ha...
[22:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Shows Tailgating Can Slow Everyone Down - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:44] <exec> 08└─Maintaining even spacing facilitates lane changes and merges as well.
[22:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Shows Tailgating Can Slow Everyone Down - 622 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:47] <exec> 08└─It's the people and culture. I was stunned at the level of cooperation and near hive-like activity by the Chinese in one city I visited. Average distance between cars seem to be 2ft or less, and they made as many lanes as they could ignoring the markers. The amazing part was that average speed was a...
[22:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Shows Tailgating Can Slow Everyone Down - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:49] <exec> 08└─Probably shoppers going into Cribbs Causeway on a Saturday morning - makes huge traffic jam near christmas.
[22:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Shows Tailgating Can Slow Everyone Down - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:51] <exec> 08└─Assholes vs assholes, eh?
[22:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Shows Tailgating Can Slow Everyone Down - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:53] <exec> 08└─In Italy, cars will move over to let an overtaking car rough - both the car being overtaken, *and* the cars going the other way. In Australia, the car being overtaken speeds up, and the cars on the other side drive *towards* the car overtaking, in some weird, almost suicidal game of chicken. Culture...
[22:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Shows Tailgating Can Slow Everyone Down - 1037 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:56] <exec> 08└─As long as you are doing at least the speed limit, you would get no problems from me. If you are doing under, can't get the fucking hint when I come up on you, and you slow down, it will be fucking on that day. I don't believe people have a right to the fast lane (which for some is the passing lane...
[22:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Shows Tailgating Can Slow Everyone Down - 687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:58] <exec> 08└─This is another reason i think people should have to get their motorcycle license BEFORE they get their auto license: riding a m/c forces you to be aware of EVERYTHING going on around you.. (AND it would keep all the people who REALLY HAVE NO CLUE about driving from getting their license). You are c...
[22:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Business is Booming for America’s Survival Food King - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:55] <exec> 08└─So true! Our economy has been doing tremendously since my election. Stocks hitting record highs. 700,000 new #JOBS [twitter.com]. Costco reporting huge profits from our great middle class. Under Armour, fabulous merger proposal. Bitcoin hitting record highs. And we haven't even passed the BIGGEST TA...
[22:15:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Does China’s J-20 Rival Other Stealth Fighters? - 1207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:35] <exec> 08└─On the other hand, are the American people as a whole willing to spend the enormous amounts of blood and treasure that would go with stripping China of Tibet militarily? You know that's far from true. And half-measures do more harm than good I'm afraid. "Keeping a credible force just off the coast s...
[22:15:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Does China’s J-20 Rival Other Stealth Fighters? - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:37] <exec> 08└─I was expecting somebody to joke that Chinese stealth fighters have the fundamental disadvantage that they're made in China. Either people are taking Chinese capabilities seriously now, as they should, or the level of discourse on SN has increased. Either way, it's a good thing.
[22:15:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Does China’s J-20 Rival Other Stealth Fighters? - 1018 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:39] <exec> 08└─Looking at this thread I see far too much complacency. I don't think people understand the US has gotten corrupt and rotten and mismanaged internally over the last 40-50 years. China plays its cards very close to its chest. Remember they are also over 4,000 years old in one form or another; if you t...
[22:16:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules - 847 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:44] <exec> 08└─Said with all the conviction and profanity of a thirteen year old whose entire world is quite small but generalizes it to the rest of creation. Even in Brooklyn, NY, there are very limited options for broadband. It was only two months ago they brought FiOS to my block, and I'm sure they only did tha...
[22:17:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:07] <exec> 08└─Crafoo, you and the other anti-gubbamint types seem to be missing something: ANY concentration of too much power in too few hands is a problem, whether government or private. In the end it doesn't matter, not even a little bit. Human nature is human nature. Your government vs private corporation dic...
[22:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Sorghum Cultivars Can Produce Thousands of Gallons of Ethanol - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:36] <exec> 08└─Where's the carbon coming from?
[22:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Sorghum Cultivars Can Produce Thousands of Gallons of Ethanol - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:37] <exec> 08└─So, don't make energy from the sun, because it's not as efficient as making it from old dinosaurs?
[22:18:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Tells Jo(e) Sixpack to Become an Expert in IoT Security - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:24] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayonet [wikipedia.org]
[22:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Tells Jo(e) Sixpack to Become an Expert in IoT Security - 1212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:25] <exec> 08└─Yes, and I'd like to add to it... if you sold to me a device, it is supposed to work without giving me any harm and without any updates from you. If you need to update my device to prevent a harm, you'd better return my money and then some multiple of it. You have no rights to change the look and fe...
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[23:12:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Space Capsule With 3 Astronauts Returns to Earth - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:37] <exec> 08└─I don't know why but for a second I read that headline as "Space Capsule With 3 Apollo Astronauts Returns to Earth".
[23:12:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Space Capsule With 3 Astronauts Returns to Earth - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:39] <exec> 08└─Is Bresnik under investigation now for colluding with Russians?
[23:12:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Space Capsule With 3 Astronauts Returns to Earth - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:41] <exec> 08└─Do you think astronauts on the ISS play a drinking game where they try to land toilet bombs on earth-bound targets? I would.
[23:12:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York Woman Accused of Money Laundering for ISIS Using Bitcoin - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:52] <exec> 08└─Don't need white folk. Don't need black folk. Don't need any -- we have a populated land and no shortage of uteruses. Got a hatred for whites? OK, then chew on this: of all the people in the USA, black people are hurt most by immigration. They are the first to lose jobs.
[23:12:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York Woman Accused of Money Laundering for ISIS Using Bitcoin - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:54] <exec> 08└─Got that right. Regions popular with Latino immigrants have them working the low level service jobs. In other places, it's blacks doing those jobs. It's replacement citizens. And why? Perhaps it is greater work ethic among the illegal immigrants and willingness to put up with BS. Perhaps it is becau...
[23:12:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York Woman Accused of Money Laundering for ISIS Using Bitcoin - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:56] <exec> 08└─Hey retard - it isn't about white or black, it isn't even about "god-fearing". It's about idiots like you welcoming enemies of our nation into our country. Let me repeat what the other AC said - we have no shortage of people, so WTF are we allowing outsiders to come in, and take our jobs?
[23:12:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York Woman Accused of Money Laundering for ISIS Using Bitcoin - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:58] <exec> 08└─Why do you hate America?
[23:13:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New York Woman Accused of Money Laundering for ISIS Using Bitcoin - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:01] <exec> 08└─In California's case, more like welfare votes paid for with taxpayer dollars. Everybody knows that Latinos vote only for handouts regardless of whether or not they are politically conservative.
[23:13:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York Woman Accused of Money Laundering for ISIS Using Bitcoin - 934 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:03] <exec> 08└─https://nypost.com/2014/07/20/newburgh-four-terrorism-case-was-fbi-entrapment-hbo-film/ [nypost.com] By all accounts, none of the Newburg four were smart enough to tie their own shoes, let alone plan a terror operation. http://www.businessinsider.com [busi...
[23:13:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York Woman Accused of Money Laundering for ISIS Using Bitcoin - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:05] <exec> 08└─There's no way to know. In so [theintercept.com] many [theintercept.com] ways [theintercept.com], the FBI is the agency that cried wolf.
[23:13:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York Woman Accused of Money Laundering for ISIS Using Bitcoin - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:07] <exec> 08└─But, but, but - DAS RACISSSSSS!! Isn't it? Everybody in the world fucks to much, except Euros and Americans, doesn't that give all them fuckers some kinda right to come here and take what we have? Well, doesn't it? Shouldn't we just roll over, and allow everyone to take our jobs, our homes, our wimm...
[23:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York Woman Accused of Money Laundering for ISIS Using Bitcoin - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:10] <exec> 08└─Don't forget part two: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[23:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Shows Tailgating Can Slow Everyone Down - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:43] <exec> 08└─Take the Northern State ^W^W^W^W move out of the sticks to somewhere you don't need a car instead.
[23:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Shows Tailgating Can Slow Everyone Down - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:44] <exec> 08└─You're mistaken. In Italy, they're moving over onto the sidewalk to overtake the guy in front of *them*.
[23:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Shows Tailgating Can Slow Everyone Down - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:46] <exec> 08└─Culture it is. In Russia it is customary to say thank you to a car that slowed or moved over by blinking emergency stop lights one or two times. In Boston it is customary to play drunk to change lines in traffic.
[23:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Shows Tailgating Can Slow Everyone Down - 1030 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:49] <exec> 08└─Knowing how to drive a motorcycle doesn't make you not a moron. Driving on the highway the other day, I saw a fool going up on one wheel with his motorcycle just before a corner where traffic always slows to a crawl abruptly. It's a very accident prone area because it's a long downhill three-lane st...
[23:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Shows Tailgating Can Slow Everyone Down - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:51] <exec> 08└─Yes, and we should require that children arrive to schools on bicycles. Good for the health and everybody's driving skills. No grandmas regulating traffic either.
[23:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Study Shows Tailgating Can Slow Everyone Down - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:53] <exec> 08└─Automatic drivers hit the brakes to modulate their speed, which causes everyone behind them to react excessively (because brake lights are ON/OFF, not telling you how much braking is applied). If you downshift/clutch to slow down just a bit, the people three cars behind you don't drop their phones i...
[23:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Shows Tailgating Can Slow Everyone Down - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:55] <exec> 08└─Sharing? Calm driving? Are you some sort of socialist?! I happen to agree with you. Driving like the only thing matters is arriving, safely, eventually, is far betterthan getting there two minutes (or seconds) sooner. While the plural of anecdote is not data, we have all experienced the maniac over/...
[23:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Shows Tailgating Can Slow Everyone Down - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:57] <exec> 08└─And the pedestrians, and everyone else, moves over, lets them back in, and keeps doing what they were doing.
[23:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Shows Tailgating Can Slow Everyone Down - 785 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:00] <exec> 08└─I think what TFA was suggesting exactly that - you try and cushion yourself between the car in front and the car behind. If the car behind closes in on you, close the distance with the car in front. If it gives you space, take a little more space from the car in front. If everyone averages their dis...
[23:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Shows Tailgating Can Slow Everyone Down - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:02] <exec> 08└─Only once they stop people targetting cyclists https://www.standard.co.uk [standard.co.uk]
[23:14:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Shows Tailgating Can Slow Everyone Down - 984 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:04] <exec> 08└─You take your pokey little apartment, polluted air, and feeling of righteousness, and I'll take my 10 hectares of combined gardens and stock paddocks, with my own water and dare I say food supplies, within 40 minutes drive of a city center (or 1.5 hours if I felt like suffering the ever so efficient...
[23:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Shows Tailgating Can Slow Everyone Down - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:07] <exec> 08└─Don't even need to down shift. If you maintain a decent distance in front, just pulling the foot off gas slows down sufficiently due to the engine brake effect.
[23:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Game-Changing" Attack on Critical Infrastructure Site Causes Outage - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:37] <exec> 08└─"target the system that prevents health- and life-threatening accidents." 911???
[23:15:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Business is Booming for America’s Survival Food King - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:06] <exec> 08└─I guess people who regularly eat Soylent get a free pass, the powder has a one year best-by shelf life.
[23:15:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Does China’s J-20 Rival Other Stealth Fighters? - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:49] <exec> 08└─Unless, of course, they should elect/appoint their own version of Trump. MCGA, anyone?
[23:15:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Does China’s J-20 Rival Other Stealth Fighters? - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:50] <exec> 08└─35 years of one-child policy and their population still grew by ~40% during that time... sooner or later the center won't be able to hold all the Chinese people. Personally, I'm in favor of unilateral disarmament, but there's the unfortunate side effect that military disarmament would lead to accele...
[23:16:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] 02 - 06Disney to Buy 21st Century Fox Assets for $52.4 Billion in Historic Hollywood Merger - 107 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:27] <exec> 08└─One or five, it's the same thing when they're all in bed with each other, and the government makes the bed.
[23:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Sorghum Cultivars Can Produce Thousands of Gallons of Ethanol - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:49] <exec> 08└─I suspect that if we ever really did grow fuel like this article suggests, then the same thing would happen to our food scraps that already happened with waste cooking oil--it will go from being refuse to feedstock (or compost, in this case).
[23:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Sorghum Cultivars Can Produce Thousands of Gallons of Ethanol - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:50] <exec> 08└─Is this the Spanish Inquisition?
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