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[00:12:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drinking Hot Tea Every Day Linked to Lower Glaucoma Risk - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:34] <exec> 08└─Coffee, no association. Cold tea, no association. Hot tea without caffeine, no association. Hot tea with caffeine, association. https://www.explainxkcd.com [explainxkcd.com]
[00:12:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drinking Hot Tea Every Day Linked to Lower Glaucoma Risk - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:35] <exec> 08└─TFS is practically a transcript from this XKCD, substituting beverage flavors for jelly bean flavors.
[00:12:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Restoring a 'Bricked' Apple iMac Pro Requires a Second Mac - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:55] <exec> 08└─That's a long drive for a lot of people. Sounds like Apple should have come up with a proper recovery disk or at least a recovery partition.
[00:12:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Restoring a 'Bricked' Apple iMac Pro Requires a Second Mac - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:57] <exec> 08└─Bad troll. You're starting to make sense here. We expect better from our tRump! :)
[00:12:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Restoring a 'Bricked' Apple iMac Pro Requires a Second Mac - 1222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:59] <exec> 08└─From the page with the instructions: - Verify: You can connect to the Internet. No internet, or Apple unwilling to provide what you need, maybe because you installed "unauthorized" things before? Sort of how the logic board serial reflashing process became an online-only thing after about 2012. - Wa...
[00:13:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Restoring a 'Bricked' Apple iMac Pro Requires a Second Mac - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:01] <exec> 08└─So how many Apple stores (with repair capability) are there in USA? Your list is about 200. Compare to: Seeing the USA in your Chevrolet -- 4,200 dealers Driven a Ford lately? -- 5,000 Ford dealers Apple has a long way to go.
[00:13:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Restoring a 'Bricked' Apple iMac Pro Requires a Second Mac - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:03] <exec> 08└─Sorry, but you should rather say "It's great if you're in certain parts of California". And even then you're wrong, because the Apple stores are inconvenient to get to and expensive. Shiny, I'll grant.
[00:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon's UFO Investigation Program Revealed - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:17] <exec> 08└─TFA and TFS go on about Mr. Elizondo this and Mr. Elizondo that. Hereby, this Mr. Elizondo denies any and all allegations of any involvement in the search of extraterrestrial intelligence, visitors or artifacts. Clearly all this is the product of people with overactive imaginations and has no factu...
[00:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon's UFO Investigation Program Revealed - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:18] <exec> 08└─Is that an attempt at humor? If not, dafuq are you talking about? But Mr. Elizondo said the only thing that had ended was the effort’s government funding, which dried up in 2012. From then on, Mr. Elizondo said in an interview, he worked with officials from the Navy and the C.I.A. He continued to...
[00:14:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Slipped a "Mr. Robot" Promo Plugin Into Firefox and Users Are Pissed - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:00] <exec> 08└─How about Pale Moon? Firefox clearly was pumping blue pills ages ago, and Pale Moon was clearly a fork created for the right reasons. Works for me.
[00:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Slipped a "Mr. Robot" Promo Plugin Into Firefox and Users Are Pissed - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:01] <exec> 08└─The root-permissioned installer has enough permissions to stick suid programs on your system. Or fork a daemon that hangs around and drops its payload later. Or tweak the cronjobs run by/as root. Or...
[00:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Slipped a "Mr. Robot" Promo Plugin Into Firefox and Users Are Pissed - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:03] <exec> 08└─Erm, you seem to have completely forgotten about half a decade of the history of the PC, some might say the most imporant half decade, as that was the period where they became common. For a while, DOS was king.
[00:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Slipped a "Mr. Robot" Promo Plugin Into Firefox and Users Are Pissed - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:05] <exec> 08└─?!??!? You're unhappy that Pale Moon applied an entirely consistent default policy, that was trivially overrideable, to a single plugin? If that's the worst thing you can think of about the browser, you should probably like it more than any other software ever.
[00:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Slipped a "Mr. Robot" Promo Plugin Into Firefox and Users Are Pissed - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:08] <exec> 08└─Red Pillar trails in the snow. Read Jack London's "To Build a Fire". Maybe someone could update? "To Build a Fire-fox". And then you die, in the cold, even the dog runs away. But really, freezing is not the worst way to go. You just kind of go to sleep, and then become crystalline.
[00:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Slipped a "Mr. Robot" Promo Plugin Into Firefox and Users Are Pissed - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:10] <exec> 08└─They put spaces in directory names, a bigger sin in my book. They may have a place in the windows world but they really aren't unix natives. Not going to start having to use print0 everywhere just because of one browser pusher.
[00:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Slipped a "Mr. Robot" Promo Plugin Into Firefox and Users Are Pissed - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:12] <exec> 08└─Some see a security hole combined with unauthorized installation (proof of concept) other see it as jolly good fun and great social experience. One of these groups has things of value they like to preserve, the others loose everything so often they just don't care any more, if the ever had something...
[00:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Slipped a "Mr. Robot" Promo Plugin Into Firefox and Users Are Pissed - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:14] <exec> 08└─Everybody has to make a living. Some are builders. Some work in factories. Some pick vegetables. Some mine coal. Some rent out their vaginas. And some sell cyber.
[00:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Slipped a "Mr. Robot" Promo Plugin Into Firefox and Users Are Pissed - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:16] <exec> 08└─At least in that scenario the software you're deliberately installing should be trustworthy enough not to do that. That's still better than allowing any program installed at any time from tinkering with your deliberately installed component.
[00:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Cryptocurrency Without a Blockchain Has Been Built to Outperform Bitcoin - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:02] <exec> 08└─Ron Paul has been talking about this recemtly in his "Market Updates" over at http://www.ronpaullibertyreport.com [ronpaullibertyreport.com] . His basic idea is that traditional inflation sinks, such as the bond market, are so saturated that money is being poured into anything that might hold it.
[00:15:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Discussion: Can Math Predict What You'll Do Next? - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:57] <exec> 08└─> You can choose to do something today for eight hours and no one can stop you from making that decision and carrying it out. What country do you live in? And how big is your trust fund?? If you broaden your perspective a bit I think you will quickly find that many (most?) of the people on Earth don...
[00:17:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CDC Gets List of Forbidden Words: Science-Based, Evidence-Based, Vulnerable, Fetus, ... - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:13] <exec> 08└─Looking forward to your properly rephrased response.
[00:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CDC Gets List of Forbidden Words: Science-Based, Evidence-Based, Vulnerable, Fetus, ... - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:14] <exec> 08└─The anthem, it's very important that NFL players always STAND for the playing of our National Anthem. We're paying them big money to respect our Flag and our Country! #StandForOurAnthem [twitter.com]🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/czutyGaMQV [t.co]
[00:17:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CDC Gets List of Forbidden Words: Science-Based, Evidence-Based, Vulnerable, Fetus, ... - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:16] <exec> 08└─and it's from the likes of you the words "evidence" and "science" get a bad taint.
[00:17:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CDC Gets List of Forbidden Words: Science-Based, Evidence-Based, Vulnerable, Fetus, ... - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:19] <exec> 08└─Waaaaah! I got owned and my ego is too fragile to just let it pass, so I had to post something, anything! It doesn't matter if its total bullshit that reveals how much of a beta I really am, I'm still gonna do ieeeet! Waaaaah!
[00:21:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Francisco Animal Shelter Rents Robotic Guard - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:24] <exec> 08└─You're worried about human shit when how many millions of selfish, brain dead dog owners who allow their animals to unceremoniously shit on lawns, side walks and streets. That's equally disgusting and filthy. Feces are feces. Besides, that's crackhead level activity right there. And extremely rare o...
[00:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Official Warns of Russian Risk to Undersea Cables - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:13] <exec> 08└─That's actually not any better than the mass media. Remember Iraq's WMDs, as reported by the US intelligence agencies?
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[01:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drinking Hot Tea Every Day Linked to Lower Glaucoma Risk - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:36] <exec> 08└─This is probably why we have a heart attack drug approved only for black people. It didn't pass muster with the FDA until non-blacks were excluded from the statistics, and then... a drug that can be marketed and sold! Not that there couldn't be something to the tea though. Suppose that a particular...
[01:12:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drinking Hot Tea Every Day Linked to Lower Glaucoma Risk - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:38] <exec> 08└─If drinking tea reduces the risk of it, and smoking MJ is a treatment for glaucoma, then surely drinking "green" tea is the best, all-round solution?
[01:12:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drinking Hot Tea Every Day Linked to Lower Glaucoma Risk - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:40] <exec> 08└─If you are a Brit, chances are you already have a hot tea daily. Follow the money to whatever large English Tea Company funded the study?
[01:13:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Restoring a 'Bricked' Apple iMac Pro Requires a Second Mac - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:04] <exec> 08└─What about Antarctica? I known of a support call from Antarctic. Told him to take it in to his local store for repair. He responded in 6 months, once he gets home.
[01:13:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Restoring a 'Bricked' Apple iMac Pro Requires a Second Mac - 1867 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:06] <exec> 08└─Apple is very politically correct, but they didn't forget the Republican parts of California. They have stores in Orange County, where I held a beautiful, beautiful rally. They have one in Fresno, people love me there, I felt like I was in Harrisburg. Tremendous rally in Fresno, from where we get a...
[01:13:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Restoring a 'Bricked' Apple iMac Pro Requires a Second Mac - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:08] <exec> 08└─Hold the Option key during boot
[01:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon's UFO Investigation Program Revealed - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:23] <exec> 08└─Give us the docs, doc.
[01:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Slipped a "Mr. Robot" Promo Plugin Into Firefox and Users Are Pissed - 711 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:14] <exec> 08└─It happened when they went through their SJW purge. Those who can not tolerate other ideas of other people are going to be blind to bad ideas. Especially when those bad ideas are their own. Watch for the same things to happen to google. They will both be around for a long time. They have the money t...
[01:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Slipped a "Mr. Robot" Promo Plugin Into Firefox and Users Are Pissed - 1981 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:16] <exec> 08└─No no no he wants to blame Bill Gates for what is going on. /sarc Missing the whole point. This shit goes on in open source too. Most of our infrastructure is run by a small handful of people who can if they like do some pretty nasty things. One project I use (open source) just dropped ads into the...
[01:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Slipped a "Mr. Robot" Promo Plugin Into Firefox and Users Are Pissed - 1350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:18] <exec> 08└─It's new to Windows Security permissions has been baked in since Win NT 3.5. The coding standards on the other hand could be argued that they should be better. One of the NTs selling points was that it was DoD approved. That was before people starting punching holes through the network protocols the...
[01:15:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03cosurgi [272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Discussion: Can Math Predict What You'll Do Next? - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:58] <exec> 08└─Nobody mentioned here the fictional mathematician Hari Seldon who invented psychohistory.
[01:17:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CDC Gets List of Forbidden Words: Science-Based, Evidence-Based, Vulnerable, Fetus, ... - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:18] <exec> 08└─This is some serious censorship. Of a kind not seen in modern American history. And yet all the people who are outraged and screaming in support of free speech when a bunch of college kids shout down nazis aren't just quiet about this issue. They are standing up in support of this speech control and...
[01:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CDC Gets List of Forbidden Words: Science-Based, Evidence-Based, Vulnerable, Fetus, ... - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:20] <exec> 08└─but carrying this much stupid with you, the road will surely be exhausting
[01:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CDC Gets List of Forbidden Words: Science-Based, Evidence-Based, Vulnerable, Fetus, ... - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:22] <exec> 08└─That one has bounced between -1 and 4 at least. Somebody... bothered by something? People don't get so upset about nonsense. Only an uncomfortable truth can do that.
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[02:12:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drinking Hot Tea Every Day Linked to Lower Glaucoma Risk - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:45] <exec> 08└─Thanks, I'll be here all week. Try the veal!
[02:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Restoring a 'Bricked' Apple iMac Pro Requires a Second Mac - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:13] <exec> 08└─But apparently it isn't a fully capable recovery partition or you wouldn't need the second Mac.
[02:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Slipped a "Mr. Robot" Promo Plugin Into Firefox and Users Are Pissed - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:22] <exec> 08└─The installer will be the standard system package manager. That doesn't mean untrusted packages should be installed. As for suid executables, some may actually be necessary for the system to function at all. Otherwise, it's wet squirrel time. All of that is quite distinct from the program updating i...
[02:17:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CDC Gets List of Forbidden Words: Science-Based, Evidence-Based, Vulnerable, Fetus, ... - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:26] <exec> 08└─Only an uncomfortable truth can do that.
[02:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ketamine Reduces Suicidal Thoughts in Depressed Patients - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:06] <exec> 08└─The only effect close to a hallucination was auditory right after I was injected... like industrial noise... a jet engine except lower pitch. Not pleasant... quite the opposite actually.
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[03:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japanese Company Could Put "Billboard" on the Moon - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:36] <exec> 08└─Hey ispace, take your billboard and shove it into Uranus.
[03:12:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japanese Company Could Put "Billboard" on the Moon - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:38] <exec> 08└─the company [would] offer what it calls a "projection mapping service" -- a small billboard on the moon's surface. The startup says there will be demand from corporations looking to show off their logos with Earth in the background.
[03:12:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japanese Company Could Put "Billboard" on the Moon - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:40] <exec> 08└─in "The Man Who Sold the Moon" did something similar, on a larger scale.
[03:12:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Japanese Company Could Put "Billboard" on the Moon - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:42] <exec> 08└─I don't understand how any recorded visual can cost more than an hour of photoshopping. The viewers of ads don't care and certainly aren't going to demand the certificate of authenticity. The picture will be dull and boring, compared to nearly any movie.
[03:12:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japanese Company Could Put "Billboard" on the Moon - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:44] <exec> 08└─... blockin' out the scenery, breakin' my mind. Do this. Don't do that. Can't you read the sign.
[03:12:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japanese Company Could Put "Billboard" on the Moon - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:47] <exec> 08└─Just because it will be ineffective doesn't mean that they can't get someone to pay for it in advance.
[03:12:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japanese Company Could Put "Billboard" on the Moon - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:49] <exec> 08└─Put a satellite in orbit around the moon, and have it project giant advertising onto the moon's surface during the new moon phase. Piss off the world.
[03:12:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japanese Company Could Put "Billboard" on the Moon - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:51] <exec> 08└─Piss off the world.
[03:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Restoring a 'Bricked' Apple iMac Pro Requires a Second Mac - 974 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:31] <exec> 08└─Guys, guys... GUYS! GUUUUUYYYYSSSS!!! PHHHWWEEEETT! Guys... The secure boot stuff can be easily disabled [twitter.com] in a preference pane in System Preferences if you no likey. Presumedly the machine would then be bootable from external media or any of the other things you can do to recover any ot...
[03:16:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Discussion: Can Math Predict What You'll Do Next? - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:22] <exec> 08└─What planet are you on?
[03:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jiro [3176] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CDC Gets List of Forbidden Words: Science-Based, Evidence-Based, Vulnerable, Fetus, ... - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:46] <exec> 08└─The CDC works for the government. Calling this censorship is like claiming that if Trump hired a speechwriter, and told the speechwriter not to put certain things in the speech, that's censorship too.
[03:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CDC Gets List of Forbidden Words: Science-Based, Evidence-Based, Vulnerable, Fetus, ... - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:48] <exec> 08└─Tried to get worked up about this. But couldn't. A spokesman at the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which oversees CDC, said in a statement it was a mischaracterization to say the CDC was banned from using certain words.
[03:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CDC Gets List of Forbidden Words: Science-Based, Evidence-Based, Vulnerable, Fetus, ... - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:50] <exec> 08└─Pretzel logic on cue! The CDC does not work for the government. The CDC is the government. And thus is held to the most stringent interpretations of the constitution. Furthermore, the president-eject knows jackshit about what the CDC does. The CDC does not exist to please the president, it exists to...
[03:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CDC Gets List of Forbidden Words: Science-Based, Evidence-Based, Vulnerable, Fetus, ... - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:52] <exec> 08└─Tried to get worked up about this. But couldn't.
[03:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CDC Gets List of Forbidden Words: Science-Based, Evidence-Based, Vulnerable, Fetus, ... - 926 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:54] <exec> 08└─Read what AC says. You may not be familiar with Texas law. I visit a town. Some dude carrying a gun gets loud and obnoxious, and says he is going to shoot me. I have all the justification I need to shoot him dead. No, I wasn't the aggressor, HE WAS! His credible statement that he was going to shoot...
[03:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CDC Gets List of Forbidden Words: Science-Based, Evidence-Based, Vulnerable, Fetus, ... - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:56] <exec> 08└─Within its own borders, a country is free to conduct whatever military maneuvers it wants to. attacking does not make you the aggressor Actually, crossing the border with military might is the definition of aggression. Additionally, the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928 (USA is a signatory) forbids the Bu...
[03:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CDC Gets List of Forbidden Words: Science-Based, Evidence-Based, Vulnerable, Fetus, ... - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:59] <exec> 08└─You may not be familiar with Texas law. International law is no different.
[03:19:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03mobydisk [5472] (Score: 1) 02 - 06California Issues Warning Over Cellphones; Study Links Non-Ionizing Radiation to Miscarriage - 1597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:38] <exec> 08└─This headline is wrong. In Soylent's defense, this is how everyone is reporting it. California issued no warning. California was sued, and as a result of a local "Right to Know" ordinance they agreed to release information about how to keep your cell phone away from you. But they did not issue a "wa...
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[04:12:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japanese Company Could Put "Billboard" on the Moon - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:45] <exec> 08└─That's what photoshop is for. I read one of Abby Hoffman's books back in the day. He was hiding from the police at his publisher's office while writing the book by hand. I don't clearly recall but possibly its title was Steal This Book. He explained how to project the words "BULL SHIT" on movie thea...
[04:12:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japanese Company Could Put "Billboard" on the Moon - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:46] <exec> 08└─I can only hope that hackers have a silly message up on it on day 0.
[04:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Restoring a 'Bricked' Apple iMac Pro Requires a Second Mac - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:29] <exec> 08└─This video is old but if you've been using Macs for a while it's pretty funny. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[04:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Restoring a 'Bricked' Apple iMac Pro Requires a Second Mac - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:30] <exec> 08└─When can we expect you to start an initiative to fund open hardware so that they can have the kind of security and knowledge about the devices they use that they deserve, Mr. President? Don't you agree that Mr. Obama's hour of code was not what we need? #MakeComputingGreatAgain
[04:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Slipped a "Mr. Robot" Promo Plugin Into Firefox and Users Are Pissed - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:41] <exec> 08└─Why do you assume they are not also evil?
[04:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Slipped a "Mr. Robot" Promo Plugin Into Firefox and Users Are Pissed - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:42] <exec> 08└─The BSDs seem to be the last bastion of sanity and respect for the user.
[04:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CDC Gets List of Forbidden Words: Science-Based, Evidence-Based, Vulnerable, Fetus, ... - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:56] <exec> 08└─If there was any veracity your "facts", it would have been simple for you to have linked to a list of Arab incursions into the Israeli homeland. I notice that you didn't provide any such substantiation. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[04:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CDC Gets List of Forbidden Words: Science-Based, Evidence-Based, Vulnerable, Fetus, ... - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:57] <exec> 08└─If you're going to be offensive, at least get your lines right. "If the CDC decided to conceal projects regarding racial difference in doublespeak..." at least you'd have an apples to apples comparison.
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[05:12:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alphabet to Deliver Internet Access in India Using Laser Beams - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:35] <exec> 08└─I hope it doesn't rain or snow there. How wide is the beam at the emitter? Even an insect flying near it might disrupt service. Also, what about dirt? Will it have some sort of integral self cleaning system or does someone have to go up there on a regular basis and clean the lenses? Microwave relays...
[05:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alphabet to Deliver Internet Access in India Using Laser Beams - 908 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:36] <exec> 08└─The last paragraph of the article discusses that but doesn't say if Google has found any solution to that. I looked up some climate info for Andhra Pradesh. Here's something interesting [wikipedia.org]: The summer is followed by the monsoon season, which starts during June and continues till Septemb...
[05:12:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alphabet to Deliver Internet Access in India Using Laser Beams - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:38] <exec> 08└─The last paragraph of the article discusses that but doesn't say if Google has found any solution to that.
[05:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Restoring a 'Bricked' Apple iMac Pro Requires a Second Mac - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:37] <exec> 08└─Why is needing a Mac to fix a Mac even news? While you can use a Linux Live CD to fix a borked Windows PC, that's not an official Microsoft method.
[05:15:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canadian Pharmaceutical Billionaire and His Wife Found Dead - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:17] <exec> 08└─Manufactures generics .. get's murdered. Tough nut to crack. Who could it possibly be? Those actually to blame are immune to the rule of law.
[05:16:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Discussion: Can Math Predict What You'll Do Next? - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:16:35] <exec> 08└─I came here to say this. Many classical systems are chaotic dynamic systems. Predictions can be made for some short time into the future, but as you attempt to predict further and further into the future actual reality and predictions from the model diverge. Soon the model is useless. No amount of i...
[05:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CDC Gets List of Forbidden Words: Science-Based, Evidence-Based, Vulnerable, Fetus, ... - 1040 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:08] <exec> 08└─You're being intentionally obtuse. Rocket attacks constitute "incursions". Doesn't much matter that few were injured, and none killed in those attacks, the intent was there. Your ideology means jack shit if you and your friends are pointing weapons at someone - you'll be killed on sight just for poi...
[05:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CDC Gets List of Forbidden Words: Science-Based, Evidence-Based, Vulnerable, Fetus, ... - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:10] <exec> 08└─Misdemeanors are illegal acts, you stupid fuck. You take the fact that a misdemeanor is LESS OF an illegal act than something like first degree murder, then try to make that less illegal act into legal? You are one STUPID motherfucker. Illegal aliens are breaking the law - THAT is what makes them "i...
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[06:12:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alphabet to Deliver Internet Access in India Using Laser Beams - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:12:40] <exec> 08└─Perhaps the laser has some kind of ability to aim (by a slight amount) and it has a tracking system to keep the spot on target even if thermals in the path cause the beam to be deflected.
[06:12:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Alphabet to Deliver Internet Access in India Using Laser Beams - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:12:41] <exec> 08└─Quite suddenly Google has a really good reason to roll out Google Fiber all over Creation.
[06:12:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alphabet to Deliver Internet Access in India Using Laser Beams - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:12:43] <exec> 08└─I hope it doesn't rain or snow there. How wide is the beam at the emitter? Even an insect flying near it might disrupt service. Also, what about dirt? Will it have some sort of integral self cleaning system or does someone have to go up there on a regular basis and clean the lenses?
[06:13:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japanese Company Could Put "Billboard" on the Moon - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:00] <exec> 08└─This is easy stuff. For those who know cyber, it's very easy to cyber these things. They call them memes. They have memes where I'm holding, with great dignity, a document. And people change the writing on the document. A lot try to insult me by meming me, they don't insult me. Because when they do...
[06:13:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japanese Company Could Put "Billboard" on the Moon - 652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:02] <exec> 08└─Kill them. I'm serious too. What right do they have to deface the moon for all seven billion people on Earth? I wouldn't look at the moon anymore if it were full of advertising. No moonlit walks without being forcibly subjected to some fucking marketer's bullshit? Nope. I'd hack that fucking satelli...
[06:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japanese Company Could Put "Billboard" on the Moon - 776 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:04] <exec> 08└─In some of their gardens, they have sand. At my clubs, we have sand traps. Which are always, always neat & tidy. But the Japanese, they take sand to another level. A whole other level where it's totally amazing. They have little rakes, they put rocks in the sand and rake all around. And you're looki...
[06:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drinking Hot Tea Every Day Linked to Lower Glaucoma Risk - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:16] <exec> 08└─Except, with your racist hat on, which of the drinks would you have expected to have been found to have favourable health benefits by a group with these names: Connie M Wu, Annie M Wu, Victoria L Tseng, Fei Yu? This looks as much like confirmation bias, to support a preexisting opinion they share, a...
[06:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon's UFO Investigation Program Revealed - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:05] <exec> 08└─Check GP's name - J. Elizondo. No relation to the Elizondo in TFA. Damn, now that I've had to explain it, I've ruined the joke.
[06:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon's UFO Investigation Program Revealed - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:06] <exec> 08└─Is $20M the threshold you can'tt get beyond without being found out? https://en.wikipedia.org
[06:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Slipped a "Mr. Robot" Promo Plugin Into Firefox and Users Are Pissed - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:03] <exec> 08└─Put put slashes in my directory names.
[06:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Slipped a "Mr. Robot" Promo Plugin Into Firefox and Users Are Pissed - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:04] <exec> 08└─Back when I was but a lad software cost money. Sure there was piracy but even so there were many prosperous software companies. Many such companies offered free tech support. There's so much gratis software these days that it must be very difficult for paid software to gain traction.
[06:18:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CDC Gets List of Forbidden Words: Science-Based, Evidence-Based, Vulnerable, Fetus, ... - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:24] <exec> 08└─Had you been running Israel, you'd have let the country come to an end. You'd fancy yourself to be moral and ethical as you and your fellow citizens are dying. I don't find it moral or ethical to let them die. The attack was obviously coming in a matter of days. Destroying the enemy works a lot bett...
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[07:12:41] <exec> 08└─Real actual science should be open for review and use. I think secret science is an oxymoron while it is business as usual today. We should not allow it, especially if the research that leads to publication is done using public money and resources. This is something also Aaron Swartz said, and they...
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[07:12:55] <exec> 08└─Well, can you? :)
[07:12:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alphabet to Deliver Internet Access in India Using Laser Beams - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:12:56] <exec> 08└─It would cost tens of billions of dollars or more.
[07:12:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Alphabet to Deliver Internet Access in India Using Laser Beams - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:12:58] <exec> 08└─Three words: forward error correction.
[07:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japanese Company Could Put "Billboard" on the Moon - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:13:18] <exec> 08└─Invasive ads everywhere, nobody looks at thems.
[07:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japanese Company Could Put "Billboard" on the Moon - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:13:20] <exec> 08└─Maybe you are the real Donald Trump. If so, I'd love to slap a cream pie in your face. Or maybe just bust my knuckles on your nose.
[07:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drinking Hot Tea Every Day Linked to Lower Glaucoma Risk - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:13:35] <exec> 08└─Really...I was wondering if maybe the Wu and Yu families were involved in Tea plantations and/or marketing.
[07:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drinking Hot Tea Every Day Linked to Lower Glaucoma Risk - 1068 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:13:36] <exec> 08└─What kind of British guy drinks Diet Coke, or iced tea, or coffee? A wacky one. A nut job. The normal ones, as you know, they have their hot tea. Glaucoma is a HORRIFIC thing, it's like somebody grabbed your eyeballs and squeezed. Pure torture! Maybe, probably, it can make anybody LOSE HIS MIND. How...
[07:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Restoring a 'Bricked' Apple iMac Pro Requires a Second Mac - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:09] <exec> 08└─Cool I'm going to go out and get myself a MCGA baseball cap made.
[07:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Restoring a 'Bricked' Apple iMac Pro Requires a Second Mac - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:11] <exec> 08└─If it don't boot how do you access System Preferences? Most of the bears I've known would just rip the damn thing apart then go looking for honey or bacon.
[07:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Pentagon's UFO Investigation Program Revealed - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:30] <exec> 08└─I figured that out like 5 hours ago.
[07:14:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Mozilla Slipped a "Mr. Robot" Promo Plugin Into Firefox and Users Are Pissed - 198 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:50] <exec> 08└─>You also won't see Pale Moon compile and run reliably with >=gcc-5 using Pale Moon compiled with gcc 6.3.0 for monthes. zero crashes. what am i doing wrong? (except not buying your lies, of course)
[07:15:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Letter Alleges Surveillance on Politicians and Competitors - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:36] <exec> 08└─There's a point where the law has to allow a full forced bankruptcy and dissolution of a company, when the evidence of corporate rot and systematic illegal practices are proven. A human with half of Uber's rap sheet would get a few life sentences...
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[08:12:37] <exec> 08└─I think secret science is an oxymoron while it is business as usual today.
[08:12:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alphabet to Deliver Internet Access in India Using Laser Beams - 914 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:12:54] <exec> 08└─Believe me, they have that. They have about $50 billion, give or take. They call it cash reserves. And when we do the Tax Cuts & Jobs Act, we're going to cut the corporate tax. And they'll bring a lot of that money back to the USA. And make tremendous investments. We see Microsoft already doing a to...
[08:12:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03ese002 [5306] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alphabet to Deliver Internet Access in India Using Laser Beams - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:12:55] <exec> 08└─If you think it's tough to make sharks with friggin' laser beams, let me tell you, that easy compared to getting them to survive in the Ganges.
[08:12:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alphabet to Deliver Internet Access in India Using Laser Beams - 999 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:12:57] <exec> 08└─The White House is a dump. We have a very old record player. Does anyone remember records? You bump the needle a little, you scratch the record. And you go to play it, you can hear the scratch. Tick, tick, tick! Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick! It's not great, folks. Not great. But the CD, the Blu-Ray,...
[08:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alphabet to Deliver Internet Access in India Using Laser Beams - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:00] <exec> 08└─Three more words: Avalanche Photo Diode (APD) - sensitivity below -30dBm (-40 at low rates) Three additional words: TCP retransmits, Patience. Last two words: beam focus Still, a Gig at 20km ain't beginner stuff. I'm sure people who had nothing will take at least ten minutes to learn to complain whe...
[08:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japanese Company Could Put "Billboard" on the Moon - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:22] <exec> 08└─don't worry they are just making noise to get a bit of free attention anyone that seriously thinks this will even get off the masturbation powerpoint presentation, let alone actually onto any kind of "drawing board" is a fool eventually it may happen though, and you know what.... nobody will give a...
[08:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Disagree) 02 - 06Japanese Company Could Put "Billboard" on the Moon - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:23] <exec> 08└─why do you care so much about donald trump fucking the country up when other politicians have been doing it for over a century? maybe lay off the media hysteria or you might just choke on it
[08:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japanese Company Could Put "Billboard" on the Moon - 1246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:25] <exec> 08└─When I decided to run for President, many foolish people said, "Oh, he's not really running. Oh, it's just a publicity stunt, not a real campaign. Oh, he has no real experience. Oh, he can't really win!" And other foolish things. Believe me, I'm real. I'm very serious. And the people who thought I w...
[08:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drinking Hot Tea Every Day Linked to Lower Glaucoma Risk - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:41] <exec> 08└─It's specifically hot tea from C. sinensis they're thinking of. If I had to guess at a mechanism of action I'd say it's the heat increasing circulation a bit plus L-theanine and all those delicious polyphenols doing their thing. I drink 2-4 cups a day so may be a little biased, of course...
[08:14:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Crash [1335] 02 - 06Mozilla Slipped a "Mr. Robot" Promo Plugin Into Firefox and Users Are Pissed - 825 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:52] <exec> 08└─The Mr.Robot addon is only installed if you've opted into Pioneer Telemetry (which I have), and is only activated if you purposely enable it (which I haven't). Some things to actually be "pissed" about: -- The death of Opera in 2013 and being "forced to use Firefox in general" -- The time wasted get...
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[08:15:33] <exec> 08└─Very much similar to the annual handful of people that freak out when the VLC traffic cone wears a Santa hat.
[08:16:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Cryptocurrency Without a Blockchain Has Been Built to Outperform Bitcoin - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:16:23] <exec> 08└─From the linked blog entry, emphasis by me: You might think that IOTA, a cryptocurrency worth over a billion dollars, and working with organizations like Microsoft, University College London, Innogy, and Bosch, BNY Mellon, Cisco, and Foxconn (through the Trusted IOT Alliance) would not have fairly o...
[08:20:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Issues Warning Over Cellphones; Study Links Non-Ionizing Radiation to Miscarriage - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:20:36] <exec> 08└─With a single transmitter and no significant reflectors nearby
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[08:20:38] <exec> 08└─There's no reason for RF to do much of anything interesting biochemically below heating levels.
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[09:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03TGV [2838] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sci-Hub Bounces from TLD to TLD - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:12:36] <exec> 08└─It has nothing to do with food on the table. Journals make incredible profits without investment in their actual field.
[09:12:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sci-Hub Bounces from TLD to TLD - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:12:37] <exec> 08└─Iśn't "their field" getting both contibutors AND readers to pay for the same thing? That is where they invest - ensuring lock-in, and funding the law suits!
[09:12:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sci-Hub Bounces from TLD to TLD - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:12:40] <exec> 08└─except that it's not open at all. if you try to share this "science" with your fellow human beings, publishers will see that you kill yourself in jail or something, you silly goose. that's the problem: censorship. fuck censorship. fuck it in science, fuck it in healthcare, fuck censorship in educati...
[09:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japanese Company Could Put "Billboard" on the Moon - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:23] <exec> 08└─No one ever asks, why was there the American Revolution. People don't ask that. One reason was very high and unfair taxes. We had a revolution to get away from those taxes. But under my predecessors, taxes got very high again. And very unfair. But now our politicians are working together beautifully...
[09:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japanese Company Could Put "Billboard" on the Moon - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:25] <exec> 08└─From the couldn't-decipher-the-dept.-line-from-this-distance dept.
[09:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Restoring a 'Bricked' Apple iMac Pro Requires a Second Mac - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:16] <exec> 08└─A device that is bricked requires 1 of these: - Send it back to the factory - Swap out a piece of hardware
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[09:14:58] <exec> 08└─Hi Friend. Would you like to try Pocket? Sure you would. That's why we installed it. Bye.
[09:15:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Slipped a "Mr. Robot" Promo Plugin Into Firefox and Users Are Pissed - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:15:35] <exec> 08└─The security permission stack in NT is actually pretty powerful. The posix style permission stack is simplistic by comparison.
[09:15:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Slipped a "Mr. Robot" Promo Plugin Into Firefox and Users Are Pissed - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:15:36] <exec> 08└─Unauthorized software getting installed without the users permission sounds like a non-issue to you? I don't know where you are from, but here on Earth, we usually label software like that "malware".
[09:15:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Slipped a "Mr. Robot" Promo Plugin Into Firefox and Users Are Pissed - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:15:38] <exec> 08└─You know who pays Mozilla for all this crap? Evil Google. For a while, it was Yahoo (powered by Bing), but they are back to being paid by Google.
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[10:13:26] <exec> 08└─Kill them. I'm serious too. What right do they have to deface the moon for all seven billion people on Earth? I wouldn't look at the moon anymore if it were full of advertising. No moonlit walks without being forcibly subjected to some fucking marketer's bullshit? Nope. I'd hack that fucking satelli...
[10:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japanese Company Could Put "Billboard" on the Moon - 864 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:13:35] <exec> 08└─You are probably correct; nothing will happen (at least this decade); and this is just attention-grabbing behaviour. It's also quite immoral to make the suggestion. Joking about plastering the moon with advertising is fine. You can tell when people are joking because there's a bunch of friends sitti...
[10:16:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Cryptocurrency Without a Blockchain Has Been Built to Outperform Bitcoin - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:16:37] <exec> 08└─Microsoft isn't involved with it, that was an, ahem, exageration. I think the extent of the involvement when IOTA made their first claims was selling them space on an Azure server, and the dialogue they were in was little more than Azure support tickets. Bullshit was called, vague retractions did fo...
[10:16:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Cryptocurrency Without a Blockchain Has Been Built to Outperform Bitcoin - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:16:38] <exec> 08└─Yet gold and silver (and platinum) have been in year-plus lows recently. However, I think the bond/stock speculators are inherantly anti-bullion and unable to swallow their pride and start getting back into millennia-old financial schemes. Eventually, once the bubble of almost-everything bursts (I'm...
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[11:12:51] <exec> 08└─Nothing is in this world for free.
[11:15:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Slipped a "Mr. Robot" Promo Plugin Into Firefox and Users Are Pissed - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:15:51] <exec> 08└─and it is still unusable...
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[12:12:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snospar [5366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nanoparticles Can Make Plants Glow - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:12:43] <exec> 08└─I read "Nanoparticles Can Make Plants Grow" and thought "Meh, pretty sure they were doing that before without assistance".
[12:12:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sci-Hub Bounces from TLD to TLD - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:12:57] <exec> 08└─Nothing is in this world for free
[12:12:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sci-Hub Bounces from TLD to TLD - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:12:58] <exec> 08└─How smart you are. Well try harder because the analogy with the newspaper doesn't cut it. My taxes which I regularly pay do not include newspapers, otherwise you would damned be sure I would demand the copies for free. On the other hand my taxes DO go for scientific research which is being withheld...
[12:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sci-Hub Bounces from TLD to TLD - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:00] <exec> 08└─No, profit is the money given to someone to make them do something you - at the end of the day - can't get done by yourself. Leftover - pfft - it is not "leftover" when someone takes it as a fee, isn't it. Your cost is someone else's profit. Semantics, I know...
[12:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japanese Company Could Put "Billboard" on the Moon - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:47] <exec> 08└─The sign said "Long-haired freaky people need not apply," So, I tucked my hair up under my hat and I went in to ask him why. He said "You look like a fine upstanding young man. I think you'll do." So, I took off my hat and said "Imagine that. Heh, me working for you." (My long-haired buddy's favorit...
[12:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japanese Company Could Put "Billboard" on the Moon - 802 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:49] <exec> 08└─The chief executive of the country gets to appoint people to positions of authority who then can rewrite guidelines as to how agencies enforce or don't enforce the law. The president also gets to appoint judges who can stay in those positions until they die or they do something so heinous that they...
[12:16:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Slipped a "Mr. Robot" Promo Plugin Into Firefox and Users Are Pissed - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:16:03] <exec> 08└─Mozilla's product is the browser; the customers are just the disposable fuel that lifts it up
[12:16:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Slipped a "Mr. Robot" Promo Plugin Into Firefox and Users Are Pissed - 711 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:16:04] <exec> 08└─Note that I specifically said single-user computers. MLS has been around in multi-user systems for longer than UNIX has existed, but it wasn't designed into single-user systems until the current generation of smartphone operating systems (well, Symbian had a permissions system, but it wasn't that gr...
[12:16:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Slipped a "Mr. Robot" Promo Plugin Into Firefox and Users Are Pissed - 887 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:16:07] <exec> 08└─Did you read what I said? The classic UNIX permission model is entirely useless in this regard. A program running as your user can't modify system files, but literally all of the things that you care about on a single-user system are owned by the user whose rights the program has, not by root. Andro...
[12:19:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CDC Gets List of Forbidden Words: Science-Based, Evidence-Based, Vulnerable, Fetus, ... - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:32] <exec> 08└─Snowflake was offended. Awwwah. Did the liddle' nazi get his feel-feels hurt?
[12:19:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CDC Gets List of Forbidden Words: Science-Based, Evidence-Based, Vulnerable, Fetus, ... - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:33] <exec> 08└─And jaywalking is a misdemeanor. But you go ahead and spazz out all you want. Temper tantrums are the best way to prove U R the smartest person in the room.
[12:19:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CDC Gets List of Forbidden Words: Science-Based, Evidence-Based, Vulnerable, Fetus, ... - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:35] <exec> 08└─Zika is a virus that causes brain damage, particularly in unborn children.
[12:20:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ketamine Reduces Suicidal Thoughts in Depressed Patients - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:20:16] <exec> 08└─... reduces all thoughts (whether suicidal or not) in all patients (whether depressed or not).
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[13:12:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:42] <exec> 08└─No twitter, no facebook, no instagram, no pinterest, no social media at all. Don't plan to ever get any either.
[13:12:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:43] <exec> 08└─So nobody complained in 1.5 month of this "service" not working properly... seems like a brain dead answer to me. I use the RSS service, that just works as it should. Why overcomplicate things?
[13:12:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:46] <exec> 08└─Two weeks and change but yeah, you do have a point.
[13:12:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:48] <exec> 08└─SN belongs to the free internet, not the social (corporate) media side.
[13:12:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:50] <exec> 08└─N/T - I'm too lazy to comment on the reason why "I don't care".
[13:12:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:52] <exec> 08└─Because I'm pretty sure what the consensus will be already. I wasn't looking for a majority vote, just wanting to know if enough interest exists to make it worth the effort of writing new code and keeping on top of it this time.
[13:12:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:54] <exec> 08└─I'm with this guy (gal). If none of the 200 followers have noticed, then just leave it.
[13:12:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Popeidol [35] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:57] <exec> 08└─Right now, anybody who solely consumes SN via twitter has no idea a poll is taking place. Maybe we should manually tweet this one time to get their input?
[13:12:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:59] <exec> 08└─Probably a good idea. Done.
[13:13:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:01] <exec> 08└─You just need to grow the audience engagement with intelligent social brand integrations using monetized influencers and dank memes.
[13:13:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:03] <exec> 08└─Twitter apparently don't allow dank memes or anything else that might be found offensive to protected classes anymore as of some time today. See here [twitter.com].
[13:13:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:06] <exec> 08└─I don't use it either, which doesn't appear to be all that unusual given "200 followers". We currently have in the region of seven thousand accounts based on highest UID I could find in the current poll (give or take any gaps / higher UIDs that haven't commented), so it seems that less than 3% of So...
[13:13:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Shimitar [4208] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:08] <exec> 08└─Never ever cared for Twitter. My 2c: drop it. I was even unaware SN had a twitter side, i am not even sure why it had one in the first place?
[13:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:10] <exec> 08└─Twitter: RSS meets AOL.
[13:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03fakefuck39 [6620] (Score: -1) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:12] <exec> 08└─Let it die - you don't need those 200 followers. Also, remove yourself from search engines - that's for uncool people. Limit posting for users "downvoted" by the 10 people on this site to 1 per week instead of 1 per day. Then, I would delist yourself from dns and email those 10 people the IP needed...
[13:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:15] <exec> 08└─Weird Al said it better [youtube.com] - a bit retro already, I know, but more comprehensive.
[13:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RFID Tags Can Monitor Vital Signs - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:23] <exec> 08└─Study Links Non-Ionizing Radiation to Miscarriage [soylentnews.org] Mechanical motions such as heartbeat will require wavelengths short enough to detect millimetres or lower displacement. Miicrowaves that is, same wavelenght/frequency range as cellphones use.
[13:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nanoparticles Can Make Plants Glow - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:32] <exec> 08└─Yes, I really want CIA and Mossad-engineered custom nanoparticles on my desk, don't I? Totally harmless, right? Has anything the CIA and the Israeli (Khazaria) Mossad ever brought anything to the world except totally unnecessary death and suffering of the innocent and helpless?
[13:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nanoparticles Can Make Plants Glow - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:34] <exec> 08└─As their metabolic energy is used for this gimmick (even more if there is no off-switch), I even expect that the plants will grow worse (and more susceptible to pathogens).
[13:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sci-Hub Bounces from TLD to TLD - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:49] <exec> 08└─not to subsidize some publisher's business model.
[13:15:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pentagon's UFO Investigation Program Revealed - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:49] <exec> 08└─Full Disclosure by Hon. Paul T Hellyer - Former Defence Minister of Canada [youtube.com] Make your own mind up.
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[14:12:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03chromas [34] 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 132 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:56] <exec> 08└─You just need to grow the audience engagement with intelligent social brand integrations using monetized influencers and dank memes.
[14:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:03] <exec> 08└─Me too, besides Twitter should be dead soon: "We believe in freedom of expression and open dialogue, but": https://help.twitter.com [twitter.com]
[14:13:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:05] <exec> 08└─In a way, I am impressed that someone took the time to sit down and type all of the above, and from a registered account (not AC) no less. I do not get my news by twitter and would be unaffected by headlines via twitter either way. I looked into auto-tweeting for one of my web sites a few years ago...
[14:13:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:08] <exec> 08└─As above. I must have subconciously seen the 'Twitter' link on the left side of the screen, but I've never given it any thought at all, even though I make limited use of twitter myself. My reaction to this post was "what twitter feed?" Let the twitter account wither and die.
[14:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:10] <exec> 08└─The coding itself isn't that big of a deal if you're already maintaining something like Rehash but the non-versioned API and breaking changes to said API mean you either keep up with every little change to it or expect your code to break without warning. Stripe (my personally preferred SN CC process...
[14:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:12] <exec> 08└─I, too, don't use Twitter. I'm pretty neutral on the matter, but lean slightly toward keeping it. It's what the IndieWeb folks call the POSSE model, [indieweb.org] and I don't see how spreading the SN word can be a bad thing.
[14:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03noneof_theabove [6189] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:14] <exec> 08└─I allow people to address me properly as Mr. Anti Social. As a believer of "scientific philosophy", all things are a tool to get from point A to B. I did not have kids, or acquired any, in my 60+ years, so I have no need for any of that. Not to mention as a programmer, exposing myself and personal i...
[14:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:16] <exec> 08└─Here's the question: do we even care?
[14:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DavePolaschek [6129] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:19] <exec> 08└─Thanks for suggesting this. I consumed SN via twitter and had no idea...
[14:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:21] <exec> 08└─When you click on the ID for this comment, it shows no moderation / score breakdown. Does that mean it got set to -1 server side by TMB & co? If not, then what gives? I have no issue with the score. It's unquestionably a Troll.
[14:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:23] <exec> 08└─Twitter is for birds whose only way of communicating (ignoring the visual aspect) is to tweet and for immature people / children who still think the world revolves around their every mini-thought or activity. Intelligent/educated people have better and more effective ways of communicating.
[14:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DavePolaschek [6129] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:25] <exec> 08└─I noticed. But I've been sick and didn't have the energy to go figure out what was up. I just spent two weeks not reading SN. If I'd gone another two weeks, I probably would have shut off the recurring donation I have set up. Not saying this is a reason to fix the twitter feed, but in my case, it pr...
[14:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03quixote [4355] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:28] <exec> 08└─Seconded.
[14:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:30] <exec> 08└─Negative karma has always done that. It's just almost never an issue since pretty much every troll on the site is entertaining enough to someone to keep positive karma.
[14:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:32] <exec> 08└─What's a dank meme? Is goatse one?
[14:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:34] <exec> 08└─We have a twitter bot?
[14:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nanoparticles Can Make Plants Glow - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:51] <exec> 08└─As long as the streetlight-trees generally send their light down (leaving dark skies), I think this would be very neat. It's the sort of thing I'd expect in the future world of Jeph Jacques http://www.alicegrove.com [alicegrove.com] (first page of the graphic novella).
[14:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japanese Company Could Put "Billboard" on the Moon - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:57] <exec> 08└─This is why we will need augmented reality glasses. Just to remove all the advertising crap in the world.
[14:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drinking Hot Tea Every Day Linked to Lower Glaucoma Risk - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:15] <exec> 08└─Haha. Just what I was thinking. I usually have a cup of tea, earl grey, hot to start the day, then switch to green tea in the afternoon (which has less caffeine), and finally green herb in the evening. It sounds like I can rest assured I will never be at risk for glaucoma!
[14:19:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Discussion: Can Math Predict What You'll Do Next? - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:04] <exec> 08└─Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted! Filter error: Missing Comment.
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[15:12:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Opens Door to Possibly Lowering SLS Cost Using Blue Origin's Engines - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:40] <exec> 08└─Although this seems like a subtle change,
[15:12:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Opens Door to Possibly Lowering SLS Cost Using Blue Origin's Engines - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:42] <exec> 08└─It's just so unfair! How will our poor downtrodden aerospace companies survive if the flow from the public teat is reduced? Reduce costs? Very unreasonable indeed! The SLS engines are EXACTLY the right thing. Just what we should be using. It is based on the SSME (space shuttle main engine). It is th...
[15:12:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Opens Door to Possibly Lowering SLS Cost Using Blue Origin's Engines - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:44] <exec> 08└─How can you possibly beat that for top revenue earner? Easy, just keep moving the goal post so you can study the thing indefinitely and never actually have to make it work. This is optimal both for cash flow to industry and hang around till retirement for the NASA 'engineers'.
[15:13:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03zocalo [302] 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 479 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:02] <exec> 08└─I don't use it either, which doesn't appear to be all that unusual given "200 followers". We currently have in the region of seven thousand accounts based on highest UID I could find in the current poll (give or take any gaps / higher UIDs that haven't commented), so it seems that less than 3% of So...
[15:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:22] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that's basically what I want to know. If we've got even a dozen active folks who use Twitter as their primary gateway to SN, I'll probably go ahead and spend a morning automating posting again. It's not a huge time sink keeping up with breaking changes to their API but it is a time sink.
[15:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03splenolymph [5495] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:24] <exec> 08└─As per the subject...
[15:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:26] <exec> 08└─do a NNTP backend* with a private, domain-restricted, send-only email-server that implements the accounts' posting and modding. If the possibility for a lean, mean iOS/Android app doesn't interest you, when the anti-net-neutrality tiers kick-in I'm sure you'll come to appreciate the protocol's effic...
[15:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:28] <exec> 08└─than twatter.
[15:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:30] <exec> 08└─Noted. May get back to you on that.
[15:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:32] <exec> 08└─Shrek memes [listenonrepeat.com] (mostly dead) [youtube.com] MLG [youtube.com] memes [youtube.com] any drug memes [youtube.com] Pepe? [archive.is] any bullshit tbh [youtube.com]
[15:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:35] <exec> 08└─Funny you should say that... Have a look here [github.com] and here [github.com]. NCommander is a wacky, wacky boss man.
[15:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:37] <exec> 08└─I was even unaware SN had a twitter side, i am not even sure why it had one in the first place?
[15:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:39] <exec> 08└─it should all fit on one page
[15:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:41] <exec> 08└─And those who solely consume SN via RSS have no idea either. Why isn't the new polls being announced on RSS?
[15:13:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nanoparticles Can Make Plants Glow - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:58] <exec> 08└─Planned luminescence obsolescence.
[15:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sci-Hub Bounces from TLD to TLD - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:16] <exec> 08└─how about just post the IP address on the front page with some picture a la captcha.? I assume it is only the DNS they are fiddling with...
[15:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alphabet to Deliver Internet Access in India Using Laser Beams - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:36] <exec> 08└─They can complain on the web form
[15:16:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Restoring a 'Bricked' Apple iMac Pro Requires a Second Mac - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:00] <exec> 08└─But , Apple has done a really neat thing - Internet recovery. If you have a *wired* network , the Mac Pro will phone home and reload the OS that came with the original device. Seriously, that's cool.
[15:16:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Restoring a 'Bricked' Apple iMac Pro Requires a Second Mac - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:02] <exec> 08└─If it don't boot how do you access System Preferences? Most of the bears I've known would just rip the damn thing apart then go looking for honey or bacon.
[15:16:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Restoring a 'Bricked' Apple iMac Pro Requires a Second Mac - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:04] <exec> 08└─I wrote a different post below that was more snarky. In this one I'll just point out that the secure boot options can be disabled, so if you don't like the boot security features you shouldn't have to ever encounter this issue. You can still extract your installer disk image and make a recovery USB...
[15:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canadian Pharmaceutical Billionaire and His Wife Found Dead - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:59] <exec> 08└─Whereas here people did, and voluntarily gave him all that money. >inb4 it isn't voluntary Them dying slowly and painfully is the default. It sucks, but it is.
[15:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Issues Warning Over Cellphones; Study Links Non-Ionizing Radiation to Miscarriage - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:43] <exec> 08└─FTFA "overall, pregnant women who had higher MF exposure during pregnancy (higher 3 quartiles) had a 48% greater risk of miscarriage than women who had lower MF exposure" and table 2 https://www.nature.com [nature.com] 11/106 (10%) mums in lowest quartile of magn...
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[16:12:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06UK Report Recommends Removing Safe Harbor Protections for Online Companies Upon Brexit - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:40] <exec> 08└─the above equation seems fairly straightforward to me. if FB and all did NOT try to influence people by removing/making less easy to access SOME content THEY deem offensive, I would side with them. As things are, they deserve all the problems they got themselves into. Even if this move in particular...
[16:12:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06UK Report Recommends Removing Safe Harbor Protections for Online Companies Upon Brexit - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:41] <exec> 08└─Indeed. The same applies to google who introduce DMCA filtering of results despite not being required to do so voluntarily, now it's being treated as "the letter of the law". This is the same reason you don't negotiate with terroists.
[16:12:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06NASA Opens Door to Possibly Lowering SLS Cost Using Blue Origin's Engines - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:52] <exec> 08└─Don't know about the physical size of these engines, but the modular SpaceX engine is (iirc) about 170,000 lbs of thrust. Modular because it has a computer(s) on the engine -- connects to the main rocket system with a network cable, some power cables and of course fuel/oxidizer plumbing. When I had...
[16:12:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Opens Door to Possibly Lowering SLS Cost Using Blue Origin's Engines - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:53] <exec> 08└─X uses a different fuel?
[16:12:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tara Li [6248] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Opens Door to Possibly Lowering SLS Cost Using Blue Origin's Engines - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:56] <exec> 08└─Looks like 190,000 lb of thrust... Might be suitable.
[16:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:44] <exec> 08└─I'm with this guy (gal).
[16:13:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 695 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:46] <exec> 08└─Many are arguing that they don't care. I can't say that I care directly, but I am quite surprised that the incredibly knowledgeable and competent admins behind the scenes of SN can't find a simpler and more stable way to make such social media integration happen. Twitter isn't exactly MySpace, there...
[16:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:48] <exec> 08└─Because that's the first time it's been suggested to my knowledge.
[16:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:50] <exec> 08└─High on my list is the "tickler file" option -- when an article makes a prediction about the future, it would be neat if there was a way to set an auto-re-submit (to the queue) to see how the prediction worked out. Cue discussions on the theme of "Well, I told you that was a non-starter", or "Musk i...
[16:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:52] <exec> 08└─Surely there are managed packages available somewhere to make it work.
[16:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 1083 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:54] <exec> 08└─I agree that it doesn't seem necessary to continue with whatever you were doing on Twitter, especially if the staff here didn't notice it was not working right for some time, and that further, there didn't seem to be any discussion here about the problems of social network APIs that caused the issue...
[16:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:57] <exec> 08└─Intelligent/educated people have better and more effective ways of communicating. Unfortunately he is technically the president, and what he says on twitter has an effect on the world, so following him is quite sensible
[16:13:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:59] <exec> 08└─The problem is, resources have to be invested in maintaining a twitter link. Why? because twitter, like most giants, like to change UI and API, putting a barrier on interoperability. This behavior must not be passively accepted. I suggest putting a tweet manually with something like "SN headlines au...
[16:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nanoparticles Can Make Plants Glow - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:17] <exec> 08└─Slave light for the slave masters watching over the slave workers. What? The plants aren't complaining... Incidentally, I'd like to read about the first person to run a greenhouse using these LEPs. Maybe they'll use the LEPs to grow more LEPs!
[16:14:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Virindi [3484] 02 - 06Sci-Hub Bounces from TLD to TLD - 34 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:29] <exec> 08└─Nothing is in this world for free.
[16:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alphabet to Deliver Internet Access in India Using Laser Beams - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:56] <exec> 08└─They use sand sharks there.
[16:15:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japanese Company Could Put "Billboard" on the Moon - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:29] <exec> 08└─That's exactly the thing, you'd have to have an ad that was literally so large that the entire moon was covered just to give you a very small ad that's visible to most people. My guess is that this is just some sort of publicity stunt as it would cost trillions or more to actually do at this point.
[16:15:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japanese Company Could Put "Billboard" on the Moon - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:30] <exec> 08└─.... except all the people who do. To folks like you and I, NoScript and an adblocker are as easy as the next breath (here's hoping you're not in need of an iron lung). To the unwashed masses of humanity, such things are the blackest of voodoo magics - assuming that they've even heard of the things...
[16:15:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drinking Hot Tea Every Day Linked to Lower Glaucoma Risk - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:49] <exec> 08└─n/t
[16:16:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Restoring a 'Bricked' Apple iMac Pro Requires a Second Mac - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:28] <exec> 08└─...and if you can fix it with another Mac, how the eff is it "bricked"? Bricked means "can't be fixed without hardware modification", not "the OS needs to be reinstalled from external media". (Yes, I'm going to keep tilting at that windmill.)
[16:16:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Restoring a 'Bricked' Apple iMac Pro Requires a Second Mac - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:29] <exec> 08└─It would be cooler if I could access the same image on my own home network with that file server I made with the 10gb ethernet and stuff that is cool, so that I can learn how it all works and be good at it and... I don't need the internet to install a local file image, ok? My internet is 10mb down 1...
[16:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Slipped a "Mr. Robot" Promo Plugin Into Firefox and Users Are Pissed - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:56] <exec> 08└─Use a VM with a rollback point and always start from the rollback point.
[16:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Slipped a "Mr. Robot" Promo Plugin Into Firefox and Users Are Pissed - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:57] <exec> 08└─I wonder why people say ie5/6 were bloated. They were more responsive than netscape, by far on a decent machine. The only thing that can really be said about them was that they had utterly moronic default settings which rendered them a hotbed for driveby malware installs.
[16:18:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06Canadian Pharmaceutical Billionaire and His Wife Found Dead - 115 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:22] <exec> 08└─These are mutually exclusive terms. You cannot make billions out of sick people and call yourself a philanthropist.
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[17:12:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Report Recommends Removing Safe Harbor Protections for Online Companies Upon Brexit - 1260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:44] <exec> 08└─These bit jumped out at me: >Furthermore, national security, public interest and law enforcement requirements of the United States prevail over the safe harbour scheme, so that United States undertakings are bound to disregard, without limitation, the protective rules laid down by that scheme where...
[17:12:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Report Recommends Removing Safe Harbor Protections for Online Companies Upon Brexit - 686 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:45] <exec> 08└─They should just go whole-hog and completely eliminate safe harbor protections completely, for all sites. Any site where users can submit any comments or content should be held completely liable for the content of that material by the UK government, with absolutely no leeway at all, so sites that wa...
[17:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Opens Door to Possibly Lowering SLS Cost Using Blue Origin's Engines - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:59] <exec> 08└─So... SLS block 1 uses a grand total of 1 of those RL-10s. Block 2 uses 4. Let's assume that $17 million price is correct, and they get the new engines for free. That's a cost savings of $17m (Block 1) or $68m (Block2) at maximum. So from $1.5 to $2.5 billion per launch it drops to $1.432 to $2.432...
[17:13:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Opens Door to Possibly Lowering SLS Cost Using Blue Origin's Engines - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:00] <exec> 08└─Or the upcoming BE-4 [arstechnica.com] which is set to be more powerful than SpaceX's Merlin or Raptor.
[17:13:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA Opens Door to Possibly Lowering SLS Cost Using Blue Origin's Engines - 2767 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:02] <exec> 08└─If you replace the solid rocket motors [orbitalatk.com] (SRM) (which are longer versions of the solid rocket boosters [wikipedia.org] (SRB), the side-mounted rockets on the Space Shuttle), you can get significant cost reductions in two ways. First, you don't have the risks or burdens of the SRM. A l...
[17:13:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Opens Door to Possibly Lowering SLS Cost Using Blue Origin's Engines - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:05] <exec> 08└─As an aside, if they're shopping around for a cheaper first stage rocket engine now, then they aren't going to launch in 2019. Expect further delays.
[17:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:01] <exec> 08└─The the IRC bot when it starts to work again could re-tweet all our posts as tweets and not just posts. Double our social media exposure. Awesome! But I do wonder how long it would take before we are shut down by Twitter for various hatecrimes. That said I didn't even know there was an IRC bot post...
[17:14:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Crash [1335] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:03] <exec> 08└─It looks like Zapier should solve the problem without utilizing an unmaintainable script. https://www.google.com [google.com] Zapier will watch your RSS feed for new posts. Whenever anything is published, it'll copy the title and link, and publish it on your Tw...
[17:14:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:05] <exec> 08└─It's 280 characters now. Pretty soon we can fit War and Peace in a tweet.
[17:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:07] <exec> 08└─I don't use Twitter either, but it is another channel to propagate SN content with considerable upside should a story catch fire. If you can figure out how to do it and maintain it in a lightweight manner (probably with some sort of reporting mechanism so that you know when things break), then I wou...
[17:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:09] <exec> 08└─Does anyone do "tickler files"? I wouldn't mind looking at a real world example.
[17:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:12] <exec> 08└─Pretty soon we can fit War and Peace in a tweet.
[17:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RFID Tags Can Monitor Vital Signs - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:20] <exec> 08└─Even after reading TFA, I still don't really understand how the device reads blood pressure. I can understand how it can read other vital signs, like heartbeat, but I don't see how a device that is merely tucked inside my shirt pocket can read my blood pressure. It would certainly be nice to have th...
[17:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nanoparticles Can Make Plants Glow - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:33] <exec> 08└─If the plant slaves get out of line, you just tranquilize them [soylentnews.org].
[17:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Crash [1335] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Sci-Hub Bounces from TLD to TLD - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:51] <exec> 08└─It's more about notability, trust, prestige, etc. It's a problem that many would say the "professional publications" attempt to solve at too high of a price. Except there is a need for reputable curators of knowledge|information|culture. It's also debatable whether the existing publications actually...
[17:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sci-Hub Bounces from TLD to TLD - 603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:52] <exec> 08└─You need to pay to be published in the mainstream journals as well. My experience with publishing (as a grad student): Pay to get a paper submitted, Professor then reviews X number of similarly submitted papers from other writers, for free (not sure on what the compensation is, but it isn't money) J...
[17:15:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alphabet to Deliver Internet Access in India Using Laser Beams - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:15] <exec> 08└─A series of tube-like laser beams.
[17:15:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japanese Company Could Put "Billboard" on the Moon - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:49] <exec> 08└─Man, fuck advertising and it's need to creep into everything. This is why we will need augmented reality glasses. Just to remove all the advertising crap in the world.
[17:15:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japanese Company Could Put "Billboard" on the Moon - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:50] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJg02ivYzSs [youtube.com]
[17:16:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02 - 06Drinking Hot Tea Every Day Linked to Lower Glaucoma Risk - 485 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:04] <exec> 08└─Except, with your racist hat on, which of the drinks would you have expected to have been found to have favourable health benefits by a group with these names: Connie M Wu, Annie M Wu, Victoria L Tseng, Fei Yu? This looks as much like confirmation bias, to support a preexisting opinion they share, a...
[17:16:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Restoring a 'Bricked' Apple iMac Pro Requires a Second Mac - 133 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:19] <exec> 08└─Now we know why Apple considers the Mac Mini to still be a very important part of their product lineup. It's to restart the iMac Pro.
[17:16:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Restoring a 'Bricked' Apple iMac Pro Requires a Second Mac - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:50] <exec> 08└─yeah I thought bricked meant no cursor. Not even "insert system disk or other boot media" Seems like recovery is possible by having a local storage device with a working image. sort of like having a system disk. too bad they dont want people controlling those aspects of their hardware unless you hap...
[17:16:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Restoring a 'Bricked' Apple iMac Pro Requires a Second Mac - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:51] <exec> 08└─Is it sad that I was sure where that link went even though I haven't seen this in a literal decade?
[17:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Slipped a "Mr. Robot" Promo Plugin Into Firefox and Users Are Pissed - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:20] <exec> 08└─There are different types of evil in the world. pick the ones that best suit you. i can't just create a browser, but I can run old ones. sometimes clinging to the past doesn't work in the present. thus i pick the evils that can work for me, even if I don't like the fact I must do so. the alternative...
[17:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Crash [1335] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mozilla Slipped a "Mr. Robot" Promo Plugin Into Firefox and Users Are Pissed - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:21] <exec> 08└─It's now owned by Firefox, and I did try it. If it actually did what it claims it wouldn't completely suck. Instead it's a "cloudy-opera-speed-dial-clone" that claims to save the page, but all it saves is a paragraph of text and a thumbnail. Fucking Useless.
[17:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zal42 [5435] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mozilla Slipped a "Mr. Robot" Promo Plugin Into Firefox and Users Are Pissed - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:24] <exec> 08└─This has pretty much confirmed what has already seemed to be the trend with many of Firefox's recent changes (making telemetry opt-out, etc.) The old Mozilla ethic with regard to Firefox is... well, not dead, exactly, but certainly dangerously ill. The days when Mozilla and Firefox could be seen una...
[17:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Slipped a "Mr. Robot" Promo Plugin Into Firefox and Users Are Pissed - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:26] <exec> 08└─I thought the old Commodore 64 platformer was making a comeback: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] (Especially since my first exposure was when one of their ARGs was based around a C64-themed website or Flash file or something and someone asked me to look at this "Mr. Robot C...
[17:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canadian Pharmaceutical Billionaire and His Wife Found Dead - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:55] <exec> 08└─He gave the profits away...except for a few billion here and there.
[17:20:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Discussion: Can Math Predict What You'll Do Next? - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:18] <exec> 08└─Consider that all of your atoms have been part of some other "I" in the past and you can start doubting about what identity really is. Every second we all lose atoms and gain new ones. We are in a constant state of flow. What part of you is really you, when everything will be ultimately replaced?
[17:20:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Discussion: Can Math Predict What You'll Do Next? - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:19] <exec> 08└─One where people can't be bothered to skim the +5 moderated comments in the thread before posting: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[17:20:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Discussion: Can Math Predict What You'll Do Next? - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:21] <exec> 08└─Put the cereal in the bowl first, measure the milk by how much of the cereal is covered.
[17:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrpg [5708] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CDC Gets List of Forbidden Words: Science-Based, Evidence-Based, Vulnerable, Fetus, ... - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:00] <exec> 08└─https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/cdc-director-says-there-are-no-banned-words-at-the-agency [pbs.org] CDC director says there are ‘no banned words’ at the agency
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[18:12:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Report Recommends Removing Safe Harbor Protections for Online Companies Upon Brexit - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:44] <exec> 08└─I don't think it's data residency at all. I think it's data accessibility that they're talking about, and that if a site is available to view in a country then the indexer or holder of content is responsible for complying with that country's laws. From the report summary at gov.uk: Social media comp...
[18:12:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Report Recommends Removing Safe Harbor Protections for Online Companies Upon Brexit - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:46] <exec> 08└─Well, yes, all the media should leave the UK immediately. That is the whole purpose! We need to eliminate dissent. We must control the resident media. Therefore, we push out all the media we cannot control, cut off access to any of them once they go outside the jurisdiction and then are simply left...
[18:12:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Report Recommends Removing Safe Harbor Protections for Online Companies Upon Brexit - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:48] <exec> 08└─As I always say in situations like this, "every nation gets the government it deserves". This is apparently what the British people deserve. Maybe the Scots will decide they don't deserve it and vote for independence next time.
[18:13:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Opens Door to Possibly Lowering SLS Cost Using Blue Origin's Engines - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:05] <exec> 08└─NASA actually gets some stuff done now and then, especially when projects are smaller and can be completed within one Presidential Administration's lifetime. The big projects just go one forever without making any progress. Where you really see this a lot is with military contracts.
[18:13:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Opens Door to Possibly Lowering SLS Cost Using Blue Origin's Engines - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:06] <exec> 08└─I thought the whole point of using SRBs was to save money, because solid rockets are really cheap, and an inexpensive way of providing a lot of thrust, even if the mass fraction is poor, as long as you don't need to throttle it. So for this reason, I can see why they used them on the Space Shuttle,...
[18:13:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Opens Door to Possibly Lowering SLS Cost Using Blue Origin's Engines - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:08] <exec> 08└─> Want me to remodel your old delapidated house? It's gonna cost big money. > Want me to just rebuild your old ramshackle dive? I can do that a helluva lot cheaper The more precise parallel would be that the new cooking range doesn't have to be the exact dimensions of the old one, it will be worth i...
[18:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA Opens Door to Possibly Lowering SLS Cost Using Blue Origin's Engines - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:11] <exec> 08└─I thought the whole point of using SRBs was to save money
[18:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA Opens Door to Possibly Lowering SLS Cost Using Blue Origin's Engines - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:13] <exec> 08└─Oops, my bad. The block 1 stage, which doesn't have the SRMs is almost 1000 metric tons. The 700+ metric tons is on top of that.
[18:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA Opens Door to Possibly Lowering SLS Cost Using Blue Origin's Engines - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:15] <exec> 08└─and hopefully get cancelled entirely
[18:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA Opens Door to Possibly Lowering SLS Cost Using Blue Origin's Engines - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:17] <exec> 08└─Nope still wrong. All configurations use the SRMs and the SRMs are considered by Wikipedia as part of the first stage of the block one configuration.
[18:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Opens Door to Possibly Lowering SLS Cost Using Blue Origin's Engines - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:19] <exec> 08└─You nailed it, bob_super. I couldn't stretch my mind far enough to consider throwing away the range and countertop after each use, but you nailed it.
[18:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:23] <exec> 08└─This comes to mind: https://www.reddit.com [reddit.com]
[18:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:24] <exec> 08└─Why doesn't Twitter have this functionality ingrained? Seems like a no-brainer to me.
[18:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 944 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:26] <exec> 08└─Strange... I thought you guys came from slashdot. Old guys from slashdot know what a troll is - someone who posts fake shit to spam the site. Someone who posts a point and makes fun of your loser ass in the process - that's not a troll. That's someone making fun of you. You remember high school - ri...
[18:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:28] <exec> 08└─That's what I thought when I delete bitcoin mining software in 2008 from my computer.
[18:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:31] <exec> 08└─Interesting. What exactly does that moderation do for you? You dorks with your moderation seem to be reading just fine the stuff your moderation is meant to hide from you. So a troll then? Had 200 people on twitter, about 20 users on this actual site, let's dump those 200. I think I fired a guy who...
[18:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:33] <exec> 08└─#LittleRocketMan [twitter.com] says I declared war in a tweet, I didn't. Maybe soon!
[18:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:35] <exec> 08└─The other question is.... how likely are others to find SN from Twitter? (i.e. is it a source to drive referrals to SN?) If not then the ayes and nays should have it. If it's possible that SN ultimately gets more support from having Twitter then it might be worth it. (Even though I'm personally in t...
[18:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:37] <exec> 08└─Who gives a shit who you fired? Sounds like you're a career-obsessed, sociopathic suit who gets kicks out of firing people because you don't like their attitude. You live for the system and you're part of the problem. If anyone's a dork, it's you.
[18:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:40] <exec> 08└─"I can't say that I care directly, but I am quite surprised that the incredibly knowledgeable and competent admins behind the scenes of SN can't find a simpler and more stable way to make such social media integration happen. " Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. "Social media integration...
[18:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RFID Tags Can Monitor Vital Signs - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:50] <exec> 08└─The fact that something is old, isn't a good reason to replace it: Fire, Sun, Water, Food. All of these are old, but the are good things to have.
[18:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RFID Tags Can Monitor Vital Signs - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:52] <exec> 08└─Please turn off your radiating device when getting in the hospital, you're screwing up all our patient monitoring.
[18:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nanoparticles Can Make Plants Glow - 944 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:06] <exec> 08└─i have a bug in the garden. at night i can see its bum-like-bum part glow in the dark. it think it's generally called a "glow-bug". however this name doesn't ring any much bells on the google search engine, so i would like to inquire if anyone has any data on this flyable insect: what does it eat, w...
[18:16:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japanese Company Could Put "Billboard" on the Moon - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:24] <exec> 08└─Great, now there will be a giant "CHA" on the moon...
[18:16:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japanese Company Could Put "Billboard" on the Moon - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:25] <exec> 08└─So yes, dropping a turd on the moon is actually worse that polluting the local water supply because it affects more people.
[18:16:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japanese Company Could Put "Billboard" on the Moon - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:27] <exec> 08└─Will the advertising company executives or the executives who pay them for ad space on the Moon still live on Earth, or will they go live on the Moon too to escape the enraged billions who will want to chop them up into little pieces?
[18:16:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japanese Company Could Put "Billboard" on the Moon - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:29] <exec> 08└─Maybe the NK madman is not so mad trying to rocket Japan. It would at least stop this nonsense. To contribute, send your food parcel to: ...
[18:16:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drinking Hot Tea Every Day Linked to Lower Glaucoma Risk - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:48] <exec> 08└─"But drinking ... decaffeinated tea ... doesn't seem to make any difference to glaucoma risk, the findings show."
[18:16:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drinking Hot Tea Every Day Linked to Lower Glaucoma Risk - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:50] <exec> 08└─> Cold tea, no association. Cold Tea in reverse, Psycastria. (OK, I admit there's no one who's going to get that. The game Psycastria got its theme song by taking Andy Robinson's "Cold Tea" and playing it backwards. Got its gameplay by taking Andrew Braybrook's "Uridium" and just ripping it off, so...
[18:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Restoring a 'Bricked' Apple iMac Pro Requires a Second Mac - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:33] <exec> 08└─There's been an official M$ way since the XP days, the recovery console that gives you a shell to run commands among other things.
[18:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Slipped a "Mr. Robot" Promo Plugin Into Firefox and Users Are Pissed - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:06] <exec> 08└─Mozilla is currently being ran by marketers that writes blog post about them "using Chrome" as their default browser.
[18:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Slipped a "Mr. Robot" Promo Plugin Into Firefox and Users Are Pissed - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:08] <exec> 08└─And some sell out their country.
[18:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Health Organization Clashes With DEA on CBD; CBD May be an Effective Treatment for Psychosis - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:52] <exec> 08└─Here's a plenty good reason to do any of those things: It feels good and I want to. Fuck off with that holier than thou bs
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[19:12:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google News Removes Sites That Mask Country of Origin or Mislead Readers - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:38] <exec> 08└─So also banning Britain First, InfoWars, Project Veritas, Judicial Watch, Breitbart... and anybody else opposing the globalist agenda.
[19:12:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google News Removes Sites That Mask Country of Origin or Mislead Readers - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:39] <exec> 08└─Where's the Demigod when you've got some Augean Stables to clean up?
[19:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Report Recommends Removing Safe Harbor Protections for Online Companies Upon Brexit - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:59] <exec> 08└─This stuff hits UKIP and BNP, the two political parties that actually care about the nation. It's a way to suppress them even more. Just the other day I saw that a school kid asked to do a report on immigration accessed the UKIP party website with his logged-in school account, and then had the polic...
[19:13:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Report Recommends Removing Safe Harbor Protections for Online Companies Upon Brexit - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:01] <exec> 08└─Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
[19:13:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06UK Report Recommends Removing Safe Harbor Protections for Online Companies Upon Brexit - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:03] <exec> 08└─Maybe the British will vote for independence as well. After all, that's what Brexit was supposed to be about in the first place (well, that and immigration control).
[19:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Opens Door to Possibly Lowering SLS Cost Using Blue Origin's Engines - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:28] <exec> 08└─In their defense, except for that moment when they used the $500M/use non-stick pan, throwing away the range and countertop is what they've always done. Some kid in the neighborhood claims you can reuse stuff, but since his newfangled "cleanable" kitchen blew up a few times, and the boss wants us to...
[19:13:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 111 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:37] <exec> 08└─No twitter, no facebook, no instagram, no pinterest, no social media at all. Don't plan to ever get any either.
[19:13:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Popeidol [35] 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 154 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:45] <exec> 08└─Right now, anybody who solely consumes SN via twitter has no idea a poll is taking place. Maybe we should manually tweet this one time to get their input?
[19:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 871 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:42] <exec> 08└─Ok, I haven't commented yet. Might as well let it drop. While I don't have first hand information, second hand information from a lot of different sources says that twitter comments tend to be boring and stupid. (This might have to do with the old "80 chars or less per twit" limitation. I believe th...
[19:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:43] <exec> 08└─But only if knowing what he said gives you an understanding of what follows and how you actions might insulate you or allow you to take advantage. This is were 'tweets' fall down, it really is for the birds. If he is the level distraction needed, the mind boggles at what's being done behind the curt...
[19:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:45] <exec> 08└─He's just trolling you. He doesn't actually have a job, much less create them.
[19:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:48] <exec> 08└─No twitter, no facebook, no instagram, no pinterest, no social media at all. Don't plan to ever get any either.
[19:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:50] <exec> 08└─When an elephant sprays with its nose, people think it is water. But itsnot.
[19:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:52] <exec> 08└─Think of it as a public service then. Showing life noobs what the Internet is supposed to look like instead of Twitter's truncated, curated garbage.
[19:15:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Sci-Hub Bounces from TLD to TLD - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:35] <exec> 08└─Or have a link to their non-onion IP on their onion site, so that when they get shut down you can use tor to get the correct link, but use cleartext IP to download the resources. Clearly they are already doing a good enough job of advertising their onion address if TFA mentions it. Never really cons...
[19:15:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sci-Hub Bounces from TLD to TLD - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:37] <exec> 08└─I think secret science is an oxymoron
[19:16:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japanese Company Could Put "Billboard" on the Moon - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:40] <exec> 08└─So maybe an optometrist group will be the first advertisers? Squiggle line dash - huh? Oh, it's in JAPANESE!
[19:16:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japanese Company Could Put "Billboard" on the Moon - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:41] <exec> 08└─Actually the American Revolution was more about fighting the trade conditions imposed by the huge monopoly, East India Company. Taxation without representation was a subtext and the actual imposition of a tariff on goods imported by the EIC was the real problem with the people of Boston and the Colo...
[19:17:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03TK [2760] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drinking Hot Tea Every Day Linked to Lower Glaucoma Risk - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:03] <exec> 08└─Interesting if true. Citation needed.
[19:17:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drinking Hot Tea Every Day Linked to Lower Glaucoma Risk - 815 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:04] <exec> 08└─dunno. the problem seems to be sugar for glaucoma. at least for some. sugar is the ev1l of the world. (not really). getting your vitamin A is what keeps your eyes going, so it is said, so eat your liver .. oh and wear sunglasses. absorbing photon volumes seems to deplete your vitamin stash. however,...
[19:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Pentagon's UFO Investigation Program Revealed - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:09] <exec> 08└─The pilots discuss seeing a fleet of the things. I don't think you can simply dismiss it as an anomaly.
[19:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pentagon's UFO Investigation Program Revealed - 1445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:10] <exec> 08└─one always assumes that a whole gigantic socio-economic conglomeration of humanoids is required to get off this stinking rock. but maybe this stinking rock is contaminated by a gigantic pile of lies, deception and regular puss that has accumulated more then all great wonders constructed by human kin...
[19:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon's UFO Investigation Program Revealed - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:12] <exec> 08└─The Navy pilots can be heard trying to understand what they are seeing. “There’s a whole fleet of them,” one exclaims. Defense officials declined to release the location and date of the incident.
[19:19:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03unauthorized [3776] 02 - 06Canadian Pharmaceutical Billionaire and His Wife Found Dead - 167 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:46] <exec> 08└─pharmaceutical billionaire prominent philanthropist These are mutually exclusive terms. You cannot make billions out of sick people and call yourself a philanthropist.
[19:19:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canadian Pharmaceutical Billionaire and His Wife Found Dead - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:57] <exec> 08└─Well my first thoughts are good fucking riddance to that sad sack of shit. However, if he really did manufacture generics (which helps the poor immensely), and he gave ALL of the profits away, then I'll walk it back a bit. However, again, you cannot be a billionaire in medicine without taking resour...
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[20:12:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google News Removes Sites That Mask Country of Origin or Mislead Readers - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:46] <exec> 08└─"engage in coordinated activity to mislead users."
[20:12:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google News Removes Sites That Mask Country of Origin or Mislead Readers - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:48] <exec> 08└─I for one, would like to thank the Glorious Google for taking a stand and ensuring my access to information is guaranteed to result in factual and accurate data. Where would we be without this guardian, this pinnacle of virtue, to protect us from untruths. Finally, I can rest assured that anything I...
[20:12:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google News Removes Sites That Mask Country of Origin or Mislead Readers - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:50] <exec> 08└─Indeed: CNN is going to get a pass, despite being caught on numerous occasions generating nonsense.
[20:12:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Google News Removes Sites That Mask Country of Origin or Mislead Readers - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:52] <exec> 08└─The beauty of Net Neutrality is you can use any news aggregator and search engine you want, even Yahoo News and Bing! Oh, wait...
[20:12:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google News Removes Sites That Mask Country of Origin or Mislead Readers - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:54] <exec> 08└─Surely you mean The beauty of Net Neutrality is you cancould use any news aggregator and search engine you want, even Yahoo News and Bing!
[20:12:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Google News Removes Sites That Mask Country of Origin or Mislead Readers - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:57] <exec> 08└─How about you clean out your own house first and then you get to complain about the other kids, mmmkay? I'm sure at some point, we'll even get to 'her e-mails'.
[20:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Report Recommends Removing Safe Harbor Protections for Online Companies Upon Brexit - 691 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:20] <exec> 08└─In good times, it is easy and enjoyable to be unpatriotic. That's how you get bad times. A nation is violently created in poverty. It builds itself, establishing rule of law and commerce. It becomes powerful and wealthy. The poverty is forgotten. The violence is either forgotten or becomes something...
[20:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Report Recommends Removing Safe Harbor Protections for Online Companies Upon Brexit - 760 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:21] <exec> 08└─They did vote for independence, and they got it. Independence doesn't guarantee good lawmaking, as seen here with this recommendation to eliminate safe harbors. In fact, independence frequently means much more incompetent law-making overall, as seen with the UK vs. the EU, and especially with the US...
[20:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Report Recommends Removing Safe Harbor Protections for Online Companies Upon Brexit - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:23] <exec> 08└─Do you have a proposed solution? I'm not being snarky here; I'd genuinely be interested in what to do in a post-nation-states world.
[20:14:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MrGuy [1007] 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 37 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:20] <exec> 08└─Here's the question: do we even care?
[20:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:08] <exec> 08└─We'd be better off with you getting a nice bottle of Whiskey and taking the night off. I was honestly surprised we posted to Twitter at all.
[20:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:10] <exec> 08└─DannyB, Anonymous Coward, and WizardFusion are all describing different aspects of the same Snotnose.
[20:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon's UFO Investigation Program Revealed - 1603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:27] <exec> 08└─Sure. Since the dawn of aviation, or even centuries prior, lone individuals have been building Bean-with-Bacon megarockets in their spare time, coming up with more advances independently across a variety of disciplines than someone like Galileo did, and bringing them to fruition in the form of usabl...
[20:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03joshuajon [807] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Slipped a "Mr. Robot" Promo Plugin Into Firefox and Users Are Pissed - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:42] <exec> 08└─And yet the software industry is bigger and richer than ever, expanding at unprecedented rates. Sure, support isn't free any more - that's where many of these companies make the bulk of their income: recurring license fees.
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[21:13:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DavePolaschek [6129] 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 445 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:03] <exec> 08└─I noticed. But I've been sick and didn't have the energy to go figure out what was up. I just spent two weeks not reading SN. If I'd gone another two weeks, I probably would have shut off the recurring donation I have set up. Not saying this is a reason to fix the twitter feed, but in my case, it pr...
[21:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:49] <exec> 08└─Outstanding idea. Implemented. Free year's subscription for saving me the bother of having to deal with Twitter code again.
[21:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:51] <exec> 08└─Soylentnews, where everyone is very busy fixing things, until they find new ways to make their lives harder.
[21:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:53] <exec> 08└─I feel both happy and out-of-touch that I had only seen/heard of one of those.
[21:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:55] <exec> 08└─I think you answered your own question, if you're still in any doubt [theregister.co.uk]
[21:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:57] <exec> 08└─Funny you should mention gopher: https://f-droid.org [f-droid.org]
[21:13:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:00] <exec> 08└─And by funny, I mean awesome :D
[21:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google News Removes Sites That Mask Country of Origin or Mislead Readers - 936 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:20] <exec> 08└─Guess I should have commented before somebody modded you troll because you mentioned dread Breitbart and Infowars. It's leftist sites as well [wsws.org]. WSWS and Alternet and Common Dreams. Anybody opposing the globalist agenda. I hope we can all quickly forget this artificial, left-right, red vs....
[21:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Google News Removes Sites That Mask Country of Origin or Mislead Readers - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:22] <exec> 08└─Perhaps because they're all Opinion/Editorial organizations and not NEWS organizations?
[21:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google News Removes Sites That Mask Country of Origin or Mislead Readers - 1093 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:24] <exec> 08└─Finally, for the establishment asslicking of the day, we report that the search giant Google has dealt a decisive blow to all antagonist information sites, that is, all sites whose content is not liked by the governments of their audience. By delisting or burying content that "masks country of origi...
[21:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google News Removes Sites That Mask Country of Origin or Mislead Readers - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:26] <exec> 08└─This action is part of a strategy that completely disrespects their product, the user, deemed unable to distinguish and acting upon fake news and so forbidden to being exposed to independent ideas.
[21:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google News Removes Sites That Mask Country of Origin or Mislead Readers - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:28] <exec> 08└─He's busy...
[21:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UNSW Proposes 7nm Architecture for Quantum Computing Chips - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:36] <exec> 08└─https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-01905-6 [nature.com]
[21:15:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nanoparticles Can Make Plants Glow - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:46] <exec> 08└─Does it look anything like a firefly? [wikipedia.org] If so, the larvae eat other insects, worms, and slugs. Depending on the species, the adults will eat either nothing, nectar from flowers, or in one case members of other firefly sub-species. Source [animals.mom.me]
[21:15:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Sci-Hub Bounces from TLD to TLD - 383 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:54] <exec> 08└─Real actual science should be open for review and use. I think secret science is an oxymoron while it is business as usual today. We should not allow it, especially if the research that leads to publication is done using public money and resources. This is something also Aaron Swartz said, and they...
[21:19:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Slipped a "Mr. Robot" Promo Plugin Into Firefox and Users Are Pissed - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:58] <exec> 08└─The data files remain a problem, though selinux and other MAC systems can help a lot there. There is an advantage to software not being able to modify itself, it's far from useless. End of the day, if software can modify itself (possibly as a result of a security flaw, it's game over. Part of your d...
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[22:12:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Artificial Intelligence Used to Identify Bacteria Quickly and Accurately - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:40] <exec> 08└─The man keeps boned even burn victim tautology. Christ alive!
[22:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:08] <exec> 08└─Linkedin?
[22:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:09] <exec> 08└─Sometimes a rage-boner is all that gets you out of bed in the morning
[22:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:11] <exec> 08└─Memes are not something to invest in, a humorous subculture of nonsense. Being out of touch with memes is like not keeping up on Cosmo, nothing of value is lost.
[22:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 925 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:13] <exec> 08└─Now that Zapier takes care of keeping the bird feeder full (thanks TMB for solving the problem and bumping this topic), there should be more time to work on interesting features... The reddit remindmebot seems to be for an individual user to remind themselves? For the SN community, I was thinking of...
[22:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:16] <exec> 08└─Ditto, I'm not a product for some social media company. As another poster pointed out if nobody even noticed it was broken for over a month then nobody is paying attention to the feed anyway so why bother having it? The focus should be on maintaining and updating Soylent.org itself, worrying about a...
[22:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:18] <exec> 08└─Really, first I'm hearing of it.
[22:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:20] <exec> 08└─Do you know anyone besides twitter that ever made a nickle on twitter? Seriously: non sequitur !
[22:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:22] <exec> 08└─Actually I'd vote to get off twitter, even if that took more work than staying on twitter. No reason to feed that poisonous creation.
[22:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:25] <exec> 08└─I wasn't looking for a majority vote,
[22:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:27] <exec> 08└─I'm with Needsakleenex I don't twit, facepalm, instabate...nothing. I don't even gab.ai...i found I did not need it ( not being a Kardashian). Nope, nope, nope!
[22:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:29] <exec> 08└─Perhaps it could be programmed to do something interesting like retweet all the +5 comments, or the -5 comments if there ever are any, (or 280ish characters of it ...) in a thread under the topic it has shared.
[22:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03beckett [1115] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 857 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:31] <exec> 08└─my two cents - i don't use social media with actual identities but have a few twitter accounts. when soylentnews stopped tweeting i started using RSS feed. tbh i don't have a high opinion of twitter et al, but otoh it's one of the simplest ways to get notified and up to date at a glance. Twitter's...
[22:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:33] <exec> 08└─Where did TMB give you the idea he was going to be interested in appealing to the masses?
[22:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:36] <exec> 08└─Because I was asking from a "my time" perspective not a "site direction" one. A morning's coding is worth it to me if even a handful of people are significantly inconvenienced but if literally nobody cared I wasn't going to screw with it.
[22:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google News Removes Sites That Mask Country of Origin or Mislead Readers - 784 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:01] <exec> 08└─> many of their products/users are indeed unable to make the distinction That's where they have been led to by authorities since the dawn of communication. Now authorities act using corporations and their edicts are called ads. This is why governments and corporations are pursuing the censorship rou...
[22:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google News Removes Sites That Mask Country of Origin or Mislead Readers - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:03] <exec> 08└─Now Google has taken this step to prevent sites from hiding their origin, perhaps they could work on preventing blogspot.com subdomains redirecting to Top Level Domains specific to the apparent location of the client. (Example: myblog.blogspot.com redirects to myblog.blogspot.co.uk if I am in the Un...
[22:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google News Removes Sites That Mask Country of Origin or Mislead Readers - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:05] <exec> 08└─But they know best! They know where you are (well, where your TOR or VPN exit node is located) So they know what you need; no need to *think*, just consume! Of *course* you want/need the site closest to you - your tribe/groupthink/circlejerk is where you belong. Now stop looking for information, and...
[22:15:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google News Removes Sites That Mask Country of Origin or Mislead Readers - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:07] <exec> 08└─What NEWS organizations do you suggest that aren't giant corporate behemoths?
[22:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google News Removes Sites That Mask Country of Origin or Mislead Readers - 816 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:09] <exec> 08└─The record-keeping part is definitely an anomaly, because all of those "records" are stuck in obsolete formats, some readable only on obsolete software, maintained only as long as the web server stays online [xkcd.com]. Someday, historians will look upon the 17th-20th centuries as a golden age for r...
[22:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google News Removes Sites That Mask Country of Origin or Mislead Readers - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:11] <exec> 08└─And Twitter can afford the Fast-Lane. Can StormFront? Not that I don't enjoy watching them get hoisted by their own petard.
[22:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google News Removes Sites That Mask Country of Origin or Mislead Readers - 1814 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:14] <exec> 08└─Let me first say that unlike the rest of you, I can tell that there is a difference between Russian propaganda and legitimate political dissidence. Not that I could necessarily tell the difference between any single instance of the former and (an idiot writing) the latter. But we should all be conce...
[22:15:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03cosurgi [272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UNSW Proposes 7nm Architecture for Quantum Computing Chips - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:23] <exec> 08└─thanks!
[22:15:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Report Recommends Removing Safe Harbor Protections for Online Companies Upon Brexit - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:43] <exec> 08└─This stuff hits UKIP and BNP, the two political parties that actually care about the nation. It's a way to suppress them even more.
[22:15:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Report Recommends Removing Safe Harbor Protections for Online Companies Upon Brexit - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:44] <exec> 08└─You better re-read what is proposed. "to shift the liability of illegal content online towards social media companies"
[22:17:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03srobert [4803] 02 - 06Japanese Company Could Put "Billboard" on the Moon - 96 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:31] <exec> 08└─... blockin' out the scenery, breakin' my mind. Do this. Don't do that. Can't you read the sign.
[22:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japanese Company Could Put "Billboard" on the Moon - 698 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:01] <exec> 08└─Sorry, the blob/binary free was strongly implied. I'm waiting for the LibrePhone from Purism, and any augmented reality tech I have will also be free in such a fashion. We've seen a very rapid progression in the last 10 years in systems having the ability to map textures (faces in porn article), and...
[22:19:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pentagon's UFO Investigation Program Revealed - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:32] <exec> 08└─Berenstein? Berenstain? WHAT IS REALITY?
[22:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Letter Alleges Surveillance on Politicians and Competitors - 814 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:57] <exec> 08└─"In the United States, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 was passed to reform business practices, including enhanced corporate responsibility, financial disclosures, and combat fraud,[1] following the highly publicized scandals of Enron, Worldcom, Freddie Mac, Lehman Brothers, and Bernie Madoff. Compan...
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[23:12:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artificial Intelligence Used to Identify Bacteria Quickly and Accurately - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:48] <exec> 08└─Microscopes enhanced with artificial intelligence . . .
[23:13:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheRaven [270] 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 23 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:11] <exec> 08└─Twitter: RSS meets AOL.
[23:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:31] <exec> 08└─Storage Architect at a fortune 100 company, with 20 years experience. I fire dorks stuck in their own little world who have zero sight of the big issues at hand and live in their stupid little world. Any more bright theories loser?
[23:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:32] <exec> 08└─Here's the question: do we even care? We can either find someone who's willing to rewrite the bot to a new Twitter library, do it the sane way as either a cron or slashd job, or just say to hell with it since we only have two hundred or so followers on Twitter anyway. What say you, folks?
[23:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:34] <exec> 08└─i'd encourage the org find someone who sees the potential and knows how to leverage twitter.
[23:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03fakefuck39 [6620] (Score: -1) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:37] <exec> 08└─sounds like you're the person who gets fired for having an attitude destructive to the goals of the team. i'm assuming the goal of a site like this is to have users. dumping users is idiotic, and people who would suggest doing so fails the goal of the site. of course i may be wrong, and the people w...
[23:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Adamsjas [4507] (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Google News Removes Sites That Mask Country of Origin or Mislead Readers - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:10] <exec> 08└─Oh so much more holy than the rest of us. We bow down before your brilliance m'lord.
[23:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google News Removes Sites That Mask Country of Origin or Mislead Readers - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:11] <exec> 08└─It is not a librarians job to hide Mein Kamf or Das Kapital away incase someone is misinformed by it.
[23:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google News Removes Sites That Mask Country of Origin or Mislead Readers - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:13] <exec> 08└─Is 'globalist' the new 'socialist'? (ie: the catch-all word for anyone you don't like)
[23:15:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Report Recommends Removing Safe Harbor Protections for Online Companies Upon Brexit - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:43] <exec> 08└─In fact, independence frequently means much more incompetent law-making overall, as seen with the UK vs. the EU,
[23:15:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Report Recommends Removing Safe Harbor Protections for Online Companies Upon Brexit - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:45] <exec> 08└─Great! Sounds like a win-win. Companies that can't resist the forbidden fruit of censoring speech should be all in and at the mercy of the whims of whatever country they collect cash in.
[23:15:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Report Recommends Removing Safe Harbor Protections for Online Companies Upon Brexit - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:47] <exec> 08└─Oh, come on. British have been making law, and fairly good law, for hundreds of years before the EU was a thing. The people who made law back then are long since dead. Things change. and the new influx of EU-induced mandatory admittance. There's plenty of EU countries that don't seem to be complaini...
[23:15:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Report Recommends Removing Safe Harbor Protections for Online Companies Upon Brexit - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:49] <exec> 08└─100% agree. This would be an effective solution to everyones' problems. It would be at least hilarious to watch play out.
[23:15:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Report Recommends Removing Safe Harbor Protections for Online Companies Upon Brexit - 928 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:51] <exec> 08└─I don't think it is possible to escape the cycle. Some parts of the cycle are horrible: starvation, genocide, untreated disease, rampant crime... Part of the cycle is nice. In that part of the cycle, keeping the status quo is probably wise. Slow the cycle when things are good. For example, you can't...
[23:15:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06UK Report Recommends Removing Safe Harbor Protections for Online Companies Upon Brexit - 880 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:53] <exec> 08└─I'll start with the easy one: divisive. The fact that you don't support them is divisive! If you would simply join them, there would be no divide. You're being divisive. Hate and violence are behaviors that are supported by evolution. They serve a valuable purpose. Those without such behavior were l...
[23:17:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sci-Hub Bounces from TLD to TLD - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:06] <exec> 08└─Except where they are getting government funding via our taxes. (The Reason it should be public domain in the first place.)
[23:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Restoring a 'Bricked' Apple iMac Pro Requires a Second Mac - 1956 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:15] <exec> 08└─Note that I wrote "these sort of things will keep me away", not "this particular thing". For one, the number of hoops we are made to jump through to craft a system to our liking is steadily increasing, especially if we have to cater for things outside of the hipster universe. Today, I got surprised...
[23:19:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gaaark [41] 02 - 06Pentagon's UFO Investigation Program Revealed - 302 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:26] <exec> 08└─I wonder if it is because people spend more time inside watching TV, are on the computer/game console, texting with eyes off the sky, etc Back in the 50's, people were outside more, sitting and talking and looking at 'the weather'. I dunno. I don't believe in aliens visiting us, but I WANT TO BELIEV...
[23:21:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canadian Pharmaceutical Billionaire and His Wife Found Dead - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:30] <exec> 08└─Sure you can. First of all he manufactured generics. Second he gave the profits away.
[23:21:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Canadian Pharmaceutical Billionaire and His Wife Found Dead - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:32] <exec> 08└─Yes, congratulations, you've just discovered that analogies aren't completely identical to the original situation, otherwise they WILL BE the original situation. Crazy, I know.
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