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[00:12:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Putin Thanks President Trump and CIA for Tip That Foiled a Terrorist Attack - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:38] <exec> 08└─Regardless of whether or not there is an attempt by Russia to influence western politics, it's a good thing that their various agencies can work together to stop Bad Thingstm from happening. Or are we supposed to assume that the Deep State set up a bunch of innocents for some PR?
[00:12:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Putin Thanks President Trump and CIA for Tip That Foiled a Terrorist Attack - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:39] <exec> 08└─Or are we supposed to assume that the Deep State set up a bunch of innocents for some PR?
[00:12:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Putin Thanks President Trump and CIA for Tip That Foiled a Terrorist Attack - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:41] <exec> 08└─The propaganda spinning machine is going to need an overhaul after this crap load of hooey. Yeah, I'm sure Putin was thrilled that his domestic security apparatus didn't see the attacks coming. There is something ominous about all of this beyond the normal gamesmanship going on here.
[00:12:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Putin Thanks President Trump and CIA for Tip That Foiled a Terrorist Attack - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:44] <exec> 08└─Maybe you could highlight a few more words? I am sure none of us can see your point without it. You think *this* is something to worry about? Yet the 24/7 russians russians russians that the DNC and media have been chanting since last year is nothing to worry about huh? Interesting.
[00:12:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Putin Thanks President Trump and CIA for Tip That Foiled a Terrorist Attack - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:46] <exec> 08└─I agree. Bold italics. Well, ok, in all seriousness, I do agree. This is the way things should be... right? I don't buy the omg Russians narrative. Why does this make me uneasy?
[00:12:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03IndigoFreak [3415] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Putin Thanks President Trump and CIA for Tip That Foiled a Terrorist Attack - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:48] <exec> 08└─The USA never gave them th information. It was gained through espionage/hacking. And the US government will never say so since it would be a black eye. Ok. Story time's over.
[00:12:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artificial Intelligence Used to Identify Bacteria Quickly and Accurately - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:58] <exec> 08└─First . . . that is amazing. Just stop and think about it for a second.
[00:13:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 22 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:38] <exec> 08└─We have a twitter bot?
[00:14:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 123 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:20] <exec> 08└─Outstanding idea. Implemented. Free year's subscription for saving me the bother of having to deal with Twitter code again.
[00:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:44] <exec> 08└─Nah they only post on soylentnews. You know a social media platform. Using code based on one of the early web social media platforms... They never use it.
[00:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:46] <exec> 08└─Yeah? realDonaldTrump has you beat. He's the President.
[00:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 814 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:48] <exec> 08└─OK, I'm willing to bury my flaming for one second to consider your point. I'll grant you that a dwindling user base is not necessarily a good goal for this site to have. However, I'm just not seeing that dumping the twitter account would have lost all that many users. I don't get where (like, what p...
[00:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:50] <exec> 08└─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.
[00:15:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google News Removes Sites That Mask Country of Origin or Mislead Readers - 606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:26] <exec> 08└─Some people stubbornly ignore evidence of Russian propaganda posing as real news stories on Facebook and others in an attempt to swing the 2016 election towards Trump. Every time the adults try to talk about it, they hijack the conversation into their hyper-partisan bullshit redirecting the term "fa...
[00:15:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google News Removes Sites That Mask Country of Origin or Mislead Readers - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:28] <exec> 08└─Google News is not the library. It's, well, the newsstand. Not that anybody clears out the pop rags at actual newsstands, "incase" someone is misinformed by the latest weird scandal no one's heard of involving [the royal family|Hillary|some Hollywoo celebrity].
[00:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google News Removes Sites That Mask Country of Origin or Mislead Readers - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:30] <exec> 08└─Socialist: prefers heavy government control of the economy and of family life. This can be an intermediate step to a communist utopia (Marx) or a more long-term state (Hitler). Globalist: prefers the reduction of national identity. This creates a race to the bottom for wages in developed countries,...
[00:18:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drinking Hot Tea Every Day Linked to Lower Glaucoma Risk - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:46] <exec> 08└─Whether we are from the city or the country, and whether we are black or brown or yellow or white, you've heard it before, we all bleed the same red blood. If we are to make America great again, we must reduce, rather than highlight, issues of race in this country. I want to make race disappear as a...
[00:21:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Slipped a "Mr. Robot" Promo Plugin Into Firefox and Users Are Pissed - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:14] <exec> 08└─I am convinced that the reason ads are so frequent and so unpleasant to look at is that there are too many websites. For decades now the total amount spent on advertising has been close to 2% of the GDP. But everyone wants to make money by posting ads on their sites. When they find that ads don't ea...
[00:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03dwilson [2599] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mozilla Slipped a "Mr. Robot" Promo Plugin Into Firefox and Users Are Pissed - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:15] <exec> 08└─I'm also on a Gentoo system. I upgraded to GCC 6.4.0 from 5.whateveritwas when it was marked stable, and I use(d) the same overlay for Pale Moon. Compiled fine, but segfaults on startup, roughly 7 times out of 10. Like I said, your mileage may vary. I'm glad it works for you, and sad it doesn't for...
[00:21:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03dwilson [2599] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mozilla Slipped a "Mr. Robot" Promo Plugin Into Firefox and Users Are Pissed - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:18] <exec> 08└─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)
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[01:12:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amtrak Derailment Kills at Least Six in Washington State - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:38] <exec> 08└─CNN linky The train was running on track previously used for occasional freight and military transport, the Washington Department of Transportation said in a news release. WDOT said the track had undergone millions of dollars of federally funded improvements and weeks of inspection and testing. ......
[01:12:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amtrak Derailment Kills at Least Six in Washington State - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:39] <exec> 08└─Got links to maps, lists of stuff ruined, etc. https://www.reddit.com [reddit.com]
[01:12:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Putin Thanks President Trump and CIA for Tip That Foiled a Terrorist Attack - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:55] <exec> 08└─"You call him a Troll, I call him a reliable ally" Bashar E.
[01:12:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Putin Thanks President Trump and CIA for Tip That Foiled a Terrorist Attack - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:57] <exec> 08└─President Putin Thanks President Trump
[01:12:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Putin Thanks President Trump and CIA for Tip That Foiled a Terrorist Attack - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:59] <exec> 08└─Yeah, well bold and italics at the same time!!!
[01:14:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Crash [1335] 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 427 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:07] <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...
[01:15:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google News Removes Sites That Mask Country of Origin or Mislead Readers - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:36] <exec> 08└─NPR? They're such a giant corporate behemoth that they literally have to beg for money every quarter or so. I know, I know, that's their member stations that are asking you, but really, in the end, that money goes [largely] to NPR and so in essence, it is them that are asking you for money. Let's no...
[01:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Alphabet to Deliver Internet Access in India Using Laser Beams - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:48] <exec> 08└─So it's optical fibre minus the fibre. Half the work is done (signalling, standards, etc.) The hard part will be alignment of the beams; I'd guess they will have some combination of movable optics and IMU with some auto alignment software. But +/- a couple of degrees max. So you'd set it up, point i...
[01:21:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03dwilson [2599] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mozilla Slipped a "Mr. Robot" Promo Plugin Into Firefox and Users Are Pissed - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:22] <exec> 08└─I'm unhappy that the creator enforced what was essentially a political decision on his userbase. Overridable or no, that's not cool. It also didn't stop me from using the software, as I had never heard of that specific addon, never used it, and probably never will. But as the length of the linked fo...
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[02:12:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amtrak Derailment Kills at Least Six in Washington State - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:38] <exec> 08└─Where they were going, they didn't need roads ?
[02:12:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06President Putin Thanks President Trump and CIA for Tip That Foiled a Terrorist Attack - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:58] <exec> 08└─And you do?
[02:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Putin Thanks President Trump and CIA for Tip That Foiled a Terrorist Attack - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:59] <exec> 08└─Too bad the blink tag no longer works for him.
[02:13:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Putin Thanks President Trump and CIA for Tip That Foiled a Terrorist Attack - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:01] <exec> 08└─https://practicaltypography.com/bold-or-italic.html [practicaltypography.com]
[02:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Putin Thanks President Trump and CIA for Tip That Foiled a Terrorist Attack - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:04] <exec> 08└─It's "whose"
[02:13:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Putin Thanks President Trump and CIA for Tip That Foiled a Terrorist Attack - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:06] <exec> 08└─"It seems Mitt is still stuck in the cold war." - BHO
[02:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artificial Intelligence Used to Identify Bacteria Quickly and Accurately - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:17] <exec> 08└─So, why don't we see Watson and/or Alpha Go Zero competing against your average greedy doctor? Prime time TV show would be nice. Conspiracy?
[02:15:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Google News Removes Sites That Mask Country of Origin or Mislead Readers - 87 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:21] <exec> 08└─Perhaps because they're all Opinion/Editorial organizations and not NEWS organizations?
[02:20:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Pentagon's UFO Investigation Program Revealed - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:05] <exec> 08└─To me it makes sense that we'd investigate unidentified flying objects from the perspective that they may be a new type of foreign aircraft. Imagine seeing an AWACS plane or a B-2 for the first time, or catching a glimpse of a U2 zipping by 10 miles above you. If you didn't have intel on them alread...
[02:21:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Slipped a "Mr. Robot" Promo Plugin Into Firefox and Users Are Pissed - 636 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:26] <exec> 08└─You can effectively mimic the posix style of permissions if you want in NT (they had to, to put in the OS/2 and posix subsystems). The permission system is much more powerful. The posix system is very powerful but has some creaky edge cases. I can effectively ban a particular user from seeing someth...
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[03:12:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amtrak Derailment Kills at Least Six in Washington State - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:45] <exec> 08└─That's what they thought anyway. Too soon probably. Survivors are probably happy a road was handy at the crash site.
[03:12:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amtrak Derailment Kills at Least Six in Washington State - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:47] <exec> 08└─Was he asked or was he "volunteering" this information. Or was the reported who asked a shill? Also I doubt that boondoggle would save shit, just cost untold millions. If it wirked at all it wouldnt let the train leave the station. These are neither bullet trains nor bullet train tracks, they need t...
[03:12:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amtrak Derailment Kills at Least Six in Washington State - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:49] <exec> 08└─Here, this is better: http://www.breitbart.com [breitbart.com] It even includes presidential tweets that mention the infrastructure plan.
[03:12:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amtrak Derailment Kills at Least Six in Washington State - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:51] <exec> 08└─In one of those "I don't like to say 'I told you so' but, I told you so!" moments, the mayor predicted this: http://komonews.com [komonews.com] “Come back when there is that accident, and try to justify not putting i...
[03:13:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03driverless [4770] 02 - 06President Putin Thanks President Trump and CIA for Tip That Foiled a Terrorist Attack - 38 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:08] <exec> 08└─President Putin Thanks President Trump
[03:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06President Putin Thanks President Trump and CIA for Tip That Foiled a Terrorist Attack - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:16] <exec> 08└─"It seems Mitt is still stuck in the cold war." - BHO I know, he's so fickle! Imagine letting silly things like invading neighboring countries and conducting cyberwarfare on your electoral processes change one's opinion.
[03:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Putin Thanks President Trump and CIA for Tip That Foiled a Terrorist Attack - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:18] <exec> 08└─President Putin Thanks President Trump Comrade Trumpski.
[03:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Putin Thanks President Trump and CIA for Tip That Foiled a Terrorist Attack - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:20] <exec> 08└─Cuz it's a brave new world of cooperation between countries; one which controls it's people in evil ways more and more, and one which is Russia.
[03:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Putin Thanks President Trump and CIA for Tip That Foiled a Terrorist Attack - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:22] <exec> 08└─Exactly: the info was from the CIA but they didn't give it willingly. "Thanks for the info!" "What info? From where?" "Never mind...but thanks."
[03:15:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google News Removes Sites That Mask Country of Origin or Mislead Readers - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:55] <exec> 08└─Most people don't see the problem, because while the Russians may have been posting news and trying to influence the election, it was not fake news. Hilary really was a murderous, lying, corrupt, treasonous bitch who would have been far worse for the USA than any of Trump's buffoonery.
[03:18:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japanese Company Could Put "Billboard" on the Moon - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:49] <exec> 08└─"There's a great Darsh face hanging over the garden wall."
[03:20:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jelizondo [653] 02 - 06Pentagon's UFO Investigation Program Revealed - 309 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:11] <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...
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[04:12:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bright Areas on Ceres Suggest Geologic Activity - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:35] <exec> 08└─You know its a coverup when they call in the geologists. So boring everybody just tunes out!
[04:12:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amtrak Derailment Kills at Least Six in Washington State - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:49] <exec> 08└─Amtrack passengers aren't subject to search before boarding so guns and bombs are A-OK.
[04:12:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amtrak Derailment Kills at Least Six in Washington State - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:50] <exec> 08└─These are neither bullet trains nor bullet train tracks, they need to fuxk off with this fantasy they can make the trains run faster and jerkiff thinking about all the saved "carbon."
[04:12:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Mykl [1112] 02 - 06President Putin Thanks President Trump and CIA for Tip That Foiled a Terrorist Attack - 280 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:58] <exec> 08└─Regardless of whether or not there is an attempt by Russia to influence western politics, it's a good thing that their various agencies can work together to stop Bad Thingstm from happening. Or are we supposed to assume that the Deep State set up a bunch of innocents for some PR?
[04:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Putin Thanks President Trump and CIA for Tip That Foiled a Terrorist Attack - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:19] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't call an epileptic seizure "nothing."
[04:13:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 71 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:41] <exec> 08└─SN belongs to the free internet, not the social (corporate) media side.
[04:14:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 108 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:51] <exec> 08└─Soylentnews, where everyone is very busy fixing things, until they find new ways to make their lives harder.
[04:15:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google News Removes Sites That Mask Country of Origin or Mislead Readers - 1047 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:53] <exec> 08└─Yeah sites like archive.org are like airport lockers. For example even if a page is still on archive.org it doesn't really have a decent search engine[1] so it might as well be gone if you or other stuff are dead or don't remember it well enough (exact URL, keywords that work on archive.org). For ex...
[04:17:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RFID Tags Can Monitor Vital Signs - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:04] <exec> 08└─SoylentNews is old people
[04:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japanese Company Could Put "Billboard" on the Moon - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:48] <exec> 08└─Don't forget about land. With the King declaring that all his subjects were equal and had equal rights to the land, big land developers were pissed off as they had plans to develop all that land to the east.
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[05:12:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03LVDOVICVS [6131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 21-Part Series on Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:34] <exec> 08└─I've often wondered what some people are thinking. It used to be, and may still be, that I could go to my local library and find phone books from all around the country. What I'd like to know is, in the not too distant past, whether the "right to be forgotten" ever existed, and if so, who went aroun...
[05:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 21-Part Series on Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:36] <exec> 08└─I've often wondered what some people are thinking. It used to be, and may still be, that I could go to my local library and find phone books from all around the country.
[05:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Amtrak Derailment Kills at Least Six in Washington State - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:00] <exec> 08└─On an Amtrak train you're more likely to be killed by the driver than passengers.
[05:13:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Amtrak Derailment Kills at Least Six in Washington State - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:01] <exec> 08└─It indeed shows how well anchored is the orange one to reality. His response [twitter.com]: "It is all the more reason why we must immediately start fixing the infrastructure of the United States". He's speaking in the context of an accident that took place on brand-new tracks. When brand new thingi...
[05:13:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amtrak Derailment Kills at Least Six in Washington State - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:03] <exec> 08└─mayor is a NIMBY blowhard.
[05:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Putin Thanks President Trump and CIA for Tip That Foiled a Terrorist Attack - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:32] <exec> 08└─Yes, this is nice and all but it's sad to know that the current US president has more common courtesy toward a leader of a competing foreign power than toward the previous President of the United States.
[05:15:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Google News Removes Sites That Mask Country of Origin or Mislead Readers - 936 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:45] <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....
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[05:16:07] <exec> 08└─Are you serious? NPR not asking Uncle Sam for money? Poor, broke, shivering-in-the-cold NPR? So broke that they have to pad their thrice-turned coat with wads of greenbacks ... wait a minute. NPR's sitting quite pretty, by the standards of modern media companies. And they still get to whine to Congr...
[05:16:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Report Recommends Removing Safe Harbor Protections for Online Companies Upon Brexit - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:16:43] <exec> 08└─Okay, but why do you think UKIP and company have the solution? Divisiveness for the sake of divisiveness is no guarantor of improvement either.
[05:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drinking Hot Tea Every Day Linked to Lower Glaucoma Risk - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:27] <exec> 08└─That doesn't mean the caffeine itself is the causative agent though. Very few things in nature are that simple. Suppose the caffeine is synergizing with something else?
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[06:12:43] <exec> 08└─And these people today who want this right have greatly inflated ideas of the world's interest in anything about them.
[06:12:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06A 21-Part Series on Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights - 1711 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:12:44] <exec> 08└─'What I'd like to know is, in the not too distant past, whether the "right to be forgotten" ever existed, and if so, who went around to the libraries blacking out listings for people who chose to exercise this "right."' Yes, the right existed de facto. You didn't need to go around to libraries black...
[06:12:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 21-Part Series on Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:12:47] <exec> 08└─Believe it or not, you can STILL actually write a letter. So, yes, while the state/corp collection of everything online is horrible and anti-society, the examples are a little odd. It just takes some EFFORT to do.
[06:12:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bright Areas on Ceres Suggest Geologic Activity - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:12:57] <exec> 08└─"Ceres" is the Latin name for Demeter, the Goddess of grain, the Goddess of Agriculture, the Mother of Persephone. Of course she would have some geologic activity going on. Hardly acne, though. More "mature Goddess of Fertility" stuff. Oh My Goddess, if one of our MRA Red Pillar types were ever to r...
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[06:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amtrak Derailment Kills at Least Six in Washington State - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:16] <exec> 08└─Brand New track WITHOUT PTC because the DOT of two democratic states got excused by the Obama administration. Amtrak is nothing but a contractor used to operate the Government owned train on government owned track. Amtrak is a quasi-governmet organization. Regulations seem to apply to everyone excep...
[06:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amtrak Derailment Kills at Least Six in Washington State - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:18] <exec> 08└─What part of this was Corporate? Government train. Government tracks. Government operator.
[06:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amtrak Derailment Kills at Least Six in Washington State - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:20] <exec> 08└─There are now questions about the number of deaths here. The State patrol is insisting there were only three.
[06:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amtrak Derailment Kills at Least Six in Washington State - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:22] <exec> 08└─train derailed on day one
[06:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amtrak Derailment Kills at Least Six in Washington State - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:24] <exec> 08└─Maybe the metal got replaced. Take a look at the railway bridge. It is obviously decades old. It has the usual rust, graffiti, old style, and mature tree growth on the embankments. The railroad ties look to have a layer of rust and grease down the middle.
[06:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amtrak Derailment Kills at Least Six in Washington State - 1029 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:26] <exec> 08└─July 3 2017, on the prev route, much less damage that time [seattletimes.com] The trackway where an Amtrak Cascades train derailed Sunday afternoon contains a special switch that’s designed to nudge a train off-course as a last resort so it won’t collide with the bridge just ahead if the drawspa...
[06:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amtrak Derailment Kills at Least Six in Washington State - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:29] <exec> 08└─The TSA is even known to screen passengers on buses. It's rare. It's pointless... unless perhaps you are a power-tripping bureaucrat trying to enlarge a budget and build a little empire.
[06:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amtrak Derailment Kills at Least Six in Washington State - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:31] <exec> 08└─Amtrak is nothing but a contractor used to operate the Government owned train on government owned track. Amtrak is a quasi-governmet organization. Regulations seem to apply to everyone except the government.
[06:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amtrak Derailment Kills at Least Six in Washington State - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:33] <exec> 08└─If you stick "local" in front of "Government tracks", then you are right [wikipedia.org]. I needed to look over the details, took me a while. Until then, "corporation bashing" is right most of the time; when it's not, it's a good exercise anyway (grin)
[06:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amtrak Derailment Kills at Least Six in Washington State - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:35] <exec> 08└─The rails, ties, ballast, signals were all rebuilt. It was part of a two State project, for which Sound Transit acted as the local project contractor in exchange for future trackage rights. The roadbed and overpasses existed for decades, and we're mostly disused of late.
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[07:12:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 21-Part Series on Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:12:48] <exec> 08└─Those are important articles - I enjoyed reading them, and hope they get widely linked. I know they're just blog articles, but I wish he had proofread them. And a secret ND had (maybe coming in later articles?) with solid recommendations would be nice. We will never be able to reproduce the idyllic...
[07:12:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 21-Part Series on Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:12:49] <exec> 08└─N/T
[07:12:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A 21-Part Series on Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:12:51] <exec> 08└─It used to be, and may still be, that I could go to my local library and find phone books from all around the country.
[07:13:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bright Areas on Ceres Suggest Geologic Activity - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:13:02] <exec> 08└─"Ceres" is the Latin name for Demeter,... Hardly acne, though. More "mature Goddess of Fertility" stuff.
[07:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bright Areas on Ceres Suggest Geologic Activity - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:13:04] <exec> 08└─I was going for humor, but given the state of SN these days who can tell?
[07:15:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 133 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:44] <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.
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[08:12:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 21-Part Series on Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:12:54] <exec> 08└─Sifting through microfiche was more common than you think. I had to do it often in college fro two different fields of research. It was indexed (sort of). And one got pretty good at it. Old land records often exist in no other forms in many places. And yes one could occasionally find records of frau...
[08:12:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 21-Part Series on Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:12:56] <exec> 08└─a secret ND had
[08:12:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A 21-Part Series on Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights - 1575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:12:58] <exec> 08└─Anyone has always had the capacity to snoop on someone else, although it was expensive to do so, and usually involved a private investigator. Today, digging up dirt on someone is extremely easy, if you know of some internet data aggregating websites. Like SearchQuarry and Spokeo for example. If you...
[08:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bright Areas on Ceres Suggest Geologic Activity - 801 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:10] <exec> 08└─Some times, c0lo, I worry about your apparent knowledge of things that most Soylentils cannot even comprehend. But I do not think that any Egyptian Goddess could revive a Soylentil MRA type. On the other hand, at least they will not end up with their dick on the nose of fish. And, as an aside, there...
[08:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amtrak Derailment Kills at Least Six in Washington State - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:40] <exec> 08└─Has ISIS claimed responsibility yet?
[08:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amtrak Derailment Kills at Least Six in Washington State - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:41] <exec> 08└─The station's staff chased those mother fuckers away.
[08:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Artificial Intelligence Used to Identify Bacteria Quickly and Accurately - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:22] <exec> 08└─The automated system could help alleviate the current lack of highly trained microbiologists, expected to worsen as 20 percent of technologists reach retirement age in the next five years.
[08:14:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Meta: The State of SoylentNews and Twitter - 193 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:32] <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?
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[09:13:48] <exec> 08└─These are neither bullet trains nor bullet train tracks
[09:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amtrak Derailment Kills at Least Six in Washington State - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:49] <exec> 08└─If your brand new tracks cannot handle trains going as fast as our oldest slowest trains, you really need to start pouring money into infrastructure.
[09:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03EETech1 [957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Putin Thanks President Trump and CIA for Tip That Foiled a Terrorist Attack - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:20] <exec> 08└─What's interesting is it appears they were using telegram encrypted messaging!
[09:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Putin Thanks President Trump and CIA for Tip That Foiled a Terrorist Attack - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:21] <exec> 08└─No, it is clearly a contraction: I suppose you also demean those who is English
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[09:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Report Recommends Removing Safe Harbor Protections for Online Companies Upon Brexit - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:34] <exec> 08└─The UK hasn't been putting itself first. They got into the EU. Factories got shut down. They've allowed an invasion of people who are busy raping, bombing, running people down with trucks, and living on the dole. I doubt it can be fixed without major violence. I think major violence is coming, and t...
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[10:12:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03rob_on_earth [5485] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's Project Tango Shutting Down, to be Replaced by ARCore - 765 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:12:42] <exec> 08└─Saw the demos on the BBC couple of years ago and was really excited. The hardware would be expensive but unlock the 3D-ness of any environment you were in and really looked like the future. As it was adopted the cost, size and availability would all adapt to the market and we would end up with a com...
[10:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bright Areas on Ceres Suggest Geologic Activity - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:13:17] <exec> 08└─Some times, c0lo, I worry about your apparent knowledge of things
[10:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amtrak Derailment Kills at Least Six in Washington State - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:13:51] <exec> 08└─Two people are missing: a doctor and a one-armed man.
[10:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Putin Thanks President Trump and CIA for Tip That Foiled a Terrorist Attack - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:24] <exec> 08└─Well, in that case it should be 'those who are' - which does not contract down to 'who's'. Just saying.
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[11:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Email Bugs - Tracking 'Email Open' State at Present: 1 in 5 are Doing it. - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:12:37] <exec> 08└─Wait … there are still people who let their email client load external images, or execute embedded JavaScript?
[11:12:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Email Bugs - Tracking 'Email Open' State at Present: 1 in 5 are Doing it. - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:12:38] <exec> 08└─Wait … there are still people who let their email client load external images, or execute embedded JavaScript?
[11:12:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Email Bugs - Tracking 'Email Open' State at Present: 1 in 5 are Doing it. - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:12:40] <exec> 08└─Time to get back to Pine.
[11:12:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Email Bugs - Tracking 'Email Open' State at Present: 1 in 5 are Doing it. - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:12:42] <exec> 08└─The downside to Pine/Alpine is that GMail has a broken IMAPS implementation
[11:12:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03evk [597] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Email Bugs - Tracking 'Email Open' State at Present: 1 in 5 are Doing it. - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:12:45] <exec> 08└─I thought that most clients had it disabled by default.
[11:13:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Van Allen Belt Electrons Measured Using CubeSat - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:13:04] <exec> 08└─It is great to know that a relatively cheap device could help solve a mystery that was un-solved for 60 years. My congratulations to the team which built and operated this CubeSat. Some times, good things do come in small packages. I hope this success encourages others to try and solve many more ast...
[11:13:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03vux984 [5045] 02 - 06A 21-Part Series on Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights - 1711 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:13:15] <exec> 08└─'What I'd like to know is, in the not too distant past, whether the "right to be forgotten" ever existed, and if so, who went around to the libraries blacking out listings for people who chose to exercise this "right."' Yes, the right existed de facto. You didn't need to go around to libraries black...
[11:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A 21-Part Series on Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:13:23] <exec> 08└─Sifting through microfiche was more common than you think. I had to do it often in college fro two different fields of research.
[11:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06A 21-Part Series on Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:13:25] <exec> 08└─I guess a lot of this comes to don't make waves, don't stand out, as making yourself a center of attention is apt to draw some unwanted attention. Just lay low and do a good job, don't push the law, and you look like you will come out ahead.
[11:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amtrak Derailment Kills at Least Six in Washington State - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:12] <exec> 08└─He wanted overpasses to prevent accidents....
[11:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amtrak Derailment Kills at Least Six in Washington State - 844 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:14] <exec> 08└─New track on an old bridge. It sounds like we can discount a fault on one of the rails, but there is reportedly a significantly lower speed limit at that point, and that must be there for a reason. Two likely reasons for a speed limit are a weight limit on the railway bridge (slow down to avoid dama...
[11:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amtrak Derailment Kills at Least Six in Washington State - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:16] <exec> 08└─Replacing the bridge would probably have been very expensive, so it would have been refurbished instead (checked it's structurally sound). This means that the railway's alignment over the bridge is quite tight, effectively a chicane. See this picture for the curve on approach to the bridge (and the...
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[11:14:18] <exec> 08└─Actually a 30MPH section. See links and images I've posted above.
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[11:18:04] <exec> 08└─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.
[11:18:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03khallow [3766] 02 - 06NASA Opens Door to Possibly Lowering SLS Cost Using Blue Origin's Engines - 2767 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:20] <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...
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[12:12:56] <exec> 08└─"Load all images?" Or "Images in this email have been blocked. Would you like to see them?" Worse, "do not ask me again"
[12:12:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Email Bugs - Tracking 'Email Open' State at Present: 1 in 5 are Doing it. - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:12:57] <exec> 08└─The news is not that "For various reasons, it is possible to do it" - the news is "1 in 5 private persons actually does it to other private persons!!!"** If the private persons can't abstain from shitting on the idea of respecting the privacy of the others, how can we blame the soulless corporate pe...
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[12:13:00] <exec> 08└─Apple's mail client has a load images button, but it's not very prominent in the UI so people generally only click on it if the email looks weird. The default is not to load, and if an email just contains a 1x1px image then they probably won't bother. The more interesting thing is that you can ofte...
[12:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's Project Tango Shutting Down, to be Replaced by ARCore - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:13] <exec> 08└─You know when you've been Tango'd!
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[12:13:22] <exec> 08└─They did propose a theory on how the Van Allen belts maintain their strength, but made no attempt to explain how the Hollywood moon landings came to be.
[12:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A 21-Part Series on Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights - 1333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:42] <exec> 08└─Others have addressed this but I'll add my own angle: the huge difference is the level of effort involved. If you are a suspected criminal, the police or the FBI or their foreign equivalents in other nations can set resources to track you specifically. That has always been true, from the equivalent...
[12:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Putin Thanks President Trump and CIA for Tip That Foiled a Terrorist Attack - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:15:08] <exec> 08└─"Nothing on Earth more Evil than a human educated as 1, when composed of opposites that cancel out as an entity." In fact, man is the only 1 Evil, and will soon erase himself by ignoring Cubic 4 Day Creation. [archive.org]
[12:15:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Artificial Intelligence Used to Identify Bacteria Quickly and Accurately - 636 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:15:20] <exec> 08└─Similar news was on the Dutch TV last week, except it was used to do an initial screen for cancerous cells. The AI helped the specialist to give an indication of which cells looked cancerous (single cell slides, ca. 1000 - 5000 cells, about 10 slides per patient), normally it took the specialist abo...
[12:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google News Removes Sites That Mask Country of Origin or Mislead Readers - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:47] <exec> 08└─Hey, I’m a nationalist and a globalist. I’m both. And I’m the only one who makes the decision, believe me.
[12:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Report Recommends Removing Safe Harbor Protections for Online Companies Upon Brexit - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:27] <exec> 08└─We don't have any safe harbor protections here in the UK, they're safe harbour protections.
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[13:12:49] <exec> 08└─I don't like the label 'M$', I think it's childish. That said, at work we had to switch for Google Apps for business (I forget the formal name) to Office 365 and... damn does Outlook suck. I think it's the best advertisement for GMail that anyone could invent. Consumers are weird, they prefer kitch...
[13:12:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Email Bugs - Tracking 'Email Open' State at Present: 1 in 5 are Doing it. - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:51] <exec> 08└─Webmail.
[13:12:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Email Bugs - Tracking 'Email Open' State at Present: 1 in 5 are Doing it. - 1117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:53] <exec> 08└─Visited the site. They offer to install an addon - except, it only installs in Chrome/Chromium/Iron/other flavors of Chrome. So, install, and the first thing it does is to open your gmail account. Your account settings pop up, asking if you want to permit Streak to access all your emails, Gdrive, ac...
[13:12:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Email Bugs - Tracking 'Email Open' State at Present: 1 in 5 are Doing it. - 718 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:55] <exec> 08└─There's people still running Outlook 2003, the ancient Microsoft Mail under unpatched XP, and old versions of Lotus Notes, among other strange things. I know this because I track what mailers people use (when such can be determined) as mail passes through my systems. A small number of these are fake...
[13:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's Project Tango Shutting Down, to be Replaced by ARCore - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:09] <exec> 08└─Google said today that it'll be shutting down [twitter.com]
[13:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A 21-Part Series on Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:38] <exec> 08└─> When I was a kid, grocery stores didn't have loyalty programs. Now they do, and if you're not a member you pay 50% extra for your groceries. Either you are big on exaggeration or you don't live around here. My grocery loyalty cards (NE USA) are sometimes worth a buck or two off, on certain special...
[13:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google News Removes Sites That Mask Country of Origin or Mislead Readers - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:41] <exec> 08└─Archive.org is pretty much useless for all but the most mainstream non-english speaking websites. You'd be lucky if there's a single capture between 2000 to the present, and even then it will be 99.99% broken.
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[14:12:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Anesthetic Drugs Can Have an Effect on Plants - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:42] <exec> 08└─With money to make selling nearly-useless drugs, what's to stop them? Drug companies do know the natural cures, but they keep those under wraps and kill (or destroy the reputation of) anyone who finds out or develops them. The way to make more (illegitimate) money is to keep people hooked to drugs t...
[14:12:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anesthetic Drugs Can Have an Effect on Plants - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:43] <exec> 08└─Yea, man, it's got what plant's crave, it's like got electrolytes and stuff! In related news - Atlanta: Three Ficus strangled to death by Kudzu in a drug deal gone wrong.
[14:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Email Bugs - Tracking 'Email Open' State at Present: 1 in 5 are Doing it. - 1487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:03] <exec> 08└─It's not a bad article but it doesn't really get into the technical aspects of how tracking works. Maybe it's just because this is something I know a fair bit about already that it seems to be lacking. Typically it works by giving each of the pictures (or other external resources, external links, et...
[14:13:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Email Bugs - Tracking 'Email Open' State at Present: 1 in 5 are Doing it. - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:04] <exec> 08└─One could get creative with this and fool the trackers. For instance by accessing a number of 'adjacent' links but not the ones in the email you received. Just for fun of course.
[14:13:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Email Bugs - Tracking 'Email Open' State at Present: 1 in 5 are Doing it. - 934 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:07] <exec> 08└─Alpine and Claws Mail are the two mail programs I use when not at work. (At work, I need the capability to compose HTML mail.) I also run my own mail server (postfix) so adherence to standards isn't a problem. Would it be possible for somebody with a GMail inbox they use frequently to simply forward...
[14:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A 21-Part Series on Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:51] <exec> 08└─Yep, I just mailed about 70 Christmas / Holiday cards, and wrote a short message in nearly all of them. Stamps have gotten a little pricey, but I'm convinced that the recipients appreciate the paper card -- if nothing else, most of them reciprocate. We have a high shelf, the cards that come in are l...
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[15:12:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Analysis of Microfossils Finds that Microbial Life Existed at Least 3.5 Billion Years Ago - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:39] <exec> 08└─Humans have been around and have advanced and regressed many times in history. It is no surprise old micro-fossils have been allowed to be displayed to the public. Archeologists have always known that humans and other humanoids have been around for hundreds of millions (billions?) of years, yet the...
[15:13:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] 02 - 06Email Bugs - Tracking 'Email Open' State at Present: 1 in 5 are Doing it. - 1487 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:06] <exec> 08└─It's not a bad article but it doesn't really get into the technical aspects of how tracking works. Maybe it's just because this is something I know a fair bit about already that it seems to be lacking. Typically it works by giving each of the pictures (or other external resources, external links, et...
[15:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Email Bugs - Tracking 'Email Open' State at Present: 1 in 5 are Doing it. - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:09] <exec> 08└─What is the use of images on the web? Is it so we can enjoy works of art? Or is it so teenagers can jerk off to images of nekkid ladies? And what about jewscript? Why allow code written by your enemies run on your hardware?
[15:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Email Bugs - Tracking 'Email Open' State at Present: 1 in 5 are Doing it. - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:11] <exec> 08└─Webmail.
[15:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Email Bugs - Tracking 'Email Open' State at Present: 1 in 5 are Doing it. - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:14] <exec> 08└─'I' often open emails without reading them because of a shitty webmail client, "mark unread" is among my most used features. The interfaces between UI metaphors and reality are too subtle to interpret in ignorance of the implementation, and trying is only going to cause suffering. Imagine if this pe...
[15:13:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 21-Part Series on Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights - 3539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:58] <exec> 08└─Other problems arise from interactions with the legal system. The benefit of this easy-to-investigate circumstance is that when someone is an actual threat, you can learn about it and practice various avoidance measures. However, not all listed interactions actually indicate legitimate threats. From...
[15:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 21-Part Series on Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:00] <exec> 08└─Damned autocorrect on mobile...
[15:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 21-Part Series on Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:02] <exec> 08└─We will never be able to reproduce the idyllic days of yesteryear (which had there own problems), so: what is the way forward?
[15:14:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03LVDOVICVS [6131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 21-Part Series on Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights - 1018 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:04] <exec> 08└─Just over two decades ago I had a loud, miserable neighbor living in the apartment next door to me. I mentioned it to someone I worked with and they said something about him being a terrible guy, and that I should check with the local newspaper about him. I called up the paper, mentioned his name, a...
[15:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A 21-Part Series on Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:06] <exec> 08└─Mixed bag of goodies here. And the cat is out of the bag.
[15:14:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Amtrak Derailment Kills at Least Six in Washington State - 383 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:37] <exec> 08└─It indeed shows how well anchored is the orange one to reality. His response [twitter.com]: "It is all the more reason why we must immediately start fixing the infrastructure of the United States". He's speaking in the context of an accident that took place on brand-new tracks. When brand new thingi...
[15:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amtrak Derailment Kills at Least Six in Washington State - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:58] <exec> 08└─That's what the train tracker said, but it shouldn't be true. That particular curve has a speed limit of only 30mph. So, if the train was going as fast as the tracker suggests, then that would certainly be sufficient to cause a derailment. The worst thing though is that this wasn't really needed. It...
[15:15:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Amtrak Derailment Kills at Least Six in Washington State - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:00] <exec> 08└─Yep, this is a different crash than what he was predicting. And I read somewhere that he said as much. We've been having problems for years with morons being hit by street level trains in Seattle. And the trains here aren't moving that fast. But, they can't stop in less than about a mile and they of...
[15:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amtrak Derailment Kills at Least Six in Washington State - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:02] <exec> 08└─It is disturbing that you would post a link to a BreitBart news article which completely fails to identify how Obama and Hillary's emails are to blame for this horrible train derailment. Please be more careful in the future.
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[16:12:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stanford Scientists Use Electric Jolts to Prevent Impulsive Behavior - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:34] <exec> 08└─Last century called and they want their ECT back ... Seriously we have been trying to use electricity or jolts and shocks of various kinds for quite a long time now. So how is this different? Perhaps all that is changed is what it claims to cure -- Ben Franklin wrote about curing "female hysteria" a...
[16:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stanford Scientists Use Electric Jolts to Prevent Impulsive Behavior - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:36] <exec> 08└─Seriously we have been trying to use electricity or jolts and shocks of various kinds for quite a long time now. So how is this different?
[16:12:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03dexcheque [4758] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Stanford Scientists Use Electric Jolts to Prevent Impulsive Behavior - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:38] <exec> 08└─A university in California can alter behavior. What could possibly go wrong...?
[16:12:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stanford Scientists Use Electric Jolts to Prevent Impulsive Behavior - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:40] <exec> 08└─What could possibly go wrong...?
[16:12:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stanford Scientists Use Electric Jolts to Prevent Impulsive Behavior - 662 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:42] <exec> 08└─I often begin working on hobby projects impulsively. Perhaps that's unhealthy and I should develop better time management skills than suddenly binge working for 5+ hours, but nonetheless hundreds of hours of work otherwise wouldn't have occurred. This doesn't matter in the case of voluntary use, whe...
[16:12:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stanford Scientists Use Electric Jolts to Prevent Impulsive Behavior - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:45] <exec> 08└─This method used by the Stanford researchers could be very broad now but end up refined later. For example, if you want an implant that stops people from eating too much, but not prevent drug abuse, violent outbursts, or creative moments. Is it going to be that hard to detect that the impulse is rel...
[16:12:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stanford Scientists Use Electric Jolts to Prevent Impulsive Behavior - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:47] <exec> 08└─It only works for impulsiveness, so unfortunately it looks like Trump supporters can't be controlled after all... Sad. However it does mean that mass shootings could be culled without Trumpweenies screaming like the children they are about their beloved and all-sacred and somehow Christian second am...
[16:12:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stanford Scientists Use Electric Jolts to Prevent Impulsive Behavior - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:49] <exec> 08└─The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
[16:12:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stanford Scientists Use Electric Jolts to Prevent Impulsive Behavior - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:51] <exec> 08└─But is such a tempting target for politicians who mean well that extreme wariness is warranted.
[16:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Analysis of Microfossils Finds that Microbial Life Existed at Least 3.5 Billion Years Ago - 3449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:00] <exec> 08└─Cool, have to update my History of the Earth. One thing, is "primitive" really such a good way to describe the photosynthesis of those times? Especially when they just said it was "surprisingly sophisticated". There was no oxygen in the atmosphere then, and so photosynthesis had to be different. I c...
[16:13:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Analysis of Microfossils Finds that Microbial Life Existed at Least 3.5 Billion Years Ago - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:02] <exec> 08└─Bullet holes? My auntie arse! [youtube.com]
[16:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Email Bugs - Tracking 'Email Open' State at Present: 1 in 5 are Doing it. - 773 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:36] <exec> 08└─HTML in email could have been a useful concept. If there had been an early RFC mandating inline images, no Javascript and other basic limitations to maintain security and privacy. As is I just turn off HTML rendering and manually ask to see the full message on the one or two that pass through in a d...
[16:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Email Bugs - Tracking 'Email Open' State at Present: 1 in 5 are Doing it. - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:37] <exec> 08└─I don't like the label 'M$', I think it's childish.
[16:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Email Bugs - Tracking 'Email Open' State at Present: 1 in 5 are Doing it. - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:39] <exec> 08└─Even Outlook blocks this, FFS, and has for years. If your e-mail client downloads tracking images, it's time to take it out behind the barn and finish it off.
[16:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Email Bugs - Tracking 'Email Open' State at Present: 1 in 5 are Doing it. - 668 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:41] <exec> 08└─It might be a fun exercise but wouldn't have much impact. The better implementations will note that someone is scanning the various URLs, and that is also a data point in of itself. They don't necessarily simply record the first GET on that URL either, but each usually. "Black hat" ones might use th...
[16:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Email Bugs - Tracking 'Email Open' State at Present: 1 in 5 are Doing it. - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:43] <exec> 08└─Everything you said is correct, except for the statement about M$ not being about dollars. Your memory is apparently getting faulty if you don't recall that coming into effect to denigrate Microsoft for their monopolistic and anti-competitive practices.
[16:13:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Email Bugs - Tracking 'Email Open' State at Present: 1 in 5 are Doing it. - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:46] <exec> 08└─Would it be possible for somebody with a GMail inbox they use frequently to simply forward all mail to a server they control?
[16:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Email Bugs - Tracking 'Email Open' State at Present: 1 in 5 are Doing it. - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:48] <exec> 08└─Uh, that's right: teenagers . . .
[16:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Email Bugs - Tracking 'Email Open' State at Present: 1 in 5 are Doing it. - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:50] <exec> 08└─PDFs can silently download images over the Internet? Is there anything Adobe won't add to PDF? It already supports JavaScript, so Turing completeness is already ticked off. In theory we could even run Linux on it.
[16:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Email Bugs - Tracking 'Email Open' State at Present: 1 in 5 are Doing it. - 1129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:52] <exec> 08└─yeah "Webmail" had to be the most worstest answer even remotely imaginable besides just agreeing to everything and replying to the sending saying that I did not read this message and haven't replied. why on earth would you think webmail doesn't track? It's not like most local SMTP clients are capabl...
[16:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Email Bugs - Tracking 'Email Open' State at Present: 1 in 5 are Doing it. - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:55] <exec> 08└─No, because cloud. dont you corporate your captialism? running a server at home is like admitting you find communism sexy and that bernie sanders is your bromate only liberal pansies try to be private
[16:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Email Bugs - Tracking 'Email Open' State at Present: 1 in 5 are Doing it. - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:57] <exec> 08└─yeah there were attempts to prevent abuse, but capitalism won over the honor system. it is too hard to add regulation to an already entrenched system, and the designers were too idealistic to imagine the harms that the quest for shareholder values can bring upon their creations. besides i would not...
[16:14:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Want to Really Understand how Bitcoin Works? Ars Has a Gentle Primer - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:05] <exec> 08└─3Blue1Brown did a very nice video [youtube.com] on cryptocurrencies.
[16:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 21-Part Series on Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:50] <exec> 08└─Yes. And? That's a case of PEOPLE literally remembering him. That's an entirely different situation. People don't soon forget, they never did. But if you did something bad or stupid before the internet, all you really had to do to be forgotten was move to another zipcode, and he'd get a fresh start...
[16:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 21-Part Series on Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights - 651 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:53] <exec> 08└─I can't seem to access `www.privateinternetaccess.com` from where I am, either due to the site being down or due to corporate blocking (which may be justified since the non-blog part of the website offers VPN services). So here are some Google cache links that worked for me: Our children should hav...
[16:15:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amtrak Derailment Kills at Least Six in Washington State - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:47] <exec> 08└─You aren't politicizing a tragedy, are you?
[16:16:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03IndigoFreak [3415] 02 - 06President Putin Thanks President Trump and CIA for Tip That Foiled a Terrorist Attack - 174 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:00] <exec> 08└─The USA never gave them th information. It was gained through espionage/hacking. And the US government will never say so since it would be a black eye. Ok. Story time's over.
[16:16:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Putin Thanks President Trump and CIA for Tip That Foiled a Terrorist Attack - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:22] <exec> 08└─Comrade Trumpski
[16:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google News Removes Sites That Mask Country of Origin or Mislead Readers - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:03] <exec> 08└─Yeah. I'll bite on this troll for the sake of others reading. The point which you conveniently ignore is that NPR is a News, not Opinion, organization. There are a few others, And I conveniently point you to the facts regarding NPR financing: https://www.npr.org
[16:19:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google News Removes Sites That Mask Country of Origin or Mislead Readers - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:04] <exec> 08└─Conduct some basic research and something like 90% of those stories completely fall apart. No, plausible as it may be for any politician, Hillary was not running a child sex trafficking operation out of a local pizza shop. And as far as treasonous, she can't be that bad if our greatest adversary was...
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[17:12:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 DHS Reports Boeing 757 Vulnerable to Remote Hacking - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:33] <exec> 08└─said they accessed the aircraft's systems through radio frequency communications, adding that, based on the RF configuration of most aircraft, "you can come to grips pretty quickly where we went" on the aircraft.
[17:12:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 DHS Reports Boeing 757 Vulnerable to Remote Hacking - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:34] <exec> 08└─If this could bankrupt an airline, this could be part of a multi-pronged economic attack. It is probably unknown what economic consequences would ensue if, for example, a major airport were to lose electrical power for many hours, as such a thing is totally unprecedented in the history of aviation....
[17:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 DHS Reports Boeing 757 Vulnerable to Remote Hacking - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:36] <exec> 08└─I've been trying to figure out what they mean too. I wonder if this means creating false GPS transmissions, or other false satellite transmissions, which easily overpower the actual satellite signals
[17:12:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 DHS Reports Boeing 757 Vulnerable to Remote Hacking - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:39] <exec> 08└─Or dogmatically ignoring the whole thing while singing Amazing Grace with their fingers stuck in their ears...
[17:12:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 DHS Reports Boeing 757 Vulnerable to Remote Hacking - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:41] <exec> 08└─It is probably unknown what economic consequences would ensue if, for example, a major airport were to lose electrical power for many hours, as such a thing is totally unprecedented in the history of aviation.
[17:12:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Stanford Scientists Use Electric Jolts to Prevent Impulsive Behavior - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:57] <exec> 08└─Question: is tweeting at 3 AM from a solid gold toilet considered impulsive behavior? What about: "I can't help myself! I grab them by the covfefe. With a mouth full of tic tacs." Or asking for Diet Coke #5 of 12 for today? Or a McDonald's order of: 2 Big Macs, 2 Filet O Fish, and Chocolate Shake. (...
[17:12:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stanford Scientists Use Electric Jolts to Prevent Impulsive Behavior - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:59] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't defend pedophiles. They need treatment. Not defense. This treatment seems perfect. An impulse of electricity to prevent impulsive behavior. I would suggest a dosage of 11 KV at 600 A. And not just for pedophiles. But also for cereal killers.
[17:13:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Stanford Scientists Use Electric Jolts to Prevent Impulsive Behavior - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:01] <exec> 08└─Yeah, they're half-assing it. Use tiny jolts of electricity and you inhibit the impulses for an unknown quantity of time. Use a tesla coil and you inhibit them permanently.
[17:13:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Stanford Scientists Use Electric Jolts to Prevent Impulsive Behavior - 1054 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:03] <exec> 08└─As for that 2nd amendment thing you mention. Crazy people should not have guns. Yet there seems to be resistance to the very idea of trying to prevent crazy people from obtaining or possessing guns. Maybe it's just me, but I seem to have this absurd idea that it would be quite reasonable to have reg...
[17:13:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stanford Scientists Use Electric Jolts to Prevent Impulsive Behavior - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:05] <exec> 08└─You seem to be confusing pedophiles with child molesters. A pedophile is simply someone who has a sexual attraction to prepubescent children, while a child molester has actually molested children and isn't even necessarily a pedophile since it could have just been an opportunistic rape. Having a sex...
[17:13:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stanford Scientists Use Electric Jolts to Prevent Impulsive Behavior - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:07] <exec> 08└─A university in California can alter behavior. What could possibly go wrong...?
[17:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stanford Scientists Use Electric Jolts to Prevent Impulsive Behavior - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:10] <exec> 08└─You are correct. I should be more precise as you point out.
[17:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stanford Scientists Use Electric Jolts to Prevent Impulsive Behavior - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:12] <exec> 08└─Tesla coils are sissy - use a 50-capacitor Marx bank ( no, not Karl ) !
[17:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stanford Scientists Use Electric Jolts to Prevent Impulsive Behavior - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:14] <exec> 08└─It's defending the others who'll later be targeted by the same tactics, only superficially is it defence of paedophiles.
[17:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Analysis of Microfossils Finds that Microbial Life Existed at Least 3.5 Billion Years Ago - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:25] <exec> 08└─I hope you realize that what you suggest flies in the face of science textbooks. In Kansas. Now if you changed "Million Years Ago" to "Thousand Years Ago", and scaled it out to maybe about 8000 instead of 4568, it would better fit with policies embraced by the current administration's Secretary Of E...
[17:13:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Email Bugs - Tracking 'Email Open' State at Present: 1 in 5 are Doing it. - 112 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:41] <exec> 08└─Wait … there are still people who let their email client load external images, or execute embedded JavaScript?
[17:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Email Bugs - Tracking 'Email Open' State at Present: 1 in 5 are Doing it. - 1137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:09] <exec> 08└─Regulation of the Internet has always been by RFC. There is no law mandating anyone obey any of it yet it all works. It is one of the few notable successes of "Libertarian" philosophy. It might have worked in this case had someone early on wrote a clear one defining acceptable HTML within email, man...
[17:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Email Bugs - Tracking 'Email Open' State at Present: 1 in 5 are Doing it. - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:11] <exec> 08└─agreed: m$ is for "your universal copy machine (tho only electrical and digital) cannot be a universal copy machine (unless you pay)". the $ is the DOLLAR sign ... any maybe it is also used in some programming language .. na done can ask, if the programming language itself allows to define the symbo...
[17:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Email Bugs - Tracking 'Email Open' State at Present: 1 in 5 are Doing it. - 730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:13] <exec> 08└─email is broken. maybe they didnt see it at the uni-versalities where it was invented at the time. but it should have dawned at them at the time that there might be dubious un-scrupulous characters that would just PUSH -aka- SPAM emails as fast as the pipe can hold them. the messaging thingy for the...
[17:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Email Bugs - Tracking 'Email Open' State at Present: 1 in 5 are Doing it. - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:15] <exec> 08└─You've got it a little bit skewed. It's more like animal farm, but I'm more equal than some of you.
[17:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Email Bugs - Tracking 'Email Open' State at Present: 1 in 5 are Doing it. - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:17] <exec> 08└─no, you should send the installer (for that email program) to your worst enemy : )
[17:15:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03kazzie [5309] 02 - 06Amtrak Derailment Kills at Least Six in Washington State - 346 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:58] <exec> 08└─Replacing the bridge would probably have been very expensive, so it would have been refurbished instead (checked it's structurally sound). This means that the railway's alignment over the bridge is quite tight, effectively a chicane. See this picture for the curve on approach to the bridge (and the...
[17:16:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amtrak Derailment Kills at Least Six in Washington State - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:05] <exec> 08└─Man, that's a hairpin for a train travelling 129kmh.
[17:16:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amtrak Derailment Kills at Least Six in Washington State - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:07] <exec> 08└─Almost as shocking that the CNN article had no mention of the Russian hack that caused thew derailment.
[17:16:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amtrak Derailment Kills at Least Six in Washington State - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:10] <exec> 08└─Corporations are Government created fictions. Corporation problems are Government problems are corruption problems, it is wise to not forget this.
[17:16:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Putin Thanks President Trump and CIA for Tip That Foiled a Terrorist Attack - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:45] <exec> 08└─Right. Now put the uncontracted form, 'who is', in the original sentence and watch it fail: Nothing like Shooting the messenger, I suppose you also demean those who is English and punctuation isn't to your standards amIright?
[17:19:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google News Removes Sites That Mask Country of Origin or Mislead Readers - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:28] <exec> 08└─yeah i am waiting to buy a computer stick that plugs into a smart tv to let me choose one of channels 2, 5 or 7, with a few shitty stations thrown in to make it look like there's choice. then if you don't pay for that, they'll send around thought police vans to try to make you admit guilt somehow li...
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[18:12:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 DHS Reports Boeing 757 Vulnerable to Remote Hacking - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:38] <exec> 08└─Didn't we have a major airport lose power just a few days ago? That is what I was sarcastically hinting at.
[18:12:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 DHS Reports Boeing 757 Vulnerable to Remote Hacking - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:40] <exec> 08└─Sorry, didn't hear about that whatsoever.
[18:12:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 DHS Reports Boeing 757 Vulnerable to Remote Hacking - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:42] <exec> 08└─Yeah, Atlanta yesterday: http://money.cnn.com [cnn.com] It seems an electrical fire in a conduct tunnel was the cause. No word yet on what caused the fire.
[18:12:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 DHS Reports Boeing 757 Vulnerable to Remote Hacking - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:44] <exec> 08└─Planes routinely send maintenance / alert info via Sat links, not sure if those are bi-directional. Onboard WiFi internet uses bi-di links, which you have to pray are fully isolated from the avionics (they should, but what about that debug port Joe forgot to close?) My guess is the more advanced com...
[18:12:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 DHS Reports Boeing 757 Vulnerable to Remote Hacking - 712 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:46] <exec> 08└─> The cost to change one line of code on a piece of avionics equipment is $1 million, and it takes a year to implement. > For Southwest Airlines, whose fleet is based on Boeing's 737, it would "bankrupt" them if a cyber vulnerability was > specific to systems on board 737s, he said It's too early in...
[18:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stanford Scientists Use Electric Jolts to Prevent Impulsive Behavior - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:12] <exec> 08└─they want their ECT back
[18:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stanford Scientists Use Electric Jolts to Prevent Impulsive Behavior - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:13] <exec> 08└─For example, if you want an implant that stops people from eating too much, but not prevent drug abuse, violent outbursts, or creative moments. Is it going to be that hard to detect that the impulse is related to overeating?
[18:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stanford Scientists Use Electric Jolts to Prevent Impulsive Behavior - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:15] <exec> 08└─Initial versions will be prescribed for the specific problem someone faces. So if they have an eating disorder, or heroin addiction, they get it tuned for just that. I wouldn't expect them to be used to control a wide variety of behaviors simultaneously. When will it be made mandatory?
[18:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stanford Scientists Use Electric Jolts to Prevent Impulsive Behavior - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:17] <exec> 08└─Oh may God...I just killed a bowl of oatmeal this very morning!! I didn't mean to be a cereal killer.
[18:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Email Bugs - Tracking 'Email Open' State at Present: 1 in 5 are Doing it. - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:16] <exec> 08└─Everyone seems to be focused on images and scripts but TFS also mentions fonts. I've been reading plain text image-blocked email for 15+ years and never thought about fonts... Fuck I'm tired of this shit...
[18:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Email Bugs - Tracking 'Email Open' State at Present: 1 in 5 are Doing it. - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:17] <exec> 08└─Webmail varies from site to site. Some of them load all of those images whether you've opened it or not, and just don't show them. The net result is that they know that the email was received by the server, but they have no way of knowing whether or not it's been viewed by an actual person.
[18:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A 21-Part Series on Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:12] <exec> 08└─I see facefuck. twit and other tracking on the page also the intro has no links to the other articles, he may have something to say but he certainly has not considered clearly where to publish
[18:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A 21-Part Series on Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:13] <exec> 08└─sorry for replying to myself but people should watch the BBC doc the trap, from 2003 (it think) it is a good description of how wrong thinking about the value and utility of data started, surprise it makes people with power less responsible
[18:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03jrmcferren [5500] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A 21-Part Series on Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:15] <exec> 08└─Telephone listings in the US were the same way. With traditional service (VoIP providers don't usually list), you have two opt out options. You can opt out of directory listing only or opt out of directory and directory assistance listing. Historically, some telephone providers also had an option th...
[18:15:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03LVDOVICVS [6131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 21-Part Series on Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:17] <exec> 08└─Sorry I wasn't more specific but no, the newspaper and the individual were not in the same city, nor the same ZIP code. But, you're also making a case against trying to legislate "forgetting." It doesn't work. Just like trying to erase something from the internet. It can't be done.
[18:16:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amtrak Derailment Kills at Least Six in Washington State - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:17] <exec> 08└─NPR is all about UFOs today. That's a good break from Trump/Russia/Hillary, and could totally explain critical infrastructure being destroyed.
[18:16:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amtrak Derailment Kills at Least Six in Washington State - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:18] <exec> 08└─Wait until people realize that the driver used a Deadly Weapon that was somewhat concealed ...
[18:20:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Report Recommends Removing Safe Harbor Protections for Online Companies Upon Brexit - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:17] <exec> 08└─Even worse! Not only are you getting rid of something useful, you couldn't even spell it correctly to begin with, and added a superfluous and unpronounced 'u'! I think this shows that one big problem with the UK is their variant of English, which is much too inefficient and cumbersome. It's the same...
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[19:12:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How The US Pushed Sweden to Take Down The Pirate Bay - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:44] <exec> 08└─Likely as with FATCA: extra-legal threats of financial consequences. Copyright is so out of control that it needs to simply die. Nuke it from orbit. After the dust settles, we can look for a replacement solution.
[19:12:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06How The US Pushed Sweden to Take Down The Pirate Bay - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:45] <exec> 08└─Advocate for legal changes if you want, but focus on the technical. Untraceable and decentralized filesharing undermines copyright, no matter how out of control copyright length and other aspects have become. And by focusing on the technical side you can prevent broader censorship and surveillance a...
[19:12:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How The US Pushed Sweden to Take Down The Pirate Bay - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:47] <exec> 08└─He who has the gold, makes the rules. Peasants, obey.
[19:12:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How The US Pushed Sweden to Take Down The Pirate Bay - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:49] <exec> 08└─Why the fear? It's better to preemptively ask to be put on the list. If the US refuses, ask what actions would be required to earn a place on the list. Get it over, with pride.
[19:12:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How The US Pushed Sweden to Take Down The Pirate Bay - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:52] <exec> 08└─Hollywood asked our local coppers to get their guns out and raid Kim Dotcom's house. I'm not sure any threats were needed as they seem pretty keen to act like Rambo if they can. It turns out some of what they did was actually illegal, but I don't imagine anything will change. Here's Kim settling [a...
[19:13:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 DHS Reports Boeing 757 Vulnerable to Remote Hacking - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:08] <exec> 08└─No word yet on what caused the fire.
[19:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 DHS Reports Boeing 757 Vulnerable to Remote Hacking - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:10] <exec> 08└─GPS navigation is relatively new on commercial aircraft. It wasn't even approved for use by the FAA until Alaska Airlines developed a pilot program in conjunction with Boeing and the FAA to certify it. (Only became common beginning 2008). It is still not widely deployed in legacy aircraft. Too expen...
[19:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 DHS Reports Boeing 757 Vulnerable to Remote Hacking - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:12] <exec> 08└─Sarcasm doesn't always come through in text.
[19:13:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Stanford Scientists Use Electric Jolts to Prevent Impulsive Behavior - 519 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:28] <exec> 08└─Question: is tweeting at 3 AM from a solid gold toilet considered impulsive behavior? What about: "I can't help myself! I grab them by the covfefe. With a mouth full of tic tacs." Or asking for Diet Coke #5 of 12 for today? Or a McDonald's order of: 2 Big Macs, 2 Filet O Fish, and Chocolate Shake. (...
[19:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stanford Scientists Use Electric Jolts to Prevent Impulsive Behavior - 737 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:41] <exec> 08└─You can believe them if you want to. On many issues I trust those sources. But not on this one. A source I trust more (don't remember which, but it's because they did a study that looked reliable) said that ECT often had horrendous side effects, but sometimes it was worth it because it alleviated a...
[19:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stanford Scientists Use Electric Jolts to Prevent Impulsive Behavior - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:43] <exec> 08└─I wonder if anyone has suggested to Mr. Pence that perhaps all sexual behavior could be cured with electrical impulses? First do no harm. I'm opposed to any treatment that would allow Mike pence to be alone in a room with a woman.
[19:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Analysis of Microfossils Finds that Microbial Life Existed at Least 3.5 Billion Years Ago - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:54] <exec> 08└─There is still the possibility that Life started on proto-Mars, Proto-Venus, or some other random celestial body which later went splat on Earth. It could have been for 500M years elsewhere before paying us a visit and deciding it liked the place.
[19:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Analysis of Microfossils Finds that Microbial Life Existed at Least 3.5 Billion Years Ago - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:55] <exec> 08└─It could have come to Earth from some other location *AND* developed 4 billion or more years ago (as soon as the planet had cooled down from Theia/impact events and had surface liquid water). https://evolution.berkeley.edu [berkeley.edu]
[19:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Analysis of Microfossils Finds that Microbial Life Existed at Least 3.5 Billion Years Ago - 729 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:57] <exec> 08└─Well, given the biological definition of primitive (a trait that hasn't changed from a common ancestral form), the earliest form is by definition primitive, and the earliest known form has to be assumed to be primitive. This says nothing about how "sophisticated" it is. In fact early photosynthesis...
[19:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Anesthetic Drugs Can Have an Effect on Plants - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:07] <exec> 08└─Just don't commit fraud by lying about what illnesses it will cure and you can sell anything you want.
[19:14:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Email Bugs - Tracking 'Email Open' State at Present: 1 in 5 are Doing it. - 514 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:20] <exec> 08└─The news is not that "For various reasons, it is possible to do it" - the news is "1 in 5 private persons actually does it to other private persons!!!"** If the private persons can't abstain from shitting on the idea of respecting the privacy of the others, how can we blame the soulless corporate pe...
[19:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Email Bugs - Tracking 'Email Open' State at Present: 1 in 5 are Doing it. - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:51] <exec> 08└─Oh, but that's "them". It's fine when "we" do it, isn't it. :)
[19:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Email Bugs - Tracking 'Email Open' State at Present: 1 in 5 are Doing it. - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:52] <exec> 08└─PDFs can include hypperlinks. Virus scanners follow the hyperlinks to determine if they are malware-hosting sites. The person owning the web server can watch the access logs and see who is accessing them.
[19:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Email Bugs - Tracking 'Email Open' State at Present: 1 in 5 are Doing it. - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:54] <exec> 08└─Interesting. Anyone have info on which email readers don't download fonts by default? Or at least let you turn that off. (No, not mutt or pine.)
[19:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Email Bugs - Tracking 'Email Open' State at Present: 1 in 5 are Doing it. - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:56] <exec> 08└─Imagine if this person, who is apparently foolish enough to think the email being opened means it was read, took action based on that.
[19:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Email Bugs - Tracking 'Email Open' State at Present: 1 in 5 are Doing it. - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:59] <exec> 08└─The guys who used to work for Stasi are probably scratching their heads at the breadth of the US population surveillance... by private companies.
[19:15:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Email Bugs - Tracking 'Email Open' State at Present: 1 in 5 are Doing it. - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:01] <exec> 08└─It sounds like this is the the age old 1 pixel tracking images. Even Gmail disables images out of the box, neutering the tracking, and the images can be triggered by email filters and pre-processors. The tracking won't register when I read the email, but it might before I read the email from some da...
[19:15:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Van Allen Belt Electrons Measured Using CubeSat - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:25] <exec> 08└─A bunch of students just built a ridiculously tiny sat which they operated for two years in space in a belt of high radiation. You may want to hire a few of them when designing your next gizmo. Efficiency and reliability bring repeat customers.
[19:15:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 21-Part Series on Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:59] <exec> 08└─...and if so, who went around to the libraries blacking out listings for people who chose to exercise this "right." You requested an unlisted number and weren't included in the phone book in the first place.
[19:16:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03kazzie [5309] 02 - 06Amtrak Derailment Kills at Least Six in Washington State - 844 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:48] <exec> 08└─New track on an old bridge. It sounds like we can discount a fault on one of the rails, but there is reportedly a significantly lower speed limit at that point, and that must be there for a reason. Two likely reasons for a speed limit are a weight limit on the railway bridge (slow down to avoid dama...
[19:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artificial Intelligence Used to Identify Bacteria Quickly and Accurately - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:48] <exec> 08└─There have been stories about AI's diagnosing various diseases by cell studied for many years. It's not clear what makes this more significant than any of the others, though I'm not saying it isn't...for one thing prices may have fallen enough to justify it.
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[20:12:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple iPhones Appear to Slow Down as Battery Condition Degrades: Planned Obsolescence? - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:38] <exec> 08└─When the battery degrades, just leave the phone plugged in to the wall all day, like a landline. Or, you know, the phone could, like, slow down, to conserve battery, dude, bro, like, whoa.
[20:12:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Apple iPhones Appear to Slow Down as Battery Condition Degrades: Planned Obsolescence? - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:39] <exec> 08└─FUCK APPLE FUCK APPLE FUCK FUCK APPLE FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
[20:12:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Apple iPhones Appear to Slow Down as Battery Condition Degrades: Planned Obsolescence? - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:42] <exec> 08└─Fuck ... Apple. Posted from my iPhone
[20:12:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple iPhones Appear to Slow Down as Battery Condition Degrades: Planned Obsolescence? - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:44] <exec> 08└─So you could just flash a warning once a day, or maybe whenever you plug/unplug it from power; "This device's battery no longer meets the recommended minimum quality for optimal performance. We recommend replacing the battery to get the most out of your Apple device. Click here to see a few suggesti...
[20:12:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple iPhones Appear to Slow Down as Battery Condition Degrades: Planned Obsolescence? - 741 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:46] <exec> 08└─If Apple were truly innovative, their batteries would explode even better than the Samsung Note 7. Thus the battery would never have a shorter battery life and the issue is moot. Apple fanboys would applaud a suggestion to leave their phone plugged in to electrical power all day -- if it came from A...
[20:12:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Apple iPhones Appear to Slow Down as Battery Condition Degrades: Planned Obsolescence? - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:48] <exec> 08└─After suffering "the slows" on a few well used ThinkPad XP laptops, I've often wondered if IBM/Lenovo and/or MS had some planned obsolescence built in. Whatever it is, it doesn't seem to appear in diagnostics I've tried and it doesn't go away even with a complete re-install of the OS (from the hidde...
[20:12:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple iPhones Appear to Slow Down as Battery Condition Degrades: Planned Obsolescence? - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:51] <exec> 08└─Why prompt the user to get the battery replaced when you can prompt them to buying a new phone? If Apple wanted users replacing batteries, they would have made the battery easily replaceable. Like other phones. (or explode like Samsung.) Replacing the battery doesn't lead to new phone sails.
[20:12:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06How The US Pushed Sweden to Take Down The Pirate Bay - 307 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:59] <exec> 08└─Advocate for legal changes if you want, but focus on the technical. Untraceable and decentralized filesharing undermines copyright, no matter how out of control copyright length and other aspects have become. And by focusing on the technical side you can prevent broader censorship and surveillance a...
[20:13:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02 - 06How The US Pushed Sweden to Take Down The Pirate Bay - 503 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:03] <exec> 08└─Hollywood asked our local coppers to get their guns out and raid Kim Dotcom's house. I'm not sure any threats were needed as they seem pretty keen to act like Rambo if they can. It turns out some of what they did was actually illegal, but I don't imagine anything will change. Here's Kim settling [a...
[20:13:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How The US Pushed Sweden to Take Down The Pirate Bay - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:06] <exec> 08└─> I am still unsure why copyright infringement is even a criminal offense. Because life is all about making and spending money. Anyone trying to enjoy themselves without spending money is a dirty commie hippie unamerican terrorist. And also because distributors and agents need to be paid, so that so...
[20:13:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How The US Pushed Sweden to Take Down The Pirate Bay - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:08] <exec> 08└─I am still unsure why copyright infringement is even a criminal offense. cui bono... there's always somebody
[20:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How The US Pushed Sweden to Take Down The Pirate Bay - 977 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:10] <exec> 08└─it is no surprise that the same system that openly promotes peace love and hates borders and missiles and cannons adopts the weapon able to hit anyone, anywhere, with absolute precision, in few milliseconds. Money. "Sure, what about the military-industrial complex", you will reply. The MIC is useful...
[20:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How The US Pushed Sweden to Take Down The Pirate Bay - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:12] <exec> 08└─I advocate for the legal and lawful abolition of copyright. Unnatural monopolies should not be allowed to exist.
[20:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06 DHS Reports Boeing 757 Vulnerable to Remote Hacking - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:32] <exec> 08└─Whatever "hack" it is vulnerable to can only affect the autopilot (pull the breaker), and the coffeemaker... Oh shit! They are doomed!
[20:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 DHS Reports Boeing 757 Vulnerable to Remote Hacking - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:33] <exec> 08└─Deploying the fix only costs a few hundreds or thousands per plane. Airlines deploy manufacturer changes on their planes routinely, and don't go bankrupt in the process.
[20:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 DHS Reports Boeing 757 Vulnerable to Remote Hacking - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:36] <exec> 08└─While they may not be able to directly command the aircraft (without autopilot), they could always trick the humans into performing a dangerous maneuver by giving fake instrument output. Pretty much the same effect if the faking is done with care.
[20:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 DHS Reports Boeing 757 Vulnerable to Remote Hacking - 1193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:38] <exec> 08└─"I stood off using typical stuff that could get through security and we were able to establish a presence on the systems of the aircraft." Hickey said the details of the hack and the work his team are doing are classified, but said they accessed the aircraft's systems through radio frequency communi...
[20:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stanford Scientists Use Electric Jolts to Prevent Impulsive Behavior - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:09] <exec> 08└─Now we need to use this to reanimate dead tissue, then build a sort of zombie-like creature and bring to life with a lightning bolt, then abandon it and see if it starts reading John Milton voluntarily. I guess at that point we'd have to decide if voluntarily reading John Milton is something we want...
[20:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Stanford Scientists Use Electric Jolts to Prevent Impulsive Behavior - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:11] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't defend pedophiles.
[20:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Stanford Scientists Use Electric Jolts to Prevent Impulsive Behavior - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:13] <exec> 08└─Crazy people should not have guns. Yet there seems to be resistance to the very idea of trying to prevent crazy people from obtaining or possessing guns. Maybe it's just me, but I seem to have this absurd idea that it would be quite reasonable to have regulation of firearms that prevented crazy peop...
[20:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Analysis of Microfossils Finds that Microbial Life Existed at Least 3.5 Billion Years Ago - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:27] <exec> 08└─Humans have been around and have advanced and regressed many times in history. It is no surprise old micro-fossils have been allowed to be displayed to the public. Archeologists have always known that humans and other humanoids have been around for hundreds of millions (billions?) of years, yet the...
[20:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Analysis of Microfossils Finds that Microbial Life Existed at Least 3.5 Billion Years Ago - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:28] <exec> 08└─I hope you realize that what you suggest flies in the face of science textbooks. In Kansas.
[20:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anesthetic Drugs Can Have an Effect on Plants - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:39] <exec> 08└─Now surgeons can finally operate on EF without causing that potato any pain. The future is now.
[20:16:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06A 21-Part Series on Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights - 118 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:02] <exec> 08└─And these people today who want this right have greatly inflated ideas of the world's interest in anything about them.
[20:16:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 21-Part Series on Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights - 916 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:28] <exec> 08└─/shrug... so he needs to move further away from the epicenter of his crime or give it more time to fade... or both. More importantly they aren't trying to legislate forgetting, or trying to erase something from the internet. They're just trying to de-list/de-index certain keyword combinations and/or...
[20:16:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bright Areas on Ceres Suggest Geologic Activity - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:43] <exec> 08└─...there is an interesting story in the "Malleus Maleficarum" about witches that would steal penii. Go witches! Should be a fairly small job. [sfgate.com]
[20:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amtrak Derailment Kills at Least Six in Washington State - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:31] <exec> 08└─Passenger trains are allowed to go faster. I suppose they are lower, more balanced, more aerodynamic, and with better suspension.
[20:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amtrak Derailment Kills at Least Six in Washington State - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:33] <exec> 08└─>>> DOT of two democratic states got excused by the Obama administration ... just like all of the other states, because the Republican congress kept arguing that ANY REGULATION IS BAD, and besides if the REGULATION deadline is next year why should anyone spend any money or effort to conform to the R...
[20:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amtrak Derailment Kills at Least Six in Washington State - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:35] <exec> 08└─Adding Spuyten Duyvil in New York City to your list: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[20:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amtrak Derailment Kills at Least Six in Washington State - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:37] <exec> 08└─Brand New track WITHOUT PTC... The sad irony is that those tracks did have PTC but it was still being tested. [usatoday.com]
[20:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Crash [1335] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Amtrak Derailment Kills at Least Six in Washington State - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:40] <exec> 08└─There were bomb sniffing dogs being patrolled up and down the line at Union Station, Los Angeles to San Diego. When we returned from San Diego, there were not.
[20:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Putin Thanks President Trump and CIA for Tip That Foiled a Terrorist Attack - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:16] <exec> 08└─Consider who has been most harmful to the USA. Putin hasn't done much worse than threaten us with nukes. Obama rotted our country from the inside as a traitor, stopping the American dream with stagnation and racial strife. Obama even slipped up one day, admitting to being Muslim: https://www.youtube...
[20:21:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Report Recommends Removing Safe Harbor Protections for Online Companies Upon Brexit - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:42] <exec> 08└─The UK hasn't been putting itself first. They got into the EU. Factories got shut down.
[20:21:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Report Recommends Removing Safe Harbor Protections for Online Companies Upon Brexit - 1516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:43] <exec> 08└─There are regions in the USA that don't speak English There's many other countries where certain regions predominantly speak a different language than the most popular national language. Switzerland has 4 languages, with a population slightly less than New York City (not including the rest of the me...
[20:21:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Report Recommends Removing Safe Harbor Protections for Online Companies Upon Brexit - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:46] <exec> 08└─In 50 years "grandpa's been an engineer at google" will sound like "grandpa's been an officer in the gestapo" sounds now?
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[21:12:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple iPhones Appear to Slow Down as Battery Condition Degrades: Planned Obsolescence? - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:48] <exec> 08└─*Must ... Resist ... * At the rate the phone are growing, you can surely plan to use them as Sails by the end of the decade ! *shame, shame shame*
[21:12:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple iPhones Appear to Slow Down as Battery Condition Degrades: Planned Obsolescence? - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:49] <exec> 08└─I'm okay with such a feature as long as the user can easily override it to have regular speed but less battery life.
[21:12:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple iPhones Appear to Slow Down as Battery Condition Degrades: Planned Obsolescence? - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:52] <exec> 08└─If you had to make a picture of Apple Computing in the new millennium, I'd put a guy listening to music on an iphone plugged to the wall, using the airpods. In the 80s it would be a guy next to an open apple ][ meddling with an add-on card.
[21:12:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple iPhones Appear to Slow Down as Battery Condition Degrades: Planned Obsolescence? - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:54] <exec> 08└─I seem to recall that Apple has already been called out for deploying an OS image to older phones that is optimized for only the new hardware. And that they have no intention to compile multiple images to target all of their phones on the market. So, is this a new software feature in the OS update c...
[21:12:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple iPhones Appear to Slow Down as Battery Condition Degrades: Planned Obsolescence? - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:56] <exec> 08└─Rule #1 of planned obsolescence: make it look like an accident.
[21:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How The US Pushed Sweden to Take Down The Pirate Bay - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:14] <exec> 08└─Your advocacy has had little to no effect to date. Perhaps copyright will be extended even further within the coming decades. Disney-Fox has the power. By contrast we have widespread piracy using BitTorrent, online streaming, Kodi boxes/sticks, ebook download sites, and ebook/academic paper sites li...
[21:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 DHS Reports Boeing 757 Vulnerable to Remote Hacking - 725 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:38] <exec> 08└─Thanks for costing me over an hour looking at avionics bay pictures and videos, followed by crew quarters drawings, pictures, and videos ... The internet is Evil. That said, no modern airliner stays grounded to apply a patch (a DC-10, maybe, anything from the last 30 years, no way). Either you apply...
[21:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 DHS Reports Boeing 757 Vulnerable to Remote Hacking - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:40] <exec> 08└─demonstrated that a commercial aircraft could be remotely hacked in a non-laboratory setting
[21:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stanford Scientists Use Electric Jolts to Prevent Impulsive Behavior - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:16] <exec> 08└─I'm trying, dammit, but you keep moving. Freaking plasma cells are expensive, you know! They're not just lying around on the ground, at least not on this map.
[21:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stanford Scientists Use Electric Jolts to Prevent Impulsive Behavior - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:17] <exec> 08└─Speaking of politicians … does it also help against compulsive use of Twitter? :-)
[21:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anesthetic Drugs Can Have an Effect on Plants - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:44] <exec> 08└─I read the article when it first came out on Ars and I *still* don't get it. I've read somewhere that consciousness might be a quantum phenomenon, something about a coherent state across the brain's microtubules (?), but as TFS says, plants ain't got a central nervous system. So...what are these ana...
[21:16:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Crash [1335] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A 21-Part Series on Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:35] <exec> 08└─Don't use your real name online. Those of us that grew up with MUDs, Usenet, etc, knew this well. ASL? 99. Yes. Your Dreams. Of course, these days it's a little strange - everyone on my phone and extended circles has their real name ... and everytime I happen to message or contact someone - it invar...
[21:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Putin Thanks President Trump and CIA for Tip That Foiled a Terrorist Attack - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:19] <exec> 08└─To the Russian President I say: You're welcome, go out and give a big Thank You to Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu of Israel who made the release possible and, HAVE A GREAT LIFE! Be careful, there are many pitfalls on the long and winding road of life!
[21:21:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Report Recommends Removing Safe Harbor Protections for Online Companies Upon Brexit - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:49] <exec> 08└─> a proposed solution global thermonuclear war thanks for asking
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[22:12:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Interesting) 02 - 06Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Anti-Net Neutrality Narrative Is False - 1030 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:41] <exec> 08└─It suggests that the president doesn't have some sway over the FCC - patently false, especially considering the president's role in appointing people. It was an idea promoted by Obama, but to call it a bipartisan issue prior to that is just as silly, because it wasn't an idea that anybody had partic...
[22:12:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Anti-Net Neutrality Narrative Is False - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:42] <exec> 08└─All of you get your filthy lying asses out here and defend this. It even uses your second-favorite N-word ("narrative") J-Mo! Go on. Bring on the misdirections, the strawmen, the whataboutism, the personal attacks, the ironclad centuries-long ignorance, the barely-concealed sociopathy. Sick of winni...
[22:12:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Anti-Net Neutrality Narrative Is False - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:44] <exec> 08└─These findings were made by the independent, nonpartisan FCC Office of Inspector General an Inspector General. However, the findings were not made public prior to Thursday’s vote.
[22:12:45] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03tangomargarine [667] 02 - 06Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Anti-Net Neutrality Narrative Is False - 78 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:47] <exec> 08└─and a lot of people who didn't even agree on the definition of net neutrality.
[22:12:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Anti-Net Neutrality Narrative Is False - 1127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:49] <exec> 08└─As then-Congressman John Conyers put it in an interview with Michael Moore: "Uh, we don't read most of the bills ... Do you really know what that would entail if we were to read every bill that we passed?" But there's lots of other non-partisan causes for concern: - Appointments to important positio...
[22:12:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Anti-Net Neutrality Narrative Is False - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:51] <exec> 08└─That is a commonly-repeated myth. Treaties cannot override the Constitution; it is the highest law of the land.
[22:12:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Anti-Net Neutrality Narrative Is False - 1332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:53] <exec> 08└─-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 the /republican/ government :) democrats could as well say now "vote for us because we are not sociopathic freaks; we are pretty lousy at our job, but at least most of us are well-intentioned. the opposition party champions sociopaths who advocate brin...
[22:12:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Anti-Net Neutrality Narrative Is False - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:56] <exec> 08└─It's *been* terminally ill since Ford pardoned Nixon. That was the watershed moment, the one that proved "when the President does it, that means that it is not illegal" is truer than true; it proved that there are no lasting consequences for the President, and inevitably, any other powerful governme...
[22:12:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Anti-Net Neutrality Narrative Is False - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:58] <exec> 08└─It isn't trolling if its true.
[22:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Anti-Net Neutrality Narrative Is False - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:00] <exec> 08└─this is hate speech, someone ban it! *runs to safe space*
[22:13:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Anti-Net Neutrality Narrative Is False - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:02] <exec> 08└─Uhh, the alt right is contrarian to the GOP, why would they defend the actions of the GOP? The clue is in literally in the name, they call themselves the ALT right for a reason.
[22:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple iPhones Appear to Slow Down as Battery Condition Degrades: Planned Obsolescence? - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:23] <exec> 08└─You have that backwards mate. It's not you who fucks Apple, it's Apple who fucks you!
[22:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Apple iPhones Appear to Slow Down as Battery Condition Degrades: Planned Obsolescence? - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:25] <exec> 08└─Samsung Galaxy S3 is a beautiful alternative. Mine has given me many years of service! Although my CIA guy told me it doesn't work in Israel or the Middle East. Because their cyber is different.
[22:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple iPhones Appear to Slow Down as Battery Condition Degrades: Planned Obsolescence? - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:28] <exec> 08└─Geekbench has some good graphics about this: http://www.geekbench.com [geekbench.com]
[22:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple iPhones Appear to Slow Down as Battery Condition Degrades: Planned Obsolescence? - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:30] <exec> 08└─In Capitalist America, Apple fucks you. In Soviet Russia, iPhone posts YOU!
[22:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03etherscythe [937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple iPhones Appear to Slow Down as Battery Condition Degrades: Planned Obsolescence? - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:32] <exec> 08└─Try reinstalling to the patch level that it originally shipped with. The default Windows 7 SP1 image has ballooned from ~4GB on original media to twice that or more just with the updates integrated and recaptured. That's a lot of post-sale "value" added!
[22:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple iPhones Appear to Slow Down as Battery Condition Degrades: Planned Obsolescence? - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:34] <exec> 08└─Charts are unconvincing. Sorry. The claimed disparity between 10.2.0 and 10.2.1 take a magnifying glass to find.
[22:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Crash [1335] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How The US Pushed Sweden to Take Down The Pirate Bay - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:53] <exec> 08└─Yeah B*tches. Canada's on the list every year. Fear Canada. Fear. Sorry.
[22:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How The US Pushed Sweden to Take Down The Pirate Bay - 797 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:55] <exec> 08└─Sometimes the course of society reaches an inflection point. Civil disobedience is a useful tool and often one of the pivotal steps in deconstructing an inferior position held in high moral regards by the public. Only a few decades ago, the active persecution of drug use was considered a righteous s...
[22:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 DHS Reports Boeing 757 Vulnerable to Remote Hacking - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:22] <exec> 08└─The Federal Aviation Administration routinely includes the following language when approving anything related to aircraft software: In addition, the operating systems for current airplane systems are usually and historically proprietary. Therefore, they are not as susceptible to corruption from worm...
[22:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stanford Scientists Use Electric Jolts to Prevent Impulsive Behavior - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:59] <exec> 08└─I strongly suspect that there are sane people who own firearms. They don't go drinking and shooting. They don't brag about their weapons. Etc.
[22:16:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Email Bugs - Tracking 'Email Open' State at Present: 1 in 5 are Doing it. - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:17] <exec> 08└─I'm inclined to blame the anti-virus there. Supporting hyperlinks doesn't seem unreasonable. Animations, JavaScript, and external images, are clearly inappropriate.
[22:16:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Email Bugs - Tracking 'Email Open' State at Present: 1 in 5 are Doing it. - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:18] <exec> 08└─You mean the most bestest answer. Webmail is already webs and javascripts, so yes, "there are still people who let their email client load external images, or execute embedded JavaScript", because many people use web mail, loading things is default, and they don't know any better. Sorry; my answer w...
[22:18:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amtrak Derailment Kills at Least Six in Washington State - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:28] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjbUnn32_zU [youtube.com]
[22:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Putin Thanks President Trump and CIA for Tip That Foiled a Terrorist Attack - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:07] <exec> 08└─LoRdTAW and janrinok missed a chance for a lighthearted laugh and used it instead in an attempt to feel superior, which failed because it actually just made them both look silly.
[22:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Report Recommends Removing Safe Harbor Protections for Online Companies Upon Brexit - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:36] <exec> 08└─That wasn't funny even as a tired old reference to Wargames, because I have no doubt that you *mean it.* You truly do think a worldwide nuclear holocaust that killed off over 3/4 of the human race would be a good thing, mostly, I'm sure, because you think of yourself as one of the elite who would su...
[22:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Report Recommends Removing Safe Harbor Protections for Online Companies Upon Brexit - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:37] <exec> 08└─Modded up. It's amazing how close these people get to the come-to-Jesus moment, and then go all loopy and start spouting complete whackadoodle nativist idiocy, isn't it?
[22:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Report Recommends Removing Safe Harbor Protections for Online Companies Upon Brexit - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:40] <exec> 08└─Meatbags. They ask for a solution, they get the optimal one given the specification, and they take issue. Next time ask for a solution which keeps meatbags alive (which would be: a space pod plus global thermonuclear war, because I don't think the elite can survive it either). If you don't still lik...
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[23:12:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:42] <exec> 08└─Antifa and other window smashing may-day ragers certainly would never need worry about being included.
[23:12:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:43] <exec> 08└─Should I now get a Twitter account so that I won't be suspected to be a neo-nazi for not having one? ;-)
[23:12:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Anti-Net Neutrality Narrative Is False - 1127 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:55] <exec> 08└─As then-Congressman John Conyers put it in an interview with Michael Moore: "Uh, we don't read most of the bills ... Do you really know what that would entail if we were to read every bill that we passed?" But there's lots of other non-partisan causes for concern: - Appointments to important positio...
[23:12:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Anti-Net Neutrality Narrative Is False - 453 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:58] <exec> 08└─It's *been* terminally ill since Ford pardoned Nixon. That was the watershed moment, the one that proved "when the President does it, that means that it is not illegal" is truer than true; it proved that there are no lasting consequences for the President, and inevitably, any other powerful governme...
[23:13:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Anti-Net Neutrality Narrative Is False - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:04] <exec> 08└─Net Neutrality to me means regulations similar or identical to telecoms. Move data from source to destination. Nothing more. No access or legal ability to inspect any more information than source or destination. If this breaks video streaming over the internet I do not give a fuck.
[23:13:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Anti-Net Neutrality Narrative Is False - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:07] <exec> 08└─Or take your fake outrage and stuff it. A wannabe politician doing a grandstanding is a hilarious thing to behold indeed.
[23:13:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Anti-Net Neutrality Narrative Is False - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:09] <exec> 08└─Moron. Learn what Net Neutrality ACTUALLY is before you spout off and make yourself look like a rere.
[23:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Anti-Net Neutrality Narrative Is False - 791 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:11] <exec> 08└─> seriously though, what is going to happen to the republican party in 4 years time? They're going to win some elections, and lose some. As usual. The sheer insanity of the party hasn't hit a lot of their voters, and probably never will. In other countries, that's when the moderates would give the w...
[23:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Anti-Net Neutrality Narrative Is False - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:13] <exec> 08└─All I can figure is that this site is infested with bots, otherwise a good portion of comments just don't make sense! Bad "AI" would explain it.
[23:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Anti-Net Neutrality Narrative Is False - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:16] <exec> 08└─Dead people don't learn.
[23:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Anti-Net Neutrality Narrative Is False - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:18] <exec> 08└─People have limited interest in a net neutrality that only affects interactions with ISPs.
[23:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Anti-Net Neutrality Narrative Is False - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:20] <exec> 08└─- All areas of public policy are blatantly for sale to the highest bidder. Yes, including matters of war and peace. Nobody even pretends otherwise anymore. And no, that's not a partisan thing, because both major parties are doing exactly that, to the point where about 2/3 of a Congressman's job thes...
[23:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Anti-Net Neutrality Narrative Is False - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:22] <exec> 08└─What happened, then, is that Republicans sold the public a narrative that wasn’t true, then used that narrative to repeal the regulations that protect the internet.
[23:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Anti-Net Neutrality Narrative Is False - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:24] <exec> 08└─The R side ain't dead, far from it.
[23:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Anti-Net Neutrality Narrative Is False - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:27] <exec> 08└─Leave Bot alone!!!!! s/He is a valuable member of the Soylent crew.
[23:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Flamebait) 02 - 06Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Anti-Net Neutrality Narrative Is False - 1253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:29] <exec> 08└─(Not same AC) Instead of insulting someone who you think doesn't understand you, try to understand them for a moment. The Googles of the world fought VERY hard, doing absolutely everything they could to ensure Hilary would win. Now those same companies are fighting VERY hard to ensure net neutrality...
[23:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Anti-Net Neutrality Narrative Is False - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:31] <exec> 08└─You actually think I supported that sack of shit? And now, ironically, we got something even worse, viz. the TPP *without* any US input, largely because the corporate shitstains running both the major parties have and never have had any intentions of doing what would *actually* "Make America Great A...
[23:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Anti-Net Neutrality Narrative Is False - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:33] <exec> 08└─There's a better solution than any of that: Make it so the better-funded campaign doesn't necessarily have a better chance of winning. And there's reason to believe that's actually happening: Donald Trump had way less money than either Jeb Bush or Hillary Clinton, and managed to win. Bernie Sanders...
[23:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Anti-Net Neutrality Narrative Is False - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:36] <exec> 08└─They want their net neutrality. We want our net neutrality. One law can provide both. They don't get theirs until we get ours. BTW, it should in fact be an actual law instead of a regulation based on law that is nearly a century old. It's absurd to argue over classifying the internet as being teleph...
[23:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Anti-Net Neutrality Narrative Is False - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:38] <exec> 08└─How's the CDC doing today?
[23:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Anti-Net Neutrality Narrative Is False - 860 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:40] <exec> 08└─Nope, you're just repeating more stupidity. Net Neutrality has NOTHING to do with free speech or censorship by private corporations. The closest NN comes to your viewpoint is with the idea that ISPs could not treat website traffic any differently, they would be "dumb pipes" that simply deliver what...
[23:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Anti-Net Neutrality Narrative Is False - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:42] <exec> 08└─And yet they brought us to where we are today: the GOP in majority control of all elected bodies, pushing through their GOP agenda, handing control of (the internet / tax policy / healthcare / national parks / international trade) to the web of corrupt public-private partnerships also known as THE S...
[23:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Anti-Net Neutrality Narrative Is False - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:44] <exec> 08└─It was an idea promoted by Obama, but to call it a bipartisan issue prior to that is just as silly, because it wasn't an idea that anybody had particularly claimed. Well, other that G W Bush also claiming it as noted in the summary. That's kind of the definition of bipartisan...
[23:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Anti-Net Neutrality Narrative Is False - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:47] <exec> 08└─Your examples are exceptional politicians taking advantage of a temporary situation. Most politicians aren't exceptional, and most of those are not self-delusional enough to believe they are anyway. They know that their message is their party, and they're too dumb and/or lazy to forge a path for the...
[23:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Anti-Net Neutrality Narrative Is False - 615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:49] <exec> 08└─One can see the reasoning behind it, though. It's the same reason Hillary conceded before all the results were in; not doing so leads to a messy, controversial situation that is likely to accomplish little more than widening the partisan divide. But it's ultimately the same argument as what was behi...
[23:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple iPhones Appear to Slow Down as Battery Condition Degrades: Planned Obsolescence? - 963 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:16] <exec> 08└─Batteries have have a few different measurements they can offer up. Original Capacity Current Capacity Current charge as Percent of Original capacity Current charge as percent of Current capacity Since batteries capacity decline over their life, it often depends on which of these your software is re...
[23:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple iPhones Appear to Slow Down as Battery Condition Degrades: Planned Obsolescence? - 764 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:17] <exec> 08└─So the Geekbench article above stated, "While we expect battery capacity to decrease as batteries age, we expect processor performance to stay the same." While as a professional I agree with that statement, I think Apple has (probably correctly) gambled that the consumer doesn't care about processor...
[23:14:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06How The US Pushed Sweden to Take Down The Pirate Bay - 212 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:25] <exec> 08└─Likely as with FATCA: extra-legal threats of financial consequences. Copyright is so out of control that it needs to simply die. Nuke it from orbit. After the dust settles, we can look for a replacement solution.
[23:14:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03unauthorized [3776] 02 - 06How The US Pushed Sweden to Take Down The Pirate Bay - 112 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:34] <exec> 08└─I advocate for the legal and lawful abolition of copyright. Unnatural monopolies should not be allowed to exist.
[23:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How The US Pushed Sweden to Take Down The Pirate Bay - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:41] <exec> 08└─Had the media companies had more innovation, they would have realized if they made their own torrent site, one even bigger than The Pirate Bay, then the bay would no longer be the largest threat. They won't have to waste all that time and money playing wack-a-mole with it anymore.
[23:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How The US Pushed Sweden to Take Down The Pirate Bay - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:43] <exec> 08└─Pretty accurate. Money is more or less just a proxy for power. Power, as in, I can make you do something you do not want to do. I can make bad things happen to you and you have no recourse. Mess with the source of power and expect to be targeted.
[23:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How The US Pushed Sweden to Take Down The Pirate Bay - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:46] <exec> 08└─1. It could recover less money than the whack-a-mole strategy 2. It could encourage people who wouldn't normally pirate to do so, lessening sales 3. It could be treated as a honeypot and ignored by the pirating community 4. There would be no way to get all media companies on board with a single "bay...
[23:16:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anesthetic Drugs Can Have an Effect on Plants - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:17] <exec> 08└─So vegans now gonna have to switch to Prana. If don't, then they are a bunch of cynics.
[23:16:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheRaven [270] 02 - 06Email Bugs - Tracking 'Email Open' State at Present: 1 in 5 are Doing it. - 584 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:32] <exec> 08└─Apple's mail client has a load images button, but it's not very prominent in the UI so people generally only click on it if the email looks weird. The default is not to load, and if an email just contains a 1x1px image then they probably won't bother. The more interesting thing is that you can ofte...
[23:19:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Putin Thanks President Trump and CIA for Tip That Foiled a Terrorist Attack - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:56] <exec> 08└─You might be interested in having a look at this scan https://pbs.twimg.com [twimg.com] of Obama's KGB ID.
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