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[00:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Apple Offers $29 Battery Replacements in Response to iPhone Slowdown Scandal - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:10] <exec> 08└─"regain the trust of anyone who may have doubted Apple's intentions" I don't think anyone doubts their intentions.... their intent was to force you to spend money in upgrading! What else was their intent? If i used their 'products' and had spent money to upgrade to a new phone, i'd look at this 'pri...
[00:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nearly End-Of-The-Year Summary - 606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:27] <exec> 08└─And I was running ceres basically since beta2 came out. Devuan was as stable as can be, just so long as you didn't need either gnome or kde which had some hard dbus, pulseaudio, loginkit, policykit, or systemd prerequisites which didn't have alternatives available. Running e17, xfce (before it got h...
[00:18:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nearly End-Of-The-Year Summary - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:28] <exec> 08└─Thank you for giving us the homely feeling back of the "Green Site" of 1998. Seriously, not being sarcastic at all. 真的!
[00:20:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Wi-Fi Based Technology Can Send a Distress Signal Up to "Several Kilometers" - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:29] <exec> 08└─That might work, but the WiFi approach has some merits: not least, if you are out in the bush with no phone signal, it makes sense to switch your phone into 'airplane' mode to stop it wasting power by sending full-power phone transmissions to look for non-existent base stations. This depletes your b...
[00:20:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Don't More Low-Quality Patents Get Rejected? - 882 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:51] <exec> 08└─> or more accurately people who vote for Congressmen who don't push for patent reform. Sorry, this is not a reasonable expectation. I'd love to vote for Pirate Party candidates, but I have never seen any on the ballot. Have to fight this in other ways. For instance, asking that MAFIAA and patent tro...
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[01:18:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06Apple Offers $29 Battery Replacements in Response to iPhone Slowdown Scandal - 306 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:07] <exec> 08└─This is a software induced slow down. The batteries are not the main complaint here. People expect reduced run time as phones age. Further, 29 bucks and 3 weeks without your phone, (to say nothing about all your data and pictures in someone else's hands for that period), is a pretty tough pill to sw...
[01:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Offers $29 Battery Replacements in Response to iPhone Slowdown Scandal - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:15] <exec> 08└─No, no, it's not software induced. Small-time internet pundits like you can't possibly hope to understand the elevated deliberations of Apple's rock star designers and genius developers. The problem is, you're just holding it wrong.
[01:19:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Blames Human Error for Loss of Angolan Satellite - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:05] <exec> 08└─And after his term limit he appoints, er, lets the people vote for their substitute president while he takes a four year sabbatical to wrestle bears while shirtless.
[01:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Lisa Source Code Recovered, to be Released in 2018 by Computer History Museum - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:06] <exec> 08└─Not really. For example, gemstone is an object db that has been used in production for 30 years, so institution listed in http://consortium.pharo.org [pharo.org] have surely good reasons to prefer dealing with a lot of objects using smalltalk rather than the comparatively new kid on the block java....
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[02:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06NASA and "American Girl" Collaborate on Luciana Doll - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:54] <exec> 08└─She looks as if she'll snort a bunch of meth and cobble together a rocket from duct tape and stolen parts, and be the first woman to get pregnant three times in space by Martians whose names she doesn't even remember. Oy Vey, this is pretty bad pandering, but not as bad as that time Google tried to...
[02:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA and "American Girl" Collaborate on Luciana Doll - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:55] <exec> 08└─Insightful?? gheeze has S/N really become a white boy only club? Upgrading snarky comments about women and people with different skin color.
[02:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA and "American Girl" Collaborate on Luciana Doll - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:57] <exec> 08└─Have you ever known anyone who had an American Girl doll? Hint for you, it is little spoiled white princesses who will someday have daddy or authority fetishes, or inflated expectations of their own self worth. Forget white boy's club. It is literally the little spoiled white girls club. And it is o...
[02:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microbes Sampled and Sequenced Aboard the ISS - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:07] <exec> 08└─*finally*
[02:18:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kell [292] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nearly End-Of-The-Year Summary - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:40] <exec> 08└─It still amazes me at how well our small scrappy upstart news site has thrived, given that it was forged from the sheer burning ire of being treated like an audience by those who claimed to be our peers. And I say "our small scrappy site" because unlike almost every other website, I feel like Soylen...
[02:18:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nearly End-Of-The-Year Summary - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:42] <exec> 08└─...because of maybe 75% your hard work and 25% our submitting and commenting.
[02:19:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03EETech1 [957] 02 - 06Russia Blames Human Error for Loss of Angolan Satellite - 1309 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:14] <exec> 08└─http://www.russianspaceweb.com/zenit-angosat-launch.html [russianspaceweb.com] It appears they have been able to re-establish communications with ANGOSAT-1! From the above link: During most of the day on December 28, the efforts to contact Angosat-1 continued and in the evening Moscow Time, the offi...
[02:19:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Link Between Lead Exposure and Criminality Could be Weaker Than Thought - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:49] <exec> 08└─I think that statisticians love digging into well known studies and pointing out their flaws... even if the conclusions are not really in dispute, I think they think that they are encouraging "better statistical practices" in the future. Personally, I find so much of statistics to be just arbitraril...
[02:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Lisa Source Code Recovered, to be Released in 2018 by Computer History Museum - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:19] <exec> 08└─Sorry, didn't check you on everything, but I think you missed on the RAM 64Kx6 = 384K.
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[03:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA and "American Girl" Collaborate on Luciana Doll - 1210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:02] <exec> 08└─Its ethanol-fueled, are you new around here? But more to the point, I suggest you go and read the article lined to under the claim women are less metabolically active. THAT is a sign of what parts of NASA are now. 'Our food, water, power, and communications were limited, and we were only allowed to...
[03:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA and "American Girl" Collaborate on Luciana Doll - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:03] <exec> 08└─Remember that women are lighter and less metabolically active than men
[03:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA and "American Girl" Collaborate on Luciana Doll - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:06] <exec> 08└─Sorry, I'm lost - are you talking about Megan McArthur, or the featureless quasi-Hispanic Disney princess in the cartoon? And, with Laura Dern rockin' the purple wig in Disney's latest blockbuster SciFi exploitation, is it any wonder that NASA's heroine girl has purple streaks?
[03:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA and "American Girl" Collaborate on Luciana Doll - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:08] <exec> 08└─But women use less oxygen than men at the same task: this is why male scuba divers will have 2 tanks while the female only has one. So.... if there is a malfunction, the male astronaut grabs the females oxygen mask 'cause she certainly won't need it as much as he will! :)
[03:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA and "American Girl" Collaborate on Luciana Doll - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:10] <exec> 08└─Drysdale found that a fifth-percentile woman would use less than half the resources of a 95th-percentile man.
[03:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA and "American Girl" Collaborate on Luciana Doll - 678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:12] <exec> 08└─There, so much depends on how you go about the task. I weighed ~140lbs when I used to go SCUBA diving with a buddy who weighed ~190. We'd start with identical tanks and he would almost always hit 500psi reserve when I had like 8-900psi remaining. Except, one dive I went chasing the pufferfish active...
[03:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA and "American Girl" Collaborate on Luciana Doll - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:14] <exec> 08└─What exactly was wrong with it? First sentence was highly subjective but beyond that it did appear to be factually correct. It's hardly a surprise the decided to make a little brown girl doll for their STEM-effort, even thou it's more or less as far from the current STEM-reality you can come today....
[03:18:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microbes Sampled and Sequenced Aboard the ISS - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:25] <exec> 08└─when do we send Sigourney Weaver up? I don't remember her in Annie Hall. I'm going to have to watch again
[03:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nearly End-Of-The-Year Summary - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:59] <exec> 08└─Actually for bird brains, Crows are pretty damn smart. I watched a flock of them run a Red-Shouldered hawk out of a tall eucalyptus this afternoon.
[03:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nearly End-Of-The-Year Summary - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:01] <exec> 08└─I like the effectiveness of the feedback loop: Devs: Release Users: Give feedback Devs: Listen and tweak Users: Give more feedback Devs: Listen and re-tweak All: Smiles everywhere Even those doing the griping do a pretty constructive job of that, generally describing the flaw effectively. If there's...
[03:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Some Internet-Exposed Sonos and Bose Speakers Can be Hacked Remotely - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:12] <exec> 08└─Right...and the real answer is that anything connected to the internet can (and probably will be) hacked.
[03:22:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Massive Reduction in U.S. Pastureland Possible - 95 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:21] <exec> 08└─All of these utilize less water and fertilizer than beef while emitting fewer greenhouse gases.
[03:22:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06Massive Reduction in U.S. Pastureland Possible - 2327 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:52] <exec> 08└─I don't understand why we need to save pasturage. What is the purpose? Honestly, so many of these proposals read like they were composed by people who have never, ever been to the places they're talking about and who are pushing some grand vision based on a theoretical fantasy that has no basis in r...
[03:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive Reduction in U.S. Pastureland Possible - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:05] <exec> 08└─Distillers DRIED grains are a common feed ingredient. Even found in some dry pet food. And Coors has a big malting operation here in the middle of nowhere, Montana, but handy to the adjacent railroad.
[03:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive Reduction in U.S. Pastureland Possible - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:07] <exec> 08└─Never mind what it does to MY body; if I can't get beef, I start eating leg of passerby...
[03:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive Reduction in U.S. Pastureland Possible - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:09] <exec> 08└─No worries; I had spares.
[03:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive Reduction in U.S. Pastureland Possible - 1575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:11] <exec> 08└─"there are no environmental impacts to herds of cattle vs herds of anything else." If anything, to simulate the most natural condition of these grasslands, the number of cattle needs to be roughly doubled, or maybe tripled: There are somewhere around 80 million head of range cattle in the U.S. today...
[03:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive Reduction in U.S. Pastureland Possible - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:13] <exec> 08└─Cattle and bison seem to be merely "breeds" (as we'd call such cosmetic differences in dogs) of the same species, rather than truly separate species; they freely interbreed, and most of today's wild bison carry some genes from domestic cattle. They're not really that different. Bison tend to "clearc...
[03:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive Reduction in U.S. Pastureland Possible - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:16] <exec> 08└─Unrefined wool, which still contains all its lanolin, is quite water-repellant. It's the basis of authentic Aran knitting, traditionally done by fishermen to keep themselves warm at sea.
[03:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Lisa Source Code Recovered, to be Released in 2018 by Computer History Museum - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:52] <exec> 08└─Sorry, didn't check you on everything, but I think you missed on the RAM 64Kx6 = 384K.
[03:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More Pregnant Women Are Using Cannabis - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:37] <exec> 08└─I'm betting there is some inside the car. It's like someone who doesn't know he stepped in a turd - "everywhere I go today smells like dogshit!!"
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[04:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FilePursuit Search Engine Crawls for HTTP Downloadable Content - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:44] <exec> 08└─Censorship being what is, I searched for "jews" in the search engine and came upon material that I did not think I would get. It is eye-opening. With jews owning internet search engines, humanity needs to search for "banned" material using other means.
[04:17:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FilePursuit Search Engine Crawls for HTTP Downloadable Content - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:46] <exec> 08└─We got a positive review here folks!
[04:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FilePursuit Search Engine Crawls for HTTP Downloadable Content - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:48] <exec> 08└─Searched for a text book and found a couple of pdf copies.
[04:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FilePursuit Search Engine Crawls for HTTP Downloadable Content - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:50] <exec> 08└─This won't get you downloading stuff from TLA honeypots. Nope. Not a chance. Perfectly safe.
[04:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FilePursuit Search Engine Crawls for HTTP Downloadable Content - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:52] <exec> 08└─There used to be a site called g2p which users Google for stuff like this, I found a lot of good music with it. Sadly, Google turned evil and now you can't search like that...
[04:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA and "American Girl" Collaborate on Luciana Doll - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:09] <exec> 08└─This is Eth's stock in trade. He's a jenkem merchant who's been getting high off his own supply (just...picture that for a few moments...) for at least a year now. He's passed the event horizon of shitty-human-being-ness where "ironic/trolling" and meaning it for real ceases to be a meaningful disti...
[04:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nearly End-Of-The-Year Summary - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:57] <exec> 08└─Can someone search the database for how many comments included the word jew that were then downmodded? And where (geographical location) did the downmods come from? Where were the accounts registered from that downmodded every comment containing the word jew? And one more question for the audience:...
[04:19:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Blames Human Error for Loss of Angolan Satellite - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:32] <exec> 08└─The loss of a multi-million pound weather mapping satellite was due to programming errors
[04:19:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06Link Between Lead Exposure and Criminality Could be Weaker Than Thought - 1611 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:58] <exec> 08└─Even the prior studies suggested that the effects on lead were exhibited predominantly in males. with almost no significant effect on females. This was never adequately explained, but it was always there. (That was one of the first stories I submitted to SN way back). So if this study included femal...
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[05:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:59] <exec> 08└─s/Call of Duty/Cock of Duty/g
[05:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:00] <exec> 08└─Culture of mass hysteria against men and the idea that system is your slave.
[05:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:02] <exec> 08└─You've let out the him. It can appear in any hole and peek out of it new soon.
[05:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:04] <exec> 08└─"The person who was the target of the swatting gave the other gamer a false address, which sent police to a nearby home instead of his own" Why did the target provide an address in the first place, and why to a nearby home if not in hope to witness the result of his misdirection?
[05:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FilePursuit Search Engine Crawls for HTTP Downloadable Content - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:16] <exec> 08└─Man stays into and out white sewage.
[05:18:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FilePursuit Search Engine Crawls for HTTP Downloadable Content - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:18] <exec> 08└─I remember SeeqPod [wikipedia.org] had a pretty similar approach that found music from all over the Web. But they got killed.
[05:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA and "American Girl" Collaborate on Luciana Doll - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:36] <exec> 08└─Men are, after all, now second-rate disposable citizens.
[05:18:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gaaark [41] 02 - 06Apple Offers $29 Battery Replacements in Response to iPhone Slowdown Scandal - 459 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:58] <exec> 08└─"regain the trust of anyone who may have doubted Apple's intentions" I don't think anyone doubts their intentions.... their intent was to force you to spend money in upgrading! What else was their intent? If i used their 'products' and had spent money to upgrade to a new phone, i'd look at this 'pri...
[05:19:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Vocal Minority [2765] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Nearly End-Of-The-Year Summary - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:24] <exec> 08└─Thank you to everyone for keeping this site going and providing interesting stories and commentary (and the occasional anti-Semitic troll). Happy new year!
[05:19:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nearly End-Of-The-Year Summary - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:26] <exec> 08└─comments...downmodded? And where...downmods...? ...accounts...downmodded?
[05:20:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Blames Human Error for Loss of Angolan Satellite - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:20:02] <exec> 08└─What a ridiculous comment. Everyone knows that you have to wrestle bears shirtless or you'll ruin your shirt.
[05:20:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Blames Human Error for Loss of Angolan Satellite - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:20:04] <exec> 08└─So what you're saying is "We're Number 1! We're Number 1!!" We don't need to read anything to know that.
[05:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's Voice-Generating AI is Now Indistinguishable From Humans - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:15] <exec> 08└─A spectrogram is precisely that: audio data. Period. It's a lot more likely that what they have is a spectrographic skeleton for the voice, on which they still need to run transforms to actually have audio data. In other words, two layers: first turn morphemes into a skeleton, then turn those morphe...
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[06:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Electric Bikes, Scooters, and Dockless Bicycles Hitting U.S. Streets - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:50] <exec> 08└─Electric bikes are definitely not legal on bike paths and possibly totally illegal https://www.citylab.com [citylab.com] More info here https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[06:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:02] <exec> 08└─do 911 calls get traced? Is there any consequence for the person making the false emergency claims? In Australia, fines and up to three years in prison. What happens in the US? http://www.smh.com.au [smh.com.au]
[06:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 2366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:04] <exec> 08└─I listened to the 10-minute police briefing. They said that the 911 call went to a "substation" which then relayed the info to the police. The article I added mentions caller ID spoofing. You can also use software to make calls instead of phones, and do it over a VPN. The problem is that it looks li...
[06:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:06] <exec> 08└─If you don't respond to 911 calls, the system falls apart. The call went into a substation and was apparently credible sounding enough to be treated as real. A real tale was spun. I think there is also audio of the call, if I can find it I will add it to the summary.
[06:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:08] <exec> 08└─https://www.engadget.com/2017/12/29/alleged-swatting-hoax-death-father-of-two/ [engadget.com] Here's what seems to have gone down. Two individuals were playing Call of Duty and got into an argument online over a game with a $1.50 wager. One of them, a person with the Twitter handle @SWauTistic, thre...
[06:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:10] <exec> 08└─#rare mod
[06:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:13] <exec> 08└─http://www.kansas.com/news/local/crime/article192242919.html [kansas.com] When trolling leads to DEATH.
[06:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:15] <exec> 08└─But now he is responsible for the first swatting death and every little online mistake he made has already been scrutinized.
[06:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 691 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:17] <exec> 08└─What I see in the responses so far is a distinct lack of outrage. Outrage is definitely warranted here, folks. A completely innocent man was gunned down in his own home due to fuckery and incompetence of multiple other people, unknown to him. Said 'other people' are now backing away from any respons...
[06:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 806 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:19] <exec> 08└─If you look at the video of the shooting, all of the officers were pretty far away from the victim, and it was at night. During the 10 minute press briefing there is a strong emphasis on how the victim put his arms in the air as demanded by the officers, but repeatedly brought them back towards his...
[06:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:21] <exec> 08└─Listen to the police briefing. They have already blamed the victim for repeatedly putting his arms near his waistband instead of up in the air. Although they have only released a 7 second portion of the body cam footage and it's not easy (for me) to see what happened. I'm not shocked that some polic...
[06:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:24] <exec> 08└─How did it get -1 insightful? Totally agree with the mod.
[06:18:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FilePursuit Search Engine Crawls for HTTP Downloadable Content - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:37] <exec> 08└─This sounds like what Archie used to be.
[06:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA and "American Girl" Collaborate on Luciana Doll - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:57] <exec> 08└─If you find a time travel machine, you can jump a thousand, ten thousand, a hundred thousand years into the future, and it will not have changed. Around the time that man evolves into some other kind of creature, it may change. Of course, you're talking about millions of years, not mere thousands.
[06:19:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06Nearly End-Of-The-Year Summary - 576 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:32] <exec> 08└─How about you add a line at the top of the user page, right under... "This page was generated by a Horde of Underpaid Soylents for fyngyrz (6567)." ...that says either: Current Subscriber 😎 N days remaining ...or... Not a subscriber 👽 Subscribe Here [soylentnews.org] Or other similarly obv...
[06:19:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nearly End-Of-The-Year Summary - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:48] <exec> 08└─We have shirts? Where?
[06:20:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Blames Human Error for Loss of Angolan Satellite - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:20:27] <exec> 08└─Even TFS can't make up its mind whether the sat launched from Baikonur or not.
[06:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's Voice-Generating AI is Now Indistinguishable From Humans - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:39] <exec> 08└─Nah, this will go for ELIZA. Or, for a few people hanging around here, DOCTOR.
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[07:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Electric Bikes, Scooters, and Dockless Bicycles Hitting U.S. Streets - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:57] <exec> 08└─Where?
[07:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Electric Bikes, Scooters, and Dockless Bicycles Hitting U.S. Streets - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:58] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_bicycle_laws#New_York [wikipedia.org]
[07:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:22] <exec> 08└─Score started out at 0. Got modded to -1, Troll. Then to 0, Insightful (the latest mod labels the comment if there is a tie). Finally, Overrated mod sends it down to -1, Insightful. Overrated and Underrated do not affect the comment label, just the score.
[07:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:23] <exec> 08└─So he charged people money to make SWAT calls for them? Isn't that incitement?
[07:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:25] <exec> 08└─I have no idea. Whatever it is, it's not great, and since the FBI are probably going to be raiding this guy's house, there could be other people going down if the bragging about swatting/bomb threats for cash turns out to be true. I remember that bomb threat that briefly interrupted the FCC net neut...
[07:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:28] <exec> 08└─If you don't respond to 911 calls, the system falls apart.
[07:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:30] <exec> 08└─reckless endangerment of his own future. If he is responsible for the things he claims, then it is likely the punishment will not fit the crime(s). Either a slap on the wrist (unlikely) or custodial, with a long non-parole period.
[07:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:32] <exec> 08└─Check out the ten plus pages of comments on Ars.
[07:18:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:34] <exec> 08└─Making a false report to the police can result in fines and possible jail time. It could be charged as a felony or a misdemeanor. If it's a felony, since a death occurred as a result, it could result in a murder trial (deaths during the commission of a felony are upgradable to murders).
[07:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:37] <exec> 08└─Procedure is what? Shoot the first person you see and arrest everyone else at the scene? When did we begin completely giving police a pass on crap like this? "I thought he had a weapon" "He went for something in his pocket" "Some random unknown person phoned me and told me he was dangerous"
[07:19:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA and "American Girl" Collaborate on Luciana Doll - 1005 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:10] <exec> 08└─Science and science fiction, together and separately, make for some very interesting possible futures. But, I think that some people make some unwarranted assumptions. Will society accept all of these things you envision? Will society accept that it's proper role is to support those rich people who...
[07:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA and "American Girl" Collaborate on Luciana Doll - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:11] <exec> 08└─Will society accept all of these things you envision?
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[08:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Targets Amazon, Calls for U.S. Post Office to Raise Shipment Prices - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:52] <exec> 08└─Postal delivery is a service like any other. Where's Lysander Spooner when you need him??? (Look him up)
[08:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Targets Amazon, Calls for U.S. Post Office to Raise Shipment Prices - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:53] <exec> 08└─Why is the United States Post Office (...) making Amazon richer and the Post Office dumber and poorer?
[08:18:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03leftover [2448] 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 691 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:22] <exec> 08└─What I see in the responses so far is a distinct lack of outrage. Outrage is definitely warranted here, folks. A completely innocent man was gunned down in his own home due to fuckery and incompetence of multiple other people, unknown to him. Said 'other people' are now backing away from any respons...
[08:18:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03davester666 [155] 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 291 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:33] <exec> 08└─Procedure is what? Shoot the first person you see and arrest everyone else at the scene? When did we begin completely giving police a pass on crap like this? "I thought he had a weapon" "He went for something in his pocket" "Some random unknown person phoned me and told me he was dangerous"
[08:18:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:34] <exec> 08└─Swatter caller was arrested: http://bnonews.com [bnonews.com] Source: https://krebsonsecurity.com [krebsonsecurity.com]
[08:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:37] <exec> 08└─The guy that called this to 911 will go to jail. That part's easy. Shot for failing to follow directions. Wtf. The police were at least 50 feet away and were shining lights in the guy's eyes to confuse him. Standard police tactics / procedure. Even if he had a pistol in his waistband -- and he di...
[08:18:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:39] <exec> 08└─I am shocked that there doesn't seem to have been any documented case of a swatting leading to a death until this day, despite years of swatting incidents, the rise of video game streaming, lots of media attention, and some state legislation.
[08:18:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 1304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:41] <exec> 08└─Outrage? Well, it's certainly deserved, but I think you're seeing that people are just tired. The police forces in the US are almost never held responsible for their errors. In any civilized country, killing someone who was not threatening you in any way is a ticket to jail. In the US, police are im...
[08:18:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 792 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:43] <exec> 08└─The cops are solely to blame for the killing. If the cops weren't so crappy and dangerous nobody would have been killed. It would just be like a prankster reporting a fake fire at someone else's address. The firemen would arrive and they wouldn't immediately be spraying water at the house. And then...
[08:20:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nearly End-Of-The-Year Summary - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:20:10] <exec> 08└─Another thing... I really like the funny "page was generated by a murder of Those Who Guard The Wall for fyngyrz" line... because it often comes out funny.
[08:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Eight Lawsuits Filed Against Apple Over iPhone Slowdowns - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:20] <exec> 08└─You're right! Apple has every right to run every one of its CPUs any way it wants! ... however, once it has sold things to people, it loses the right to unilaterally decide how to run those CPUs that it once owned, but then sold. If they were smart, they might have said: "Your battery is fuxx0red. W...
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[09:17:55] <exec> 08└─Only several out of how many businesses? Perhaps you should review the facts of successful entrepreneurs.
[09:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Targets Amazon, Calls for U.S. Post Office to Raise Shipment Prices - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:56] <exec> 08└─Only several out of how many businesses?
[09:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03sonamchauhan [6546] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Electric Bikes, Scooters, and Dockless Bicycles Hitting U.S. Streets - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:07] <exec> 08└─It's junk street furniture! https://www.forbes.com [forbes.com] There's too much venture capital in the world, and investors have gotten excessively greedy. What next? Dockle...
[09:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Electric Bikes, Scooters, and Dockless Bicycles Hitting U.S. Streets - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:09] <exec> 08└─https://archive.fo/q2gdc [archive.fo] Dockless hand tools?
[09:18:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Demena [5637] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:45] <exec> 08└─Possibly not. He feared the result of swatting or he would not have given the false address. In giving false address he knew some random (?) would be placed under threat. The law would see him as contributory to the death in that he, and only he, chose and pointed out the eventual target. He isn't g...
[09:18:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:47] <exec> 08└─Off topic? Brain damage must be common among modders.
[09:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 968 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:49] <exec> 08└─That's the mass hysteria against men that I was talking about, which apparently didn't enter the dense head of modders. There is implicit assumption that a story that a man is going to kill his family is very likely to be true. Wonder why? And the brazen attempt to be clear of the responsibility of...
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[09:24:30] <exec> 08└─I just made some patties out of 2:2:1 red lentils, white rice, and bread crumbs. With BBQ and spices added. Cooked on stove. It was OK but I had no buns.
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[10:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Targets Amazon, Calls for U.S. Post Office to Raise Shipment Prices - 1101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:06] <exec> 08└─The nearest you can get... http://www.newsweek.com [newsweek.com] Lost contracts, bankruptcies, defaults, deceptions and indifference to investors—Trump’s business career is a long, long list of such troubles, according to regu...
[10:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06President Trump Targets Amazon, Calls for U.S. Post Office to Raise Shipment Prices - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:08] <exec> 08└─Raising the cost of delivering a package is exactly the wrong thing to do if your intention is to Make Your Country Great Again. You want to reduce the cost of package delivery, speed up delivery and increase the number of deliveries per week. This reduces friction in the marketplace - and the post...
[10:18:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03khallow [3766] 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 58 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:46] <exec> 08└─If you don't respond to 911 calls, the system falls apart.
[10:18:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 1304 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:54] <exec> 08└─Outrage? Well, it's certainly deserved, but I think you're seeing that people are just tired. The police forces in the US are almost never held responsible for their errors. In any civilized country, killing someone who was not threatening you in any way is a ticket to jail. In the US, police are im...
[10:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 796 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:00] <exec> 08└─No. The cops are solely to blame for the killing. If the cops weren't so crappy and dangerous nobody would have been killed. It would just be like a prankster reporting a fake fire at someone else's address. The firemen would arrive and they wouldn't immediately be spraying water at the house. And t...
[10:19:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:02] <exec> 08└─The only reason why swatting is dangerous is because the cops are dangerous. The cops aren't supposed to be wild dangerous animals that a swatter can unleash on victims.
[10:19:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:05] <exec> 08└─Then change the fucking procedures. Cops are like ISIS, but on steroids and immunity.
[10:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:07] <exec> 08└─Cops are liars and murderous pigs. Here's just one example -- seriously, if you aren't livid after watching this, you're fucked in the head: http://www.newser.com [newser.com] It's gotten to the point that, like with violent gan...
[10:20:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Apple Offers $29 Battery Replacements in Response to iPhone Slowdown Scandal - 234 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:20:03] <exec> 08└─Of course they aren't backing out on the changes, and proffered a "solution" designed to motivate people to upgrade to the latest phone rather than be out of contact for weeks. Planned obsolescence is obscene, as far as I'm concerned.
[10:20:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nearly End-Of-The-Year Summary - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:20:35] <exec> 08└─Seconded ...
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[11:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03axsdenied [384] (Score: 1) 02 - 06President Trump Targets Amazon, Calls for U.S. Post Office to Raise Shipment Prices - 1125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:06] <exec> 08└─Let me quote few facts that indicate that Trump is having another one of his rants and personal attacks: 1. Amazon was founded by Jeff Bezos, who also owns The Washington Post. The Post, as well as other major media, has been labelled as "fake news" by Mr Trump after reporting unfavourable developme...
[11:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Targets Amazon, Calls for U.S. Post Office to Raise Shipment Prices - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:08] <exec> 08└─"Let me quote few facts that indicate that Trump is having another one of his rants and personal attacks:" You could of shortened that list to: 1: He's breathing 2: His phone is charged
[11:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Targets Amazon, Calls for U.S. Post Office to Raise Shipment Prices - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:10] <exec> 08└─Me and Trump on the same side for once. It goes to show that even a crazy paranoid racist clock can be right twice a decade.
[11:19:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 939 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:05] <exec> 08└─Yeah the problem is the system encourages such behavior. Dangerous trigger happy cops get away with murder[1] while those with restraint are fired! https://www.npr.org [npr.org] [1] https://www.vox.com
[11:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:06] <exec> 08└─It's gotten to the point that, like with violent gangbangers, when I hear about a cop getting killed, I think "Meh -- probably deserved it."
[11:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:08] <exec> 08└─I usually ask 'What dirty cop needed that honest one off of his ass?' Sadly I don't think nearly enough corrupt cops die compared to the honest ones. Remember, cockroaches are hard to kill. Dutiful little ants on the other hand...
[11:19:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:11] <exec> 08└─Oh my God. I can't even describe in words how that video just made me feel. The officer should be sentenced to death for what he did there. Poor boy was just pulling up his shorts for fuck sake, anybody who isn't amped up on hatred and adrenaline can see that!! I am seriously bothered by what I've j...
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[11:20:40] <exec> 08└─Motorola on the brain?
[11:21:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Blames Human Error for Loss of Angolan Satellite - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:21:20] <exec> 08└─Moar BOOSTERS! Jebediah Kermin
[11:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03gringer [962] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Don't More Low-Quality Patents Get Rejected? - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:12] <exec> 08└─This is already the case.
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[12:17:58] <exec> 08└─Quote from the PDF: We think that remote exploitation is possible if the following conditions are true: 1. The target platform has AMT activated. 2. The attacker knows the AMT administrator password or can use a vulnerability to bypass authorization. 3. The BIOS is not password-protected (or the att...
[12:19:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 796 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:03] <exec> 08└─No. The cops are solely to blame for the killing. If the cops weren't so crappy and dangerous nobody would have been killed. It would just be like a prankster reporting a fake fire at someone else's address. The firemen would arrive and they wouldn't immediately be spraying water at the house. And t...
[12:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 674 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:11] <exec> 08└─The problem here is that you have to respond to all calls as if they where true. Otherwise you come to that day when you have the next police conference and they ask why they didnt respond and the police answers that they thought that it was a joke. They sent a squad car around and all looked fine,...
[12:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:13] <exec> 08└─In any civilized country, killing someone who was not threatening you in any way is a ticket to jail.
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[13:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Running Unsigned Code In Intel Management Engine - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:58] <exec> 08└─I guess "pirates" keen to skirt DRM [wikipedia.org] might be interested in this one ring [wikipedia.org] to rule them all. "Such a vulnerability has the potential to jeopardize a number of technologies, including Intel Protected Audio Video Path (PAVP)" I find this quite funny, their security crap m...
[13:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Targets Amazon, Calls for U.S. Post Office to Raise Shipment Prices - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:14] <exec> 08└─No other conclusion can be drawn from this.
[13:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Targets Amazon, Calls for U.S. Post Office to Raise Shipment Prices - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:16] <exec> 08└─Except post service would be broke if it wasn't for Amazon. Here, let me give you a car analogy. 1. You sell cars, but you can't sell a car in years. 2. Fortunately the smaller business of towing cars is good, it keeps you busy and putting food on the table. 3. You are still losing money on your car...
[13:18:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Targets Amazon, Calls for U.S. Post Office to Raise Shipment Prices - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:18] <exec> 08└─It seems ironic that while President T. seems to support the removal of burdensome fees, taxes, and regulations on the largest business so that all the manufacturing jobs can come home from their China vacation, he is here encouraging burdensome fees to discourage the country's largest online retail...
[13:18:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Electric Bikes, Scooters, and Dockless Bicycles Hitting U.S. Streets - 2016 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:30] <exec> 08└─A lot of those ebikes look like toys. That is, they aren't fit to put on the highway, and ride at speeds up to 100 mph. In fact, some of them look like they might be unstable at 30 mph, considering that delivery boys are carrying a load on the bike. Ten pounds, a hundred pounds, possibly more. Assum...
[13:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Electric Bikes, Scooters, and Dockless Bicycles Hitting U.S. Streets - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:31] <exec> 08└─they aren't fit to put on the highway, and ride at speeds up to 100 mph. In fact, some of them look like they might be unstable at 30 mph
[13:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03iwoloschin [3863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Electric Bikes, Scooters, and Dockless Bicycles Hitting U.S. Streets - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:33] <exec> 08└─You're completely right, these guys shouldn't be on sidewalks, but given that the speed limit in NYC is 25 MPH (unless otherwise posted) I don't think you really want, or need, a vehicle capable of 100 MPH.
[13:19:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:23] <exec> 08└─Cops are like ISIS, but on steroids and immunity.
[13:19:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:25] <exec> 08└─The problem here is that you have to respond to all calls as if they where true.
[13:19:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03esperto123 [4303] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 1506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:27] <exec> 08└─And the worst part is that everyone is concentrating on the swatting thing (which is bad and must be punised if just for diverting resources), but the actual problem in this trigger happy police force, the guy had no idea what was going on, as you said, was quite a distance away with strong lights o...
[13:19:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 912 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:29] <exec> 08└─While I agree that the shooting was completely uncalled for, ISIS has a hell of a lot more immunity than police do. For example, ISIS has been committing war crimes since at least 2014. They weren't even investigated [nytimes.com] until this year. So far, they have found the sites of more than 70 ma...
[13:19:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:31] <exec> 08└─at 50 feet away, he wasn't all that threatening. Maybe if it was a 50 cal rifle... but they don't fit in the waistband.
[13:19:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:33] <exec> 08└─And he has history of doing this in the past already, http://www.glendaleca.gov [glendaleca.gov] Fucking loser.
[13:19:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:36] <exec> 08└─he said civilized
[13:19:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 906 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:38] <exec> 08└─Guilty until proven innocent? There are two things to note here. First, SWAT-style activities are way too common in the US with them being routinely used in situations where they aren't warranted, and not only endangered lives, but also destroyed considerable property in the process. This may well h...
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[14:18:02] <exec> 08└─The PDF is, by necessity, quite technical but will be understandable by a significant proportion of our community.
[14:18:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] 02 - 06President Trump Targets Amazon, Calls for U.S. Post Office to Raise Shipment Prices - 185 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:16] <exec> 08└─"Let me quote few facts that indicate that Trump is having another one of his rants and personal attacks:" You could of shortened that list to: 1: He's breathing 2: His phone is charged
[14:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Targets Amazon, Calls for U.S. Post Office to Raise Shipment Prices - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:21] <exec> 08└─Wait, you mean that there are knock-on effects to changing shipping prices? Holy shit, somebody should tell Trump. He should be a contestant on "You're dumber than a first grader"
[14:19:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hemocyanin [186] 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 169 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:16] <exec> 08└─The only reason why swatting is dangerous is because the cops are dangerous. The cops aren't supposed to be wild dangerous animals that a swatter can unleash on victims.
[14:20:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mhajicek [51] 02 - 06Apple Offers $29 Battery Replacements in Response to iPhone Slowdown Scandal - 306 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:30] <exec> 08└─This comes from having a design mandate that every phone be thinner than the last, to the point where some phones bend and brake if you sit down with them in your pants pocket. I'm happy with my CAT S60 which I could throw against a brick wall with only cosmetic damage. The built in infra red is nic...
[14:20:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Offers $29 Battery Replacements in Response to iPhone Slowdown Scandal - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:33] <exec> 08└─design mandate that every phone be thinner than the last
[14:20:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Offers $29 Battery Replacements in Response to iPhone Slowdown Scandal - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:35] <exec> 08└─On top of that, it was already possible to do this unofficially, right?
[14:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nearly End-Of-The-Year Summary - 961 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:06] <exec> 08└─You seem to comment on the internet person writing a comment instead of the comment itself. Good goyim do that. They remove all thinking and take everything as "spreading democracy" until a democracy they do not approve of. Our Democracy, it should be. Our Moderation it should be. All communities ev...
[14:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nearly End-Of-The-Year Summary - 663 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:07] <exec> 08└─Good job redefining words. Anti-semite is someone who is against "semites". Semites are people of Arab descent. Khazarian jews are not arabs. Khazarian jews are caucasian. They came from Khazaria, now part of Georgia. Anti-semitism is anti-arab and you will find lots of anti-semitism in Israel. Isra...
[14:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nearly End-Of-The-Year Summary - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:09] <exec> 08└─"I'm also a regular commenter and moderator" You say that like you're proud of it. Exactly what the world needs: more moderating. More self-censorship.
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[15:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kodi Returns to its Roots With an Xbox One Release - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:50] <exec> 08└─Tested this a bit last night. It's still got a few too many outstanding issues to use as your primary living room media player but that's to be expected from an alpha. It'll most likely end up as my new media player once they're resolved so I can go back to using NFS shares instead of having to run...
[15:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Running Unsigned Code In Intel Management Engine - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:06] <exec> 08└─We need a website we can visit that will tell us if our machine(s) are compromised... Or maybe MalwareBytes will add ME checking into their product?
[15:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Running Unsigned Code In Intel Management Engine - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:08] <exec> 08└─We need a website we can visit that will tell us if our machine(s) are compromised...
[15:18:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Targets Amazon, Calls for U.S. Post Office to Raise Shipment Prices - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:28] <exec> 08└─Why? Amazon is large enough that it increasingly makes sense for them to use their in-house delivery service, rather than ship things through the post. All raising prices would do is move the threshold for which this makes sense, reducing the volume that Amazon shipped through the post. It would mak...
[15:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Targets Amazon, Calls for U.S. Post Office to Raise Shipment Prices - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:30] <exec> 08└─You forgot at least one point: Bezos is now listed as "world's richest person" -- how can that be when Trump is the best businessman ever?
[15:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Targets Amazon, Calls for U.S. Post Office to Raise Shipment Prices - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:32] <exec> 08└─If you can charge more without having your customers going elsewhere, then no, I don't see the problem. More food on the table. Don't know if that would be the case here though. You are not towing out of the goodness of your heart. If you made a bad deal with a large customer to tow for almost nothi...
[15:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06President Trump Targets Amazon, Calls for U.S. Post Office to Raise Shipment Prices - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:34] <exec> 08└─If you can charge more without having your customers going elsewhere, then no, I don't see the problem.
[15:18:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06President Trump Targets Amazon, Calls for U.S. Post Office to Raise Shipment Prices - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:36] <exec> 08└─If there's anything we can agree on, it's Trump's astounding consistency. It's almost mathematical in its rigor. We could probably use his tweet stream as a theorem prover.
[15:18:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Electric Bikes, Scooters, and Dockless Bicycles Hitting U.S. Streets - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:51] <exec> 08└─We've got dockless bikes here in Seattle and they've rapidly become a nuisance. Idiots leave them wherever they feel like, often times blocking the sidewalk. Vandals have been tossing them off bridges or into our waterways. People ride them without helmets since the companies don't provide them with...
[15:19:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:49] <exec> 08└─Actually it seems more plausible that the cops in that hotel video were just looking for someone to murder. Because if you think a suspect is a threat you would ask the suspect to stay face down on the ground with his hands on top of his head and to NOT MOVE AT ALL. Then one cop approaches the guy a...
[15:19:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:51] <exec> 08└─You seem to believe that they just do this cause they are jackboots that like to wank off to their big guns and they get some kick out of driving around their vans and shooting people.
[15:19:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:53] <exec> 08└─There is implicit assumption that a story that a man is going to kill his family is very likely to be true.
[15:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Offers $29 Battery Replacements in Response to iPhone Slowdown Scandal - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:55] <exec> 08└─ironically(?), this is probably what Google *should* have done with their Nexus 6P. It would reach 50% and then turn off - but it was clear that battery overcommit was the problem .e.g take a picture, shutdown... Now android has a manual "battery saver mode", which is actually pretty decent. Seems t...
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[16:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Readied for Static Fire Test - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:52] <exec> 08└─Taky must be about to blow his load.
[16:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Readied for Static Fire Test - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:53] <exec> 08└─Radar rider is going to drive a Tesla Roadster instead of a Corvette. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] Now I'm gonna have to watch the movie. Again. For about the thousandth time.
[16:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Readied for Static Fire Test - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:55] <exec> 08└─"The Falcon Heavy is set to be the single most powerful rocket ever built, producing the most thrust of any launch vehicle since the space shuttle." I believe the Saturn V holds that record. The Saturn V had so much thrust that it registered as an earthquake upon ignition.
[16:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Readied for Static Fire Test - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:57] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8l121LGlWU [youtube.com] Based on that short video, I'd like to see what he could do with the entire movie. It's pretty awesome, even if it is still a Corvette.
[16:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bobs [1462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gallium Nitride: The Replacement for Silicon and the Perfect Semiconductor for Space Applications? - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:11] <exec> 08└─Those damn immigrants with their foreign sounding names improving science and technology in the USA! We need to kick them all out to do their work in other countries to keep us safe. - Will Rodgers /sarc
[16:18:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tonyPick [1237] 02 - 06President Trump Targets Amazon, Calls for U.S. Post Office to Raise Shipment Prices - 1101 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:32] <exec> 08└─The nearest you can get... http://www.newsweek.com [newsweek.com] Lost contracts, bankruptcies, defaults, deceptions and indifference to investors—Trump’s business career is a long, long list of such troubles, according to regu...
[16:18:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03axsdenied [384] 02 - 06President Trump Targets Amazon, Calls for U.S. Post Office to Raise Shipment Prices - 1125 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:34] <exec> 08└─Let me quote few facts that indicate that Trump is having another one of his rants and personal attacks: 1. Amazon was founded by Jeff Bezos, who also owns The Washington Post. The Post, as well as other major media, has been labelled as "fake news" by Mr Trump after reporting unfavourable developme...
[16:18:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Targets Amazon, Calls for U.S. Post Office to Raise Shipment Prices - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:47] <exec> 08└─Perhaps you should review the facts of successful entrepreneurs.
[16:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Targets Amazon, Calls for U.S. Post Office to Raise Shipment Prices - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:48] <exec> 08└─As far as I can tell, his only axiom: "I'm the greatest!" Everything else is negotiable.
[16:18:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bobs [1462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Targets Amazon, Calls for U.S. Post Office to Raise Shipment Prices - 1686 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:51] <exec> 08└─The only reason the Post Office is reporting an annual Loss is because the US, Republican Congress passed a law requiring them to pre-pay the retirement benefits for 75-years, in 10-years. This created a massive, unique financial debt. The Republicans did not like that the Post Office was being held...
[16:20:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:06] <exec> 08└─True, but all crime can happen. Now unless we do an honest interrogation of the killer policeman, I won't be able to make a perfectly backed-up argument, but something tells if the story was that a woman killed her entire family there would be a psychologist in the place of crime instead of swat tea...
[16:20:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 4415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:07] <exec> 08└─I think you're on the right track. (I admit to trouble parsing it.) We can see where the misogynerd narrative is going. All assigned males in tech are collectively and severally responsible for sex slavery. All assigned males in tech are Cock of Duty players and murderers too. And let us not forget...
[16:20:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:10] <exec> 08└─And he's already arrested. LAPD picked him up last night. This isn't his first arrest either. He plead guilty to calling in false bomb threats a couple of years ago. I'm guessing he was already on the radar since he took credit for the FCC bomb threats recently, so the cops probably knew who was beh...
[16:20:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 2112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:12] <exec> 08└─Oh, we're outraged. But what is to be done? Yes, the police were trigger happy incompetents and idiots. With all the SWATting that's been going on, you'd think the police would have realized they have to engage in a little skepticism. And, yes, their training needs a hard look. Also, need more scree...
[16:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03terryk30 [1753] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proteins Can Now be Built From Scratch to "Do What We Want" - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:12] <exec> 08└─These designed proteins are produced in the same factory as the "natural" ones (ribosomes that read the RNA basepair code); all you essentially need is to have their sequence encoded. From TFA: To see what these unnatural proteins looked like in real life, the scientists synthesized genes for them a...
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[17:17:59] <exec> 08└─You jest, but a good portion of the US electorate would say almost exactly that with a straight face.
[17:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Running Unsigned Code In Intel Management Engine - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:11] <exec> 08└─Articles rarely contain XKCD links, that's what the comments are for: https://xkcd.com [xkcd.com]
[17:18:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Targets Amazon, Calls for U.S. Post Office to Raise Shipment Prices - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:40] <exec> 08└─Absolutely. It never ceases to amaze me how I can buy a small, cheap item from China, have it internationally shipped and delivered for less than the postage cost alone of that item in my own country. Western sellers simply cannot compete with this. That said, if the postal service is losing money a...
[17:18:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Targets Amazon, Calls for U.S. Post Office to Raise Shipment Prices - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:41] <exec> 08└─"If you can charge more without having your customers going elsewhere, then no, I don't see the problem." And guess what? There's enough privately owned international transport and courier services these days that can let the business go elsewhere. You don't think the post office is giving these low...
[17:18:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06President Trump Targets Amazon, Calls for U.S. Post Office to Raise Shipment Prices - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:44] <exec> 08└─Yup, it's classic Republican politics: 1. Break things. 2. OMG, these things are broken, we should get rid of them! The requirement to fund retirement 75 years in advance means the USPS is currently required to pay for pensions for employees whose are at least 5 years from being born. No other organ...
[17:18:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03forkazoo [2561] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06President Trump Targets Amazon, Calls for U.S. Post Office to Raise Shipment Prices - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:46] <exec> 08└─It would honestly be really hard to explain the concept of "consequences" to him. It's not something he seems to have experienced to this point.
[17:19:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 124 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:19] <exec> 08└─But now he is responsible for the first swatting death and every little online mistake he made has already been scrutinized.
[17:20:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:05] <exec> 08└─It's just unbelievable that the police officer was acquitted. I have come to believe that, in these cases, the jury was intimidated by other police. It seems to be the most likely explanation.
[17:20:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:07] <exec> 08└─Quit being a whiny little bitch or we'll take away your "evil" police and see how long you survive in a world filled with real criminals. The police are out there every day putting their lives on the line. That's way more than some amateur armchair windbag has ever done. Put down the bag of Cheetos...
[17:20:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microbes Sampled and Sequenced Aboard the ISS - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:53] <exec> 08└─I disagree that the possession of DNA is the crucial test. The crucial test, it seems to me, is the mapping between DNA triplets and amino acids. This appears to be essentially random, where there are plausible reasons to believe that DNA components may have existed at the time the Earth was formed....
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[18:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Readied for Static Fire Test - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:00] <exec> 08└─Yeah.
[18:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Readied for Static Fire Test - 1108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:01] <exec> 08└─Falcon Heavy [wikipedia.org] * Payload to LEO: 63,800 kg * Thrust (2 boosters): 7,607 kN (sea level), 8,227 kN (vacuum) * Thrust (first stage): 22,819 kN (sea level), 24,681 kN (vacuum) * Thrust (second stage): 934 kN Space Launch System [wikipedia.org] Block 1 * Payload to LEO: 70,000 kg * Thrust (...
[18:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gallium Nitride: The Replacement for Silicon and the Perfect Semiconductor for Space Applications? - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:18] <exec> 08└─Was that invented by Arsene Wenger? Seriously, Gallium Arsenide was the "next thing to replace Silicon" in about 1995. It has replaced it in a whole bunch of niches, and will probably replace it in several more niches in the nest 25 years. Whoever thought this was a story had too much Christmas Chee...
[18:18:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bobs [1462] 02 - 06President Trump Targets Amazon, Calls for U.S. Post Office to Raise Shipment Prices - 1686 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:57] <exec> 08└─The only reason the Post Office is reporting an annual Loss is because the US, Republican Congress passed a law requiring them to pre-pay the retirement benefits for 75-years, in 10-years. This created a massive, unique financial debt. The Republicans did not like that the Post Office was being held...
[18:19:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Electric Bikes, Scooters, and Dockless Bicycles Hitting U.S. Streets - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:18] <exec> 08└─People ride them without helmets since the companies don't provide them with the bike.
[18:20:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 1595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:26] <exec> 08└─So why is that? Couldn't have anything to do with the relative proportion and severity of violence committed by men vis-a-vis that committed by women, hmmmm...? See, Kyuubey, this is why you Y-chromosome-havers need feminism: the "patriarchy" (and I really prefer "kyriarchy" here for the reason I'm...
[18:20:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03forkazoo [2561] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:27] <exec> 08└─Shooting the first person that opens a door isn't the only way to respond to a 911 call.
[18:20:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03forkazoo [2561] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 874 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:30] <exec> 08└─Also the fact that the cops are professionals that have applied, been selected, and been trained. It's not like cops are a representative sample of the population. Some teenagers are going to be idiotic shitheads that don't think about or understand the consequences of their actions. It sucks, but w...
[18:20:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:32] <exec> 08└─What part of "innocent person who is not a threat murdered" is hard for you yo understand? It is VERY disturbing that innocent people can be gunned down. Wake up fool.
[18:20:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:34] <exec> 08└─What I get from the hotel video is to remain lying on the ground with arms outstretched, waiting for the cops to come in for the arrest and not saying a word. If they shoot, the wounds will be in the back (as little as that may help to prosecute them). That will probably get me beaten up once the bo...
[18:20:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:36] <exec> 08└─For money too, according to his conversation with Krebs.
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[19:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06How Your New Laptop is Actually Slower than a 30-Year-Old Apple IIe - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:51] <exec> 08└─When I tell people this they look at me like I'm crazy, but it's true. The sheer unresponsiveness of today's computer systems is maddening, and there's absolutely no excuse for it. The hardware has only gotten faster, but the programming has only gotten sloppier and lazier.
[19:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Your New Laptop is Actually Slower than a 30-Year-Old Apple IIe - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:52] <exec> 08└─It's conspiracy - they simply want us to buy a new one.
[19:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Your New Laptop is Actually Slower than a 30-Year-Old Apple IIe - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:55] <exec> 08└─Too many layers of crap. Programs built using frameworks that use other frameworks that use libraries that call operating system APIs that use other libraries that... There are also far too many background processes, each with dozens of threads. It's impossible to know what they all are doing.
[19:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Your New Laptop is Actually Slower than a 30-Year-Old Apple IIe - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:57] <exec> 08└─Just increase the cores. A core for every thread or two. 8 cores? No! 18 cores? Higher! 72 core? Keep going!
[19:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoftBank Acquires 20% of Uber While Massively Devaluing It - 968 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:05] <exec> 08└─Lets face it, the sooner that the Uber board transitions power away from the older board member including Kalanick the better it is for Uber. (ARS recently put Uber on their 2018 deathwatch [arstechnica.com]. IMHO, complete removal of the old board including Kalanick would be best for the company. L...
[19:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06SoftBank Acquires 20% of Uber While Massively Devaluing It - 986 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:07] <exec> 08└─It's not worth 48bn, let alone 70bn. "On a global basis, the privately-held company lost $2.8bn last year as revenues climbed to $6.5bn" Even if it DOUBLED revenue, without costing a penny more, it would take $3.7bn - that means they just paid for over ten years of double-revenue profits on a compan...
[19:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoftBank Acquires 20% of Uber While Massively Devaluing It - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:09] <exec> 08└─Yes. This. I was going to post: "Devalue": Nope, it's called a "correction" in economic terms. Is there a bubble in the use of the word "bubble" yet?
[19:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Readied for Static Fire Test - 740 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:22] <exec> 08└─Falcon 9 went through several revisions that increased thrust. Maybe Falcon Heavy will get a similar treatment and be able to lift more than SLS Block 1 soon enough. Maybe this would happen before SLS Block 1 even lifts its first useful payload. BFR might launch within 4-5 years. It seems like it wo...
[19:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Readied for Static Fire Test - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:23] <exec> 08└─If the rumor is true, will it be returned to Earth? Makes me wonder how much Musk can sell a car that went into space. I figure there are plenty of rich a-holes that would bid a huge amount of money to have a car so unique.
[19:18:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Readied for Static Fire Test - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:25] <exec> 08└─Just think of how much money it would cost to recapture it from Mars orbit and return it to Earth. They'll have to develop some new rockets first.
[19:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Readied for Static Fire Test - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:28] <exec> 08└─No.
[19:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Readied for Static Fire Test - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:30] <exec> 08└─Cost would be incredibly prohibitive. And who wants a large lithium-powered car chock-full of micro-meteorite holes?
[19:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Readied for Static Fire Test - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:32] <exec> 08└─The Smithsonian.
[19:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Readied for Static Fire Test - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:34] <exec> 08└─Perhaps it could land on Phobos? Low gravity an minimum delta-V make this relatively easy. Maybe have some cameras and probes too? Some solar panels to keep the batteries charged? It could be the next Opportunity? [xkcd.com]
[19:18:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gallium Nitride: The Replacement for Silicon and the Perfect Semiconductor for Space Applications? - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:51] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the thing about Si is that growing an isolator layer is too dang easy. All you need is an atmosphere with O2 (like the one we have) and heat it so the surface burns.
[19:19:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Running Unsigned Code In Intel Management Engine - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:04] <exec> 08└─Well... the Intel Management Engine is like an engine, see?...
[19:19:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03lentilla [1770] 02 - 06President Trump Targets Amazon, Calls for U.S. Post Office to Raise Shipment Prices - 502 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:17] <exec> 08└─Raising the cost of delivering a package is exactly the wrong thing to do if your intention is to Make Your Country Great Again. You want to reduce the cost of package delivery, speed up delivery and increase the number of deliveries per week. This reduces friction in the marketplace - and the post...
[19:19:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06President Trump Targets Amazon, Calls for U.S. Post Office to Raise Shipment Prices - 64 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:30] <exec> 08└─Perhaps you should review the facts of successful entrepreneurs.
[19:19:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06President Trump Targets Amazon, Calls for U.S. Post Office to Raise Shipment Prices - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:37] <exec> 08└─You're making the assumption that all shippers pay the same rates for delivering a package via the USPS. However this is not the case. USPS has entered into contracts with Amazon that gives them sweetheart deals on delivery services. Giving better rates to only Amazon means other companies are at a...
[19:19:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Targets Amazon, Calls for U.S. Post Office to Raise Shipment Prices - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:39] <exec> 08└─Amazon is in violation of antitrust laws. It's surprising it is still in business. (yes, given Washington Post behavior, it is amassing Amazon is still in business)
[19:19:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06President Trump Targets Amazon, Calls for U.S. Post Office to Raise Shipment Prices - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:42] <exec> 08└─You are correct, except that it wasn't just that the GOP elites didn't like a successful government agency. They did it to break the USPS so that it could be 'privatized' -- that is, sold off in pieces to FedEx and UPS. Who were significant contributors to the GOPe congressscum who made the law. Fun...
[19:19:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Targets Amazon, Calls for U.S. Post Office to Raise Shipment Prices - 710 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:44] <exec> 08└─No, Postal Service is not "like any other". Postal Service is required to deliver mail anywhere even if it is economically not feasible. That's why numerous attempts to privatize the Post Office failed - nobody wants it. What happens now is that if say Amazon wants to deliver a package to an unprofi...
[19:21:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:14] <exec> 08└─ISIS is so terrible in the areas they control because they have immunity THERE. Cops are like ISIS, but HERE. If ISIS did the shit cops do here, they would be prosecuted. If cops did the shit they do in ISIS territory, they would face consequences. Cops==ISIS.
[19:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:15] <exec> 08└─putting their lives on the line to commit armed robbery maybe. fuck you and your precious pigs. i can protect my own family from all the dangerous savages the system has built out of petty criminals.
[19:21:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:17] <exec> 08└─If you're too twitchy to even approach the place, you're too twitchy to go on the call. If you believe that shooting into a place that you legitimately think could be coated in gasoline is a good plan, you are, or should be, too dumb to hold a job that involves guns. #disarmthepolice
[19:21:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:20] <exec> 08└─ahh, protecting the evidence. they'll do anything to get their perp.
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[20:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06How Your New Laptop is Actually Slower than a 30-Year-Old Apple IIe - 686 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:55] <exec> 08└─You sound like me for the past 20 years. Curmudgeonly I've become. Whenever I install a new MS OS I spend at least an hour trimming the fat, shutting off unnecessary services, updaters, drivers, etc. I have some nice utilities which will do some of that too. I still run XP on many systems. The ones...
[20:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06How Your New Laptop is Actually Slower than a 30-Year-Old Apple IIe - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:57] <exec> 08└─Triple boot Windows 10, Mac whatever is newest, and a Linux flavor on new and old hardware. Then you'll see where the slowness is.
[20:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Your New Laptop is Actually Slower than a 30-Year-Old Apple IIe - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:59] <exec> 08└─Apple II was a single task machine - didn't have no event-driven UI, thread/process contention, no background task/process, etc.
[20:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Your New Laptop is Actually Slower than a 30-Year-Old Apple IIe - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:01] <exec> 08└─Every time you do that it gets worse. The logical man would stop buying them. There weren't enough logical men for companies making good PCs to survive though :( So how we have to use compromised garbage for everything. George Orwell was right. The future is one boot, stomping one face, over and ove...
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[20:18:03] <exec> 08└─"Whenever I install a new MS OS I spend at least an hour trimming the fat, shutting off unnecessary services, updaters, drivers, etc. I have some nice utilities which will do some of that too." Yeah, you're really going to hate Windows10. You need to check out Gentoo. You can trim a lot more with co...
[20:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06How Your New Laptop is Actually Slower than a 30-Year-Old Apple IIe - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:05] <exec> 08└─Your browser mining bitcoins in the background is totally an improvement. Yeah.
[20:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Your New Laptop is Actually Slower than a 30-Year-Old Apple IIe - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:08] <exec> 08└─Faster still could have been contemporary coin-op video game hardware? I was close to one of the development teams in the late 1980s for a fairly complex system -- it used 5 different processors (separate audio, video, UI, game physics, etc) that all talked to each other in a bank of shared memory....
[20:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Your New Laptop is Actually Slower than a 30-Year-Old Apple IIe - 1118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:10] <exec> 08└─I haven't done Gentoo yet, but thank you for the info. :) I'm a 23 year Slackware guy, plus CentOS (only professionally), Alpine (pretty cool- great xen support/integration) - pretty much any lightweight non-systemd distro and I've used it. A few years ago I had delved deeply into some of the really...
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[20:18:12] <exec> 08└─Void is great too. It's Arch Linux for adults with the runit init system. I have a T440s with the original SSD in it, and it takes about 6 seconds to go from BIOS to my display manager. Runit is faster even than OpenRC let alone SystemD.
[20:18:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Readied for Static Fire Test - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:41] <exec> 08└─"Since the Space Shuttle". Yes, Saturn V was much bigger, but it stopped flying in 1973; Energia stopped flying in 1988; and the Space Shuttle stopped flying in 2011. That's the list of all rockets bigger than the Falcon Heavy which have ever flown.
[20:18:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Readied for Static Fire Test - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:43] <exec> 08└─> The Smithsonian. Historically, no. The Smithsonian backed Langley's aircraft research and refused the Wright Flyer for many years because it "wasn't their guy" that made the first controllable flights. Given that logic, they might prefer a gov't funded rocket?
[20:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Readied for Static Fire Test - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:45] <exec> 08└─My understanding is that the improvements that Falcon 9 received have been applied to the Falcon Heavy (mostly improvements in the Merlin engine). They can always lift considerably more by not reusing the first stage cores. Is SpaceX going to start putting winglets/wings on future rockets?
[20:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Running Unsigned Code In Intel Management Engine - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:16] <exec> 08└─Imagine that between your steering wheel and the actual car there is a second person. In truth it is this someone else who drives your car; you just tell the chauffeur where you want to go and he goes there. He also remembers everywhere you go, so he knows about your favorite strip clubs and "massag...
[20:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Running Unsigned Code In Intel Management Engine - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:17] <exec> 08└─> and with some hand-wavy incantation... Come on, based on your sig, we know what you are really thinking -- the wife is offering to put out, or at least teasing that she might be willing.
[20:19:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Targets Amazon, Calls for U.S. Post Office to Raise Shipment Prices - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:54] <exec> 08└─It's kind of silly to compare static businesses (all except Buffett's) and a developer.
[20:19:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06President Trump Targets Amazon, Calls for U.S. Post Office to Raise Shipment Prices - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:56] <exec> 08└─This my friends is called riding infrastructure and can't be sustained long term.
[20:21:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:31] <exec> 08└─if you're going to park a mile away maybe don't be so fucking scared of a possible pistol. also, if you're so far away you either need to understand that you can't see everything or be using a scope. you don't get to park a mile away and shoot the first time someone moves like they can magically kil...
[20:21:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:32] <exec> 08└─GUNS, GUNS, GUNS. The reaction of the police is a direct result of the moronic gun culture in this country. There are so many guns out there the police have to assume they are facing an armed adversary and they shoot first in self preservation. It's still murder. 1. More guns = more gun violence. 2....
[20:21:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2, Flamebait) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 3212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:34] <exec> 08└─"So why is that? Couldn't have anything to do with the relative proportion and severity of violence committed by men vis-a-vis that committed by women, hmmmm...?" I doubt that very much. One reason I doubt that is that such facts are clearly irrelevant when they go the other way - and they *do* go t...
[20:21:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:36] <exec> 08└─Quit being a whiny little bitch or we'll take away your "evil" police and see how long you survive in a world filled with real criminals.
[20:21:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 972 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:39] <exec> 08└─My God. What kind of solipsistic, delusional hellscape is the inside of your head if you can type that with a straight face? Gynocentric? Western society is gynocentric? Seriously?! We haven't even had the right to fucking VOTE for 100 years! Marital rape was not outlawed until 1993! Gynocentric?! Y...
[20:21:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:41] <exec> 08└─If ISIS did the shit cops do here, they would be prosecuted.
[20:21:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:43] <exec> 08└─Have a +1 Insightful on me. Dear Cthulhu, when we've gotten to the point that *you* are the voice of reason in any given dialogue...yeeeeee gods...
[20:21:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:45] <exec> 08└─Throw them both in the same cell with one 2-foot length of galvanized pipe, IMO. This guy is shit and so is the cop.
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[21:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Fines Miami Pirate Radio Station $144,344 - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:51] <exec> 08└─Touche Douce Radio. [touchedouceradio.com]
[21:18:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06How Your New Laptop is Actually Slower than a 30-Year-Old Apple IIe - 294 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:00] <exec> 08└─Too many layers of crap. Programs built using frameworks that use other frameworks that use libraries that call operating system APIs that use other libraries that... There are also far too many background processes, each with dozens of threads. It's impossible to know what they all are doing.
[21:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Your New Laptop is Actually Slower than a 30-Year-Old Apple IIe - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:14] <exec> 08└─The signal has to go all the way to Utah and back. Plus it appears that the keyboard is given low priority.
[21:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Your New Laptop is Actually Slower than a 30-Year-Old Apple IIe - 750 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:15] <exec> 08└─The most beautiful desktop environment and most responsive computer I have ever seen were the same. I saw Ian Finder (he deserves credit for this) running Mac OS9 (emulated) on a mac book air (~2014 I think). Hand crafted pixel perfect graphics on a very nice display with incredible responsiveness i...
[21:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Your New Laptop is Actually Slower than a 30-Year-Old Apple IIe - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:17] <exec> 08└─he tested some systems using displays with multiple refresh rates to see how refresh rate alters the lag
[21:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Your New Laptop is Actually Slower than a 30-Year-Old Apple IIe - 846 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:20] <exec> 08└─I "lived" Gentoo from about 2004-2007, it was.... mostly un-necessary re-compiles of stuff that works just fine in Debian or whatever they call Cent/RedHat packages. Ubuntu, Cent, or your flavor of choice is so much more cooperative about configuration than Windows - Windows seems to take pride in m...
[21:18:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Readied for Static Fire Test - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:51] <exec> 08└─Plenty of government funding went into SpaceX. http://www.collectspace.com [collectspace.com]
[21:20:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06President Trump Targets Amazon, Calls for U.S. Post Office to Raise Shipment Prices - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:01] <exec> 08└─Warren Buffet has bankruptcies [marketwatch.com] as [baltimoresun.com] well [chicagobusiness.com]. Anyone who does investing in large numbers of companies will sooner or later be involved in a bankruptcy. That certainly is not the measure of how successful they are.
[21:20:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Targets Amazon, Calls for U.S. Post Office to Raise Shipment Prices - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:02] <exec> 08└─How in the nine fucks are any of those "static"? Not to mention that Gates, Wozniak, and Jobs were literally developers.
[21:20:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06President Trump Targets Amazon, Calls for U.S. Post Office to Raise Shipment Prices - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:04] <exec> 08└─That said, if the postal service is losing money and one company is their largest customer then they are effectively subsidising that company.
[21:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:46] <exec> 08└─Can't say about rape, but for everything else read here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[21:21:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 1099 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:47] <exec> 08└─"We haven't even had the right to fucking VOTE for 100 years!" Interestingly enough, one of the reasons that female suffrage lagged a few years in the US was that polling showed women in this country were generally against it at first. There were many women who had little or no interest in voting, a...
[21:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03gringer [962] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microbes Sampled and Sequenced Aboard the ISS - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:35] <exec> 08└─That Scientific Reports paper is about the previous sequencing experiment that was done on the ISS, using pre-prepared samples of mouse, virus, and bacteria.
[21:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nearly End-Of-The-Year Summary - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:26] <exec> 08└─> Exactly what the world needs: more moderating. More self-censorship. If you're moderating yourself, you're doing it wrong. If you moderate others, it's no longer self-censorship. And despite occasional whining from aristarchus, I see no evidence of anyone being particularly restrained with their o...
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[22:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Fines Miami Pirate Radio Station $144,344 - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:53] <exec> 08└─Shut 'em down - pirate radio stations piss me off. In this area, the pirates are Mexicans. I really don't give a small damn how many Mexican radio stations there are. But, they need to be assigned a frequency of their own, and USE IT!! Stations that bleed over two stations higher and two stations lo...
[22:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Fines Miami Pirate Radio Station $144,344 - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:54] <exec> 08└─I looked around for FM costs, and I found this: The FCC puts them up for auction to the highest bidder, several in my state (Wyoming) went for over a million dollars. Even for a very small market you can expect to bid over $100,000. That is just to get permission to build a station. Once built, you...
[22:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Fines Miami Pirate Radio Station $144,344 - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:56] <exec> 08└─Nothing I'm seeing specifies how many Watts they were running. A decade ago, a guy in the Bay Area had a Christmas lights display [google.com] in his yard, animated to a Trans-Siberian Orchestra song. He had a micropower transmitter so that you could drive by and tune it on your car radio. (100mW is...
[22:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Fines Miami Pirate Radio Station $144,344 - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:59] <exec> 08└─I do have a problem with that. Well, not with the fact that the operator might be of such an ethnicity. What isn't OK is non-English shit on American airwaves. If you want that, put your antenna in a different country. Multiculturalism is toxic. It is divisive (to use a Hillary campaign word!) and w...
[22:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Fines Miami Pirate Radio Station $144,344 - 2125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:01] <exec> 08└─Seems to me that it's probably cost more in investigate costs / visitations already than they were ever fined. In the UK, we're a bit more strict apparently: "Anyone involved in illegal broadcasting is committing a criminal offence and could face up to two years’ imprisonment, an unlimited fine or...
[22:18:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RS3 [6367] 02 - 06How Your New Laptop is Actually Slower than a 30-Year-Old Apple IIe - 686 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:12] <exec> 08└─You sound like me for the past 20 years. Curmudgeonly I've become. Whenever I install a new MS OS I spend at least an hour trimming the fat, shutting off unnecessary services, updaters, drivers, etc. I have some nice utilities which will do some of that too. I still run XP on many systems. The ones...
[22:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Your New Laptop is Actually Slower than a 30-Year-Old Apple IIe - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:27] <exec> 08└─Absolutely, no selection of keyboards, USB layers, audio drivers, etc. to worry about in the Apple ][.
[22:18:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Your New Laptop is Actually Slower than a 30-Year-Old Apple IIe - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:29] <exec> 08└─"rearranging everything so we have to get "training" to find where everything is moved to" I am of the opinion that Linux squandered a big opportunity. It was actually easier and more familiar for people to upgrade from XP/7 to something like Ubuntu/Mint than to Windows 8/10 That said - If you want...
[22:20:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Targets Amazon, Calls for U.S. Post Office to Raise Shipment Prices - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:14] <exec> 08└─Only several out of how many businesses? Perhaps you should review the facts of successful entrepreneurs.
[22:21:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:59] <exec> 08└─Maybe not manslaughter - if the police were competent, no one would have died
[22:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:00] <exec> 08└─In other words, they're trained to not shoot some guy like they did. Better training, because this officer essentially failed a field test of whether or not he could *not* shoot the victims while getting the bad guys. Considering the vitriol that caused it though, that is concerning that the police...
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[23:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Italian Brothers Win Right to Use "Steve Jobs" Trademark - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:52] <exec> 08└─They turned on a vintage Mac they bought for just this purpose and it chimed 'SoSuMi' :)
[23:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Italian Brothers Win Right to Use "Steve Jobs" Trademark - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:54] <exec> 08└─Steve Jobs, like Karl Marx, is still dead.
[23:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Italian Brothers Win Right to Use "Steve Jobs" Trademark - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:56] <exec> 08└─"May Steve Jobs live on in your nation's top commercial ventures" - Not-so-ancient Chinese curse
[23:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Italian Brothers Win Right to Use "Steve Jobs" Trademark - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:58] <exec> 08└─Just wait until these guys open a computer store. They could call it Figlio di computtana.
[23:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Italian Brothers Win Right to Use "Steve Jobs" Trademark - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:00] <exec> 08└─... you can call you company McDonalds. The Canadian Supreme Court says so
[23:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Fines Miami Pirate Radio Station $144,344 - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:13] <exec> 08└─From what I can decipher out of the complaint. They exceeded part 15 rules. Meaning more than 100 milliwatts. People like this are exactly why we have the FCC. They tromp all over the place and they do not care.
[23:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Fines Miami Pirate Radio Station $144,344 - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:15] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfL9R2Wrhck [youtube.com] we are in a period where all public space is now privatized, innovation and exploration is gone despite all things pointing to the commons being the source of pretty much all progress, we like little children demand immobility, so facefuck, a...
[23:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06How Your New Laptop is Actually Slower than a 30-Year-Old Apple IIe - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:44] <exec> 08└─Code bloat and not programming to the architecture, got 8 cores well congrats you only get to use one. parallel execution is hard and poorly supported, pipelines are longer (started with the P4, 21 stages!) you can do a lot more but only if you know how to program which people don't anymore, it's no...
[23:18:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Your New Laptop is Actually Slower than a 30-Year-Old Apple IIe - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:45] <exec> 08└─I didn't see what keyboard the tester was using, but I'm guessing it's some flavor of USB or blue tooth. Try plugging in a good ols PS/2 keyboard if your mobo still supports it and watch the latency go away. Real gamers use PS/2 keyboards and mice.
[23:18:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Your New Laptop is Actually Slower than a 30-Year-Old Apple IIe - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:47] <exec> 08└─Exactly how does one do that without a custom-built or premium-priced Hackintosh?
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[23:18:50] <exec> 08└─Why would he hate windows 10 because of that? Everything they have been doing for the past 15 years works exactly the same. Win 7 on this laptop 1:20 to usable desktop. Win10 about 20 seconds. Look I like linux. Use it all the time. But do not spread FUD. It is silly to do and usually makes you look...
[23:18:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Your New Laptop is Actually Slower than a 30-Year-Old Apple IIe - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:52] <exec> 08└─I agree. On most of my Linux machines (where I use the GUI) I use fvwm, so I think most XP-style UI users would love it. Add-on shells / window managers for MS Windows have been around since the early 90s as I recall. I think Norton had one? I have to help / support people using who use Win10 so it'...
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[23:18:54] <exec> 08└─https://byuu.org/articles/latency/ [byuu.org] This is about emulation but it is similar to what you are talking about. Latency. Latency is what we get with each additional layer we add on. Each of those layers though give is wildly more flexibility. But as I used to tell my boss whenever he had a br...
[23:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Your New Laptop is Actually Slower than a 30-Year-Old Apple IIe - 1361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:56] <exec> 08└─Back in the day, I think I did most of my work on a IIgs and already a Mac Plus back then, I got hold of a handful of phased-out Apple //c. Eventually, I started to tinker with one of them. I looked at how the RamWorks III (iirc) card was mapped, and designed a decoder logic from 4 TTL chips, handwi...
[23:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoftBank Acquires 20% of Uber While Massively Devaluing It - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:07] <exec> 08└─In civilized places, where the gov't hasn't completely sold its soul to the Oligarchs, there's a sign of light. The European Court of Justice (ECJ) Declares Uber a Transport Service [soylentnews.org] for example. It bothers me when Thom Hartmann (a committed Liberal Democrat) says on his radio show...
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[23:20:33] <exec> 08└─It would honestly be really hard to explain the concept of "consequences" to him. It's not something he seems to have experienced to this point.
[23:20:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06President Trump Targets Amazon, Calls for U.S. Post Office to Raise Shipment Prices - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:44] <exec> 08└─The company could go elsewhere, say to UPS or Fedex. Of course both of those two alternatives will just ship the stuff USPS too but collect a middleman fee.
[23:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:31] <exec> 08└─But why did he give an address at all? He could just have said: "Fine. Good luck finding me." or something. I suspect he was brazen enough to type his address and then changed his mind before sending it and changed the last number or something.
[23:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:33] <exec> 08└─to use the example than so many meninists get their manties in a bunch over.
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