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[01:17:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Google Won't Take Down Pirate VLC With 5M Downloads - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:12] <exec> 08└─... boooo!
[01:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Won't Take Down Pirate VLC With 5M Downloads - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:14] <exec> 08└─I attempted to pass the time by trolling Soylent but was forced to make do with only the music on my iPhone when I tried to load the homepage of everyone's favorite site only to be met with "the db needs some maintenance". Or something like that.
[01:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Won't Take Down Pirate VLC With 5M Downloads - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:16] <exec> 08└─We're currently dealing with unexpected but extremely necessary db maintenance.
[01:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Leaked NSA Tools Can Target All Windows Versions from the Past Two Decades - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:24] <exec> 08└─Leaked NSA tools can get into every Windows OS ever!
[01:17:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Leaked NSA Tools Can Target All Windows Versions from the Past Two Decades - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:27] <exec> 08└─I doubt they can get into Windows 2.0 — for the simple fact that it didn't support networking.
[01:17:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Leaked NSA Tools Can Target All Windows Versions from the Past Two Decades - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:29] <exec> 08└─holes in Microsoft systems which Microsoft often tells NSA about long before issuing an attempt at a patch. Their collaboration goes back for years
[01:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Leaked NSA Tools Can Target All Windows Versions from the Past Two Decades - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:31] <exec> 08└─Windows 2.0... didn't support networking
[01:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sea Hunter, the Navy's (Almost) New Drone Ship - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:39] <exec> 08└─How long until it's hacked?
[01:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Confirms it Lost the Center Core of the Falcon Heavy - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:51] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't be surprised if reaching the asteroid belt was the actual goal, as there is a fortune out there. However, it wasn't what was promised; we were promised a car flying past Earth and Mars on a periodic basis.
[01:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Confirms it Lost the Center Core of the Falcon Heavy - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:53] <exec> 08└─Elon decided to really piss off his insurance company. "Asteroid does not count as 'Act of God', you gotta pay"
[01:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Confirms it Lost the Center Core of the Falcon Heavy - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:55] <exec> 08└─If you end up crashing and totaling a roadster by collision with an asteroid in the asteroid belt, (1) could you file an insurance claim and (2) will your rates go up because of the statistical improbability of it occurring again?
[01:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Confirms it Lost the Center Core of the Falcon Heavy - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:57] <exec> 08└─Aluminum really really wants to burn. It wants to burn so badly that it will suck the oxygen away from ferrous oxide - rust - when Thermite ignites. There is a large scorch mark on the wall of one of Caltech's lecture halls. During a lecture on organometallic aluminum, the instructor squirted some o...
[01:18:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06Former Intel President Launches New Chip Company With Backing From Carlyle Group - 900 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:11] <exec> 08└─I have no interest in price/performance anymore. Whatever it is, it is. I'm extremely interested in price/security/openness. How open is the architecture? Are there any blobs anywhere? Is there a security chip like the Intel ME? If so, do I have access to the source code? Can I compile my own securi...
[01:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former Intel President Launches New Chip Company With Backing From Carlyle Group - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:20] <exec> 08└─RISC V workstation motherboard from Raptor/Talos
[01:18:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Could Adopt Norway-Style Bottle Recycling Machines - 699 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:56] <exec> 08└─I saw an article on Finland having the best bottle recycling rates in the world - 98%, I think it was. There's no such thing as bottle/can litter in the parks; on big feast days (vappu, midsummer, open air concerts), there will literally be swarms of people ready to snarf your container as soon as y...
[01:19:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06One Computer Can Knock Almost Any WordPress Site Offline - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:18] <exec> 08└─And the best part about token ring was the Boy George Connectors [wikipedia.org], both for the off-color jokes and the shielded, genderless connectors. Oh, and don't bogart that token, my friend. Pass it over here. With apologies to Little Feat [youtu.be].
[01:19:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RS3 [6367] 02 - 06Dim Light May Make Us Dumber - 47 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:36] <exec> 08└─"Dim Wit": Now we know the root of that cliche.
[01:21:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Pulls Back on Windows 10 S - 1757 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:24] <exec> 08└─I'm not underestimating their sliminess and greed, but I don't think it's really necessary (at least for the OS vendors). That's why I want a hypothetical future where the users aren't prevented from switching to Linux by anything other than their own laziness and ignorance. In that scenario, the pr...
[01:22:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RedIsNotGreen [2191] 02 - 06France Bans Smartphone Use in Pulled Over Cars - 88 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:38] <exec> 08└─Sorry, it only counts as circulating in traffic if you're also on the phone at the time.
[01:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06France Bans Smartphone Use in Pulled Over Cars - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:00] <exec> 08└─Then the laws covering stopping in an unsafe / unauthorized place should apply.
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[02:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pornhub and Reddit Purge AI-Generated "Involuntary Pornography" (Updated) - 835 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:22] <exec> 08└─People are blaming this guy [reddit.com] for the subreddit(s) getting taken down. Of course, Reddit was facing some significant (?) bad press over AI celeb porn and would have likely used the banhammer eventually. Not only does it seem you internally sabotaged a subreddit for what was as far as I ca...
[02:17:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Meta: Unplanned DB Maintainence  - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:29] <exec> 08└─We're currently dealing with unexpected but extremely necessary db maintenance.
[02:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Meta: Unplanned DB Maintainence  - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:31] <exec> 08└─Nope, that was intentional downtime. Just unplanned.
[02:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Meta: Unplanned DB Maintainence  - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:33] <exec> 08└─Parent coward makes six figures and trolls SoylentNews 10 minutes a month while snorting cocaine off a man's ass.
[02:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: Unplanned DB Maintainence  - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:35] <exec> 08└─When should we expect the announcement of intentional unplanned shuttering of the site due to insolvency because you stole all the money and flew away.
[02:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03krait6 [5170] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Meta: Unplanned DB Maintainence  - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:38] <exec> 08└─There was a link on the front page to the IRC channel during the downtime, and it was nice getting a chance to chat with the people who work on SoylentNews. Sometimes little hiccups are also opportunities. Maintaining a big site like SoylentNews is a lot of work, and I for one appreciate it. Thanks
[02:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Meta: Unplanned DB Maintainence  - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:40] <exec> 08└─How far can you actually run with $455, these days?
[02:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Unplanned DB Maintainence  - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:42] <exec> 08└─How sad and lonely your life must be to constantly visit a site you hate just to tell them you hate it. Do you also constantly visit restaurants you dislike so that you can tell the waiters that you hate their food?
[02:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Meta: Unplanned DB Maintainence  - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:45] <exec> 08└─People still use IRC? Huh. I thought everyone uses Discord these days. Which is essentially IRC, but prettified for the web, uses about ten times more memory than an IRC client, and lets the venture capital-backed Discord corporate overlord slurp up everything you say and type but no one cares and e...
[02:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Unplanned DB Maintainence  - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:47] <exec> 08└─Nah, it's mostly about TMB given the subject. I can actually see that TMB could upset somebody like that. It's like Howard Stern. The average fan listens 2.5 hours per day. The average hater listens for 4 hours. Both for the same reason. To see what he will say next.
[02:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Meta: Unplanned DB Maintainence  - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:49] <exec> 08└─I think Slack might use 10x the resources of Discord. It's such a slow turd.
[02:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03krait6 [5170] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Meta: Unplanned DB Maintainence  - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:52] <exec> 08└─People still use IRC? Huh. I thought everyone uses Discord these days.
[02:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Unplanned DB Maintainence  - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:54] <exec> 08└─Oh that's not hard unless you get it in nickles or something.
[02:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Unplanned DB Maintainence  - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:56] <exec> 08└─I was afraid it would be in cryptocoin, which would cause you to have to switch every other mile between the Rolls and the used bicycle.
[02:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Unplanned DB Maintainence  - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:59] <exec> 08└─Yeah, we solved that by welcoming the trolls with open arms in IRC. They even eventually talked me into coming on staff. You can spout feminist stuff all day, you can mock feminists by shitposting feminist stuff all day, you can even do like EF and show everyone a picture of your dong. Losers, basta...
[02:18:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Google Won't Take Down Pirate VLC With 5M Downloads (Update: They Have Taken it Down) - 10 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:06] <exec> 08└─... boooo!
[02:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Google Won't Take Down Pirate VLC With 5M Downloads (Update: They Have Taken it Down) - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:10] <exec> 08└─Google loves fakes of popular apps. The fakes push more adverts to users than the original apps.
[02:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Google Won't Take Down Pirate VLC With 5M Downloads (Update: They Have Taken it Down) - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:13] <exec> 08└─Justice will be well served when SoylentNews goes down and never comes back up.
[02:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Won't Take Down Pirate VLC With 5M Downloads (Update: They Have Taken it Down) - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:15] <exec> 08└─Everyone should boycott Google until they stop promoting violations of the GPL.
[02:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Google Won't Take Down Pirate VLC With 5M Downloads (Update: They Have Taken it Down) - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:17] <exec> 08└─Let me just sign out of my gmail account real quick.
[02:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Won't Take Down Pirate VLC With 5M Downloads (Update: They Have Taken it Down) - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:20] <exec> 08└─"Be evil"
[02:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Laci [2618] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Won't Take Down Pirate VLC With 5M Downloads (Update: They Have Taken it Down) - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:22] <exec> 08└─I mean it seriously. After they refuse to act in a timely manner, they are liable for willful contributory copyright infringement. If the clone is downloaded in the US, Google may be on the hook for $150000/download. Google used to be the least evil of all the evil big corporations, but those days a...
[02:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03koick [5420] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Won't Take Down Pirate VLC With 5M Downloads (Update: They Have Taken it Down) - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:24] <exec> 08└─By the time I saw this article yesterday both linked apps it's complaining about were already taken down. And, indeed the article at the end says it's been removed.
[02:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Won't Take Down Pirate VLC With 5M Downloads (Update: They Have Taken it Down) - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:26] <exec> 08└─Can a non-profit foundation afford to sue Google (and lose)? Luckily, it appears the stuff has been removed.
[02:18:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Won't Take Down Pirate VLC With 5M Downloads (Update: They Have Taken it Down) - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:29] <exec> 08└─Thanks, edited.
[02:18:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Won't Take Down Pirate VLC With 5M Downloads (Update: They Have Taken it Down) - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:31] <exec> 08└─IRC's always open for trolling.
[02:18:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Google Won't Take Down Pirate VLC With 5M Downloads (Update: They Have Taken it Down) - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:33] <exec> 08└─I saw either that same app or a copy of it the last time I downloaded the real VLC from Google Play and that would have been 6 months ago at least. I'm sure it gets removed regularly and put back, as the scumbags behind it obviously make money from it. This lowers the value of Google Play as a whol...
[02:18:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03requerdanos [5997] 02 - 06Leaked NSA Tools Can Target All Windows Versions from the Past Two Decades - 147 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:43] <exec> 08└─holes in Microsoft systems which Microsoft often tells NSA about long before issuing an attempt at a patch. Their collaboration goes back for years
[02:18:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sea Hunter, the Navy's (Almost) New Drone Ship - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:53] <exec> 08└─So what you're telling me is that no seamen will be killed when the drone collides with a container ship?
[02:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sea Hunter, the Navy's (Almost) New Drone Ship - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:55] <exec> 08└─Or is sunk on the high seas as a hazard to navigation, or seized under maritime salvage laws?
[02:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sea Hunter, the Navy's (Almost) New Drone Ship - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:58] <exec> 08└─We could start a hacking pool. It's kinda open ended, we sell chances by the month? Winner take all, or two runners-up get a share of the pool? If I were a betting man, my bet would be, some US school kids do it within two years. Non-US entities take a little longer - maybe five years. The only reas...
[02:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sea Hunter, the Navy's (Almost) New Drone Ship - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:00] <exec> 08└─True, that, but the drone ship isn't going to sleep at the wheel.
[02:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sea Hunter, the Navy's (Almost) New Drone Ship - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:02] <exec> 08└─Certain foreigners may have the advantage of controlling pre-compromised components.
[02:19:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former Intel President Launches New Chip Company With Backing From Carlyle Group - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:40] <exec> 08└─The brits just wanted an inexpensive computer for schoolchildren without having to buy Z80s from the yanks.
[02:19:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former Intel President Launches New Chip Company With Backing From Carlyle Group - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:41] <exec> 08└─I am afraid I am the bearer of sad tidings: What the CPU vendors regard as "a lot of orders" come most commonly from the type of people who hang out on Facebook because they can't figure out email. Compared to them, the LUNUX neckbeards that care about security and openness are few and far-between.
[02:19:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former Intel President Launches New Chip Company With Backing From Carlyle Group - 1416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:44] <exec> 08└─Yes. Which is why we should all revolt. I'm serious. You're correct about the market, but incorrect in that the Linux/BSD/PC tech crowd (all of us) now want this openness. In the past it was largely about principles, but security over the last 24 months has taught a lot of people through fire that s...
[02:20:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Could Adopt Norway-Style Bottle Recycling Machines - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:20] <exec> 08└─Just so those folks know, there's snark throughout the above post.
[02:20:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Could Adopt Norway-Style Bottle Recycling Machines - 773 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:21] <exec> 08└─Yea, collecting bottles used to be profitable. When they went to a nickel here, a chocolate bar was still a dime, and likewise, when they went to a dime, a chocolate bar was around a quarter. 30 odd years later, I took a couple of garbage bags of bottles, cans, juice boxes etc into the bottle depot,...
[02:20:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06One Computer Can Knock Almost Any WordPress Site Offline - 992 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:45] <exec> 08└─I told this story once before: scoop.kuro5hin.org got overrun by link spammers. Just out of curiosity I clicked one of the links. It took me to an ecommerce site that sold WordPress themes. Every last one of those themes was heart-achingly beautiful. It was quite clear that whoever rendered them did...
[02:20:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Genome Sequenced With MinION Nanopore Sequencer - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:53] <exec> 08└─I Am Absolutely Serious. I want to post my sequence on my website. I'm able to do things that few schizoaffectives can do, such as hold a job and live independently. I speculate - really wildly speculate - that my DNA could result in better medications for my brothers and sisters in madness.
[02:21:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03requerdanos [5997] 02 - 06Dim Light May Make Us Dumber - 101 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:13] <exec> 08└─sitting in front of a collection of bright LED lights all day. How is that going to make me dumberer?
[02:21:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Biohacker" Injects DIY Herpes Vaccine in Front of Audience and Facebook Live - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:55] <exec> 08└─The guy who first proposed that Yellow Fever was spread by mosquitos met with skepticism. So he trapped a mosquito between a water glass and his arm until it bit him. Hilarity ensued.
[02:21:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Biohacker" Injects DIY Herpes Vaccine in Front of Audience and Facebook Live - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:56] <exec> 08└─I can think of several examples where experimenting on yourself can have disastrous consequences, ethically, for others: - Dr Jeckyll - Dr Octopus - Dr Polaris - The Fly
[02:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Briefly Removed Telegram App From App Store Due to Child Pornography - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:26] <exec> 08└─It may no longer be true, if it ever was, but some years back a claim circulated that the total number of child porn videos and images out there was so few that cops and border guards were equipped with lists of checksums. Run a checker on every media file in a computer or phone. And if anything cam...
[02:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Briefly Removed Telegram App From App Store Due to Child Pornography - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:27] <exec> 08└─Thing is that what constitutes a "child" varies massively. USA have some of the highest age of consent ages out there (if varies by state, and Hawaii apparently was as low as 14 well into the 80s), and thus anyone depicted below that is considered "child porn". But then there are other places that h...
[02:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Briefly Removed Telegram App From App Store Due to Child Pornography - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:30] <exec> 08└─"We have our own orphanage!" - Russian Child Pornography Website. Microsoft claims that they remove child pornography from Bing's index when they are notified of its URL. I don't believe them. There are vast quantities of child pornography in Bing. It already supports image similarity search. It alr...
[02:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Briefly Removed Telegram App From App Store Due to Child Pornography - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:32] <exec> 08└─Most of the file sharing services have lots of cleartext kiddy porn. Often the file names aren't even obfuscated.
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[03:17:36] <exec> 08└─It's a gift. What'd really blow their minds is figuring out that every one of them who keeps coming back just means the site has grown by one. It's not like they're ever going to win against me. They can't piss me off no matter how hard they try because I haven't cared about other people's opinions...
[03:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Meta: Unplanned DB Maintainence  - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:38] <exec> 08└─I haven't cared about other people's opinions of me for a very long time now.
[03:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Unplanned DB Maintainence  - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:40] <exec> 08└─Damn! I really wish I could get my trolling down to 10 minutes.
[03:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Unplanned DB Maintainence  - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:42] <exec> 08└─Hell yes people still use IRC. IRC : Discord :: dwm : Gnome, more or less, though that's a bit of a slander on Discord in that it does actually perform its functions reasonably well without eighty hojillion kludgey plugins...
[03:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Won't Take Down Pirate VLC With 5M Downloads (Update: They Have Taken it Down) - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:03] <exec> 08└─> goes down and never comes back up. Not everything is your dick.
[03:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Leaked NSA Tools Can Target All Windows Versions from the Past Two Decades - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:14] <exec> 08└─WinNT 3.1 was apparently the first Win OS that wasn't built on top of DOS. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] However, all consumer versions of Windows prior to Win95 were just overlays on top of DOS. If Windows was installed on a DOS which had networking, then Windows was...
[03:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Leaked NSA Tools Can Target All Windows Versions from the Past Two Decades - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:16] <exec> 08└─all consumer versions of Windows prior to Win95 were just overlays on top of DOS.
[03:18:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Leaked NSA Tools Can Target All Windows Versions from the Past Two Decades - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:18] <exec> 08└─The older I get the more I realize the world follows the golden rule: he who has the gold makes the rules. Most of our fellow human beings, it appears, are utter moral nullities. And there's nothing we can do about it; when the worst of them get power, we can't even realistically defend ourselves.
[03:18:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Confirms it Lost the Center Core of the Falcon Heavy - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:45] <exec> 08└─Well, maybe he has more fuel, and can turn around and slow his roll. By the way, watch this Youtube to get a sense of the sound of this rocket, and the triple sonic booms as the boosters land. https://youtu.be [youtu.be] Play this video with headphones, or at least your best ear buds. Tu...
[03:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former Intel President Launches New Chip Company With Backing From Carlyle Group - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:12] <exec> 08└─ARM is a disaster. It's an enormous blemish in the Linux repository, and it's basically useless without a pile of shite from "vendors", especially with regard to GPUs. Thanks, Brits!
[03:20:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Genome Sequenced With MinION Nanopore Sequencer - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:21] <exec> 08└─Are any companies offering 100% sequencing (of every base pair in the genome)? https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] As of 2017 there were no complete genomes for any mammals, including humans. Between 4% to 9% of the human genome, mostly satellite DNA, had not been s...
[03:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dim Light May Make Us Dumber - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:59] <exec> 08└─What is hippocampal capacity?
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[04:17:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Pornhub and Reddit Purge AI-Generated "Involuntary Pornography" (Updated) - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:18] <exec> 08└─I'd be interested in hearing why the supporters of this move feel one twin couldn't exercise the same right as they presumably claim the celebrity subjects have in order to prevent the other voluntarily sending porn of themselves to their SO. Either people can censor works which appear similar to th...
[04:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pornhub and Reddit Purge AI-Generated "Involuntary Pornography" (Updated) - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:20] <exec> 08└─Really, the best thing would be to allow this kind of porn. The quicker people get acclimated to the fact that deepfakes are fake, the better. In the far flung future, data will just be data.
[04:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Pornhub and Reddit Purge AI-Generated "Involuntary Pornography" (Updated) - 940 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:22] <exec> 08└─The centralized web giants have gone from censoring illegal content to censoring content that makes people feel bad. The implications of widespread fakery don't matter to them. "Involuntary pornography" is voluntary. One party volunteered to get naked on camera, and another party volunteered to make...
[04:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Flamebait) 02 - 06Meta: Unplanned DB Maintainence  - 622 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:46] <exec> 08└─Dear disingenuous shitstain, Getting to that point in your life where you don't care about other people's opinions is not liberating unless you have "fuck-you" money. You're familiar with "fuck-you" money because you and I both know you're swimming in it. Without the money - which you so very conven...
[04:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Unplanned DB Maintainence  - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:48] <exec> 08└─Obvious troll is obvious.
[04:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03fakefuck39 [6620] (Score: -1) 02 - 06Google Won't Take Down Pirate VLC With 5M Downloads (Update: They Have Taken it Down) - 1340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:10] <exec> 08└─why the fuck would you want this site gone? all those losers in highschool that I used to stuff into a locker, who thought they were very smart but are actually just awkward and slightly autistic, and very, very ugly. they're all here. they say the dumbest shit. they can't hold a professional job. t...
[04:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Leaked NSA Tools Can Target All Windows Versions from the Past Two Decades - 727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:25] <exec> 08└─Money, "gold", is a proxy for power. Power means you can make people do things they would otherwise prefer not to. So yeah, people with the power make the rules and then enforce them with violence as necessary. It has interesting implications once you take it to heart, in a Realpolitik sense. Who ac...
[04:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Briefly Removed Telegram App From App Store Due to Child Pornography - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:04] <exec> 08└─In a nutshell, besides regular chats, Telegram has groups and channels. Groups are private and its protection is up to the members. Telegram does not and if security is set can not censor them. Channels on the other hand can be read by anybody and telegram can and will remove content if it is object...
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[19:59:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar-Powered Device Cleans Up Air Pollution While Creating Hydrogen Fuel - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:11] <exec> 08└─I've heard this bull before. It sucks protons out of molecules to make hydrogen. Takes a lot of energy to suck a proton out of an atom, and doing so changes the element the proton came from. You know, like changing lead to gold. yah, rite.
[19:59:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Solar-Powered Device Cleans Up Air Pollution While Creating Hydrogen Fuel - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:12] <exec> 08└─Or maybe its the solar powered device that was supposed to suck carbon out of the atmosphere and create plastic, or the one that you could stick in the desert and it would somehow create drinking water out of the (nonexistent) water vapor. I expect a kickstarter for this thing to come out this year.
[19:59:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Solar-Powered Device Cleans Up Air Pollution While Creating Hydrogen Fuel - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:14] <exec> 08└─Yeah....the idea that there's just some device you can use to suck pollution out of the air is complete fantasy. [wikipedia.org]
[19:59:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Solar-Powered Device Cleans Up Air Pollution While Creating Hydrogen Fuel - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:17] <exec> 08└─> "...reactive oxygen species that can attack fouling components." If that's something other than ozone I'll be pretty surprised.
[19:59:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar-Powered Device Cleans Up Air Pollution While Creating Hydrogen Fuel - 766 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:19] <exec> 08└─Just about all these grandiose plans have been failures... https://qz.com [qz.com] According to All China Tech, following a 50-day trial period, the China Forum of Environmental Journalists (CFEJ) released its report,...
[19:59:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06DJI Will Create No-Fly Zones Around Olympic Venues in South Korea - 854 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:26] <exec> 08└─*Morpheus voice* Did you really think that you *owned* the quadcopter you just paid several hundred dollars for? Ownership, at its very base, is the ability to exert control. DJI controls where you are (not) able to fly. DJI controls whether your drone will fly without a regular internet connection...
[19:59:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DJI Will Create No-Fly Zones Around Olympic Venues in South Korea - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:28] <exec> 08└─Or make that hardware your bitch, I am not in the market for a flying camera, but I can't imagine no-one has even attempted to mod DJI hardware.
[19:59:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06DJI Will Create No-Fly Zones Around Olympic Venues in South Korea - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:31] <exec> 08└─In fact, they released the keys to their firmware on Github!
[19:59:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DJI Will Create No-Fly Zones Around Olympic Venues in South Korea - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:33] <exec> 08└─How about we nip thos shenanigans right in the bud, instead of first giving them our money and then going through a lot of hassles, including a non-negligible risk of bricking the drone? Start being a grown-up! Think of the consequences first, and then act accordingly.
[19:59:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DJI Will Create No-Fly Zones Around Olympic Venues in South Korea - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:35] <exec> 08└─GitHub Rejects Drone-Maker DJI's DMCA Takedown After Encryption Keys Get Forked [soylentnews.org]
[19:59:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DJI Will Create No-Fly Zones Around Olympic Venues in South Korea - 594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:37] <exec> 08└─I don't know about these drones in particular other than a reputation for being the best. In the general case however, I definitely can see the value in buying the best hardware (presumably for cheaper that I could replicate it, that is how economies of scale work), and then removing that which I do...
[19:59:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DJI Will Create No-Fly Zones Around Olympic Venues in South Korea - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:39] <exec> 08└─You call it pragmatic, while I smell an egotistical and short-sighted worldview. Some time, you should try applying Kant's categorical imperative to your actions and see where that Gedankenexperiment leads you. I'm not sure I want to live in the world you're helping to create with your pragmatism.
[19:59:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DJI Will Create No-Fly Zones Around Olympic Venues in South Korea - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:41] <exec> 08└─I was given a DJI Spark for my birthday last year, and the actual drone hardware is very good. The video quality is amazingly good actually (for my use at least). However, I probably would not have bought it myself, as it forces the user to create a DJI account to even use the thing, and goodness k...
[19:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's Bug Bounty Programs Paid Out Almost $3M in 2017 - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:53] <exec> 08└─These same exploits, are worth ten times more in the least. Why would you choose to cooperate with the enemies of life (Google/Doubleclick and their handler, the american state) , when the alternative is more profitable? Hopefully they only sold the weak and lame ones, and kept the best for themselv...
[19:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's Bug Bounty Programs Paid Out Almost $3M in 2017 - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:55] <exec> 08└─By reporting security holes these alleged researchers deny important tools to America's intelligence agencies.
[19:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's Bug Bounty Programs Paid Out Almost $3M in 2017 - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:57] <exec> 08└─Without those tools, our government makes mistakes that are bigger and more frequent. It is really important to know what is going on around the world. I work on this. (BTW, we're hiring low-level hackers) It feels great to support America.
[19:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03i286NiNJA [2768] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google's Bug Bounty Programs Paid Out Almost $3M in 2017 - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:59] <exec> 08└─It's peanuts. As usual tech does it's best to keep an ungrateful world running.
[20:00:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Waymo v. Uber, Day 3 - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:16] <exec> 08└─Yep, it's shit like this why I always use Lyft when I need a ride (like in another city). Uber's tactics have been horribly anti-competitive and just plain dirty.
[20:00:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Waymo v. Uber, Day 3 - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:17] <exec> 08└─Plus they made this video [youtube.com], which makes you feel warm and fuzzy when you watch it.
[20:00:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EFF Founder and Grateful Dead Songwriter -- John Perry Barlow 1947-2018 - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:41] <exec> 08└─Well, I do think that I've almost got enough life experience and wisdom now to do being a teenager as it should be done. The problem is, no 14 year old girls do. They'd get on my last nerve before I could get their clothes off and if I did manage they'd be shit in bed. That's why I've been chasing c...
[20:00:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EFF Founder and Grateful Dead Songwriter -- John Perry Barlow 1947-2018 - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:42] <exec> 08└─Oh I dig on nearly all of their stuff. It just happens that Mexicali Blues was on the first Dead cassette I ever owned, so, nostalgia.
[20:00:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EFF Founder and Grateful Dead Songwriter -- John Perry Barlow 1947-2018 - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:44] <exec> 08└─Man, I ain't been a stoner since a little bit before I enlisted at 17. Or was it 18? I've slept since then. That particular variety of stupid, as opposed to the alcohol induced kind, just lost its attraction for me. I never did care for the smell or potential jail time either.
[20:00:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EFF Founder and Grateful Dead Songwriter -- John Perry Barlow 1947-2018 - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:46] <exec> 08└─Lost Sailor works pretty well in this case.. Yeah the sea birds cry There's a ghost wind blowin' It's calling you to that misty swirling sea Till the chains of your dreams are broken No place in this world you can be You're lost sailor You've been way too long at sea Now the shore-lights beckon Yea...
[20:01:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Fake News Sharing in US is a Right-Wing Thing, Says Oxford University Study - 105 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:14] <exec> 08└─I read the main PDF and not the site and there wasn't really any mention of the supplemental information.
[20:01:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NotSanguine [285] 02 - 06Fake News Sharing in US is a Right-Wing Thing, Says Oxford University Study - 85 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:26] <exec> 08└─The data indicates that they may well have skewed the results as does the conclusions
[20:01:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NotSanguine [285] 02 - 06Fake News Sharing in US is a Right-Wing Thing, Says Oxford University Study - 481 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:33] <exec> 08└─You also didn't need to claim they were right or wrong. You, apparently, without spending millions, knew what was correct and what wasn't. Now you say you need millions to back up your claim? Why should I pay for *you* to determine if *your* assertions are correct? Without evidence, what you claim i...
[20:01:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03isostatic [365] 02 - 06Fake News Sharing in US is a Right-Wing Thing, Says Oxford University Study - 197 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:41] <exec> 08└─This is quite evidently fake news: The launch of the falcon heavy has caused a flood in China *insert picture of 2011 floods in Brazil*, causing the leader or Wuhan province to be executed at dawn.
[20:01:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NotSanguine [285] 02 - 06Fake News Sharing in US is a Right-Wing Thing, Says Oxford University Study - 68 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:46] <exec> 08└─Or is the world required to just take your word for it? Not so much.
[20:02:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Fake News Sharing in US is a Right-Wing Thing, Says Oxford University Study - 1845 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:01] <exec> 08└─The NYT and CNN are interesting cases, because they have an absolutely overwhelming bias, but that overwhelming bias isn't left or right, it's pro-establishment - i.e. pro-rich and pro-powerful. The strongest example of this in action that I can think of is that when the NYT got a story that George...
[20:02:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fake News Sharing in US is a Right-Wing Thing, Says Oxford University Study - 2074 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:08] <exec> 08└─Dude that is messed up i vote for people that seem to demonstrate they are not being dicks, understand local politics as necessary and big issue concerns, and that do not vote the party line because someone else somewhere else said they had to do something or they won't get funding. at least that's...
[20:02:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Fake News Sharing in US is a Right-Wing Thing, Says Oxford University Study - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:10] <exec> 08└─The researchers helpfully provided all their data and their methodology.
[20:02:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fake News Sharing in US is a Right-Wing Thing, Says Oxford University Study - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:12] <exec> 08└─I sense you are sarcastic, so you might instead settle for the comforting certainty of Fox News. (Surely that isn't religious doctrine.) Apart from that, there certainly do seem to be objective facts in the world.
[20:02:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Fake News Sharing in US is a Right-Wing Thing, Says Oxford University Study - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:14] <exec> 08└─People in Europe
[20:02:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Fake News Sharing in US is a Right-Wing Thing, Says Oxford University Study - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:16] <exec> 08└─I think he's kind of showing himself to be the poster child for what the paper is about.
[20:02:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fake News Sharing in US is a Right-Wing Thing, Says Oxford University Study - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:19] <exec> 08└─You might have checked the list, but you clearly didn't read the article or get its point.
[20:02:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fake News Sharing in US is a Right-Wing Thing, Says Oxford University Study - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:21] <exec> 08└─The people who track the Russian Twitter bots monitor this kind of stuff. The bots target the right wingers [politico.com] because they are so easily duped. Is it really any surprise seeing who they voted for that they fall for this stuff?
[20:02:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Fake News Sharing in US is a Right-Wing Thing, Says Oxford University Study - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:23] <exec> 08└─Obvious rebuttal: khallow, you're doing it again! You have had your ass handed to you. You have lost this debate. Answer the nice Soylentil's question, and show the data and the skew, or please stop.
[20:02:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fake News Sharing in US is a Right-Wing Thing, Says Oxford University Study - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:25] <exec> 08└─Only if they call out the lies, especially the blatant ones, while doing so. Otherwise they are just a conduit and not a news service.
[20:02:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fake News Sharing in US is a Right-Wing Thing, Says Oxford University Study - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:27] <exec> 08└─Which if it were true, would be an interesting bit of weaseling since the majority of "fake news" outlets that they list are alt-right.
[20:02:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fake News Sharing in US is a Right-Wing Thing, Says Oxford University Study - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:29] <exec> 08└─Wow, cubancigarette, that is some first-class fake news right there! Keep up the great work!
[20:02:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fake News Sharing in US is a Right-Wing Thing, Says Oxford University Study - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:31] <exec> 08└─Hehehe thanks for that! This actually looks like OK methodology. And OMG can you believe Donnie's ardent supporters, most of them superstitious bigots, would be more prone to spreading this garbage over the social media?
[20:02:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fake News Sharing in US is a Right-Wing Thing, Says Oxford University Study - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:34] <exec> 08└─Conservatives don't hold any power. The billionaires and their bitches do.
[20:02:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fake News Sharing in US is a Right-Wing Thing, Says Oxford University Study - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:36] <exec> 08└─Yes yes, there is no such thing as objective reality,
[20:02:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03arulatas [3600] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fake News Sharing in US is a Right-Wing Thing, Says Oxford University Study - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:38] <exec> 08└─I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it. George Bernard Shaw
[20:02:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fake News Sharing in US is a Right-Wing Thing, Says Oxford University Study - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:40] <exec> 08└─The bots target the right wingers because they are so easily duped.
[20:03:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ozone Layer May be Thinning Near the Equator - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:18] <exec> 08└─So I take it the Global Warming myth is failing so they need a new boogieman.
[20:04:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheRaven [270] 02 - 06Attorney General Sessions Installs "Religious Freedom" Czars in Every US Attorney's Office - 1983 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:30] <exec> 08└─Demonstrably false is a little bit strong for some of the core beliefs of religions (though not things like the flood and the significance of rainbows), because many of the core claims are not falsifiable. Religions have gone from claiming an activist god who is responsible for everything to gradual...
[20:05:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FOSDEM 2018 Videos Online - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:16] <exec> 08└─i'll be watching a lot of these videos. thanks for posting. i forget about stuff like this that i'm waiting on.
[20:05:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FOSDEM 2018 Videos Online - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:18] <exec> 08└─i appreciate fosdem and many of the projects represented, but the link commented above is funny. of course, i think good jokes about my race are hilarious too. maybe you should lighten up a little?
[20:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pornhub and Reddit Purge AI-Generated "Involuntary Pornography" (Updated) - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:05] <exec> 08└─I'd be interested in hearing why the supporters of this move feel one twin couldn't exercise the same right... Is there anyone suggesting a twin shouldn't be entitled to his/her own personality rights? Sounds like a strawman to me....
[20:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pornhub and Reddit Purge AI-Generated "Involuntary Pornography" (Updated) - 656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:06] <exec> 08└─From the source [rightofpublicity.com] at the end of that paragraph: The Right of Publicity is likely to experience continued evolution in 2018, primarily from Right of Publicity legislation and case law (often involving fascinating fact patterns). One could also observe that the U.S. now has a Pres...
[20:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pornhub and Reddit Purge AI-Generated "Involuntary Pornography" (Updated) - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:08] <exec> 08└─Unless the RNG was specifically biased using that face, no it isn't. However it is extremely unlikely that this happens, and therefore you'll have a hard time arguing that way. Unless you can give convincing evidence that an image of that person, or your knowledge about that person's image, did not...
[20:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pornhub and Reddit Purge AI-Generated "Involuntary Pornography" (Updated) - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:10] <exec> 08└─there is no choice but to accept it. however the options you presented are only the means of which one deals with it. shutting in as a hermit is clearly an indicator, if not confirmation, of not wishing to be surveilled. It states nothing about an action to stop the surveilling.
[20:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pornhub and Reddit Purge AI-Generated "Involuntary Pornography" (Updated) - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:12] <exec> 08└─To be more specific, I meant that another option is to go about your business as usual with the surveillance state intact, rather than becoming a hermit or shut-in. ie. do nothing to try to avoid it.
[20:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pornhub and Reddit Purge AI-Generated "Involuntary Pornography" (Updated) - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:15] <exec> 08└─lmao! well stealing people's face is at least assault with a deadly weapon so you know...
[20:07:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gault.Drakkor [1079] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Meta: Unplanned DB Maintainence  - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:12] <exec> 08└─Ok my initial view is currently: 3, 3 threaded-tos. Why am I seeing the grandparent / root post that has -1 score? e.g. on this topic I see a -1 troll post and its content. I would expect with 3, 3 that I only see posts with score 3+ It seems to occur when a low modded post has high modded replies....
[20:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former Intel President Launches New Chip Company With Backing From Carlyle Group - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:17] <exec> 08└─that's just apathy and boot licking disguised as wisdom.
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[20:59:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar-Powered Device Cleans Up Air Pollution While Creating Hydrogen Fuel - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:27] <exec> 08└─> every hour the amount of harmful particulates that the machine captures doesn't even add up to a single spoonful of salt To be fair, that's really a lot of PM2.5 particles. It might avoid half a dozen lung cancers, leaving only 199994 to fix via other solutions. (yep, I'm just making up numbers)
[20:59:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar-Powered Device Cleans Up Air Pollution While Creating Hydrogen Fuel - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:28] <exec> 08└─From your linked article: Update: A company representative told Quartz at the time of publication that it had not independently verified the test results. In May 2017, according to the company, data compiled by a scientist from Netherland’s Eindhoven University of Technology showed that the tower...
[20:59:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar-Powered Device Cleans Up Air Pollution While Creating Hydrogen Fuel - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:30] <exec> 08└─the machine has failed to create a non-toxic air bubble around even itself.
[20:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Some call me Tim [5819] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DJI Will Create No-Fly Zones Around Olympic Venues in South Korea - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:45] <exec> 08└─Now if only they could do something about the mosquitoes ;-)
[20:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DJI Will Create No-Fly Zones Around Olympic Venues in South Korea - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:46] <exec> 08└─They could hold the Winter Olympics in the summer to help our mosquito brethren.
[21:00:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EFF Founder and Grateful Dead Songwriter -- John Perry Barlow 1947-2018 - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:47] <exec> 08└─What a fun personal anecdote!
[21:01:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Fake News Sharing in US is a Right-Wing Thing, Says Oxford University Study - 44 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:43] <exec> 08└─there is no such thing as objective reality,
[21:02:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Fake News Sharing in US is a Right-Wing Thing, Says Oxford University Study - 1805 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:24] <exec> 08└─Bullshit. Fake News is incredibly easy to define. It is news that was fabricated as to have the imprimatur of MSM (hold the laughter please), for a specific purpose, and delivered to a specific audience. When Russia was paying Facebook via its troll network, they were posting lies and propaganda, bu...
[21:02:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fake News Sharing in US is a Right-Wing Thing, Says Oxford University Study - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:26] <exec> 08└─It seems to me it's mostly the right that gets, well, triggered easily. I mean, hell, look at them trying to undermine our entire secular nation-state's basis in order not to have their feelings hurt by seeing people who think/believe/love/whatever differently than they do actually living their live...
[21:02:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Fake News Sharing in US is a Right-Wing Thing, Says Oxford University Study - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:28] <exec> 08└─Preach it, brother. The Trump types project like a mile of movie theaters, thinking if they accuse others of what they themselves are guilty of, it somehow absolves them. It's cowardly, hypocritical, and amoral, not even immoral. But they, of course *being* immoral, don't give a shit.
[21:02:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fake News Sharing in US is a Right-Wing Thing, Says Oxford University Study - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:30] <exec> 08└─"Results you don't like" != skewed methods and/or conclusions.
[21:02:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fake News Sharing in US is a Right-Wing Thing, Says Oxford University Study - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:32] <exec> 08└─Spoiler alert: he ain't gonna. The guy's so far out of his depth it's anyone's guess as to whether drowning, barotrauma, or one of those giant fish that's 2/3 jaws will get him first.
[21:02:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fake News Sharing in US is a Right-Wing Thing, Says Oxford University Study - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:34] <exec> 08└─Read the actual material before you shoot your stupid flapping foodsucker off, will you? As you are acting now, you actually have a negative signal to noise ratio, in that any thread you post in automatically becomes dumber and more obfuscated.
[21:02:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fake News Sharing in US is a Right-Wing Thing, Says Oxford University Study - 1354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:36] <exec> 08└─Please excuse me for going off-topic here, but I'm rather curious about something. I dove into some biology articles following a previous story about epigenetics, and found myself confused about Lamarckism. Not as to whether it had any merit; I am not a biologist and do not claim to make any judgeme...
[21:02:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fake News Sharing in US is a Right-Wing Thing, Says Oxford University Study - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:38] <exec> 08└─There is worse to come: Global Warming. CO2 pollution.
[21:02:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fake News Sharing in US is a Right-Wing Thing, Says Oxford University Study - 977 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:41] <exec> 08└─Thing is, Kyuubey, most people who hear "conservative" in this milieu then think of what is properly called reactionary. This may not have been intentionally set up, but it sure seems to be a convenient little kink in reality that stops *actual* lower-case-C-conservatives from noticing that their su...
[21:02:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fake News Sharing in US is a Right-Wing Thing, Says Oxford University Study - 2693 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:43] <exec> 08└─Truth to be honest, I don't actually care. I'm not American, and I don't support either side of the same turd coin that the majority of you seem to cheer for. However, due to the size and capacity of the USA, and their global reach (and because every single Tech site in English seems to have a selec...
[21:06:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03krait6 [5170] 02 - 06Meta: Unplanned DB Maintainence  - 299 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:24] <exec> 08└─There was a link on the front page to the IRC channel during the downtime, and it was nice getting a chance to chat with the people who work on SoylentNews. Sometimes little hiccups are also opportunities. Maintaining a big site like SoylentNews is a lot of work, and I for one appreciate it. Thanks
[21:08:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Leaked NSA Tools Can Target All Windows Versions from the Past Two Decades - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:08] <exec> 08└─Ein reich, ein volk, ein fuhrer, eh? I've never heard that one before...
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[21:59:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Elon Musk Expects to Do Coast-to-Coast Autonomous Tesla Drive in 3 to 6 Months - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:11] <exec> 08└─Falcon Heavy was supposed too fly in 2013.
[21:59:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06Elon Musk Expects to Do Coast-to-Coast Autonomous Tesla Drive in 3 to 6 Months - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:12] <exec> 08└─There's currently a tesla on an autonomous drive to the asteroid belt
[21:59:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Elon Musk Expects to Do Coast-to-Coast Autonomous Tesla Drive in 3 to 6 Months - 787 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:14] <exec> 08└─And as for the next Falcon Heavy, Musk said that a successful test flight of it could mean a commercial flight in... 3 to 6 months [investors.com]. Falcon Heavy is not a good example though, because SpaceX had a great reason to delay Falcon Heavy: the continual evolution of Falcon 9. Falcon 9 went t...
[21:59:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Elon Musk Expects to Do Coast-to-Coast Autonomous Tesla Drive in 3 to 6 Months - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:17] <exec> 08└─3- 6 months? That's terrible! According to my research [imdb.com], it should take less than two days!
[21:59:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Expects to Do Coast-to-Coast Autonomous Tesla Drive in 3 to 6 Months - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:19] <exec> 08└─So, is he going to get a permit for autonomous driving for every state he crosses? At level 3, 4 or even 5? Good luck (honestly). Or is he going to pull an Uber and just ignore the law? Good luck, too (sarcastically this time)
[21:59:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Elon Musk Expects to Do Coast-to-Coast Autonomous Tesla Drive in 3 to 6 Months - 850 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:21] <exec> 08└─That's impressive, but honestly, I'd be more impressed if it could do my trip to the office and back. One highway mile is pretty much the same as the next. So if you can do one, doing 3000 more of them isn't really a challenge. Where I deal with a busy round about adjacent to an elementary school fu...
[21:59:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Elon Musk Expects to Do Coast-to-Coast Autonomous Tesla Drive in 3 to 6 Months - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:23] <exec> 08└─For a certain value of the word "drive". That should also take about 6 Musk Months.
[21:59:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Expects to Do Coast-to-Coast Autonomous Tesla Drive in 3 to 6 Months - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:25] <exec> 08└─...and he said he'd build a battery farm here in 3 months or its free and he did. Estimates are just that, estimates [dictionary.com]. Setting an engineering high bar goal isn't unusual either..
[21:59:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Expects to Do Coast-to-Coast Autonomous Tesla Drive in 3 to 6 Months - 880 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:27] <exec> 08└─These Tesla drivers didn't get any permits, just under 59 hours, story from 10/29/15 --     https://jalopnik.com [jalopnik.com] ... For those still unaware, I joined Carl and Deena last week to set two new EV and autonomous Cannonb...
[21:59:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Expects to Do Coast-to-Coast Autonomous Tesla Drive in 3 to 6 Months - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:29] <exec> 08└─Is Musk's definition of autonomous that it needs a human in the loop? Somehow I doubt they are going to set that thing loose without a driver.
[22:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06DJI Will Create No-Fly Zones Around Olympic Venues in South Korea - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:00] <exec> 08└─I know people who have this drone, and they stopped updating the software before the version that made it mandatory to do so. They live with a few bugs, but absence of restrictions make it worth their while. This is what autonomous cars will bring to all of us. You want to attend a political rally f...
[22:00:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06DJI Will Create No-Fly Zones Around Olympic Venues in South Korea - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:01] <exec> 08└─That is a hell of a slippery slope you found there...
[22:00:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06DJI Will Create No-Fly Zones Around Olympic Venues in South Korea - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:03] <exec> 08└─I didn't chose the world I live in, no more than you did. I don't know how acknowledging that my philosophy doesn't change the economic realities of the world can be half as egotistical as the alternative. I am not sure what bringing up Kant is supposed to do here, you are judging me with your philo...
[22:00:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Waymo v. Uber, Day 3 - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:38] <exec> 08└─stuck with the lame taxi services of the past
[22:02:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fake News Sharing in US is a Right-Wing Thing, Says Oxford University Study - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:52] <exec> 08└─conservative values are by large driven by community and have historically been a domain of the poor.
[22:02:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fake News Sharing in US is a Right-Wing Thing, Says Oxford University Study - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:54] <exec> 08└─release the memo!
[22:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pornhub and Reddit Purge AI-Generated "Involuntary Pornography" (Updated) - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:24] <exec> 08└─Then again, what USA considers left, and what the rest of the world considers left, are two very different things...
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[22:06:25] <exec> 08└─Now we are heading into colour of bits grade thinking. http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca [sooke.bc.ca]
[22:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former Intel President Launches New Chip Company With Backing From Carlyle Group - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:30] <exec> 08└─It might be easier to stop speculative execution by simply not building it into the processor in the first place. I'd like to see what percentage of typical job time is saved by speculative execution. If it were all that great why not build that functionality into the compilers, and spend an extra t...
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[22:59:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Data From Wearables Helped Teach an AI to Spot Signs of Diabetes - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:21] <exec> 08└─This is all very cool application of AI and wearable data, but... it should be pointed out that diabetes is one of the most detectable disease states. Even measures of heart rate variability can independently flag diabetes, and the heart rate variability community wasn't too jazzed about it because...
[22:59:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03isostatic [365] 02 - 06Elon Musk Expects to Do Coast-to-Coast Autonomous Tesla Drive in 3 to 6 Months - 69 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:29] <exec> 08└─There's currently a tesla on an autonomous drive to the asteroid belt
[22:59:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Expects to Do Coast-to-Coast Autonomous Tesla Drive in 3 to 6 Months - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:39] <exec> 08└─No need to pay attention to the law. We need more clearfully defined contracts rather than a violently imposed monopoly. The Tesla driver could say he's not a driver he's a traveller. Or a freeman in a Tesla. Then there is also the "I do not consent!" version.
[22:59:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Expects to Do Coast-to-Coast Autonomous Tesla Drive in 3 to 6 Months - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:41] <exec> 08└─The boring company have raised sufficient funds to pay the fines...
[22:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Expects to Do Coast-to-Coast Autonomous Tesla Drive in 3 to 6 Months - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:44] <exec> 08└─How exactly do you call out "a violently imposed monopoly", and then suggest that verbal trickery is going to defeat the system in the next sentence?
[22:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Expects to Do Coast-to-Coast Autonomous Tesla Drive in 3 to 6 Months - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:46] <exec> 08└─Please understand that electric cars are the best thing since sliced bread for the kind of drivers that always have access to a charging station. I like to go on road trips way out to the middle of nowhere. I once drove halfway down Baja California. I only turned back because I calculated that I wou...
[22:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Expects to Do Coast-to-Coast Autonomous Tesla Drive in 3 to 6 Months - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:48] <exec> 08└─But if you run out of gas, you really have no option but to get more gas somehow. If you have an electric car and run out of juice, you could set out a solar panel and trickle charge the thing until you could get it to the next charging place.
[23:00:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's Bug Bounty Programs Paid Out Almost $3M in 2017 - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:37] <exec> 08└─so does the other guy ----V
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[23:01:24] <exec> 08└─Richard Stallman smells like feet.
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[23:59:24] <exec> 08└─My $10 bathroom scale from Wal-Mart can spot signs of diabetes pretty well too.
[23:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Expects to Do Coast-to-Coast Autonomous Tesla Drive in 3 to 6 Months - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:46] <exec> 08└─There was some hand-waving that didn't make it into the text of the comment.