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[00:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Form New Association to Discuss Gene Editing Ethics - 625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:49] <exec> 08└─Think about the 'vaccines cause autism' meme that was going on for awhile. If people thought it through logically they would realize they were being silly. That was through a lack of action causing another action. They would put their kids at risk because of the idea that they may make their kid sic...
[00:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Form New Association to Discuss Gene Editing Ethics - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:51] <exec> 08└─διαιτήμασί τε χρήσομαι ἐπ᾽ ὠφελείῃ καμνόντων κατὰ δύναμιν καὶ κρίσιν ἐμήν, ἐπὶ δηλήσει δὲ καὶ ἀδικίῃ εἴρξειν.
[00:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Form New Association to Discuss Gene Editing Ethics - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:53] <exec> 08└─that meme is still going strong on Facebook.
[00:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Ban 'Offensive Language' From Skype, Xbox, Office and Other Services - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:27] <exec> 08└─Brainfuck will survive! ++++++++[>++++[>++>+++>+++>++>+>->>+[>.>---.+++++++..+++.>>.>+.>++. How offensive is that?
[00:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft to Ban 'Offensive Language' From Skype, Xbox, Office and Other Services - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:29] <exec> 08└─But I thought phase 3 was profit?
[00:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Ban 'Offensive Language' From Skype, Xbox, Office and Other Services - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:31] <exec> 08└─This really sounds like an April Fools joke, but it's a little early for that. Since this is not a joke it sounds like Micro$oft is putting its toes in the water and seeing how loud its customers will scream.
[00:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03JustNiz [1573] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft to Ban 'Offensive Language' From Skype, Xbox, Office and Other Services - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:33] <exec> 08└─...who gets to decide what is "offensive"?
[00:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft to Ban 'Offensive Language' From Skype, Xbox, Office and Other Services - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:35] <exec> 08└─To bureaucrats, control is the equivalent of profit. It's why they went into bureaucracy.
[00:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft to Ban 'Offensive Language' From Skype, Xbox, Office and Other Services - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:38] <exec> 08└─Profit, yes. But it does not have to come directly from their worker bees (previously known as customers.)
[00:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Ban 'Offensive Language' From Skype, Xbox, Office and Other Services - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:40] <exec> 08└─It wouldn't work for me to just move to google webmaster tools. I need them both. Just log file analysis doesn't give me all the info I require.
[00:46:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft to Ban 'Offensive Language' From Skype, Xbox, Office and Other Services - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:42] <exec> 08└─What is the percentage of users with brains who want and are able to free themselves from the ms clutches?
[00:46:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft to Ban 'Offensive Language' From Skype, Xbox, Office and Other Services - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:44] <exec> 08└─Microsoft contractors, of course. Perhaps not located in Redmond, though.
[00:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Ban 'Offensive Language' From Skype, Xbox, Office and Other Services - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:47] <exec> 08└─Pretty near 100%?
[00:47:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA's Chief of Human Spaceflight Rules Out Use of Falcon Heavy for Lunar Station - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:13] <exec> 08└─The real reason of-course is that NASA provides Space X with expensive research and personnel training. Space X would never be able to develop anything at all without NASA and Russian technology and expertise almost freely available to them.
[00:48:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kim Jong-un Visits Chinese President Xi Jinping, Still "Committed to Denuclearization" - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:31] <exec> 08└─The Saudis. Do you really want the Wahabiists with a ton of US military tech, plus a bunch of nukes so they can start their final biblical jihad against all us infidels? NK may be a threat to a small set of regional political groups, but SA is a potential existential threat to us all, and which one...
[00:48:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kim Jong-un Visits Chinese President Xi Jinping, Still "Committed to Denuclearization" - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:32] <exec> 08└─"Trump" and "plan" do NOT belong together in the same sentence.
[00:48:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kim Jong-un Visits Chinese President Xi Jinping, Still "Committed to Denuclearization" - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:34] <exec> 08└─Yea, that's likely what happen. About the only person that can bend lil Kim to their will and make him leave his lair is Emperor Xi. He was summoned, and instructed to do what would essentially be the next move, in a series of others, on Emperor's Xi chess board. If the Kims ever had any leverage in...
[00:51:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Launch of James Webb Space Telescope Delayed to May 2020, Could Exceed Budget Cap - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:34] <exec> 08└─It is possible that we do not, but we do not know this for certain.
[00:51:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Launch of James Webb Space Telescope Delayed to May 2020, Could Exceed Budget Cap - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:36] <exec> 08└─On the other hand, the James Webb just might spot a Vogon Constructor Fleet! How much would such timely information be worth?
[00:51:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Launch of James Webb Space Telescope Delayed to May 2020, Could Exceed Budget Cap - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:38] <exec> 08└─What especially puzzles me about your post is that you just spent the previous one describing just how much money the US is blowing on its military, without getting corresponding military power for that money. For example: One F-35 costs about $100 million. The whole program is about $1,5 trillion a...
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[01:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Scientists Form New Association to Discuss Gene Editing Ethics - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:56] <exec> 08└─Oh of that I have 0 doubt. Probably depends on the circles you are in. Mine have mostly stopped doing it so maybe I overstated a bit. These will be the same people who want designer babies.
[01:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Form New Association to Discuss Gene Editing Ethics - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:58] <exec> 08└─For the sake of PoV diversity Why do you insist that the human genetic code is “sacred” or “taboo”? It is a chemical process and nothing more. For that matter we are chemical processes and nothing more. If you deny yourself a useful tool simply because it reminds you uncomfortably of your mo...
[01:46:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Justin Case [4239] 02 - 06Microsoft to Ban 'Offensive Language' From Skype, Xbox, Office and Other Services - 156 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:11] <exec> 08└─I suppose they will have to ban their own name, because right now I cannot think of any word in the English language that is more offensive than: Microsoft.
[01:46:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Microsoft to Ban 'Offensive Language' From Skype, Xbox, Office and Other Services - 32 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:28] <exec> 08└─no ones forcing you to use them.
[01:46:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Ban 'Offensive Language' From Skype, Xbox, Office and Other Services - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:43] <exec> 08└─but none of the people you want offended will get it
[01:46:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft to Ban 'Offensive Language' From Skype, Xbox, Office and Other Services - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:45] <exec> 08└─Sorry, - relative to the whole population.
[01:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Ban 'Offensive Language' From Skype, Xbox, Office and Other Services - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:48] <exec> 08└─Offense is in the eye of the offended. Where it should hopefully be poked around and ground in a bit. I don't know where people get this idea that freedom of speech has an exception for anything they decide to find offensive. You're offended? Good. Go be offended somewhere else.
[01:46:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Ban 'Offensive Language' From Skype, Xbox, Office and Other Services - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:50] <exec> 08└─Proof: "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra Stonewall"
[01:46:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Ban 'Offensive Language' From Skype, Xbox, Office and Other Services - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:53] <exec> 08└─You aren't serious in a "Seriously speaking" section.
[01:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Ban 'Offensive Language' From Skype, Xbox, Office and Other Services - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:55] <exec> 08└─Was it clear this applied to spoken conversation, or only text messages over the Skype chat? Real time monitoring of Voice seems impractical.
[01:47:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Chief of Human Spaceflight Rules Out Use of Falcon Heavy for Lunar Station - 1002 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:22] <exec> 08└─I think you got me wrong. Sure, Space X as any good capitalist enterprise can and will, well, capitalize on a good bag of inventions. They will mass produce and they will cut costs and they will make lots of money out of it but, but, they can not innovate and they will need innovations for the next...
[01:47:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Chief of Human Spaceflight Rules Out Use of Falcon Heavy for Lunar Station - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:24] <exec> 08└─The first flight of the SLS will be unmanned. That has been delayed repeatedly to no earlier than December 15, 2019. The second flight will be manned, scheduled for 2022. That's a very long time for either Falcon 9 or Atlas V to be certified for manned flights, and they could start sending manned fl...
[01:47:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Chief of Human Spaceflight Rules Out Use of Falcon Heavy for Lunar Station - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:26] <exec> 08└─How about paying your taxes remains mandatory to mitigate the freeloader problem, but YOU get to decide how it's allocated, and least in terms of agencies, maybe even with finer-grained control?
[01:47:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Oracle v. Google: Appeals Court Rules That Google Violated Oracle's Copyrights - 116 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:51] <exec> 08└─An appeals court said on Tuesday that Google violated copyright laws when it used Oracle's open-source Java software
[01:47:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Virindi [3484] 02 - 06Oracle v. Google: Appeals Court Rules That Google Violated Oracle's Copyrights - 541 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:52] <exec> 08└─The Federal Circuit is out of control. What use is the right to a civil jury trial if the court just keeps sending it back until they get the result they want? The FC seems to be quite captured by the "all knowledge is someone's property" crowd. Even when SCOTUS tells them they are off the deep end,...
[01:48:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Oracle v. Google: Appeals Court Rules That Google Violated Oracle's Copyrights - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:22] <exec> 08└─Oh look. It's another fake jobs board run by a lying dickhead. Recruiters call me every single day to praise my skills and to tell me about FAKE JOBS. They ask me why with my tech skills am I not working. I answer with a question: "WHY AREN'T YOU HIRING?" Michael Dickhead Crawford, DO YOU KNOW HOW I...
[01:48:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oracle v. Google: Appeals Court Rules That Google Violated Oracle's Copyrights - 830 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:24] <exec> 08└─Maybe I overstated the case. If You Don’t Protect Your Copyright, You Lose It Copyright is not like trademark. Copyright has a set period of time for which it is valid and, unless you take some kind of action, you do not give up those rights. To be fair, the level of enforcement or protection you...
[01:48:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oracle v. Google: Appeals Court Rules That Google Violated Oracle's Copyrights - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:26] <exec> 08└─Our customer service personnel will respond to your request in the order it was received.
[01:48:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kim Jong-un Visits Chinese President Xi Jinping, Still "Committed to Denuclearization" - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:51] <exec> 08└─Trump likes Kim, because Kim is one of the few heads of state who makes Trump look good by comparison. Probably, Trump's be TV days taught him to associate with people less popular than himself.
[01:49:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Porn Blocking Bill Gets Hearing in Rhode Island Senate - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:49:41] <exec> 08└─I get neat presents under my solstice bush
[01:49:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Porn Blocking Bill Gets Hearing in Rhode Island Senate - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:49:42] <exec> 08└─Nothing new there. None of the holidays that are celebrated by Christians today are biblical. The Jews are far more faithful to their history and tradition than Christians. Maybe you don't know shit about what I know? Fact is, we are where we are today, and much of the non-Christian world resents wh...
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[02:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Satellite Imagery Helps to Find 81 New Pre-Colombian Sites in the Amazon Rainforest - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:51] <exec> 08└─Who cares about ruins. Why don't they tell me where I dropped my keys?
[02:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Satellite Imagery Helps to Find 81 New Pre-Colombian Sites in the Amazon Rainforest - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:53] <exec> 08└─You know, I learned something interesting about Amazon settlements recently. Apparently there's this new fad in some areas known as a "slam shot". How it works is, you knock on someone's door, then when they come out you quickly slam your cock directly into their rectum and deliver a package filled...
[02:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Satellite Imagery Helps to Find 81 New Pre-Colombian Sites in the Amazon Rainforest - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:55] <exec> 08└─the thought of hamlets always make me hungry
[02:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Satellite Imagery Helps to Find 81 New Pre-Colombian Sites in the Amazon Rainforest - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:57] <exec> 08└─My neighborhood Whole Foods was built on the site of a Jewish cemetery where money grew on trees and now that lucrative location makes Jeff Bezos even richer.
[02:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Satellite Imagery Helps to Find 81 New Pre-Colombian Sites in the Amazon Rainforest - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:59] <exec> 08└─Colombia is the country, Columbus was the person. Though the usual mistake is getting the name of the country wrong.
[02:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satellite Imagery Helps to Find 81 New Pre-Colombian Sites in the Amazon Rainforest - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:01] <exec> 08└─fixed
[02:47:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Microsoft to Ban 'Offensive Language' From Skype, Xbox, Office and Other Services - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:03] <exec> 08└─Those of you with this attitude really need to be identified in real life. That way, when Big Business finds some reason to come after YOU, the rest of us will know that you deserve that boot on your throat. Nay, you actively lobbied to have a boot crushing your throat, you don't merely deserve that...
[02:47:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Ban 'Offensive Language' From Skype, Xbox, Office and Other Services - 809 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:04] <exec> 08└─To many zeros in your estimate. The real number might be around 10% of the entire population. "users with brains who want and are able to free themselves" To qualify, a user must have the intelligence and the savvy to even use computers at all. Then the user must desire to be free of Microsoft. And,...
[02:47:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Ban 'Offensive Language' From Skype, Xbox, Office and Other Services - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:06] <exec> 08└─Yes, this ^ !!! You, the reader, have every right to be offended at ANYTHING that I, or any other member, might post on this forum. Anything at all. We, the members, are under no obligation to give the smallest of damns that you might be offended. Deal with it, you sniveling puke! (That last was int...
[02:47:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Ban 'Offensive Language' From Skype, Xbox, Office and Other Services - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:09] <exec> 08└─Ayyyy-men, brother, and +1. You've been reasonable and insightful lately; keep it up!
[02:47:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Ban 'Offensive Language' From Skype, Xbox, Office and Other Services - 1358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:11] <exec> 08└─So, if you BUY Microsoft Office and install it locally you can create any damned thing you want. RENT a version in their cloud and they plunder through your work and decide day by day whether they want to continue allowing you to use your documents. Of course they are making it harder and harder to...
[02:48:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oracle v. Google: Appeals Court Rules That Google Violated Oracle's Copyrights - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:40] <exec> 08└─It sounds like it'd make it pretty impossible to cost-effectively develop using FOSS software, which is extremely common for anything that doesn't involve Windows desktop software, and especially common in the embedded space, where Linux mainly rules supreme, aside from applications that require a r...
[02:48:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oracle v. Google: Appeals Court Rules That Google Violated Oracle's Copyrights - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:41] <exec> 08└─Is polio really that bad to catch as an adult? Honestly, I don't know. It's a disease we seem to have mostly forgotten, except maybe much older people who still remember the times before Salk's vaccine was developed. What about leprosy? Another disease we've mostly forgotten, I thought that one caus...
[02:48:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oracle v. Google: Appeals Court Rules That Google Violated Oracle's Copyrights - 926 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:43] <exec> 08└─They didn't acquire anyone to get that, they developed that from scratch, I think starting way back in the late 1970s or early 1980s. It's the whole reason Oracle became the company it is; it's their cash cow. It's much like Microsoft and Windows (except MS got a little springboard by acquiring QDOS...
[02:49:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kim Jong-un Visits Chinese President Xi Jinping, Still "Committed to Denuclearization" - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:49:09] <exec> 08└─Dennis Rodman?
[02:50:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Porn Blocking Bill Gets Hearing in Rhode Island Senate - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:50:01] <exec> 08└─You do realize (of course you don't, I'm being rhetorical...) that the umbrage they take at that is a proxy for the more serious and more real problem of Christians trying to turn the US government into a theocracy? Yes, getting pissed when someone says "Merry Christmas" is a dumb-assed hill to die...
[02:52:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spanish Spies Tracked Carles Puigdemont via Friend's Phone - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:41] <exec> 08└─It is also going to force Germany to take more of a position on the issue,
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[03:45:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mother Bears Spending More Time With Their Cubs Due to Hunting Laws - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:47] <exec> 08└─This is bearly news...
[03:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Form New Association to Discuss Gene Editing Ethics - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:11] <exec> 08└─And in the White House...
[03:47:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Ban 'Offensive Language' From Skype, Xbox, Office and Other Services - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:07] <exec> 08└─Wrong. Users need to stop making themselves so dependent on these services of private corporations. As the other poster said, "don't like it? Don't use it". There's Free software and communication protocols out there that don't rely on some company's secret, proprietary software or servers. If you w...
[03:47:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Ban 'Offensive Language' From Skype, Xbox, Office and Other Services - 2009 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:09] <exec> 08└─But whether you are forced to use the service or device or not has nothing to do with whether what the companies are doing is unethical. Not respecting people's freedoms is unethical. Spying on people is unethical. Digital restrictions management is unethical. This is all true whether or not using t...
[03:47:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Ban 'Offensive Language' From Skype, Xbox, Office and Other Services - 706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:11] <exec> 08└─Those of you with this attitude really need to be identified in real life. Why? We're not dumb enough to use XBox Live or Skype. If you have a boot on your throat from Microsoft, it's because you happily chose to have that boot on your throat. No one's forcing you to use Skype or XBox Live (certainl...
[03:47:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Ban 'Offensive Language' From Skype, Xbox, Office and Other Services - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:13] <exec> 08└─Microsoft does, of course, because it's their service. Don't like it? Don't use it.
[03:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Qlaras [3198] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft to Ban 'Offensive Language' From Skype, Xbox, Office and Other Services - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:15] <exec> 08└─SFBSkype is an optional layer that those in charge of SFB (hosted On-Prem or Cloud/O365, doesn't matter) have control over. At least with the On-Prem version you can restrict it on a user-by-user basis (via the External Communication policy config); along with SFBSFB 'Federation'. (Which can be none...
[03:47:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Ban 'Offensive Language' From Skype, Xbox, Office and Other Services - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:18] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry, I really tried, but I was unable to be offended by your comment. Perhaps if you would include some Vogon poetry?
[03:48:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oracle v. Google: Appeals Court Rules That Google Violated Oracle's Copyrights - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:48:49] <exec> 08└─Silly. All that matters is "apps"! Everything else is passe.
[03:49:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kim Jong-un Visits Chinese President Xi Jinping, Still "Committed to Denuclearization" - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:49:17] <exec> 08└─When Saudi terrorists attacked the USA the USA didn't regime change the USA. US people should be more concerned over why the US Gov keeps being such a great enemy and threat to the USA. p..s. Your guns aren't going to help fix your government. Especially not when the government can get millions of y...
[03:50:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disabled Alarm Blamed for Ohio Fertility Center Failure that Destroyed Around 4,000 Eggs and Embryos - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:50:51] <exec> 08└─It isn't like the world is running out of humans.
[03:53:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lockheed Martin's Patent for a Fusion Reactor the Size of a Shipping Container - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:56] <exec> 08└─It isn't going to be instant free power for everyone like people have been promising. It's going to start out expensive and get better over time. Just like any technology.
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[04:47:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06Microsoft to Ban 'Offensive Language' From Skype, Xbox, Office and Other Services - 279 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:05] <exec> 08└─Offense is in the eye of the offended. Where it should hopefully be poked around and ground in a bit. I don't know where people get this idea that freedom of speech has an exception for anything they decide to find offensive. You're offended? Good. Go be offended somewhere else.
[04:47:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft to Ban 'Offensive Language' From Skype, Xbox, Office and Other Services - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:21] <exec> 08└─Oracle.
[04:47:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Ban 'Offensive Language' From Skype, Xbox, Office and Other Services - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:22] <exec> 08└─Youtube apparently does voice parsing while looking for stuff to ban. I expect parsing a mere audio stream is that much easier.
[04:47:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Ban 'Offensive Language' From Skype, Xbox, Office and Other Services - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:24] <exec> 08└─"Shaka, when the sewers backed up."
[04:51:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03jb [338] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gold Nanoplasmonic Hybrid Glass Optical Disc Could Store 10 Terabytes for Over Six Centuries - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:51:39] <exec> 08└─640 years should be enough for anyone!
[04:51:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gold Nanoplasmonic Hybrid Glass Optical Disc Could Store 10 Terabytes for Over Six Centuries - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:51:40] <exec> 08└─With China's help we can... much smaller countries in Asia have achieved similar with China's help
[04:52:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Bison Calf Conceived Using IVF Released Into the Wild - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:00] <exec> 08└─Buffalo are farmed pretty successfully, for meat and skin mostly AIUI, they've not been bred for milk production like cows. I can't imagine bison are too different.
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[05:45:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Funny) 02 - 06U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Pushes for Hemp Legalization - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:49] <exec> 08└─Puts the republicans another step ahead of the democrats. Once again we'll be looking very small changes in congress
[05:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Pushes for Hemp Legalization - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:50] <exec> 08└─Something something broken clock.
[05:46:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03BsAtHome [889] 02 - 06Microsoft to Ban 'Offensive Language' From Skype, Xbox, Office and Other Services - 571 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:41] <exec> 08└─Does that actually matter? If the *other* side you are communicating with is not on the same agreement, then you have a problem too. The "Covered Services" include: Skype in the Classroom Skype Interviews Skype Manager Skype Qik Skype.com Skype I am actually more worried about the education versions...
[05:47:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft to Ban 'Offensive Language' From Skype, Xbox, Office and Other Services - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:25] <exec> 08└─That's what she said!
[05:48:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Oracle v. Google: Appeals Court Rules That Google Violated Oracle's Copyrights - 130 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:48:23] <exec> 08└─Too bad someone smart like judge Alsup can't get involved with this. Oh, wait. He did already. The fed appeals court doesn't care.
[05:48:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Oracle v. Google: Appeals Court Rules That Google Violated Oracle's Copyrights - 416 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:48:27] <exec> 08└─Google never used Sun's Java. Google used Apache Harmony which is open source (Apache 2 license), and mostly written by IBM. So the actual lack of any copyright infringement is how Oracle morphed their case to claim that somehow in some bizzarro world APIs are copyrightable. Agree about implementati...
[05:48:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oracle v. Google: Appeals Court Rules That Google Violated Oracle's Copyrights - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:48:58] <exec> 08└─That it is successful is really absurd, but I agree it's true. The company I was working for once bought an Oracle license, and hired their recommended contractors to develop a rather simple database using it. After a year they didn't even have a working dialog box. Now I don't really know that this...
[05:49:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oracle v. Google: Appeals Court Rules That Google Violated Oracle's Copyrights - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:49:00] <exec> 08└─More that half the suffering caused by leprosy (Hansen's disease) was due to social isolation. It wasn't nice, but the social treatment of the sufferers caused more than half the suffering. And depending on the century you could get called a leper because of a bad case of acne.
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[06:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Karen Sandler Wins this Year's Free Software Award - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:50] <exec> 08└─The mountain man is coon skin cap away from hillbilly of the year award himself. Oh, go ahead, mod me troll, if you didn't think likewise. https://img.ifcdn.com [ifcdn.com]
[06:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Karen Sandler Wins this Year's Free Software Award - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:51] <exec> 08└─Karen Sandler is apparently the main person of this post. Might wanna describe briefly what she is known for. Most here knows RSM, so it's not necessary for him and his likes, but I don't remember anything about Karen Sandler, and still not clear from the summary why she is given the award.
[06:46:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Pushes for Hemp Legalization - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:46:01] <exec> 08└─When the main political obstructions propose the change, it's more likely to happen. We still have to get the House to go along with it, but it's certainly more likely than if some random outlier proposed the law.
[06:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DonkeyChan [5551] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Pushes for Hemp Legalization - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:46:03] <exec> 08└─Industrial hemp is legally importable. As much as you want. The fact that it's legally importable but illegal to grow is the most insulting thing about all of this.
[06:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mother Bears Spending More Time With Their Cubs Due to Hunting Laws - 636 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:46:12] <exec> 08└─When you consider how short the time span these hunting laws have been on the books the change in behavior happening this quickly is pretty amazing. As a lady the law in my state was that a sow shouldn't be shot if it was with Cubs less than a year old, which you can reliably tell by size of the cub...
[06:46:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mother Bears Spending More Time With Their Cubs Due to Hunting Laws - 795 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:46:14] <exec> 08└─Actually, I'd say it depends entirely on how effective the hunting is. If the culling rate was 100% of the 1.5yr-cub-rearing population, it could be a trait which is effectively wiped out in a single generation. Looking at actual numbers from various sources, it seems there are ~3000 bears in Sweden...
[06:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03marcello_dl [2685] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mother Bears Spending More Time With Their Cubs Due to Hunting Laws - 613 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:46:16] <exec> 08└─>When you consider how short the time span these hunting laws have been on the books the change in behavior happening this quickly is pretty amazing. Only if you insist in not considering concepts like karma and providence, implying that all mutation is random and selection a function of time. This...
[06:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satellite Imagery Helps to Find 81 New Pre-Columbian Sites in the Amazon Rainforest - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:46:28] <exec> 08└─> the thought of hamlets always make me hungry ’tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished! To die, to sleep. To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there’s the rub,
[06:47:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft to Ban 'Offensive Language' From Skype, Xbox, Office and Other Services - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:46] <exec> 08└─To many people (like those who live in some authoritarian countries), spying on people and not respecting their freedom IS ethical, because in their view these things are needed to maintain a stable society and strong government. To other people, digital restrictions management IS ethical, because i...
[06:48:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06NASA's Chief of Human Spaceflight Rules Out Use of Falcon Heavy for Lunar Station - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:48:17] <exec> 08└─Sure, Space X as any good capitalist enterprise can and will, well, capitalize on a good bag of inventions. They will mass produce and they will cut costs and they will make lots of money out of it but, but, they can not innovate and they will need innovations for the next step which probably will n...
[06:50:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Porn Blocking Bill Gets Hearing in Rhode Island Senate - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:50:41] <exec> 08└─Freedom for the common person. You do understand that left means for the people and right means for the aristocracy, or now a days, the rich?
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[07:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Karen Sandler Wins this Year's Free Software Award - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:56] <exec> 08└─She is a lawyer, and the person responsible for the fuss about spending a large amount of gnome foundation money on women in technology outreach efforts. Take that as you will, but there is certainly a lot more politics than technology involved here. It seems that the actual creators of technology a...
[07:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Pushes for Hemp Legalization - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:46:07] <exec> 08└─You might actually see Democrats fight against this, with the pretend reasoning (rather than blatant partisanship) being that it would ruin the medical cannabis. Already a fight in Oregon about that. http://www.oregonlive.com [oregonliv...
[07:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mother Bears Spending More Time With Their Cubs Due to Hunting Laws - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:46:18] <exec> 08└─Have you never heard of Jew-bears-ish mothers? They not only kill Nazis, but the keep calling them up to ask why they are not married yet, and why that haven't taken the LSAT or the MCATs yet. Oh, our anti-semitic posters will be mauled, clawed, and branded well before they have to worry about Jew-...
[07:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mother Bears Spending More Time With Their Cubs Due to Hunting Laws - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:46:19] <exec> 08└─Let's face it, when you get old enough, something about the random impersonal universe does not compute.
[07:47:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Ban 'Offensive Language' From Skype, Xbox, Office and Other Services - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:47:51] <exec> 08└─Hm, are you in the running for a Rory?
[07:47:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Ban 'Offensive Language' From Skype, Xbox, Office and Other Services - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:47:52] <exec> 08└─Is that the truth?
[07:47:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft to Ban 'Offensive Language' From Skype, Xbox, Office and Other Services - 1179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:47:54] <exec> 08└─This is inline with my hypotheses that Microsoft was told to buy Skype so that the US Gov could read the communications. Skype was P2P and kinda encrypted before Microsoft bought it. Back then if you tried to send messages while your recipient was offline the message would actually be stuck on your...
[07:48:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Chief of Human Spaceflight Rules Out Use of Falcon Heavy for Lunar Station - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:48:26] <exec> 08└─Spotted the NASA contractor. Is that pork nice and tasty?
[07:48:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Chief of Human Spaceflight Rules Out Use of Falcon Heavy for Lunar Station - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:48:27] <exec> 08└─Good point! How can spaceX ever hope to catch up with all those successful manned SLS launches we have been watching.....
[07:49:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02 - 06Kim Jong-un Visits Chinese President Xi Jinping, Still "Committed to Denuclearization" - 632 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:49:49] <exec> 08└─You should read some history. North Korea was created by Stalin after World War II, China was otherwise occupied fighting their own civil war at the time. Newly communist China backed North Korea during the Korean War mostly because Douglas MacArthur was threatening to send UN forces over the borde...
[07:51:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03rleigh [4887] 02 - 06Disabled Alarm Blamed for Ohio Fertility Center Failure that Destroyed Around 4,000 Eggs and Embryos - 1726 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:51:30] <exec> 08└─There is no refrigeration, and there are no heat exchangers, in liquid nitrogen storage tanks. They are nothing more than a large stainless steel dewar with a few inches of liquid nitrogen at the bottom. While the bottom box or two of a stack might be immersed in liquid, most are in nitrogen vapour...
[07:51:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spelli [6123] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Disabled Alarm Blamed for Ohio Fertility Center Failure that Destroyed Around 4,000 Eggs and Embryos - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:51:34] <exec> 08└─Also, since they had eggs & embryos frozen in the 80s, some women might not be able to take the offer of free compensatory IVF cycles any more. Those women will now definitely never have children of their own.
[07:53:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spanish Spies Tracked Carles Puigdemont via Friend's Phone - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:53:38] <exec> 08└─Quite correct, I should have said international warrant - for which the safeguards that I claimed do exist.
[07:53:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spanish Spies Tracked Carles Puigdemont via Friend's Phone - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:53:39] <exec> 08└─So he will have to answer to the courts and defend himself there. Would you suggest that we simply ignore all crimes if someone claims that they are being politically persecuted? Regardless of how fair you or I might think he is being treated, if he broke Spanish law then he has to answer for his cr...
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[08:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Julian Assange has His Internet Access Cut Off by Ecuador - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:49] <exec> 08└─Maybe because he's dead already, dead people don't need internet access. an agreement not to interfere in the South American country's relations with other states.
[08:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Karen Sandler Wins this Year's Free Software Award - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:59] <exec> 08└─Another problem with prizes is that you will run out of people worthy of the prize at some point. You start awarding the lesser folks, lowering standards and denuding the prize of its value.
[08:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mother Bears Spending More Time With Their Cubs Due to Hunting Laws - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:23] <exec> 08└─Yet another breathless so-called "science journalism" article deriving conclusions from research that is only half complete. Wake me up when they've finished the human trials.
[08:47:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Ban 'Offensive Language' From Skype, Xbox, Office and Other Services - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:47:58] <exec> 08└─It is hard to actually be offended by Runaway. To begin with, he is so ignorant, and that excuses much. And he tries to be a provocateur, but fails quite badly because he is so ignorant, as previously mentioned. So there is nothing left but accusations of pederastry, which are so blasé and obviousl...
[08:47:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Ban 'Offensive Language' From Skype, Xbox, Office and Other Services - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:47:59] <exec> 08└─Am I to infer that you do not get the reference? Or am I to ascertain that we should leave Star Trek to the Star Trek? My comment was very serious, in light of attempts to claim that discrimination is a religious freedom. Shirley you know about Stonewall [wikipedia.org], and I do not refer to the J...
[08:48:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opioid Analgesics Reduce Use Of Antipsychotics In Persons With Alzheimer's Disease - 1563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:48:50] <exec> 08└─_every_ drug has side effects - in at least some people, we're all different. Few people read the package inserts for every med they take (maybe just you and me), if you do you'll often find side effects lists run to pages long, and even then you can get serious side effects that are to rare to be l...
[08:53:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Spanish Spies Tracked Carles Puigdemont via Friend's Phone - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:53:46] <exec> 08└─Would you suggest that we simply ignore all crimes if someone claims that they are being politically persecuted?
[08:53:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Spanish Spies Tracked Carles Puigdemont via Friend's Phone - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:53:48] <exec> 08└─That's the entire point of the EU. The alternative is the previous 1500 years of war.
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[09:45:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Market Value Temporarily Drops $53 Billion Due to Report of Tax Threats by President Trump - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:55] <exec> 08└─who shorted Amazon? Anyone the Don knows?
[09:46:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Karen Sandler Wins this Year's Free Software Award - 749 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:13] <exec> 08└─It is important to show appreciation for conduct favorable to a general public cause. Principles before realizations, etc. Free software is not about software but about freedom, or precisely about freedom not being taken away by means of software. With closed, hidden away knowledge, computer code no...
[09:47:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Microsoft to Ban 'Offensive Language' From Skype, Xbox, Office and Other Services - 440 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:47:53] <exec> 08└─Those of you with this attitude really need to be identified in real life. That way, when Big Business finds some reason to come after YOU, the rest of us will know that you deserve that boot on your throat. Nay, you actively lobbied to have a boot crushing your throat, you don't merely deserve that...
[09:48:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Ban 'Offensive Language' From Skype, Xbox, Office and Other Services - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:48:15] <exec> 08└─Because it's a vulgar word for stinky poo. And we don't like to think about stinky poo, especially not in polite company. More tea, Vicar?
[09:48:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Ban 'Offensive Language' From Skype, Xbox, Office and Other Services - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:48:16] <exec> 08└─Am I to infer that you do not get the reference?
[09:48:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Ban 'Offensive Language' From Skype, Xbox, Office and Other Services - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:48:18] <exec> 08└─s/interested/inferring (shitty autocorrect)
[09:48:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Ban 'Offensive Language' From Skype, Xbox, Office and Other Services - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:48:21] <exec> 08└─in light of attempts to claim that discrimination is a religious freedom
[09:54:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spanish Spies Tracked Carles Puigdemont via Friend's Phone - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:54:09] <exec> 08└─What crime?
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[10:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Market Value Temporarily Drops $53 Billion Due to Report of Tax Threats by President Trump - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:52] <exec> 08└─Mueller? Mueller? Mueller? :)
[10:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Market Value Temporarily Drops $53 Billion Due to Report of Tax Threats by President Trump - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:54] <exec> 08└─^This is what is needed: not mega mergers and huge corporations that feed the rich only, but help for the real people and employers and families. The Donald gets a thumbs up from me?!?! Lawdy lawdy lawdy.
[10:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Julian Assange has His Internet Access Cut Off by Ecuador - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:03] <exec> 08└─Another sign that he has overstayed his welcome, still not at the level of getting a bag over his head and a push out the front door. That said I'm sure they'll turn it back on sooner of later, perhaps with some more blocking, filtering and monitoring installed.
[10:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Julian Assange has His Internet Access Cut Off by Ecuador - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:05] <exec> 08└─an agreement not to interfere in the South American country's relations with other states.
[10:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Karen Sandler Wins this Year's Free Software Award - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:16] <exec> 08└─The real question: Why does anyone care? A person's work should speak for itself.
[10:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Pushes for Hemp Legalization - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:28] <exec> 08└─Enjoy yer Freedoms that Men died fer. 'MURICA.
[10:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Pushes for Hemp Legalization - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:30] <exec> 08└─Can't even hang myself with hemp rope I cri evertime
[10:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Pushes for Hemp Legalization - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:32] <exec> 08└─Something something broke back mountain.
[10:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satellite Imagery Helps to Find 81 New Pre-Columbian Sites in the Amazon Rainforest - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:58] <exec> 08└─You dropped the hem in the ruins.
[10:48:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Ban 'Offensive Language' From Skype, Xbox, Office and Other Services - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:48:27] <exec> 08└─Microsoft may still have a monopoly on desktop OSes
[10:49:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA's Chief of Human Spaceflight Rules Out Use of Falcon Heavy for Lunar Station - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:49:01] <exec> 08└─That's why crowdfunding works: It's all or nothing. There's no risk. If you can't raise the funds from a sufficient number of people, nobody pays anything. It's a good way to find those projects that actually do have widespread, meaningful support. Put another way: Why should this one particular org...
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[11:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Compromises on Copyright Maximalism are Clearly No Longer on the EU Agenda - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:51] <exec> 08└─But I was told only America had lobbyists! Or are these American lobbyists chairing the council meetings?
[11:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Compromises on Copyright Maximalism are Clearly No Longer on the EU Agenda - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:53] <exec> 08└─The Americans began a revolutionary war to free themselves of a far-off, unrepresentative, centralised power that was increasingly tyrannical (especially with regard to taxation). Both Washington, DC, and the EU bureaucrats seem to fit that description.
[11:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Compromises on Copyright Maximalism are Clearly No Longer on the EU Agenda - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:55] <exec> 08└─This is why the Pirate Party exists. If you're European, vote accordingly. Pirates have become a substantial force in Iceland and the Czech Republic, and there's no particular reason they couldn't elsewhere.
[11:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Market Value Temporarily Drops $53 Billion Due to Report of Tax Threats by President Trump - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:05] <exec> 08└─Thank you for your support! Amazon is a no-tax monopoly. But Congress won't go after it. Because the Amazon Washington Post would do one of their lame hit pieces. I have respect for Jeff Bezos, but he bought The Washington Post to have political influence, and I gotta tell you, we have a different c...
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[11:46:08] <exec> 08└─rdt Yeah, yeah, yeah. And in 10 minutes you will be spouting off on another tangent...probably that stupid wall. Support for mom and pop stores? Tell me another one, oh great developer who uses eminent domain to make way for your projects. Meanwhile Bezos is staying the course because he's focused o...
[11:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Julian Assange has His Internet Access Cut Off by Ecuador - 1128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:19] <exec> 08└─Assange has been vocal regarding Catalan independance eg. : "In 1940 the elected president of Catalonia, Lluís Companys, was captured by the Gestapo, at the request of Spain, delivered to them and executed. Today, German police have arrested the elected president of Catalonia, Carles Puigdemont, at...
[11:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Julian Assange has His Internet Access Cut Off by Ecuador - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:21] <exec> 08└─Soon there will be nowhere to run and hide for the criminally corrupt who wrongfully oppress the weak and suppress the truth. Even the watchers are not immune from being watched.
[11:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Julian Assange has His Internet Access Cut Off by Ecuador - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:23] <exec> 08└─Spain is rather... sensitive... about this issue. It would be no surprise if additional pressure by Spain gave Equador that extra push.
[11:50:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oracle v. Google: Appeals Court Rules That Google Violated Oracle's Copyrights - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:50:23] <exec> 08└─I don't entirely agree that APIs shouldn't be copyrightable, because a good API is a creative work and is far more valuable than a bad one (if you don't believe me, count the CVEs that are due to API misuse purely from the bad design of the OpenSSL APIs). The original ruling in this case said that A...
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[11:50:44] <exec> 08└─Plus one of the apparent rules of US politics is that if you start a war, your popularity shoots up, regardless of how stupid and pointless that war may be. For example, the two biggest jumps in George W Bush's approval rating were (1) September 2001, where he got a 40% boost by being so incompetent...
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[12:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former FBI Agent Charged With Leaking Secret Documents, Presumably to The Intercept - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:51] <exec> 08└─Given all the self-righteous rhetoric spewed out by FBI employees, it must be the case that they are the most corrupt agency of them all. In society, take whatever is message is repeated again and again; the opposite of that message is what's True.
[12:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former FBI Agent Charged With Leaking Secret Documents, Presumably to The Intercept - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:53] <exec> 08└─There were several stories to choose from in that Secret Rules series, but I saw that informant-related one first and it's pretty relevant in light of stuff like this: FBI Groomed Pulse Nightclub Shooter to Be Informant; Father Was One [soylentnews.org] FBI: Catching fake terrorists, creating real o...
[12:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03loonycyborg [6905] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Compromises on Copyright Maximalism are Clearly No Longer on the EU Agenda - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:03] <exec> 08└─I don't think those parties should carry moniker made by copyright fanatics for them: pirate. Mensheviks did the same(the word basically means "loser" in russian) and look how it worked out for them.
[12:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Compromises on Copyright Maximalism are Clearly No Longer on the EU Agenda - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:06] <exec> 08└─That's part of growing up for humanity - at some moment, they'll need to learn to look beyond what's written on a pejorative label and see the reality, no matter if the label reads "bunch of deplorables" or "pirate". Failing to do so will only perpetuate a shallow and mostly dismissive approach to s...
[12:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03loonycyborg [6905] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Compromises on Copyright Maximalism are Clearly No Longer on the EU Agenda - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:08] <exec> 08└─Looking behind deplorable labels isn't the same as adopting them. I would prefer if they would at least be factually correct. But it's just me. I for one think adopting a defeatist label is mostly sign of laziness, because you're not expected to expend actual effort if you're a loser anyway.
[12:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03letssee [2537] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Compromises on Copyright Maximalism are Clearly No Longer on the EU Agenda - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:10] <exec> 08└─While I agree with you that humanity *should* grow up, there are no signs that it does. Hence , it's better to pick a non-pejorative name. It might work in holland, it worked for the 'geux' once. The pirate party is not doing so well in holland though. Mainly because they seem to consist of a bunch...
[12:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03noneof_theabove [6189] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Amazon Market Value Temporarily Drops $53 Billion Due to Report of Tax Threats by President Trump - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:22] <exec> 08└─Amazon and others are not the problem with "main street". Walmart did the most damage of the "mega super stores" years ago. Frankly, chopping Walmart off at the knees sounds good to me.
[12:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Pushes for Hemp Legalization - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:00] <exec> 08└─Wink, wink. Nudge, nudge. Say no more, say no more.
[12:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mother Bears Spending More Time With Their Cubs Due to Hunting Laws - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:14] <exec> 08└─This has nothing to do with religion...
[12:48:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Ban 'Offensive Language' From Skype, Xbox, Office and Other Services - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:57] <exec> 08└─It's not a loophole as much as it wouldn't be a loophole for the state to pay for private armed goons to oppress you.
[12:53:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gold Nanoplasmonic Hybrid Glass Optical Disc Could Store 10 Terabytes for Over Six Centuries - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:53:24] <exec> 08└─I think it's more a problem of being able to compete against networked storage.
[12:53:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gold Nanoplasmonic Hybrid Glass Optical Disc Could Store 10 Terabytes for Over Six Centuries - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:53:25] <exec> 08└─So, Chinese owned businesses in Australia - employing Australian workers? Yeah, that might work - it works for German car makers in the US Southeast. What do you think is the major impediment to Australian/US owners being able to compete here? Raw capital is certainly one problem, but there also see...
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[13:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Compromises on Copyright Maximalism are Clearly No Longer on the EU Agenda - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:09] <exec> 08└─I fear it will end in all-out rebellion, hopefully without real revolutions. Revolutions tend to be not-fun for all people involved.
[13:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Compromises on Copyright Maximalism are Clearly No Longer on the EU Agenda - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:11] <exec> 08└─I for one think adopting a defeatist label is mostly sign of laziness, because you're not expected to expend actual effort if you're a loser anyway.
[13:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Compromises on Copyright Maximalism are Clearly No Longer on the EU Agenda - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:13] <exec> 08└─The EU is evolving to the best govt money can buy much faster than most. Lack of accountability in fishing rights contributed to Brexit. Wonder what lack of accountability in Copyright will lead to?
[13:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Compromises on Copyright Maximalism are Clearly No Longer on the EU Agenda - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:15] <exec> 08└─While I agree with you that humanity *should* grow up, there are no signs that it does. Hence , it's better to pick a non-pejorative name.
[13:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Compromises on Copyright Maximalism are Clearly No Longer on the EU Agenda - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:17] <exec> 08└─Worst case scenario involves eternally entrenched power.
[13:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Compromises on Copyright Maximalism are Clearly No Longer on the EU Agenda - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:19] <exec> 08└─I do support the pirates. However, in Switzerland at least, there is a problem: aside from technical matters, the Pirate Party here is far left: progressive/socialist. For example, totally pro-immigration. While I very much appreciate having a party with a clue about technical issues, their other po...
[13:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Julian Assange has His Internet Access Cut Off by Ecuador - 811 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:44] <exec> 08└─UK minister: 'miserable little worm' Assange should turn himself in [reuters.com] “It’s of great regret that Julian Assange remains in the Ecuador embassy,” junior minister Alan Duncan said during a question-and-answer session on foreign affairs in parliament’s House of Commons, in response...
[13:46:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Julian Assange has His Internet Access Cut Off by Ecuador - 1872 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:45] <exec> 08└─I'm guessing statements like that might explain why Alan Duncan is only a junior minister but, to be fair, Assange's statement is rather liberal with the truth - he's only a prisoner detained for eight years because he *chose* to flee to the Ecuadorian Embassy and inflict that on himself, and he's a...
[13:46:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Julian Assange has His Internet Access Cut Off by Ecuador - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:48] <exec> 08└─Isn't internet access a human right? [wikipedia.org] Sort of like other human rights like free food, shelter, clothing, health care, smart phones, vacations and retirement? And the right to not see or hear any uncomfortable ideas?
[13:47:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mother Bears Spending More Time With Their Cubs Due to Hunting Laws - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:29] <exec> 08└─I am a big believer in the Second Amendment. I'm not a hunter and don't approve of killing animals. But, good to know hunting is bringing back MOTHERHOOD!
[13:47:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Translation Error [718] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mother Bears Spending More Time With Their Cubs Due to Hunting Laws - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:30] <exec> 08└─This shouldn't be a surprise. We've already observed that fishing that targets larger fish has resulted in future generations of smaller fish with less size diversity. This isn't anything different.
[13:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mother Bears Spending More Time With Their Cubs Due to Hunting Laws - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:32] <exec> 08└─It is big news to people who don't believe in eviloution. Mother bears spending more time with their cubes is just exhibiting good family values.
[13:47:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mother Bears Spending More Time With Their Cubs Due to Hunting Laws - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:34] <exec> 08└─If hunting bears helps protect mother bears, then hunting them with automatic weapons should help protect bear populations even more! Sign an executive order today! (But don't read it first, assuming you can read.)
[13:47:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mother Bears Spending More Time With Their Cubs Due to Hunting Laws - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:37] <exec> 08└─These fish aren't going to fly because what you suggest can be used as evidence to support the idea that evolution could be real.
[13:48:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Form New Association to Discuss Gene Editing Ethics - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:03] <exec> 08└─I'll hold out for IDEs that do gene refactoring.
[13:49:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03qzm [3260] 02 - 06NASA's Chief of Human Spaceflight Rules Out Use of Falcon Heavy for Lunar Station - 698 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:31] <exec> 08└─SLS carries THOUSANDS of times more pork, and as we know Pork delivery has, for some time, been the primary mission goal of NASA. I know the NASA lovers will hate on this, but face facts people, NASA has all but become a butchery, to distribute nice clean juicy pork to whoIever it is decided. I do t...
[13:51:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oracle v. Google: Appeals Court Rules That Google Violated Oracle's Copyrights - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:51:03] <exec> 08└─It's not quite that bad. The original case determined that APIs were copyrightable, but that their use and reimplementation was covered by fair use. being copyrighted isn't a problem in and of itself, the problem is when copyright is used to restrict the kinds of derived work that you can create. It...
[13:51:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oracle v. Google: Appeals Court Rules That Google Violated Oracle's Copyrights - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:51:05] <exec> 08└─I would say this about proprietary APIs. If you have a secret API that you don't want anyone to use, then keep it to yourself. Don't publish it. Of course, others can reverse engineer it. And probably will if there is a reason. (eg: hidden APIs in Windows) If you're going to allow people to create i...
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[13:53:56] <exec> 08└─I'd also forgotten about Archival Disc. When I went to look, none of the normal places I'd expect to sell it did, and the one place I found them charges $148 for a 1.5TB disc, so about $100/TB. For reference, that's the same price per TB as about 25 years of storage on Amazon Glacier ($0.004/GB). If...
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[14:45:51] <exec> 08└─So how quick will car manufacturers incorporate an innovation like this? I hope Tesla is all over this.
[14:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Edges and Corners Increase Efficiency of Catalytic Converters - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:52] <exec> 08└─"In applications where having more surface area helps more gas get exposed to a surface, it helps if you have more surface area so more gas gets exposed to the surface (because there is more surface area)." Thanks, guys. Good work.
[14:45:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Edges and Corners Increase Efficiency of Catalytic Converters - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:54] <exec> 08└─The surface area thing seems pretty intuitive to me. What was less expected is that giving more oxygen than needed will decrease efficiency.
[14:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Edges and Corners Increase Efficiency of Catalytic Converters - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:56] <exec> 08└─Catalytic converters for cleaning exhaust emissions are more efficient when they use nanoparticles with many edges.
[14:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former FBI Agent Charged With Leaking Secret Documents, Presumably to The Intercept - 824 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:06] <exec> 08└─It's obscene that AG Sessions can find the time to prosecute this agent for exposing government wrong-doing, while being completely unwilling to prosecute Hillary Clinton for violating so many laws regarding the handling of classified material. This is another in a long line of recent cases where th...
[14:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03loonycyborg [6905] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Compromises on Copyright Maximalism are Clearly No Longer on the EU Agenda - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:26] <exec> 08└─No courage is needed to call yourself a loser. Courage is in getting things done. And calling things how they are is required for this, because people otherwise just won't understand you and you won't be able to coordinate.
[14:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Compromises on Copyright Maximalism are Clearly No Longer on the EU Agenda - 892 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:27] <exec> 08└─An alternative solution: Mark some WWW locations as non-linkable. Only the owner of the content can distribute the URL. Having the URL gives you the right to use it. Distribution of the URL is treated like copying the content. Since a URL can point to anything, marking in the actual content would be...
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[14:46:29] <exec> 08└─That's why, IMHO, future of democracy are non-participating pressure groups/movements pushing sharp-focused well-defined initiatives. Simply, take an idea most of the constituency can get behind,avoid smearing campaigns by actively avoiding minefields of issues which are not directly related and cou...
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[14:46:32] <exec> 08└─I hope/wish you to be right. I see no reason why the Pirate Party should be taking positions on every issue out there. They should concentrate on the technical. But I do see the problem: If you elect a Pirate to Parliament, they will be voting on all issues. And people therefore want to know *how* t...
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[14:46:34] <exec> 08└─If you're in Wales, remember to vote for Jill Evans (it's a sorry state of affairs when the Welsh Nationalist is the most sane candidate - by quite a large margin). She works closely with the EFF and similar organisations and has actively campaigned in Brussels against extensions of copyright and ag...
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[14:46:36] <exec> 08└─I have also wondered whether the name "pirate" is a good idea, and that good alternatives might be the Sharing Party, or the Robin Hood Party, or possibly the Education Party. But I finally I decided the Pirate name is just fine. Pirates have a kind of bad boy, rule breaking coolness to them. The pr...
[14:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Compromises on Copyright Maximalism are Clearly No Longer on the EU Agenda - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:38] <exec> 08└─Pirates are cool. Robin Hood Party could be read as Socialist Party.
[14:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Julian Assange has His Internet Access Cut Off by Ecuador - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:05] <exec> 08└─Yeah, justice in the United Kingdom is very even handed. Grooming gangs always get punished, and there's no way a Scotsman would be convicted of a crime just for cracking an edgy joke about how Nazis were the worst thing he could think of.
[14:47:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Julian Assange has His Internet Access Cut Off by Ecuador - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:07] <exec> 08└─Really? Cause snowden was never called a perv. Manning is hated for being an attention seeker and Assange is an asshole and probably a perv.
[14:47:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Julian Assange has His Internet Access Cut Off by Ecuador - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:09] <exec> 08└─Shut up stupid. Human rights are what we decide they are as a species. If you expect to live with the dignity of a zoo animal good for you
[14:47:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DonkeyChan [5551] 02 - 06U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Pushes for Hemp Legalization - 164 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:30] <exec> 08└─Industrial hemp is legally importable. As much as you want. The fact that it's legally importable but illegal to grow is the most insulting thing about all of this.
[14:47:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Pushes for Hemp Legalization - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:36] <exec> 08└─The further irony is that no less illustrious personages than George Washington and Thomas Jefferson had cultivated large fields of hemp in their day. Washington had in fact grown several varieties of hemp on all of his plantations, and there is some speculation that he might have even perhaps smoke...
[14:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Pushes for Hemp Legalization - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:38] <exec> 08└─I found out recently that a hemp product is very helpful with an ailment that affects half my family. Hemp, not Weed. What these people need is a kick up the rear. Banning products which have been used as medicine for centuries. Stupid.
[14:47:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mother Bears Spending More Time With Their Cubs Due to Hunting Laws - 708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:58] <exec> 08└─Hm...could this be a universal selective force towards staying with the young longer? Could there have been a part of human evolution that selected for mothers caring for children longer, leading to more space for human children to need constant attention? That could happen if other humans were more...
[14:48:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mother Bears Spending More Time With Their Cubs Due to Hunting Laws - 873 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:00] <exec> 08└─Considering the lifestyle of bears and the nature of hunters, this seems unlikely. When a bear gets shot at by a hunter, most of the time it ends up dead. So unless we assume some bear social network, and assume that the bears miss the dead ones and then compiled the statistics learning that when yo...
[14:48:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Mother Bears Spending More Time With Their Cubs Due to Hunting Laws - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:02] <exec> 08└─So how long until the bears obtain firearms and start hunting humans?
[14:49:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Ban 'Offensive Language' From Skype, Xbox, Office and Other Services - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:46] <exec> 08└─Sorry. Negative. I'm the same old asshole that I always am. I enjoy pissing off left and right. I'll point out that I don't have cyclical mood swings and what not. It's you who is feeling especially chummy. We've seen this each spring since we've met. It's those hormones, and the nesting instinct do...
[14:49:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft to Ban 'Offensive Language' From Skype, Xbox, Office and Other Services - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:48] <exec> 08└─The problem is that with that Free Software, you'll not manage to call any Skype user. The network effect ensures that moving away from Skype gets too painful for most people. What is really needed is open protocols. Then all clients could compete without the network effect causing any issues.
[14:49:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft to Ban 'Offensive Language' From Skype, Xbox, Office and Other Services - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:50] <exec> 08└─It is no loophole, since there is no law that says you have to use Skype.
[14:50:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opioid Analgesics Reduce Use Of Antipsychotics In Persons With Alzheimer's Disease - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:43] <exec> 08└─What about occasional, non-regular use of hydrocodone? Will that help with mental illness? (I have not been involuntarily committed yet. [soylentnews.org] So far as I can tell.)
[14:51:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03pipedwho [2032] 02 - 06Oracle v. Google: Appeals Court Rules That Google Violated Oracle's Copyrights - 373 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:08] <exec> 08└─Patents and copyrights can be defended at any time descriminately as the holder sees fit. It is trademarks that must be defended. This is because a trademark can be indefinitely held (as long as fees are paid), and protect from ‘market confusion’ and brand association, which are relative to publ...
[14:51:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oracle v. Google: Appeals Court Rules That Google Violated Oracle's Copyrights - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:35] <exec> 08└─In most of the world, copyright also implies moral rights. For example, you can't claim to have created something that I have created if it's copyrighted.
[14:52:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Porn Blocking Bill Gets Hearing in Rhode Island Senate - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:57] <exec> 08└─You're serious, aren't you?
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[15:45:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Production Plant Hit with Windows' WannaCry Ransomware Attack - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:48] <exec> 08└─What kind of moron uses Microsoft Windows on critical computing systems? They're getting exactly what they deserve. I hope they go out of business and get acquired by Airbus for pennies on the dollar.
[15:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Production Plant Hit with Windows' WannaCry Ransomware Attack - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:50] <exec> 08└─And might I just add "Hahahaha hahahaha hahaha.....etc" Window is a gaming platform at best. Critical systems? Idiots.
[15:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing Production Plant Hit with Windows' WannaCry Ransomware Attack - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:52] <exec> 08└─Your boss and his golfing buddies do.
[15:45:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing Production Plant Hit with Windows' WannaCry Ransomware Attack - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:54] <exec> 08└─... I have no idea why people use Windows for anything. With billions of dollars of IP on the line, you'd think that these wealthy corporations would band together to developer an operating system that really appreciates security. Then again, these wealthy corporations suck on Uncle Sam's golden tea...
[15:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Edges and Corners Increase Efficiency of Catalytic Converters - 711 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:05] <exec> 08└─Combustion is already controlled carefully to be near stoichiometric (just enough oxygen to react with the fuel). At least part of this is so the "3-way catalyst" can treat the three major pollutants properly (someone else might understand the chemistry). The one time I worked in an emissions lab wa...
[15:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former FBI Agent Charged With Leaking Secret Documents, Presumably to The Intercept - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:15] <exec> 08└─I came here to say the same thing. Hillary Clinton's offense is one of the most egregious in recent years and yet they refuse to prosecute her or even seek an indictment. Intention was never a requirement for being brought up on charges related to mishandling classified materials. I'm personally rat...
[15:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former FBI Agent Charged With Leaking Secret Documents, Presumably to The Intercept - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:17] <exec> 08└─The real crime in the Hillary email thing is the technical security staff at the State Department. They failed to make sure she attended security training. They should have a check-list that they fully monitor. Hillary is not a technician, it wasn't her job to micromanage training and other IT monit...
[15:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Compromises on Copyright Maximalism are Clearly No Longer on the EU Agenda - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:45] <exec> 08└─No courage is needed to call yourself a loser.
[15:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Compromises on Copyright Maximalism are Clearly No Longer on the EU Agenda - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:46] <exec> 08└─I'll believe you when I'll see you calling yourself a loser. Come on, I dare you. (grin)
[15:46:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Compromises on Copyright Maximalism are Clearly No Longer on the EU Agenda - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:48] <exec> 08└─While I agree with you that humanity *should* grow up, there are no signs that it does. Hence , it's better to pick a non-pejorative name.
[15:46:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Compromises on Copyright Maximalism are Clearly No Longer on the EU Agenda - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:50] <exec> 08└─I think the reason they adopted it is that generally speaking pirates are considered cool. They're cool enough that there are feature films and books about them, seafood restaurant chains named after them, etc. Just because some idiots with a lot of money tried to make it a pejorative doesn't mean i...
[15:47:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Market Value Temporarily Drops $53 Billion Due to Report of Tax Threats by President Trump - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:03] <exec> 08└─Tech was clearly a bubble (but I accept 99% of TA is indistinguishable from horoscopes), so everyone should have been either bailing (if they're scared) or shorting (if they're addicted). I think Bezos himself lost 4.6B$ of personaly imaginary worth this week. Musk and Zuckerman haven't done much be...
[15:47:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03John Miller [6613] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Amazon Market Value Temporarily Drops $53 Billion Due to Report of Tax Threats by President Trump - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:04] <exec> 08└─"I have stated my concerns with Amazon long before the Election. Unlike others, they pay little or no taxes to state & local governments, use our Postal System as their Delivery Boy (causing tremendous loss to the U.S.), and are putting many thousands of retailers out of business!" twitter.com/realD...
[15:47:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Pav [114] 02 - 06Julian Assange has His Internet Access Cut Off by Ecuador - 1128 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:15] <exec> 08└─Assange has been vocal regarding Catalan independance eg. : "In 1940 the elected president of Catalonia, Lluís Companys, was captured by the Gestapo, at the request of Spain, delivered to them and executed. Today, German police have arrested the elected president of Catalonia, Carles Puigdemont, at...
[15:47:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Julian Assange has His Internet Access Cut Off by Ecuador - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:25] <exec> 08└─https://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/09/02/world/europe/reckoning-starts-in-britain-on-abuse-of-girls.html [nytimes.com] Justice? For who?
[15:47:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Julian Assange has His Internet Access Cut Off by Ecuador - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:28] <exec> 08└─a level 5 fine (£5000) and/or up to 3 months (12 months if indicted), but IANAL and Assange's case may have other considerations. From the moment the Swedes officially dropped their case in May 2017, Assange has been choosing his self-imposed house arrest over that worst case scenario, and there ha...
[15:47:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Julian Assange has His Internet Access Cut Off by Ecuador - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:30] <exec> 08└─Obama on the other hand was a hero and innovator when his creepy data mining on Facebook seemed to help during his election, though all of a sudden it's a crime against humanity when Trump and Cambridge Analytica did it - perhaps some good will come out of his presidency after all.
[15:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Julian Assange has His Internet Access Cut Off by Ecuador - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:32] <exec> 08└─Mostly dead.
[15:47:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Karen Sandler Wins this Year's Free Software Award - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:45] <exec> 08└─That sucks and shouldn't have been awarded at all, but perhaps the creation side was so bleak. What was a standout free software achievement last year, the integration of fsck into SystemD?
[15:48:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03CZB [6457] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Pushes for Hemp Legalization - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:03] <exec> 08└─As a farmer I'm all for growing hemp, it has some good soil and rotation qualities. Not sure how much of a market there will be for it. Probably will be like other third tier crops like millet or buckwheat. The biggest drawback is hemp needs specialty harvesting equipment, and a factory set up to pr...
[15:48:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] 02 - 06Mother Bears Spending More Time With Their Cubs Due to Hunting Laws - 175 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:16] <exec> 08└─Yet another breathless so-called "science journalism" article deriving conclusions from research that is only half complete. Wake me up when they've finished the human trials.
[15:48:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mother Bears Spending More Time With Their Cubs Due to Hunting Laws - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:27] <exec> 08└─This is Sweden. America already has the right to arm bears (its in the Yogi amendment).
[15:48:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satellite Imagery Helps to Find 81 New Pre-Columbian Sites in the Amazon Rainforest - 2611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:42] <exec> 08└─I'm glad this story has gotten more publicity than such stories usually get. The pre-Columbian Americas have a much more interesting history and reality than we appreciate today. As I've commented on such stories on Soylent in the past, Indian societies were much more populous and sophisticated than...
[15:48:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Scientists Form New Association to Discuss Gene Editing Ethics - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:56] <exec> 08└─Google translation: I have been using a dietary remedy in abeyance and judgment, because I did not say anything wrong.
[15:50:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft to Ban 'Offensive Language' From Skype, Xbox, Office and Other Services - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:18] <exec> 08└─Well, I guess people in some village in Austria will have trouble telling others where they live. [wikipedia.org]
[15:52:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oracle v. Google: Appeals Court Rules That Google Violated Oracle's Copyrights - 740 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:04] <exec> 08└─Larry Ellison co-founded Oracle Corporation in 1977 with Bob Miner and Ed Oates under the name Software Development Laboratories (SDL).[citation needed] Ellison took inspiration[5] from the 1970 paper written by Edgar F. Codd on relational database management systems (RDBMS) named "A Relational Mode...
[15:52:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oracle v. Google: Appeals Court Rules That Google Violated Oracle's Copyrights - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:06] <exec> 08└─So not only is Ellison a massive, gaping asshole for various other reasons; he also made his fortune by working for the national spying apparatus. Nice. What's wrong with or assholish about that? Working for the national spying apparatus is working in the interests of the American voters. If you don...
[15:53:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Porn Blocking Bill Gets Hearing in Rhode Island Senate - 638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:28] <exec> 08└─Look it up. The left-right split happened in the run up to the French revolution. Those who supported the King and church sat on the right and those who supported the people sat on the left. The problem is things are more complicated then a simple split, people are just as divided in the authoritari...
[15:53:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Porn Blocking Bill Gets Hearing in Rhode Island Senate - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:29] <exec> 08└─So - when the bastards are robbing us, we can tell whether they are lefties or righties, by observing which hand takes our money? Ok, that makes some kinda sense, I guess.
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[16:45:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing Production Plant Hit with Windows' WannaCry Ransomware Attack - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:55] <exec> 08└─I'm surprised they didn't use any security paranoid system.
[16:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Production Plant Hit with Windows' WannaCry Ransomware Attack - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:57] <exec> 08└─Are you implying Grishnak has a job? ;)
[16:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing Production Plant Hit with Windows' WannaCry Ransomware Attack - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:59] <exec> 08└─i agree. they want to fund slaveware and be like the straw boss on the digital plantation, then they wannacry when they are the slave too. Too bad the people sleeping in the barn don't seem know about the digital underground railroad(FOSS).
[16:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03broggyr [3589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Edges and Corners Increase Efficiency of Catalytic Converters - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:11] <exec> 08└─What's that whooshing sound? :D
[16:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Edges and Corners Increase Efficiency of Catalytic Converters - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:12] <exec> 08└─The article was ghost-written by Captain Obvious https://www.soundandvision.com [soundandvision.com]
[16:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Edges and Corners Increase Efficiency of Catalytic Converters - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:14] <exec> 08└─exhaust emissions
[16:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Edges and Corners Increase Efficiency of Catalytic Converters - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:16] <exec> 08└─They're working on many new engine designs trying to improve combustion, but IC engines don't completely combust everything, hence the need for catalytic converters. Combustion is already controlled carefully to be near stoichiometric (just enough oxygen to react with the fuel).
[16:46:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06Former FBI Agent Charged With Leaking Secret Documents, Presumably to The Intercept - 824 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:26] <exec> 08└─It's obscene that AG Sessions can find the time to prosecute this agent for exposing government wrong-doing, while being completely unwilling to prosecute Hillary Clinton for violating so many laws regarding the handling of classified material. This is another in a long line of recent cases where th...
[16:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03messymerry [6369] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Former FBI Agent Charged With Leaking Secret Documents, Presumably to The Intercept - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:30] <exec> 08└─Donald Trump is a pragmatic fellow. Somebody put a literal or figurative gun (it doesn't matter which) to his head. Thus the 180 degree turn around. He likes his skin intact. The titanic ship of state in the Republic of the United States of America has already hit the iceberg. I suggest you get and...
[16:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Compromises on Copyright Maximalism are Clearly No Longer on the EU Agenda - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:01] <exec> 08└─I liked very much how Christian Engström and Amelia Andersdotter did it when they got into the EU Parliament. They simply announced what the Pirate Party's three core issues were and would ally with any party or coalition willing to adopt their stance on technical issues. On those issues it worked...
[16:47:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Compromises on Copyright Maximalism are Clearly No Longer on the EU Agenda - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:02] <exec> 08└─Julia Reda, MEP from Germany, has more information about the link tax in a blog post:To Axel Voss, the European Commission’s plan for a link tax is not extreme enough [juliareda.eu] She also has a copy of the document in question https://juliareda.eu [juliared...
[16:47:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Compromises on Copyright Maximalism are Clearly No Longer on the EU Agenda - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:04] <exec> 08└─Is the Punycode [wikipedia.org]-formatted URL filterable out or in?
[16:47:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Compromises on Copyright Maximalism are Clearly No Longer on the EU Agenda - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:07] <exec> 08└─Single issue politics with referenda? Like Switzerland? [wikipedia.org]
[16:47:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03letssee [2537] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Compromises on Copyright Maximalism are Clearly No Longer on the EU Agenda - 823 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:09] <exec> 08└─>If nobody tries to break the laziness of the world in shaking bad habits, where's the opportunity for this to actually happen? Granted, it would be easier to apply marketing and spin and look for what the world wants to hear. But this require an effort that goes in a direction different to supporti...
[16:47:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Market Value Temporarily Drops $53 Billion Due to Report of Tax Threats by President Trump - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:24] <exec> 08└─I'm typically in favor of anti-trust legislation. However, I'm unsure if e-commerce can handle anti-trust legislation. When I think of completion for Amazon, the first company that pops in my mind is Alibaba. Hurting Amazon may help the small business owner in the USA, or it may just open an opportu...
[16:47:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Julian Assange has His Internet Access Cut Off by Ecuador - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:47] <exec> 08└─I don't want to go in the cart! - Julian Assange
[16:48:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Pushes for Hemp Legalization - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:19] <exec> 08└─There are some real potential issues here. It makes me wonder if there are any other crops where cross pollination carries such a risk, and if so how that is mitigated. The only thing close I can think of is cross pollination by roundup resistant crops, but everything I can find indicates that isn't...
[16:48:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Pushes for Hemp Legalization - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:21] <exec> 08└─Mitch must prefer that "industrial strength" hemp. ;)
[16:50:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02 - 06Microsoft to Ban 'Offensive Language' From Skype, Xbox, Office and Other Services - 1358 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:09] <exec> 08└─So, if you BUY Microsoft Office and install it locally you can create any damned thing you want. RENT a version in their cloud and they plunder through your work and decide day by day whether they want to continue allowing you to use your documents. Of course they are making it harder and harder to...
[16:50:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Ban 'Offensive Language' From Skype, Xbox, Office and Other Services - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:36] <exec> 08└─"ficken" means "the pants pocket" in Swedish, I think. And fornicating in German. So just surround it with some more innocent Swedish words! "kiss" = piss "slut" = the end "sex" = six I'm too tired now to make a coherent sentence with these, tyvärr.
[16:50:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03OrugTor [5147] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Ban 'Offensive Language' From Skype, Xbox, Office and Other Services - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:38] <exec> 08└─modded you up for the Trek reference.
[16:51:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Chief of Human Spaceflight Rules Out Use of Falcon Heavy for Lunar Station - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:51:13] <exec> 08└─Probably the AC who will explain that only by individual humans having mutual agreed contracts with the aliens, likely enforced by Vogons, will we be able to happily colonize the galaxy.
[16:52:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03arcz [4501] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oracle v. Google: Appeals Court Rules That Google Violated Oracle's Copyrights - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:27] <exec> 08└─The Federal Circuit has a strange habit of ruling in favor of big business. I fear that they might be corrupted.
[16:52:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03arcz [4501] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oracle v. Google: Appeals Court Rules That Google Violated Oracle's Copyrights - 729 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:29] <exec> 08└─I would say that Java APIs should not be copyright-able. For a simple reason, if you use the API for compatibility with existing code, then it should be fair use. But the federal circuit is full of idiots. There is a way to get around this. Create a new language derived from Java and create new APIs...
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[17:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Uncle_Al [1108] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Wants Comments on IoT Devices - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:52] <exec> 08└─the page crashes firefox
[17:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Wants Comments on IoT Devices - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:54] <exec> 08└─That's my comment. This is just regulatory capture; it turns out that it's pretty cheap to develp an "IoT" device, meaning that Big Tech is in danger of being disrupted by upstarts. As always, Big Business is running to hide behind the legs of Auntie Samantha, rather than engaging with the other...
[17:45:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Wants Comments on IoT Devices - 789 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:56] <exec> 08└─Seriously, accepting effectively anonymous comments is no way to gauge anything. A single actor, anywhere in the world, can post or cause to be posted thousands, even millions of comments saying whatever they want. They don't even have to be very clever to make the comments convincingly appear to co...
[17:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Wants Comments on IoT Devices - 625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:58] <exec> 08└─If anything, each individual would have to issue the government his public key. Also, the problem with doing that means that you're going on record with a potentially controversial opinion that could be held against you by your political enemies, should they come to power; that's exactly why politic...
[17:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Wants Comments on IoT Devices - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:00] <exec> 08└─You're right. It's pretty cheap to develop, and then abandon any maintenance of, a member of a future bot army. I propose that we do not let government interfere with my future revenue, by requiring companies to protect IoT junk from script-kiddie-level takeovers, slowing down my blackmail operation...
[17:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Wants Comments on IoT Devices - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:03] <exec> 08└─Preventing hacking into IoT devices is likely to be a safety issue depending on the IoT device. Especially as IoT devices begin to control more important things such as heating and A/C systems. Or sump pumps. Food freezers (where food could be thawed until contaminated and then re-frozen). Opening o...
[17:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Wants Comments on IoT Devices - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:05] <exec> 08└─Harmed parties should have a clear legal path to sue ISPs that facilitate bot attacks. Similarly, ISPs should have a clear legal path to sue (or at least turn off without compensation) those people whose IoT devices have been misappropriated. That is , this is the question that is not being answered...
[17:46:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Wants Comments on IoT Devices - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:07] <exec> 08└─I don't understand how you can build a free society if you expect government to protect people from their own stupidity.
[17:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Wants Comments on IoT Devices - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:09] <exec> 08└─You know, it's hard out here for a thief...
[17:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Wants Comments on IoT Devices - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:12] <exec> 08└─By building and organizing free of charge access to gas public chambers to speed up the process.
[17:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Production Plant Hit with Windows' WannaCry Ransomware Attack - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:26] <exec> 08└─I will say it again. FOSS does not buy lunches or golf vacations.
[17:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Boeing Production Plant Hit with Windows' WannaCry Ransomware Attack - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:28] <exec> 08└─I'll say it again, too: Engineers ain't getting those lunches or golf vacations, yet they are the ones responsible for getting actual work done. If it weren't for their sniveling, shy, autistic nature, maybe they'd learn to say "No" to these know-nothing, extroverted, cocaine-snorting "executives".
[17:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Touché) 02 - 06Boeing Production Plant Hit with Windows' WannaCry Ransomware Attack - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:30] <exec> 08└─What's the maxim again? "Dog food isn't marketed to the dogs, it is marketed to their masters?"
[17:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Production Plant Hit with Windows' WannaCry Ransomware Attack - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:32] <exec> 08└─What made WannaCry so much more destructive, security experts discovered during last year’s outbreak, was that it employed an automated tool that was first developed at the National Security Agency and later dumped online in 2016 by mysterious hackers called the “Shadow Brokers.” I know I'm pr...
[17:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Production Plant Hit with Windows' WannaCry Ransomware Attack - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:34] <exec> 08└─Of all the companies out there, Boeing should be the most aware that the highest risk is when you close the air gap.
[17:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Production Plant Hit with Windows' WannaCry Ransomware Attack - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:36] <exec> 08└─Security is the enemy of convenience.
[17:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Production Plant Hit with Windows' WannaCry Ransomware Attack - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:39] <exec> 08└─I really don't think this rises to the level of a national security issue. Do you? U.S. blames North Korea for 'WannaCry' cyber attack [reuters.com] U.S. declares North Korea carried out massive WannaCry cyberattack [washingtonpost.com] Cyber-attack: US and UK blame North Korea for WannaCry [bbc.com...
[17:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Edges and Corners Increase Efficiency of Catalytic Converters - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:55] <exec> 08└─If the electricity is generated by clean coal, then they do have exhaust emissions. Oh, wait. I said clean coal. We're going to take all the coal and clean it all up.
[17:46:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Edges and Corners Increase Efficiency of Catalytic Converters - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:56] <exec> 08└─That whooshing sound means you need to replace the belts on your catalytic converter, and soon! The server will be down this weekend for replacement of vacuum tubes, belts, worn parts and lubrication of gears and bearings. We appreciate your patience.
[17:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Edges and Corners Increase Efficiency of Catalytic Converters - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:58] <exec> 08└─Is it more efficient to clean coal when it has edges and corners ? Like, very flat, with 4 edges and 4 corners. Flat and a few inches long, a few inches wide. It will clean easier if it's green too, and for an easier check of cleanliness, put a dead inventor's picture on it. Yep, that's the right fo...
[17:46:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Edges and Corners Increase Efficiency of Catalytic Converters - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:00] <exec> 08└─Is it more efficient to clean coal when it has edges and corners ?
[17:47:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former FBI Agent Charged With Leaking Secret Documents, Presumably to The Intercept - 807 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:13] <exec> 08└─In the category of "catching fake terrorists": Back when Occupy Wall Street was a thing, an FBI informant convinced some idiots who had been hanging around Occupy Cleveland to blow up a nearby bridge. The informant picked the target, supplied the target and fake explosives, set up the "bomb", and th...
[17:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Former FBI Agent Charged With Leaking Secret Documents, Presumably to The Intercept - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:14] <exec> 08└─The real crime in the Hillary email thing is the technical security staff at the State Department.
[17:47:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former FBI Agent Charged With Leaking Secret Documents, Presumably to The Intercept - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:16] <exec> 08└─Given all the self-righteous rhetoric spewed out by SoylentNews ACs, it must be the case that they are the most moronic posters of them all.
[17:47:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former FBI Agent Charged With Leaking Secret Documents, Presumably to The Intercept - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:19] <exec> 08└─Of course, in your case, you've managed to be both at the same time.
[17:47:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Compromises on Copyright Maximalism are Clearly No Longer on the EU Agenda - 793 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:55] <exec> 08└─The author of the copybuzz article is a lobbyist [n-square.eu] herself [eburon.nl]. The organization behind copybuzz, copyrightforcreativity.eu, does not name an applicant on the whois information. It is hosted by a US-based web hosting company. The article 11 linked to [parlament.gv.at] in the copy...
[17:47:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Compromises on Copyright Maximalism are Clearly No Longer on the EU Agenda - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:56] <exec> 08└─"Pirates are fun!" -Robert Webb
[17:47:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Compromises on Copyright Maximalism are Clearly No Longer on the EU Agenda - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:58] <exec> 08└─Note that politico.eu is owned by politico.com and Axel Springer SE [wikipedia.org]. Why, oh why, would Europe's largest publishing house, owner of numerous newspapers and magazines, pay a Brussels' lobbying firm to publish critical articles on pending copyright legislation?
[17:48:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Compromises on Copyright Maximalism are Clearly No Longer on the EU Agenda - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:00] <exec> 08└─Fostering intellectual discourse and battling laziness is also a good cause, but a political party is ,imho, not the best way to do that.
[17:48:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Compromises on Copyright Maximalism are Clearly No Longer on the EU Agenda - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:03] <exec> 08└─Any questions?
[17:48:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Market Value Temporarily Drops $53 Billion Due to Report of Tax Threats by President Trump - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:18] <exec> 08└─Remember when the government picking winners and losers was a bad thing?
[17:48:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Amazon Market Value Temporarily Drops $53 Billion Due to Report of Tax Threats by President Trump - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:20] <exec> 08└─Remember when the government picking winners and losers was a bad thing? Like always, there's a Tweet for it! It's time for government to stop picking winners & losers. Let’s make sure everyone can achieve the American dream! [twitter.com] Donald J Trump 9:35 AM - 22 Jun 2015
[17:48:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Market Value Temporarily Drops $53 Billion Due to Report of Tax Threats by President Trump - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:22] <exec> 08└─Why not both ? (maybe because wages have been stagnant, so people need bargains. But by hunting bargains, they get Chinese crap, and US wages remain stagnant, which...)
[17:48:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Market Value Temporarily Drops $53 Billion Due to Report of Tax Threats by President Trump - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:24] <exec> 08└─How many people will lose their jobs once Congress is done kneecapping the USPS ? Maybe, Amazon is protecting US employment, just not retail. :o)
[17:48:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Julian Assange has His Internet Access Cut Off by Ecuador - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:48] <exec> 08└─If you're doing a trail run I recommend sunscreen instead of tinfoil.
[17:48:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Julian Assange has His Internet Access Cut Off by Ecuador - 1714 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:50] <exec> 08└─Sure, that's an option, but I did say legal options, and in any event the UK government isn't exactly in a strong position at present and probably wouldn't want to roll the dice by being party to a rendition after the public outcry last time they were found to be party to it, and Assange has a much...
[17:48:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Julian Assange has His Internet Access Cut Off by Ecuador - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:52] <exec> 08└─This episode is another example of how this initial phase of the human struggle for democracy has failed. Snowden, Assange, and Manning are being persecuted for sharing proof of government crimes with citizens. These are not totalitarian states like the People's Republic of China or North Korea we'r...
[17:49:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Karen Sandler Wins this Year's Free Software Award - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:05] <exec> 08└─this is the exact point i just made on the wanna cry story. too many go for the whip instead of the key.
[17:49:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Pushes for Hemp Legalization - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:27] <exec> 08└─no shit motherfucker now please tell us what bastion of liberty you hale from.
[17:49:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Pushes for Hemp Legalization - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:28] <exec> 08└─Also a farmer. You're right about the machinery (although I expect that will be available real quick) but I'm not too worried about the market for it. Even if all the hemp-seed-oil-sexual-lubrican-and-dietary-supplement promises fall through, hemp rope and fabrics are still in demand. Having said th...
[17:50:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Satellite Imagery Helps to Find 81 New Pre-Columbian Sites in the Amazon Rainforest - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:08] <exec> 08└─i read about the Mississippians when i was investigating giants. some colorful characters say that there were Caucasoid giants living in north america before the mongoloid migrants/invaders wiped them out. i haven't had time to see if there is any real evidence for this seemingly wild theory.
[17:51:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Ban 'Offensive Language' From Skype, Xbox, Office and Other Services - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:47] <exec> 08└─All screaming will be moderated to a muffled applause. For the safety of the children. Otherwise you are free to express our your opinion. Be polite and express a nice opinion, just don't be offensive. Because you will make us moderate you. You don't want that, right? Nobody wants it but we will be...
[17:51:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft to Ban 'Offensive Language' From Skype, Xbox, Office and Other Services - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:48] <exec> 08└─are you on the cheese? the op didn't say anything liek what you are replying to. go get some sleep, you crackhead.
[17:51:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Ban 'Offensive Language' From Skype, Xbox, Office and Other Services - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:50] <exec> 08└─That's not what's considered offensive by Microsoft or by the Security Department.
[17:51:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft to Ban 'Offensive Language' From Skype, Xbox, Office and Other Services - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:53] <exec> 08└─if only FOSS would do more, then slaveware peddlers would enable freedom? you are brainwashed.
[17:52:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06NASA's Chief of Human Spaceflight Rules Out Use of Falcon Heavy for Lunar Station - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:28] <exec> 08└─I wonder what would happen if you tried e.g. to crowdsource the expenses of the prison system for next year, and would fail to get the required amount. Would all prisoners be set free?
[17:52:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Chief of Human Spaceflight Rules Out Use of Falcon Heavy for Lunar Station - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:29] <exec> 08└─> space Shuttle was fully recoverable including boosters Sure, in the sense that your car stolen for a joyride is fully recoverable after you fix the bumpers, get new shocks, rims, tires, brakes, coolant, and maybe transmission, and pay some poor sod to clean the vomit inside. "Hey, it floats after...
[17:53:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oracle v. Google: Appeals Court Rules That Google Violated Oracle's Copyrights - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:46] <exec> 08└─I absolutely don't have a problem with attribution and being sure that nobody else can falsely claim credit. But that doesn't seem to be the purpose of copyright.
[17:53:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oracle v. Google: Appeals Court Rules That Google Violated Oracle's Copyrights - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:47] <exec> 08└─"but voters consistently vote for it, so we can presume that it's what they want." don't be ridiculous
[17:53:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oracle v. Google: Appeals Court Rules That Google Violated Oracle's Copyrights - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:49] <exec> 08└─i'm probably not ever going to learn java, partly because of this.
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[18:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Judge Acquits All 13 Pipeline Protesters - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:51] <exec> 08└─Then again, judges opinions rarely make sense. You know what they call the gal who ranked last in law school? "Your Honor".
[18:45:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Judge Acquits All 13 Pipeline Protesters - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:53] <exec> 08└─You see, they acquitted because they had lots of cloud. Looking at other people's clouds, well, it's not got much cloud in it. Everyone should move everything in to the cloud because there is no possible fault in the cloud. The cloud is here and you should use it too.
[18:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Acquits All 13 Pipeline Protesters - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:55] <exec> 08└─Pipelines help make more clouds. But hippies make clouds too. This cloud thing is hard, man. Pass it around.
[18:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Acquits All 13 Pipeline Protesters - 856 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:57] <exec> 08└─A step in the right direction. Protesting is a very old tradition, including being killed by the police (corrupt or not), whether or not you were a woman or a child. Most people have no idea of the horrors that were involved in securing an 8-hour work day. We wouldn't put up with that anymore, not w...
[18:46:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Wants Comments on IoT Devices - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:13] <exec> 08└─Oh, hey, if I could just pay part of your ransom could you at least unlock my Trane Smart Thermostat enough so I could run the blower? The pollen is hell this time of year.
[18:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Wants Comments on IoT Devices - 1088 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:15] <exec> 08└─Harmed parties should have a clear legal path to sue ISPs that facilitate bot attacks. Similarly, ISPs should have a clear legal path to sue (or at least turn off without compensation) those people whose IoT devices have been misappropriated. This to me is the big issue here: ISPs should be responsi...
[18:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Wants Comments on IoT Devices - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:17] <exec> 08└─The vendor says it magically doesn't belong to anyone because it is in the cloud. Because cloud cloudy cloud cloudity cloud. You can't sure the cloud. The judge rules in favor of the cloud because clouds. So vendor can do whatever they want. It's the cloud's problem. Can't do anything about the clou...
[18:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Wants Comments on IoT Devices - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:19] <exec> 08└─You're just making the other AC's point. Society depends on well-defined property; that's the whole point of Capitalism: Every disputed resources needs to be assigned a well-defined owner—that's what "capital" is.
[18:46:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Production Plant Hit with Windows' WannaCry Ransomware Attack - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:41] <exec> 08└─EternalBlue was initially utilized in apparent coordination with Microsoft's long delay in patching. Despite massive media spin, Wannacry was found to have hit all recent versions of Microsoft Windows.
[18:46:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing Production Plant Hit with Windows' WannaCry Ransomware Attack - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:43] <exec> 08└─Of course not. In spite of it, he still has a boss.
[18:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Production Plant Hit with Windows' WannaCry Ransomware Attack - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:45] <exec> 08└─It's like blaming the toddler for finding a loaded gun and shooting his brother.
[18:46:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Production Plant Hit with Windows' WannaCry Ransomware Attack - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:47] <exec> 08└─>I will say it again. FOSS does not buy lunches or golf vacations. I don't know about golf vacations, but Red Hat is a multi-billion dollar corporation whose largest customer is the US Government, and whose FOSS products are used extensively in that government. There is simply no excuse for using Wi...
[18:46:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing Production Plant Hit with Windows' WannaCry Ransomware Attack - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:50] <exec> 08└─Not when your internal systems burned down. Perhaps this is horseshoe theory in action?
[18:46:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing Production Plant Hit with Windows' WannaCry Ransomware Attack - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:52] <exec> 08└─What kind of moron uses Microsoft Windows on critical computing systems? They're getting exactly what they deserve.
[18:47:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former FBI Agent Charged With Leaking Secret Documents, Presumably to The Intercept - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:28] <exec> 08└─That's sound advice, but for everyone. When a ship that big goes down in a small pond, most everything else gets sucked down, too.
[18:47:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former FBI Agent Charged With Leaking Secret Documents, Presumably to The Intercept - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:29] <exec> 08└─Which is probably why they had no proof she intended to illegally retain or distribute that information. Y'know the part that makes it a crime. You know what can prove that intent? Emailing it to a fricken newspaper!
[18:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former FBI Agent Charged With Leaking Secret Documents, Presumably to The Intercept - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:31] <exec> 08└─Exactly. It was a textbook example of how government and the uniparty that controls it subverts and suppresses legitimate democratic protest. Personally, I think that is going to be quite counterproductive. It does make an ironclad argument for the Second Amendment, though. If those Occupy protester...
[18:48:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Julian Assange has His Internet Access Cut Off by Ecuador - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:58] <exec> 08└─Only fools make light of the long arm of the USA and play down the threat. The USA bothers with the likes of Kim Dotcom and hackers https://www.theguardian.com [theguardian.com] See also: https://en.wikipedia.org
[18:48:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Julian Assange has His Internet Access Cut Off by Ecuador - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:59] <exec> 08└─https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/jul/05/lost-child-abuse-files-home-office [theguardian.com] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[18:49:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Julian Assange has His Internet Access Cut Off by Ecuador - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:01] <exec> 08└─Obligatory: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[18:49:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Pushes for Hemp Legalization - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:38] <exec> 08└─That could be a two way street. Where pollen from someone's recreational Indica patch pollinates a field of fiber and seed hemp.
[18:49:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Pushes for Hemp Legalization - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:40] <exec> 08└─Back in their day hemp was important for for the fiber which could make very strong rope and cloth for ship sails and clothing. Every navy depended upon it. Washington and others then may (or may not) have used some of their crop for it's herbal properties, but separating the female plants was more...
[18:49:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Pushes for Hemp Legalization - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:42] <exec> 08└─(Indian) Govt eyes increasing millet output to 45 mt by 2030 [thehindubusinessline.com] Why affluent Chinese are mad for millet, and the ancient grain’s long history in China [scmp.com]
[18:52:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Ban 'Offensive Language' From Skype, Xbox, Office and Other Services - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:03] <exec> 08└─Or worse, they screw it up and do the same thing to the residents of Scunthorpe, UK [wikipedia.org]. Then there's the whole question of euphemisms. Will sci-fi swear words like "smeghead", "frell", and "frak" be excluded from the Newspeak Dictionary or not?
[18:52:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft to Ban 'Offensive Language' From Skype, Xbox, Office and Other Services - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:05] <exec> 08└─What stops someone from posting a picture of you on a bulletin board worth your name?
[18:52:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft to Ban 'Offensive Language' From Skype, Xbox, Office and Other Services - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:07] <exec> 08└─Sometimes, the truly special yes men make good pets.
[18:52:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA's Chief of Human Spaceflight Rules Out Use of Falcon Heavy for Lunar Station - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:45] <exec> 08└─Do do they already assemble, fuel, test, and launch vehicles from LEO, or are you purposefully burying the NRE for that and hand-waiving it away? What kind of platform do you need to "just do" all this wonderful stuff you just mentioned? A second space station, maybe, or one a whole lot bigger? You'...
[18:52:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA's Chief of Human Spaceflight Rules Out Use of Falcon Heavy for Lunar Station - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:46] <exec> 08└─Holy crap, assholes like you are the reason we can't have nice things anymore. It should be obvious to you that when the last arrow in your quiver is the "you're a paid shill!", it is clear to the rest of us that you've lost. You should at least try to save what shred of dignity you have by not loos...
[18:52:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA's Chief of Human Spaceflight Rules Out Use of Falcon Heavy for Lunar Station - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:48] <exec> 08└─I keep hearing about this SpaceX stuff, and I keep sitting out at their launch facility but I never see any launches! Surely they've built up an entire launch and ground facility to support these launches, correct? They're not just using other facilities are they? Tell me that's at least rolled into...
[18:52:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Chief of Human Spaceflight Rules Out Use of Falcon Heavy for Lunar Station - 1701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:51] <exec> 08└─I think that it is NASA that cannot cooperate. Hear me out: there was some discussion about cooperation between ESA and the Chinese government. But: the US government forbids cooperation with Chinese in space, therefore ESA had to choose between USA and China. Similarly, the Tiangong-1 and Tiangong-...
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[19:45:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06Judge Acquits All 13 Pipeline Protesters - 856 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:54] <exec> 08└─A step in the right direction. Protesting is a very old tradition, including being killed by the police (corrupt or not), whether or not you were a woman or a child. Most people have no idea of the horrors that were involved in securing an 8-hour work day. We wouldn't put up with that anymore, not w...
[19:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Judge Acquits All 13 Pipeline Protesters - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:56] <exec> 08└─I guess all the productive people of Europe immigrated to the United States.
[19:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Judge Acquits All 13 Pipeline Protesters - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:58] <exec> 08└─girls cant be lawyers
[19:46:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Acquits All 13 Pipeline Protesters - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:00] <exec> 08└─More than a dozen protesters who clambered into holes dug for a high pressure gas pipeline
[19:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Acquits All 13 Pipeline Protesters - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:03] <exec> 08└─Holed-up Protestors are a protected species, whether at the Malheur reserve or the pipeline construction site. Next time, someone need to explain the proper approach to the Davidians.
[19:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Wants Comments on IoT Devices - 1707 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:23] <exec> 08└─That's a slippery fucking slope right there. I DO NOT want ISPs being responsible for anything that I do, or watching any of my packets specifically. COMMON CARRIER Do we sue the airlines because some nutter flew halfway across the country to shoot up a church? It's the same thing. The airport, the...
[19:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Wants Comments on IoT Devices - 726 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:25] <exec> 08└─Nobody said the ISP should be watching your packets specifically. Yet, you cannot have an ISP that doesn't watch packets in general—that's what they do; they transport and manage packets. A botnet that is used for DDoS attacks results in a huge amount of packets being sent to a particular party; t...
[19:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Wants Comments on IoT Devices - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:27] <exec> 08└─This is what happens when everything is built cutting cost, when people sacrifice security for convenience, and when people are frankly too dumb to comprehend 1/10th of what they're using. I said it when these devices first started appearing: it's going to be like a really crappy real-life version o...
[19:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Wants Comments on IoT Devices - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:29] <exec> 08└─Doesn't crash for me. But I have uMatrix installed.
[19:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Wants Comments on IoT Devices - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:31] <exec> 08└─That's what happens when there isn't clear ownership of the resources in question. No clear rights, and no clear responsibility.
[19:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Wants Comments on IoT Devices - 740 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:34] <exec> 08└─You know, I could almost be persuaded. Maybe the government should not protect people from their own stupidity. Mixed feelings. I want to do something horrible to criminals who prey upon the uninformed or even stupid. But I'm almost convinced the government should not protect us with warning labels...
[19:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing Production Plant Hit with Windows' WannaCry Ransomware Attack - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:01] <exec> 08└─Can we leave these kind of comments to the other site?
[19:47:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Production Plant Hit with Windows' WannaCry Ransomware Attack - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:03] <exec> 08└─I know all too well how it works. The products used generally go against the wishes of developers, when talking about development products. I'd consider them pretty knowledgeable on the subject, yet here we are. Throw the word "enterprise" in print of it, add a couple of zeros and a support contract...
[19:47:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Production Plant Hit with Windows' WannaCry Ransomware Attack - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:05] <exec> 08└─No, this is what happens when jackoffs who think golf is a sport and cocaine is a food group think they know better than their engineers and developers. I say fuck 'em, serves 'em right, and as an earlier poster said, hope Airbus eats them alive.
[19:47:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing Production Plant Hit with Windows' WannaCry Ransomware Attack - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:07] <exec> 08└─A new variant of ransomware was renamed "WannaFly?" In related news, Betteridge's law of headlines replied with a definite "No!".
[19:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing Production Plant Hit with Windows' WannaCry Ransomware Attack - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:10] <exec> 08└─What is it that bothers you so much?
[19:47:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former FBI Agent Charged With Leaking Secret Documents, Presumably to The Intercept - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:48] <exec> 08└─Thanks AC! You prove my point for me.
[19:47:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former FBI Agent Charged With Leaking Secret Documents, Presumably to The Intercept - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:50] <exec> 08└─This is one reason you'll never see me doing the usual left-wing anti-gun stuff. I hate the fucking things, but I'm bright enough to understand why they're needed. All the "you wouldn't stand a chance against an M1 Abrams" types are forgetting something: asymmetrical warfare is a bitch, it's arguabl...
[19:47:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former FBI Agent Charged With Leaking Secret Documents, Presumably to The Intercept - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:52] <exec> 08└─What they'd be more likely to have is a case that she tried to illegally destroy the information in question. As in, the contents of the thousands of "personal" emails that were deleted off of the server before she turned it over to the FBI are one of those great political mysteries like the true co...
[19:47:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former FBI Agent Charged With Leaking Secret Documents, Presumably to The Intercept - 1028 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:54] <exec> 08└─Back in my grassroots political days my best friend and I started Shooting Liberally. We'd go to the West Side Gun Range in Manhattan. We got a sizeable group of 30 people. The best shot was a woman who had lived on a kibbutz in Israel and had been trained by the Israel Defense Force. I don't fetish...
[19:48:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Compromises on Copyright Maximalism are Clearly No Longer on the EU Agenda - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:35] <exec> 08└─"Opposition party" or "minority party" would be a more literal translation. N.B. The Mensheviks got cozy with the Social Democrats (a Capitalist-friendly bunch) and they lost what popularity they had, way back at the birth of USSR. The Bolsheviks ("Majority party") then ate the Mensheviks' lunch. --...
[19:48:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Market Value Temporarily Drops $53 Billion Due to Report of Tax Threats by President Trump - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:56] <exec> 08└─Amazon is a no-tax monopoly. Raise your hand if you pay sales tax on Amazon! /me raises hand. If you aren't raising your hand then you live in one of the 5 states that has no sales tax. [wikipedia.org]
[19:49:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Julian Assange has His Internet Access Cut Off by Ecuador - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:28] <exec> 08└─> Turns out we need a 3rd branch of government So many people have figured that out, it's been in the US constitution for over 200 years, and in those of most developed countries, too.
[19:50:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Pushes for Hemp Legalization - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:09] <exec> 08└─Certainly not the U.S., then.
[19:52:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Ban 'Offensive Language' From Skype, Xbox, Office and Other Services - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:33] <exec> 08└─You don't pay too much attention, do you? Hell is not eternal, and it's a state of mind more than a specific place. Only you know what your Hell will look like, and even then, you won't know until you get there. You might also not know how long you'll be there until you're done. I can venture one gu...
[19:53:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Chief of Human Spaceflight Rules Out Use of Falcon Heavy for Lunar Station - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:15] <exec> 08└─I found the link for the ESA Moon Village idea: https://www.esa.int [esa.int] and this one: https://moonvillageassociation.org [moonvillageassociation.org] and another one: http://spaceref.com
[19:53:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA's Chief of Human Spaceflight Rules Out Use of Falcon Heavy for Lunar Station - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:17] <exec> 08└─Do do they already assemble, fuel, test, and launch vehicles from LEO
[19:53:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA's Chief of Human Spaceflight Rules Out Use of Falcon Heavy for Lunar Station - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:19] <exec> 08└─However, NASA already invested heavily into subsidiaries who work on the project.
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[20:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Runaway Yellow Supergiant Star Discovered - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:51] <exec> 08└─After ten million years of traveling through space [...]
[20:45:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06First Runaway Yellow Supergiant Star Discovered - 1834 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:53] <exec> 08└─The baby's cries were almost loud enough to damage one's hearing. Did it want food, or something else? No. At first glance, the baby was the only person in the room, but upon closer inspection, one would spot a hideous, obese man trying to forcibly jam his fat member into the baby girl's minuscule v...
[20:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Runaway Yellow Supergiant Star Discovered - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:55] <exec> 08└─running from your dad after he learned of my existence.
[20:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Judge Acquits All 13 Pipeline Protesters - 1834 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:11] <exec> 08└─The baby's cries were almost loud enough to damage one's hearing. Did it want food, or something else? No. At first glance, the baby was the only person in the room, but upon closer inspection, one would spot a hideous, obese man trying to forcibly jam his fat member into the baby girl's minuscule v...
[20:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Wants Comments on IoT Devices - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:38] <exec> 08└─You again. No, you frothing fanatic, this isn't about ownership, this is about knowledge. In fact, it's the *excesses* of our current crony capitalist system, regulatory capture, and lack of *proper* regulation, that allowed this situation to arise in the first place. God, you're tiresome...
[20:46:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Wants Comments on IoT Devices - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:40] <exec> 08└─Actually, if the government wants to ID you, then that is exactly how private keys work. If I create a key pair and give the government the public side, how do they really know who I am? It has to be tied to an ID they believe (which they barely have today...) you're going on record with a potential...
[20:46:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Wants Comments on IoT Devices - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:42] <exec> 08└─Internet of Trouble. The more connected everything is the more it can negatively affect its neighbors.
[20:46:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Wants Comments on IoT Devices - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:44] <exec> 08└─the fact that you don't know any better isn't an excuse
[20:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Wants Comments on IoT Devices - 1040 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:46] <exec> 08└─I don’t understand how you think you live in a free society when things you buy aren’t safe and the harm from those insecure products you bought also you problem when misused. When you buy a gun you know very well what it is for. And how dangerous it could be. And still mistakes are made. And th...
[20:46:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Wants Comments on IoT Devices - 881 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:49] <exec> 08└─Most of the IoT crap isn't about cutting cost, it's about aggregating big data in the cloud, capturing customer information for profit. So many systems that could be controlled via local network are not, but are instead relayed through central company servers to keep them in the loop and incidentall...
[20:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Wants Comments on IoT Devices - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:51] <exec> 08└─You go to the DMV, and you give them your public key, and you sign your name saying that it's yours. Get it yet? No wonder public key cryptography never took off; you fuckers are confused out of your minds.
[20:46:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Wants Comments on IoT Devices - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:53] <exec> 08└─In a fundamentally free society, you can achieve safety. However, in a fundamentally safe society, you cannot achieve freedom.
[20:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Wants Comments on IoT Devices - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:55] <exec> 08└─In fact, Cronyism is an example of why centralized ownership via the State is a bad idea; maybe we should instead try "private" ownership among The People. So, it's entirely about ownership.
[20:48:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former FBI Agent Charged With Leaking Secret Documents, Presumably to The Intercept - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:11] <exec> 08└─That goes without saying.
[20:49:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Julian Assange has His Internet Access Cut Off by Ecuador - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:45] <exec> 08└─You really needed a /s on that post, I doubt everyone here is familiar with Count Dankula's conviction.
[20:49:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Julian Assange has His Internet Access Cut Off by Ecuador - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:47] <exec> 08└─Ick, if that was really a joke then the delivery was terrible. If your joke was that basic human rights are stupid then that is a bigger problem.
[20:52:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Ban 'Offensive Language' From Skype, Xbox, Office and Other Services - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:53] <exec> 08└─I'm offended by your true comment! Seriously, human instinct with regards to information that contradicts previously held beliefs is to disbelieve it and dislike the person saying it. For example, I can offend a bunch of Soylentils by saying "Climate change is happening, and human CO2 emissions are...
[20:53:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA's Chief of Human Spaceflight Rules Out Use of Falcon Heavy for Lunar Station - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:38] <exec> 08└─Hear me out: there was some discussion about cooperation between ESA and the Chinese government. But: the US government forbids cooperation with Chinese in space, therefore ESA had to choose between USA and China.
[20:53:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA's Chief of Human Spaceflight Rules Out Use of Falcon Heavy for Lunar Station - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:39] <exec> 08└─Tell me that's at least rolled into their launch costs?
[20:53:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Chief of Human Spaceflight Rules Out Use of Falcon Heavy for Lunar Station - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:41] <exec> 08└─That's a dishonest answer as usual. Rockets don't need large TLI capacity for Lunar expeditions. Assemble the rocket in LEO (Low Earth Orbit), and then when fully assembled, fueled, tested, and loaded, send it on its way.
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[21:46:02] <exec> 08└─"After ten million years of traveling through space, " been there, done that.
[21:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Runaway Yellow Supergiant Star Discovered - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:03] <exec> 08└─Just what type of Nebulae did this Yellow Giant come from to cause it to leave so young. Hopefully, it can avoid the wrong types of celestial bodies being shoved in its face, not snort stardust, or its life will just be squeezed out of existence by a black hole.
[21:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Runaway Yellow Supergiant Star Discovered - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:05] <exec> 08└─when its buddy went boom, it likely lost quite a bit of its mass as it was blown out of its home. It is therefore not a "normal" yellow supergiant.
[21:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Runaway Yellow Supergiant Star Discovered - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:07] <exec> 08└─Ethanol went BOOM and now there's Runaway on the galactic sea? What a coinkidink! Soylent IS universal.
[21:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Judge Acquits All 13 Pipeline Protesters - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:24] <exec> 08└─No, it's put up or shut up for the judge to determine whether you are sincere. If you told her you were there for the publicity, or to hit on protest chicks, you probably wouldn't end up so well. The law isn't written nor intended to be some stupid algorithm to read off. The whole reason you have a...
[21:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Acquits All 13 Pipeline Protesters - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:26] <exec> 08└─The thing is, if your work day is significantly longer that about 8 hours you won't be productive for very long. If people are disposable, this is not an issue. Sociopaths often rise to positions of power.
[21:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Judge Acquits All 13 Pipeline Protesters - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:28] <exec> 08└─Productive people aren't afraid to work hard when necessary, and they aren't afraid to give their peers slack when necessary. Americans don't need a government holding their hands.
[21:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Judge Acquits All 13 Pipeline Protesters - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:30] <exec> 08└─But honestly, it's far too easy for judges to just arbitrarily punish people for 'disrespect' and such. Restricting their power to do so (not the same as mandatory sentencing) would make the system less authoritarian, not more.
[21:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Acquits All 13 Pipeline Protesters - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:32] <exec> 08└─"Americans don't need a government holding their hands." That is true for all values of $GOVERNMENT, but it is especially true of government that is incompetent and corrupt.
[21:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Wants Comments on IoT Devices - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:09] <exec> 08└─What about the obtuse mixture of “private” and “of the people” that doesn’t mix don’t you get? God I hope you aren’t a chemist.
[21:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Wants Comments on IoT Devices - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:11] <exec> 08└─Because that, like, totally, wouldn't happen in a system of contracts. But I will admit that clearer ownership would help out. If I get an IoT I don't have root access to, then it should be in the purchase agreement that the vendor owns it. I also think that the owner (me if I have root, the vendor...
[21:47:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Wants Comments on IoT Devices - 1225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:13] <exec> 08└─What you don't seem to get is that centralization of power *anywhere* will lead to this. Your fatal flaw is your inability--or dogmatic unwillingness--to understand that the problem is not government, or the people, but human nature itself. Besides which, in your libertarian utopia, whatever private...
[21:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Wants Comments on IoT Devices - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:15] <exec> 08└─No, most of the IoT crap is because the packages are dirt cheap and brain dead easy to implement in something. Reporting back to the mothership is as much of convenience as anything else. You want to program in all the crap that your FPGA needs to do, or add it on later?
[21:47:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Wants Comments on IoT Devices - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:17] <exec> 08└─public key cryptography never took off
[21:47:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Boeing Production Plant Hit with Windows' WannaCry Ransomware Attack - 95 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:34] <exec> 08└─What's the maxim again? "Dog food isn't marketed to the dogs, it is marketed to their masters?"
[21:47:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Production Plant Hit with Windows' WannaCry Ransomware Attack - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:51] <exec> 08└─There are many large companies with crazy IT policies. For example, many I have seen where people are developing software for Linux but their workstation is Windows because "that's the corporate standard" so they have something like cygwin installed and various flaky commercial products to provide t...
[21:47:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Production Plant Hit with Windows' WannaCry Ransomware Attack - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:52] <exec> 08└─And why should we believe this? Ever? Anywhere?
[21:47:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Production Plant Hit with Windows' WannaCry Ransomware Attack - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:54] <exec> 08└─Multibillion dollar company doesn't airgap production systems. Likely because the software updates can't be distributed by CD or Portable hard drive (becuase the coders are too young to know how to do that, or like because "internet!") Do they even have prod/dev/test/train anymore, or is everything...
[21:47:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Production Plant Hit with Windows' WannaCry Ransomware Attack - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:57] <exec> 08└─maybe the National Security Agency should focus on making the nation more secure?
[21:49:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gaaark [41] 02 - 06Amazon Market Value Temporarily Drops $53 Billion Due to Report of Tax Threats by President Trump - 29 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:29] <exec> 08└─Mueller? Mueller? Mueller? :)
[21:50:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Julian Assange has His Internet Access Cut Off by Ecuador - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:16] <exec> 08└─DAMN! 4th! 4th branch!!
[21:51:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mother Bears Spending More Time With Their Cubs Due to Hunting Laws - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:51:21] <exec> 08└─If you're only an Aunt I don't know if you want them to do human trials. Better put an extra $20 in your niece and nephew's birthday cards, make sure they come around more often.
[21:53:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft to Ban 'Offensive Language' From Skype, Xbox, Office and Other Services - 938 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:24] <exec> 08└─yeah yeah real businesses don't care though because the IT people that say these things were replaced by H1Bs or simply the job is gone in a foreign land where H1Bs aren't needed. And the executives aren't worried about employees encountering privacy violating things on company time. They are worrie...
[21:53:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft to Ban 'Offensive Language' From Skype, Xbox, Office and Other Services - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:26] <exec> 08└─i agree the day there was that first major skype outage -- we joked that was when skynet came online, or the lawnmower man had his 'birth cry' on the net. it was truthfully when the taps went into skype. you want secure, do ssl or ipsec based email without imap if you dont have high tech. pull the c...
[21:54:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA's Chief of Human Spaceflight Rules Out Use of Falcon Heavy for Lunar Station - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:14] <exec> 08└─And do you want to go to the Moon in 5 years or 25 years?
[21:54:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA's Chief of Human Spaceflight Rules Out Use of Falcon Heavy for Lunar Station - 673 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:16] <exec> 08└─I'll also note that we could have already had a lunar presence, if we had done such assembly with the variety of 20-25 metric ton rockets available to us around the world. It'd be more work, but it's something we could have started in 1970 rather than 2022. I think that bears repeating. We could ha...
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[22:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Runaway Yellow Supergiant Star Discovered - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:07] <exec> 08└─Is so dumbed down, especially the LA to NYC analogy. That speed is not much in space, and everything is relative too. Our solar system (and sun) are moving at estimated 250 km/s (quick, tell me how long it'd take if I was going that fast from one American city to another so I can understand) as the...
[22:46:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Wants Comments on IoT Devices - 346 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:40] <exec> 08└─You're right. It's pretty cheap to develop, and then abandon any maintenance of, a member of a future bot army. I propose that we do not let government interfere with my future revenue, by requiring companies to protect IoT junk from script-kiddie-level takeovers, slowing down my blackmail operation...
[22:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Wants Comments on IoT Devices - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:11] <exec> 08└─Every problem you come up with is due to a lack of well defined property rights.
[22:47:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Wants Comments on IoT Devices - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:12] <exec> 08└─No one argued that we should use the DIY methods we've had since the 1990s. Try again?
[22:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Wants Comments on IoT Devices - 764 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:15] <exec> 08└─No one argued that companies should have zero responsibility. If anything, such responsibility should be part of the contract of service, and could be advertised to the customer by means of a widely publicized logo—just like nearly all of your boxed, prepackaged food in the U.S. has logos certifyi...
[22:47:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Wants Comments on IoT Devices - 1264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:17] <exec> 08└─Clearly, the fact that you ask that question implies that it would be an obvious matter for such a contract to address. I can imagine these being simple version of your cases: If the service provider owns the device: You are responsible for securing "physical" access to it; a network hack would not...
[22:47:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing Production Plant Hit with Windows' WannaCry Ransomware Attack - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:54] <exec> 08└─Really? I'd think an airplane sitting on the ground would be fairly safe.
[22:47:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Production Plant Hit with Windows' WannaCry Ransomware Attack - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:55] <exec> 08└─Ignoring your skipping over the meaning of "when you close", even stopped on the ground can be unsafe: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[22:48:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Edges and Corners Increase Efficiency of Catalytic Converters - 682 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:16] <exec> 08└─That was teh first thing I thought too, so I popped off to read the summary, and once my 'whatthe' lobe had been irritated I then read what I could of the paper, namely the images (I read science for the images), and it's not as simple as all that. The nanoparticle crystals have faces with different...
[22:50:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Pushes for Hemp Legalization - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:58] <exec> 08└─Not sure how much of a market there will be for it You said it right there. The market for it is pretty tiny. That could change, or not. The weed folk have been hyping it for years but they will say anything to get more weed out there. The thing is no one really knows what would/will happen. It coul...
[22:53:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Microsoft to Ban 'Offensive Language' From Skype, Xbox, Office and Other Services - 1179 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:53:03] <exec> 08└─This is inline with my hypotheses that Microsoft was told to buy Skype so that the US Gov could read the communications. Skype was P2P and kinda encrypted before Microsoft bought it. Back then if you tried to send messages while your recipient was offline the message would actually be stuck on your...
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[23:45:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06FBI Failed to Exhaust Internal Options Before Engaging in PR/Legal Battle Over Encrypted iPhones - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:53] <exec> 08└─The man punched and punched and punched. He then noticed that the woman's face had turned into bloody mush and that his fists were dirty with her blood. This angered the man even more. How dare this filthy sow dirty his noble fists! He punched and punched and punched...
[23:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Failed to Exhaust Internal Options Before Engaging in PR/Legal Battle Over Encrypted iPhones - 710 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:54] <exec> 08└─Whether you go to their public nonsense about the last election (shameful regardless of the side you pick, if any), or you go all the way back to the Hoover days, the FBI has a long history of manipulating the country for its own purposes as a power-hungry bureaucratic entity. The FBI has never seen...
[23:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Runaway Yellow Supergiant Star Discovered - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:15] <exec> 08└─Scientists name star Runaway 1956
[23:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Judge Acquits All 13 Pipeline Protesters - 634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:38] <exec> 08└─That's why everyone (except the current Administration) knows that mandatory sentences are bad Is that why Hillary Clinton was a key player in 3 strikes? Oh she 'regrets' it now that it eviscerated her 'black vote'. That pipeline protest was so sockpuppeted it was not even kind of amusing. Look to w...
[23:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Acquits All 13 Pipeline Protesters - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:39] <exec> 08└─Now you just need a politico's daughter in every protest and you'd have a democracy.
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[23:48:24] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smog_pump [wikipedia.org] The catalytic converter is like a muffler welded into your exhaust system! (Depending on the car they are actually welded or bolted in. In California they require a stamped serial number if replaced, or look close enough to OEM that a smog tech...
[23:48:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former FBI Agent Charged With Leaking Secret Documents, Presumably to The Intercept - 991 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:50] <exec> 08└─Resupply bases, maintenance depots, and forward operating bases are all relatively squishy targets. If you can get close enough to shoot at them, or deliver some explosives by land, projectile, or air, you can severely hamper their abilities in any operating area, since all the heavy equipment requi...
[23:50:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Julian Assange has His Internet Access Cut Off by Ecuador - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:28] <exec> 08└─Assange is not a UK citizen, and currently Australia has a neocon-friendly government in power. The US establishment would probably LOVE another excuse to call Trump a Putin puppet, and I wouldn't put it past the Aussie government to privately pressure the UK to have him extradited.
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