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[00:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Runaway Yellow Supergiant Star Discovered - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:19] <exec> 08└─Ya know, for years I got away from fart and your mom jokes. Then I had grandkids. Hopefully we all win, but at least I'm having fun.
[00:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Acquits All 13 Pipeline Protesters - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:44] <exec> 08└─May every oil & gas executive spontaneously die on fire today.
[00:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Wants Comments on IoT Devices - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:31] <exec> 08└─Ah, ok. Insurance I think is the piece I was missing.
[00:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Wants Comments on IoT Devices - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:32] <exec> 08└─You think a $14.95 IoT thingy has an FPGA in it?
[00:47:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Wants Comments on IoT Devices - 968 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:34] <exec> 08└─You've been answered every time; you fail to read it. Your alternative, "government", does not solve the problem; in fact, your "government" idea is, as you've noted, the failure mode of Capitalism (meaning it's necessary to fight to re-establish Capitalism). Clearly, you'd agree that the key to ave...
[00:48:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former FBI Agent Charged With Leaking Secret Documents, Presumably to The Intercept - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:00] <exec> 08└─she tried to illegally destroy the information in question.
[00:49:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former FBI Agent Charged With Leaking Secret Documents, Presumably to The Intercept - 927 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:01] <exec> 08└─Colin Powell also used an outside email service for work. I didn't hear anybody chanting "lock him up!". Further, the "regular" State Dept. email system was breached. It wasn't a safe system. They are ALL crap: State Dept's regular email server, AOL (Colin), and H's home server. Further, an outside...
[00:50:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] 02 - 06Julian Assange has His Internet Access Cut Off by Ecuador - 385 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:50:23] <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...
[00:50:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Julian Assange has His Internet Access Cut Off by Ecuador - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:50:41] <exec> 08└─BTW, Assange has required a root canal for two years, and has some other undisclosed health issues that are reportedly life threatening. One wouldn't take that amount of pain and health deterioration for no reason.
[00:51:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Pushes for Hemp Legalization - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:23] <exec> 08└─Unfiltered hemp seed oil is better than most other products for fixing skin problems. From personal experience. It is worth looking in to.
[00:51:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Pushes for Hemp Legalization - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:25] <exec> 08└─https://www.quotes.net/show-quote/33957 [quotes.net]
[00:53:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft to Ban 'Offensive Language' From Skype, Xbox, Office and Other Services - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:55] <exec> 08└─Sex workers are reporting that their Google Drive files are mysteriously locked or vanishing. https://motherboard.vice.com [vice.com]
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[01:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google-Led Plan to Upend Wireless Industry Gains Momentum - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:50] <exec> 08└─This looks like something that might increase bandwidth in big cities, and in coastal areas. There is probably existing infrastructure that can be repurposed. In rural areas, away from the coast? There is probably no existing infrastructure. I'm certainly not holding my breath in anticipation.
[01:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06The Battle to Free the Code at the Department of Defense - 939 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:57] <exec> 08└─The man's manhood entered the little girl's hole and squirmed all the way to her nubile womb. His first goal had been achieved, and now it was time to move on to the next phase. If the man were to squirt his manpoles into the little girl's womb, she would not get pregnant; she was prepubescent, afte...
[01:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Battle to Free the Code at the Department of Defense - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:59] <exec> 08└─Reading the title, one suspects that this is about freeing software for public use. This is more about software acquisition, and reusing working code for new purposes, and tracking how software works, and is acquired. Since I just got out of bed, and working on my first cup of coffee, that title had...
[01:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Runaway Yellow Supergiant Star Discovered - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:28] <exec> 08└─corey wrote [soylentnews.org]: The article 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 c...
[01:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Runaway Yellow Supergiant Star Discovered - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:30] <exec> 08└─Most people have to wait until they die to get their own star.
[01:46:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Acquits All 13 Pipeline Protesters - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:55] <exec> 08└─Isn't political protest a protected activity in the US? Wasn't it designed to be? If these protestors had killed anyone, injured anyone, or caused people to miss meals and/or house payments, they they would have committed a crime. As things stand, they merely inconvenienced some large corporations....
[01:47:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Wants Comments on IoT Devices - 1088 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:14] <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...
[01:47:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Wants Comments on IoT Devices - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:45] <exec> 08└─Yes, of course. Why not? Does your sister know anything about how cars work? Probably not. However, she's fully responsible for the emissions from her car if she lives in an emission-controlled area. She doesn't get to just ignore the emission testing because she's ignorant of how car engines work.
[01:47:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Wants Comments on IoT Devices - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:46] <exec> 08└─Most All 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 inciden...
[01:47:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Wants Comments on IoT Devices - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:49] <exec> 08└─Your packets? Really? So, you are aware of every packet that your IOT devices sends, and you know what is in those packets? All of those packets are benign, and benefit you specifically? I want to see the whole IOT burned to the ground. I want to see the villagers, with their torches and pitchforks...
[01:47:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Wants Comments on IoT Devices - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:51] <exec> 08└─That's hilarious. Government refuses to forget ANYTHING. I'm pretty damned sure that government knows that I don't like Lima beans, or green jello, but I love Boston baked beans, and red jello. No, government is most certainly not going to forget your private keys, if they issue them.
[01:48:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Edges and Corners Increase Efficiency of Catalytic Converters - 103 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:36] <exec> 08└─So how quick will car manufacturers incorporate an innovation like this? I hope Tesla is all over this.
[01:48:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Former FBI Agent Charged With Leaking Secret Documents, Presumably to The Intercept - 402 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:58] <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...
[01:49:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Former FBI Agent Charged With Leaking Secret Documents, Presumably to The Intercept - 807 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:49:03] <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...
[01:50:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Julian Assange has His Internet Access Cut Off by Ecuador - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:51:00] <exec> 08└─It might be a bit uncomfortable and you'd need more than just a hat, but tinfoil would make an excellent sunscreen.
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[02:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google-Led Plan to Upend Wireless Industry Gains Momentum - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:49] <exec> 08└─https://www.fcc.gov/wireless/bureau-divisions/broadband-division/35-ghz-band/35-ghz-band-citizens-broadband-radio [fcc.gov] It fits nicely into this list [wikipedia.org] (sort the table by frequency).
[02:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google-Led Plan to Upend Wireless Industry Gains Momentum - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:50] <exec> 08└─What did I see? I saw the sea.
[02:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Runaway Yellow Supergiant Star Discovered - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:30] <exec> 08└─This is evident from the abundyof heavy isotopes in the solar system, such as lead and uranium Iron is the most stable element. You can get energy out of fusing lighter elements, or by dividing heavier elements but to create heavy elements you have to add energy
[02:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Runaway Yellow Supergiant Star Discovered - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:31] <exec> 08└─Thwarts what grandpas are for To win at chess is what fathers are for
[02:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Acquits All 13 Pipeline Protesters - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:58] <exec> 08└─"Is that a crime? " This is where it gets tricky. Apparently, for the moment at least, it's not a crime if you're protesting an oil pipeline that might leak and hurt someone down the road, but it IS a crime if you're protesting drones that are killing people on a daily basis.
[02:46:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Acquits All 13 Pipeline Protesters - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:59] <exec> 08└─Good point. The difference lies in who owns the political toes you might be stepping on.
[02:47:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Wants Comments on IoT Devices - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:53] <exec> 08└─We have very clearly seen that the rules of capitalism are indeed self-reinforcing and iterative...and that they tend to single or near-single ownership of *everything.* That *is* government. That you cannot or will not see this does not make it less true. You aren't thinking; you're just here to pr...
[02:51:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Julian Assange has His Internet Access Cut Off by Ecuador - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:51:01] <exec> 08└─All of those (except the last) are considered important enough to be supported by the government in Australia, though our current neo-liberal government is engaging in the same losing strategy the US has been on for much longer. The US elite are like captains putting holes on the other end of their...
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[03:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google-Led Plan to Upend Wireless Industry Gains Momentum - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:59] <exec> 08└─The key is going to be the FCC's interpretation of "enterprise". Are you going to be able to build your own LTE network? Probably not unless you already have skin in the game. Network World has the best rundown I've seen: https://www.networkworld.com
[03:47:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Acquits All 13 Pipeline Protesters - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:07] <exec> 08└─Some one needs to report this guy to Jeff Sessions. Oh...wait...maybe it is Jeff Sessions?
[03:48:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Wants Comments on IoT Devices - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:48:02] <exec> 08└─No, government is most certainly not going to forget your private keys, if they issue them.
[03:48:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Boeing Production Plant Hit with Windows' WannaCry Ransomware Attack - 80 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:48:26] <exec> 08└─It's like blaming the toddler for finding a loaded gun and shooting his brother.
[03:49:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former FBI Agent Charged With Leaking Secret Documents, Presumably to The Intercept - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:49:30] <exec> 08└─Shut yer banana hole monkey man
[03:51:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Pushes for Hemp Legalization - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:51:54] <exec> 08└─The interesting thing about it is it is an extremely versatile crop with both nutritional and industrial uses. Could be very promising, if petroleum prices rise considerably. It apparently has a decent yield for biodiesel and methanol (the latter is comparable [sciencedirect.com] to switchgrass), an...
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[04:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Bans "Kodi" From Search Engine Autocomplete - 978 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:49] <exec> 08└─more or less, there are a handful of search engines. they control a LOT of power. if they decide to block X or Y or write 'special code' that cases things differently because .. politics .. then there's all the proof you need that they are being bought/bribed/threatened and are totally off the 'do n...
[04:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Apparition [6835] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alliance for Open Media Announces Release of AOMedia Video Codec 1.0 (AV1) Specification - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:56] <exec> 08└─I look forward to replacing my television and re-purchasing all of my movies and television series yet again. Let's see, this would be the... sixth time I would buy the original Star Wars trilogy.
[04:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03eravnrekaree [555] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alliance for Open Media Announces Release of AOMedia Video Codec 1.0 (AV1) Specification - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:58] <exec> 08└─You would likely purchase a decoder box for your current tv rather than replace the whole thing. Would be worth the $50 investment since the 40% improvement and 400% improvement over MPEG-2 could increase the number of subchannels so that a market with 30 total broadcast subchannels over all its bro...
[04:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Alliance for Open Media Announces Release of AOMedia Video Codec 1.0 (AV1) Specification - 671 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:00] <exec> 08└─They haven't actually released the 1.0 specification. Numerous stories and comments from people at the green site, Reddit and hacker news have made this clear. They haven't even finalized the bitstream, let alone finished the specification. Instead, marketing went off early because things have settl...
[04:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alliance for Open Media Announces Release of AOMedia Video Codec 1.0 (AV1) Specification - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:02] <exec> 08└─1. VHS 2. "New Hope" reprint 3. Betamax 4. Lazerdisk 5. Special Edition VHS 6. DVD 7. BluRay and I feel like there is something I missed.
[04:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alliance for Open Media Announces Release of AOMedia Video Codec 1.0 (AV1) Specification - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:05] <exec> 08└─I look forward to replacing my television and re-purchasing all of my movies and television series yet again. Let's see, this would be the... sixth time I would buy the original Star Wars trilogy.
[04:46:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alliance for Open Media Announces Release of AOMedia Video Codec 1.0 (AV1) Specification - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:07] <exec> 08└─Doesn't allow for converter boxes. It requires the support to be built into the television along with 'optional' internet access for providing targeted advertising experiences. The entire point of ATSC 3.0, in the US at least, will be to plug the 'analog and broadcast flag free digital' hole once an...
[04:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Failed to Exhaust Internal Options Before Engaging in PR/Legal Battle Over Encrypted iPhones - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:32] <exec> 08└─how is the fbi any diff than any other authority org? they ALL want power. more. always more. never want to give any back. senate, judges, cops, all the same. all attract the same personality type. basically, anyone who wants that job, should not get it.
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[05:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Bans "Kodi" From Search Engine Autocomplete - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:49] <exec> 08└─Link to its website. The text of your link should be relevant terms It's even better if you deep link to pages that are in its site rather than just its homepage That makes the whole site more robust against fluctuations in popularity of particular words
[05:47:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Wants Comments on IoT Devices - 292 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:47] <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...
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[06:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Bans "Kodi" From Search Engine Autocomplete - 649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:57] <exec> 08└─You aren't paying attention. This is deliberate manual intervention in the results, not normal SEO nonsense. Google is Evil. They have been for some time now, they censor a lot of stuff on their search, news and Youtube properties. They aren't YET doing like Microsoft and searching for crimethink in...
[06:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Bans "Kodi" From Search Engine Autocomplete - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:59] <exec> 08└─Not like those 4 letters are that hard to type, even on a phone. When I search for kody I still find kodi.tv at the top. Same for kodi. Not for kodee though (which is the name of something else). kodi.tv is still the top hit for: open source home theatre software and opensource media center software...
[06:46:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Bans "Kodi" From Search Engine Autocomplete - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:46:01] <exec> 08└─a search engine that doesn't censor Should I google for that? I haven't found one yet. YaCy is the closest, but it doesn't really work that well.
[06:46:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03GDX [1950] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Alliance for Open Media Announces Release of AOMedia Video Codec 1.0 (AV1) Specification - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:46:13] <exec> 08└─you have missed D-VHS
[06:47:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Runaway Yellow Supergiant Star Discovered - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:07] <exec> 08└─Most people don't get their own stars. But many of those who do get their own stars don't have to die first: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[06:47:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RamiK [1813] 02 - 06Judge Acquits All 13 Pipeline Protesters - 84 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:30] <exec> 08└─Now you just need a politico's daughter in every protest and you'd have a democracy.
[06:49:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Boeing Production Plant Hit with Windows' WannaCry Ransomware Attack - 1167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:49:10] <exec> 08└─Been there... done that... didn't want the T-shirt... just plain disgusted. This is how it works... Engineer shows technical skills of seeing design flaws. If he's ethical, he is apt to be insubordinate if pressured to do it anyway. I mean what engineer in his right mind would design a bridge he...
[06:49:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Boeing Production Plant Hit with Windows' WannaCry Ransomware Attack - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:49:11] <exec> 08└─I have a system still running WIN95. It works perfectly... Why change it? Still have the same garage door too.
[06:49:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Boeing Production Plant Hit with Windows' WannaCry Ransomware Attack - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:49:14] <exec> 08└─There was a day when code was code... now its a bunch of calls to blobs. And I do not trust the blobs.
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[07:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MobileActive Founder Katrin Verclas Indicted on Major Fraud Charges - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:51] <exec> 08└─she should have stolen billions, then the government would have helped pay her bonus.
[07:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MobileActive Founder Katrin Verclas Indicted on Major Fraud Charges - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:52] <exec> 08└─She didn't apply the funds properly. 1/3 was to go back to various government employees or elected officials as bribes. Another third flying congressmen on junkets. Had that been done nobody would worry about where the rest went.
[07:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MobileActive Founder Katrin Verclas Indicted on Major Fraud Charges - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:55] <exec> 08└─A trivial way to determine that would have been to ask the state Department Of State where MobileActive is incorporated. My understanding is that non-profits are also required to publicly publish annual financial statements. This leads me to suggest that the Federal Department Of State is getting fl...
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[07:45:57] <exec> 08└─Such as suggesting that foreign search engines disable autocompletions for "kodi"? Wake me up when the US has the moral authority to lecture the people of other nations on the topic of freedom. I could really use that much rest.
[07:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Bans "Kodi" From Search Engine Autocomplete - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:46:08] <exec> 08└─DuckDuckGo is pretty good. But yeah we all need to "cut the cord". We need to except that we alone control what we do with our personal info and that if we ultimately don't like what is done with it or don't like the service that we are given in exange for it that we can choose to find another one....
[07:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Bans "Kodi" From Search Engine Autocomplete - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:46:10] <exec> 08└─Normies don't deserve anything besides staying in a corporate feedlot, it is both for their protection and as well as anyone outside the normiesphere. They have incompatible values and should never be allowed to interact. Doing so merely brings conflict, nothing good comes of it.
[07:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Bans "Kodi" From Search Engine Autocomplete - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:46:12] <exec> 08└─Google can't manually interfere with everything.
[07:46:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Bans "Kodi" From Search Engine Autocomplete - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:46:14] <exec> 08└─I'll be happy to use DuckDuckGo all the time when the day comes that I don't have to switch from DuckDuckGo to Google because I can't find something important by praying to The Duck.
[07:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Bans "Kodi" From Search Engine Autocomplete - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:46:17] <exec> 08└─Butbutbutbut I thought FREELY-ENTERED CONTRACTS would PREVENT such a thing!!!1111eleventy! After all, the AC who keeps changing his subject line said as much, and he's so confident and so consistent that he MUST be correct!
[07:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Bans "Kodi" From Search Engine Autocomplete - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:46:19] <exec> 08└─We were all newbies if not normies once. Why not attempt to educate the more tractable ones?
[07:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alliance for Open Media Announces Release of AOMedia Video Codec 1.0 (AV1) Specification - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:46:32] <exec> 08└─Granted, but his blaster has been replaced with a walkie-talkie
[07:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alliance for Open Media Announces Release of AOMedia Video Codec 1.0 (AV1) Specification - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:46:33] <exec> 08└─Not only that, but MPEG-LA will file patent claims against it the instant it is released. They have done this with just about every other codec, [wikipedia.org] and all they need to s a little bit of mathematics to look similar. The claim to act as a patent sharing clearing house, but are in fact on...
[07:46:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Battle to Free the Code at the Department of Defense - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:46:52] <exec> 08└─Yes, saw the same submission on other sites. with the same link suckering everyone into downloading the entire defense appropriation bill. A huge waste of time, because this "throw away" provision will never be implemented, and no report will ever be written, read, or filed.
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[08:45:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How the World has Changed Since 2008 Financial Crisis - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:47] <exec> 08└─many people across the political spectrum complain that the recovery is uneven and the markets' gains aren't fairly distributed.
[08:45:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How the World has Changed Since 2008 Financial Crisis - 671 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:48] <exec> 08└─Repackaging high risk loans and then selling them as low risk isn't legal. Falsified paperwork isn't legal. Selling property to yourself under a different name and claiming it as a loss isn't legal. Money laundering isn't legal. The whole point of the Sarbanes-Oxley act was to clamp down on these il...
[08:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How the World has Changed Since 2008 Financial Crisis - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:50] <exec> 08└─I still don't own a house. But at least I don't have paper on one that is underwater, either financially or literally.
[08:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Bans "Kodi" From Search Engine Autocomplete - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:18] <exec> 08└─How about no, let them explore and come to their own conclusions. Let the wild parts of the internet stay wild for people with fortitude, the others can live in the "civilized" part of the internet. Its the internet, not a border dispute, there is no limited physical space to fight over.
[08:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Bans "Kodi" From Search Engine Autocomplete - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:19] <exec> 08└─4503599627370495 to go. (Maths joke).
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[09:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06China Using Facial Recognition Technology to Send Jaywalkers Fines Through Text Messages - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:50] <exec> 08└─In civillised countries there is no such crime as jaywalking. Most people are born with legs and feet. No one is born with a car.
[09:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Using Facial Recognition Technology to Send Jaywalkers Fines Through Text Messages - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:52] <exec> 08└─Keep digging, just go right ahead and keep on digging ... for your fall into the grave will be the deeper for every shovel dug, once the inevitable revolution comes.
[09:48:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Acquits All 13 Pipeline Protesters - 1314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:48:08] <exec> 08└─The trouble is people don't define "long" and so the length of time keeps creeping up. Yes, you can be productive working 9, 10, 11 and 12 hour days for a week or two and maybe even a month or two at a stretch but the human body is not designed to sustain this. Very often nowadays our workload keeps...
[09:49:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Wants Comments on IoT Devices - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:49:04] <exec> 08└─She doesn't get to just ignore the emission testing because she's ignorant of how car engines work.
[09:49:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Wants Comments on IoT Devices - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:49:06] <exec> 08└─Maybe the government should not protect people from their own stupidity.
[09:49:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing Production Plant Hit with Windows' WannaCry Ransomware Attack - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:49:49] <exec> 08└─You accuse Boing management of being golfing cocaine addicts dictating engineering distasters, and then suggest Airbus as an alternative? Bwahahahahaha. That's rich.
[09:50:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Former FBI Agent Charged With Leaking Secret Documents, Presumably to The Intercept - 216 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:50:28] <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!
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[10:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03lgsoynews [1235] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Using Facial Recognition Technology to Send Jaywalkers Fines Through Text Messages - 1006 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:52] <exec> 08└─Even if we manage to ignore the HORRID Big Brother and general creepiness of the idea... We all know that face recognition has a HUGE set of limitations (and I hope it remains that way for a LONG time, for privacy/liberty issues), so you can expect a LOT of wrong people receiving unjust fines (ALL t...
[10:45:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Using Facial Recognition Technology to Send Jaywalkers Fines Through Text Messages - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:54] <exec> 08└─In realistic countries people understand that it doesn't matter if you think you are right. You jump in front of 2Mg of moving metal (well plastic nowdays) and you are the one getting hurt and injured, if not dead. The car does not feel pain and it can be scrapped. You are the one not walking for an...
[10:45:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Using Facial Recognition Technology to Send Jaywalkers Fines Through Text Messages - 758 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:56] <exec> 08└─For one, people jaywalk in India, not because it's OK, but because the government is too poor or incompetent to bring order to the roads. Same with China. People used to say that China feels more capitalist than the United States—everyday freedoms of the individual abound in China. Well, that ain'...
[10:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Using Facial Recognition Technology to Send Jaywalkers Fines Through Text Messages - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:58] <exec> 08└─I really don't need a law to prevent me from walking out in front of a motor vehicle. I can figure that out all on my own thank you very much.
[10:46:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] 02 - 06Google Bans "Kodi" From Search Engine Autocomplete - 978 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:22] <exec> 08└─more or less, there are a handful of search engines. they control a LOT of power. if they decide to block X or Y or write 'special code' that cases things differently because .. politics .. then there's all the proof you need that they are being bought/bribed/threatened and are totally off the 'do n...
[10:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03ealbers [5715] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Bans "Kodi" From Search Engine Autocomplete - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:36] <exec> 08└─You should use ddg.gg or duckduckgo.com to search, do NOT use anything related to google.
[10:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Bans "Kodi" From Search Engine Autocomplete - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:37] <exec> 08└─pFFFFFFFFFFFFFt
[10:47:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Runaway Yellow Supergiant Star Discovered - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:47:47] <exec> 08└─My star draws the BIGGEST crowds!
[10:49:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Wants Comments on IoT Devices - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:49:13] <exec> 08└─If you end up with a government, then you are ending up with an organization that is not following Capitalism.
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[11:45:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How I Went Dark in Australia's Surveillance State for 2 Years - 1671 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:48] <exec> 08└─I'm not entirely sure what this is supposed to be. As noted at the top -- opsec is hard. But she clearly isn't smart enough to be this paranoid or go dark. It seems she learned most of her "skills" from movies and TV and she has no idea how the systems actually work. So she paid for her card in cas...
[11:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How I Went Dark in Australia's Surveillance State for 2 Years - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:49] <exec> 08└─Yeah give money for your tickets to an australian hobo, they will come out of the shop with the best value alcohol every time.
[11:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How I Went Dark in Australia's Surveillance State for 2 Years - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:51] <exec> 08└─We appreciate Ms Reilly's efforts, but rest assured that we knew. We knew what she was doing. When her patterns changed she popped up on our radar rather quickly. Not that we were initially concerned, but her ongoing success gave us insights into how to better track our subjects. Had any anti-govern...
[11:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Using Facial Recognition Technology to Send Jaywalkers Fines Through Text Messages - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:04] <exec> 08└─Well congratulations then, you could've fooled me with your original comment.
[11:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Using Facial Recognition Technology to Send Jaywalkers Fines Through Text Messages - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:05] <exec> 08└─Very simple: it is illegal not to be recognized by Big Brother. Problem solved.
[11:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Using Facial Recognition Technology to Send Jaywalkers Fines Through Text Messages - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:07] <exec> 08└─Yesyesyes, the guns to make a stand with. I really do wonder: when ARE they actually going to take a stand with them guns? Instead of mowing down innocent schoolchildren, or equally innocent non-WASPs lying spreadeagled on the floor, shouting "I'm unarmed, don't shoot please!" ?
[11:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Using Facial Recognition Technology to Send Jaywalkers Fines Through Text Messages - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:10] <exec> 08└─Will you please finally get that moronic ideas of "fairness" and "justice" out of your head? Because nobody cares. Well, nobody important, anyway. As long as people are sufficiently cowed to not rebel en-masse against the powers that be, all is well. (BTW: that's the whole of China's recorded histor...
[11:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Using Facial Recognition Technology to Send Jaywalkers Fines Through Text Messages - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:12] <exec> 08└─Besides the fact that most gun violence is Blacks killing Blacks, it is also the case the the vast majority of school children are killed in the government's schools. You'll note that nutcases don't go to police barracks to shoot people up; rather, the choose gun-free zones (including some military...
[11:52:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Julian Assange has His Internet Access Cut Off by Ecuador - 820 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:52:43] <exec> 08└─Yes, Assange is by birth Australian but has been granted Ecuadorian citizenship. The Australian government seems to have washed their hands of him though as I don't recall a single official statement in the media about his situation from them, so unless he actually returns to Australia or walks into...
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[12:45:46] <exec> 08└─The problem here is that the education industry has, through political coercion, been insulated from market forces. Thus, nobody knows what anything should cost anymore. It's the same reason that every socialist system fails and devolves ultimately into dysfunctional bread lines: A lack of a respect...
[12:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06How I Went Dark in Australia's Surveillance State for 2 Years - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:56] <exec> 08└─Did she also change her appearance sufficiently to fool facial recognition cameras, or just plain cameras? Did she change her route every time she travelled, randomly, or did she get on and off at the same stops? Did she use several cards, on different days? Does her phone run a custom OS with GPS-o...
[12:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How I Went Dark in Australia's Surveillance State for 2 Years - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:58] <exec> 08└─Where is the +1 for ominous? Or maybe for +1 for Orwellian?
[12:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Using Facial Recognition Technology to Send Jaywalkers Fines Through Text Messages - 761 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:15] <exec> 08└─Jaywalking is not "jumping in front of a car". I understand that in the USA it is crossing a road with pedestrian signals when "Walk" is not displayed. I am in the UK, and in places there are red and green pedestrian signals, but until I become old and decrepit I usually feel safer making my own dec...
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[12:46:25] <exec> 08└─there were no consequences for the most egregious offenders
[12:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How the World has Changed Since 2008 Financial Crisis - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:28] <exec> 08└─who were these "offenders" that should have been punished?
[12:49:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Boeing Production Plant Hit with Windows' WannaCry Ransomware Attack - 116 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:54] <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.
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[13:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oklahoma Teachers Win Pay Raise, But Say Strike Will Proceed to Challenge "Decade of Neglect" - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:51] <exec> 08└─Anyone else think that the >> We're going to strike unless our demands our met! << Okay, we'll meet your demands! >> Well, you've been pissing us off for a long time, so we're going to strike anyway!
[13:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oklahoma Teachers Win Pay Raise, But Say Strike Will Proceed to Challenge "Decade of Neglect" - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:52] <exec> 08└─It isn't about practical outcomes; it's about dominance; it's about emotion. You are being forced at the point of a gun to fund these imbeciles. It's totally absurd—it's anathema to a free society.
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[13:45:54] <exec> 08└─On the other hand, the countries with best education have socialist school systems. Did you know that China, Japan, Norway, Finland, and a bunch of other countries with great public school systems wipe the floor with the US in education rankings, every single time? Free market is a fine concept, for...
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[13:45:57] <exec> 08└─Keep reading. "This package doesn't overcome shortfall caused by four-day weeks, overcrowded classrooms that deprive kids of the one-on-one attention they need. It's not enough"
[13:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oklahoma Teachers Win Pay Raise, But Say Strike Will Proceed to Challenge "Decade of Neglect" - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:59] <exec> 08└─The best institutions of education in the world are private, and they are in the United States for the most part. This applies to lower education as well; they produce the highest quality students, and nobody disputes that.
[13:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How I Went Dark in Australia's Surveillance State for 2 Years - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:11] <exec> 08└─"her ongoing success". No, she just thought she had limited success. In reality there was none. This whole thing was lame.
[13:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Using Facial Recognition Technology to Send Jaywalkers Fines Through Text Messages - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:30] <exec> 08└─In realistic countries people understand that it doesn't matter if you think you are right. You jump in front of 2Mg of moving metal (well plastic nowdays) and you are the one getting hurt and injured,
[13:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Using Facial Recognition Technology to Send Jaywalkers Fines Through Text Messages - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:31] <exec> 08└─In civillised countries there is no such crime as jaywalking.
[13:46:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06How the World has Changed Since 2008 Financial Crisis - 671 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:40] <exec> 08└─Repackaging high risk loans and then selling them as low risk isn't legal. Falsified paperwork isn't legal. Selling property to yourself under a different name and claiming it as a loss isn't legal. Money laundering isn't legal. The whole point of the Sarbanes-Oxley act was to clamp down on these il...
[13:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Google Bans "Kodi" From Search Engine Autocomplete - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:14] <exec> 08└─Has Duck started it's own search system? It was an aggregator when I first looked, so censoring will affect them too.
[13:47:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Failed to Exhaust Internal Options Before Engaging in PR/Legal Battle Over Encrypted iPhones - 1665 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:57] <exec> 08└─Everybody who votes D team R team is responsible for this. The FBI is nowhere in the constitution. When will people finally figure out that neither the R team nor D team gives a flying fuck about you if you don't make at least 6 figures? When will people figure out that staying home is not protest....
[13:48:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Runaway Yellow Supergiant Star Discovered - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:25] <exec> 08└─I read the headline as 'First Runaway Yellow Submarine...' Feck me, it's either new glasses or I need to sleep more. On subject, what cosmic terror lurks in the Lesser Magellanic Cloud which causes even stars to flee screaming?
[13:49:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Wants Comments on IoT Devices - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:54] <exec> 08└─I agree with you on that. If I buy a toaster, I expect it to not burn my house down. But there is some level of protection that has gone berserk. It might be difficult to articulate. But a digital alarm clock that has a warning not to use it underwater?
[13:53:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Julian Assange has His Internet Access Cut Off by Ecuador - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:53:08] <exec> 08└─1. Rearrange the deck chairs. 2. There is no problem so great that it cannot be solved by more government regulation.
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[14:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Keeps Unposted Videos - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:49] <exec> 08└─Any data you send across the Internet should be assumed recorded. Why would you expect anything else?
[14:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Keeps Unposted Videos - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:50] <exec> 08└─Could be a lot of fun stuff on there.
[14:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Facebook Keeps Unposted Videos - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:53] <exec> 08└─Let me simplify this - Facebook keeps everything. Any data you've ever fed it has been saved, copied, backed up around the globe, and used to put you in neat buckets it can sell.
[14:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Oklahoma Teachers Win Pay Raise, But Say Strike Will Proceed to Challenge "Decade of Neglect" - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:05] <exec> 08└─The best institutions of education in the world are private, and they are in the United States for the most part.
[14:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Oklahoma Teachers Win Pay Raise, But Say Strike Will Proceed to Challenge "Decade of Neglect" - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:07] <exec> 08└─Uf you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
[14:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06Oklahoma Teachers Win Pay Raise, But Say Strike Will Proceed to Challenge "Decade of Neglect" - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:09] <exec> 08└─The problem here is that the education industry has, through political coercion, been insulated from market forces. Thus, nobody knows what anything should cost anymore. It's the same reason that every socialist system fails and devolves ultimately into dysfunctional bread lines: A lack of a respect...
[14:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oklahoma Teachers Win Pay Raise, But Say Strike Will Proceed to Challenge "Decade of Neglect" - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:11] <exec> 08└─With that same data, I get the exact opposite impression than you do. The rankings are averages. So please tell me, what would the US average be without those few outliers pulling you up? You're sacrificing the well being of millions of children and boasting about how it helps a small percentage of...
[14:46:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Oklahoma Teachers Win Pay Raise, But Say Strike Will Proceed to Challenge "Decade of Neglect" - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:14] <exec> 08└─It isn't about practical outcomes; it's about dominance; it's about emotion. You are being forced at the point of a gun to fund these imbeciles. It's totally absurd—it's anathema to a free society.
[14:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oklahoma Teachers Win Pay Raise, But Say Strike Will Proceed to Challenge "Decade of Neglect" - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:16] <exec> 08└─Posting it a second time just makes it seem like you're trying to convince yourself. Why are you so afraid of educated children?
[14:46:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oklahoma Teachers Win Pay Raise, But Say Strike Will Proceed to Challenge "Decade of Neglect" - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:18] <exec> 08└─Roughly half of the population is below mean intelligence, and average intelligence is itself unimpressive. What do you expect?
[14:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Oklahoma Teachers Win Pay Raise, But Say Strike Will Proceed to Challenge "Decade of Neglect" - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:20] <exec> 08└─The problem here is that the education industry has, through political coercion, been insulated from market forces. Thus, nobody knows what anything should cost anymore. It's the same reason that every socialist system fails and devolves ultimately into dysfunctional bread lines: A lack of a respect...
[14:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Oklahoma Teachers Win Pay Raise, But Say Strike Will Proceed to Challenge "Decade of Neglect" - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:22] <exec> 08└─I live in Oklahoma and am pretty familiar with the situation. Yes, you are misunderstanding. The legislature did not meet the teachers' demands. They passed a funding bill that only partially meets the striking teachers' demands and is temporary in nature.
[14:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06Oklahoma Teachers Win Pay Raise, But Say Strike Will Proceed to Challenge "Decade of Neglect" - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:25] <exec> 08└─The problem here is that the education industry has, through political coercion, been insulated from market forces. Thus, nobody knows what anything should cost anymore. It's the same reason that every socialist system fails and devolves ultimately into dysfunctional bread lines: A lack of a respect...
[14:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oklahoma Teachers Win Pay Raise, But Say Strike Will Proceed to Challenge "Decade of Neglect" - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:27] <exec> 08└─> gt; We're going to strike unless our demands our met! < < Okay, we'll meet your demands! > gt; Well, you've been pissing us off for a long time, so we're going to strike anyway!
[14:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oklahoma Teachers Win Pay Raise, But Say Strike Will Proceed to Challenge "Decade of Neglect" - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:29] <exec> 08└─The problem here is that the education industry has, through political coercion, been insulated from market forces. Thus, nobody knows what anything should cost anymore. It's the same reason that every socialist system fails and devolves ultimately into dysfunctional bread lines: A lack of a respect...
[14:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oklahoma Teachers Win Pay Raise, But Say Strike Will Proceed to Challenge "Decade of Neglect" - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:31] <exec> 08└─And why is that relevant only for the US and not for any other country on the planet? If the average of the US is below the average of, say, Finland, but the top schools in the US are way above the top schools in Finland, what does that tell us about the rest of the US schools? How much worse are th...
[14:46:43] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06How I Went Dark in Australia's Surveillance State for 2 Years - 185 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:44] <exec> 08└─If they wanted to ID her so badly they would just use the massive camera surveillance infrastructure associated with most public transport systems to catch her when she swiped her card.
[14:46:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How I Went Dark in Australia's Surveillance State for 2 Years - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:45] <exec> 08└─You gotta buy the booze, then have them buy the ticket: then mutual hand off. Or hand job. Whatever.
[14:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How I Went Dark in Australia's Surveillance State for 2 Years - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:47] <exec> 08└─Yup: I went dark by going to the same ice cream shop I always go to (they know me well there) and I bought CHERRY instead of my usual CHOCOLATE! That fooled EVERYONE! Darkish is right.
[14:46:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03loonycyborg [6905] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How I Went Dark in Australia's Surveillance State for 2 Years - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:49] <exec> 08└─Properly going dark requires using someone else's identities, and many of them at that.
[14:47:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Using Facial Recognition Technology to Send Jaywalkers Fines Through Text Messages - 685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:10] <exec> 08└─> I'd rather rely on my own capabilities than on other people's capabilities. In a similar vein, I always figured that I was smarter than walk/don't walk traffic signals. Even if these are replaced with AI controls, I'm guessing that I'm still going to be smarter! And at least once I did the same th...
[14:48:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google-Led Plan to Upend Wireless Industry Gains Momentum - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:19] <exec> 08└─If you want Big City infrastructure, then move to the fucking city, you entitled bitch.
[14:48:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Failed to Exhaust Internal Options Before Engaging in PR/Legal Battle Over Encrypted iPhones - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:39] <exec> 08└─how is the fbi any diff than any other authority org?
[14:49:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Wants Comments on IoT Devices - 1707 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:59] <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...
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[15:45:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Keeps Unposted Videos - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:53] <exec> 08└─I have this shit in my toilet. It smells up my whole life but it's my connection to the outside world. If I flush the turd away I may lose all my 'friends', so there it sits. In my toilet. Smelling up everything. 'Friends'.
[15:45:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Keeps Unposted Videos - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:55] <exec> 08└─>> "Create" is the operative word in there. No, they're all operative. There is no gotcha. "We basically keep everything" is pretty simple and uncomplicated. >> By that logic, Facebook technically could save any >> video a user filmed but did not publish because you >> created it on the platform. No...
[15:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Keeps Unposted Videos - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:57] <exec> 08└─Everyone who is surprised at this "revelation", please raise your hands.
[15:46:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] 02 - 06Oklahoma Teachers Win Pay Raise, But Say Strike Will Proceed to Challenge "Decade of Neglect" - 256 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:17] <exec> 08└─I live in Oklahoma and am pretty familiar with the situation. Yes, you are misunderstanding. The legislature did not meet the teachers' demands. They passed a funding bill that only partially meets the striking teachers' demands and is temporary in nature.
[15:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Oklahoma Teachers Win Pay Raise, But Say Strike Will Proceed to Challenge "Decade of Neglect" - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:23] <exec> 08└─Different AC here. I expect that we will take care of those of us who cannot take care of themselves. That means when the only jobs left are wait staff and robot technicians; and not everybody can be a robot technician like me and you; and even in the post-scarcity utopia, we don't need 10 billion w...
[15:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oklahoma Teachers Win Pay Raise, But Say Strike Will Proceed to Challenge "Decade of Neglect" - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:25] <exec> 08└─She's just jealous because she never got a fair chance at a decent education. Crabs in a bucket.
[15:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06Oklahoma Teachers Win Pay Raise, But Say Strike Will Proceed to Challenge "Decade of Neglect" - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:27] <exec> 08└─The problem here is that the education industry has, through political coercion, been insulated from market forces. Thus, nobody knows what anything should cost anymore. It's the same reason that every socialist system fails and devolves ultimately into dysfunctional bread lines: A lack of a respect...
[15:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Oklahoma Teachers Win Pay Raise, But Say Strike Will Proceed to Challenge "Decade of Neglect" - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:29] <exec> 08└─The Finish people, who are ridiculously homogeneous (like the Asian countries, too) have a much higher average IQ. We know who pulls down the American IQ, but nobody is allowed to say it. It's a totally different situation. That's why you are confused; you are comparing Apples and Oranges.
[15:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oklahoma Teachers Win Pay Raise, But Say Strike Will Proceed to Challenge "Decade of Neglect" - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:32] <exec> 08└─Great, thanks for the clarification.
[15:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oklahoma Teachers Win Pay Raise, But Say Strike Will Proceed to Challenge "Decade of Neglect" - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:34] <exec> 08└─You aren't going to convince anyone this way slugger.
[15:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oklahoma Teachers Win Pay Raise, But Say Strike Will Proceed to Challenge "Decade of Neglect" - 934 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:36] <exec> 08└─You've stated the following as one of your axioms: Human life is important above all other concerns. Well, clearly, that is not true. Otherwise it would make sense to tear through any other organism or ecosystem in the world in the pursuit of making more humans. And, that's not a straw man, because...
[15:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06Oklahoma Teachers Win Pay Raise, But Say Strike Will Proceed to Challenge "Decade of Neglect" - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:38] <exec> 08└─The problem here is that the education industry has, through political coercion, been insulated from market forces. Thus, nobody knows what anything should cost anymore. It's the same reason that every socialist system fails and devolves ultimately into dysfunctional bread lines: A lack of a respect...
[15:46:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Oklahoma Teachers Win Pay Raise, But Say Strike Will Proceed to Challenge "Decade of Neglect" - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:40] <exec> 08└─So at the end of the year their pay goes back down by 5%? Temporary and non-continuous are not the same.
[15:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oklahoma Teachers Win Pay Raise, But Say Strike Will Proceed to Challenge "Decade of Neglect" - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:43] <exec> 08└─It should be noted that the average U.S. IQ is propped up by the over-representation of very smart people who have moved to the U.S. to live, and who reproduce more very intelligent people there. While those smart people lift the average IQ in the U.S., they do not make any smarter the rest of Ameri...
[15:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oklahoma Teachers Win Pay Raise, But Say Strike Will Proceed to Challenge "Decade of Neglect" - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:45] <exec> 08└─Otherwise it would make sense to tear through any other organism or ecosystem in the world in the pursuit of making more humans.
[15:46:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oklahoma Teachers Win Pay Raise, But Say Strike Will Proceed to Challenge "Decade of Neglect" - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:47] <exec> 08└─You do realize that some of the most ignorant sons of bitches in the world have been treated to very expensive educations?
[15:46:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06Oklahoma Teachers Win Pay Raise, But Say Strike Will Proceed to Challenge "Decade of Neglect" - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:50] <exec> 08└─The problem here is that the education industry has, through political coercion, been insulated from market forces. Thus, nobody knows what anything should cost anymore. It's the same reason that every socialist system fails and devolves ultimately into dysfunctional bread lines: A lack of a respect...
[15:46:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oklahoma Teachers Win Pay Raise, But Say Strike Will Proceed to Challenge "Decade of Neglect" - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:52] <exec> 08└─OriginalLoser forgot to sign his post. No one else here cites wswswswswswswswsws
[15:46:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03looorg [578] 02 - 06How I Went Dark in Australia's Surveillance State for 2 Years - 1671 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:00] <exec> 08└─I'm not entirely sure what this is supposed to be. As noted at the top -- opsec is hard. But she clearly isn't smart enough to be this paranoid or go dark. It seems she learned most of her "skills" from movies and TV and she has no idea how the systems actually work. So she paid for her card in cas...
[15:47:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Using Facial Recognition Technology to Send Jaywalkers Fines Through Text Messages - 761 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:30] <exec> 08└─In realistic countries, people understand that two wrongs don't make a right, and that both parties in an accident can be partially responsible... However, that is very bad news for lawyers on both sides who make far more money when one party takes all the liability, so realism is a rather endangere...
[15:48:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Bans "Kodi" From Search Engine Autocomplete - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:13] <exec> 08└─One down... [2^52 -1] to go. (Maths joke).
[15:48:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Bans "Kodi" From Search Engine Autocomplete - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:15] <exec> 08└─Censoring autocomplete is different from censoring results: https://www.google.com [google.com]
[15:48:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google-Led Plan to Upend Wireless Industry Gains Momentum - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:42] <exec> 08└─No, you inner city ghetto puke, I don't need to move to the city to get what I've already paid for. Were you asleep over the past 15 to 20 years, when Gubbermint PAID THE TELCOS to build out that "last mile"? What happened to that money? It was spent - wait for it - IN THE FUCKING CITIES!! Because y...
[15:48:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google-Led Plan to Upend Wireless Industry Gains Momentum - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:43] <exec> 08└─Which one?
[15:49:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Judge Acquits All 13 Pipeline Protesters - 534 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:48] <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...
[15:50:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Judge Acquits All 13 Pipeline Protesters - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:01] <exec> 08└─It helped that Al Gore's kid was with them.
[15:51:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Wants Comments on IoT Devices - 2517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:01] <exec> 08└─I'd be more supportive of IoT hardware if they came with a little guide that had contents that wouldnt change on a random schedule requiring me to visit some website periodically to learn if the terms of the agreement have changed, agreed to if I keep using the product or read that page. The guide s...
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[16:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Timothy Lu Seeks to Combat Diseases by Combining Biology With Computer Science - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:50] <exec> 08└─Doesn't that look suspiciously like a patent with the "on a computer" appendage? Maybe I'm not being fair, but TFA is little more than a couple photos, and some fluff about Lu. Nothing substantial, at all, IMHO.
[16:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Keeps Unposted Videos - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:03] <exec> 08└─You might lose contact with family members that live on the other side of the country! The horror! And what about the events!? Can't miss those!
[16:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Keeps Unposted Videos - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:04] <exec> 08└─I moved across the country to get away from the family. - Don Carlos
[16:46:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Facebook Keeps Unposted Videos - 745 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:06] <exec> 08└─My bet is that this is more of Facebook being beat up by the D-team controlled media for failing to prevent working class protests (especially ones against the union that's supposed to be representing them but is really working for the elites) from being organized on that platform. Once again, corpo...
[16:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oklahoma Teachers Win Pay Raise, But Say Strike Will Proceed to Challenge "Decade of Neglect" - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:46] <exec> 08└─I think our school system is expensive and it still pumps out ignoramuses in massive numbers. Rote memorization factories are not exactly good at educating people, after all. 'It's better than nothing.' is about the best you can say.
[16:46:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oklahoma Teachers Win Pay Raise, But Say Strike Will Proceed to Challenge "Decade of Neglect" - 1008 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:48] <exec> 08└─I pointed out how that's not a straw man. Also, That's not the end of the line. At best, your line of reasoning is incomplete. It's not enough to say that existing human life (or persons) are sacred; you must conclude that there are too many humans. The solution isn't socialism or a Universal Basic...
[16:46:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatOutdoors [6408] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Oklahoma Teachers Win Pay Raise, But Say Strike Will Proceed to Challenge "Decade of Neglect" - 1003 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:50] <exec> 08└─I am familiar with the situation, and my girlfriend is a teacher. She has been teaching for 16 years and has only received two pay raises in that time. She still makes less than $35k per year, and on top of that, the state started increasing insurance fees at the start of Obamacare, so she is more i...
[16:46:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oklahoma Teachers Win Pay Raise, But Say Strike Will Proceed to Challenge "Decade of Neglect" - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:52] <exec> 08└─Isn't that the definition of capitalism? The system works!
[16:46:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oklahoma Teachers Win Pay Raise, But Say Strike Will Proceed to Challenge "Decade of Neglect" - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:54] <exec> 08└─Ok, now we're getting somewhere. Now, the question is this: How can the population be reduced humanely? All I can say is that this requires a reduction in population to be the result of each individual's reproductive choice. At most, a government may subsidize each individual's choice to take measur...
[16:46:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oklahoma Teachers Win Pay Raise, But Say Strike Will Proceed to Challenge "Decade of Neglect" - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:57] <exec> 08└─OK. I'll start the thoughtful discussion. What can you say? Red states suck.
[16:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oklahoma Teachers Win Pay Raise, But Say Strike Will Proceed to Challenge "Decade of Neglect" - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:59] <exec> 08└─Well, you've now got somebody else who does, but I admit that Original Gewg_ is who turned me on to WSWS. I read WSWS daily now.
[16:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oklahoma Teachers Win Pay Raise, But Say Strike Will Proceed to Challenge "Decade of Neglect" - 756 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:01] <exec> 08└─The Finish people are ridiculously homogeneous (like the Asian countries, too). The average U.S. IQ is propped up by the over-representation of very smart people who have moved to the U.S. to live, and who reproduce more very intelligent people there. While those smart people lift the average IQ in...
[16:47:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oklahoma Teachers Win Pay Raise, But Say Strike Will Proceed to Challenge "Decade of Neglect" - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:03] <exec> 08└─You're a moron a moron a total fucking nooooob
[16:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oklahoma Teachers Win Pay Raise, But Say Strike Will Proceed to Challenge "Decade of Neglect" - 1056 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:06] <exec> 08└─The part I have never understood is why teachers are always complaining about buying suplies with their income. I went to a mix of public school, and I heard this complaint if anything more in the schools that were in much better shape financially. I am not calling the teachers liars, rather I wond...
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[16:47:08] <exec> 08└─In an orthogonal argument, I'd say that returning to Capitalism (which we've left behind long ago) would produce cheaper, higher quality health care for everyone. In our discussion, I'd say that Single-Payer health care is a government subsidy of reproduction (which we've already agreed is wronghead...
[16:47:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How I Went Dark in Australia's Surveillance State for 2 Years - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:24] <exec> 08└─i had a good laugh when the ATM was mentioned.
[16:47:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How I Went Dark in Australia's Surveillance State for 2 Years - 924 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:26] <exec> 08└─Dark as lightning! Hell, she wasn't even "off the grid". Still paying rent, still using a debit/credit card, openly using ATM's, still carrying that cell phone, and probably dozens of other things that are tracked. I have my own little idiot-syncrocies, like not applying for the convenience store ga...
[16:47:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Using Facial Recognition Technology to Send Jaywalkers Fines Through Text Messages - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:49] <exec> 08└─You missed the most important aspect, meatbags' inferiority. first, we beat meatbags at chess then, we beat meatbags at go now, we can tell two Chinese faces apart (!)
[16:48:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MobileActive Founder Katrin Verclas Indicted on Major Fraud Charges - 2278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:11] <exec> 08└─The ridiculous part is she was busted for not filing her 501(c)(3) corp paperwork, the other stuff is very handwavy fuzzy and probably not realistically prosecutable unless its glaringly ridiculous. Which it may have been. Note that people really freak the hell out if you directly bill your company...
[16:48:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Bans "Kodi" From Search Engine Autocomplete - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:37] <exec> 08└─it's a shame ddg sucks so damn bad.
[16:49:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Battle to Free the Code at the Department of Defense - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:14] <exec> 08└─they're probably just trying to get FOSS nerds on the "way too political" watch list.
[16:49:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Failed to Exhaust Internal Options Before Engaging in PR/Legal Battle Over Encrypted iPhones - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:27] <exec> 08└─that's fine but government orgs have the authority/ability to use force so it kind of makes a difference. i can choose not to enter into a contract with the seditious whores at AT&T, for instance.
[16:51:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Wants Comments on IoT Devices - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:51:26] <exec> 08└─So no one can enforce contracts then. You seem to think in your world no one would ever welch. How do people like you survive in the real world?
[16:51:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Wants Comments on IoT Devices - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:51:28] <exec> 08└─huge companies are retarded af. that credit agency got "hacked" because they had an unpatched java server(java server...lmao) running on the internet that the security people didn't even know existed and the slaveware security scanner(super defense layer 2) couldn't even detect it (even though it ha...
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[17:45:48] <exec> 08└─I had a Sinclair Spectrum 128 (Z-80A CPU). I wasn't wealthy enough to have a C64 or an Amiga or ST when they came out. The Spectrum 128 had an AY-3-81923-channel sound chip but it also had the old "beeper" for backwards compatibility with the original Spectrums. You could have four channels going at...
[17:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Keeps Unposted Videos - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:11] <exec> 08└─Ever change your mind while composing a video to post on Facebook?
[17:47:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Oklahoma Teachers Win Pay Raise, But Say Strike Will Proceed to Challenge "Decade of Neglect" - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:03] <exec> 08└─Because 1) most teachers are decent people who don't want to make kids suffer just to make a point, and 2) if "angry parents and falling scores provide feedback that the school is failing", then the Republicans will say that the schools are failing so we should stop funding them at all. It's the typ...
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[17:47:05] <exec> 08└─State-sponsored abortion is also problematic, because there is a large number of people who consider it murder; those people should not be forced to fund what they considered to be murder.
[17:47:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oklahoma Teachers Win Pay Raise, But Say Strike Will Proceed to Challenge "Decade of Neglect" - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:07] <exec> 08└─Sad troll is sad, screaming louder just triggers my empathy reflex. Do you need a hug?
[17:47:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oklahoma Teachers Win Pay Raise, But Say Strike Will Proceed to Challenge "Decade of Neglect" - 1879 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:09] <exec> 08└─Well, I think both the anarcho-capitalist AC (assuming that's her I've been bouncing ideas off of) and the different AC (me) have a solution for you! Anarcho-capitalism provides an obvious solution, which I'm sure the other AC will be happy to detail. My solution is somewhat different. In either cas...
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[17:47:11] <exec> 08└─Agree. Also watch out for calls for teacher accountability. The one teacher who keeps buying supplies after the others stop is going to have the best metrics at accountability time. Then it's tragedy of the commons and we're right back where we started.
[17:47:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oklahoma Teachers Win Pay Raise, But Say Strike Will Proceed to Challenge "Decade of Neglect" - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:13] <exec> 08└─Just because the State says you must pay for something doesn't make it right. When you don't mind paying for something, then taxation to fund it is just the fee one pays for civilization; when you don't want to pay for something, then taxation is theft. Better, then, to find Free Market solutions f...
[17:47:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oklahoma Teachers Win Pay Raise, But Say Strike Will Proceed to Challenge "Decade of Neglect" - 1255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:16] <exec> 08└─I suspect number one is the closest to the naked truth, but if they are going on strike they are totally willing to let the kids suffer, they are acknowledging that short term suffering beats long term insufficiency. Just because a strike works in coal mines doesn't mean it is the best way of manipu...
[17:47:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oklahoma Teachers Win Pay Raise, But Say Strike Will Proceed to Challenge "Decade of Neglect" - 1126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:18] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I'm not an expert in social sciences and/or economics, so I can't say if strike is going to help or not. However, I'd say there is a difference both in length and in degree between not buying school supplies and a strike. Strike will last for a few days, at worst weeks, and during that time ki...
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[17:47:20] <exec> 08└─Then the government needs to stop participating in executions. It doesn't make any one safer, costs ridiculous amounts of money, and makes you a hypocrite when you say you are pro life, but also pro death penalty. If one is state sanctioned murder, then surely both are.
[17:47:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06How I Went Dark in Australia's Surveillance State for 2 Years - 490 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:30] <exec> 08└─We appreciate Ms Reilly's efforts, but rest assured that we knew. We knew what she was doing. When her patterns changed she popped up on our radar rather quickly. Not that we were initially concerned, but her ongoing success gave us insights into how to better track our subjects. Had any anti-govern...
[17:48:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How the World has Changed Since 2008 Financial Crisis - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:14] <exec> 08└─Repackaging high risk loans and then selling them as low risk isn't legal. Falsified paperwork isn't legal. Selling property to yourself under a different name and claiming it as a loss isn't legal. Money laundering isn't legal.
[17:49:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Failed to Exhaust Internal Options Before Engaging in PR/Legal Battle Over Encrypted iPhones - 1163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:39] <exec> 08└─You can only go so far avoiding it. For a long time I went without credit card. But then, I just had to accept that it was no longer possible to go completely without; some things you cannot get without it any more (in particular, I had problems to book hotels and flights). I still only use it very...
[17:50:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Judge Acquits All 13 Pipeline Protesters - 648 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:39] <exec> 08└─Don't forget the hidden time sinks!! Commuting is rarely a carefree relaxing endeavor and for many people a 1+ hr commute is pretty common. So a regular work day goes from 9 to 11 hours assuming you get an hour lunch break. Also, an hour lunch break is hardly enough to actually relax as time is wast...
[17:51:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Wants Comments on IoT Devices - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:42] <exec> 08└─smart contracts can enforce themselves.
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[18:45:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06A 48Khz Digital Music Player for the Commodore 64 - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:44] <exec> 08└─PWM as explained here [ntmusic.org.uk] You could do interesting enough stuff using beep from basic, I used to spend hours fiddling with udg sprite maps and the beep command as a child.
[18:45:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 48Khz Digital Music Player for the Commodore 64 - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:45] <exec> 08└─If Mozilla were to hire this guy, then perhaps the Youtube HTML5 shit wouldn't be so laggy on "older" machines.
[18:45:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 48Khz Digital Music Player for the Commodore 64 - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:47] <exec> 08└─I didn't know you could do HTML5 on a Commodore!
[18:46:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gaaark [41] 02 - 06Facebook Keeps Unposted Videos - 223 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:04] <exec> 08└─I have this shit in my toilet. It smells up my whole life but it's my connection to the outside world. If I flush the turd away I may lose all my 'friends', so there it sits. In my toilet. Smelling up everything. 'Friends'.
[18:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Keeps Unposted Videos - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:11] <exec> 08└─Wha?
[18:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Keeps Unposted Videos - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:13] <exec> 08└─It will only get worse for Mr Zuck. They will tear him down, till his "suicide" becomes believable. Next time don't try to run Zucky! It's Still HER TURN!
[18:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Facebook Keeps Unposted Videos - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:15] <exec> 08└─The videos shouldn't require downloading all of your data to know that they're still retained. If it isn't actually in a place where the user can find it without going through extra steps, it shouldn't be retained. It should be perfectly reasonable for people to assume that if they can't see it from...
[18:46:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Keeps Unposted Videos - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:18] <exec> 08└─For every n pieces of data that you've given to facebook, they have n(n-1)/2 inferences about you.
[18:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Keeps Unposted Videos - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:20] <exec> 08└─And I'll be shedding precisely zero tears for that pathetic waste of skin.
[18:47:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oklahoma Teachers Win Pay Raise, But Say Strike Will Proceed to Challenge "Decade of Neglect" - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:20] <exec> 08└─I'm not arguing in favor of State-sponsored executions. However, you should know that your argument is fallacious; your argument is a false equivalence. A criminal has broken a law—a rule of conduct in society—the consequence of which was decided in advance that criminal's actions. A fetus has d...
[18:47:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oklahoma Teachers Win Pay Raise, But Say Strike Will Proceed to Challenge "Decade of Neglect" - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:22] <exec> 08└─Geez, you should get a doctorate in bullshitology. And users around here wonder why liberals freak out about the possibility of literal nazis existing in the US.
[18:47:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How I Went Dark in Australia's Surveillance State for 2 Years - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:41] <exec> 08└─Shhh. You don't want to discourage women in tech, do you?
[18:47:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How I Went Dark in Australia's Surveillance State for 2 Years - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:42] <exec> 08└─IIUC, with current cameras/recognition systems it's easy to change your appearance enough that they won't recognize you as the same, and your friends won't notice the change. Don't expect that to be true next year, or maybe another year after that. The patterns of activity is much more difficult, th...
[18:47:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How I Went Dark in Australia's Surveillance State for 2 Years - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:45] <exec> 08└─You think of the government as a unified entity. This is incorrect. She did have success at some levels. E.g. the transit authority didn't know who she was.
[18:48:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How the World has Changed Since 2008 Financial Crisis - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:20] <exec> 08└─until the profit margins will minimize.
[18:48:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How the World has Changed Since 2008 Financial Crisis - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:21] <exec> 08└─Who (re)elects the people that makes it all possible? Look in the mirror, boy! [twimg.com]
[18:48:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How the World has Changed Since 2008 Financial Crisis - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:24] <exec> 08└─When you don't have a choice, do you have a choice? I suppose people could just refuse to vote. Many do.
[18:48:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MobileActive Founder Katrin Verclas Indicted on Major Fraud Charges - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:35] <exec> 08└─So you're planning to outdo Rip Van Winkle?
[18:49:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrpg [5708] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Bans "Kodi" From Search Engine Autocomplete - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:02] <exec> 08└─That happened to me for a week and then I decided to use https://www.startpage.com [startpage.com]
[18:49:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Bans "Kodi" From Search Engine Autocomplete - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:03] <exec> 08└─Your point is good and valid... and the other comments are reacting to implicit threats, and taken in that sense also valid.
[18:49:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Bans "Kodi" From Search Engine Autocomplete - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:06] <exec> 08└─Why? What does it do? The link looks just like a base google page with a pretty background. If I want to link to sites I frequently go to, I already don't use google. I've got a panel of bookmarks that's a lot more convenient.
[18:49:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Bans "Kodi" From Search Engine Autocomplete - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:08] <exec> 08└─DDG is just a search engine aggregator that claims to remove 'personal' info. It is still 'powered' by the big boys. I wouldn't trust them any more than anybody else. Why, you might ask? Lo and behold, a cookie, and no milk! What could be more cruel? Sorry, the whole idea of trust is out the window....
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[19:45:50] <exec> 08└─We must terminate their command, with extreme prejudice. Elections coming in November. If you don't take the chance and vote out all incumbents, you will get nowhere.
[19:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ACLU to Cities: Defend Online Privacy & Net Neutrality Via Publicly-Owned Municipal Broadband - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:51] <exec> 08└─I know some people say it's a trick to get us to read TFA, but neither the summary nor the article bother to state who or what ACLU is. (My brain tried playing anagrams and got UCLA, but that's not it.) Two links deep, it turns out they're the American Civil Liberties Union (aclu.org).
[19:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06ACLU to Cities: Defend Online Privacy & Net Neutrality Via Publicly-Owned Municipal Broadband - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:53] <exec> 08└─The monopoly ISPs you so hate were mostly granted their status by Government. And, Government is itself the worst kind of monopoly: Government came to power not through being good at providing a service, but rather through violent imposition. You guys are nuts.
[19:45:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ACLU to Cities: Defend Online Privacy & Net Neutrality Via Publicly-Owned Municipal Broadband - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:55] <exec> 08└─"Come on, comrade! Pay your fair share!"
[19:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ACLU to Cities: Defend Online Privacy & Net Neutrality Via Publicly-Owned Municipal Broadband - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:58] <exec> 08└─ACLU is a fairly recognizable acronym and the organization has been posted about here a number of times. While it's good to explain the first use of an Acronym, SN isn't a "professional" shop. They do a great job, though. Minor nitpicks are minor.
[19:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ACLU to Cities: Defend Online Privacy & Net Neutrality Via Publicly-Owned Municipal Broadband - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:00] <exec> 08└─That's ridiculous. Government came into being because the alternative was even worse. If government sucks, it's purely because idiots like you refuse to do anything to make it better. As long as people continue to vote for anti-government nutters we're going to have a government that sucks. It's not...
[19:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ACLU to Cities: Defend Online Privacy & Net Neutrality Via Publicly-Owned Municipal Broadband - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:02] <exec> 08└─In California some years ago, the local ACLU branch defend the right of parents to cut up the penises of completely healthy children. So, according to the ACLU, you don't have civil right to your own penis, but you do have a civil right to cut up someone else's penis—the individual is not what mat...
[19:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ACLU to Cities: Defend Online Privacy & Net Neutrality Via Publicly-Owned Municipal Broadband - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:04] <exec> 08└─I don't think it's that exotic of an acronym for most politically aware Americans; and this is an American-centric website. I might be biased since I donate $20 to them every month.
[19:46:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ACLU to Cities: Defend Online Privacy & Net Neutrality Via Publicly-Owned Municipal Broadband - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:07] <exec> 08└─While AT&T et al are screwing the customer. At least they're not the Government. We need internet privacy laws that take into account the freedoms we were granted from the founding of the United States. We don't Want a Government controlled ISP Monopoly. What we do want is to stop being screwed with...
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[19:46:09] <exec> 08└─Even if the alternative were worse, it's true that Government is a monopoly on various aspects of society, and it's true that Government arose to that monopoly through violent imposition rather than through being good at providing a service (voluntarily, by imposition). So, you're not disagreeing. W...
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[19:46:11] <exec> 08└─Come on now straw libertarian AC. Surely even you can tell there’s nothing that makes a violently imposed monopoly administered by the guys holding the guns any worse than a violently administered monopoly administered by a a profit-maximizing corporation. In many ways, the latter strategy is the...
[19:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ACLU to Cities: Defend Online Privacy & Net Neutrality Via Publicly-Owned Municipal Broadband - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:13] <exec> 08└─Sign on rabbi's door: Today's special: circumcision. Today only: half off!
[19:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ACLU to Cities: Defend Online Privacy & Net Neutrality Via Publicly-Owned Municipal Broadband - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:15] <exec> 08└─You can bet the courts would give us #1 if it was run by the government. AT&T et al are not bound by the constitution.
[19:46:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ACLU to Cities: Defend Online Privacy & Net Neutrality Via Publicly-Owned Municipal Broadband - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:18] <exec> 08└─ACLU is an initialism for an association of four telecom companies: AT&T Comcast Logicworks Ultra Mobile See? They are working hard to protect net neutrality!
[19:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ACLU to Cities: Defend Online Privacy & Net Neutrality Via Publicly-Owned Municipal Broadband - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:20] <exec> 08└─At the very least, I can choose not to use the Internet, or I can connive with my buddies to do something wild to access the Internet without using a particular corporation, if only for shits and giggles. Yet, that's not possible if the Government provides an ISP. The government WILL force me to fun...
[19:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ACLU to Cities: Defend Online Privacy & Net Neutrality Via Publicly-Owned Municipal Broadband - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:22] <exec> 08└─You wouldn't joke about female circumcision.
[19:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ACLU to Cities: Defend Online Privacy & Net Neutrality Via Publicly-Owned Municipal Broadband - 845 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:24] <exec> 08└─I'm arguing no such thing. I'm arguing that we're stuck with some sort of a government as the alternative isn't acceptable. And that if we want the government to be one that works for our benefit, we need to actually vote for people that are pushing policies that would make that so. What's strange h...
[19:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 48Khz Digital Music Player for the Commodore 64 - 884 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:35] <exec> 08└─Our systems are so incredibly bloated these days. The attitude seems to be that any unit smaller than 4k is not worth bothering about. I wanted to see how bad Hello World in C was, on a typical 64bit Linux system. Depends on the compiler options, but even the smallest one (created with a whole bunch...
[19:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A 48Khz Digital Music Player for the Commodore 64 - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:37] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't the 64-bit binaries naturally be 4x bigger than the 16-bit binaries of the 80's, all else being equal?
[19:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A 48Khz Digital Music Player for the Commodore 64 - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:39] <exec> 08└─16-bit binaries of the 80's
[19:47:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Keeps Unposted Videos - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:07] <exec> 08└─The only real surprise here is that facefuck handed over the unposted data at all. Probably someone at farcebook just didn't test everything all the way. Of course they keep all of that and bazillion times more. While I doubt they will lose a significant amount of product (no, the customers are the...
[19:47:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Keeps Unposted Videos - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:08] <exec> 08└─You’re going to reap just what you sow. Lou warned me of FB years ago.
[19:48:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oklahoma Teachers Win Pay Raise, But Say Strike Will Proceed to Challenge "Decade of Neglect" - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:11] <exec> 08└─You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink.
[19:48:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Oklahoma Teachers Win Pay Raise, But Say Strike Will Proceed to Challenge "Decade of Neglect" - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:13] <exec> 08└─On the other hand, the countries with best education have socialist school systems.
[19:48:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oklahoma Teachers Win Pay Raise, But Say Strike Will Proceed to Challenge "Decade of Neglect" - 768 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:15] <exec> 08└─There was a similar "settlement" in West Virginia the other week. 33,000 Teachers Stage Wildcat Strike in West Virginia; Into a Second Week [2018-03-07] [soylentnews.org] What they got was a 5 percent pay raise for all public sector workers. The way that will be funded will be to further cut the saf...
[19:48:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How I Went Dark in Australia's Surveillance State for 2 Years - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:37] <exec> 08└─In the article there is a photo of some dark person in front of a terminal with C code. That code is invalid and will not compile (redefinition of 'count' in the same scope)
[19:48:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03turgid [4318] 02 - 06China Using Facial Recognition Technology to Send Jaywalkers Fines Through Text Messages - 129 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:44] <exec> 08└─In civillised countries there is no such crime as jaywalking. Most people are born with legs and feet. No one is born with a car.
[19:49:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How the World has Changed Since 2008 Financial Crisis - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:16] <exec> 08└─You do have a choice, always. We are the only ones that limit our choices, and then blame others for the choices we make.
[19:49:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How the World has Changed Since 2008 Financial Crisis - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:17] <exec> 08└─Really? You're telling me that I'm just hallucinating when I see the Green Party and the Libertarian Party for nearly every office on my ballot every other year? Just fucking stop this propaganda. If you vote for the Republican Party or the Democrat Party, you are throwing your vote away.
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[20:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coffee: Known to the State of California to Cause Cancer - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:50] <exec> 08└─Anything charred over an open flame, fried in oil (potato chips) or generally processed from raw form causes cancer. It is along the lines of life causes death. Been that way forever and will likely always be that way. The trick is to enjoy the ride and not worry about the ultimate destination, or s...
[20:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coffee: Known to the State of California to Cause Cancer - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:52] <exec> 08└─Of course, if everything carries a warning, they become meaningless. More to the point, apparently all of the difficult problems have been solved, if they have time for crap like this.
[20:45:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coffee: Known to the State of California to Cause Cancer - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:54] <exec> 08└─has been found to cause cancer. Too bad you've already read it. Seriously, I've been in CA for over 50 years now and it's getting embarrassing.
[20:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ACLU to Cities: Defend Online Privacy & Net Neutrality Via Publicly-Owned Municipal Broadband - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:18] <exec> 08└─Before anybody says "That's totally different!", you should note that local, national, and international law declares it to be "genital mutilation" if you merely prick a girl's labia with a pin just to draw a symbolic drop of blood. In contrast, you are free to throw a party, complete with bagels,...
[20:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ACLU to Cities: Defend Online Privacy & Net Neutrality Via Publicly-Owned Municipal Broadband - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:19] <exec> 08└─Go. To. Fuck. If government sucks, it's purely because idiots like you refuse to do anything to make it better. As long as people continue to vote for anti-government nutters we're going to have a government that sucks. It's not because governments are bad, it's because there's a sizable number of p...
[20:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ACLU to Cities: Defend Online Privacy & Net Neutrality Via Publicly-Owned Municipal Broadband - 1050 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:21] <exec> 08└─I think what's especially interesting about the internalized misandry people like the logged in guy have up there is that they're usually not even well informed about female genital mutilation. There have been incidents here and there of sewing the vaginal opening shut or amputating the clitoris and...
[20:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ACLU to Cities: Defend Online Privacy & Net Neutrality Via Publicly-Owned Municipal Broadband - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:24] <exec> 08└─Even with a municipal broadband, as soon as your signal leaves the local municipality it belongs to the large scale ISP's and their router system and they will harvest what they want, when they want, as well as classify and sort the traffic in any manner they see fit. The only way to combat that wou...
[20:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ACLU to Cities: Defend Online Privacy & Net Neutrality Via Publicly-Owned Municipal Broadband - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:26] <exec> 08└─Yeah. When I went to close the page of TFA after I had submitted, I finally noticed that deficit in it. These guys have a page that I stumbled onto later. ACLU report proves community broadband networks are capable of challenging the Telecom monopoly [thinkprogress.org] the American Civil Liberties...
[20:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ACLU to Cities: Defend Online Privacy & Net Neutrality Via Publicly-Owned Municipal Broadband - 1036 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:28] <exec> 08└─It's definitely fixable without revolution, the problem is that there's a bunch of morons that keep voting to prevent gays from having abortions. Obama was the best option for the Presidency and at the time he was first elected, he was the only candidate that had a plan for dealing with the impendin...
[20:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ACLU to Cities: Defend Online Privacy & Net Neutrality Via Publicly-Owned Municipal Broadband - 1439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:30] <exec> 08└─"Everything in the State. Nothing outside the State." That (or the like) was the description of Fascism, according to its founder, Mussolini. Here's what I say: If Government provides a service, then you are not only forced to pay for that service but you are forced to pay a particular provider of t...
[20:46:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 48Khz Digital Music Player for the Commodore 64 - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:45] <exec> 08└─Then youtube would work perfectly on a 1GHz P3, but the videos would play too fast on anything newer ;)
[20:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A 48Khz Digital Music Player for the Commodore 64 - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:46] <exec> 08└─I'll just leave this here: http://www.muppetlabs.com
[20:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Timothy Lu Seeks to Combat Diseases by Combining Biology With Computer Science - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:55] <exec> 08└─Seems more like a scheme to get additional funding ... I hope I am wrong.
[20:47:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Facebook Keeps Unposted Videos - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:19] <exec> 08└─I for one am surprised, but that's because I had failed to imagine that anybody would use an online service to record video. Well. Naive me.
[20:47:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Keeps Unposted Videos - 1575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:20] <exec> 08└─Sorry. Perhaps that was a bit cryptic. I'll try to break it down: Most major news sources, particularly the Washington Post and New York Times, are mouthpieces for the Democrat Party. Right-wingers were the first to pick up on this, and more of us left-wingers are starting to pick up on it, too. It'...
[20:48:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oklahoma Teachers Win Pay Raise, But Say Strike Will Proceed to Challenge "Decade of Neglect" - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:26] <exec> 08└─You can find viewpoints there that you won't see anywhere else. I'm especially fond of the way they repeatedly call e.g. The International Socialist Organization (socialistworker.org) and Workers World Party (workers.org) "pseudo-Left" when those guys e.g. praise crappy deals that union officials ha...
[20:48:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oklahoma Teachers Win Pay Raise, But Say Strike Will Proceed to Challenge "Decade of Neglect" - 1109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:28] <exec> 08└─I think this is very relevant in this context. Some may have read it before but it bears repeating. A lecturer in a South African University wrote an expressive message to his students at the doctorate, masters and bachelors level and placed it at the entrance of the college. He wrote, “Collapsing...
[20:49:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Using Facial Recognition Technology to Send Jaywalkers Fines Through Text Messages - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:14] <exec> 08└─Jaywalking is defined as walking against a signal or crossing a street where it is posted prohibited, or where there is a physical obstacle such as a center divider. Most states assume a crosswalk is in existence any other place and pedestrians/cyclists generally have the right of way, but as pointe...
[20:49:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Using Facial Recognition Technology to Send Jaywalkers Fines Through Text Messages - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:16] <exec> 08└─I would think the lawyers made more money when there was no clear at fault perpetrator, and the case had to be litigated. Don't they get paid by the hour ?
[20:49:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Using Facial Recognition Technology to Send Jaywalkers Fines Through Text Messages - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:18] <exec> 08└─What if you don't have a registered cell phone or a device capable of receiving text messages ? I realize I am in the minority here but I still have a trac phone flip style cell phone with a plan that doesn't include text messages, my phone is anonymous and I get my minutes at Walgreens for cash.
[20:49:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How the World has Changed Since 2008 Financial Crisis - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:36] <exec> 08└─Repackaging high risk loans and then selling them as low risk isn't legal.
[20:49:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How the World has Changed Since 2008 Financial Crisis - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:37] <exec> 08└─If I make you a promise, a contract on paper, with a face value of X - and then turn around 5 years later and claim "surprise, X really = X/5, but it's all legal because Carter and Clinton made me do it," that's fraud, a punishable offense.
[20:50:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrpg [5708] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Bans "Kodi" From Search Engine Autocomplete - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:19] <exec> 08└─It gives better results than duckduckgo. https://www.startpage.com [startpage.com]
[20:51:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Failed to Exhaust Internal Options Before Engaging in PR/Legal Battle Over Encrypted iPhones - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:11] <exec> 08└─How is this relevant? The critique is just as valid regardless of how many other offenders there are.
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[21:45:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coffee: Known to the State of California to Cause Cancer - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:53] <exec> 08└─TFA states that the minimum dose for adverse effects is 425 times the average adult dose of coffee. If accurate, that seems pretty safe to me. How exactly does a human consume hundreds of times the average dose of coffee, google suggests the average amount is 2.1 drinks per day in the US. If the min...
[21:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coffee: Known to the State of California to Cause Cancer - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:55] <exec> 08└─You'll die of hyponatremia [wikipedia.org] first.
[21:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coffee: Known to the State of California to Cause Cancer - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:57] <exec> 08└─Holy carp! Wouldn't we have to worry about cardiac health before cancer then?
[21:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coffee: Known to the State of California to Cause Cancer - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:59] <exec> 08└─But coffee is not charred over an open flame. https://www.cancer.gov [cancer.gov] ".a large number of epidemiologic studies (both case-control and cohort studies) in humans have found no consistent evidence that dietary acrylamide exp...
[21:46:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coffee: Known to the State of California to Cause Cancer - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:01] <exec> 08└─Nope. You may well have MORE cardiac issues following this Judge's orders than not. 3 to 5 Cups of Coffee a Day May Lower Risk of Heart Attacks!!! https://www.livescience.com [livescience.com]
[21:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coffee: Known to the State of California to Cause Cancer - 644 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:03] <exec> 08└─I think the anonymous person was referring to what would happen if you drank enough coffee to reach the 425 threshold in one day, several hundred cups' worth. That probably would kill you, caffeine is toxic in high enough concentrations. The problem with studies that indicate coffee aids health is t...
[21:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coffee: Known to the State of California to Cause Cancer - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:06] <exec> 08└─Unless you salt your coffee. Can you imagine a normal saline drib brewed coffee? Or did we read recently Ringer's lactate was a better choice.
[21:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coffee: Known to the State of California to Cause Cancer - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:08] <exec> 08└─This is what happens when we let judges decide scientific facts.
[21:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coffee: Known to the State of California to Cause Cancer - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:10] <exec> 08└─hammers. Hammers cause injury or death in 100% of tests involving hitting people on the head. Hanmers need warning labels!
[21:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coffee: Known to the State of California to Cause Cancer - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:12] <exec> 08└─coffee: experts cannot prove to a court that acrylamide in coffee doesn't cause cancer.
[21:46:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coffee: Known to the State of California to Cause Cancer - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:15] <exec> 08└─fried in oil (potato chips)
[21:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ACLU to Cities: Defend Online Privacy & Net Neutrality Via Publicly-Owned Municipal Broadband - 846 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:46] <exec> 08└─LA Council Member Proposes Municipal Broadband Feasibility Study A Los Angeles councilmember has introduced a motion to study the feasibility of a municipal broadband network that would provide at-cost high-speed Internet to the city's local businesses and residents. In announcing the motion, Krekor...
[21:46:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ACLU to Cities: Defend Online Privacy & Net Neutrality Via Publicly-Owned Municipal Broadband - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:48] <exec> 08└─Well, we can still find evidence [medscape.com] of what they did, and how quickly they folded after the feminist establishment got upset.
[21:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A 48Khz Digital Music Player for the Commodore 64 - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:05] <exec> 08└─I don't know much about music theory, but a lot of music could compress well because the basic tune stays the same but you just change the key signature, tempo, instruments, etc. Then of course lots of sheet music has several verses that you just repeat. Subtle variations in timbre, volume, tone, et...
[21:47:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Oklahoma Teachers Win Pay Raise, But Say Strike Will Proceed to Challenge "Decade of Neglect" - 177 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:49] <exec> 08└─Keep reading. "This package doesn't overcome shortfall caused by four-day weeks, overcrowded classrooms that deprive kids of the one-on-one attention they need. It's not enough"
[21:48:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03GreatOutdoors [6408] 02 - 06Oklahoma Teachers Win Pay Raise, But Say Strike Will Proceed to Challenge "Decade of Neglect" - 1003 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:20] <exec> 08└─I am familiar with the situation, and my girlfriend is a teacher. She has been teaching for 16 years and has only received two pay raises in that time. She still makes less than $35k per year, and on top of that, the state started increasing insurance fees at the start of Obamacare, so she is more i...
[21:48:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Oklahoma Teachers Win Pay Raise, But Say Strike Will Proceed to Challenge "Decade of Neglect" - 462 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:29] <exec> 08└─Because 1) most teachers are decent people who don't want to make kids suffer just to make a point, and 2) if "angry parents and falling scores provide feedback that the school is failing", then the Republicans will say that the schools are failing so we should stop funding them at all. It's the typ...
[21:48:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06How I Went Dark in Australia's Surveillance State for 2 Years - 527 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:54] <exec> 08└─Did she also change her appearance sufficiently to fool facial recognition cameras, or just plain cameras? Did she change her route every time she travelled, randomly, or did she get on and off at the same stops? Did she use several cards, on different days? Does her phone run a custom OS with GPS-o...
[21:49:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Using Facial Recognition Technology to Send Jaywalkers Fines Through Text Messages - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:34] <exec> 08└─They all look alike. So Solly. Couldn't resist. Why? Because the resistance has been crushed.
[21:49:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How the World has Changed Since 2008 Financial Crisis - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:55] <exec> 08└─Where YOU live maybe, but not where I live. There MIGHT be one non-uniparty candidate, probably independent running for town treasurer or something.
[21:49:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06How the World has Changed Since 2008 Financial Crisis - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:56] <exec> 08└─Repackaging high risk loans and then selling them as low risk isn't legal.
[21:49:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Adamsjas [4507] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How the World has Changed Since 2008 Financial Crisis - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:58] <exec> 08└─If you don't own a house, you are one missed paycheck away from homeless. Which may be exactly where the powers that be want you to be. Paid off my first house. Sold it at a profit. Bought my next house with only a small loan. Paid it off. Rinsed and repeated. Every house paid off before loan term.
[21:50:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Bans "Kodi" From Search Engine Autocomplete - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:42] <exec> 08└─What about using ddg + tor or similar?
[21:52:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Acquits All 13 Pipeline Protesters - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:35] <exec> 08└─Handed it? They conceived it and lobbied for it. It's been there's from the start.
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[22:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Galaxy Found Containing No Dark Matter - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:51] <exec> 08└─Do we know if this galaxy features the requisite super-massive black hole at galactic center?
[22:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Galaxy Found Containing No Dark Matter - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:53] <exec> 08└─Aliens have mined all the dark matter there to fuel their giant [fill in the blank].
[22:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Galaxy Found Containing No Dark Matter - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:55] <exec> 08└─No evidence [hubblesite.org], they say. Paradoxically, the authors said the discovery of a galaxy without dark matter counts as evidence that it probably does exist. A competing explanation for the fast-orbiting stars is that the way gravity drops off with distance has been misunderstood – but if...
[22:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Galaxy Found Containing No Dark Matter - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:57] <exec> 08└─their giant [fill in the blank].
[22:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06Galaxy Found Containing No Dark Matter - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:59] <exec> 08└─An uncheduled KKK meeting was just held and raised unprecedented funds to accelerate both BFR and SLS development, as well as warp drive and ion thruster tech.
[22:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Galaxy Found Containing No Dark Matter - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:01] <exec> 08└─We now have a home for Ethanol Fueled and friends, B Ark at the ready!
[22:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Galaxy Found Containing No Dark Matter - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:04] <exec> 08└─I'm just waiting for the "modified gravity" folks to come out of the woodwork. :/ "Those scientists trying to explain strange rotation of galaxies by assuming there's something there that we can't see are idiots. We should assume that laws of physics are different instead, that's a much more rationa...
[22:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Galaxy Found Containing No Dark Matter - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:06] <exec> 08└─I blame the above screed on a holier than thou user who is ABOVE such holy wars, ummm, infinite loop incoming
[22:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03ese002 [5306] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Galaxy Found Containing No Dark Matter - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:08] <exec> 08└─It could also indicate a dense pocket of dark energy.
[22:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Galaxy Found Containing No Dark Matter - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:11] <exec> 08└─Let's face it. When we couldn't figure out how EM wave propagate without medium, we came up with "ether". "Dark Matter" is the same shit.
[22:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Galaxy Found Containing No Dark Matter - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:13] <exec> 08└─But then where will we put all the hairdressers and telephone sanitizers?
[22:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coffee: Known to the State of California to Cause Cancer - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:34] <exec> 08└─It should, however, be fairly easy to prove that exposure to the American legislative process causes insanity.
[22:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coffee: Known to the State of California to Cause Cancer - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:35] <exec> 08└─I dunno, apparently some other state beat us to it. Where do you live?
[22:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coffee: Known to the State of California to Cause Cancer - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:38] <exec> 08└─Hammers? Sheesh, what about the overwhelming danger of toothpicks? Eh fuckit, I'm turning my house inside out.
[22:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coffee: Known to the State of California to Cause Cancer - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:40] <exec> 08└─Which makes it interesting that he ruled they had failed to prove that the "consumption of coffee confers a benefit to human health".
[22:46:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coffee: Known to the State of California to Cause Cancer - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:42] <exec> 08└─> If they conduct 30 studies and 29 find no positive relationship between coffee intake and health, they just dump the 29 studies and shout the one that seemed to work from the rooftops. https://www.xkcd.com [xkcd.com]
[22:46:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coffee: Known to the State of California to Cause Cancer - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:44] <exec> 08└─"warning: only use with calibrated zombies"
[22:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Coffee: Known to the State of California to Cause Cancer - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:47] <exec> 08└─That sounds like a racist statement to me.
[22:46:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Coffee: Known to the State of California to Cause Cancer - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:49] <exec> 08└─The state of California has labeled XKCD carcinogenic due to its lack of trans, undocumented, or HIV-positive characters as well as for its being criminally unfunny.
[22:47:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ACLU to Cities: Defend Online Privacy & Net Neutrality Via Publicly-Owned Municipal Broadband - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:23] <exec> 08└─That place already has a publicly-owned Department of Water and Power. Seems like a natural expansion to do what Chattanooga's public electricity utility did providing broadband. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[22:47:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ACLU to Cities: Defend Online Privacy & Net Neutrality Via Publicly-Owned Municipal Broadband - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:24] <exec> 08└─I don't think you understand how the system actually works.
[22:47:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ACLU to Cities: Defend Online Privacy & Net Neutrality Via Publicly-Owned Municipal Broadband - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:26] <exec> 08└─I'll take accusations of bootlicking any day over being a naive fuckwit.
[22:47:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A 48Khz Digital Music Player for the Commodore 64 - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:44] <exec> 08└─whats it in 32bit, 16 and 8? you realize now what game programmers had to deal with when porting forwards and backwards. it makes how far we've come seem like bloated backwards compatbility with no native mode.
[22:49:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oklahoma Teachers Win Pay Raise, But Say Strike Will Proceed to Challenge "Decade of Neglect" - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:25] <exec> 08└─The interesting post is modded off topic... By the AC that passed his exams through cheating.
[22:49:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oklahoma Teachers Win Pay Raise, But Say Strike Will Proceed to Challenge "Decade of Neglect" - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:27] <exec> 08└─Shouldn't voters, not teachers, determine how much the state spend on education? What they are doing in effect is using the children as a lever to force decisive on public spending. How is that democratic? Public service unions are almost by definition anti democratic. They get two public voices, on...
[22:49:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oklahoma Teachers Win Pay Raise, But Say Strike Will Proceed to Challenge "Decade of Neglect" - 791 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:29] <exec> 08└─Where is the mention of the school services suppliers making huge profits (look at uniform providers, IT services, cleaning, building services, professional development, etc) Where is the mention of the teachers who enjoy forms of tenure that mean no matter how badly the team they cannot be practica...
[22:50:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Adamsjas [4507] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How the World has Changed Since 2008 Financial Crisis - 944 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:41] <exec> 08└─Exactly. These so called promise of which the GP rants, never existed. The promise was always backed by the forfeiture of an asset (a house) if payment wasn't made. Hundreds of thousands of houses were forfeited when these loans failed, became unpaid and noncollectable. Rather than sell those forecl...
[22:50:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How the World has Changed Since 2008 Financial Crisis - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:42] <exec> 08└─Well, your words make sense, but your meaning doesn't. I can't assign any normal meaning to those words that doesn't sound irrational, if you don't consider refusing to vote a meaningful choice.
[22:51:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Bans "Kodi" From Search Engine Autocomplete - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:27] <exec> 08└─How is it different from just using Google?
[22:51:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Bans "Kodi" From Search Engine Autocomplete - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:28] <exec> 08└─It's more of an anti-tracking thing. You type your query into Startpage, Startpage goes and searches Google and gives you the results back, so (at least in theory) the big G doesn't know what you searched for. But other than that, it's just Google search.
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[23:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Warms to President Trump - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:49] <exec> 08└─Do you think there will be any introspection? I don't.
[23:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Warms to President Trump - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:50] <exec> 08└─💔 💰💰💰♂💕👌
[23:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Warms to President Trump - 1834 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:52] <exec> 08└─They went all-in on Hillary and lost, but being Jews they will go where the money is while telling you that they are human and capable of learning from their mistakes. Jeff Bezos is not a Jew, and with his Washington post he is not only politically reckless but being stupid with his monies. Now with...
[23:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Warms to President Trump - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:55] <exec> 08└─If you were a Google employee, could you wear a MAGA hat? No. No, you could not. Could you at least not enthusiastically oppose Trump? No. You would be suspected of wrongthink, and mere suspicion is enough to get you in trouble. Google employee opinions on politics are about as trustworthy as North...
[23:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Galaxy Found Containing No Dark Matter - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:12] <exec> 08└─It's not impossible but those kinds of balancing acts are usually either wildly improbable or mandatory.
[23:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Galaxy Found Containing No Dark Matter - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:14] <exec> 08└─Orange Matter?
[23:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Galaxy Found Containing No Dark Matter - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:16] <exec> 08└─At this point they are upgraded to the A ark since it was discovered that being only marginally useful to society is massively preferable to those actively trying to destroy it.
[23:46:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Galaxy Found Containing No Dark Matter - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:18] <exec> 08└─A bit like keeping on looking for Earth-like life around, it's hard to find surprising that puny humans for assuming that our physics apply to the rest of the universe. My question, which has never been answered: We're good a physics now, but can anyone prove that our constants do not vary with the...
[23:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Galaxy Found Containing No Dark Matter - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:20] <exec> 08└─And yet they named a digital currency after it, shoulda been a big clue ;)
[23:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Galaxy Found Containing No Dark Matter - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:23] <exec> 08└─Don't be bad mouthing the ether, or as we used to call it, the Fifth Element. It has been around longer than you, most likely, and you may need to to come save your insignificant planet from a Big Black Ball of Death.
[23:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Galaxy Found Containing No Dark Matter - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:25] <exec> 08└─Let's face it. When we couldn't figure out how EM wave propagate without medium, we came up with "ether".
[23:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Galaxy Found Containing No Dark Matter - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:27] <exec> 08└─but can anyone prove that our constants do not vary with the millions to billions of years between us and the galaxies we observe ?
[23:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Galaxy Found Containing No Dark Matter - 1016 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:29] <exec> 08└─I'm a farmhand, my job is to clean the horse penises before we collect the samples. I just needed the money, but those farmers are sick fucks. I ask them why we can't just leave the horses alone and let them breed naturally like the race horse breeders do and they all laugh and make hideous slurping...
[23:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Galaxy Found Containing No Dark Matter - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:32] <exec> 08└─Hey, Einstein, read back what you wrote. You write the same shit I wrote, and I am "completely wrong"?! Like you?
[23:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Galaxy Found Containing No Dark Matter - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:34] <exec> 08└─Are they headed to the Cracker Galaxy?
[23:47:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coffee: Known to the State of California to Cause Cancer - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:03] <exec> 08└─to hit the neuropathy levels,
[23:47:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coffee: Known to the State of California to Cause Cancer - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:04] <exec> 08└─How exactly does a human consume hundreds of times the average dose of coffee
[23:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coffee: Known to the State of California to Cause Cancer - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:06] <exec> 08└─If you're talking about homeopathy levels, then all you have to do is imagine the substance in your food and you've got a homeopathic dose.
[23:47:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ACLU to Cities: Defend Online Privacy & Net Neutrality Via Publicly-Owned Municipal Broadband - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:43] <exec> 08└─And, Government is itself the worst kind of monopoly: Government came to power not through being good at providing a service,
[23:47:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ACLU to Cities: Defend Online Privacy & Net Neutrality Via Publicly-Owned Municipal Broadband - 758 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:45] <exec> 08└─Municipal broadband is not the savior everyone makes it out to be. In some cases it will be an amazing success. In others, remember these are the same people who can not manage to find someone to fix a pot hole in the road for 2+ years. For example the city I currently live in has managed to squande...
[23:48:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Timothy Lu Seeks to Combat Diseases by Combining Biology With Computer Science - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:12] <exec> 08└─The way I understand the fluff, It's actually the reverse: "computer running on biology" or "programing biological circuitry": In 2017, Timothy along with others at MIT published a paper in Cell journal. Through this study, they developed a synthetic gene circuit, encoded in DNA, where immune cells...
[23:48:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Keeps Unposted Videos - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:38] <exec> 08└─Why are you considering inferences in pairs only? You reckon triplets or higher cardinality touples can't be mined?
[23:48:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Oklahoma Teachers Win Pay Raise, But Say Strike Will Proceed to Challenge "Decade of Neglect" - 858 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:49] <exec> 08└─On the other hand, the countries with best education have socialist school systems. Did you know that China, Japan, Norway, Finland, and a bunch of other countries with great public school systems wipe the floor with the US in education rankings, every single time? Free market is a fine concept, for...
[23:49:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oklahoma Teachers Win Pay Raise, But Say Strike Will Proceed to Challenge "Decade of Neglect" - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:50] <exec> 08└─If the average of the US is below the average of, say, Finland, but the top schools in the US are way above the top schools in Finland, what does that tell us about the rest of the US schools?
[23:49:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oklahoma Teachers Win Pay Raise, But Say Strike Will Proceed to Challenge "Decade of Neglect" - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:51] <exec> 08└─We know who pulls down the American IQ, but nobody is allowed to say it.
[23:49:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oklahoma Teachers Win Pay Raise, But Say Strike Will Proceed to Challenge "Decade of Neglect" - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:53] <exec> 08└─Except, of course, when free markets are quite advantageous instead such as the US college market.
[23:49:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oklahoma Teachers Win Pay Raise, But Say Strike Will Proceed to Challenge "Decade of Neglect" - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:55] <exec> 08└─"You can lead a horse to water, but you can't lead a horticulture." Betsy DeVos, (exampla gratia, non auctoris.)
[23:49:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oklahoma Teachers Win Pay Raise, But Say Strike Will Proceed to Challenge "Decade of Neglect" - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:58] <exec> 08└─Four days of school a week is fine. Children spend too long in those rote memorization prisons as it is. Quality over quantity. Sadly, our school system has nothing in the way of quality.
[23:49:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oklahoma Teachers Win Pay Raise, But Say Strike Will Proceed to Challenge "Decade of Neglect" - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:00] <exec> 08└─Shouldn't voters, not teachers, determine how much the state spend on education?
[23:50:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oklahoma Teachers Win Pay Raise, But Say Strike Will Proceed to Challenge "Decade of Neglect" - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:02] <exec> 08└─At least they are not Kansas. BTW, What's the Matter With Kansas? [amazon.com]
[23:50:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Using Facial Recognition Technology to Send Jaywalkers Fines Through Text Messages - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:52] <exec> 08└─Don't worry, sanity is being restored slowly but surely, soon you can look forward to getting mere eye rolls and being ignored.
[23:50:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Using Facial Recognition Technology to Send Jaywalkers Fines Through Text Messages - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:54] <exec> 08└─> national social credit system You are right. Really, people, read it again. This is the synthesis of - nationalism - socialism - capitalism - technocracy all rolled in one. AND THEY SAID IT COULD NOT BE DONE. All you needed was to take the worst of each component. Genius.
[23:50:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Using Facial Recognition Technology to Send Jaywalkers Fines Through Text Messages - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:56] <exec> 08└─Another day another victory part II, a bot did the same lame joke hours before you.
[23:52:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Bans "Kodi" From Search Engine Autocomplete - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:06] <exec> 08└─I've been using DuckDuckGo for a long time now, it's been a good while since I've had any luck finding something on Google when the Duck comes up empty. If I can't find something on DuckDuckGo, I've found the only thing Google seems to be good at is wasting my time with endless pages of garbage sear...
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