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[00:35:30] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Dr. John Plunkett RIP - He Told the Truth - 473 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:30] <exec> 08└─Ho-hum. If a baby dies, someone must go to prison, right? Which part of "pseudoscience" did you fail to comprehend? Never submit to a lie detector. Never submit to a roadside sobriety test. Never permit a bite mark "expert" testify at trial. Pseudoscience will convict you when science cannot. Tomorr...
[00:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dr. John Plunkett RIP - He Told the Truth - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:32] <exec> 08└─Bullet Lead analysis Hair strand comparison bite-mark analysis Bootprint analysis Dog scent "hits"
[00:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Dr. John Plunkett RIP - He Told the Truth - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:34] <exec> 08└─Other offspring, also carrying similar DNA, will have better chances if excessively troublesome offspring are eliminated. When a baby just screams constantly, and no cause can be found, that baby is a detriment to the family and the propagation of their DNA. Trouble is, modern society makes no allow...
[00:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1, Disagree) 02 - 06Dr. John Plunkett RIP - He Told the Truth - 694 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:36] <exec> 08└─More evidence that not only abortion but post-birth abortion need to be legalized. Mothers all stirred up by their emotions and dealing with postpartum depression cannot be left to felt like they murdered their child just because they shook their baby a few times in an effort to make them stop screa...
[00:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dr. John Plunkett RIP - He Told the Truth - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:39] <exec> 08└─And you wonder why the peasants and plebs doubt science. Remember, anything named x-science is not a real science.
[00:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Dr. John Plunkett RIP - He Told the Truth - 649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:41] <exec> 08└─So I had twin boys a couple of years ago, one of them with colic and one of them without colic. Colic is pretty annoying to deal with, and I decided to look up any studies tying longterm life success/issues and colic as an infant. https://www.webmd.com
[00:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Dr. John Plunkett RIP - He Told the Truth - 3401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:43] <exec> 08└─The following is off topic and really isn't worth reading, but I've typed it now so fuck it. At a guess: From their perspective he says a bunch of stuff which ends with "Therefore this baby murderer should walk free." They already know they disagree with the conclusion so why listen? Surely only som...
[00:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dr. John Plunkett RIP - He Told the Truth - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:45] <exec> 08└─chiropractic care for excessive crying
[00:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dr. John Plunkett RIP - He Told the Truth - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:48] <exec> 08└─modern society makes no allowance for getting rid of failed offspring.
[00:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dr. John Plunkett RIP - He Told the Truth - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:50] <exec> 08└─These guys should rank among our heros. They use science to challenge and overturn conventional wisdom. It reminds me of Marc Edwards, the troublemaker scientist who exposed the Flint lead crisis.
[00:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dr. John Plunkett RIP - He Told the Truth - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:52] <exec> 08└─Like alt-science, or alt-right science, or alt-sci-right racial science? Seems like there was an aristarchus submission on this not too long ago . . . . Ah, here it is! https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[00:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dr. John Plunkett RIP - He Told the Truth - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:54] <exec> 08└─Colic may train kids that outbursts get them the attention they want.
[00:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dr. John Plunkett RIP - He Told the Truth - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:57] <exec> 08└─The lizard-man never gives up, does he?
[00:36:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Senator to Zuckerberg: 'Your User Agreement Sucks' - 354 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:18] <exec> 08└─Actually, the senator makes a good point. Documents written in legalese really aren't all that very "English". Let's remember that the purpose of communication is to transfer ideas between people. The purpose of legalese is to mask and disguise the intent of the person(s) who wrote the document. Leg...
[00:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senator to Zuckerberg: 'Your User Agreement Sucks' - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:36] <exec> 08└─Uh-huh. If that be so, then how did government enforce back of the bus policies? In actuality, it was enforced by a bus driver, and fellow riders. That is, it was enforced by individuals.
[00:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senator to Zuckerberg: 'Your User Agreement Sucks' - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:38] <exec> 08└─I find myself in a similar situation, but I evaluate walmart as a lesser evil than amazon. I don't have to run arbitrary code from walmart to buy from them, or indicate acceptance to some sort of ridiculous EULA. If they have what I want, I can hand them cash and walk out with it.
[00:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Senator to Zuckerberg: 'Your User Agreement Sucks' - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:40] <exec> 08└─Nobody is forced to breathe or eat either.
[00:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senator to Zuckerberg: 'Your User Agreement Sucks' - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:42] <exec> 08└─I looked into doing that myself some time back, the regulations are mostly local so it may not be the same everywhere, but I found it was absolutely impossible to get permits to build a new home with no electricity. However, it *was* possible to get permits to restore/renovate a historic (though bad...
[00:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senator to Zuckerberg: 'Your User Agreement Sucks' - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:44] <exec> 08└─If anyone posts a photo of YOU on Facebook they can sell that as well. And they can facial reco it and sell those parameters as well. If Facebook isn't an invention of the CIA/NSA then those guys missed the boat. I suspect it will come out some day that, like Microsoft, FB is a direct conduit to the...
[00:36:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senator to Zuckerberg: 'Your User Agreement Sucks' - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:47] <exec> 08└─They call it a code of laws. Keyword being code. You do need a secret decoder ring to decipher it. It can be found without a JDL. Hidden in a slew of paralegal frameworks.
[00:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senator to Zuckerberg: 'Your User Agreement Sucks' - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:49] <exec> 08└─otherwise any lawyer could argue that their client interpreted the contract a different way and thus it is non-binding
[00:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senator to Zuckerberg: 'Your User Agreement Sucks' - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:51] <exec> 08└─Best way to Facebook is to allow your whole family to use the same account. Via proxies. And only post goatse pics to know which family member is who.
[00:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senator to Zuckerberg: 'Your User Agreement Sucks' - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:53] <exec> 08└─Not exactly. One will end up in a murky area of suicide laws https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[00:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senator to Zuckerberg: 'Your User Agreement Sucks' - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:56] <exec> 08└─It would probably be easier for facebook instead of censoring the content do real policing - find the perpetrators, collect the evidence, and make sure they are prosecuted. That's because censoring would have to be repeated once the identity is changed. In fact big players could cooperate and create...
[00:40:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Untethered: Wireless Power Transmission Will Make Robots Hard to Stop - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:18] <exec> 08└─It's the gift that keeps on giving. And given how the concept lends itself to a USB stick, the concept maps nicely to today's tech world.
[00:40:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Untethered: Wireless Power Transmission Will Make Robots Hard to Stop - 740 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:19] <exec> 08└─You guys drifted completely off the original topic and are talking about something completely different. This is about powering Industrial robots inside of a controlled warehouse. This isn't running down Main St, USA where Bobby Joe and little Susie play. So it's safe to assume that safety is being...
[00:40:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Untethered: Wireless Power Transmission Will Make Robots Hard to Stop - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:22] <exec> 08└─What, you didn't order half double cheese and half wetted with sauce?
[00:40:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Untethered: Wireless Power Transmission Will Make Robots Hard to Stop - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:24] <exec> 08└─The rebooting in Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom felt a lot more natural to me, less contrived to drive story. I mean, sure, it's more exciting to contemplate "real death," but... anyone who can afford a sleeve can certainly afford a USB stick to back up from, and the idea that with multiple world...
[00:40:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Untethered: Wireless Power Transmission Will Make Robots Hard to Stop - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:26] <exec> 08└─Well, the summary drove it toward drones, and drones are much more fun to talk about than the Amazon distribution warehouse...
[00:44:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Hottest Pepper Sends Man to the ER - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:16] <exec> 08└─Look into disposable gloves.
[00:44:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Hottest Pepper Sends Man to the ER - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:18] <exec> 08└─When I came back in about ten minutes later, the teacher asked me to step back outside so we could have a private discussion. Perhaps he was concerned I'd shit myself, but no, that was not to be: "I went home for lunch, then cooked a grilled cheese with hot peppers on it. I ran out of your class bec...
[00:44:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Hottest Pepper Sends Man to the ER - 759 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:20] <exec> 08└─That can cause a heart attack. I Am Absolutely Serious. My Happy Pills have a side effect called Psychogenic Polydipsia - "Thirst Of The Mind". I have a raging unquenchable thirst. A few months ago I asked if my coworker could take me to the Emergency Room. "Yes". I told the triage nurse about my th...
[00:44:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Hottest Pepper Sends Man to the ER - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:22] <exec> 08└─He showed me when I was just six years old. "I want to be like Dad when I grow up," I vowed to myself. And in his eulogy, I nostalgically said "Dad taught me how to eat hot peppers." And yes: I really _can_ gargle Tabasco.
[00:44:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's Hottest Pepper Sends Man to the ER - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:24] <exec> 08└─Good idea. I've got plenty of produce bags and bread wrappers. That's even more economical. I used to use those. Don't recall why I stopped. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[00:45:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"This Is Huge" -- Opposition Forces Kinder Morgan to Halt Trans Mountain Pipeline in Canada - 611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:37] <exec> 08└─For conservative politicians, it's about collecting the lobbyist money, whoever is paying. Corporations are trying to keep flogging their horse, and will until it is dead and longer. Smart conservatives will trek out new ways to make money, but the old money dies slowly. It's like the only reason Mi...
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[01:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Court Rules that Taxi Company is Transport, and not Digital - 949 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:25] <exec> 08└─We've gone around a few times at Soylent, in regards to "high tech" taxi companies. Had we simply established that Uber and it's ilk are in the "transportation" business, we could have saved some silly arguments from going back and forth. Definitions of the type of taxi service really don't matter m...
[01:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Court Rules that Taxi Company is Transport, and not Digital - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:26] <exec> 08└─All Taxi regulations should apply to Uber, Lyft, and all their competitors. If a given regulation is absurd for them, then review the regulation for all, not just for the new guys. Simple enough?
[01:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Court Rules that Taxi Company is Transport, and not Digital - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:29] <exec> 08└─How about we just eliminate all regulations regarding the driving of taxis that go beyond any other human driving a car?
[01:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Court Rules that Taxi Company is Transport, and not Digital - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:31] <exec> 08└─I certainly don't see that happening. Someone, somewhere, is going to worry over tax revenue that may or may not be paid, whether on the federal, state, or local level. I fully expect that sooner or later, all taxi services will require possession of a CDL. Apparently, the cutoff for that requiremen...
[01:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dr. John Plunkett RIP - He Told the Truth - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:55] <exec> 08└─Well you have to wonder why SBS is still a thing, if this guy was so demonstrably right. https://www.mayoclinic.org [mayoclinic.org] https://www.medicinenet.com [medicinenet.com...
[01:36:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03acid andy [1683] 02 - 06Senator to Zuckerberg: 'Your User Agreement Sucks' - 168 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:16] <exec> 08└─There's probably data about you on Farcebook too dude. They don't let a little thing like the need to register get in the way of profiling anyone they can grab data on.
[01:36:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Senator to Zuckerberg: 'Your User Agreement Sucks' - 36 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:30] <exec> 08└─Nobody is forced to use electricity.
[01:36:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senator to Zuckerberg: 'Your User Agreement Sucks' - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:47] <exec> 08└─Assuming the user agreement basically says that Facebook can do whatever it wants and all the users can do is yell and scream and stomp and kick about it, then their legal team is almost definitely patting themselves on the back about how cleverly they designed it. And, furthermore, unless these sen...
[01:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03fliptop [1666] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Senator to Zuckerberg: 'Your User Agreement Sucks' - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:48] <exec> 08└─I found it was absolutely impossible to get permits to build a new home with no electricity
[01:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senator to Zuckerberg: 'Your User Agreement Sucks' - 1221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:50] <exec> 08└─There is a Walmart near me. I often order on the web, use "free ship to store" and pay from a PayPal balance. I don't recall having to click through any special Walmart EULA (but it might have slipped by me?) When I pick up the item, I have the clerk open it for me and if there is a problem, they ta...
[01:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senator to Zuckerberg: 'Your User Agreement Sucks' - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:52] <exec> 08└─Another loophole in my area: If a building is considered "agricultural", it doesn't have to conform to building codes in the slightest.
[01:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Closest Exoplanet to Earth Just Got Doused With Deadly Flares - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:08] <exec> 08└─Except that this superflare probably happens every so often, so it'll happen again after you colonize it.
[01:37:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 0614 Years of Mark Zuckerberg Saying Sorry, Not Sorry - 87 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:17] <exec> 08└─Zuckerberg is a classic sociopath. Of course he's "sorry", as in "sorry he got caught".
[01:37:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03krishnoid [1156] 02 - 0614 Years of Mark Zuckerberg Saying Sorry, Not Sorry - 159 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:28] <exec> 08└─Blah blah blah, you're all missing the point. I forgive him for all of that, if it's even necessary, but for writing the whole website in PHP ... I just can't.
[01:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 0614 Years of Mark Zuckerberg Saying Sorry, Not Sorry - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:01] <exec> 08└─Yeah. But don't assume that just because you haven't created a Facebook account that they haven't created one for you...which was leaked, it all the information they attached to it.
[01:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 0614 Years of Mark Zuckerberg Saying Sorry, Not Sorry - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:03] <exec> 08└─Did you read the article earlier about how he had been donating (bribing) over half the legislators that ended up on that committee? How strange that the questions were softball.
[01:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"The Erotic Review" Blocks U.S. Visitors Due to SESTA - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:19] <exec> 08└─Craigslist is also blocking connections from known vpns (well, from NordVPN at least). I also suspect Citibank and Chase are doing something similar. We know that Google is effectively blocking tor. It's coming...
[01:38:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"The Erotic Review" Blocks U.S. Visitors Due to SESTA - 799 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:21] <exec> 08└─Anti-gun people should be very happy about this, because this means that the pro-gun conservatives will now also believe the police should be able to seize guns on a whim, because Trump thinks so. The conservatives (esp. the evangelicals) will readily change their opinions to line up with Trump's. M...
[01:38:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"The Erotic Review" Blocks U.S. Visitors Due to SESTA - 699 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:23] <exec> 08└─Wait a little while for what they really want to do, which is shut down websites for carrying oppositional reporting. Doubleplusgood if they arrest the operators. They were just a bunch of filthy, anti-American communists anyway. Then they'll come after Soylent, and there will be nobody left to spea...
[01:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Legislators Trying to Weaken Encryption Yet Again - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:51] <exec> 08└─How about Emiel Goldman ? https://duckduckgo.com [duckduckgo.com]
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[02:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06European Copyright Law Isn't Great. It Could Soon Get a Lot Worse. - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:26] <exec> 08└─Copyright only serves the bourgeois as a tool to control the working classes. We need to move in the direction of total abolition. I'm going to tell my representative right now.
[02:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06European Copyright Law Isn't Great. It Could Soon Get a Lot Worse. - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:27] <exec> 08└─+1 unintentionally funny.
[02:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06European Copyright Law Isn't Great. It Could Soon Get a Lot Worse. - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:29] <exec> 08└─This is the reason that Europe is so willing to go with privacy laws. Once they have a lock on copyright, and use that to control all the software and firmware, they can take whatever they want, whenever they want.
[02:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06European Copyright Law Isn't Great. It Could Soon Get a Lot Worse. - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:32] <exec> 08└─I know I'll get replies telling me copyright doesn't cover facts, but when you're on a powertrip, you're on a powertrip. You already have the mechanism to pull down undesirable information, why not extend it to cover more? The object of power is power, no?
[02:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Court Rules that Taxi Company is Transport, and not Digital - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:42] <exec> 08└─How about we just eliminate all regulations regarding the driving of taxis that go beyond any other human driving a car?
[02:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Court Rules that Taxi Company is Transport, and not Digital - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:44] <exec> 08└─So? Risky Business was a damned fine movie. Why you gotta go hatin on Tom just because he's nuttier than squirrel shit?
[02:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Court Rules that Taxi Company is Transport, and not Digital - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:46] <exec> 08└─Yeah but Europeans aren't retarded and brainwashed into believing "eliminating regulation" will improve people's lives. Go back to watching your Sinclair media propaganda Cletus.
[02:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Court Rules that Taxi Company is Transport, and not Digital - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:48] <exec> 08└─There is a way to structure a hailing app as a purely digital and not a transport: make the app charge the customer a fixed fee for any hailing event. As such, you are only transiting information, have no contract with the drivers and the fees you get are not related with the actual transport servic...
[02:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06EU Court Rules that Taxi Company is Transport, and not Digital - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:50] <exec> 08└─People will learn pretty quick that asking for a taxi from a person you don't know and there's no check on them may be a risky business.
[02:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Court Rules that Taxi Company is Transport, and not Digital - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:53] <exec> 08└─Just from curiosity: are you still able to perceive a difference between the reality and a Hollywood movie? (grin)
[02:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Court Rules that Taxi Company is Transport, and not Digital - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:55] <exec> 08└─Services like #TAXI (and their app) have been around for a lot longer than Uber of Lyft and they charge more than pennies to essentially call a cab for you. Seems to me it was about $2 when it was introduced then went to $5 or something. I guess it is mostly for drunk people who cannot remember how...
[02:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Court Rules that Taxi Company is Transport, and not Digital - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:57] <exec> 08└─For the later, prevention (to a point) and mitigation strategies for those kind of risks are already in place in civilized countries, as a service provided by the local (traffic) police. Try behaving erratically on a public road and you'll know what I mean.
[02:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Court Rules that Taxi Company is Transport, and not Digital - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:59] <exec> 08└─Ask me when I've got a bit less whiskey in me.
[02:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Court Rules that Taxi Company is Transport, and not Digital - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:02] <exec> 08└─Just to be clear then: you believe that if Person A gives Person B a lift for free all's good but if the same Person A charges the same Person B money you should regulate and tax the fuck out of them?
[02:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Court Rules that Taxi Company is Transport, and not Digital - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:04] <exec> 08└─Well, to be fair, you don't exactly "dial" a phone any more. It's been years since I've actually seen a dial phone. I suppose a dial phone would still work on a POTS line, but it's also possible that all switchboards have been "upgraded" to only work with tones. As for making a phone call - there ar...
[02:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dr. John Plunkett RIP - He Told the Truth - 902 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:29] <exec> 08└─Oh yes - the dogs. My son was stopped, the cop wanted to search his vehicle. Son says "No, I don't want you in my car!" "Well, we'll bring a dog, then we'll have probable cause." Notice the phrasing - it was a foregone conclusion that when the dog was brought out, the cops would have their probable...
[02:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dr. John Plunkett RIP - He Told the Truth - 909 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:30] <exec> 08└─Possibly - money? People have latched onto SBS, just as people fell in love with the idea of a lie detector. There is funding for SBS. Besides which, Dr. Plunkett didn't establish that SBS can't be caused by shaking a baby. He ONLY established that a baby can suffer all of the symptoms of SBS due to...
[02:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dr. John Plunkett RIP - He Told the Truth - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:32] <exec> 08└─Examples of this specious shit is the LGBT "love wins" propaganda which argues it's morally OK because they are in love. Fuck's sake, if that was your actual argument you have to then accept pedophilic/abusive/&c relations which involve mutual love.
[02:36:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Senator to Zuckerberg: 'Your User Agreement Sucks' - 93 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:50] <exec> 08└─If we mandate that some persons must sit at the back of the bus, government shouldn't object.
[02:36:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stretch611 [6199] 02 - 06Senator to Zuckerberg: 'Your User Agreement Sucks' - 340 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:52] <exec> 08└─A little off topic, but... The latest analysis on the tax bill: https://www.marketplace.org [marketplace.org] Essentially, more debt than expected, not a snowballs chance in hell of it paying for itself, the poor are the hardest hit...
[02:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senator to Zuckerberg: 'Your User Agreement Sucks' - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:27] <exec> 08└─Segregation was a government program. In a free market, someone would just start a bus service that doesn't denigrate its customers—or maybe one that caters only to black people.
[02:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senator to Zuckerberg: 'Your User Agreement Sucks' - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:28] <exec> 08└─Only if they will implode under the weight! ;)
[02:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senator to Zuckerberg: 'Your User Agreement Sucks' - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:31] <exec> 08└─I think the problem here is that the average American can't speak Swahili. I suggest that the American education system change to be more welcoming of companies who want to write illegible user agreements.
[02:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senator to Zuckerberg: 'Your User Agreement Sucks' - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:33] <exec> 08└─*insert monologue by Iago the parrot on precisely how surprised he is*
[02:38:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 0614 Years of Mark Zuckerberg Saying Sorry, Not Sorry - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:43] <exec> 08└─Posting it twice doesn't make it any more true, Billy.
[02:41:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Untethered: Wireless Power Transmission Will Make Robots Hard to Stop - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:08] <exec> 08└─Yea, like I said, It's rough around the edges. But still a fun watch. If there is a second season, I'm hoping for some better writing.
[02:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Legislators Trying to Weaken Encryption Yet Again - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:32] <exec> 08└─Oh hai. Here's the link to 5G standards [ieee.org]. You can find similar for all the other ones too. All the phones that can connect to it, will do so via these standards. *sips coffee*
[02:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeVilla [5354] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Legislators Trying to Weaken Encryption Yet Again - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:34] <exec> 08└─... and he calls her names I can't repeat here.
[02:43:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Armor-Piercing Bullet Turned to Dust - 1192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:58] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but the 30-06 is not really a WWII era round, the '06 refers to 1906, which is a few years before WWI. It is a change from the standard denomination of black powder cartridge rounds, which usually followed a caliber-grains of powder-grains of projective naming convention. Something like the .4...
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[03:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Copyright Law Isn't Great. It Could Soon Get a Lot Worse. - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:27] <exec> 08└─So true. Europe is absolutely killing us on software. Their surplus vs U.S. is massive -- and we pay for their protection. The United States has an $800 Billion Dollar Yearly Trade Deficit because of our “very stupid” trade deals and policies. Our jobs and wealth are being given to other countri...
[03:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dr. John Plunkett RIP - He Told the Truth - 1844 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:16] <exec> 08└─Money is the root of all evil, eh? But it isn't, quite. In this case, it's the desire for the quick and easy answer, and refusal to admit that total control and safety is impossible. This is "think of the children!!" versus the fact that no amount of protecting can ever achieve 100% safety. When a c...
[03:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeVilla [5354] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Senator to Zuckerberg: 'Your User Agreement Sucks' - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:15] <exec> 08└─Do you still get a homestead tax credit that way? I would guess the Amish in the area found a way around this. Can't say I've thought to ask.
[03:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senator to Zuckerberg: 'Your User Agreement Sucks' - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:17] <exec> 08└─If you want to know, start reading wswswswswswsws [wsws.org]. At least, their theory is the only theory that makes even a lick of sense to me.
[03:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senator to Zuckerberg: 'Your User Agreement Sucks' - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:19] <exec> 08└─Ah, ok, Amazon is fair game because they hurt *you*. Zuckerbook isn't because they haven't hurt *you*. Are you a solipsist?
[03:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Closest Exoplanet to Earth Just Got Doused With Deadly Flares - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:35] <exec> 08└─No, but it does mean that somebody really hated the local planning department office of the Galactic Hyperspace Planning Council. Probably with good reason. Serves 'em right sending the Vogon destruction fleet after the wrong planet.
[03:38:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0614 Years of Mark Zuckerberg Saying Sorry, Not Sorry - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:31] <exec> 08└─Triggered! omgomgomg, are those scare quotes?! lol!
[03:38:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0614 Years of Mark Zuckerberg Saying Sorry, Not Sorry - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:33] <exec> 08└─greater than all past genocides combined. People who voluntarily interacted with these companies need to be purged from the gene pool. Their bones piled up as monuments to their stupidity. Those who survive the purges need to be reminded of what purpose they served and what personal fortitude they n...
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[04:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Court Rules that Taxi Company is Transport, and not Digital - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:56] <exec> 08└─It was Fox News and Breitbart from Reality, since why would TMB be watching anything from those filthy liberals in Hollywood? I mean shit they wanted to elect CLINTON! *smirk*
[04:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Court Rules that Taxi Company is Transport, and not Digital - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:57] <exec> 08└─It's like abacus on computer, with specialized mouse to tick up and down the beads. It's like horse on treadmill on train cars. Giddy up, we in digital world now.
[04:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Dr. John Plunkett RIP - He Told the Truth - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:27] <exec> 08└─I found it funny as hell and wanted to include it
[04:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dr. John Plunkett RIP - He Told the Truth - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:29] <exec> 08└─I actually went out of my way not to cite money grubbing sites like don'tshake. I was pretty sure all of those I cited were reasonably reputable. Yet the first comment assumes a profit motive among the medical community is the reason SBS still exists. Unbefuckinglievable! Like doctors have no better...
[04:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senator to Zuckerberg: 'Your User Agreement Sucks' - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:31] <exec> 08└─Arguing is pointless. He lives in a magical world where violence and collusion both violate the laws of physics.
[04:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senator to Zuckerberg: 'Your User Agreement Sucks' - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:33] <exec> 08└─the EULAs for every major piece of software, and at least the Windows 10 EULA, if not others. Maybe now that attention has been drawn to the issue they can look at these licenses and go 'Oh shit, this is not very free market capitalism friendly, when we let these companies become monopolies with thi...
[04:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Senator to Zuckerberg: 'Your User Agreement Sucks' - 1944 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:35] <exec> 08└─Seems most tech employees could really use a primer on how to handle management. Taking an absolute stand is great and all, but it's inflexible. There are many other ways to handle improper demands than the nuclear option of quit and run. At the least, you can just politely refuse to do it, and dare...
[04:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senator to Zuckerberg: 'Your User Agreement Sucks' - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:37] <exec> 08└─Slavers always say it is for the good of the slaves.
[04:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Closest Exoplanet to Earth Just Got Doused With Deadly Flares - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:55] <exec> 08└─Make a "Dyson shield" in geosynchronous orbit aimed at the star. Beam any energy collected to the surface. *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) yes this idea is probably bullshit
[04:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"The Erotic Review" Blocks U.S. Visitors Due to SESTA - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:11] <exec> 08└─Woman charged after boy, 14, paid her $480 for sex at Florida hotel, police say [ajc.com]
[04:39:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03edinlinux [4637] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"The Erotic Review" Blocks U.S. Visitors Due to SESTA - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:12] <exec> 08└─There are additional changes at Craigslist, they have removed the 'theraputic' (massages) category in the USA. As well, (it seems, though I need to do more testing), that posts originating from the USA to the 'personals' sections for countries outside the US (get 'auto flagged for deletion', but rep...
[04:42:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Legislators Trying to Weaken Encryption Yet Again - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:45] <exec> 08└─He often uses the terms Shitsock, Colon Kisser, The Taint Fairy, the Placenta Princess. I am amazed sometimes at what comes out of the 76 year old guys mouth. He was a cop and prison guard for a long career and I guess they must have had colorful discussions on the old cell block. He was to my memor...
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[05:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Paralyzed Patient Feels Sensation Again - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:27] <exec> 08└─...because everything in the universe is part of nature.
[05:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paralyzed Patient Feels Sensation Again - 1463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:29] <exec> 08└─I wonder what has happened with the technique of olfactory and nerve cells transplant to repair sectioned spinal cords [google.com]? Meaning not only the restoration of sensation is possible, but also of function. One such article - 2014 [bbc.com] A paralysed man has been able to walk again after a...
[05:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Court Rules that Taxi Company is Transport, and not Digital - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:04] <exec> 08└─Yes! What's so hard about that? Thinking about it, though, most developed countries have a lot of regulation relating to privately owned cars that are not used for any kind of taxi service. They have inspections to ensure that cars on the road are safe. Real inspections that do things like test the...
[05:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dr. John Plunkett RIP - He Told the Truth - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:35] <exec> 08└─If I die, I want my tomb to say that in big gold letters: DONALD J. TRUMP The Most Amazing Businessman, The Greatest President, The Sexiest Husband, The Best Father, Very Rich. He Told the Truth.
[05:39:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"The Erotic Review" Blocks U.S. Visitors Due to SESTA - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:16] <exec> 08└─Interesting that they are using IP geoblocking when the site is already divided by locale. The fear is real.
[05:42:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeVilla [5354] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Legislators Trying to Weaken Encryption Yet Again - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:51] <exec> 08└─Sounds a little like a fellow I knew when he got out of the military. He didn't even really need to use profanity (though he had no problem doing so), yet he could paint a picture that would leave you trying to poke out your mind's eye.
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[06:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Automobile Dashboard Technology is Simply Awful - 660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:26] <exec> 08└─You should be able to feel for controls without looking at them and without accidentally operating them. If you do look, there should be clearly readable descriptions. Mysterious pictograms are unacceptable. The idea is that some people don't read English, but that is a poor excuse: you can at least...
[06:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Automobile Dashboard Technology is Simply Awful - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:27] <exec> 08└─You've really got no time to be reading anything when in traffic. If it's more complex than a gas gauge, it needs a voice capability for both input and output.
[06:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Automobile Dashboard Technology is Simply Awful - 887 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:29] <exec> 08└─In a car, a touch screen is idiocy. With mechanical switches and controls, you can operate by feel. With touch screens, you have to look, which means you have to take your eyes off the road. All frequently used functions (climate control, music volume, etc.) should be controlled by controls that pro...
[06:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06European Copyright Law Isn't Great. It Could Soon Get a Lot Worse. - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:49] <exec> 08└─Chris "the D" Reimer. 350lb of football player muscle, claiming copyright of gay pictures all over the EU and Russia. https://www.kickingthebitbucket.com [kickingthebitbucket.com]
[06:35:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06EU Court Rules that Taxi Company is Transport, and not Digital - 195 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:57] <exec> 08└─All Taxi regulations should apply to Uber, Lyft, and all their competitors. If a given regulation is absurd for them, then review the regulation for all, not just for the new guys. Simple enough?
[06:36:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06EU Court Rules that Taxi Company is Transport, and not Digital - 120 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:01] <exec> 08└─How about we just eliminate all regulations regarding the driving of taxis that go beyond any other human driving a car?
[06:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Court Rules that Taxi Company is Transport, and not Digital - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:15] <exec> 08└─Fine by me, as long as if you get in an uninsured taxi and the driver can't afford to pay the costs associated with an accident then you're liable for all costs, just as any other employer would be.
[06:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dr. John Plunkett RIP - He Told the Truth - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:48] <exec> 08└─More evidence that not only abortion but post-birth abortion need to be legalized. Yes, all the way up to the 75th trimester
[06:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dr. John Plunkett RIP - He Told the Truth - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:49] <exec> 08└─If I die... You're the man!
[06:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senator to Zuckerberg: 'Your User Agreement Sucks' - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:56] <exec> 08└─Zuckerberg is being scapegoated here. Practically every political campaign uses data analytics companies. This is plain and simple, Clinton got out-dogged by Trump and now the blue church wants blood.
[06:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Closest Exoplanet to Earth Just Got Doused With Deadly Flares - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:15] <exec> 08└─You could, but to do it you'll have to consume the entire planet for the material. Better let the planet in place and bring in in its L2 point another planet and use it for habitation. shitty idea too, L2 is not a stable equilibrium point
[06:39:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 0614 Years of Mark Zuckerberg Saying Sorry, Not Sorry - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:14] <exec> 08└─Facebook has a very impressive compiler team. They've figured out that it's cheaper to employ 10,000 cheap code monkeys and 100 compiler engineers to transform the crappy code that they write into something that runs fast than it is to employ 5,000 competent software developers. They do keep repeati...
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[06:39:36] <exec> 08└─sort of like living in the United States of China... that is what this is becoming..
[06:40:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Whatever You Do, Don't Give This Programmable Payment Card to Your Waiter - 1434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:40:13] <exec> 08└─With the kind of card that's been common in France for over 30 years, in Europe for about 15, and is starting to be common in the USA, no. The chip acts as a hardware security module that will cryptographically sign transactions. Modulo bugs in the implementations, if you compromise the card (and PI...
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[06:40:15] <exec> 08└─The GP mentioned limits in Euros, so it's a fair bet that he's not in the EU, so two things: In the EU, credit and debit card transactions are protected in exactly the same way, so there is no difference in liability. This varies a bit within countries, but in ones where credit cards are more common...
[06:40:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Whatever You Do, Don't Give This Programmable Payment Card to Your Waiter - 1061 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:40:17] <exec> 08└─It's been against the T&Cs for card payment providers in the UK for about 20 years, because it was a big source of fraud. Back when we used magstripes, it was easy for waiters to skim a card when they took it away for payment. This still happens in the US (I've had fraudulent transactions appear on...
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[06:42:30] <exec> 08└─How do I mod this " +1 Pedantic " ??
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[07:35:31] <exec> 08└─Mercedes Benz has moved the gear lever to the column, on the right Windscreen wiper controls (for front and read windows, including wash!) are on a twist/pushy knob on the end of the indicator stalk. Some of the stereo controls are on the steering wheel, but there is a volume knob on the centre cons...
[07:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Automobile Dashboard Technology is Simply Awful - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:33] <exec> 08└─That lever placement has been optional for at least the past 70+ years, however it was more popular on GMs and certain generations of Fords than anything else. Unless this Mercedes has bench seats though, it doesn't make much sense in a modern car, since most of the reason for doing so was to leave...
[07:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Automobile Dashboard Technology is Simply Awful - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:35] <exec> 08└─The idea is that some people don't read English, but that is a poor excuse: you can at least type English into a search engine and get a translation or explanation.
[07:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Automobile Dashboard Technology is Simply Awful - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:37] <exec> 08└─New car models are not primarily cars, they are entertainment units wrapped in a car packaging. All the DRM thingies apply to them and of course (in manufacturers mind) they need to feel like a fucking big mobile devices on wheels. Why so, you ask? How else the car industry can get to step into plan...
[07:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Automobile Dashboard Technology is Simply Awful - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:40] <exec> 08└─> If it's more complex than a gas gauge, it needs a voice capability for both input and output. Simpler: How about not discarding safety conventions which have been refined for decades, just for the fun of "disrupting"?
[07:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Automobile Dashboard Technology is Simply Awful - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:42] <exec> 08└─The important use is walking between the rows of seats. It's also a place to set a trash can.
[07:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Court Rules that Taxi Company is Transport, and not Digital - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:26] <exec> 08└─Replace "gives a lift" with "builds a house", "cooks some food", "cleans", "teaches" ... All of civilization is based on making sure people get what they pay for, safely, and paying for the overhead that makes it possible. Unless you prefer individual contracts unhindered by a Violently Imposed Mono...
[07:36:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Dr. John Plunkett RIP - He Told the Truth - 902 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:52] <exec> 08└─Oh yes - the dogs. My son was stopped, the cop wanted to search his vehicle. Son says "No, I don't want you in my car!" "Well, we'll bring a dog, then we'll have probable cause." Notice the phrasing - it was a foregone conclusion that when the dog was brought out, the cops would have their probable...
[07:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senator to Zuckerberg: 'Your User Agreement Sucks' - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:07] <exec> 08└─Seems most tech employees could really use a primer on how to handle management.
[07:39:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0614 Years of Mark Zuckerberg Saying Sorry, Not Sorry - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:39:25] <exec> 08└─Because people who allow themselves to be used by Facebook are better described as "useds", "suckers", or some other such term.
[07:40:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Whatever You Do, Don't Give This Programmable Payment Card to Your Waiter - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:40:28] <exec> 08└─I worked on projects like this decades ago, including some sizable efforts. The very first thing to get right is the security.
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[08:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Automobile Dashboard Technology is Simply Awful - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:41] <exec> 08└─Well, AM radio isn't dead, yet, but it won't be long.. "You radio no longer works in your city; as your radio is also the control unit for the whole car, please upgrade your car to continue listening to your favourite station or online service"
[08:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Automobile Dashboard Technology is Simply Awful - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:43] <exec> 08└─Makes converting from left- to right- hand drive easier..
[08:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Automobile Dashboard Technology is Simply Awful - 1112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:45] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I can wait the news about how people in the regional areas cannot get the messages from the local fire authority because all they have in the car is a digital streaming radio version of a receiver. Not so funny moments due to reliance on the modern tech [abc.net.au] Macarthur Country Fire Auth...
[08:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Automobile Dashboard Technology is Simply Awful - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:47] <exec> 08└─But people have been conditioned by Movies and TV to believe that taking your eyes off the road for extended periods of time (usually to look at the person in the passenger seat you are talking to) is totally fine.
[08:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06European Copyright Law Isn't Great. It Could Soon Get a Lot Worse. - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:08] <exec> 08└─How can a copyright on facts be next? We already have copyright on facts (specifically a collection of facts - with no explicit lower limit to the number of facts in the collection).
[08:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Court Rules that Taxi Company is Transport, and not Digital - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:35] <exec> 08└─Over here, the politicians are so fixated on teaching drivers that speeding is the cause of every accident that they are convincing more and more people that as long as you stay under the speed limit, you can pretty much ignore traffic regulations. And the police are of course doing a pretty good jo...
[08:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Court Rules that Taxi Company is Transport, and not Digital - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:37] <exec> 08└─Over here (Denmark, also in the EU), you are allowed to share the cost. We even have a tax rebate for driving to/from work, and if you share the ride, both get the tax rebate. But if you use an app to find someone going the same way, you get a huge fine for providing taxi services without permission...
[08:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dr. John Plunkett RIP - He Told the Truth - 1025 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:11] <exec> 08└─To be honest, after reading the summary, I was highly sceptical of this guys contribution, thinking it was something along the lines of "violently shaking your newborn is not a problem, really." But that is not it. This is not about the question whether confessed / proven shaking was the cause of de...
[08:37:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snow [1601] 02 - 06Senator to Zuckerberg: 'Your User Agreement Sucks' - 351 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:21] <exec> 08└─Yea, of course it 'sucks'. All EULA agreements are pages and pages of legalese. Does this guy live under a rock? It could probably be summed up as follows :"You have no rights, and we [Facebook inc.] have all the rights we could possibly think of. If you disagree and want to take us to court, you ca...
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[08:38:20] <exec> 08└─On top of that, many building codes have requirements around electrical power for new construction. So unless you have an old house, and convert it to off-grid, odds are you're required to pay into the electrical grid.
[08:40:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Whatever You Do, Don't Give This Programmable Payment Card to Your Waiter - 1466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:40:41] <exec> 08└─> That's not smart, that's paranoid. Could be, several of them work for security related companies. Some have worked on hacks for such cards. > I have a card that supports contactless payments and as a result I now carry less cash What's cash? I remember that from way back last decade. Contactless i...
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[09:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Speaker of the House Paul Ryan Will Not Seek Reelection - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:25] <exec> 08└─Is this the beginning of the swamp cleaning? When will democrats start to do the same? (trollish grin)
[09:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Speaker of the House Paul Ryan Will Not Seek Reelection - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:26] <exec> 08└─Speaker Paul Ryan is a truly good man, and very good looking. While he will not be seeking re-election, he will leave a legacy of achievement that NOBODY can question. We are with you Paul!
[09:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Speaker of the House Paul Ryan Will Not Seek Reelection - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:29] <exec> 08└─Make sure you help him find another job, though, because otherwise he can't collect welfare.
[09:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Speaker of the House Paul Ryan Will Not Seek Reelection - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:31] <exec> 08└─Believe me, A LOT of Dems will be retiring in January. Whether they want to or not. RED WAVE!!!!
[09:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Speaker of the House Paul Ryan Will Not Seek Reelection - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:33] <exec> 08└─The democratic party seems clueless. People I know who are politically involved are only still associated with them because they feel trapped. Just check out who they had give the state of the union address response. It was basically a guy version of hillary clinton, they are even continuing to push...
[09:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Speaker of the House Paul Ryan Will Not Seek Reelection - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:35] <exec> 08└─(RED TIDE)
[09:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hacking When It Counts: Pigeon-Guided Missiles - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:43] <exec> 08└─A good thing the pigeons can be conditioned to keep the things straight instead of taking alt-right turns. No, turning alt-right four times doesn't straighten the things, it just make them weirder and weirder.
[09:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hacking When It Counts: Pigeon-Guided Missiles - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:45] <exec> 08└─1. less bombs 2. less holes 3. that damn pigeons gets destroyed no downside really
[09:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hacking When It Counts: Pigeon-Guided Missiles - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:47] <exec> 08└─Skinner was a really good scientist, he studied psychology with a focus on reproducibile phenomena. Unfortunately, then the "cognitive revolution" occured. NHST was adopted with its focus on "significant differences" and now psychology is in the state we all enjoy today.
[09:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Automobile Dashboard Technology is Simply Awful - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:08] <exec> 08└─You don't find car manufacturers changing the way steering wheels or pedals work.
[09:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dr. John Plunkett RIP - He Told the Truth - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:31] <exec> 08└─Examples of this specious shit is the LGBT "love wins" propaganda which argues it's morally OK because they are in love. Fuck's sake, if that was your actual argument you have to then accept pedophilic/abusive/&c relations which involve mutual love.
[09:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dr. John Plunkett RIP - He Told the Truth - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:33] <exec> 08└─Because he is not arguing against the existence, the danger, or the criminal relevance of SBS at all. He's arguing against taking certain pathological findings as proof that the baby was in fact shaken violently, against the defendant's testimony. Emphatically: Shaking your baby violently is still a...
[09:38:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senator to Zuckerberg: 'Your User Agreement Sucks' - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:42] <exec> 08└─The school has a programming class. Required for all students. The teacher- fresh out of uni - created Gmail accounts for all students using the class register. The course requires use of Google products. How do you get your kid's info deleted from Google after the fact, and how does your kid do the...
[09:38:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senator to Zuckerberg: 'Your User Agreement Sucks' - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:43] <exec> 08└─You're suffering a complete failure of logic, or getting the wrong end of the wrong stick. Him: free-market solution You: No, if that, then stuff You've completely ignored the situation "there was no free market" scenario. In the absense of a free market, his free market solution wouldn't work, beca...
[09:40:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 0614 Years of Mark Zuckerberg Saying Sorry, Not Sorry - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:40:02] <exec> 08└─Facebook wrote a JavaScript engine? I thought they just moved away from JavaScript and toward native mobile apps.
[09:40:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 0614 Years of Mark Zuckerberg Saying Sorry, Not Sorry - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:40:04] <exec> 08└─Their 'native' apps include a huge blob of JavaScript code running in a Facebook customised JavaScript engine.
[09:41:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oblivious DNS: A Genuinely Secure DNS - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:41:54] <exec> 08└─Sounds to me like it's two DNS proxies, who must not be under control of the same corporation or government[1]. One knows who you are, the other knows what you are looking for. [1] These days, that means that one must be in "the west", the other in Russia or China. And you need to have some kind of...
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[10:35:33] <exec> 08└─>implying he didn't line his pockets already
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[10:35:34] <exec> 08└─RED WAVE!!!!
[10:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Speaker of the House Paul Ryan Will Not Seek Reelection - 660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:36] <exec> 08└─>The democratic party seems clueless. Assertion without argument. Auto-rejected. >People I know who are politically involved are only still associated with them because they feel trapped. Assertion without argument. Trapped how? why? by whom ? >Just check out who they had give the state of the union...
[10:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Speaker of the House Paul Ryan Will Not Seek Reelection - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:39] <exec> 08└─Believe me, I thought about it. They wanted me to build 2 hotels. Or remodel. People don't know this, in the Soviet Union, you couldn't own anything. It's hard to conjure up spending hundreds of millions of dollars on something and not own it. And Mikhail & Raisa flaked on me. So I told them NO HOTE...
[10:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Speaker of the House Paul Ryan Will Not Seek Reelection - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:41] <exec> 08└─Assertion without argument? You have to continue reading. They are still pushing reptile-like corporatist dynasty types. The rest of your post goes downhill from there (not knowing what the state of the union address response is, etc). Anyway, Trump is orange.
[10:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Speaker of the House Paul Ryan Will Not Seek Reelection - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:43] <exec> 08└─Responding to myself. I started thinking maybe I need to spell it out since some people may not actually consider anything wrong with it: They are still pushing reptile-like corporatist dynasty types, and their "base" (the people who do organizing and campaigning) does not like this and as a result...
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[10:35:45] <exec> 08└─1) Hey kid, you're the one who confuses Aristocracy for Corporatism. 2) Also you literally did not provide an argument initially for why they would be trapped. And to be fair, even your reply (because it wasn't an argument, just a description of a third-hand anecdote) makes little sense. People acti...
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[10:35:48] <exec> 08└─In his intro on this, Pacifica Radio presenter Ian Masters [kpfk.org] said [backgroundbriefing.org] With Ryan announcing today that he is resigning because he wants to spend more time with his kids, we examine the obvious hypocrisy of this Ayn Rand acolyte’s determination to cut programs that allo...
[10:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Hacking When It Counts: Pigeon-Guided Missiles - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:58] <exec> 08└─Our missiles will be coming, nice and new and “smart!” 🐦🚀
[10:36:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06Automobile Dashboard Technology is Simply Awful - 887 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:08] <exec> 08└─In a car, a touch screen is idiocy. With mechanical switches and controls, you can operate by feel. With touch screens, you have to look, which means you have to take your eyes off the road. All frequently used functions (climate control, music volume, etc.) should be controlled by controls that pro...
[10:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Automobile Dashboard Technology is Simply Awful - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:21] <exec> 08└─That WAS QuiteCynical!
[10:37:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tfried [5534] 02 - 06Dr. John Plunkett RIP - He Told the Truth - 1025 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:43] <exec> 08└─To be honest, after reading the summary, I was highly sceptical of this guys contribution, thinking it was something along the lines of "violently shaking your newborn is not a problem, really." But that is not it. This is not about the question whether confessed / proven shaking was the cause of de...
[10:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dr. John Plunkett RIP - He Told the Truth - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:46] <exec> 08└─Yes, the first comment to your post was a bit uninspired in ascribing to "money", what can better be explained by vindictiveness (on several levels). But other than that it was spot on. So you're trying to top this by holding on to your misapprehension that SBS was "disproven", somehow? Unbefuckingl...
[10:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bobs [1462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dr. John Plunkett RIP - He Told the Truth - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:48] <exec> 08└─If I die,
[10:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03ewk [5923] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senator to Zuckerberg: 'Your User Agreement Sucks' - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:00] <exec> 08└─Seems like a problem of the teacher. If (s)he does not manage to get the info deleted, sue the crap out of him/her.
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[11:35:45] <exec> 08└─You see me on the Fake News Media, I'm orange. Believe me, I'm not orange. Bad tint, saturation & WHITE BALANCE, very Fake! Watch me on Fox News or CNBC, those guys know how to use a camera. Fair & Balanced!!!!
[11:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Speaker of the House Paul Ryan Will Not Seek Reelection - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:47] <exec> 08└─Whatever, I tried to help. You want to continue being clueless living in your bubble rather than admit your association with the dnc is a sunk cost. If enough people do the same youll get a repeat of the last election.
[11:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Speaker of the House Paul Ryan Will Not Seek Reelection - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:49] <exec> 08└─weaksauce ad-hominem attempt, i never voted DNC in my life, i was just pointing out your poor argumentation skills. Also, if you think what you write is 'helping', it's better not to help.
[11:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Speaker of the House Paul Ryan Will Not Seek Reelection - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:51] <exec> 08└─Im not arguing anything... what argument? Im simply stating facts.
[11:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Speaker of the House Paul Ryan Will Not Seek Reelection - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:53] <exec> 08└─Trust me, Paul's not going on welfare. He's not rich but he's very comfortable. Janna inherited a few million and Paul has a few million from his investments & hard work. And he'll find a GREAT job. Plenty of jobs opening up now. BRINGING BACK so many Factories! Lots of openings in our Border Patrol...
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[11:35:56] <exec> 08└─Go to bed kid, you're tired.
[11:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hacking When It Counts: Pigeon-Guided Missiles - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:06] <exec> 08└─BF Skinner was a Fascist. Practicing clinical psychologist Bruce E. Levine calls him a control freak. [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [brucelevine.net] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[11:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hacking When It Counts: Pigeon-Guided Missiles - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:08] <exec> 08└─Are you implying that made him a bad scientist? Also that link was to a wierd rant. He obviously identified that the cigarrete was not a token the patient valued, and instead gave the patient the reward of "winning" against the staff... I stopped reading there.
[11:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Automobile Dashboard Technology is Simply Awful - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:31] <exec> 08└─A good UI does not attempt to judge what is frequently used on its own and lets the user configure what is up front and center.
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[11:36:32] <exec> 08└─Part of this effect is also due to a desire to shave pennies in every possible location during manufacture of the car. Old style (physical buttons/knobs that you can operate by touch/memory): Each car has to have a completely separate "button unit" designed and built because no two are similar enoug...
[11:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Automobile Dashboard Technology is Simply Awful - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:34] <exec> 08└─I've seen some newer cars where everything on the dash is lit up blue like some shit from the movie TRON. Blue LEDs, blue plastic, screens that operate more in the blueish/ultra-white spectrum, and the readouts themselves are all colored blue. I can't even imagine driving one of these at night. They...
[11:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Court Rules that Taxi Company is Transport, and not Digital - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:24] <exec> 08└─That's an example of a "thought" for you? It all becomes clear now...
[11:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Court Rules that Taxi Company is Transport, and not Digital - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:25] <exec> 08└─No, all of civilization is not remotely based upon that. That is a fairly new idea that has never really worked to do anything except ensure that there is no competition for entrenched players in whatever industry is being regulated.
[11:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Court Rules that Taxi Company is Transport, and not Digital - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:27] <exec> 08└─What's that got to do with the price of feet in China? You think using regulatory capture to eliminate competition and inflate prices for a guild in any way makes people safer?
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[12:38:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:45] <exec> 08└─...don't think that verbal abuse is a thing...
[12:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:47] <exec> 08└─Equality means you do not get to play the victim card. Ever.
[12:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Launches 'Skinny Mainframe' for the Cloud - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:54] <exec> 08└─How many "transactions" per day does the average human do? If that number is ~100, then 1000 of these could serve the whole world's (human) transaction needs. Next question: for every human-to-machine "transaction" how many machine-to-machine transactions are there? Have we already been marginalized...
[12:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Speaker of the House Paul Ryan Will Not Seek Reelection - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:15] <exec> 08└─You see me on the Fake News Media, I'm orange. Believe me, I'm not orange. Bad tint, saturation & WHITE BALANCE, very Fake! Watch me on Fox News or CNBC, those guys know how to use a camera. Fair & Balanced!!!!
[12:39:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Speaker of the House Paul Ryan Will Not Seek Reelection - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:16] <exec> 08└─Whatever, I tried to help. You want to continue being clueless living in your bubble rather than admit your association with the dnc is a sunk cost. If enough people do the same youll get a repeat of the last election.
[12:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Speaker of the House Paul Ryan Will Not Seek Reelection - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:19] <exec> 08└─weaksauce ad-hominem attempt, i never voted DNC in my life, i was just pointing out your poor argumentation skills. Also, if you think what you write is 'helping', it's better not to help.
[12:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Speaker of the House Paul Ryan Will Not Seek Reelection - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:21] <exec> 08└─Im not arguing anything... what argument? Im simply stating facts.
[12:39:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Speaker of the House Paul Ryan Will Not Seek Reelection - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:23] <exec> 08└─Trust me, Paul's not going on welfare. He's not rich but he's very comfortable. Janna inherited a few million and Paul has a few million from his investments & hard work. And he'll find a GREAT job. Plenty of jobs opening up now. BRINGING BACK so many Factories! Lots of openings in our Border Patrol...
[12:39:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Speaker of the House Paul Ryan Will Not Seek Reelection - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:26] <exec> 08└─Go to bed kid, you're tired.
[12:39:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Speaker of the House Paul Ryan Will Not Seek Reelection - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:28] <exec> 08└─The democratic party seems clueless.
[12:39:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Speaker of the House Paul Ryan Will Not Seek Reelection - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:30] <exec> 08└─The Freedom Caucus has speaker Ryan by the balls so it could be called ... Saving Ryan's Privates (grin)
[12:39:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Speaker of the House Paul Ryan Will Not Seek Reelection - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:32] <exec> 08└─Thus revealing yourself as "not the real Donald" because, like Buzz Lightyear, he's always sure - zero retractions.
[12:39:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Speaker of the House Paul Ryan Will Not Seek Reelection - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:34] <exec> 08└─Yup, Fox News has a great white balance.
[12:39:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hacking When It Counts: Pigeon-Guided Missiles - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:45] <exec> 08└─BF Skinner was a Fascist. Practicing clinical psychologist Bruce E. Levine calls him a control freak. [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [brucelevine.net] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[12:39:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hacking When It Counts: Pigeon-Guided Missiles - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:46] <exec> 08└─Are you implying that made him a bad scientist? Also that link was to a wierd rant. He obviously identified that the cigarrete was not a token the patient valued, and instead gave the patient the reward of "winning" against the staff... I stopped reading there.
[12:40:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Automobile Dashboard Technology is Simply Awful - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:40:10] <exec> 08└─A good UI does not attempt to judge what is frequently used on its own and lets the user configure what is up front and center.
[12:40:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Automobile Dashboard Technology is Simply Awful - 2373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:40:11] <exec> 08└─Part of this effect is also due to a desire to shave pennies in every possible location during manufacture of the car. Old style (physical buttons/knobs that you can operate by touch/memory): Each car has to have a completely separate "button unit" designed and built because no two are similar enoug...
[12:40:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Automobile Dashboard Technology is Simply Awful - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:40:13] <exec> 08└─I've seen some newer cars where everything on the dash is lit up blue like some shit from the movie TRON. Blue LEDs, blue plastic, screens that operate more in the blueish/ultra-white spectrum, and the readouts themselves are all colored blue. I can't even imagine driving one of these at night. They...
[12:40:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Automobile Dashboard Technology is Simply Awful - 719 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:40:15] <exec> 08└─You are supposed to read them BEFORE you start driving. Yes, most people just want to sit down and start driving. Having controls labeled in proper English makes a quick dashboard scan nice and easy. Stupid symbols means looking everything up in a manual. Voice capability for input and output?!?!? B...
[12:40:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Automobile Dashboard Technology is Simply Awful - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:40:18] <exec> 08└─They have to be bright to compete with the headlights of oncoming vehicles.
[12:40:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Automobile Dashboard Technology is Simply Awful - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:40:20] <exec> 08└─By your reasoning the peddles should be assignable too -- rather than having clutch/brake/accelerator you could have whatever you wanted.
[12:41:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Court Rules that Taxi Company is Transport, and not Digital - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:09] <exec> 08└─That's an example of a "thought" for you? It all becomes clear now...
[12:41:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Court Rules that Taxi Company is Transport, and not Digital - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:10] <exec> 08└─No, all of civilization is not remotely based upon that. That is a fairly new idea that has never really worked to do anything except ensure that there is no competition for entrenched players in whatever industry is being regulated.
[12:41:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Court Rules that Taxi Company is Transport, and not Digital - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:12] <exec> 08└─What's that got to do with the price of feet in China? You think using regulatory capture to eliminate competition and inflate prices for a guild in any way makes people safer?
[12:41:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Court Rules that Taxi Company is Transport, and not Digital - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:14] <exec> 08└─It all becomes clear now...
[12:41:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Court Rules that Taxi Company is Transport, and not Digital - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:17] <exec> 08└─I'll let you know after the coffee kicks in.
[12:41:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06Dr. John Plunkett RIP - He Told the Truth - 1844 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:45] <exec> 08└─Money is the root of all evil, eh? But it isn't, quite. In this case, it's the desire for the quick and easy answer, and refusal to admit that total control and safety is impossible. This is "think of the children!!" versus the fact that no amount of protecting can ever achieve 100% safety. When a c...
[12:41:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Dr. John Plunkett RIP - He Told the Truth - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:56] <exec> 08└─94% of all humans (homo sapiens sapiens) who have ever lived are now dead.
[12:43:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03SunTzuWarmaster [3971] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senator to Zuckerberg: 'Your User Agreement Sucks' - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:08] <exec> 08└─I think the Onion had it right - Congress Demands To Know How Facebook Got People To Give Up Their Civil Liberties Without A Fight "We want to make sure we have this right: Even after you admitted that your site sold people’s information for profit, could be manipulated to infringe on press freedo...
[12:44:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 0614 Years of Mark Zuckerberg Saying Sorry, Not Sorry - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:30] <exec> 08└─What secret sauce do they have that outperforms the JavaScript engines from Google/Mozilla/Apple? I'm not seeing anything like a Facebook JavaScript compiler from a quick web search - what's it called?
[12:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Whatever You Do, Don't Give This Programmable Payment Card to Your Waiter - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:34] <exec> 08└─Why is the tiny print tiny when on hard copy? To discourage you from reading it. Nothing's changed. Sleazeballs still sleazy.
[12:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Whatever You Do, Don't Give This Programmable Payment Card to Your Waiter - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:35] <exec> 08└─Proprietary software dev 101.
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[13:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:48] <exec> 08└─Yes, but only in theory. In practice there will always be at least one person who'd rather play the asshole card or the joker.
[13:38:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Revek [5022] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:50] <exec> 08└─It amazes me how some people can't just ignore these people. Laugh at them every chance you get. I find that humor at their ignorance will make them rage quit. Of course I mute them if the game has that option. Usually right after I mute them I say to the rest of the players "If you mute someone do...
[13:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 1005 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:52] <exec> 08└─Isn't that like half the entertainment value to hear people lose their shit and go off like as if they had tourettes? That said should 10 year old kids even play these games? I don't think a mute button will really do it. It will not make them less toxic, perhaps if they made an audio recording or v...
[13:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Stardaemon [4294] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:55] <exec> 08└─Because "giving" in this case doesn't actually do anything productive, or anything much for that matter, aside from possibly wasting your time and energy. You'd actually have to give a bit more than you get for there to be any effect, like say, go for dismemberment or murder. Which is fine, if you c...
[13:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:57] <exec> 08└─An eye for an eye makes the world blind.
[13:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03LVDOVICVS [6131] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:59] <exec> 08└─So you're playing a game about killing people, but your sensibilities are offended when little boys use bad words? You might want to take up crochet. I like crocheting. You can make a variety of useful items and gifts. Additionally, I have yet to hear the yarn call me a whiny bitch because I miss a...
[13:39:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:02] <exec> 08└─Players controlling what reaches them personally is not censorship. Taking away the megaphone is censorship. Handing out earplugs is not.
[13:39:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:04] <exec> 08└─Not having a selective mute button was just a missing feature. Really, if a multi-player game has a "friends" feature to keep a list of people you want to play with, it should also have a "freaks" or "foes" (or both?) list to ensure you don't encounter the same murder hobo again, unless murder hobos...
[13:39:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03loonycyborg [6905] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:06] <exec> 08└─Like it's not first time games have to do community moderation. One would think they would develop middleware for it already. But every game seems to have custom handling for chat and stuff like that. So no wonder devs just say "screw it" and don't do anything at all for this. Because reinventing sa...
[13:39:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 768 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:08] <exec> 08└─That is not always true. I was playing CS:GO some months ago and there is one person who just started picking on me, first doing mimicry, then abusing my whole family, then just playing shock songs with his own narration. I ignored him and hence he quite. Then he started playing shitty and just wait...
[13:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:11] <exec> 08└─True but sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.
[13:39:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:13] <exec> 08└─Didn't say it was censorship. Just said the whiners are pussies.
[13:39:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06IBM Launches 'Skinny Mainframe' for the Cloud - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:22] <exec> 08└─So you are saying the required number of computers has increased since 1943? (grin) https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) Although Watson is well known for his alleged 1943 statement, "I think there is a...
[13:39:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Speaker of the House Paul Ryan Will Not Seek Reelection - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:53] <exec> 08└─we examine the obvious hypocrisy of this Ayn Rand acolyte’s determination to cut programs that allow other parents to spend more time with their kids.
[13:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Speaker of the House Paul Ryan Will Not Seek Reelection - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:54] <exec> 08└─Whether it's a wave or a tide or a landslide or a wall, it's coming. Big league. That's not going to change or evolve. We're going to have Republican control of ALL BRANCHES of our great government. Get ready!!!!
[13:39:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Speaker of the House Paul Ryan Will Not Seek Reelection - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:56] <exec> 08└─Always sure...
[13:39:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Speaker of the House Paul Ryan Will Not Seek Reelection - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:59] <exec> 08└─eddie munster can die in a fire, for all I care. he's an aweful person and I hope he suffers in life. yeah, when you are that evil, evil should seek people like that out and make things right in the universe, again. then again, he's just one of the many who have 'very punchable faces', as the kids t...
[13:40:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hacking When It Counts: Pigeon-Guided Missiles - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:12] <exec> 08└─I call you a quite a lot of things. Does that make them true or should we consider possible bias?
[13:40:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] 02 - 06Automobile Dashboard Technology is Simply Awful - 214 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:32] <exec> 08└─But people have been conditioned by Movies and TV to believe that taking your eyes off the road for extended periods of time (usually to look at the person in the passenger seat you are talking to) is totally fine.
[13:40:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Automobile Dashboard Technology is Simply Awful - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:42] <exec> 08└─in 20 years the new revised road signs will no longer read "Atlanta 20 miles" These signs are obsolete. What could you possibly need them for? Your GPS system will tell you exactly how far it is to your exact destination; signs telling you the distance to some arbitrary point inside a city that you...
[13:40:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Automobile Dashboard Technology is Simply Awful - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:45] <exec> 08└─Why not?
[13:40:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Automobile Dashboard Technology is Simply Awful - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:47] <exec> 08└─In a car, a touch screen is idiocy. In a car, a touch screen is less expensive and doesn't make your car interior look like the inside of a jet plane cockpit because that's how many controls you'd have if automotive engineers put one function per switch. Automotive engineers work under the same cost...
[13:40:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DavePolaschek [6129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Automobile Dashboard Technology is Simply Awful - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:49] <exec> 08└─Except for that one guy in a pavement-colored car driving around with his headlights off in order to see if you're paying attention.
[13:40:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DavePolaschek [6129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Automobile Dashboard Technology is Simply Awful - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:52] <exec> 08└─The forecast for tonight is dark. Followed by lighter tomorrow, and darker again tomorrow evening. Donald Trump will post a tweet which outrages liberals. A major banking executive will be discovered to have somewhat shady ethical practices. And water will, once again, be proven to be wet.
[13:40:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Automobile Dashboard Technology is Simply Awful - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:54] <exec> 08└─Managers will ask questions like: how many unknown bugs are there, and how long will they take to fix?
[13:40:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Automobile Dashboard Technology is Simply Awful - 1289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:56] <exec> 08└─I mentioned this on SN before. Last June (2017) we rented a nice, powerful car to drive to Colorado and be able to climb the mountains. The car had plenty of power and was great for driving in the mountains. I was astonished how bad the in car navigation and infotainment system was. A weird mixture...
[13:40:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Automobile Dashboard Technology is Simply Awful - 753 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:58] <exec> 08└─Another example: My last car had front electric windows, with the switches for operating them on the doors. (When electric windows were first introduced this was the obvious place to put them, as that's where the hand crank was.) As well as one switch per door/window, the driver had a switch to oper...
[13:41:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paralyzed Patient Feels Sensation Again - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:08] <exec> 08└─Except for unnatural things which do not occur in nature. For example, unnatural sexual positions that some people use.
[13:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Dr. John Plunkett RIP - He Told the Truth - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:34] <exec> 08└─Science is amazing. So nice to be one of the 6 percent!!!
[13:42:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dr. John Plunkett RIP - He Told the Truth - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:35] <exec> 08└─Computer science and the life sciences aren't up to your rigorous standards, AC?
[13:43:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senator to Zuckerberg: 'Your User Agreement Sucks' - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:48] <exec> 08└─Wikipedia [wikipedia.org]: Jim Crow laws—sometimes, as in Florida, part of state constitutions—mandated the segregation of public schools, public places, and public transportation, and the segregation of restrooms, restaurants, and drinking fountains for whites and blacks… These Jim Crow laws...
[13:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Whatever You Do, Don't Give This Programmable Payment Card to Your Waiter - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:16] <exec> 08└─In the EU, credit and debit card transactions are protected in exactly the same way, so there is no difference in liability.
[13:47:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oblivious DNS: A Genuinely Secure DNS - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:04] <exec> 08└─https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/327432/resolving-dns-via-tor [stackexchange.com]
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[14:38:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Use Machine Learning to Quickly Detect Video Face Swaps - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:42] <exec> 08└─YouTube and other video sites will use algorithms like this to slap a "Fake Video" tag on faceswapped videos, like Google News and Facebook are trying to do with fact-checking news items. People will promptly ignore it and believe in the faked footage. Everyone else will reap the benefits of 5% less...
[14:38:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Revek [5022] 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 380 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:53] <exec> 08└─It amazes me how some people can't just ignore these people. Laugh at them every chance you get. I find that humor at their ignorance will make them rage quit. Of course I mute them if the game has that option. Usually right after I mute them I say to the rest of the players "If you mute someone do...
[14:38:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 137 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:58] <exec> 08└─Players controlling what reaches them personally is not censorship. Taking away the megaphone is censorship. Handing out earplugs is not.
[14:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:05] <exec> 08└─Talking about toxic players, but they are only interested in censorship. If they really wanted to get rid of toxic players, they should start with the ones who keep shooting people.
[14:39:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:07] <exec> 08└─Censorship? Bullshit. Censorship is government interference in free speech in the public domain. This isn't a government program, and video game chat isn't public domain. You let me know when Ubisoft partners with the Department of Homeland Security to block people from talking on street corners.
[14:39:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:10] <exec> 08└─Time to dig up some older, zestier language. Like: "Away, you scullion! You rampallion! You fustilarian! I'll tickle your catastrophe"
[14:39:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:12] <exec> 08└─　　　　　| 　　　　　| 　　　　　| 　　　　　| 　／￣￣＼| ＜ ´･　　 |＼　|　３　 | 丶＼＜、･　　|　　＼　＼＿＿／∪ _ ∪) 　　　　　ＵＵ
[14:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:14] <exec> 08└─"In practice there will always be at least one person who'd rather play the asshole card" And that person is called... The Mighty Buzzard! :)
[14:39:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:16] <exec> 08└─Let me get this straight. You are at a bowling tournament. There's lots of people taking part. Someone is annoyed they are losing to you and get right up in your face screaming abuse at you, and (for the sake of argument) you are unable to do anything to stop it (use physical violence for example)....
[14:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 732 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:19] <exec> 08└─> It amazes me how some people can't just ignore these people. After an entire day of dealing with assholes IRL, that's just what a tired person looking for a bit of fun and escapism needs: dealing with more assholes. At some point, you break and go on a shooting spree, and then the people are all "...
[14:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:21] <exec> 08└─Your mother was a hamster and your father smells of elderberries!
[14:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:23] <exec> 08└─You let me know when Ubisoft partners with the Department of Homeland Security to block people from talking on street corners.
[14:39:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03conn8d [6887] (Score: 1) 02 - 06IBM Launches 'Skinny Mainframe' for the Cloud - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:33] <exec> 08└─The Indian Business Machine (IBM) is busy trying to be competitive in their home in India. I say good luck after firing all those US engineers.
[14:39:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Launches 'Skinny Mainframe' for the Cloud - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:35] <exec> 08└─Anyone buying into one of these things is foolish. Better performance can be had at a tenth of the price, and you actually own it and don't need to pay IBM for "MIPS" or buying special processors to avoid the cost. At least you're not stuck with z/os anymore.
[14:39:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Launches 'Skinny Mainframe' for the Cloud - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:38] <exec> 08└─I take it you are willing to port over old mainframe software for free? A working legacy system is worth much more than your vaporware replacement.
[14:40:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] 02 - 06Speaker of the House Paul Ryan Will Not Seek Reelection - 104 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:06] <exec> 08└─The Freedom Caucus has speaker Ryan by the balls so it could be called ... Saving Ryan's Privates (grin)
[14:40:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Speaker of the House Paul Ryan Will Not Seek Reelection - 1611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:13] <exec> 08└─My general opinion: * Most of the Republicans are evil. They're basically for sale to the highest bidder, and if the highest bidder wants the death of millions of people or to steal billions of dollars, they'll get it. * Most of the Democrats are evil. They're basically for sale to the highest bidde...
[14:40:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Speaker of the House Paul Ryan Will Not Seek Reelection - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:15] <exec> 08└─Libertarians are confused! Film at 11! In other breaking news, water is wet, ice is cold, and people eating Tide pods are morons! For more on that, here's our chief correspondent, Captain Obvious. Off to you, Captain...
[14:40:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] 02 - 06Automobile Dashboard Technology is Simply Awful - 719 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:54] <exec> 08└─You are supposed to read them BEFORE you start driving. Yes, most people just want to sit down and start driving. Having controls labeled in proper English makes a quick dashboard scan nice and easy. Stupid symbols means looking everything up in a manual. Voice capability for input and output?!?!? B...
[14:41:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Automobile Dashboard Technology is Simply Awful - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:05] <exec> 08└─I assume you mean those new blueish blinding extra-bright headlights that consumertards seem to love so much. I have never had a problem seeing a normal orange/red dashboard over normal headlights. Way back when, I had been told that there were laws against extra bright (regular, not high-beam) head...
[14:41:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Automobile Dashboard Technology is Simply Awful - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:07] <exec> 08└─Get back with us when Gay Positioning System navigation become mandatory in both new and old cars and other vehicles. Then perhaps you will have a point. "Turn left in to river". *Splash*. Some of us like to know where we REALLY are and not rely on some overcomplicated corporate dreck.
[14:41:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Automobile Dashboard Technology is Simply Awful - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:09] <exec> 08└─Stupid symbols means looking everything up in a manual.
[14:41:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Automobile Dashboard Technology is Simply Awful - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:11] <exec> 08└─My new car has HDMI connectors. I asked various people at the dealership, what would I even use those for, and they all shrugged and claimed some people get excited over that.
[14:41:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Automobile Dashboard Technology is Simply Awful - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:14] <exec> 08└─My new car has HDMI connectors. I asked various people at the dealership, what would I even use those for, and they all shrugged and claimed some people get excited over that.
[14:41:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Automobile Dashboard Technology is Simply Awful - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:16] <exec> 08└─Because that would cause far more people to die
[14:41:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03rondon [5167] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paralyzed Patient Feels Sensation Again - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:27] <exec> 08└─I know, right? Eight years and we haven't seemed to improve on things like this...? Maybe my expectations are too high
[14:41:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06European Copyright Law Isn't Great. It Could Soon Get a Lot Worse. - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:40] <exec> 08└─There is no point in calling your "representative". You don't fund his campaign, so he couldn't care less what you think. Instead, call Google, and tell them that you fully support them completely delisting all european newspapers from google news. Also tell them that you would be ok with them not a...
[14:42:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06Dr. John Plunkett RIP - He Told the Truth - 196 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:34] <exec> 08└─These guys should rank among our heros. They use science to challenge and overturn conventional wisdom. It reminds me of Marc Edwards, the troublemaker scientist who exposed the Flint lead crisis.
[14:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dr. John Plunkett RIP - He Told the Truth - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:57] <exec> 08└─Had drugs been found, and if he could prove through the cops' dashcam video or otherwise that things happened the way he said they did, he would have had a good case at an evidence suppression hearing. If he happens to have video through his own dashcam (yes, it is possible to get your own dashcam),...
[14:42:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dr. John Plunkett RIP - He Told the Truth - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:58] <exec> 08└─a profit motive among the medical community
[14:42:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dr. John Plunkett RIP - He Told the Truth - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:00] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, the boy didn't have a camera turned on. He thought of it, at some point, but at that time, the phone was in the car, out of reach.
[14:43:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Senator to Zuckerberg: 'Your User Agreement Sucks' - 219 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:17] <exec> 08└─More seriously: >written in English not Swahili, so the average American user can understand It IS written in English. Maybe you should stop cutting school funding, and get all the benefits of an educated population.
[14:44:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Senator to Zuckerberg: 'Your User Agreement Sucks' - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:14] <exec> 08└─It might be better than just lip service if our actual senators wrote laws to help the consumer.
[14:44:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03schusselig [6771] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Senator to Zuckerberg: 'Your User Agreement Sucks' - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:16] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure there's laws in place to prohibit schools from sharing information about minors to third parties. Definitely talk to a lawyer, YMMV.
[14:44:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senator to Zuckerberg: 'Your User Agreement Sucks' - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:18] <exec> 08└─It always comes back to attacking the author, doesn't it? For the record, I am not on Facebook. I have never more than dabbled in it, and I deleted that account within months. I am concerned, however, that the day will soon come that Facebook's ubiquity will make my abstention irrelevant.
[14:44:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Closest Exoplanet to Earth Just Got Doused With Deadly Flares - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:38] <exec> 08└─I doubt you would need to use the entire planet's mass to make a dyson-anything composed of relatively thin pieces that scatter the radiation. Another point to consider is that Proxima b's [wikipedia.org] minimum mass is estimated to be above Earth's: about 1.27 M⊕.
[14:44:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Closest Exoplanet to Earth Just Got Doused With Deadly Flares - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:40] <exec> 08└─I doubt you would need to use the entire planet's mass to make a dyson-anything composed of relatively thin pieces that scatter the radiation.
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[15:38:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03progo [6356] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FTC Makes Clear 'Warranty Void If Removed' Stickers Are Illegal - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:43] <exec> 08└─Is it still a criminal offense to break into your own farm equipment, and help others do so, in order to repair them?
[15:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Use Machine Learning to Quickly Detect Video Face Swaps - 1193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:51] <exec> 08└─This technique can be used for anything where machine learning does not do an entirely convincing job. I'll use the term "fakes" to refer to a machine learning result attempting to reproduce the real thing. But such that it is known that it is a machine learning creation. You train a 2nd AI to spot...
[15:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:22] <exec> 08└─You mean they released a game post-1990 with global connectivity and voice comms, where you can't mute other players? I would have a few choice words for them, in that case. Seriously, let them yell to themselves in an empty echo chamber. And don't let your kids on the net unsupervised until they ar...
[15:39:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:23] <exec> 08└─Don't bother trying to reason with TMB, he obviously has a variety of psychological issues (don't we all?) and deals with them by hiding behind a veil of bravado.
[15:39:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:26] <exec> 08└─No different to the rest of the world. Can't show a bare nipple in context. But holy cow if you stab a guy through the head with a rusty knife that might warrant a 12 rating, you know.
[15:39:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:28] <exec> 08└─You're free to walk out, if the abuser follows you home that's a crime. In a MMO, you can always switch it off any time it bothers you. Actually - most of life is like this, various levels of discomfort at various events, most are tame but some are not. All UbiSoft is doing is giving players more co...
[15:39:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:30] <exec> 08└─The U.S. in particular has this warped set of values on entertainment: death by accident or even violence (watch the news?) is acceptable for all audiences. Bad words gets a PG-13 and sex can ramp it up all kinds of restrictions. I've got news: sex happens, even more than death.
[15:39:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:32] <exec> 08└─Watch as people move their kids away from him and his fellow conservatives question his loyalty to the cause. Also as a paedophile we should not listen to anything he says as he is obviously compromised in his views. Words can't hurt you say?
[15:39:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 1500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:35] <exec> 08└─Oh what a bunch of nonsense we have to deal with. Almost 20 years ago I played a game online. And not just any game, this was the original, most GANGSTA multi-player game ever known as Ultima Online. The game gave the most freedom to players to build a world they would want to live in, or to simply...
[15:39:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Webweasel [567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:37] <exec> 08└─Was on teamspeak back when I was playing DayZ. I noticed 30 odd users join the channel, obvious it was trolls so I muted them. We carried on playing for about 30 mins, as normal. From the teamspeak icons you could see they were making a lot of noise/whatever (The icons flash when they talk, even if...
[15:39:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Webweasel [567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:39] <exec> 08└─How about "Guilty, life in prison"?
[15:39:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:41] <exec> 08└─Sticks and stones may break my bones but hair will never hurt me.
[15:39:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:44] <exec> 08└─Well of course you are free to leave, at which point the person giving the abuse has won and you have validated their actions. However that is not what my comment was about. My comment was in response to "give as good as you get" as suggested by the OP. Does the OP consider the behaviour witnessed i...
[15:39:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 688 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:46] <exec> 08└─The situation you describe calls for a withering rejoinder. It can be done, but it calls for a degree of self-control most people have to practice to acquire. Well, that is, if you aren't born and acculturated in Britain, because those guys seem preternaturally good at it. The best instance I ever w...
[15:39:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:48] <exec> 08└─I thought this issue was solved once and for all by the Sword of a Thousand Truths [wikia.com].
[15:40:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Launches 'Skinny Mainframe' for the Cloud - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:00] <exec> 08└─From TFA . . . IBM wants the aging traditional mainframe to survive in the era of digital business, and it argues that the mainframe remains the most stable, secure, and mature environment for information technology, including blockchain-based processing.
[15:40:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Speaker of the House Paul Ryan Will Not Seek Reelection - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:38] <exec> 08└─I'm sure that grammar works better in it's native Russian.
[15:40:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Speaker of the House Paul Ryan Will Not Seek Reelection - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:39] <exec> 08└─He's the closest thing I can find to a respectable politician anywhere in the upper echelons of our government, and seems to be the only one year after year fighting for common sense (at least in regards to technology.) Is there really any hope left for America? Or is it just time to start over?
[15:41:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Automobile Dashboard Technology is Simply Awful - 660 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:00] <exec> 08└─You should be able to feel for controls without looking at them and without accidentally operating them. If you do look, there should be clearly readable descriptions. Mysterious pictograms are unacceptable. The idea is that some people don't read English, but that is a poor excuse: you can at least...
[15:41:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Automobile Dashboard Technology is Simply Awful - 379 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:07] <exec> 08└─New car models are not primarily cars, they are entertainment units wrapped in a car packaging. All the DRM thingies apply to them and of course (in manufacturers mind) they need to feel like a fucking big mobile devices on wheels. Why so, you ask? How else the car industry can get to step into plan...
[15:41:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] 02 - 06Automobile Dashboard Technology is Simply Awful - 175 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:33] <exec> 08└─My new car has HDMI connectors. I asked various people at the dealership, what would I even use those for, and they all shrugged and claimed some people get excited over that.
[15:41:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06Automobile Dashboard Technology is Simply Awful - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:36] <exec> 08└─> beat me if I see this as a reason to make cars that piss on the occupiers No no, that's the dealership's job.
[15:41:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Automobile Dashboard Technology is Simply Awful - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:39] <exec> 08└─Hopefully it would mostly kill off the people who think reassigning the steering wheel and brake pedal functions was a good idea, thereby solving the original problem.
[15:41:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Automobile Dashboard Technology is Simply Awful - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:41] <exec> 08└─I rent a lot of cars, and have also made this observation. The winner of the kitchen sink award has to be the 2017 Ford Focus with the full infotainment system. From the driver seat I could reach 70 different buttons, switches, knobs, levers, and controls. That _feels_ excessive.
[15:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Automobile Dashboard Technology is Simply Awful - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:43] <exec> 08└─Having the power windows switches in the center of the car makes it less likely a kiddo will step on them, roll down the window, and fall out. I've heard this cited as a reason for the change, but don't know if it's true.
[15:41:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Paralyzed Patient Feels Sensation Again - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:53] <exec> 08└─That is a sensational comment.
[15:42:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Copyright Law Isn't Great. It Could Soon Get a Lot Worse. - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:09] <exec> 08└─Do you really think that Google wants to lose the European market just to support your views? Dreamer!
[15:43:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Dr. John Plunkett RIP - He Told the Truth - 909 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:09] <exec> 08└─Possibly - money? People have latched onto SBS, just as people fell in love with the idea of a lie detector. There is funding for SBS. Besides which, Dr. Plunkett didn't establish that SBS can't be caused by shaking a baby. He ONLY established that a baby can suffer all of the symptoms of SBS due to...
[15:43:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] 02 - 06Dr. John Plunkett RIP - He Told the Truth - 195 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:14] <exec> 08└─If I die, I want my tomb to say that in big gold letters: DONALD J. TRUMP The Most Amazing Businessman, The Greatest President, The Sexiest Husband, The Best Father, Very Rich. He Told the Truth.
[15:43:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dr. John Plunkett RIP - He Told the Truth - 2903 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:29] <exec> 08└─I'm reasonablly happy with the first half of the post (re TFA), but the second is… disorganized. I guess I should have picked one ridiculous argument from the left and one from the right to avoid people thinking a post about poor arguments was a post about conclusions I disagree with. I'm far more...
[15:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dr. John Plunkett RIP - He Told the Truth - 3635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:30] <exec> 08└─You have failed to explain, in a way so simple only a fool could disagree if they grant your assumptions and inference rules (aka a good argument), why consenting adults being in love makes it morally acceptable for them to be in a relationship. You might think that this is obvious, but enough peopl...
[15:43:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] 02 - 06Senator to Zuckerberg: 'Your User Agreement Sucks' - 200 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:00] <exec> 08└─The average EULA/Privacy Policy is more like a Miranda warning. Whatever you do can and will be used against you. You have a 'right' to a lawyer, at 600 bucks an hour. A better deal you'll never find!
[15:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senator to Zuckerberg: 'Your User Agreement Sucks' - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:48] <exec> 08└─It was more a point about giving a pass to one giant surveillance machine and not another. If you can't get something at the local store then find a online shop that isn't Amazon, otherwise total hypocrisy / ignorance.
[15:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 1) 02 - 0614 Years of Mark Zuckerberg Saying Sorry, Not Sorry - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:13] <exec> 08└─Oh allright, I think I see what you mean.
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[16:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FTC Makes Clear 'Warranty Void If Removed' Stickers Are Illegal - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:51] <exec> 08└─On that level, I can totally see electronics makers now using digital DRM as the new "Do not remove" tag. IE: Have it set up so that the system is able to detect when certain parts are removed, and to brick itself in the case it detects that. The Official Repair People of course will know how to rep...
[16:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06FTC Makes Clear 'Warranty Void If Removed' Stickers Are Illegal - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:52] <exec> 08└─Tesla is the car you're thinking of then. All parts with electricity are chipped, and the chips tied to a specific vehicle. Not only must you use OEM stratospherically priced parts, you must not used parts from a wreck and they can only be installed at a Tesla facility. I bet they'd like to thank Ap...
[16:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FTC Makes Clear 'Warranty Void If Removed' Stickers Are Illegal - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:55] <exec> 08└─Wow, didn't know that bit. This example is a great bit about why we need to regulate companies to protect consumers to at the very least have a full disclosure pamphlet about the limitations / requirements / privacy violations a product might have. Not to mention a "no leopard fighting" policy for c...
[16:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FTC Makes Clear 'Warranty Void If Removed' Stickers Are Illegal - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:57] <exec> 08└─I'm glad we don't sell electronics to the public, who clearly doesn't understand ESD. Besides bargain-bin Chinese-made junk, most consumer electronics is too integrated to be repaired. Computer-like devices can get parts swapped, but that's about it. That won't prevent people from opening the box an...
[16:39:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 338 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:20] <exec> 08└─Not having a selective mute button was just a missing feature. Really, if a multi-player game has a "friends" feature to keep a list of people you want to play with, it should also have a "freaks" or "foes" (or both?) list to ensure you don't encounter the same murder hobo again, unless murder hobos...
[16:39:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 653 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:30] <exec> 08└─Let me get this straight. You are at a bowling tournament. There's lots of people taking part. Someone is annoyed they are losing to you and get right up in your face screaming abuse at you, and (for the sake of argument) you are unable to do anything to stop it (use physical violence for example)....
[16:39:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:48] <exec> 08└─*throws a large, heavy dictionary at TMB*
[16:39:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:49] <exec> 08└─But what is Ubisoft doing to counter rampaging sexual abuse/assault on female players? Just a few days ago there was an article of a horrific attack on a female journalist as she was teabagged when a game dev mistook her for a coworker. Such abuse is unacceptable even if it was an accident. She's th...
[16:39:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:52] <exec> 08└─I remember when multiplayer games were a new thing (yes I'm old) and thought that they were incredible and loved them. Soon the dreary reality caught up with me: the other people were totally ruining the experience, not just by trolling or saying stupid things but with pretty much all many of them d...
[16:39:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:54] <exec> 08└─... I have yet to hear the yarn call me a whiny bitch because I miss a stitch.
[16:39:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:56] <exec> 08└─Yep. If they want to add something, make it a reputation thing. If you're in the 95th percentile of players other players mute (and over a thresh hold), you lose voice chat for a day increasing one day each time it happens. Then you don't have to care what's said, just that they're annoying everyone...
[16:39:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:58] <exec> 08└─As a grown up, you realize that childish statement is untrue.
[16:39:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:01] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't it be great if human nature actually conformed to your ridiculous demands? I suspect you've been putting on a total front this whole time, to the point of lying about your most fundamental traits. There is support if you want it [womenshealth.gov]
[16:40:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:03] <exec> 08└─When I encounter such tools in games I don't get angry at the personal attacks. I do get angry about those assholes ruining the game by 1) not playing properly 2) distracting everyone 3) spewing negativity that affects team morale. Some people like to watch the world burn, and I am 100% OK with meas...
[16:40:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:05] <exec> 08└─98% chance LVDOVICVS is a douche that gets muted a lot.
[16:40:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Launches 'Skinny Mainframe' for the Cloud - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:17] <exec> 08└─Anyone buying into one of these things is foolish. Better performance can be had at a tenth of the price, and you actually own it and don't need to pay IBM for "MIPS" or buying special processors to avoid the cost. At least you're not stuck with z/os anymore.
[16:40:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Launches 'Skinny Mainframe' for the Cloud - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:19] <exec> 08└─Seriously the Mainframe era has been pronounced dead so many times now it's not even funny anymore, reading X whitepaper on how UNIX is dead has nothing on the once that proclaim the death of the Mainframe. Yet it keeps on processing transaction after transaction like nobodies business.
[16:40:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Launches 'Skinny Mainframe' for the Cloud - 1321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:21] <exec> 08└─It's been about a decade since I worked on them but what you said still hold/held true back then. You don't buy a Mainframe to crunch numbers (it would probably be a horrible machine for cryptocurrency and such), you buy (or rent) one to crunch transactions -- obscene amounts of them. That is what i...
[16:41:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Speaker of the House Paul Ryan Will Not Seek Reelection - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:00] <exec> 08└─Better check possessive forms. In this case "it" is used as a noun and so "it's" is proper use.
[16:41:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Speaker of the House Paul Ryan Will Not Seek Reelection - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:02] <exec> 08└─Shark week?
[16:41:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Speaker of the House Paul Ryan Will Not Seek Reelection - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:04] <exec> 08└─When are you going to paint the Whitehouse Red?
[16:41:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Speaker of the House Paul Ryan Will Not Seek Reelection - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:06] <exec> 08└─Well, what else is there? wswswswswswsws seems to be pushing this Socialist Equality Party. More idiots? I guess we'll all just disenfranchise ourselves because we can't figure out how to get non-idiots on the ballot. Might as well make the aristocracy official if the ballot box is broken. Leaves on...
[16:41:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Speaker of the House Paul Ryan Will Not Seek Reelection - 746 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:08] <exec> 08└─Dude, the AC who attacked your point as invalid based on his own autistic-style "arguments" is just noise. I completely get what you are saying. Oh, and he wants proof that the Democrats are out of touch and clueless? Remember the Dems lost the election to FREAKING DONALD TRUMP, a joke that never sh...
[16:41:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Speaker of the House Paul Ryan Will Not Seek Reelection - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:10] <exec> 08└─I suppose you think "her's" is correct as well? Learn elementary school English first, my confused friend.
[16:41:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Speaker of the House Paul Ryan Will Not Seek Reelection - 2181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:13] <exec> 08└─I always find it weird that people think that "Donald Trump and his closest backers" are in this to "Make a lot of money for themselves". That makes no sense. They were already billionaires. They were making good money outside of politics, and now they are losing billions of dollars. The more reason...
[16:41:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hacking When It Counts: Pigeon-Guided Missiles - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:26] <exec> 08└─4. less statues
[16:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Automobile Dashboard Technology is Simply Awful - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:14] <exec> 08└─Older cars used mostly red/orange. Even ages ago they could have used different colors but they didn't because it would have been fucking retarded.
[16:42:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Automobile Dashboard Technology is Simply Awful - 794 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:16] <exec> 08└─Apparently its supposed to be so that you can stream video from a mobile device to any in-car screens, presumably because someone thought this would be more convenient that having to copy the media in question over to a USB stick, or just mounting the device's internal storage via USB and streaming...
[16:42:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Automobile Dashboard Technology is Simply Awful - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:18] <exec> 08└─Or the kids and "friends" having heated arguments from the back seat on the choice and volume of the music, temperature and fan speed, and turning on the wipers because they don't like water drops. Enough people get into arguments with the front passenger, I'm pretty sure we don't want to give acces...
[16:42:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06European Copyright Law Isn't Great. It Could Soon Get a Lot Worse. - 177 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:35] <exec> 08└─Copyright only serves the bourgeois as a tool to control the working classes. We need to move in the direction of total abolition. I'm going to tell my representative right now.
[16:43:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Court Rules that Taxi Company is Transport, and not Digital - 781 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:18] <exec> 08└─> fairly new idea You need more coffee. Tribal councils, nobles or kings, settling disputes between two parties is at least a couple orders of magnitude older than the USA.The fact that they settle them based on expected (non-written) standards for a job is a given, and having people pay taxes for t...
[16:44:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dr. John Plunkett RIP - He Told the Truth - 732 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:06] <exec> 08└─Sorry for the rambling mess again, it's a bad habbit. My main points are that: the assumptions arguments make need to be clearly statedlove isn't an argument, even though it's a pleasant sounding clichecircle jerking is an actively harmful hobbythe people told to ``fuck off if it isn't obvious'' are...
[16:45:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senator to Zuckerberg: 'Your User Agreement Sucks' - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:25] <exec> 08└─You could've at least explained the WSWS stands for "World Socialist Website", asshole.
[16:45:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senator to Zuckerberg: 'Your User Agreement Sucks' - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:26] <exec> 08└─There are businesses that racially segregate right now to the degree the law allows. For instance, I had one boss that announced to the entire open-plan office that he was refusing to hire somebody because he wasn't white (I left shortly thereafter). Had I had that candidate's contact information, I...
[16:45:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senator to Zuckerberg: 'Your User Agreement Sucks' - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:29] <exec> 08└─Why would a business do this? Simple: The population of white customers who wanted a segregated environment was larger and richer than the population of black customers. If you had to choose between selling to, say, 10,000 people with $30 a week in spare cash, and 7,000 people with $5 a week in spar...
[16:45:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senator to Zuckerberg: 'Your User Agreement Sucks' - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:31] <exec> 08└─Another followup: Yes, if you look up the laws that created segregation, you're going to find the laws that created segregation. However, you won't find the private actions that created segregation, because that's outside the scope of that article. One of the most famous protests of the Civil Rights...
[16:48:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03VanessaE [3396] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Whatever You Do, Don't Give This Programmable Payment Card to Your Waiter - 1186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:01] <exec> 08└─You know, for recurring expenses like phone, cable or insurance, I'd be more than happy to let them auto-draft my monthly bills, because it would be less for me to hassle with, since the amounts rarely change. I'm with a good bank that's easy to work with if an error occurs, so I don't worry about t...
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[17:38:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universal Chip Analyzer: Test Old CPUs in Seconds - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:42] <exec> 08└─"Collecting old CPUs and firing them up again is all the rage these days" People really do this?
[17:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06FTC Makes Clear 'Warranty Void If Removed' Stickers Are Illegal - 960 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:55] <exec> 08└─The place that I remember seeing this kind of sticker is over one or more screws that hold the case together. In other words, if you want to unscrew the case you have to either remove the sticker, or poke a hole in it for the screwdriver/Allen-key/Torx. From memory this is most common on small elect...
[17:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03schusselig [6771] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06FTC Makes Clear 'Warranty Void If Removed' Stickers Are Illegal - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:56] <exec> 08└─In case anyone is interested, FTC has already had some success with this: https://www.ftc.gov [ftc.gov]
[17:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03schusselig [6771] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06FTC Makes Clear 'Warranty Void If Removed' Stickers Are Illegal - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:58] <exec> 08└─Companies can still claim the warranty is void if they can demonstrate that the not-official service caused the damage. An example I read somewhere was, if you take your car to a third party shop to replace a belt (or replace it yourself), and the new belt is installed incorrectly, damages from that...
[17:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06FTC Makes Clear 'Warranty Void If Removed' Stickers Are Illegal - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:00] <exec> 08└─I always cringe when I see people handling electronics with absolutely no ESD precautions whatsoever. I assumed that was the main reason for these stickers, because ESD damage very often results in intermittent problems that are difficult to detect and reproduce.
[17:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FTC Makes Clear 'Warranty Void If Removed' Stickers Are Illegal - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:03] <exec> 08└─In all fairness it is a new patent/different subject because now its on a computer
[17:39:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FTC Makes Clear 'Warranty Void If Removed' Stickers Are Illegal - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:06] <exec> 08└─Companies can still claim the warranty is void if they can demonstrate that the not-official service caused the damage.
[17:39:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FTC Makes Clear 'Warranty Void If Removed' Stickers Are Illegal - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:08] <exec> 08└─There is no reason why a cellphone must have a battery with adhesive on the back (removing which requires either lots of patience or damages the screen underneath) a flimsy connector instead of the contacts that still work in camcorders of the early 90s, and an additional plastic shell kept in place...
[17:39:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FTC Makes Clear 'Warranty Void If Removed' Stickers Are Illegal - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:10] <exec> 08└─> or poke a hole in it well poking a hole is not removing (insert "I removed your mom" joke here), so...
[17:39:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06FTC Makes Clear 'Warranty Void If Removed' Stickers Are Illegal - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:12] <exec> 08└─Well I'd like to see a citation for those allegations since a lot of that is explicitly prohibited by the FTC and there is a wealth of case-law saying the opposite as well.
[17:39:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FTC Makes Clear 'Warranty Void If Removed' Stickers Are Illegal - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:14] <exec> 08└─Additionally, here is a 3rd party repair shop [serviceking.com] a quick Googling found.
[17:39:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06FTC Makes Clear 'Warranty Void If Removed' Stickers Are Illegal - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:17] <exec> 08└─There is no reason why a cellphone must have a battery with adhesive on the back (removing which requires either lots of patience or damages the screen underneath) a flimsy connector instead of the contacts that still work in camcorders of the early 90s, and an additional plastic shell kept in place...
[17:39:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Use Machine Learning to Quickly Detect Video Face Swaps - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:30] <exec> 08└─Some of these Fakes are amazing. Let me tell you, they fooled me. With the Access Hollywood "tape." They call it a "tape." It's not a tape. It's a Fake. But it sounds just like me. At first I thought it was me. And I apologized. But it turned out to be TOTALLY FAKE!!!
[17:40:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 842 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:24] <exec> 08└─ggez n00b j/k, but in my experience it is actually a small minority of players who are shit and ruin everything. Yes in-character gaming is super rare because it is akin to acting and not many people are into it. Yes teamwork is hard, not everyone gets it and quite a few people are there to have the...
[17:40:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 669 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:25] <exec> 08└─Gaming used to be the domain of young nerdy men with insecurity complexes, and the games allowed them to be the bullies. This quickly led to ridiculous insults in a bad way, and while that has died down a bit except for some tweens there are still jerkoffs like you who think that unfettered profanit...
[17:40:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:27] <exec> 08└─You would imagine right? TMB is past 40 I'm pretty sure, so I guess we need to redefine "grown up".
[17:40:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 722 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:30] <exec> 08└─Please note, that I pretty much took a hiatus from the genre. The "little boys" using "bad words" is a problem when they're essentially non-stop cussing, using racial slurs, sexual slurs, threatening to do unspeakable things, etc. It's not that the kids were saying the occasional or even constant st...
[17:40:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:32] <exec> 08└─I don't think murdering the guy with your concealed carry is quite the way to go. Especially since you're taking a British approach to this in Beijing, it won't go well!
[17:40:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:34] <exec> 08└─An eye for an eye makes the world blind.
[17:40:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:36] <exec> 08└─I've never understood why all the new games seem to think voice chat is necessary. Back when I played Urban Terror, all I need was type-chat and a few keyboard bindings for key phrases ("cover me", "need a medic", "got him", etc.). Yahtzee saying in multiple videos that he tried enabling voice chat,...
[17:40:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:39] <exec> 08└─It should just be disabled by default and be an opt-in. That way nobody can complain when they're purposely putting themselves into the line of fire like that.
[17:40:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:41] <exec> 08└─You forgot to mention that it's also quite difficult to murder someone with a crochet hook. Knitting on the other hand, watch out!
[17:40:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:43] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile, are you sure that this new eagerness by firms like Ubisoft to clean up their act isn't influenced by the threat of government censorship...
[17:40:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:45] <exec> 08└─Somebody's triggered!
[17:40:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:48] <exec> 08└─On a side note, do you think we should repeal libel laws?
[17:40:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:50] <exec> 08└─Tell us more about your card game?
[17:40:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:52] <exec> 08└─What's that old saying, "growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional"?
[17:41:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Launches 'Skinny Mainframe' for the Cloud - 851 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:08] <exec> 08└─I've seen them crash several times (mostly z26, I think?) ... but every time because of operator error, which is pretty much the same on all hardware/OS these days (non-Windows) Redundancy gets you that cheaper, and with more power. Data throughput has caught up as well. It's a very bad solution to...
[17:41:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Launches 'Skinny Mainframe' for the Cloud - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:09] <exec> 08└─It's hard and expensive to extract yourself from a proprietary solution you've tied your business too.
[17:41:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Speaker of the House Paul Ryan Will Not Seek Reelection - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:56] <exec> 08└─When in doubt the apostrophe is used to concatenate words and no apostrophe is for possessive [oxforddictionaries.com] It is a relatively obscure bit of grammar that doesn't come up too often and violates the general rule for 's possessive forms. This mole hill is getting out of hand!
[17:41:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Speaker of the House Paul Ryan Will Not Seek Reelection - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:57] <exec> 08└─You call socialists crazy but then promote murder as a means for social change? Hmmmm
[17:41:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Speaker of the House Paul Ryan Will Not Seek Reelection - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:00] <exec> 08└─That makes no sense. They were already billionaires.
[17:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Speaker of the House Paul Ryan Will Not Seek Reelection - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:05] <exec> 08└─Now I'm starting to wonder if you're just a really really clever troll pretending to be libertarian. Seems unlikely, but paired with the other variety of crap you spew I'm now wondering. I can't imagine anyone could find Paul Ryan anything but despicable.
[17:42:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Speaker of the House Paul Ryan Will Not Seek Reelection - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:07] <exec> 08└─What you are saying is that Trump is making the swamp so radioactive that the regular swamp monsters leave? It could be construed as "cleaning", but I'm not sure that the rest of us are better off.
[17:42:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Speaker of the House Paul Ryan Will Not Seek Reelection - 931 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:09] <exec> 08└─I hate Trump all right, but not for any of the reasons you've laid out. I hate him because he's a bully and a real estate developer. In my 60+ years, the lowest form of human I've had to deal with are the developers, they will say whatever they have to say to get their way. Trump is well known to us...
[17:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hacking When It Counts: Pigeon-Guided Missiles - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:24] <exec> 08└─Aha! You are Dick Dastardly.
[17:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hacking When It Counts: Pigeon-Guided Missiles - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:26] <exec> 08└─especially the statues of those slave owners.... oh... they're gone already? Wha' happan?
[17:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Automobile Dashboard Technology is Simply Awful - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:16] <exec> 08└─I've got a bridge to sell to the guy who thinks the engineer designs the interior of the car, not a "designer" who has that great idea about the cool clean modern lines that a touchscreen allows, compared to all the ugly buttons.
[17:43:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Automobile Dashboard Technology is Simply Awful - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:18] <exec> 08└─Two words: Gaming consoles You also get AC outlets. Not sure why it's considered child-quieting to have them play FarCry5 until they puke on the back seat, but hey...
[17:43:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03danmars [3662] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Automobile Dashboard Technology is Simply Awful - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:20] <exec> 08└─Maybe so you can plug in a Nintendo Switch and all non-driver occupants can compete?
[17:44:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Court Rules that Taxi Company is Transport, and not Digital - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:21] <exec> 08└─That is a fairly new idea
[17:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dr. John Plunkett RIP - He Told the Truth - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:10] <exec> 08└─That term is in desperate need of some scare quotes! Forensic "science." DNA testing is pretty much the only one supported by actual science and even that has some caveats. Some additional reading: The troubling flaws in forensic science [bbc.com] Forensic Tools: What’s Reliable and What’s Not-S...
[17:47:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score: 2) 02 - 0614 Years of Mark Zuckerberg Saying Sorry, Not Sorry - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:57] <exec> 08└─...Pointy-Haired Protocol?
[17:48:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"The Erotic Review" Blocks U.S. Visitors Due to SESTA - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:21] <exec> 08└─I suspect the boy is probably more mentally scarred that the woman is getting in big trouble than her "consensually raping" him ( lewd and lascivious battery and all that). Unless of course she somehow was really bad at it ( I mean he's 14 years old, shouldn't take that much to please him ;) ). Boy...
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[18:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA Had 3 Billion-Dollar Climate/Weather Disasters in the First 3 Months of 2018 - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:46] <exec> 08└─DON'T. YOU. BELIEVE. IT! Nothing to see here, there is no change. Status quo here. Nononononono...yes. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] YES THERE IS CHANGE. Wait. What?
[18:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA Had 3 Billion-Dollar Climate/Weather Disasters in the First 3 Months of 2018 - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:48] <exec> 08└─If your metric is dollars damaged caused, and you aren't correcting for the constant devaluation of the dollar, of course you're going to see constant increases in damage.
[18:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06USA Had 3 Billion-Dollar Climate/Weather Disasters in the First 3 Months of 2018 - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:50] <exec> 08└─It's the deteriorating infrastructure that needs proper maintenance.
[18:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA Had 3 Billion-Dollar Climate/Weather Disasters in the First 3 Months of 2018 - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:52] <exec> 08└─Climate is changing! The end is neigh! I guess sensation and gloom sells. But my bullshit tank is full. I'll take your latest data and wipe my ass with it.
[18:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universal Chip Analyzer: Test Old CPUs in Seconds - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:01] <exec> 08└─There's a solid niche of collectors/enthusiasts. Check out vintage computer forums or VOGONS. There are also people dumpster diving and trying to find rare stuff to sell to this crowd (listing ISA cards and the like on ebay for $100+)
[18:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universal Chip Analyzer: Test Old CPUs in Seconds - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:03] <exec> 08└─No, but you somehow have to hype the spam post.
[18:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universal Chip Analyzer: Test Old CPUs in Seconds - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:05] <exec> 08└─Weird little chip that let you use any register as the program counter. Neato to switch PCs in midstream - confuses the hell out of everyone.
[18:39:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06FTC Makes Clear 'Warranty Void If Removed' Stickers Are Illegal - 172 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:25] <exec> 08└─Well I'd like to see a citation for those allegations since a lot of that is explicitly prohibited by the FTC and there is a wealth of case-law saying the opposite as well.
[18:39:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03LVDOVICVS [6131] 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 307 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:50] <exec> 08└─So you're playing a game about killing people, but your sensibilities are offended when little boys use bad words? You might want to take up crochet. I like crocheting. You can make a variety of useful items and gifts. Additionally, I have yet to hear the yarn call me a whiny bitch because I miss a...
[18:39:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 298 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:59] <exec> 08└─Censorship? Bullshit. Censorship is government interference in free speech in the public domain. This isn't a government program, and video game chat isn't public domain. You let me know when Ubisoft partners with the Department of Homeland Security to block people from talking on street corners.
[18:40:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 746 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:43] <exec> 08└─So when some rich person gets a bug up their ass about you and hires a private investigator to find your hometown and then rents ad space EVERYWHERE calling you a pedo then that should be OK? Perhaps your simplistic "truths" don't actually work in reality and there are real reasons why libel laws ex...
[18:40:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:44] <exec> 08└─People who are the victim of something get to play the victim card. Those who aren't, don't. That's equality. Should the police treat the stabbing victim and the guy who hasn't been stabbed the exact same?
[18:40:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:47] <exec> 08└─You're free to walk out.. And what about the bowling tournament's freedom of association? Are they not allowed to gather a group of like-minded bowlers to enjoy a tournament?
[18:40:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:49] <exec> 08└─Aren't multiplayer video games and other social media the "street corners" of the 21st century? Not if they're hosted on private servers... Or should I not be allowed to impose my own rules on my own hardware?
[18:40:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:51] <exec> 08└─Whining about whining, 2meta4me
[18:40:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:53] <exec> 08└─WOW! This is a gem amongst the Soylentnews comments. A libertarian explaining in painful detail why their ideology would fail HARD in the real world. Yep, totally the values I want to experience in reality!!! Go Go Libertarian Utopia! How come more people don't model their society after UO? /scratch...
[18:40:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:55] <exec> 08└─Well shit I screwed up the quotes. As a result of the freedom in Ultima Online you could commit: Theft, grand larceny, assault, aggravated assault, attempted murder, murder, real-estate fraud, securities fraud, animal cruelty, desecration of corpse, simulated rape, and countless other even more elab...
[18:40:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:58] <exec> 08└─The real problem here is that the game isn't Free Software. As usual, gamers tend to be foolish and will tolerate and even defend any amount of abuse done to them. If the game were Free Software, it would be simpler for people to create their own servers and have their own rules for those servers. I...
[18:40:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03infodragon [3509] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:00] <exec> 08└─A blind world would be much less violent!
[18:41:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Launches 'Skinny Mainframe' for the Cloud - 621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:18] <exec> 08└─I'm unsure where most of them are these days but it's probably still the backbone in banking, finance, insurance and some transaction heavy commerce. I can't deny the attitude or mindset, it's a lot of "this is how it has always been" which might sound bad at first but there are also positive as...
[18:41:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Launches 'Skinny Mainframe' for the Cloud - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:19] <exec> 08└─> The reliability is in the statistics of how many nodes you expect not to fail today. Have you quantified the cost of those failures, and the overhead of provisioning and servicing you need to handle them? Obviously, the mainframe isn't winning the overall battle today, but there are people who val...
[18:42:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Speaker of the House Paul Ryan Will Not Seek Reelection - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:12] <exec> 08└─A good name for a porn flick. Starring Stormy Daniels perhaps?
[18:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Speaker of the House Paul Ryan Will Not Seek Reelection - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:14] <exec> 08└─When will democrats start to do the same? "Start"? Shirley you can't be serious! And "retirement"? Well yeah, but the more correct term is "cashing out" before the walls close in. Their pensions are intact.
[18:42:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Speaker of the House Paul Ryan Will Not Seek Reelection - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:16] <exec> 08└─republicans/democrats, let's have the accountants tell you how "clueless" they are. Clueless defines the people that vote for them.
[18:42:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Speaker of the House Paul Ryan Will Not Seek Reelection - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:18] <exec> 08└─No no.. You pair him up with Trump. Then we could define obscene for the FCC
[18:42:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Speaker of the House Paul Ryan Will Not Seek Reelection - 720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:21] <exec> 08└─The role of the president is not to be a pal, to you or to any country. He is there to gain advantage for the USA. Part of the problem with Obama was that he wasn't too comfortable being a bully. When we needed to push other countries around, he would almost always make concessions and try to buy fa...
[18:42:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Speaker of the House Paul Ryan Will Not Seek Reelection - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:23] <exec> 08└─Many billionaires spend a lot of their time trying to make even more money.
[18:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hacking When It Counts: Pigeon-Guided Missiles - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:39] <exec> 08└─A psychologist disagreeing with another psychologist's methods? I am genuinely worried about the fabric of the universe surviving this paradox of hard science!
[18:42:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hacking When It Counts: Pigeon-Guided Missiles - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:41] <exec> 08└─Yep, about as smart as a sitting US president!
[18:43:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Automobile Dashboard Technology is Simply Awful - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:35] <exec> 08└─Having power window switches in the middle also makes it less likely that the switch will short out due to opening the door while it's raining. Of course, having it in the middle leaves them vulnerable to drink spillage, but at least that can be blamed on the owner, not the manufacturer.
[18:43:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Automobile Dashboard Technology is Simply Awful - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:36] <exec> 08└─A few years ago my mother bought a Subaru Impreza, possibly the last model from them without a touch screen. It has very sensible control locations and the instrument lighting is red, minimum interference with night vision. My only quibble with the UI is the center info panel display (clock, miles t...
[18:43:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Automobile Dashboard Technology is Simply Awful - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:38] <exec> 08└─Me: drives my old non-voice trollmobile up next to a voicecarfag and rolls down window: "Excuse me sir, do you have any GreyHEY, CAR, DRIVE OFF OF CLIFF!" Zooooom... BOOM! Lols.
[18:43:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Automobile Dashboard Technology is Simply Awful - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:40] <exec> 08└─Sounds like they should rename the car to "Ford Distraction" instead.
[18:44:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Court Rules that Taxi Company is Transport, and not Digital - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:41] <exec> 08└─you believe that if Person A gives Person B a lift for free all's good but if the same Person A charges the same Person B money you should regulate and tax the fuck out of them?
[18:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dr. John Plunkett RIP - He Told the Truth - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:31] <exec> 08└─Well I did sign a voluntary contract to not down-mod Mr. VIM but I always down-mod him anyway and there's nothing he can do about it! Muah hah hah!
[18:45:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dr. John Plunkett RIP - He Told the Truth - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:33] <exec> 08└─From their perspective he says a bunch of stuff which ends with "Therefore this baby murderer should walk free." The basis for our system of jurisprudence is the presumption of innocence. Unless that person has been proven to be a murder, and convicted of such by a jury of his peers, he is not a mur...
[18:46:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senator to Zuckerberg: 'Your User Agreement Sucks' - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:56] <exec> 08└─Well, maybe a punk solipsist, but not a plain solipsist-- https://users.cs.duke.edu [duke.edu] https://users.cs.duke.edu [duke.edu] (mp3's stream from this page) Guess I should have mentioned that I've never had a FB acco...
[18:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senator to Zuckerberg: 'Your User Agreement Sucks' - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:58] <exec> 08└─I think the Onion had it right - Congress Demands To Know How Facebook Got People To Give Up Their Civil Liberties Without A Fight
[18:48:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"The Erotic Review" Blocks U.S. Visitors Due to SESTA - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:48] <exec> 08└─Would you deem it rape if it was a male teacher and a female student instead?
[18:48:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"The Erotic Review" Blocks U.S. Visitors Due to SESTA - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:49] <exec> 08└─Statutory rape is an arbitrarily defined false concept and equality says that girls should be as emotionally prepared as boys for sex, so it's not rape. At worst, it's a life lesson and hands-on sex ed.
[18:49:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Whatever You Do, Don't Give This Programmable Payment Card to Your Waiter - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:35] <exec> 08└─Back when we used magstripes, it was easy for waiters to skim a card when they took it away for payment.
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[19:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06USA Had 3 Billion-Dollar Climate/Weather Disasters in the First 3 Months of 2018 - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:48] <exec> 08└─The data is tainted. You'll get a rash, at least.. Better to burn it with that pile of old tires out back. Try to make it look like an accident.
[19:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA Had 3 Billion-Dollar Climate/Weather Disasters in the First 3 Months of 2018 - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:49] <exec> 08└─1. Lack of an easily identifiable local warming effect has made you into a jaded cynic ironically named Entropy. 2. You have no respect for the scientific process, where our understanding of how the world works changes as new data comes in. 3. You ignore "heat sinks" and other feedback processes tha...
[19:38:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA Had 3 Billion-Dollar Climate/Weather Disasters in the First 3 Months of 2018 - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:51] <exec> 08└─It's a combo of the first three comments: - extreme weather patterns when/where they are not usually expected, or more frequent - under-funded infrastructure more exposed (and people allowed to build wherever they feel regardless on danger, because profit) - inflation of repair costs. Plus...
[19:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA Had 3 Billion-Dollar Climate/Weather Disasters in the First 3 Months of 2018 - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:54] <exec> 08└─"I'll take your latest data and wipe my ass with it."
[19:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA Had 3 Billion-Dollar Climate/Weather Disasters in the First 3 Months of 2018 - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:56] <exec> 08└─*throws a snowball!* Global warming has been disproven! Nobody can argue against the snowball! Bwahahaha! :-)
[19:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA Had 3 Billion-Dollar Climate/Weather Disasters in the First 3 Months of 2018 - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:58] <exec> 08└─Factor in one more thing, bob_super. Our population is higher today than it ever was in the past. We occupy more area, and we occupy it more densely. That is us, without bodies, us with our possessions - we get harder to miss with each passing year.
[19:38:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA Had 3 Billion-Dollar Climate/Weather Disasters in the First 3 Months of 2018 - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:00] <exec> 08└─Don't forget: allowing unrestricted development in flood plains (Houston).
[19:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA Had 3 Billion-Dollar Climate/Weather Disasters in the First 3 Months of 2018 - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:02] <exec> 08└─"1. Lack of an easily identifiable local warming effect has made you into a jaded cynic ironically named Entropy." Oh, there's probably been a lot more behind it than just that particular lack. "2. You have no respect for the scientific process, where our understanding of how the world works changes...
[19:39:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FTC Makes Clear 'Warranty Void If Removed' Stickers Are Illegal - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:34] <exec> 08└─fuck off esd bullshit salesman.
[19:39:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03mobydisk [5472] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FTC Makes Clear 'Warranty Void If Removed' Stickers Are Illegal - 771 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:36] <exec> 08└─Back in the late 1990's it was really common for PCs to use these stickers. They were really just to instill fear. One of the most egregious was Packard Bell. They placed a a multi-layered silver such that when you removed the case, the layers split and one half of the sticker would say "Packard" an...
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[19:40:23] <exec> 08└─Was on teamspeak back when I was playing DayZ. I noticed 30 odd users join the channel, obvious it was trolls so I muted them. We carried on playing for about 30 mins, as normal. From the teamspeak icons you could see they were making a lot of noise/whatever (The icons flash when they talk, even if...
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[19:41:01] <exec> 08└─I'm not a free market fan. I expect Ubisoft to do lots of things gamers don't like when they think the benefits outweigh the drawbacks. I just think it's misleading or at best uninformed to label those acts as censorship. I think a comparison between multiplayer games and social media on one side an...
[19:41:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 980 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:03] <exec> 08└─Notice how the story is a lie. They don't actually care about toxic players, they aren't even banning trolls or griefers. It is the usual Twitter Safety Council routine again, banning the wrong thinkers. First they put up a "Code of Conduct" and then the banhammer comes out. And notice how tolerance...
[19:41:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:05] <exec> 08└─So when some rich person gets a bug up their ass about you and hires a private investigator to find your hometown and then rents ad space EVERYWHERE calling you a pedo then that should be OK?
[19:41:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:07] <exec> 08└─giving just as good as you get
[19:41:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:09] <exec> 08└─So would it be fine if they didn't use "cuss words" but still insulted you in other ways? I don't believe in 'bad words' at all. If anything is an issue here, it's their bad intent.
[19:41:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:11] <exec> 08└─Censorship? Bullshit. Censorship is government interference in free speech in the public domain.
[19:41:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:14] <exec> 08└─But there was a very cleaver thing put into place.
[19:41:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:16] <exec> 08└─Evidently, you have no idea what his username means. Illiterate Barbarian! a puero in via!
[19:41:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Launches 'Skinny Mainframe' for the Cloud - 833 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:36] <exec> 08└─People already on mainframes will no doubt keep using them for a long time. They've got it all set up and figured out. Since everything about mainframes seems utterly alien to anyone in the mainstream of the computer industry, I wouldn't be surprised if the reverse were also true. However, mainframe...
[19:41:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Launches 'Skinny Mainframe' for the Cloud - 2044 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:38] <exec> 08└─I cannot. But I bet Google can. I've even seen postings over the years talking about the aggregate failure rates of various components. And who would know better than those who operate large clusters of commodity hardware. (not just google) Isn't the cost of node failures basically the cost of fixin...
[19:43:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Automobile Dashboard Technology is Simply Awful - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:52] <exec> 08└─Nah, it's all about the road head. Nothing is worse than shifting in to park on the freeway with your dick in someone's mouth.
[19:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senator to Zuckerberg: 'Your User Agreement Sucks' - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:10] <exec> 08└─You just described the Sears Catalog as a shopping option for many rural people 100 years ago.
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[20:39:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA Had 3 Billion-Dollar Climate/Weather Disasters in the First 3 Months of 2018 - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:03] <exec> 08└─This is one if the dumber excuses to hand wave away climate change. No mention of solar cycles today?
[20:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA Had 3 Billion-Dollar Climate/Weather Disasters in the First 3 Months of 2018 - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:05] <exec> 08└─More and more I wonder if you are a really advanced chatbot. The first proper AI but still too stupid for really basic reading comprehension. If you're on the autistic spectrum maybe say so and people will cut you some slack. That is a phrase which means they won't criticize you for every mistake.
[20:39:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA Had 3 Billion-Dollar Climate/Weather Disasters in the First 3 Months of 2018 - 671 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:07] <exec> 08└─I'm going to blame the SN stupid IP filters for that, I frequently have to copy/paste a comment within 15 seconds when on mobile and I'm not even using a VPN! I guess I didn't tap accurately on the copy button so it put the last thing from the clipboard. My original point was that Arik and company a...
[20:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Universal Chip Analyzer: Test Old CPUs in Seconds - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:17] <exec> 08└─Re: confusing the hell - if you have not read this, enjoy: The Story of Mel [catb.org] I hope it is an XKCD:1053 [xkcd.com] for you.
[20:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universal Chip Analyzer: Test Old CPUs in Seconds - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:19] <exec> 08└─That's what this reminds me of.... the old tube tester [vacuumtubes.com]. They had their day, too.
[20:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universal Chip Analyzer: Test Old CPUs in Seconds - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:21] <exec> 08└─There was a similar comment on the Hackaday page. The response was like "Dude, you're at the wrong website." -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[20:41:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:18] <exec> 08└─You drive a hard bargain, sir. I can prove how big my dick is by playing Rainbow Cocks of Duty with you and listening to your immature macho bullshit for a few hours, and then maybe we can jerk each other's massive cocks off. Or I can do something that's actually fun and relaxing. But if you find cr...
[20:41:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:19] <exec> 08└─According to Wiktionary, something like "one who fights with words".
[20:41:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:21] <exec> 08└─Ah yes, the magical "personal responsibility" trope which does not work in reality. Stop being a libtard with naive expectations of humanity and then we can have a real discussion.
[20:41:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 710 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:24] <exec> 08└─The "scary" scenarios are exactly what should convince you. Libel can truly ruin lives and destroy businesses, having legal recourse against such liars is 100% necessary. The fact that you can't grasp that simple idea speaks volumes about you. Should we repeal laws against murder since that is yet a...
[20:41:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:26] <exec> 08└─Not even signing in ari? Latin is boring and archaic, no I did not waste my time learning it. Turns out just by learning some of its derivative languages I could work out the most useful patterns for myself. I can't believe I'm saying this, but maybe you should stick to Klingon, higher chance you'll...
[20:41:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:28] <exec> 08└─At this point TMB's lack of response to many posts indicates one of two things. Either he actually has grown a little and realized that his statement was a bit naive, or he was just trolling so he could eat some popcorn. Maybe, just maybe, he is crying in the corner at all the harsh words.
[20:42:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Speaker of the House Paul Ryan Will Not Seek Reelection - 1274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:48] <exec> 08└─You have it backwards. (It's not like the relationship between Fox so-called News and The GOP.) The official media outlet of The Socialist Equality Party is The World Socialist Web Site. As for WSWS's message, if you think about it for about half a minute, you'll realize that brown people with no mo...
[20:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Speaker of the House Paul Ryan Will Not Seek Reelection - 671 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:49] <exec> 08└─You are a fool. Gates has never done anything that wasn't about profit. He's heavily invested and is making sure that those investments are going to pay off. Every "giveaway" he makes comes with stipulations that enriches a corporation in which he has lots of stock. Carnegie After years of abuse of...
[20:42:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Speaker of the House Paul Ryan Will Not Seek Reelection - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:51] <exec> 08└─Trump biographer and former NYT tax columnist David Cay Johnston figures Trump is worth $700M max. If all of Trump's loans were called in, he'd be deeply in the hole. ...and several economics specialists have said that if he had simply put his inheritance in an index fund, he'd have more wealth now...
[20:44:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03VanessaE [3396] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Automobile Dashboard Technology is Simply Awful - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:08] <exec> 08└─"Oh, cut the bleeding heart crap will ya? We've all got our switches, lights, and knobs to deal with, Striker. I mean, down here there are literally hundreds and thousands of blinking, beeping, and flashing lights, blinking, beeping and flashing - they're flashing and they're beeping. I can't stand...
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[21:38:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Netflix Won't be Going to Cannes After All - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:44] <exec> 08└─And it's not like Netflix isn't used to getting kicked by everybody and their brother in the industry. "I was very upset and troubled to read in the trade papers about the conflict with the Cannes Film Festival," Beatrice wrote in an email sent to Netflix head of content Ted Sarandos on Sunday, acco...
[21:38:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Won't be Going to Cannes After All - 680 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:45] <exec> 08└─Uuuugh, what is with the lack of comprehension? Orson Welles experience prejudice from big production companies, Cannes festival helped him out. Netflix has a new version of a Welles film which the daughter hopes will be shown at Cannes. With Netflix not showing the film the daughter feels like her...
[21:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06USA Had 3 Billion-Dollar Climate/Weather Disasters in the First 3 Months of 2018 - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:15] <exec> 08└─I pointed to a known, quantified, and very obvious mathematical effect that slants the results presented and you hand-wave it away by... accusing me of hand-waving? Really? I honestly wonder sometimes how people this stupid manage to breath.
[21:39:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03tizan [3245] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA Had 3 Billion-Dollar Climate/Weather Disasters in the First 3 Months of 2018 - 555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:16] <exec> 08└─The companies who are allowed to emit pollutants that are slowly causing weather to get systematically worse are making trillion of dollars ...so all is good they'll pay a large fraction of that as tax which the government will use to repair all these damages promptly and infact will be building sea...
[21:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06USA Had 3 Billion-Dollar Climate/Weather Disasters in the First 3 Months of 2018 - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:18] <exec> 08└─Well you keep doing it so answer your own question. Use this link as a starter to find more info: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov [noaa.gov] In the very first paragraph on that page you'll find The U.S. has sustained 230 weather and climate disasters since 1980 where overall damages/cost...
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[21:39:21] <exec> 08└─Wow. Just wow. After all the articles that have floated through here on this topic and all the times people have tried to educate you, here you stand spouting stupidity. The global temperature has increased. They renamed "global warming" to "climate change" specifically to avoid idiots saying "but i...
[21:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA Had 3 Billion-Dollar Climate/Weather Disasters in the First 3 Months of 2018 - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:23] <exec> 08└─You could be a little more open-minded. There is an effect associated with economic growth that slants the results, as mentioned below. When GDP grows (which it does in CPI adjusted dollars) there is that much more stuff to get damaged. If there was a town with 100 houses that got damaged in 1990, t...
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[21:39:25] <exec> 08└─The Science which you deny, multiple overlapping data sets confirm. Ice cores, Tree rings, Fossil leaves, Boreholes, Corals, Pollen grains, Dinoflagellate cysts, Lake and ocean sediments, Water isotopes climate proxies [wikipedia.org] Not only have global temperatures shifted, the rate of change has...
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[21:39:39] <exec> 08└─Yup. Those ran a static test. Mainly, it was about the remaining cathode emission (and inter-electrode faults). TFA/TFS mentions how, on this thing, you can run up the clock speed and spot counterfeit parts. That dynamic testing is taking things to the next level. Back when I worked in a TV shop (PX...
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[21:39:40] <exec> 08└─s/to the cathode/to the filament -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[21:41:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:44] <exec> 08└─I think we're agreeing here, if the bowlers want to be rowdy rude and socially unacceptable, that's their choice. Where it gets weird is that we've never given 12 year olds a club where they can hang out and try to swear like (18 year old) sailors... and I think it's probably fine that they have one...
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[21:41:46] <exec> 08└─It could get all kinds of automatic... Everyone starts with an open mic. If you get muted by (some threshold, 95% sounds good) of players you talk to, you're auto-muted by default. Opponents can un-mute you if they want, or have teamed up with you, or whatever, but that way the cretins don't spoil t...
[21:42:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Launches 'Skinny Mainframe' for the Cloud - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:08] <exec> 08└─I hope I can buy the signature edition.
[21:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Launches 'Skinny Mainframe' for the Cloud - 768 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:10] <exec> 08└─They've been pushing this "lease the capacity you use" model for a long time. It makes some sense if you let them put the hardware in your rack and you're only paying for 10% of its capability, but have that option to scale up at any time just by paying more when you need it. We looked at their 2006...
[21:44:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] 02 - 06Automobile Dashboard Technology is Simply Awful - 111 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:13] <exec> 08└─> beat me if I see this as a reason to make cars that piss on the occupiers No no, that's the dealership's job.
[21:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dr. John Plunkett RIP - He Told the Truth - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:22] <exec> 08└─How about this argument: why do you care about gay marriage? Why do you feel the need to argue about how others should live their lives? Do you have so much time of your hands that you have nothing better to think about than gay people marrying?
[21:47:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senator to Zuckerberg: 'Your User Agreement Sucks' - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:47] <exec> 08└─Did the Senator promise that any and all forthcoming legislation he would author or vote Yea on meet the same standards?
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[21:47:49] <exec> 08└─if you think accessing facebook is comparable to eating or driving to work, you are part of the problem. ( and people in many cities are forced to have electricity, and running water. Else your house gets condemned and you are kicked out )
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[22:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Netflix Won't be Going to Cannes After All - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:47] <exec> 08└─A film can't be art if it's not shown in the cinema, now can it? Actually, many have fallen who did not understand the times we live in today. Just as the buggy whip makers did before. Can Cannes stand on it's own with both feet stuck in the past? Time will tell.
[22:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Netflix Won't be Going to Cannes After All - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:48] <exec> 08└─Sounds like they're trying to protect the old movie system instead of embracing the new as well.
[22:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Won't be Going to Cannes After All - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:50] <exec> 08└─... have a theatrical run ...
[22:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Netflix Won't be Going to Cannes After All - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:53] <exec> 08└─it is a French law, not a Cannes rule.. Netflix was amenable to having their movies play in France, but a law in the country requires movies to not appear in home platforms for 36 months after their theatrical release.
[22:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Won't be Going to Cannes After All - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:55] <exec> 08└─True, but misleading. French law may state that those in France may not see a movie until 36 months after it's theatrical release but the requirement of a theatrical release is strictly a Cannes requirement, not a legal one. I wonder, can Netflix release an original movie in France without theatrica...
[22:39:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA Had 3 Billion-Dollar Climate/Weather Disasters in the First 3 Months of 2018 - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:31] <exec> 08└─"Denialists are simply revealing their gross ignorance." Kinda a good TL:DR for a good portion of this site's userbase. Stick to math and coding ya nerds!
[22:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA Had 3 Billion-Dollar Climate/Weather Disasters in the First 3 Months of 2018 - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:33] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the garbage post oh armchair scientist. You have no call to make such a claim. Please, do the research into their methods and come back when you can PROVE that the increased damages from weather events is FUD. Oh you won't cause you're not capable and too lazy? Yeah, that's what I thought...
[22:39:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA Had 3 Billion-Dollar Climate/Weather Disasters in the First 3 Months of 2018 - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:35] <exec> 08└─That is us, without bodies, us with our possessions - we get harder to miss with each passing year.
[22:39:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06USA Had 3 Billion-Dollar Climate/Weather Disasters in the First 3 Months of 2018 - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:37] <exec> 08└─Here is my proof: For an unchanging climate, one would expect economic growth to cause storm damages to increase. Therefore, one should not consider increasing storm damages as evidence for climate change. QED.
[22:39:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA Had 3 Billion-Dollar Climate/Weather Disasters in the First 3 Months of 2018 - 664 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:39] <exec> 08└─As a non-American Soylentil I can confirm that the climate change deniers are almost exclusively American. In the rest of the Western world we are not drowned in quite the same amount of propaganda (in a general sense), and the massively wealthy are not given the same control that they are in the U...
[22:39:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA Had 3 Billion-Dollar Climate/Weather Disasters in the First 3 Months of 2018 - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:42] <exec> 08└─The Center for American Progress is a HIGHLY partisan liberal "think tank" dedicated to spewing out alarming anti conservative propaganda. I wouldn't trust them with statistical or scientific claims any further than I could throw an elephant while standing in a swamp with my hands tied around a tre...
[22:39:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06USA Had 3 Billion-Dollar Climate/Weather Disasters in the First 3 Months of 2018 - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:44] <exec> 08└─You could have posted that first, and gotten a positive response. Apparently you didn't want one.
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[22:39:46] <exec> 08└─> the massively wealthy are not given the same control that they are in the US. How cute. You must be European. I'm sure you don't even recognize you're apart of the German Empire now. But at least you got to stick it to those Americans! ;-)
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[22:40:09] <exec> 08└─Tesla is the car you're thinking of then. All parts with electricity are chipped, and the chips tied to a specific vehicle. Not only must you use OEM stratospherically priced parts, you must not used parts from a wreck and they can only be installed at a Tesla facility. I bet they'd like to thank Ap...
[22:42:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 866 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:05] <exec> 08└─You get crazier every week. Like regular law enforcement sometimes innocent people get punished. However, please include some actual data regarding this banning of "wrong think". I feel pretty confident that the overwhelming majority of people who get muted/banned/whatevered are absolute toxic troll...
[22:42:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:07] <exec> 08└─I never idolized these values for the real world. But it felt free to a massive extent. If you were a total outcast, eventually people would try to kill you on sight. So you had to have friends, and band together. But a lot of people incapable of dealing with it, just kept forcing more and more rest...
[22:42:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:09] <exec> 08└─Agreed jmorris, this is subversion 101. Try to turn everything into diversity-kumbaya bullshit to indoctrinate people, so that eventually when you try to force the same ideology on the real world the sheeple will accept it. And just hope that by then you have sufficiently disarmed the non-sheeple an...
[22:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:11] <exec> 08└─Ahh, my people! They do know me so well.
[22:42:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:13] <exec> 08└─A) I don't play online games. They bore me because the vast majority of people bore me. B) What makes you think I'd be in the closet if I were gay? Oh, I know, it must be how I always say only what people want to hear so they'll like me.
[22:42:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:15] <exec> 08└─You joke but now I want to grab some blank cards and make one.
[22:42:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:18] <exec> 08└─The general efficiency of our work is going to decline, and we won't be able to sustain current population levels. In the immediate aftermath of worldwide blinding, I would expect a good deal of rioting and poorly-aimed violence. The first blind war will be interesting, as it could make melee weapon...
[22:42:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:20] <exec> 08└─Sorry, not sorry. You do not get to claim victimhood when you were on equal footing. Not ever. Victimhood requires that the victim be in a position of lesser power in the conflict. Crying when you could have fought back but didn't is just called being a pussy.
[22:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:22] <exec> 08└─I don't need a pedofile. My feet are as soft as baby ass.
[22:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:24] <exec> 08└─Now there is a valid retort! +1 for you!
[22:42:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:27] <exec> 08└─Yeah, um, no. Only if you grow up to be a pussy.
[22:42:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:29] <exec> 08└─I was wondering how it got this way...
[22:43:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Speaker of the House Paul Ryan Will Not Seek Reelection - 40 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:22] <exec> 08└─Yup, Fox News has a great white balance.
[22:43:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Speaker of the House Paul Ryan Will Not Seek Reelection - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:54] <exec> 08└─And idiots with no morals like you are part of why the US is declining. Abuse the rest of the world too much and they turn against you. We could have gently slid from empire to average country, with no nation claiming the empire title, but nooooo. The US was too greedy, now the entire world is payin...
[22:44:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] 02 - 06Hacking When It Counts: Pigeon-Guided Missiles - 67 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:04] <exec> 08└─Our missiles will be coming, nice and new and “smart!” 🐦🚀
[22:44:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hacking When It Counts: Pigeon-Guided Missiles - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:13] <exec> 08└─MUUUTTTLLEEYYYYYY
[22:44:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hacking When It Counts: Pigeon-Guided Missiles - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:16] <exec> 08└─Next, the pigeon gets attracted by an unladen African pigeoness whose airspeed velocity of course differs. This interferes with the missile guidance. This is why Mr. President delays the action. It would make for an awkward dinner conversation at the White House if dad accidentally makes Jerusalem g...
[22:44:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Automobile Dashboard Technology is Simply Awful - 1112 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:35] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I can wait the news about how people in the regional areas cannot get the messages from the local fire authority because all they have in the car is a digital streaming radio version of a receiver. Not so funny moments due to reliance on the modern tech [abc.net.au] Macarthur Country Fire Auth...
[22:45:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Automobile Dashboard Technology is Simply Awful - 229 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:06] <exec> 08└─I've got a bridge to sell to the guy who thinks the engineer designs the interior of the car, not a "designer" who has that great idea about the cool clean modern lines that a touchscreen allows, compared to all the ugly buttons.
[22:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03EETech1 [957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Automobile Dashboard Technology is Simply Awful - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:15] <exec> 08└─My girlfriend used to love sitting right next to me as I shifted gears in my old Ford. 4th gear was in the perfect location! (I used to hose clamp weights on the driveshaft when we'd go out on dates:)
[22:45:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Copyright Law Isn't Great. It Could Soon Get a Lot Worse. - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:43] <exec> 08└─"Copyright only serves the bourgeois as a tool to control the working classes. We need to move in the direction of total abolition." -- bot, april 12 @ somewhat later than 02:25AM
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[23:38:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Proposes Rejoining the Trans-Pacific Partnership - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:43] <exec> 08└─>a deal he pulled out of within days of assuming the presidency. because nobody had explained the "behind the scenes" reasons why we were in it in the first place. Why does anyone think that the negotiations are held in secret?
[23:38:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Proposes Rejoining the Trans-Pacific Partnership - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:45] <exec> 08└─Ha ha! One of the few decent things Trump did and he's now gonna walk us right back into it. MAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAG suuuuuuuuckaaaaaaaassssss MAMAGMAGAGAGAGMAMGMAGMAMGAMGMAMG idiooooooootttssssssssssssss MAMGAMGAGAGAMGAMGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAG all the way to the bank! #sad
[23:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06President Trump Proposes Rejoining the Trans-Pacific Partnership - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:47] <exec> 08└─He never really left. SNAFU
[23:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Proposes Rejoining the Trans-Pacific Partnership - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:49] <exec> 08└─It's like TP but with extra P.
[23:38:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Proposes Rejoining the Trans-Pacific Partnership - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:51] <exec> 08└─The Mar-a-lago restaurant now offers a new delicacy : Cold Bitter Crow.
[23:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Proposes Rejoining the Trans-Pacific Partnership - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:53] <exec> 08└─This is not a surprise. You can read about the technique in "The Art of the Deal". Often, the good results don't make the news. For example, consider the tariff issue with China. Trump raises tariffs (still below what China does to us), then China responds, then Trump doesn't back down and announces...
[23:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06President Trump Proposes Rejoining the Trans-Pacific Partnership - 734 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:56] <exec> 08└─Actually, as soon as the US withdrew from the TPP, the whole Copyright and IP section that they were super snippy about was dropped from the entire agreement. The agreement as the other 11 signatories signed it is actually about material goods and markets to support the less inhibited movement of th...
[23:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03tizan [3245] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Proposes Rejoining the Trans-Pacific Partnership - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:58] <exec> 08└─What did China give so far ...really what has been given up concretely ? The trick as always China promises that it will lower tariffs....it has done that several times in the past... people take that as a win and stop complaining and nothing happens ...and the Chinese government wins without declar...
[23:38:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06President Trump Proposes Rejoining the Trans-Pacific Partnership - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:00] <exec> 08└─TPP "continuing rape of our country" is back, and Lil' Rocket Man successfully hoodwinked the Orange Wizard of Oz.
[23:39:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Won't be Going to Cannes After All - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:14] <exec> 08└─If they show on Netflix, in France, to be eligible, and legal, the theatrical release would have to be 36 months earlier. Netflix isn't going to want to shelve a show for three years just to try and be eligible for Cannes..
[23:39:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06USA Had 3 Billion-Dollar Climate/Weather Disasters in the First 3 Months of 2018 - 699 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:59] <exec> 08└─That is not proof, just more simplistic logic without any supporting evidence. I guess any equation with more than X and Y just blows your mind. Besides which there was no claim that higher storm damages are proof of climate change, this is an article about the effects of climate change. I bet they...
[23:40:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA Had 3 Billion-Dollar Climate/Weather Disasters in the First 3 Months of 2018 - 911 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:00] <exec> 08└─That is because all efforts to explain reality fall on deaf ears and all I get in return is continued simplistic reasoning. My default reaction is to call out such simplistic bullshit and not worry about the person's feelings on the matter. I only searched for confirmation when you pushed the issue...
[23:40:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06USA Had 3 Billion-Dollar Climate/Weather Disasters in the First 3 Months of 2018 - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:03] <exec> 08└─LOL, yeah shoot the messenger. That's fine. No really. Here, direct from the source then: http://www.noaa.gov [noaa.gov] Oh right, the US gov is just another arm of George Soros! Or was it the Koch Brothers? Eh w...
[23:40:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA Had 3 Billion-Dollar Climate/Weather Disasters in the First 3 Months of 2018 - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:05] <exec> 08└─As a non-American Soylentil I can confirm that the climate change deniers are almost exclusively American.
[23:40:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FTC Makes Clear 'Warranty Void If Removed' Stickers Are Illegal - 999 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:44] <exec> 08└─> and that reason is cost wat First, the tolerances in the flimsy connector are much lower than the usual contacts, so it costs more. It surely has a size advantage, but could consumer choose they would sacrifice 2 mm of battery to have an interchangeable one. Or, what about the laptop, the led that...
[23:40:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FTC Makes Clear 'Warranty Void If Removed' Stickers Are Illegal - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:46] <exec> 08└─Nice to know that the sticker doesn't mean anything anymore
[23:41:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 141 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:21] <exec> 08└─"In practice there will always be at least one person who'd rather play the asshole card" And that person is called... The Mighty Buzzard! :)
[23:41:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Freeman [732] 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 61 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:45] <exec> 08└─As a grown up, you realize that childish statement is untrue.
[23:42:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:40] <exec> 08└─No, today was a fishing day not a shooting stuff day.
[23:42:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:41] <exec> 08└─A vocabulary, get one. I know you little cry-twats like to project your weakness onto everybody else but that was mockery not whining.
[23:42:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:44] <exec> 08└─Yell back at someone up in my face? Absolutely. Honestly, I'd probably just toss a rosin bag in his face and stomp kick his knee into an unfriendly angle while he was distracted. I am not a pussy who needs others to settle my disputes for me.
[23:42:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rainbow Six: Siege - Crackdown on "Toxic Players" - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:46] <exec> 08└─Well it did start that way back when I was a wee kid but rest assured that the attitude is very much real nowadays.
[23:45:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Automobile Dashboard Technology is Simply Awful - 1289 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:06] <exec> 08└─I mentioned this on SN before. Last June (2017) we rented a nice, powerful car to drive to Colorado and be able to climb the mountains. The car had plenty of power and was great for driving in the mountains. I was astonished how bad the in car navigation and infotainment system was. A weird mixture...
[23:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Court Rules that Taxi Company is Transport, and not Digital - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:34] <exec> 08└─Yeah regulation on trade and services is such a new idea. Only a few thousand years old:
[23:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Court Rules that Taxi Company is Transport, and not Digital - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:36] <exec> 08└─So it's perfectly okay for the friends you wouldn't trust to drive you to be on the road with their regular old driver's license but adding money into the equation suddenly makes them a much more dangerous person?
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