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[00:03:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Military Develops Microwave Weapon - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:03:49] <exec> 08└─It'll stop your CART as long as the radio is on: what music has to be playing? AC/DC? ;)
[00:03:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Informative) 02 - 06U.S. Military Develops Microwave Weapon - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:03:51] <exec> 08└─We can use this, and the similar Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Program, to stop people near the border. Stop the cars far from the border, making them walk, then make them miserable with the beams. At the actual border, we stop sheep with electric fences. That ought to work. It beats the alternatives, wh...
[00:03:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Military Develops Microwave Weapon - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:03:53] <exec> 08└─Parent jokes, but this weapon does seem prone to collateral damage along the same lines as a carpet-bombing run. I would hope that use of this does not become standard for preventative scenarios (e.g. 24/7 usage around 'strategic assets' or events like marathon run courses). The possibility of unint...
[00:04:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06South Korea to Remove Loudspeakers at Border - 125 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:04:19] <exec> 08└─He did talk softly, politely, and in grammatically correct sentences conveying an actual meaning, while carrying a big stick.
[00:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft's Full Response to the Lundgren Counterfeiting Conviction - 577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:30] <exec> 08└─IIRC, MS specifically claimed to the courts that when a HDD is erased during the refurbishing process, the OS licensing for that was on the OS is no loner valid. You could argue that first sale doctrine was used when the PC was "sold" but i dont know if first doctrine would aply if the PC was just g...
[00:11:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Driver Banned for Riding in Passenger Seat While Using Tesla Autopilot Mode - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:17] <exec> 08└─Bin that car!
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[01:03:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03tekk [5704] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Huawei Working on its Own OS to Prepare for "Worst-Case Scenario" of Being Deprived of Android - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:03:44] <exec> 08└─I bought an Xperia X specifically to run Jolla's Sailfish OS. Real multitasking, pretty, and it's an actual Linux system (Wayland+Qt+glibc+busybox.) Runs smoothly, way lighter than Android, if you license it from Jolla you get android compatibility (I'm not sure how it works techically speaking, whe...
[01:03:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Huawei Working on its Own OS to Prepare for "Worst-Case Scenario" of Being Deprived of Android - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:03:45] <exec> 08└─My Gemini [indiegogo.com] is finally on its way from factory to Europe; I don't plan to boot Android even once. I wonder how phone stuff will work in practice. This one has a full-blown physical keyboard that Huawei's devices lack, but you don't need to ship an off-the-shelf distribution unmodified.
[01:03:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Huawei Working on its Own OS to Prepare for "Worst-Case Scenario" of Being Deprived of Android - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:03:47] <exec> 08└─Weird... The US "powers that be" are being idiots and forcing others to develop their own solutions? I don't like Huawei or ZTE and have never purchased their hardware, nor do I intend to anytime in the near future, but if the US wants to shoot itself in the foot by alienating everyone and everythin...
[01:03:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Huawei Working on its Own OS to Prepare for "Worst-Case Scenario" of Being Deprived of Android - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:03:50] <exec> 08└─You're forgetting that Trade Wars™ are good, and easy to win.
[01:04:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Military Develops Microwave Weapon - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:04:03] <exec> 08└─Sounds likethere will be a market for old Mercedes diesels.
[01:04:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06U.S. Military Develops Microwave Weapon - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:04:05] <exec> 08└─You can't stop AC/DC, they are TNT and they'll win the fight mate. Maybe it will work with the Electric Light Orchestra
[01:04:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Military Develops Microwave Weapon - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:04:07] <exec> 08└─Plus they've already been thunderstruck by high voltage and stayed hard as a rock, shot down in flames but kept a stiff upper lip, and they've got the war machine with the big gun.
[01:04:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06South Korea to Remove Loudspeakers at Border - 666 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:04:37] <exec> 08└─The Nobel Peace Prize lost any credibility it might had when it went to Henry Kissinger, one of the biggest proponents of war since the prize was established, in 1973. This was 5 years after he'd deliberately sabotaged negotiations trying to end the Vietnam War, 2 years after he had backed Pakistan...
[01:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Warning Signs for TSB's IT Meltdown were Clear a Year Ago - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:21] <exec> 08└─It's possible to get more insurance from one bank (or credit union, with their similar scheme). The key is to name the accounts slightly differently, for example one might be your own name, that covers the first $250K. The next one is your name with a beneficiary in trust (if you die, that one goes...
[01:06:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Record Levels of Microplastics Found in Arctic Sea Ice - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:37] <exec> 08└─Call me a cynic, but when lots of money are involved, I've always been biased toward that possibility being quite real.
[01:07:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MSNBC Host Attributes Homophobic Blog Posts to Hacking, Internet Archive Responds - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:07:58] <exec> 08└─We don't need it exactly, we just prefer it that way. Saves wasted mental effort on social niceties that could be put to use on the issue at hand.
[01:07:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MSNBC Host Attributes Homophobic Blog Posts to Hacking, Internet Archive Responds - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:07:59] <exec> 08└─The teaching grandma to suck eggs part, yes? Because putting considerable research into lesbian mating practices is a well known hetero male pursuit. Granted, most of us aren't particular that the material we're reviewing be genuine. I've long since soured on most paid portrayals though.
[01:08:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MSNBC Host Attributes Homophobic Blog Posts to Hacking, Internet Archive Responds - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:08:01] <exec> 08└─1. This was a news host who was caught making up a fake story. What else has she been lying to you about? 2. The posts were not homophobic, but the news coverage is slanted pure bollocks to imply that they are a scandal. What's with these reporters? 3. She went out of her way to make up a bullshit s...
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[02:03:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Melbourne University Evacuated Due to Rotting Fruit - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:03:44] <exec> 08└─its odor is best described as…turpentine and onions, garnished with a gym sock. [smithsonianmag.com]
[02:03:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Huawei Working on its Own OS to Prepare for "Worst-Case Scenario" of Being Deprived of Android - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:03:55] <exec> 08└─Right up until the point where the other side starts to react. Then they aren't so easy to win. And also not so good - but we've digressed already. What were we saying again?
[02:04:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Military Develops Microwave Weapon - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:04:13] <exec> 08└─It beats the alternatives, which generally require ammo. Not that it wouldn't be hilarious to see them step on landmines, but that is messy and costly. (BOOM! Oh look, more burrito filling!)
[02:04:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Military Develops Microwave Weapon - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:04:14] <exec> 08└─Clearly these guys haven't realised it's a long way to the top.
[02:04:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Military Develops Microwave Weapon - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:04:17] <exec> 08└─Regardless, those warmongers are on a Highway to Hell.
[02:04:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Military Develops Microwave Weapon - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:04:19] <exec> 08└─Hell ain't a bad place to be but this could give them brain shake with a flick of the switch.
[02:05:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06South Korea to Remove Loudspeakers at Border - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:05:09] <exec> 08└─George Bush made a mistake. We can make mistakes, but that one was a beauty. We should have never been in Iraq. We have destabilized the Middle East. Big problems, don't "misunderestimate" how big.
[02:05:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06South Korea to Remove Loudspeakers at Border - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:05:10] <exec> 08└─They gave it to Obama because he's black, and reverse racism is "OK".
[02:05:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06South Korea to Remove Loudspeakers at Border - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:05:13] <exec> 08└─We could have ended the Cold War so much sooner. In a way that would be much better for the USSR. I had some terrific ideas about that. I invited Mikhail & Raisa to dinner at Trump Tower. And they were going to come. Supposedly, they were going to come. But they flaked. It was a DISASTER for their c...
[02:05:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Life in (Virtual) Pit Lane: The War Stories of Video Game Car Design - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:05:35] <exec> 08└─You can go back further if you include arcade games, Atari Hard Drivin' was true 3D with polygon graphics (about a thousand polys in the view window, I believe), a real physics model for the car and force-feedback on the steering that was coupled to the tire forces generated by the physics model. A...
[02:06:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Warning Signs for TSB's IT Meltdown were Clear a Year Ago - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:40] <exec> 08└─Because Banco Sabadell cares more about some EU regulations that it has yet to run afoul of in several other takeovers than the money it put in TSB? Their MO stretches back several takeovers and they started the conversion of TSB a year before Brexit. They were going to do this anyway. And by moving...
[02:08:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MSNBC Host Attributes Homophobic Blog Posts to Hacking, Internet Archive Responds - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:08:19] <exec> 08└─Two glasses of mead and a martini in me and I still know better than to trust your judgement about science.
[02:11:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft's Full Response to the Lundgren Counterfeiting Conviction - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:07] <exec> 08└─The ad hominem attack is unnecessary. Quoting the TechCrunch article linked in TFA, "Lundgren had already pleaded guilty to infringing Dell’s trademark by copying the look of its discs..." So I'm not too far off the mark there. If you want to make it about copyright, that's fine. It isn't a hard a...
[02:11:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft's Full Response to the Lundgren Counterfeiting Conviction - 887 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:08] <exec> 08└─I read the appeal brief and found an interesting bit on page 29. We've assumed here that the refurbisher is using the Dell disc to install this image back on a Dell PC. That apparently is not the case. The findings in the appeal document states that the "refurbishers" are peeling the certificate of...
[02:11:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Driver Banned for Riding in Passenger Seat While Using Tesla Autopilot Mode - 850 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:56] <exec> 08└─True. But if I crash my car 300-400 people won't crash with me as if it was a 747 -- also one can really wonder what all the pilots are doing in the cockpit. Some of it is clearly for show since it doesn't take 3 pilots to operate the plan, there is some massive backup and redundancy going on there...
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[03:03:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Melbourne University Evacuated Due to Rotting Fruit - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:03:45] <exec> 08└─Well, once they'd all left the building, it probably did smell better.
[03:03:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Melbourne University Evacuated Due to Rotting Fruit - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:03:46] <exec> 08└─Could have just said that they found durian in a cupboard, I dont think it makes much difference fresh or rotten as far as the smell goes.
[03:03:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Melbourne University Evacuated Due to Rotting Fruit - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:03:49] <exec> 08└─The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT, https://www.rmit.edu.au) [rmit.edu.au] is not to be confused with Melbourne University (https://www.unimelb.edu.au/).
[03:04:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Military Develops Microwave Weapon - 948 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:04:20] <exec> 08└─Have you ever been to the border? San Ysidro, or Laredo, or El Paso, or any of the other crossings have cities sitting on either side of the border. In many cases, a neighbor on one side of the border can throw a rock at his neighbor's house on the other side. Your idea might work out alright out in...
[03:04:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Military Develops Microwave Weapon - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:04:21] <exec> 08└─Get an old DishTV dish, tie it to the rear bumper pointed rearwards. Problem solved.
[03:04:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Military Develops Microwave Weapon - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:04:23] <exec> 08└─microwaves are already present in cities. https://markosun.files.wordpress.com [wordpress.com]
[03:04:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Military Develops Microwave Weapon - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:04:26] <exec> 08└─There are a lot of radio waves present in all cities. Weaponizing them isn't commonly approved of.
[03:04:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter Begins Mapping the Atmosphere of Mars - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:04:34] <exec> 08└─STEP OUTSIDE NEXT TIME.
[03:04:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter Begins Mapping the Atmosphere of Mars - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:04:36] <exec> 08└─Can we build a spacesuit that allows you to expose your bare ass on Mars? Temperatures on Mars can reach a comfortable 70°F, so there's only the low atmospheric pressure to worry about.
[03:05:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06South Korea to Remove Loudspeakers at Border - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:05:23] <exec> 08└─Up here in Canada, we're fighting Nestle trying to take fresh water from small towns (without a lot of money in the bank for lawsuits) for pennies.
[03:05:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06South Korea to Remove Loudspeakers at Border - 1306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:05:24] <exec> 08└─I'm with you on that. That mountain collapsing has scared North Korea. I can't say why - maybe it's something from Korean mythology. Or, maybe their scientists are scared shitless that they've left something out of Pandora's box. Or, maybe Kim woke up, and did some simple math: "We have x number of...
[03:05:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06South Korea to Remove Loudspeakers at Border - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:05:27] <exec> 08└─Water may be cheap if you have a helluva lot of clean water just lying around. But, we are busy poisoning the water in much of the world. It's time to look ahead, Canada. You need to protect your water rights. Just tell Nestle to get the hell out of the country!
[03:05:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06South Korea to Remove Loudspeakers at Border - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:05:29] <exec> 08└─Plausible. We're always testing, and that whole scenario could have been a test.
[03:05:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06South Korea to Remove Loudspeakers at Border - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:05:31] <exec> 08└─Water may be cheap if you have a helluva lot of clean water just lying around.
[03:05:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06South Korea to Remove Loudspeakers at Border - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:05:33] <exec> 08└─Trump has been using every carrot and stick on China. China now buys coal from the USA instead of North Korea, and is generally cooperating with the sanctions for the first time ever. Much of the influence came via Xi, but Xi didn't care until Trump insisted.
[03:05:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blue Origin Conducts its First Successful Suborbital Test Flight and Landing of 2018 - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:05:46] <exec> 08└─OK. Like I said in another post. Wake me when they can put something into orbit.
[03:05:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blue Origin Conducts its First Successful Suborbital Test Flight and Landing of 2018 - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:05:47] <exec> 08└─The BE-4 is one of the most powerful rocket engines ever built. They could stop pursuing rockets and just build engines, and they would still be a serious company.
[03:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Life in (Virtual) Pit Lane: The War Stories of Video Game Car Design - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:00] <exec> 08└─Or we would were our video card acceleration supported by Lunix, The Open Sores Operating System.
[03:08:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MSNBC Host Attributes Homophobic Blog Posts to Hacking, Internet Archive Responds - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:08:45] <exec> 08└─Yes, you should never trust someone's judgment on science when they base it something as foolish as following proper scientific method. By all means, review the results and attempt to reproduce or refute them.
[03:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA Cancels Lunar Rover - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:03] <exec> 08└─The problem is that they don't have a mission everyone can agree on like "Landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth". Space Shuttle, ISS, Venus colony, silly putty in space experiments, Mars colony, unmanned exploration, mars rover, Pluto probe, manned missions, Europa sub mari...
[03:11:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft's Full Response to the Lundgren Counterfeiting Conviction - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:38] <exec> 08└─Right. He admits to Trademark infringement. The labels are under Trademark. That has nothing to do with the contents of the discs. The contents are under Copyright. Not only that, the contents of the discs are licensed as to be freely available so he did nothing wrong except for all the malware. Wh...
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[04:03:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tekk [5704] 02 - 06Huawei Working on its Own OS to Prepare for "Worst-Case Scenario" of Being Deprived of Android - 454 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:03:56] <exec> 08└─I bought an Xperia X specifically to run Jolla's Sailfish OS. Real multitasking, pretty, and it's an actual Linux system (Wayland+Qt+glibc+busybox.) Runs smoothly, way lighter than Android, if you license it from Jolla you get android compatibility (I'm not sure how it works techically speaking, whe...
[04:04:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Huawei Working on its Own OS to Prepare for "Worst-Case Scenario" of Being Deprived of Android - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:04:01] <exec> 08└─Weird... The US "powers that be" are being idiots and forcing others to develop their own solutions?
[04:04:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Huawei Working on its Own OS to Prepare for "Worst-Case Scenario" of Being Deprived of Android - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:04:03] <exec> 08└─I don't like Huawei or ZTE and have never purchased their hardware, nor do I intend to anytime in the near future, but if the US wants to shoot itself in the foot by alienating everyone and everything on the planet, I say... good luck and good riddance!
[04:04:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06U.S. Military Develops Microwave Weapon - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:04:28] <exec> 08└─I dunno: they're a long time gone and as a matter of fact, and believe me now, they're caught in a trap. There's confusion and the destination's unknown, but Julie don't live here and I've stopped getting to the point.... ---Mr. Blue Sky
[04:05:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06South Korea to Remove Loudspeakers at Border - 499 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:05:03] <exec> 08└─Except really the prize for that should go to Gorbachev. Say whatever you will about Mikhail, but he had the guts to say "We're not playing anymore". The only reason he survived that decision was that his political enemies were magnanimous enough to allow him to live during the coups and counter-cou...
[04:05:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03EETech1 [957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Life in (Virtual) Pit Lane: The War Stories of Video Game Car Design - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:05:56] <exec> 08└─SuperTuxKart STK FTW!
[04:08:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MSNBC Host Attributes Homophobic Blog Posts to Hacking, Internet Archive Responds - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:08:43] <exec> 08└─If you want to understand lesbian lovemaking
[04:08:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MSNBC Host Attributes Homophobic Blog Posts to Hacking, Internet Archive Responds - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:08:44] <exec> 08└─Shag carpets should have been the sign for upcoming snowflake generation.
[04:08:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MSNBC Host Attributes Homophobic Blog Posts to Hacking, Internet Archive Responds - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:08:46] <exec> 08└─That's assuming you can recognize the scientific method if it bites your arse. From your posts, I'm convinced that's not the case.
[04:11:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft's Full Response to the Lundgren Counterfeiting Conviction - 1057 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:11:39] <exec> 08└─No, the problem is simpler than that. You need a license to do anything with software, including copying it and distributing it. Just because Microsoft made the software available to download and use for free does not mean Microsoft provided a license to allow others to copy the software or distribu...
[04:12:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Driver Banned for Riding in Passenger Seat While Using Tesla Autopilot Mode - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:28] <exec> 08└─Hey should be allowed to continue using the car, but forbidden from touching the controls at all. The problem will be solved the next time the car encounters a concrete barrier on the highway.
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[05:03:44] <exec> 08└─...
[05:03:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Uses Dashcam Footage to Prove His Innocence--Sort of - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:03:46] <exec> 08└─after 25-year-old Xavier Moran was involved in a crash on April 5, he told a sheriff's deputy he had been cut off by another driver and could prove it with his dashboard camera. He then signed a consent waiver to search the camera.
[05:04:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Melbourne University Evacuated Due to Rotting Fruit - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:04:02] <exec> 08└─You're so right, so right. Fake News BBC is pathetic. As everyone knows. But their headline is much better. Another story ruined by terrible SoylentNews editors!
[05:04:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Melbourne University Evacuated Due to Rotting Fruit - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:04:04] <exec> 08└─When Asia sends its fruit, they're not sending their best. They're sending fruit that has lots of problems. They're laughing at us, at our stupidity. And now they are beating us economically. They are not our friend, believe me. But they're killing us economically. The U.S. has become a dumping grou...
[05:04:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Melbourne University Evacuated Due to Rotting Fruit - 1269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:04:06] <exec> 08└─Some people are crazy about durians. I'm not. I thought I was indifferent, they have a nice taste underneath the stench, but the last one I had really did seem like rotted onions, turpentine, and gym socks. Once I visited a friend in a major city during a heatwave and she insisted on getting and sh...
[05:04:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Melbourne University Evacuated Due to Rotting Fruit - 731 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:04:08] <exec> 08└─A bit of trivia, I've grown up on Custard Apple or as we call it in Asia Soursop. Never heard of Cherimoya before until you mentioned it, apparently they are not the same fruit but are very similar (cousins?). Soursop is pretty common in Asia, even here in Australia I can get it readily during seaso...
[05:04:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Melbourne University Evacuated Due to Rotting Fruit - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:04:11] <exec> 08└─They're apparently close enough that I've confused them. I've had both custard apples and cherimoyas both fresh and shipped and just put the differences down to that, bad translations of names, and different farms. Bananas are like that, even discounting the many varieties. There are many varieties,...
[05:04:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03petecox [3228] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Melbourne University Evacuated Due to Rotting Fruit - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:04:13] <exec> 08└─Actually, the toffs insist on "University of Melbourne". But yeah, the story is about RMIT.
[05:04:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Huawei Working on its Own OS to Prepare for "Worst-Case Scenario" of Being Deprived of Android - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:04:26] <exec> 08└─I don't know about you but the Android operating system is a nasty beast. There may be room for another major mobile operating system. The question is would it get any traction?
[05:04:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Huawei Working on its Own OS to Prepare for "Worst-Case Scenario" of Being Deprived of Android - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:04:28] <exec> 08└─"The company hasn't released this OS because it isn't up to Android's level of quality and app support, the sources added." Wow. Android doesn't even ship with gcc or make, and this is even *worse?* I'm trying to imagine how that could be possible.
[05:04:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Huawei Working on its Own OS to Prepare for "Worst-Case Scenario" of Being Deprived of Android - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:04:30] <exec> 08└─It's pirated Win10 Phone, duhhhh
[05:04:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Military Develops Microwave Weapon - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:04:55] <exec> 08└─Even 35 years ago, the border was a disgusting place. Everything near it badly needed bulldozing. Things have only gotten worse. There should not be a city on our side. Eminent domain would take care of the houses. We need at least a couple miles of restricted federal land, with deadly force authori...
[05:05:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06South Korea to Remove Loudspeakers at Border - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:05:57] <exec> 08└─They gave it Obama for not being Bush. There was no other reason.
[05:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blue Origin Conducts its First Successful Suborbital Test Flight and Landing of 2018 - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:12] <exec> 08└─> You need to read about this stuff before you post bullshit. https://arstechnica.com [arstechnica.com] Yes, Glenn is serious, but Shepard is designed and marketed to be a millionaire's thrill ride.
[05:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MSNBC Host Attributes Homophobic Blog Posts to Hacking, Internet Archive Responds - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:15] <exec> 08└─Yeah, no surprise there. If you're straight or bisexual and you have a girlfriend/wife, I truly pity her. Because, and I'll let you have this one for free, lesbians do what straight men ought to be doing with their partners.
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[06:03:45] <exec> 08└─Thank you to the incredible Law Enforcement Officers from the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office. They keep us safe and are very cool about it! pic.twitter.com/NlhxpPwmzT [t.co]
[06:03:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Man Uses Dashcam Footage to Prove His Innocence--Sort of - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:03:46] <exec> 08└─President Clinton, Bill Clinton, is a great friend of mine. I'm not even sure that he shouldn't have just gone in and taken the Fifth Amendment.
[06:03:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Uses Dashcam Footage to Prove His Innocence--Sort of - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:03:49] <exec> 08└─Well, it's not like petty theft is the act of someone who thinks through the consequences and can weigh the merits and downsides of a plan well.
[06:03:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CRISPR Epigenetic Cholesterol Reduction in Mice - 1020 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:03:56] <exec> 08└─Some of these articles, it's like English is not their first language. Hard to understand. But I think they're saying it works on the bad cholesterol, the LDL. My bad cholesterol is a little high. It's not high. But it's almost high. I don't know why, I don’t think anybody knows. My doctors put me...
[06:04:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03petecox [3228] (Score: 1) 02 - 06University in Melbourne, Australia Evacuated Due to Rotting Fruit - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:04:13] <exec> 08└─The subheading 'evacuated from a university in Melbourne, Australia' is better. But I guess that matters not to anyone who has never set foot in Victoria.
[06:04:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University in Melbourne, Australia Evacuated Due to Rotting Fruit - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:04:14] <exec> 08└─Right, I stand corrected. Spot the guy who doesn't have a piece of paper from either of these fine institutions.
[06:04:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University in Melbourne, Australia Evacuated Due to Rotting Fruit - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:04:16] <exec> 08└─Changed, switched topic to dev/random.
[06:04:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University in Melbourne, Australia Evacuated Due to Rotting Fruit - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:04:18] <exec> 08└─Cheers mate :)
[06:05:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Military Develops Microwave Weapon - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:05:01] <exec> 08└─That's bringing me down. Don't! :)
[06:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06South Korea to Remove Loudspeakers at Border - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:04] <exec> 08└─Absolutely, I never forget the great help that my good friend, President Xi of China, has given to the United States, particularly at the Border of North Korea. Without him it would have been a much longer, tougher, process!
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[07:03:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disgraced Surgeon Paolo Macchiarini Publishes Another Stem Cell Paper - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:03:44] <exec> 08└─If so, please to tell me how IT engineers find jobs in England. I tried dice.co.uk but DICE Holdings is SOL because dice.co.uk is an actual dice manufacturer. "Dice" as in "Snakeyes!"
[07:03:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Uses Dashcam Footage to Prove His Innocence--Sort of - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:03:56] <exec> 08└─Not that we do "news for Nerds", but this sure ain't it. Are we saying that a dash-cam makes it tech? Fox News level article.
[07:04:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University in Melbourne, Australia Evacuated Due to Rotting Fruit - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:04:24] <exec> 08└─they have both fresh and frozen. Also from far east, ice creams and frozen pops. Still cannot get the nerve to try, but they are there in multiple forms.
[07:04:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Huawei Working on its Own OS to Prepare for "Worst-Case Scenario" of Being Deprived of Android - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:04:42] <exec> 08└─> What were we saying again? You may have blinked and skipped a news cycle. Mr. Zombie was sarcastically quoting some idiot. [twitter.com]
[07:05:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter Begins Mapping the Atmosphere of Mars - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:05:18] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the submission, but we could have passed on this comment.
[07:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MSNBC Host Attributes Homophobic Blog Posts to Hacking, Internet Archive Responds - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:32] <exec> 08└─You appear to misunderstand science
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[08:03:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disgraced Surgeon Paolo Macchiarini Publishes Another Stem Cell Paper - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:03:47] <exec> 08└─Journal and editor
[08:04:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Uses Dashcam Footage to Prove His Innocence--Sort of - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:04:00] <exec> 08└─But we sometimes do humour. True, this is not in the strict definition of STEM, but it is under the 'Random' topic. Smile and move on to the next story.
[08:04:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Huawei Working on its Own OS to Prepare for "Worst-Case Scenario" of Being Deprived of Android - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:04:46] <exec> 08└─Are you thinking of "WinCE?" Named after the facial expression of anyone trying to use it, no doubt.
[08:05:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Military Develops Microwave Weapon - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:05:14] <exec> 08└─It beats the alternatives, which generally require ammo.
[08:05:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Military Develops Microwave Weapon - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:05:16] <exec> 08└─You forgot to end your post with "Text TRUMP to 88022"...
[08:06:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06South Korea to Remove Loudspeakers at Border - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:21] <exec> 08└─Syria is but a giant weapons test lab, especially on the Russian side. They've tested pretty much all they have there. And everybody knows that a (post fact) public demo is a nice addition to any sales brochure.
[08:07:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Warning Signs for TSB's IT Meltdown were Clear a Year Ago - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:07:56] <exec> 08└─The American people chose me. To Make America Great Again!
[08:07:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Warning Signs for TSB's IT Meltdown were Clear a Year Ago - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:07:57] <exec> 08└─So no one managed to find out what TSB is? Is it like "KFC", which according to urban legend, is no longer an acronym, but the full name of the chain, and this change was caused by the fact that they are no longer legally allowed to call what they sell there "chicken". So what is a "TSB"?
[08:08:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Record Levels of Microplastics Found in Arctic Sea Ice - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:08:15] <exec> 08└─Your funky joke aside it's the observer effect you're after, where looking at something changes it. Uncertainly principle says we cannot measure for example both the location and speed of a particle accurately. Or some other similar connected pair of properties. Common mistake. Admittedly the quantu...
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[09:03:42] <exec> 08└─... he's sincerely convinced that he's helping the humanity, in spite of all that "benefited" of his help are dead. Principles, right? The way to greatness requires sacrifices, the tree of liberty requires patriots' blood and so on. Not much different from diehard puritans, Alt-Right, Libertarians,...
[09:03:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disgraced Surgeon Paolo Macchiarini Publishes Another Stem Cell Paper - 1032 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:03:51] <exec> 08└─Playing a bit the devil's advocate, his past research should not bear importance to the new one, unless the proved false research is the base premise of this new study. If past research is not used we are just committing ad-hominem fallacies. Imagine that he now is onto something. This would be impo...
[09:03:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disgraced Surgeon Paolo Macchiarini Publishes Another Stem Cell Paper - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:03:53] <exec> 08└─Two ideas should be separated: 1. Man does research, submits paper, paper, and, maybe, the research and its' outcomes, are assessed and then ,possibly, published 2. Man kills people. Here we have situation one. Situation two is more messy: were the people going to die anyway? Was the research proper...
[09:04:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University in Melbourne, Australia Evacuated Due to Rotting Fruit - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:04:34] <exec> 08└─I grew up in northern Australia (Charters Towers, Queensland), and the old man next door had a soursop tree, and we had a couple of custard apple trees. The custard apples are very sweet... like a baked apple with the creaminess of a very ripe banana, but soursops have the added dimension of acidity...
[09:04:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03MuadDib [4439] (Score: 1) 02 - 06University in Melbourne, Australia Evacuated Due to Rotting Fruit - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:04:35] <exec> 08└─Tell that to Western Sydney University...
[09:06:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bootsy [3440] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Life in (Virtual) Pit Lane: The War Stories of Video Game Car Design - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:56] <exec> 08└─The author then went onto write MicroProse's Formula One Grand Prix. I loved both that and Stunt Car racer, especially in Null Modem Link mode between two Amigas or STs or 1 of each.
[09:08:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bootsy [3440] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Warning Signs for TSB's IT Meltdown were Clear a Year Ago - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:08:04] <exec> 08└─I can count on one hand the amount of people the UK regulators have successfully prosecuted in the finance sector. The bank will definitely get a big juicy fine but prosecuting senior executives will be unlikely. These trials take years and always seem to collapse.
[09:08:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Warning Signs for TSB's IT Meltdown were Clear a Year Ago - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:08:05] <exec> 08└─The Shite-y Bustard?
[09:10:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$150,000 Worth of Ethereum Stolen Via Attack on BGP and DNS - 983 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:32] <exec> 08└─I don't know what you are doing on the web. For me, such a warning occurs maybe once a year, if even that often. In that case, I usually think of whether I'd accept the site being HTTP, and proceed accordingly: If I would be happy browsing the site with HTTP, I'm happy to temporarily accept the cert...
[09:11:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Museum Discovers Half of its Collection Are Fakes - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:11:54] <exec> 08└─No, I didn't say that modern art is not art, neither in my original post, nor in the reply. I said for modern art I'm not sure that fake art (i.e. "art" that is not really art) wouldn't make it into a museum. You really should work on your reading comprehension.
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[10:03:57] <exec> 08└─jobsite.co.uk Don't use cv-library.co.uk, they are shite
[10:04:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Uses Dashcam Footage to Prove His Innocence--Sort of - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:04:11] <exec> 08└─Allow me to put on my pendant's hat but shouldn't that be "burgling?" Or even bungling.
[10:04:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Uses Dashcam Footage to Prove His Innocence--Sort of - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:04:13] <exec> 08└─Unless you're swinging from a rope, that should be your pedant's hat.
[10:04:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University in Melbourne, Australia Evacuated Due to Rotting Fruit - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:04:43] <exec> 08└─The "meat" of the fruit can vary from mango like to really soft creamy like texture.
[10:05:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Military Develops Microwave Weapon - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:05:32] <exec> 08└─The issue is cost and possibly maintenance. Ammo costs money. Guns need frequent cleaning. Landmines need to be replaced. It mostly doesn't matter if the tool is lethal or not. It just needs to stop the invasion. Lethal causes debris (bodies), which can be a biohazard. On the other hand, lethal mean...
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[11:03:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Customer Takes Phone Company to Small Claims Court - WINS! - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:03:44] <exec> 08└─Here come da judge, here come da judge. Vellllly intelesting!
[11:03:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Customer Takes Phone Company to Small Claims Court - WINS! - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:03:45] <exec> 08└─So "One ring to bring them all" was just referring to a conference call?
[11:03:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Customer Takes Phone Company to Small Claims Court - WINS! - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:03:47] <exec> 08└─http://searchnut.com/?ncn=b6faa639c5f3b232f5ffa4bf88e80b201525171954&sb=1&pt=2&qs=&st=Here+come+da+judge%2C+here+come+da+judge.++Vellllly+intelesting%21 [searchnut.com]
[11:04:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Man Uses Dashcam Footage to Prove His Innocence--Sort of - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:04:20] <exec> 08└─Your understandarizing of the 'English-language-as-a-live-process' is sufferizing; the language is evolvarizing, mate, all the time! (grin)
[11:04:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Man Uses Dashcam Footage to Prove His Innocence--Sort of - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:04:21] <exec> 08└─ACs these day... Would they allow anyone to indulge in hatted pendantry?
[11:04:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Man Uses Dashcam Footage to Prove His Innocence--Sort of - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:04:23] <exec> 08└─Trans: U misunder lang ruls, its alwa evolving*
[11:04:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Uses Dashcam Footage to Prove His Innocence--Sort of - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:04:26] <exec> 08└─Yup...some people have their asses screwed on too tight! Time to laugh!
[11:05:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Military Develops Microwave Weapon - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:05:46] <exec> 08└─Aside from looking like a redneck luxury limousine, that won't work unless you have your own emitter at the focal point, and then they would just shoot lead at you for shooting microwaves at them. What you actually want is a three-sided right-angled corner reflector. These reflect anything that hits...
[11:05:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart [2844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Military Develops Microwave Weapon - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:05:47] <exec> 08└─That thing doesn't even need the battery or the alternator while the engine is running. Unfortunately, I don't own it anymore, but I'm sure it's still running somewhere.
[11:06:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06South Korea to Remove Loudspeakers at Border - 703 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:53] <exec> 08└─1. If the Korean War is finally over and the peninsula denuclearized, there ought to be a Nobel awarded to someone. If there isn't, people will want to know why. 2. Moon and Kim sorted this out between them. A joint award to the two of them (or, specifically, half an award to Kim) isn't going to go...
[11:06:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06South Korea to Remove Loudspeakers at Border - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:54] <exec> 08└─3 step Anti-Nestle Tactic for the Win 1/ Take a video of some guy(s) pissing in a water intake pipe with a Nestle Logo on it. 2/ Post it on Youtube/FaecesBook/Twatter/Whatever, link to a Nelson 'Ha-Ha' clip with a caption of "You drank my Piss!", and showing whatever water brands Nestle hides behind...
[11:08:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Warning Signs for TSB's IT Meltdown were Clear a Year Ago - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:08:34] <exec> 08└─I thought it might be viewed as a good example of why the UK is better out of the EU - to discourage foreign ownership. I don't suppose a group of Spanish bankers would love the British public any more from within the EU than from outside it. Anyway, I don't believe nationalities have anything to do...
[11:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MSNBC Host Attributes Homophobic Blog Posts to Hacking, Internet Archive Responds - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:22] <exec> 08└─This is most likely because you believe reality should or must conform to your preconceived beliefs. Reality doesn't work like that though. You are a very tiny and unimportant speck in it and it gives not a single fuck about your beliefs.
[11:10:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MSNBC Host Attributes Homophobic Blog Posts to Hacking, Internet Archive Responds - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:24] <exec> 08└─Hopefully, anyway. It's not really a complex notion. If you want repeat business, give good service.
[11:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MSNBC Host Attributes Homophobic Blog Posts to Hacking, Internet Archive Responds - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:26] <exec> 08└─Funny enough, I actually charge money for imparting my knowledge and it has helped men more than whatever confused lesbos have been peddling for decades. Anyway... bye bye.
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[12:03:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Reportedly Working on Combination VR-AR Headset - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:03:46] <exec> 08└─Damn, I was hoping the AR stood for ArmaLite Rifle.
[12:03:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Customer Takes Phone Company to Small Claims Court - WINS! - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:03:56] <exec> 08└─Trump isn’t what we need (neither was Hillary). It is more of this. Many fronts to go.
[12:03:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Customer Takes Phone Company to Small Claims Court - WINS! - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:03:58] <exec> 08└─Let me be the firs to say "Suck it Bell"!!
[12:07:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06South Korea to Remove Loudspeakers at Border - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:07:01] <exec> 08└─That's the plan, meatbag.
[12:07:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06South Korea to Remove Loudspeakers at Border - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:07:03] <exec> 08└─> Q: How do you get a dictator with nukes to back down and choose peace? A: you put loudspeakers at the border blasting K-Pop until they surrender. The nukes won't launch as they cannot stand K-Pop either.
[12:08:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Warning Signs for TSB's IT Meltdown were Clear a Year Ago - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:08:44] <exec> 08└─Serves me right for trying to enter a comment using a mobile phone! Thanks, too, for the kind use of humor to call it to my attention.
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[13:03:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Reportedly Working on Combination VR-AR Headset - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:03:49] <exec> 08└─Apple might "skip" entertainment-focused VR altogether in favor of approaching the lifestyle-focused AR technologies that put a digital layer between users and the real world.
[13:04:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Customer Takes Phone Company to Small Claims Court - WINS! - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:04:02] <exec> 08└─"Canadians pay among the highest prices of any country for what most people consider some of the worst service." Canadian verifies: 100% accurate
[13:04:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03terrab0t [4674] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Uses Dashcam Footage to Prove His Innocence--Sort of - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:04:40] <exec> 08└─I was thinking the same thing. I would consult my lawyer and submit only the relevant dash cam footage in court.
[13:04:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Uses Dashcam Footage to Prove His Innocence--Sort of - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:04:41] <exec> 08└─This is one for World's Dumbest Criminals. If he'd managed to kill himself somehow, he'd be a Darwin Award nominee.
[13:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MSNBC Host Attributes Homophobic Blog Posts to Hacking, Internet Archive Responds - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:42] <exec> 08└─I don't think it's gross, and just don't care, if I can't see it. It's when I have to see ugliness that I'm grossed out. Of course, that doesn't mean I advocate any restrictions on them; that's my issue, not theirs.
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[14:04:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Customer Takes Phone Company to Small Claims Court - WINS! - 899 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:04:03] <exec> 08└─It's actually quite easy to win in small claims. Most of the time, it's not worth paying a lawyer to even turn up to defend such claims. I'm not at all sure that it's precedent-setting, that takes a much bigger lawsuit, but it's certainly cheap for them to offer $300, $1000 and then pay $1,100 than...
[14:04:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Customer Takes Phone Company to Small Claims Court - WINS! - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:04:05] <exec> 08└─"Canadians pay among the highest prices of any country for what most people consider some of the worst service." Canadian verifies: 100% accurate A second Canadian seconds this statement. 100% accurate.
[14:04:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Customer Takes Phone Company to Small Claims Court - WINS! - 908 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:04:07] <exec> 08└─I may be projecting my own disdain for non-disclosure agreements - but it sounds like that NDA bullshit pissed this guy off as much as anything. "Sure, Mister, we'll pay you a thousand bucks, if you'll just agree to keep your mouth shut!" And, his answer was, "Take your agreement and shove it!" If s...
[14:05:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03iWantToKeepAnon [686] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Huawei Working on its Own OS to Prepare for "Worst-Case Scenario" of Being Deprived of Android - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:05:36] <exec> 08└─Vanilla Android is open source, so why not fork it and forget about a license? Of course they'd have to support the whole thing themselves, but they'd have to do that w/ a home grown os anyway. What's stopping them?
[14:07:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06South Korea to Remove Loudspeakers at Border - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:18] <exec> 08└─I thought his goals were: 1) Get more money for himself 2) Play golf. 3) Have a "comfortable" lifestyle and live to grope more pussy. So whoever makes him or his team a suitable plausible offer, he might take it. I doubt he cares that much about the details or what stuff like CAFE stands for, so oth...
[14:07:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06South Korea to Remove Loudspeakers at Border - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:20] <exec> 08└─I could throw AWESOME parties with those things. You wouldn't even have to come to my house to attend!
[14:07:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Life in (Virtual) Pit Lane: The War Stories of Video Game Car Design - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:51] <exec> 08└─glancing over your shoulder to check a blindspot
[14:10:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MSNBC Host Attributes Homophobic Blog Posts to Hacking, Internet Archive Responds - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:54] <exec> 08└─Nobody minds when the Jews do the same thing. Or the Greeks or the fill in the blanks. Well, whites aren't permitted to politically organize for their interests, but they're nearly the only group.
[14:10:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MSNBC Host Attributes Homophobic Blog Posts to Hacking, Internet Archive Responds - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:56] <exec> 08└─People who understand the science behind race and IQ disagree with you.
[14:11:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06$150,000 Worth of Ethereum Stolen Via Attack on BGP and DNS - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:37] <exec> 08└─> I didn't know that other CAs use similar mechanisms Think about it. There has to be a way to transfer domains to new, legitimate owners. There has to be a way to verify ownership in the first place. Maybe the WHOIS data has a working phone number - but what are the odds that goes to the person mak...
[14:11:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$150,000 Worth of Ethereum Stolen Via Attack on BGP and DNS - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:39] <exec> 08└─I don't know what you are doing on the web.
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[15:03:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:45] <exec> 08└─Set expiration dates for emails or revoke previously sent messages
[15:03:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:46] <exec> 08└─Set expiration dates for emails or revoke previously sent messages
[15:03:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03loonycyborg [6905] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:48] <exec> 08└─Also, nothing stops you from using a modified browser that doesn't honor any restrictions on copy/paste. Hopefully google will at least add an option to opt out of getting such emails in the first place, cause the whole idea is dumb.
[15:03:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:50] <exec> 08└─Google did so much for Crooked Hillary. With the very biased search. This very special EMAIL, it would have been great for her. Instead of the illegal server. Maybe it's something she asked for. I don't know. Maybe Anthony Wiener (also a Dem) asked for it. Folks, we're living in the Age of Social Me...
[15:03:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 1440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:53] <exec> 08└─Although there are a some legitimate uses for this (password reset emails, 2FA confirmations, opt-in confirmation emails, and - yes - time-limited marketing/promos, amonst others) it's mostly just fluff for PHBs who ought to know better. There are far too many ways of getting around this to make it...
[15:03:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:55] <exec> 08└─FTFY
[15:03:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:57] <exec> 08└─“If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."
[15:03:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:59] <exec> 08└─some legitimate uses for this (password reset emails, 2FA confirmations, opt-in confirmation emails
[15:04:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:02] <exec> 08└─Gmail the new pdf, but with tracking. Facebook have first and sell to highest bidder. Google, you know the electrons leak information?
[15:04:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:04] <exec> 08└─Set expiration dates for emails or revoke previously sent messages
[15:04:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06UC San Diego to Treat Autism Using Cannabidiol - 819 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:12] <exec> 08└─We've been treating some severe symptoms of ASD with Marinol (dronabinol) for a couple of years now. It's nothing like a cure for ASD, but it can help to defuse some of the more challenging situations with our 18 year old son. We tried it as a daily dose, that wasn't really helpful - set a new basel...
[15:04:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06Customer Takes Phone Company to Small Claims Court - WINS! - 72 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:27] <exec> 08└─So "One ring to bring them all" was just referring to a conference call?
[15:04:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Customer Takes Phone Company to Small Claims Court - WINS! - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:35] <exec> 08└─I've never left anything inside an orifice. But I wouldn't be where I am without nondisclosure agreements. Prenuptial agreements. And many other very smart contracts. So much in life is contracts. And winning a contract comes down to having the best lawyers. The smartest and most loyal. This guy got...
[15:04:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Customer Takes Phone Company to Small Claims Court - WINS! - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:38] <exec> 08└─Website failing very badly!!!
[15:04:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Customer Takes Phone Company to Small Claims Court - WINS! - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:40] <exec> 08└─I'm not at all sure that it's precedent-setting, that takes a much bigger lawsuit
[15:04:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Sold Data to Cambridge Analytica-Linked Company - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:49] <exec> 08└─When things like this go down, I often wonder if the scapegoat, in this case Cambridge Analytica, was formed solely for the purpose of being a scapegoat. May GoogTwitFace protect us from the evil influences of Emmanuel Goldstein!
[15:05:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disgraced Surgeon Paolo Macchiarini Publishes Another Stem Cell Paper - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:00] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkQG-O-8b90 [youtube.com] or https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] Heyyy Macchiarini!! Helifino what they're saying - looks like "Head bone connect to the neckbone, neckbone connect to the belly bone, connect to the assbone" or something like that.
[15:05:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Uses Dashcam Footage to Prove His Innocence--Sort of - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:24] <exec> 08└─Florida Man, Florida Man, does whatever Florida man can, buys an orange, saves it for later, goes to jail for fucking a gator, oh yeah look out for the Florida man... Florida man, Florida man, Does whatever a meth head can! https://thevalleyreport.com
[15:05:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Uses Dashcam Footage to Prove His Innocence--Sort of - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:25] <exec> 08└─And regularly doing more burglaries... Maybe you should STFU and go home. Otherwise if you're a productive member of society then you're fine.
[15:06:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Military Develops Microwave Weapon - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:48] <exec> 08└─Sure it will. The Sat dish should reflect most back, or at least scatter the MWs.
[15:06:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Military Develops Microwave Weapon - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:50] <exec> 08└─DUUUUUDE! I'm an American citizen. I go pretty much wherever I want to go. And, that includes the border! Some of the best food in the world is found within a couple miles of the border! How 'bout we just put the wall up. Twenty or thirty feet high, and fifty or sixty feet thick with paved surface o...
[15:06:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Military Develops Microwave Weapon - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:52] <exec> 08└─I want one. I'll use it to shut down the BMW drivers who are nearly always the most dangerous drivers on the road, cutting others off, tailgating, etc. Bonus points for a model that makes a cool and appropriate sound effect when firing, such as the Death Star vaporizing Alderaan or the Top Thrill Dr...
[15:08:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06South Korea to Remove Loudspeakers at Border - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:03] <exec> 08└─Citation needed. I do believe that China is moving away from coal, because the air quality sucks so badly. China needed coal to get started, but they really want to leave coal behind. And, they are regulating coal, to reduce the emissions/pollution. I won't go so far as to claim that we aren't selli...
[15:08:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Life in (Virtual) Pit Lane: The War Stories of Video Game Car Design - 2249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:35] <exec> 08└─I play Elite:Dangerous on a PS/4 mostly as an explorer sometimes other roles and there are several trivia points about space VR sims: 1) On the PS/4 HOTAS installation and configuration is a roughly 10 second task; on a PC you have more selection of possible controller devices than the single thrust...
[15:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Warning Signs for TSB's IT Meltdown were Clear a Year Ago - 2041 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:47] <exec> 08└─If enough banks failed to make FDIC implode, there wouldn't be enough economy or civilization remaining presumably as the cause, such that your guaranteed deposits would be worth anything. Sorta like it makes sense in a city sprawling enough to survive a 10 kiloton nuke (which wouldn't be very hard,...
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[16:03:50] <exec> 08└─Set expiration dates for emails or revoke previously sent messages
[16:03:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03zocalo [302] 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 1440 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:03:53] <exec> 08└─Although there are a some legitimate uses for this (password reset emails, 2FA confirmations, opt-in confirmation emails, and - yes - time-limited marketing/promos, amonst others) it's mostly just fluff for PHBs who ought to know better. There are far too many ways of getting around this to make it...
[16:03:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:00] <exec> 08└─Coming next: screen capture utilities banned from ChromeOS.
[16:04:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 778 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:02] <exec> 08└─This has little to no basis on actual privacy and appears all about forcing the last of their users off IMAPS or POP and onto their web-mail client. Once they do that, they have enough of the market that they can re-do the e-mail protocols to their heart's content and no one can push back either as...
[16:04:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 903 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:05] <exec> 08└─My optimistic rose colored glasses interpretation is based on my use of email like a TO DO list and emails (aka to do items) that self destruct when they're no longer useful mean less delete key hitting, which is pretty lame, but emails been around for decades so any attempt to improve is going to b...
[16:04:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 792 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:07] <exec> 08└─Google is usually pretty good about infinitely complicated email filtering rules, so I suspect it'll be pretty trivial to create a folder named "emails needing screenshots". Google might do stupid things, but they usually allow it to be automated pretty well. My main worry is the official Android ph...
[16:04:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:09] <exec> 08└─entirely locked into the Google ecosystem
[16:04:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:11] <exec> 08└─This sounds like a fantastic development, well worth registering a gmail account for. However I have a few questions first: 1 - What is the method of self-destruct? I'm assuming some kind of explosive, if so what is the yield? 2 - Is there any way to make sure that the target recipient is actually t...
[16:04:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:14] <exec> 08└─a false sense of security
[16:04:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:16] <exec> 08└─presumably require scripting be enabled to display the content and try to lock down screen captures, "Save As", etc. for good measure. Yeah, let's have another way to encourage users to click on dodgy links in legitimate looking but fake emails - and one that has time based pressure to respond immed...
[16:04:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:18] <exec> 08└─some kind of mandatory QR code scanner
[16:04:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:20] <exec> 08└─My wife uses her email like an infinite long historical archive
[16:04:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 1826 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:23] <exec> 08└─Scenario: A company ("Company") sends out an email with very specific details (an offer, a contract clause, a promise, etc). The email is "self-destructing". The offer/contract clause/promise is accepted by recipient. Thirty days later, the self-destructing email vanishes, along with recipient's pro...
[16:04:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:25] <exec> 08└─screen capture utilities banned from ChromeOS.
[16:04:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 734 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:27] <exec> 08└─Email should be append only. Just like server logs. Email users: * Say what you mean, and mean what you say. (Or as Jesus said: let your yes be yes, and your no be no; without needing to debate about what object you should swear by to validate your statement or "cross your fingers behind your back"....
[16:04:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:29] <exec> 08└─Penitent: Forgive me father for I have SEND. Priest: You mean you have sinned? Penitent: No! I mean I have SEND. I clicked Send on an email!!! Priest: Sending an email is nothing to worry about, dear child. Penitent: This was no ordinary email, father. Priest: I'm sure it'll be alright, dear one. Pe...
[16:04:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ledow [5567] 02 - 06Customer Takes Phone Company to Small Claims Court - WINS! - 899 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:56] <exec> 08└─It's actually quite easy to win in small claims. Most of the time, it's not worth paying a lawyer to even turn up to defend such claims. I'm not at all sure that it's precedent-setting, that takes a much bigger lawsuit, but it's certainly cheap for them to offer $300, $1000 and then pay $1,100 than...
[16:04:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Customer Takes Phone Company to Small Claims Court - WINS! - 908 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:58] <exec> 08└─I may be projecting my own disdain for non-disclosure agreements - but it sounds like that NDA bullshit pissed this guy off as much as anything. "Sure, Mister, we'll pay you a thousand bucks, if you'll just agree to keep your mouth shut!" And, his answer was, "Take your agreement and shove it!" If s...
[16:05:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Customer Takes Phone Company to Small Claims Court - WINS! - 3123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:03] <exec> 08└─It's just easier to not believe salesmen at all, and record conversations (where legal - in the UK, anyone can record any conversation that they are a party to, without consent or notification of the other parties, and I don't understand jurisdictions where that's not true). See how many of them wil...
[16:06:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03quacking duck [1395] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Huawei Working on its Own OS to Prepare for "Worst-Case Scenario" of Being Deprived of Android - 672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:35] <exec> 08└─You really have to wonder why big organizations come up with long names without ensuring their likely abbreviations don't have bad or unintended connotations... *especially* in the "native language" of the organization. Microsoft once released the Critical Update Notification Tool... I mean, serious...
[16:07:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03OrugTor [5147] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Military Develops Microwave Weapon - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:12] <exec> 08└─London has low rainfall. You're thinking of Manchester.
[16:07:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter Begins Mapping the Atmosphere of Mars - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:22] <exec> 08└─The presence of methane in the Martian atmosphere has been tantalizing for a while. It doesn't persist on its own, so it has to be constantly replenished by some process. A geological source would be exciting, because it would mean there is more dynamism present on that world than previously known,...
[16:08:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blue Origin Conducts its First Successful Suborbital Test Flight and Landing of 2018 - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:41] <exec> 08└─I think the millionaire thrill ride formed my perceptions early on. Especially in light of SpaceX successes during the same time. My perception was also colored by the bragging about "firsts" while SpaceX actually did some of those "firsts" without realizing they needed to make a big deal of it. But...
[16:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DavePolaschek [6129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06T-Mobile and Sprint to Attempt Merger - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:26] <exec> 08└─T-Mo's gotten a lot better. Used to be driving I-80 from the Mississippi to Reno you'd be mostly without signal. Now you even get data most of that way, and US 40 and US 50 have coverage much of the way. They've really filled in the gaps in the west in the past two years.
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[17:03:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook is Trying to Block Schrems II Privacy Referral to EU Top Court - 1590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:41] <exec> 08└─He was kind. One might even say that he was too kind. The man, Johnsonham, was so kind that others would often pity him for allowing others to take advantage of his kindness. This magnanimous man now had an uncharacteristic frown on his face, having just witnessed a travesty. Yes, it was truly horri...
[17:03:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook is Trying to Block Schrems II Privacy Referral to EU Top Court - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:43] <exec> 08└─This is Schrems' project: https://www.fbclaim.com [fbclaim.com]
[17:04:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:14] <exec> 08└─Your browser might not get the message in text format. It could be pixels. I don't know if it is, but just saying. Of course, you can copy/paste pixels. Take screenshots. Take pictures with a camera that is NOT connected to Google. Imagine if Google were to recognize that you used a Google device (e...
[17:04:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:16] <exec> 08└─It's not just the big red G. Apple loyalists cannot see that from the outside, their "walled garden" looks to everyone else like a prison camp. Complete with barbed wire and machine gun emplacements. Deliberately incompatible with everything else, except when it is directly in Apple's interest, or n...
[17:04:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:18] <exec> 08└─least locked-in feeling service
[17:04:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 850 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:20] <exec> 08└─Obviously none of you who've posted by now have bothered to read past the headline or through the summary, much less RTFA. This is for "Enterprise" users and confidential mode has to be switched on. It is not baked into every g-mail account. Google does a lot of stuff that annoys the hell in me, lik...
[17:04:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:22] <exec> 08└─I presently have 2204 unread messages in Gmail Oooh... that would make me super anxious as a "to do" email operator, perhaps there's 2203 emails that don't matter and one "you seem to have forgotten your electric bill is due today" email and I'd be pretty nervous I'd miss that similar rare important...
[17:04:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:25] <exec> 08└─Deer user: Due to resent puspicious activily on you're account is now being suspendid. Be pleasing to click the following link to reactivate you're account.
[17:04:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:27] <exec> 08└─I was so chill and buzzed I didn't even close my quote tag, huh... F I just got an email from Digikey they're now selling 750 watt RF transistors for 900 MHz ISM apps (or ham apps for me, I guess), clicked thru, damn $315.89 each, I'll get back to you boys on that later, hit delete, ahh, back to inb...
[17:04:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 821 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:29] <exec> 08└─Agreed. We already have a way of handling this kind of problem: you email a link to a time-limited web page... which, as you say, is exactly what password reset links do. There is zero value in pretending that my email client works for the sender. It doesn't, it works for me. If it doesn't, it's bec...
[17:04:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:31] <exec> 08└─My main worry is the official Android phone app will probably have some kind of mandatory QR code scanner to prevent me from holding my phone up to my laptop and snapping a pix
[17:04:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 757 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:34] <exec> 08└─Fair points, but they're still encouraging 'enterprise' users to think that they can send a document and later withdraw access. If the recipient isn't trusted, it solves nothing, but possibly gives the sender a dangerous false sense of security. If the recipient is trusted, what's the point? The cor...
[17:04:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:36] <exec> 08└─The lock-in may be just as real with Gmail, but, as the least locked-in feeling service, they have won my loyalty.
[17:04:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UC San Diego to Treat Autism Using Cannabidiol - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:45] <exec> 08└─I can understand treating severe cases. If you have a touch of autism or aspergers or something like that, and are high functioning, well, guess what? People pay good money for the things you can hyper-focus on! Being good at social interaction isn't everything. But don't eat your coworkers.
[17:05:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Customer Takes Phone Company to Small Claims Court - WINS! - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:12] <exec> 08└─The only thing failing around here is you. The website works for me. Sounds like a PEBKAC issue. Error code id ten tee.
[17:05:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Customer Takes Phone Company to Small Claims Court - WINS! - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:14] <exec> 08└─One ring to bring them all . . . and in the ARBITRATION bind them. what about binding arbitration?
[17:05:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Customer Takes Phone Company to Small Claims Court - WINS! - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:16] <exec> 08└─THIS! That right there! That is why we need to Make America Great Again! Nobody should be able to out-do America. Not even Canada. Get on the ball Comcast! Just because you have won numerous awards as "Most Hated Company in America" doesn't mean your job is finished. When people need help with their...
[17:05:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Man Uses Dashcam Footage to Prove His Innocence--Sort of - 69 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:50] <exec> 08└─Unless you're swinging from a rope, that should be your pedant's hat.
[17:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Uses Dashcam Footage to Prove His Innocence--Sort of - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:01] <exec> 08└─I really don't see much of a problem here. 1. Don't mindlessly consent to search if you do stupid shit 2. Justice was served. He was exonerated of the accident using the dash cam footage and arrested for burgling.
[17:06:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University in Melbourne, Australia Evacuated Due to Rotting Fruit - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:33] <exec> 08└─I'll file this one away for something to give my colleagues after I move on. Who doesn't enjoy finding a durian that's been hidden in a cabinet for a month? Actually, most people haven't had the opportunity to decide if they enjoy it; that experience will be my gift.
[17:07:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Military Develops Microwave Weapon - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:31] <exec> 08└─The satellite dish will reflect it, but not 'back'. It will be reflected toward the focal point (assuming the axis of the dish is aligned with the emitter). Once the reflected energy passes through the focal point, it will continue outward in a wide conical pattern.
[17:12:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MSNBC Host Attributes Homophobic Blog Posts to Hacking, Internet Archive Responds - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:23] <exec> 08└─Now repeat this to yourself every morning for the rest of your life
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[18:03:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Judge says CIA Emails to Journalists Don't Have to be Released to Public - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:44] <exec> 08└─N/T
[18:03:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge says CIA Emails to Journalists Don't Have to be Released to Public - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:45] <exec> 08└─Maybe the journalists should publish this information in full when they receive it.
[18:03:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge says CIA Emails to Journalists Don't Have to be Released to Public - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:47] <exec> 08└─sad.
[18:04:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03whatevs [6011] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 758 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:38] <exec> 08└─> Guess I'll be switching to ProtonMail for my webmail needs, which, granted, are few. ProtonMail supports the message expiration and password encryption, but I dont think it supports that last and most objectionable feature of restriction mentioned. The real benefit of switching to ProtonMail is ha...
[18:04:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:39] <exec> 08└─There's a sliding scale: company e-mail for least juicy dishes, company chat or phone system might carry 1 degree warmer topics, outside company e-mail through company servers +2 degrees, outside company e-mail through home servers +3, private phone to private phone SMS +4, face-to-face in closed of...
[18:04:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:41] <exec> 08└─give your loyalty to google
[18:04:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:44] <exec> 08└─Oh? How many times a week do you masturbate then? To the nearest eighth inch or millimeter, how small is your penis? Please include links to every picture you've ever been in that involved nudity. And those are just the lowest hanging fruit.
[18:04:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:46] <exec> 08└─I generally remember some kind of "seen it before" subject line, and then scan forward from there, opening anything interesting along the way. It used to be that I would scan forward from the last e-mail I opened and if none were interesting I'd open the newest one just to mark it read, but Gmail st...
[18:04:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:48] <exec> 08└─I was thinking more along the lines of nobody I currently interact email-wise with uses Proton Mail, so them trying to send a self-destructing email is not an issue.
[18:04:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 2587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:50] <exec> 08└─Well, I'm not claiming it exists, but it certainly could. Interesting theory, congress passes a law that its illegal to take a picture of a QR code containing the QR encoded text "Per federal law its illegal to take a picture of this". Plus or minus its illegal to post pix containing that QR code on...
[18:04:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:52] <exec> 08└─Add together all the numbers for Anonymous Coward or average? If they don't specify, we might not be able to tell the difference?
[18:04:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:55] <exec> 08└─still encouraging 'enterprise' users to think that they can send a document and later withdraw access.
[18:04:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:57] <exec> 08└─Well... thats a valid and workable algorithm. But there's a difference between a workable algorithm, and inbox-zero levels of chill that are so chill I don't need legalized marijuana, I just need an empty inbox. Beyond it merely working, is it fun? With a side dish of I hate seeing a "todo" item sit...
[18:05:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UC San Diego to Treat Autism Using Cannabidiol - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:05:07] <exec> 08└─after removing weed from schedule 1, we need to arrest all the scum that have been persecuting people under unconstitutional drug laws, including the whores in the legislatures. These pieces of shit have been allowed to destroy the country for far too long.
[18:05:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Customer Takes Phone Company to Small Claims Court - WINS! - 691 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:05:37] <exec> 08└─So skip the middle-man entirely and ask for the paper, or just book it on the website like anyone would do if the salesman HADN'T knocked on the door at all. Two problems. The first is that it is literally impossible to figure out exactly what you're buying, and what you're paying for via the wirele...
[18:05:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disgraced Surgeon Paolo Macchiarini Publishes Another Stem Cell Paper - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:05:58] <exec> 08└─May I bear your firstborn?
[18:06:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Man Uses Dashcam Footage to Prove His Innocence--Sort of - 3 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:05] <exec> 08└─...
[18:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Uses Dashcam Footage to Prove His Innocence--Sort of - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:24] <exec> 08└─Very evolv! Much impress! Wow!
[18:06:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03AssCork [6255] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Uses Dashcam Footage to Prove His Innocence--Sort of - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:26] <exec> 08└─Florida Man, Florida Man, does whatever Florida man can, buys an orange, saves it for later, goes to jail for fucking a gator, oh yeah look out for the Florida man... Florida man, Florida man, Does whatever a meth head can!
[18:07:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Huawei Working on its Own OS to Prepare for "Worst-Case Scenario" of Being Deprived of Android - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:19] <exec> 08└─I am confused too. Android is FOSS, so it's not like the US can do anything to stop Huawei, at least not without setting groundbreaking precedents (what's to stop the US from banning export of Linux then?)
[18:07:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Military Develops Microwave Weapon - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:58] <exec> 08└─a cool and appropriate sound effect when firing
[18:08:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter Begins Mapping the Atmosphere of Mars - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:09] <exec> 08└─Might help, if you're ever stranded with someone like Fred Z. Randall.
[18:08:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stretch611 [6199] 02 - 06South Korea to Remove Loudspeakers at Border - 515 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:46] <exec> 08└─Our current president has been quite competent... Is just that you have to recognize his goals. Give the Rich and Powerful tax breaks... [CHECK] Remove any type of oversight and accountability to banks and payday lenders. [CHECK] Roll back CAFE standards for automobiles. [CHECK] Remove scientific ev...
[18:09:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06South Korea to Remove Loudspeakers at Border - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:14] <exec> 08└─3. Giving Trump the award avoids any embarrassment, though the world knows he didn't really have anything to do with it.
[18:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06South Korea to Remove Loudspeakers at Border - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:15] <exec> 08└─George Bush made a mistake. We can make mistakes, but that one was a beauty. We should have never been in Iraq. Why are you surrounding yourself with people who are in favor of the Iraq war, then?
[18:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06South Korea to Remove Loudspeakers at Border - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:17] <exec> 08└─Q: How do you get a dictator with nukes to back down and choose peace? Allow him to accidentally blow up his own nuke facility and then he will pretend to be disarming on purpose.
[18:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Life in (Virtual) Pit Lane: The War Stories of Video Game Car Design - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:51] <exec> 08└─you'll never play spaceEngine using linux/vive hardware because spaceEngine is closed source PC only no mac no linux.
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[19:03:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video Game Loot Boxes are now Considered Criminal Gambling in Belgium - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:41] <exec> 08└─We deeply apologize for using that word outside of a serious screenplay.
[19:03:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge says CIA Emails to Journalists Don't Have to be Released to Public - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:51] <exec> 08└─Maybe the CIA should not be sending classified information to journalists. Fun fact: Journalists are in the business if publishing things and disseminating them widely and in perpetuity. (yes, really!) If you send classified information to journalists, then it should be considered to have been relea...
[19:03:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge says CIA Emails to Journalists Don't Have to be Released to Public - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:53] <exec> 08└─Odd - that's what I would expect a journalist to do. Why would an actual journalist NOT publish exclusive information? Is the CIA in the business of divulging super top secret information that can't be released to very special journalists who won't publish?
[19:03:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge says CIA Emails to Journalists Don't Have to be Released to Public - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:55] <exec> 08└─I know such a radical concept will require much debate, consideration, deliberation, careful analysis, extreme scrutiny, due care an careful review.
[19:03:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge says CIA Emails to Journalists Don't Have to be Released to Public - 1082 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:57] <exec> 08└─Yes. Sad. Truly Terrible! These Fake Judges were bowing to pressure from Fake News who wanted exclusivity to publish these classified materials. Anyone receiving classified materials, whether they are aware of it or not, should be waterboarded. But not the senders of such materials. Our beloved CIA,...
[19:03:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge says CIA Emails to Journalists Don't Have to be Released to Public - 689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:00] <exec> 08└─Unless said journalist has a security clearance and it is provided under that classification and transmitted in the same method all other such material of that clearance is, and with the understanding it remains under the protection of that classification. (In which case, why did the journalist need...
[19:04:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03canopic jug [3949] 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 778 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:25] <exec> 08└─This has little to no basis on actual privacy and appears all about forcing the last of their users off IMAPS or POP and onto their web-mail client. Once they do that, they have enough of the market that they can re-do the e-mail protocols to their heart's content and no one can push back either as...
[19:05:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:00] <exec> 08└─In the 1990s, Apple's tablet computers weren't called iPad; they were called Newton [wikipedia.org]. They didn't work with iTunes; they worked with the Names and Dates software, which did have Windows versions just as you say.
[19:05:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 922 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:01] <exec> 08└─Except your company, who will most likely fire/sue you for willfully violating the GDPR. Nothing is stopping anyone from taking photos of confidential documents, or someone's health records either (employees have "temporary" access to user data which expires when they leave the company). Except, you...
[19:05:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:04] <exec> 08└─So, I'd already ruled out swapping to gmail from my current provider. (And I've decided that my current provider has to go after 22 years of being a paying customer.) But if I hadn't already ruled that out, now as I shop around for an email provider it has to be one that won't respect this. You send...
[19:05:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:06] <exec> 08└─Oh, the difference one letter makes. I meant to say iPod.
[19:05:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UC San Diego to Treat Autism Using Cannabidiol - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:17] <exec> 08└─That's fine, because you like to talk all about action but will just end up getting high and doing jack shit as usual.
[19:05:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UC San Diego to Treat Autism Using Cannabidiol - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:19] <exec> 08└─we need to arrest all the scum that have been persecuting people under unconstitutional drug laws, including the whores in the legislatures. These pieces of shit have been allowed to destroy the country for far too long.
[19:05:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Reportedly Working on Combination VR-AR Headset - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:29] <exec> 08└─There's already a game or two about that. That would be some crazy VR experience, though.
[19:05:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Customer Takes Phone Company to Small Claims Court - WINS! - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:52] <exec> 08└─I don't know. An appeal from a small claims court sounds rather unlikely, and the appellate court needs to agree to accept the case. I don't think they're required to take the case.
[19:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03schad [2398] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Sold Data to Cambridge Analytica-Linked Company - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:01] <exec> 08└─For real. Why the fixation on Cambridge Analytica? This is the entire business model of Facebook and Twitter. Do people only get upset when the data's going to benefit the Trump campaign, but not when it's being used in an attempt to dupe you into buying junk food or whatever?
[19:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disgraced Surgeon Paolo Macchiarini Publishes Another Stem Cell Paper - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:15] <exec> 08└─https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/15524981/homepage/productinformation.html [wiley.com] Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part B: Applied Biomaterials Society For Biomaterials https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com [wiley.com] Editor Jere...
[19:06:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03janrinok [52] 02 - 06Man Uses Dashcam Footage to Prove His Innocence--Sort of - 152 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:28] <exec> 08└─But we sometimes do humour. True, this is not in the strict definition of STEM, but it is under the 'Random' topic. Smile and move on to the next story.
[19:06:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Uses Dashcam Footage to Prove His Innocence--Sort of - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:44] <exec> 08└─I would consult my lawyer and submit only the relevant dash cam footage in court.
[19:07:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University in Melbourne, Australia Evacuated Due to Rotting Fruit - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:17] <exec> 08└─You figure right. I like food that smells good. Durian is pretty much the opposite of that. Some people claim to love it, but I think it's more like coffee. An acquired taste.
[19:07:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Huawei Working on its Own OS to Prepare for "Worst-Case Scenario" of Being Deprived of Android - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:39] <exec> 08└─Hell yeah Trade Wars [wikipedia.org] is a good thing.
[19:07:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Huawei Working on its Own OS to Prepare for "Worst-Case Scenario" of Being Deprived of Android - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:41] <exec> 08└─"I mean, seriously?" Well they had to release her. Continuing to keep her chained in the basement wasn't going to end well. "so of course they became known as CRAP even after they quickly changed the official name." Wouldn't that be CCRAP though? C-CRAP? CANADIAN CRAP. I can't imagine why they weren...
[19:07:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Huawei Working on its Own OS to Prepare for "Worst-Case Scenario" of Being Deprived of Android - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:43] <exec> 08└─Linux was originated and developed by a Finn. The beauty of Open Source is that it's out there for everyone. Someone decides to stop developing X and market paid version Y? Just, fork the original. Sure, the US could do something Really stupid and try to block freely available software, but again th...
[19:08:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Military Develops Microwave Weapon - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:22] <exec> 08└─Define "Low Rainfall". According to http://www.holiday-weather.com [holiday-weather.com] They average 13+ days of rain during the summer and even more the rest of the year. Sure, Manchester seems to be averaging 20+ days every month, but that doesn't mean London has "low rainfall"....
[19:08:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Military Develops Microwave Weapon - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:24] <exec> 08└─Just think about it like this. That person driving the BMW who is driving like a crazy person, will save maybe 10 seconds on his commute. That's assuming he doesn't cause a wreck or get stopped by a cop. Sure, going 100+ mph in the desert with no one around for 100+ miles will save you quite some ti...
[19:08:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter Begins Mapping the Atmosphere of Mars - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:36] <exec> 08└─*passed gas
[19:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06South Korea to Remove Loudspeakers at Border - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:44] <exec> 08└─realDonaldTrump writes:
[19:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06South Korea to Remove Loudspeakers at Border - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:45] <exec> 08└─not yet stained with any especially egregious badness
[19:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06South Korea to Remove Loudspeakers at Border - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:47] <exec> 08└─You underestimate women. God formed woman from Adam's rib, and there's been no peace since.
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[20:03:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video Game Loot Boxes are now Considered Criminal Gambling in Belgium - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:53] <exec> 08└─The one for which they can be granted an award, the Rory [wikia.com], for using gratuitously but only in a Serious Screenplay. Although I don't see that word here. Time to go off and assemble a key if I can. Now where did I put that Silver Bail?
[20:03:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video Game Loot Boxes are now Considered Criminal Gambling in Belgium - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:54] <exec> 08└─I didn't know which word either - but not being a gamer I decided that TMB probably has much more knowledge than I do on the subject so I let it pass. Perhaps you have to be a very enthusiastic gamer to be 'in the know'. Well, that rules me out then.....
[20:03:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03arcz [4501] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video Game Loot Boxes are now Considered Criminal Gambling in Belgium - 730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:57] <exec> 08└─This is stupid. Gambling should require you to get some kind of reward. In Overwatch you get "loot boxes" and last time I played it, those weren't tradable. :/ Is every random drop "gambling" when you pay for the game? Even CS:GO crates which give tradable items shouldn't be regulated under gambling...
[20:03:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video Game Loot Boxes are now Considered Criminal Gambling in Belgium - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:59] <exec> 08└─I'm an enthusiastic gamer and I don't know which word either. I blame Janrinok
[20:04:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Video Game Loot Boxes are now Considered Criminal Gambling in Belgium - 833 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:01] <exec> 08└─"Before picking up this crate, you agree you do not live in Denmark". Problem solved. In fact, I'm updating all my legal agreements for all my products with the statement "You agree to and accept full responsibility for following the laws of the planet, nation, state, county, city, town, and any oth...
[20:04:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video Game Loot Boxes are now Considered Criminal Gambling in Belgium - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:03] <exec> 08└─a bet can lead to profit or loss and chance has a role in the game
[20:04:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video Game Loot Boxes are now Considered Criminal Gambling in Belgium - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:06] <exec> 08└─"You agree to and accept full responsibility for following the laws of the planet, nation, state, county, city, town, and any other subdivision a bunch of politicians can think up and agree to hold us harmless."
[20:04:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Video Game Loot Boxes are now Considered Criminal Gambling in Belgium - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:08] <exec> 08└─That legaleze said nothing about getting away with stuff based on ping times. That legaleze said nothing about getting away with stuff because you were on a different planet.
[20:04:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge says CIA Emails to Journalists Don't Have to be Released to Public - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:22] <exec> 08└─From TFA: “My sense of what happens in these situations is that the reporters initiate the contact with CIA having already learned some classified information and then are coming to the agency to comment or (offer an) explanation,” Aftergood said.
[20:04:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 319 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:53] <exec> 08└─This sounds like a fantastic development, well worth registering a gmail account for. However I have a few questions first: 1 - What is the method of self-destruct? I'm assuming some kind of explosive, if so what is the yield? 2 - Is there any way to make sure that the target recipient is actually t...
[20:05:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:28] <exec> 08└─Yep, and if they're doing to Enterprise customers, they CAN roll it out to everybody. And will when it is profitable for them to do so. Time to stop this before then as it has implications for everyone else. (Though now that I think about it I think Exchange has a similar setting to allow mail recal...
[20:05:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:29] <exec> 08└─Have you ever used an apple product? Fairly standard product and works with anything you want to throw at it. Where, exactly, is this "walled garden"? OS X - based on BSD, can compile a bunch of gnu sources to run. Not as proprietary as you state.
[20:05:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:32] <exec> 08└─That anti-copy feature exists and pre-dates widespread use of QR-codes: EURion constellation [wikipedia.org]. There is also commercially available anti-copy paper, which uses the Eurion constellation and other techniques: CopyproofTM [copyproof.eu]. I have no connection with the vendor. I would not...
[20:05:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 898 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:34] <exec> 08└─My work inbox is currently at 29 unread, and I know that 29 were not really important - just something I thought I might want to circle back to someday. Then, there are 8 pinned (a MS Office thing), they are usually about future events that I'm too lazy to try to fit into a calendar item. Then there...
[20:05:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 700 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:36] <exec> 08└─The whole thing is fucking ludicrous. Only if both parties, sender and receiver, are locked into the Google ecosystem with Google apps, does this even have a chance of working. Email is Sender -> Sender Mail Server -> Receiving Mail Server -> Recipient. Google at most controls half of it in most sit...
[20:05:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:38] <exec> 08└─From what I read and the language used in the summary, these features are for all Gmail users, not just enterprise. They aren't too bad, but they could definitely give users a false sense of security. A real secure use of Gmail would involve the user encrypting messages with a private key not stored...
[20:05:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:40] <exec> 08└─Deer user
[20:05:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 997 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:43] <exec> 08└─-->"still encouraging 'enterprise' users to think that they can send a document and later withdraw access." ->"As the admin of a paid gmail enterprise account, yes we can certainly do that easily at the account level." I do understand what you're saying, but you've basically placed it all on that la...
[20:05:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UC San Diego to Treat Autism Using Cannabidiol - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:54] <exec> 08└─Right after we nab the war criminals and other violators of civil liberties, including FBI/NSA/CIA agents, local cops, etc. Face it, history is written and performed by the winners and you aren't one. Even if you formed a concrete plan to forcefully impose your will on said "whores", you would have...
[20:06:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Twitter Sold Data to Cambridge Analytica-Linked Company - 1186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:37] <exec> 08└─wswswswswswsws provides a possible answer. Behind the Facebook data scandal: The drive to censor the Internet [wsws.org] (March 23rd, 2018): The harvesting of the personal information of some 50 million Facebook users by Cambridge Analytica raises serious privacy concerns. But the media firestorm sp...
[20:06:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Twitter Sold Data to Cambridge Analytica-Linked Company - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:38] <exec> 08└─Oh, more links from wswsws wrt election interference using the cyber. How Google, Facebook and Twitter are manipulating the Mexican presidential elections—Part 1 [wsws.org] and Part 2 [wsws.org].
[20:08:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06U.S. Military Develops Microwave Weapon - 59 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:31] <exec> 08└─Sounds likethere will be a market for old Mercedes diesels.
[20:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06South Korea to Remove Loudspeakers at Border - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:19] <exec> 08└─George Bush made a mistake. We can make mistakes
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[21:03:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Comcast Won’t Give New Speed Boost to Internet Users Who Don’t Buy TV Service - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:43] <exec> 08└─Manipulating customers is not a good idea, but hey they're obviously getting desperate. As usual the dinosaurs would rather loudly stomp around than evolve with the times.
[21:03:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03arcz [4501] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comcast Won’t Give New Speed Boost to Internet Users Who Don’t Buy TV Service - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:44] <exec> 08└─This is just a reflection of the dropping value of TV. For example: 50Mb/s + TV = $100 50Mb/s = $50 100Mb/s = $70 So here, the TV was worth $50. Now what happens if the value of "TV" drops from $50 to $30? Comcast can either reduce the customer's monthly bill to stay competitive, or provide faster...
[21:03:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Comcast Won’t Give New Speed Boost to Internet Users Who Don’t Buy TV Service - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:46] <exec> 08└─Manipulating customers is essentially their business model. Well, that and defacto monopolies.
[21:03:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comcast Won’t Give New Speed Boost to Internet Users Who Don’t Buy TV Service - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:49] <exec> 08└─What happens when people get all of their TV from a combination of free YouTube, Kodi, and torrents? The value of "TV" drops right down to zero. The cost of Internet probably goes up, unless some competition takes place (I'll use the Musky Starlink when it becomes available).
[21:03:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Comcast Won’t Give New Speed Boost to Internet Users Who Don’t Buy TV Service - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:51] <exec> 08└─I'd have expected them to require "triple-pay", ie. add a landline spam wire, to get competitive data speeds.
[21:03:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comcast Won’t Give New Speed Boost to Internet Users Who Don’t Buy TV Service - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:53] <exec> 08└─This is just the sort of anti-consumer behavior that might convince even Texas that they should aggressively regulate the likes of Comcast.
[21:04:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03arcz [4501] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video Game Loot Boxes are now Considered Criminal Gambling in Belgium - 3082 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:09] <exec> 08└─To clarify: Any time you give players random skins for a given price, even if you have the exact same chance of getting every skin, some will be more valuable than others simply because players like particular looks better. The only way you can fix that is to either: A) ban trading items, B) ban t...
[21:04:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video Game Loot Boxes are now Considered Criminal Gambling in Belgium - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:10] <exec> 08└─And with Towel Day [wikipedia.org] so close no less. Tsk Tsk!
[21:04:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Video Game Loot Boxes are now Considered Criminal Gambling in Belgium - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:12] <exec> 08└─Not bad content. Please fix your Enter key.
[21:04:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03arcz [4501] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video Game Loot Boxes are now Considered Criminal Gambling in Belgium - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:15] <exec> 08└─I did hit enter, I forget to switch to "plain old text" though.
[21:04:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video Game Loot Boxes are now Considered Criminal Gambling in Belgium - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:17] <exec> 08└─There must be some sort of reward or nobody would pay for them.
[21:04:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Judge says CIA Emails to Journalists Don't Have to be Released to Public - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:32] <exec> 08└─Did you forget to switch to realDonaldTrump before posting?
[21:04:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge says CIA Emails to Journalists Don't Have to be Released to Public - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:34] <exec> 08└─Why would an actual journalist NOT publish exclusive information?
[21:04:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Judge says CIA Emails to Journalists Don't Have to be Released to Public - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:36] <exec> 08└─In other words, it is kind of like aristarchus submissions to SoylentNews, only in reverse? (Do you realize how hard it is getting to find alt-right news stories of late? I have had to resort to my original language, or at least the modern version of it, and then these submissions get rejected, eit...
[21:04:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Judge says CIA Emails to Journalists Don't Have to be Released to Public - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:38] <exec> 08└─Journalist with a security clearance! Ha, you make a funny!! Do you know what you call a journalist with a security clearance? An operative, specifically a disinformation operative in Information Warfare Division, Perception Management Area, NOC.
[21:05:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:05:50] <exec> 08└─Despite the number of girls with the name Bambi, the deer in the story was a male. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[21:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Reportedly Working on Combination VR-AR Headset - 733 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:12] <exec> 08└─Its not jail if you willingly enter it. It is more of an outpatient in a mental hospital...for the consumeristically insane. But seriously. Who cares about this outside of fan boys? Given their history: They will release a stupidly expensive, walled garden, iphone-tied product that will cost 2x+ wha...
[21:06:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Customer Takes Phone Company to Small Claims Court - WINS! - 1312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:37] <exec> 08└─An hour of my time is worth more than any monthly saving that's possible on a phone connection. Especially if the saving is "I just won't use you." The first problem is actually illegal in any sensible country. But I just Googled, say, Bell's packages and they were quite clear on the pricing page. T...
[21:07:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Uses Dashcam Footage to Prove His Innocence--Sort of - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:31] <exec> 08└─> President Clinton, Bill Clinton, is a great friend of mine. It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is.
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[22:03:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Comcast Won’t Give New Speed Boost to Internet Users Who Don’t Buy TV Service - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:53] <exec> 08└─Fine with me cuz I leech ur xfinitywifi for free and I have a fetish for low res porn so I only need like 640 kbits to get my rocks off.
[22:03:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Comcast Won’t Give New Speed Boost to Internet Users Who Don’t Buy TV Service - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:54] <exec> 08└─This is why we need more (or in some cases, any) internet options other than those provided by a CABLE company.
[22:03:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comcast Won’t Give New Speed Boost to Internet Users Who Don’t Buy TV Service - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:56] <exec> 08└─We get all our media from YouTube and Netflix. Plus over-the-air when the Olympics are on, for the wife. Not that I can get a wired solution better than dial-up where I'm located.
[22:03:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Comcast Won’t Give New Speed Boost to Internet Users Who Don’t Buy TV Service - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:59] <exec> 08└─Try SprinTyMobile. I hear its the fastiest.
[22:04:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comcast Won’t Give New Speed Boost to Internet Users Who Don’t Buy TV Service - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:01] <exec> 08└─I'll admit that I didn't think of this possibility. I thought ISPs were going to take advantage of the repeal of net neutrality to prioritize their own streaming services to make up for the decline of TV subscriptions. But this is cutting the Gordian knot. Are TV subscriptions dropping because users...
[22:04:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Comcast Won’t Give New Speed Boost to Internet Users Who Don’t Buy TV Service - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:03] <exec> 08└─I currently get 150Mbps from them for $34.99/month. I am not going to sweat them giving someone with TV a bump to 250
[22:04:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Comcast Won’t Give New Speed Boost to Internet Users Who Don’t Buy TV Service - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:05] <exec> 08└─*if* you have a nice router they top out at about 300mb per second wireless. Past 300 you are probably wasting money if you use wifi.
[22:04:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Video Game Loot Boxes are now Considered Criminal Gambling in Belgium - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:26] <exec> 08└─Although I don't see that word here.
[22:04:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video Game Loot Boxes are now Considered Criminal Gambling in Belgium - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:28] <exec> 08└─Please note, gambling can be a real addiction and ruin lives easily. Maybe, I'll get lucky this time! Just one more! It's like playing civilization for just one more turn, then it's 4AM and you're like huh?!? Assuming you've never had that experience or a similar one, it may be hard to explain just...
[22:04:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video Game Loot Boxes are now Considered Criminal Gambling in Belgium - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:30] <exec> 08└─Random drops are fine. Paying for a chance at a lottery box is gambling (or a lottery, which is usually also regulated, e.g. in the US).
[22:04:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video Game Loot Boxes are now Considered Criminal Gambling in Belgium - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:32] <exec> 08└─The reason gambling laws exist is to protect the participants/victims. They punish businesses for exploiting their customers. What is even the point of moving the punishment to the participants/victims, how is that supposed to protect the participants?
[22:04:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video Game Loot Boxes are now Considered Criminal Gambling in Belgium - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:34] <exec> 08└─"You agree to and accept full responsibility for following the laws of the planet, nation, state, county, city, town, and any other subdivision a bunch of politicians can think up and agree to hold us harmless."
[22:05:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 41 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:23] <exec> 08└─entirely locked into the Google ecosystem
[22:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:07] <exec> 08└─Gmail officially entered the Extend phase.
[22:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:09] <exec> 08└─Use a rabbit instead. Plenty of rabbits IIRC.
[22:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondrake [2658] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:11] <exec> 08└─> If I "had that in an e-mail, somewhere" I can usually find it in my Gmail. You can? My biggest complaint against gmail is that it seems to have the most atrocious search functionality that I can think of. I have no idea now to find things in long threads quickly, as the result of a search is the w...
[22:06:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Customer Takes Phone Company to Small Claims Court - WINS! - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:58] <exec> 08└─I don't believe either of you are Canadian. The word "Sorry" was not once mentioned in either post. I call Fake Canadians!
[22:07:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Man Uses Dashcam Footage to Prove His Innocence--Sort of - 353 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:46] <exec> 08└─Florida Man, Florida Man, does whatever Florida man can, buys an orange, saves it for later, goes to jail for fucking a gator, oh yeah look out for the Florida man... Florida man, Florida man, Does whatever a meth head can! https://thevalleyreport.com
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[23:03:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Launches Barge Carrying Nuclear Power Plant - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:44] <exec> 08└─Whatever floats their boat, I guess.
[23:03:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Russia Launches Barge Carrying Nuclear Power Plant - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:45] <exec> 08└─No what we want to know is how this going to bring down Trump. MATCH ME!!!
[23:03:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Russia Launches Barge Carrying Nuclear Power Plant - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:48] <exec> 08└─If that arctic harbor is nicely enclosed and you dump 230MW of heat in it 24/7, the local fish population is going to be a very interesting case study.
[23:03:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Russia Launches Barge Carrying Nuclear Power Plant - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:50] <exec> 08└─The man's excessively long aftermule lambasted forth without mercy. After all, how could he possibly have mercy to spare for a mere sow? The woman's screamed continued for hours before she finally succumbed to her wounds. The joys of manhoodism had once again emerged victorious.
[23:03:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Launches Barge Carrying Nuclear Power Plant - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:52] <exec> 08└─On the menu they'll just be listed as "Local Steamed Fish".
[23:03:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Launches Barge Carrying Nuclear Power Plant - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:54] <exec> 08└─What happens if it sinks? There are plenty of terrorist organizations (let alone military organizations) that would love to see how fast that ship takes on water.
[23:04:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comcast Won’t Give New Speed Boost to Internet Users Who Don’t Buy TV Service - 1046 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:14] <exec> 08└─I was somehow convinced to sign up for T-Mobile's business phone service. This sets me back $70/month; was I swindled by the conniving T-Mobile store salesmen? I have unlimited 4G; they claim there's no data cap. I wouldn't really know because I've never bumped up into a data cap. Mostly I use my 4G...
[23:04:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comcast Won’t Give New Speed Boost to Internet Users Who Don’t Buy TV Service - 1004 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:15] <exec> 08└─... Comcast pries my four hundred music CDs from my cold dead hands. Presently all but a few are ripped to 192 bps MP3, but a few years ago I realized I could tell the difference between 192 and FLAC or the original CD. The reason I can tell is quite strange: listening to 192 for a few hours makes m...
[23:04:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video Game Loot Boxes are now Considered Criminal Gambling in Belgium - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:41] <exec> 08└─It's not a gamer thing, it's a literacy thing. From a book by one of you Brits' greatest authors even. Turn in your bangers and mash.
[23:04:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Video Game Loot Boxes are now Considered Criminal Gambling in Belgium - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:43] <exec> 08└─I have a better idea. If you don't like the loot boxes. then don't spend money on them. If you're a loser who gambles away all of his/her money, then that's a person problem and you should seek help. Stop trying to "protect" people from themselves.
[23:04:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Video Game Loot Boxes are now Considered Criminal Gambling in Belgium - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:45] <exec> 08└─I think all drugs should be 100% legal. So should gambling and prostitution. Existing unjust laws do not justify more unjust laws.
[23:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:20] <exec> 08└─Get a cheap Web hosting plan and a domain name. Most will come with at least 5 mailboxen on top of which you can POP or IMAP. Yes, mailing apps on mobile devices will work with mail accounts outside their walls.
[23:06:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:21] <exec> 08└─An anti-feature I'd like to see removed from gmail is refusal to send encrypted attachments. It explains the reason as being the inability to scan for viruses. What a croc.
[23:11:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06South Korea to Remove Loudspeakers at Border - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:01] <exec> 08└─You can be sure we'll pull the plugs on you scrap metal before we go silently into the night
[23:11:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Life in (Virtual) Pit Lane: The War Stories of Video Game Car Design - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:37] <exec> 08└─I played arcades since lunar lander to sega rally 2 (a shiny OutRun personal record over 50000000 BTW). Hard Drivin' is the only one that I would call driving simulation. The feedback on the wheel is outstanding. Piece of art, try it if you can.
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