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[00:03:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Instagram to Automatically Filter Out "Bullying" Comments - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:03:45] <exec> 08└─Instagram is attempting to automate their censorship. No biggie, lots of alternatives. The only true evil in this whole internet business is the service provider. They are the only insurmountable obstacle to open communications.
[00:03:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Launches Barge Carrying Nuclear Power Plant - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:03:58] <exec> 08└─OTOH, I'm not aware of any terrorist organizations that are active in the Arctic.
[00:03:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Launches Barge Carrying Nuclear Power Plant - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:03:59] <exec> 08└─Let's go over this again: remote Russian arctic mining town. Even if the terrorist leader had enough charisma to convince his followers to take on such a stupid mission, the sheer logistics, the lack of escape, and the likely blackout of the news makes it worse than a bad Hollywood plot.
[00:04:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Launches Barge Carrying Nuclear Power Plant - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:04:02] <exec> 08└─Free soup, just go on the beach and help yourself. Make sure you read the warning 'Caution. Hot sea. May result in scalding' signs.
[00:04:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Launches Barge Carrying Nuclear Power Plant - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:04:04] <exec> 08└─Unlike Arizona**, in Siberia you need serious heating, that power is not to be dumped in the sea. -- ** Palo Verde nuke reactors [wikipedia.org] are located there and they didn't scorched the earth around, in spite of generating almost 4GW.
[00:04:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comcast Won’t Give New Speed Boost to Internet Users Who Don’t Buy TV Service - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:04:26] <exec> 08└─Pretty much this. People who pay the most get free upgrade from their provider. News at 11. I'm glad it's raining right now on my cheap Nissan, since I don't get free car wash from the Audi dealer.
[00:04:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comcast Won’t Give New Speed Boost to Internet Users Who Don’t Buy TV Service - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:04:28] <exec> 08└─We've found the guy who likes the pixellated Asian stuff
[00:04:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Video Game Loot Boxes are now Considered Criminal Gambling in Belgium - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:04:58] <exec> 08└─Sure. But if you use those things to harm others, then that's another story. This is too far off from gambling, though.
[00:05:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video Game Loot Boxes are now Considered Criminal Gambling in Belgium - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:05:00] <exec> 08└─It's like playing civilization for just one more turn, then it's 4AM and you're like huh?!?
[00:05:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video Game Loot Boxes are now Considered Criminal Gambling in Belgium - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:05:02] <exec> 08└─But if you use those things to harm others, then that's another story.
[00:06:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:39] <exec> 08└─(And I've decided that my current provider has to go after 22 years of being a paying customer.)
[00:08:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CRISPR Epigenetic Cholesterol Reduction in Mice - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:29] <exec> 08└─I LDL really the source of bad stuff happening in the body though? Wasn't a theory out somewhere that high LDL is a reaction to something else bad happening in the body and supressing LDL, though beneficial for the direct symptoms caused by it is just turning a blind eye to the source which bad symp...
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[01:03:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Instagram to Automatically Filter Out "Bullying" Comments - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:03:44] <exec> 08└─One of the problems with automated censorship is that it always catches countless innocent people in the crossfire. Youtube is another great example of this. So even if one supports silencing the people ostensibly targeted by this, it's hard to support these automated systems.
[01:03:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Instagram to Automatically Filter Out "Bullying" Comments - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:03:46] <exec> 08└─I would advise them to consult our own TMB .
[01:03:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Instagram to Automatically Filter Out "Bullying" Comments - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:03:48] <exec> 08└─The futility! What are they going to do when variations of "Great picture" or "You look stunning" become common as sarcastic slurs? Why is it that would-be language censors never understand how language develops? Is it because they are all a bit "special"?
[01:04:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Russia Launches Barge Carrying Nuclear Power Plant - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:04:04] <exec> 08└─The value of Rosatom's foreign order book is approaching $300 billion
[01:04:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Launches Barge Carrying Nuclear Power Plant - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:04:06] <exec> 08└─U.S. Navy?
[01:04:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Launches Barge Carrying Nuclear Power Plant - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:04:08] <exec> 08└─Indeed. Barge carrying nuclear power plants are certainly an odd use case for a nuclear plant. I mean, getting all that concrete and uranium buoyant enough to carry a whole barge. Amazing.
[01:04:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Launches Barge Carrying Nuclear Power Plant - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:04:10] <exec> 08└─Let's see: float the barge up the Mississippi, up the Ohio River to radioactively contaminate Fort Knox thus rendering the American gold supply worthless. Any one of you fellow criminals interested? Nom nom nom.
[01:04:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Launches Barge Carrying Nuclear Power Plant - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:04:13] <exec> 08└─Coldfinger?
[01:04:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snow [1601] 02 - 06Comcast Won’t Give New Speed Boost to Internet Users Who Don’t Buy TV Service - 94 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:04:22] <exec> 08└─Manipulating customers is essentially their business model. Well, that and defacto monopolies.
[01:04:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03BK [4868] 02 - 06Comcast Won’t Give New Speed Boost to Internet Users Who Don’t Buy TV Service - 139 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:04:26] <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.
[01:05:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Video Game Loot Boxes are now Considered Criminal Gambling in Belgium - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:05:11] <exec> 08└─So, which damn word??
[01:06:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 777 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:51] <exec> 08└─IAAL and this isn't as big of a deal as you think. First is that the email doesn't just disappear, there is other evidence that it existed, such as logs, testimony, the fact you accepted the offer at all. Second is that a party wouldn't be bound to arbitration, as there would probably be a dispute t...
[01:07:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Customer Takes Phone Company to Small Claims Court - WINS! - 727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:07:40] <exec> 08└─Yes, it's that bad in Canada. But I just Googled, say, Bell's packages and they were quite clear on the pricing page. Ah, don't be so sure. For instance, I signed up with Telus a couple of years ago for wireless and was flabbergasted to discover that my (then) $50 a month included a voicemail box th...
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[02:03:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Synthetic Opioids" Now Kill More People than Prescription Opioids in the U.S. - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:03:43] <exec> 08└─I guess there's too much profit in synthetics. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[02:03:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06"Synthetic Opioids" Now Kill More People than Prescription Opioids in the U.S. - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:03:45] <exec> 08└─http://searchnut.com/?ncn=fd804377d4c5835ebe5cd93b11980ae41525224992&sb=1&pt=2&qs=&st=I+guess+there%27s+too+much+profit+in+synthetics. [searchnut.com]
[02:03:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Synthetic Opioids" Now Kill More People than Prescription Opioids in the U.S. - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:03:47] <exec> 08└─You don't have to take any of these drugs. It comes down to personal responsibility, regardless of whether the drugs are legal or not. Respect yourself enough not to do bad things to yourself. That also goes for tobacco and alcohol. ( cue the replies from people who don't understand that all of life...
[02:03:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Synthetic Opioids" Now Kill More People than Prescription Opioids in the U.S. - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:03:49] <exec> 08└─Fentanyl is both synthetic and prescription. What in the hell are they trying to say? So if a terminal patient receiving palliative care dies when they go over the threshold with their prescribed fentanyl in an effort to be fairly comfortable or literally die trying, do they count that as a death du...
[02:03:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06"Synthetic Opioids" Now Kill More People than Prescription Opioids in the U.S. - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:03:51] <exec> 08└─This is just what happens when you let journalists cover things that take even a modicum of intelligence to grasp.
[02:04:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Instagram to Automatically Filter Out "Bullying" Comments - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:04:02] <exec> 08└─The automatic filters? They're doable enough if you don't give a damn about consequences. We currently have seven of them: Subject too short.Missing Comment. Please enter a Subject. Comment Too Long Too much space in the Subject, please fix.Too much space in the Comment, please fix.Comment too short...
[02:04:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Instagram to Automatically Filter Out "Bullying" Comments - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:04:03] <exec> 08└─How is that for bullying?
[02:04:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Instagram to Automatically Filter Out "Bullying" Comments - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:04:05] <exec> 08└─not a problem, I'm a hamster.
[02:04:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Instagram to Automatically Filter Out "Bullying" Comments - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:04:08] <exec> 08└─『FILTER ᵀᴿᴵ🅱🅱ᴱᴿᴱᴰ』
[02:04:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Instagram to Automatically Filter Out "Bullying" Comments - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:04:10] <exec> 08└─I was remembering the contest we had here between you and DN. Both of you displayed amazing cunning. DN showed that automated censorship is NOT a trivial effort.... Damn near impossible seemed far more descriptive of the effort required.
[02:04:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Instagram to Automatically Filter Out "Bullying" Comments - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:04:12] <exec> 08└─Eight now. I got tired of the searchnut guy.
[02:04:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Instagram to Automatically Filter Out "Bullying" Comments - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:04:14] <exec> 08└─Oh it's not trivial. It is fun though.
[02:04:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Launches Barge Carrying Nuclear Power Plant - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:04:36] <exec> 08└─No, I'm wearing gloves. But thanks for thinking of my health! :)
[02:04:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Launches Barge Carrying Nuclear Power Plant - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:04:37] <exec> 08└─Exactly. Much of the waste heat will be dumped into the town's steam pipes and radiated into homes and businesses.
[02:04:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Launches Barge Carrying Nuclear Power Plant - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:04:39] <exec> 08└─Radioactivity does not work like that
[02:04:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Launches Barge Carrying Nuclear Power Plant - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:04:42] <exec> 08└─Rough calculation. assuming a harbour effective area of 1 sq.km by 10 meters average depth (which is pretty small). 230MW should raise the temperature around 1 degree in 50 hours, with perfect insulation. unfortunately, that kind of surface area can also dissipate heat much after than that. I doubt...
[02:05:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Comcast Won’t Give New Speed Boost to Internet Users Who Don’t Buy TV Service - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:05:07] <exec> 08└─Rightards love it up the ass.
[02:05:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Comcast Won’t Give New Speed Boost to Internet Users Who Don’t Buy TV Service - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:05:08] <exec> 08└─You should see what lies beyond the pixels.
[02:05:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Comcast Won’t Give New Speed Boost to Internet Users Who Don’t Buy TV Service - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:05:10] <exec> 08└─$35 a month? I've got the slowest speed available and the cheapest package that Comcast will give me is like $77 a month. I would have ditched them by now, but I live in a building that only has Comcast service. What we really need is some laws that guarantee that everybody has access to more provid...
[02:05:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video Game Loot Boxes are now Considered Criminal Gambling in Belgium - 887 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:05:44] <exec> 08└─Man arrested in Belgium for leaving his home. Authorities reported that the man was gambling with his life when he left the safety of his home around 13:45. Inspector Jean-Pierre Tourneur had this to say: "This man played a dangerous game. It does not matter of you are hungry or bored, going outdoor...
[02:05:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video Game Loot Boxes are now Considered Criminal Gambling in Belgium - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:05:46] <exec> 08└─Last word of the headline.
[02:05:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Judge says CIA Emails to Journalists Don't Have to be Released to Public - 1082 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:05:59] <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,...
[02:07:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 1341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:26] <exec> 08└─I have one, with a domain attached, have had the same one since the 1990s, and I think it comes with 30 e-mail boxes. I used one for years first with Eudora, then Thunderbird, later accessed via Gmail, and eventually I quit using it. I POP3ed with it, IMAPed with it for a while, if you send me an e-...
[02:09:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] 02 - 06Man Uses Dashcam Footage to Prove His Innocence--Sort of - 213 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:06] <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.
[02:09:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Man Uses Dashcam Footage to Prove His Innocence--Sort of - 81 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:09] <exec> 08└─I would consult my lawyer and submit only the relevant dash cam footage in court.
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[03:03:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Synthetic Opioids" Now Kill More People than Prescription Opioids in the U.S. - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:03:52] <exec> 08└─Man you are so missing out.
[03:03:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06"Synthetic Opioids" Now Kill More People than Prescription Opioids in the U.S. - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:03:53] <exec> 08└─You DO know that many people who get addicted start out taking opoids for legitimate medical reasons, yes?
[03:03:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Synthetic Opioids" Now Kill More People than Prescription Opioids in the U.S. - 731 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:03:56] <exec> 08└─Here's the abstract: Drug overdose deaths are at unprecedented levels in the United States.1 Prescription opioids have been the most common drug involved in overdose deaths, but heroin and synthetic opioids (primarily illicit fentanyl) are increasingly implicated in overdoses.2 In addition, syntheti...
[03:03:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Synthetic Opioids" Now Kill More People than Prescription Opioids in the U.S. - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:03:58] <exec> 08└─Are you serious? A person isn't forced to take this shit? All these years, I thought the cartels sent high squads into the inner cities, kidnapped unsuspecting citizens, and shot them full of addictive drugs. Are you telling me that's not how things are?
[03:03:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Synthetic Opioids" Now Kill More People than Prescription Opioids in the U.S. - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:04:00] <exec> 08└─Right. This is not the first time we've discussed a journalist looking at an abstract and going "uh, duh?" though. Not even the first time this week.
[03:04:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06"Synthetic Opioids" Now Kill More People than Prescription Opioids in the U.S. - 1300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:04:02] <exec> 08└─And, we also need to point out that "many people" is not "all people", or even "most people". Those addicts with whom I am personally acquainted all CHOSE to get high that first time. One brother in law is a possible exception - he's had health problems all his life, including being a bleeder. He *m...
[03:04:03] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03leftover [2448] 02 - 06"Synthetic Opioids" Now Kill More People than Prescription Opioids in the U.S. - 781 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:04:05] <exec> 08└─Here in Ohio the "opioid epidemic" is everyday news, reported in a manner that is both ignorant and sensationalist. Solid research showing the underlying cause to be a loss of hope is completely ignored, apparently too abstract for the self-styled journalists to handle. Much easier to continue build...
[03:04:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Synthetic Opioids" Now Kill More People than Prescription Opioids in the U.S. - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:04:07] <exec> 08└─Eh? The abstract basically uses the same "synthetic opioid vs. prescription opioid" language as the CNN article.
[03:04:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Synthetic Opioids" Now Kill More People than Prescription Opioids in the U.S. - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:04:09] <exec> 08└─Loss of hope as a reason for a drug epidemic just sounds awful. I knew things were tough in parts of the US, but I didn't think it was that bad.
[03:04:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Synthetic Opioids" Now Kill More People than Prescription Opioids in the U.S. - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:04:11] <exec> 08└─A) I can see how that one sentence could be read that way but it's not the only way it could be read. B) Having half a clue what they're reporting on so they could catch obvious errors like that would be rather nice. Yall Eds would certainly get your chops busted for making that mistake. I don't see...
[03:04:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Instagram to Automatically Filter Out "Bullying" Comments - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:04:29] <exec> 08└─And you can say "Dick Niggers" now if you really feel the need. When the problem goes away, so does the filter.
[03:04:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Instagram to Automatically Filter Out "Bullying" Comments - 2 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:04:30] <exec> 08└─ow
[03:04:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Instagram to Automatically Filter Out "Bullying" Comments - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:04:32] <exec> 08└─In order to automatically filter " anything intended to harass or upset" one would need a sensor capable of identifying such intent. No such sensor exists, or is likely to exist anytime soon. That a room full of presumably well-educated adults listened to this spiel without bursting out laughing in...
[03:04:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Launches Barge Carrying Nuclear Power Plant - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:04:59] <exec> 08└─Wow. Just...wow. Get an OddJob.
[03:05:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comcast Won’t Give New Speed Boost to Internet Users Who Don’t Buy TV Service - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:05:27] <exec> 08└─This is just a reflection of the dropping value of TV.
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[03:05:29] <exec> 08└─vcd's for life!
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[04:03:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Mission Success" for Arkyd-6 Asteroid Prospecting Demonstration Spacecraft - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:03:46] <exec> 08└─They don't deserve the quote marks - there is no need to disparage their outcomes. It made it into orbit, did all the things they wanted it to do, and hasn't (apparently) done anything unexpected. Most senior managers define success with a far lower bar than that, and success bonuses often become "n...
[04:03:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Mission Success" for Arkyd-6 Asteroid Prospecting Demonstration Spacecraft - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:03:48] <exec> 08└─changed to "mission success"
[04:04:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Instagram to Automatically Filter Out "Bullying" Comments - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:04:30] <exec> 08└─What are they going to do when variations of "Great picture" or "You look stunning" become common as sarcastic slurs?
[04:04:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Launches Barge Carrying Nuclear Power Plant - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:04:58] <exec> 08└─It sounds like yet another awesome icebreaker to me.
[04:04:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Launches Barge Carrying Nuclear Power Plant - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:04:59] <exec> 08└─Terrorists with control of commercial airliners on suicide missions? Yeah, sure, that could never happen again.
[04:05:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Launches Barge Carrying Nuclear Power Plant - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:05:02] <exec> 08└─No, it's a barge. It's not self-propelled. It's being towed.
[04:05:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Launches Barge Carrying Nuclear Power Plant - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:05:04] <exec> 08└─You're thinking of Goldfinger, aka Baron Bomburst of Vulgaria.
[04:05:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Launches Barge Carrying Nuclear Power Plant - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:05:06] <exec> 08└─The relevant passage in the Wikipedia article: The facility evaporates water from the treated sewage of several nearby municipalities to meet its cooling needs. 20 billion US gallons (76,000,000 m³) of treated water are evaporated each year.[11][12] This water represents about 25% of the annual ove...
[04:05:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Apparition [6835] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comcast Won’t Give New Speed Boost to Internet Users Who Don’t Buy TV Service - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:05:36] <exec> 08└─I know, I'm jealous. The cheapest Comcast offers here is $52 per month, just for 15 Mbps. Next up is $70 per month for 60 Mbps.
[04:05:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Comcast Won’t Give New Speed Boost to Internet Users Who Don’t Buy TV Service - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:05:37] <exec> 08└─You found a job? Awesome dude
[04:05:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comcast Won’t Give New Speed Boost to Internet Users Who Don’t Buy TV Service - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:05:39] <exec> 08└─I changed the focus of my search from mobile apps to drivers and embedded systems Once my clients' sales people sign off on my last build I'll get a mongo paycheck for writing an OSX driver for a USB to VGA adapter I'm going to buy a used MacBook Pro. I have a Mac mini but you need two Macs to use t...
[04:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Video Game Loot Boxes are now Considered Criminal Gambling in Belgium - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:15] <exec> 08└─So, you actually have a 'distance function' that you use to measure and there is a line which, when crossed, a signifies ' no longer too far'. Care to be more specific about them?
[04:06:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge says CIA Emails to Journalists Don't Have to be Released to Public - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:36] <exec> 08└─So the RDT account was actually you this whole time? Not who I'd have guessed...
[04:07:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:58] <exec> 08└─Does renaming the file to .jpg still work?
[04:08:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:08:00] <exec> 08└─You can never beat the cellphone picture of the screen, and I see people do that all the time.
[04:08:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:08:02] <exec> 08└─Well, I haven't properly factored the convenience. I moved my mother's email account from gmail - it started to ask for a mobile number/device/etc. My mother continues to not use any of these, she's using thunderbird (and no web ui) anyway, so...
[04:09:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Sold Data to Cambridge Analytica-Linked Company - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:02] <exec> 08└─Wrong article bro
[04:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University in Melbourne, Australia Evacuated Due to Rotting Fruit - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:21] <exec> 08└─See if you can also give a can of fermented herring, surströmming, it's easier to track down for purchase than Icelandic fermented shark and nastier. Most do not know to open it under water and the pressure causes the liquid to spray out. The smell will persist even after washing. Like durians that...
[04:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Huawei Working on its Own OS to Prepare for "Worst-Case Scenario" of Being Deprived of Android - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:46] <exec> 08└─It wouldn't surprise me at all if they are doing just that. Most of the development work would involve replacing things like the Google Play Store and perhaps some of the Google apps which they presumably would not have access too. It's also likely they wouldn't be able to use the Android trademark...
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[05:03:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Mission Success" for Arkyd-6 Asteroid Prospecting Demonstration Spacecraft - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:03:53] <exec> 08└─When *does* it burn up?
[05:04:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Synthetic Opioids" Now Kill More People than Prescription Opioids in the U.S. - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:04:16] <exec> 08└─Everything's been characterized bad by the media since Trump was elected.
[05:04:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Synthetic Opioids" Now Kill More People than Prescription Opioids in the U.S. - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:04:18] <exec> 08└─Working hard and skillfully is worth nothing because "all value is created on Wall Street".
[05:04:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Synthetic Opioids" Now Kill More People than Prescription Opioids in the U.S. - 1519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:04:20] <exec> 08└─Sure, many people are the author of their own addiction, but I was replying to a post that offered no exceptions. I pointed out that there ARE exceptions. The problem is many fold. Part of it is that the restrictions are too tight. Doctors cut patients off cold turkey so the DEA doesn't breathe down...
[05:04:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03fakefuck39 [6620] (Score: -1) 02 - 06"Synthetic Opioids" Now Kill More People than Prescription Opioids in the U.S. - 676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:04:22] <exec> 08└─For some reason I see this retarded comment and have this weird feeling of "oh, this is one of those regular people who thinks they're smart. Finally figured out why. this thyme the guy reads the 1st line, pretends the rest of the post doesn't exist. How dumb do you have to be. Then I finally rememb...
[05:04:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Synthetic Opioids" Now Kill More People than Prescription Opioids in the U.S. - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:04:24] <exec> 08└─Eh? They get paid to do stories? I thought they get paid to shill whatever political propaganda their outfit is funded by. The stories are just to pass time and make it look like they're a real news outlet.
[05:04:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Instagram to Automatically Filter Out "Bullying" Comments - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:04:46] <exec> 08└─They don't call it sensorship. They call it an "algorithm."
[05:05:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Launches Barge Carrying Nuclear Power Plant - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:05:19] <exec> 08└─I guess it is too big to go through the Belomorkanal?
[05:05:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Launches Barge Carrying Nuclear Power Plant - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:05:20] <exec> 08└─The design of the reactors is based on the ones used in Russia's nuclear icebreakers.
[05:05:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Launches Barge Carrying Nuclear Power Plant - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:05:22] <exec> 08└─The Russian government accused [site.uit.no] Greenpeace of terrorism in 2013.
[05:05:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Russia Launches Barge Carrying Nuclear Power Plant - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:05:25] <exec> 08└─What would be the point? It's just not a sexy target. And if they're interested in economic damage, shooting insulators off of high voltage lines will have better risk/reward.
[05:05:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03dwilson [2599] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comcast Won’t Give New Speed Boost to Internet Users Who Don’t Buy TV Service - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:05:57] <exec> 08└─I've always wondered how they categorize people like me. I moved out of my parents basement when I graduated high school and went off to college, in early 2005. I'd never been a big TV watcher, and so never bothered to get a subscription with a cable or satellite service. I never even bothered with...
[05:06:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03shortscreen [2252] 02 - 06Judge says CIA Emails to Journalists Don't Have to be Released to Public - 4 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:43] <exec> 08└─sad.
[05:06:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Judge says CIA Emails to Journalists Don't Have to be Released to Public - 59 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:50] <exec> 08└─Did you forget to switch to realDonaldTrump before posting?
[05:06:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge says CIA Emails to Journalists Don't Have to be Released to Public - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:56] <exec> 08└─Man, I am a big fan! Let me know when you need a beer or two!
[05:07:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03loonycyborg [6905] 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 233 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:07:14] <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.
[05:07:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03captain normal [2205] 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 850 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:07:39] <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...
[05:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Customer Takes Phone Company to Small Claims Court - WINS! - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:11] <exec> 08└─I did Submit, it didn't Submit. A weird cyber page came up. That I never saw before. It asked me if I want to Redo, I did Redo. And my tweet showed up as a tweet from Anonymous!
[05:10:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] 02 - 06University in Melbourne, Australia Evacuated Due to Rotting Fruit - 348 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:26] <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...
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[06:03:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Analyzes Forgotten Galileo Data from Flyby of Ganymede - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:03:44] <exec> 08└─thanks to a dedicated team, an elderly VAX machine and 20-year-old data from the long-defunct Galileo probe.
[06:04:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Synthetic Opioids" Now Kill More People than Prescription Opioids in the U.S. - 716 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:04:20] <exec> 08└─People actually abused aspirin? Oh my God! I've been taking that shit since I was a wee tyke. Always patted myself on the back because I wasn't into hard drugs. Sure maybe I did some MaryJane in college and had a bit of beer and sometime binged on whisky and/or tequila and vodka...now into Zinfandel...
[06:04:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Synthetic Opioids" Now Kill More People than Prescription Opioids in the U.S. - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:04:22] <exec> 08└─You can blame it on Obama. He gave us hope, then took a shit in our hands and called it change. He also kept pumping afghan heroin into the US, after Bush sent so many young people over there to get fucked up physically and mentally.
[06:04:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Synthetic Opioids" Now Kill More People than Prescription Opioids in the U.S. - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:04:24] <exec> 08└─I have it on good authority that people even abused alcohol. The guy is credentialed and shit.
[06:05:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Launches Barge Carrying Nuclear Power Plant - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:05:22] <exec> 08└─It was the tsunami-proof claim that had me scratching my head. (Thinking of the flicks "The Perfect Storm" and "The Poseidon Adventure".) . FTFS: Murmansk That was the destination of the USAian Merchant Marine in a 1943 propaganda flick with Humphrey Bogart. Action in the North Atlantic [wikipedia.o...
[06:05:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Launches Barge Carrying Nuclear Power Plant - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:05:23] <exec> 08└─Heh. Yeah. While Condi Rice and that crowd saying "Who could have imagined?", Hollywood had already done that several times. [google.com] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[06:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03dwilson [2599] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comcast Won’t Give New Speed Boost to Internet Users Who Don’t Buy TV Service - 877 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:05:58] <exec> 08└─I can only tell the difference between loseless and lossy codecs on very high quality gear. I guess I don't have very good ears. I can still hear the hum from a CRT when it's on but displaying nothing, so I guess I have that going for me. But once I realized I could hear the difference under the rig...
[06:08:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 916 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:08:21] <exec> 08└─Penis length is hard to measure, and definitely not to that accuracy. To know for sure, they'll need to know if the measurement was bone pressed or not. And then the method used to induce the erection (ie. chemical - viagra,etc), hot chick (or bloke), not so hot chick (or bloke), etc. Too much ambig...
[06:09:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03dwilson [2599] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Customer Takes Phone Company to Small Claims Court - WINS! - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:13] <exec> 08└─A third canadian confirms, and a registered soylentnews user to boot. An AC comment in another story (the comcast one) stated "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". Me? I pay ~$55 CAD/month for 5 Mbps down / 1 Mbps up,...
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[07:03:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Analyzes Forgotten Galileo Data from Flyby of Ganymede - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:03:50] <exec> 08└─I would hope that NASA has a person whose job description includes preserving data that is potentially valuable and difficult to replace. I have files on my laptop that are more than twenty years old. Maybe not every DOOM WAD, but certainly the 12MB AVI file I once downloaded over dialup (almost, bu...
[07:04:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Mission Success" for Arkyd-6 Asteroid Prospecting Demonstration Spacecraft - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:04:01] <exec> 08└─Let's map mining asteroids onto shagging hollywood or music-industry starlets. Let's map prospecting onto trying to chat up said starlets. What they've achieved isn't even stalking the starlets. All they've achieved is that they've bought a bus pass, so that they can go downtown at some point in the...
[07:04:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Synthetic Opioids" Now Kill More People than Prescription Opioids in the U.S. - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:04:32] <exec> 08└─But in reality the US is doing as well as it ever has
[07:04:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Synthetic Opioids" Now Kill More People than Prescription Opioids in the U.S. - 930 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:04:33] <exec> 08└─It's so easy to be smug until it isn't. First, you've got people who get seriously injured and become physically and/or psychologically dependent. They didn't choose get in a car accident, or have severe arthritis, or slip a disk. It just happened. Next thing you know the pills run out and they go t...
[07:04:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Synthetic Opioids" Now Kill More People than Prescription Opioids in the U.S. - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:04:35] <exec> 08└─there would be a push to legalize at least medical marijuana since it is known to reduce the need for opioids.
[07:04:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Instagram to Automatically Filter Out "Bullying" Comments - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:04:58] <exec> 08└─see if in a decade you can still talk about Jesus the only Christ on social media.
[07:04:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03http [1920] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Instagram to Automatically Filter Out "Bullying" Comments - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:05:00] <exec> 08└─Hey, just a heads up, re: your current sig: My preferred pronouns are wetback/faggot/cunt. Your move.
[07:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comcast Won’t Give New Speed Boost to Internet Users Who Don’t Buy TV Service - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:13] <exec> 08└─I think you mean 150 mbps for 40 bucks. That's the going rate for Comcast. Don't feel bad, most people misunderstand megabits and Megabytes. The internet providers count on it to hype their product.
[07:07:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 734 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:07:48] <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"....
[07:08:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kawumpa [1187] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:08:37] <exec> 08└─I think this is great and will auto-reply to people in my address book that these kind of "click this link to read the message"-mail are normally classified as junk by every decent mail system and that they shouldn't expect further communication. This worked great when people still sent chain mails...
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[08:03:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA Analyzes Forgotten Galileo Data from Flyby of Ganymede - 977 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:03:57] <exec> 08└─This was my job thirty years ago...actually only part of my job, I worked in the archives writing image processing software. And it was for JPL, but I was very familiar with the VAX and image processing system (called VICAR). It was a bunch of libraries for loading saving and manipulating images. I...
[08:03:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Analyzes Forgotten Galileo Data from Flyby of Ganymede - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:03:58] <exec> 08└─I’m for traditional cyber. People's opinions about cyber are changing rapidly. Spectre & Meltdown, big problems with some of the new cyber. And so much of the new cyber comes from China, maybe, probably they can wiretapp that. Huawei & ZTE. My Generals say, be careful. Because nobody knows if they...
[08:04:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Mission Success" for Arkyd-6 Asteroid Prospecting Demonstration Spacecraft - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:04:09] <exec> 08└─Sex with starlets is a long forgotten past, car** analogies please. --- ** no, you dummy, sex-with-a-car analogies won't do.
[08:04:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Synthetic Opioids" Now Kill More People than Prescription Opioids in the U.S. - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:04:43] <exec> 08└─I said the *FEDS*. On what planet are the feds anything but entrenched against legalization?
[08:04:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Synthetic Opioids" Now Kill More People than Prescription Opioids in the U.S. - 3836 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:04:45] <exec> 08└─I think the problem is threefold: first, that globalism and labor competition from the developed world has created at least a half century of significant stress on the US both economically and society-wise, plenty of parties (not just the usual suspects or narratives!) are making short-sighted decis...
[08:04:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Synthetic Opioids" Now Kill More People than Prescription Opioids in the U.S. - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:04:47] <exec> 08└─You're not an Editor. And that's too bad. Because you're very good at seeing the bad & Fake stories!!!
[08:07:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video Game Loot Boxes are now Considered Criminal Gambling in Belgium - 840 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:07:01] <exec> 08└─I've been to Belgium. Brussels, big city there. One of the biggest. I was in Brussels a long time ago, 20 years ago, so beautiful, everything is so beautiful -- it’s like living in a hellhole right now. There is something going on and it's not good, where they want Sharia law, where they want this...
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[09:03:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03adun [6928] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA Analyzes Forgotten Galileo Data from Flyby of Ganymede - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:03:58] <exec> 08└─All you folks are being happy about new data and urging folks to preserve it and whatnot, and I'm sitting here like an idiot, being happy just because I'm seeing a VAX in the news again :-).
[09:03:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Analyzes Forgotten Galileo Data from Flyby of Ganymede - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:03:59] <exec> 08└─I have in front of me a copy of VAX FORTRAN (V4.7) on seven track tape which I recently saved from being thrown into a skip. However I don't have anything to read said tape with. There's a moral to this story here...
[09:04:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Analyzes Forgotten Galileo Data from Flyby of Ganymede - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:04:01] <exec> 08└─Correction: it's probably a nine-track rather than a 7-track, given its age (1987). Still 1/2" diameter, anyhow.
[09:04:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Analyzes Forgotten Galileo Data from Flyby of Ganymede - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:04:03] <exec> 08└─They didnt even preserve the original moonlanding tapes: https://en.m.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[09:04:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06NASA Analyzes Forgotten Galileo Data from Flyby of Ganymede - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:04:06] <exec> 08└─I’m for traditional cyber.
[09:04:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Synthetic Opioids" Now Kill More People than Prescription Opioids in the U.S. - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:04:52] <exec> 08└─If we don't get tough on the drug dealers, we are wasting our time. And that toughness includes the death penalty. Starting with the big pushers, the ones who are really killing people. The ones that will kill thousands of people during their lifetime. This is about winning a very, very tough proble...
[09:05:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Instagram to Automatically Filter Out "Bullying" Comments - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:05:18] <exec> 08└─Because Spam Modding doesn't work. Because IP Karma doesn't work. They work, they work very badly -- they block (ban) the WRONG PEOPLE. End Spam Modding!!!!
[09:05:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Instagram to Automatically Filter Out "Bullying" Comments - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:05:19] <exec> 08└─Dr. Jackson says I can live to age 200. I'll be around in 10 years, believe me. And I love Jesus, tremendous guy, he's my second favorite guy. And if there's any problem with him on the Social Media, I'll start my own Social Media site. With @VP [twitter.com] Pence if he's not too busy. God bless Am...
[09:07:10] <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
[09:07:10] <exec> 08└─I have an even better idea. If you don't want to abide by a country's laws, just don't travel or do business there. You might be missing out on a whole lot of moolah, but that's nothing compared to standing by your principles. Good on you for that.
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[10:03:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06GEDmatch: "What If It Was Called Police Genealogy?" - 926 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:03:42] <exec> 08└─Dim and eerie. That was the only way to describe the room that this man, Huckerson, was standing in. The man appeared to have a fulfilled expression on his face, as though he was in a state of ecstasy. Why did the man seem so satisfied? One could find out by observing the room in which he stood. Gar...
[10:04:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Analyzes Forgotten Galileo Data from Flyby of Ganymede - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:04:10] <exec> 08└─There's a moral to this story here...
[10:04:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Mission Success" for Arkyd-6 Asteroid Prospecting Demonstration Spacecraft - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:04:22] <exec> 08└─What good is an infrared camera for asteroid prospecting? I would imagine an IR spectrograph would have been useful to discern between the IR spectra of various substances (e.g. water vs frozen methane or the like).
[10:04:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06"Synthetic Opioids" Now Kill More People than Prescription Opioids in the U.S. - 1300 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:04:39] <exec> 08└─And, we also need to point out that "many people" is not "all people", or even "most people". Those addicts with whom I am personally acquainted all CHOSE to get high that first time. One brother in law is a possible exception - he's had health problems all his life, including being a bleeder. He *m...
[10:05:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Synthetic Opioids" Now Kill More People than Prescription Opioids in the U.S. - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:05:00] <exec> 08└─cue the replies from people who don't understand that all of life is the summation of choices we make for ourselves ; these people would have you believe that someone else is responsible for stupid things people do to themselves
[10:05:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Synthetic Opioids" Now Kill More People than Prescription Opioids in the U.S. - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:05:01] <exec> 08└─What will bring an end to it?
[10:05:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Synthetic Opioids" Now Kill More People than Prescription Opioids in the U.S. - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:05:04] <exec> 08└─Protecting US labor or creating a more valuable labor force? Being able to afford a home or increasing the value of existing homes? Making it easy for people to enter a field of labor or to protect the wages of existing labor from competition? Honoring pension and health care benefits that the elder...
[10:05:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Instagram to Automatically Filter Out "Bullying" Comments - 480 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:05:14] <exec> 08└─The automatic filters? They're doable enough if you don't give a damn about consequences. We currently have seven of them: Subject too short.Missing Comment. Please enter a Subject. Comment Too Long Too much space in the Subject, please fix.Too much space in the Comment, please fix.Comment too short...
[10:05:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Instagram to Automatically Filter Out "Bullying" Comments - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:05:30] <exec> 08└─... at least we'll have seen the lovely new wallpaper
[10:05:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Instagram to Automatically Filter Out "Bullying" Comments - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:05:32] <exec> 08└─What he said. Bravo. If you're going to be no better than /., there's no reason for you to exist. Sort yourself out.
[10:05:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Russia Launches Barge Carrying Nuclear Power Plant - 240 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:05:48] <exec> 08└─Unlike Arizona**, in Siberia you need serious heating, that power is not to be dumped in the sea. -- ** Palo Verde nuke reactors [wikipedia.org] are located there and they didn't scorched the earth around, in spite of generating almost 4GW.
[10:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Russia Launches Barge Carrying Nuclear Power Plant - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:10] <exec> 08└─I would be surprised to see this happen. This is Russian infrastructure we are talking about.
[10:06:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comcast Won’t Give New Speed Boost to Internet Users Who Don’t Buy TV Service - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:47] <exec> 08└─If you're going to correct someone, it's a good idea to be correct. For reference: Mb: Megabit, 10^6 bits MB: Megabyte, 10^6 bytes MiB: Mebibyte, 2^20 bytes Mib: Mebibit, 2^20 bits mb: Millibit, 10^-3 bits. I'm pretty sure that he didn't mean 1.5 bits per second. That's slow even by Comcast standar...
[10:07:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Video Game Loot Boxes are now Considered Criminal Gambling in Belgium - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:07:27] <exec> 08└─It is not random chance that's against the law. It's charging for a game of random change. That's why CS:GO is a problem, but TF2 is not. TF2 is free to play.
[10:07:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Judge says CIA Emails to Journalists Don't Have to be Released to Public - 65 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:07:44] <exec> 08└─Why would an actual journalist NOT publish exclusive information?
[10:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:16] <exec> 08└─As the admin of a paid gmail enterprise account, yes we can certainly do that easily at the account level.
[10:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:17] <exec> 08└─Except your company, who will most likely fire/sue you for willfully violating the GDPR.
[10:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:19] <exec> 08└─The email always displays in a browser. If you don't receive it in the GMail web interface or a Google-controlled app, then it just displays as a link. The recipient must then click on the link and see a Google-provided page. It's still possible to capture the JavaScript that decodes the text, thoug...
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[11:03:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hasbro Acquires Power Rangers and Other Assets From Saban Entertainment for $522 Million - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:03:49] <exec> 08└─Super Sentai 1975 - present
[11:04:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Mission Success" for Arkyd-6 Asteroid Prospecting Demonstration Spacecraft - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:04:25] <exec> 08└─https://www.lpi.usra.edu/books/AsteroidsIII/pdf/3005.pdf [usra.edu]
[11:05:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Instagram to Automatically Filter Out "Bullying" Comments - 1053 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:05:34] <exec> 08└─Okay, I'll address this seriously even though I find it extremely difficult to believe you're being earnest about that load of horse shit you spewed. You seem to be laboring under a false assumption or three. For starters I don't hate anyone because of their race, sexuality, or what's between their...
[11:06:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Comcast Won’t Give New Speed Boost to Internet Users Who Don’t Buy TV Service - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:50] <exec> 08└─If you are going to be pedantic, you need to be correct. I'm pretty sure that he didn't mean 1.5 bits per second. That's slow even by Comcast standards!
[11:07:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video Game Loot Boxes are now Considered Criminal Gambling in Belgium - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:07:31] <exec> 08└─Damn. I just looked that up because I have read all the books and I had no idea what you were talking about. Turns out it was only in the bowdlerized American editions, to the rest of the world the 'Rory' is given for the most gratuitous use of the word 'Fuck' in a serious screenplay.
[11:07:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video Game Loot Boxes are now Considered Criminal Gambling in Belgium - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:07:33] <exec> 08└─Huh. Learn something new every day.
[11:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:25] <exec> 08└─Deliberately incompatible with everything else, except when it is directly in Apple's interest, or need, to be compatible
[11:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:26] <exec> 08└─What's the official way of installing an app on an iDevice from outside the walled garden[1]? [1] Includes the App Store, iTunes, Apple developer account, Macs...
[11:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 869 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:28] <exec> 08└─But that whole thought-experiment depends on cooperative devices that the authorities control, as opposed to devices that work for the user. Even if you could control the viewing hardware used by untrusted recipient (you could force use of a specific controlled device, the way games consoles do), yo...
[11:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:30] <exec> 08└─As you say, DRM on audio is particularly comical, as audio invariably boils down to a very simple analogue wave transmitted electrically over copper. Obfuscate and encrypt the storage (Spotify, Audible) and transmission (HDCP, Netflix) all you want, go ahead and make it hard to read from the audio b...
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[12:03:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China is Mining Data Directly from Workers’ Brains on an Industrial Scale - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:03:42] <exec> 08└─so, how long before implants are cheaper than the caps?
[12:06:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comcast Won’t Give New Speed Boost to Internet Users Who Don’t Buy TV Service - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:56] <exec> 08└─You're overstating the problem. Comcast is in a tizzy because their obscene times 100 profits from their natural monopoly might become obscene times 97 profits and they're trying to get back to 100. They're a hell of a long way from being forced to evolve.
[12:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:33] <exec> 08└─Allowing an admin to do it is different from allowing any moron to do it in that an admin (hopefully) understands what is possible and what isn't, and can explain to the user "no, removing it from our end will not remove it from their mail server, which I don't have access to".
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[13:03:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Volkswagen and Audi Cars Vulnerable to Remote Hacking - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:03:44] <exec> 08└─> discovering through the navigation system precisely where the driver has been, If our experience with an Audi A3 nav system (built into the car) is typical, owners have little to fear. It was a piece of crap on many levels: it usually located us on parallel surface roads instead of the freeway, ha...
[13:03:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06China is Mining Data Directly from Workers’ Brains on an Industrial Scale - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:03:52] <exec> 08└─Visions of this intrusive, manipulative, coercive Technological–Industrial Complex are what drove to violent craziness the mathematical prodigy, Ted Kaczynski. [wikipedia.org]
[13:03:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China is Mining Data Directly from Workers’ Brains on an Industrial Scale - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:03:54] <exec> 08└─That depends on whether or not the procedure is covered by insurance.
[13:04:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GEDmatch: "What If It Was Called Police Genealogy?" - 1452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:04:03] <exec> 08└─Interesting parts here might be if the company behind GEDmatch takes issues with it, using fake profiles for purposes not intended with their service. On the other hand it might be hard to argue with finding a serial killer for PR reasons. But perhaps one shouldn't expect much in terms of a lawsuit,...
[13:04:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GEDmatch: "What If It Was Called Police Genealogy?" - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:04:05] <exec> 08└─Has anyone here voluntarily supplied their own DNA sequences to a genealogy service? Followup q's - Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How (and how much did it cost, any payback?)
[13:04:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Mission Success" for Arkyd-6 Asteroid Prospecting Demonstration Spacecraft - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:04:46] <exec> 08└─Nice one, thanks. The linked answers to the "location/tracking/size determination" (more specific - thermophysical characterization) It doesn't answer though the 'chemistry' part, which methinks is crucial for the "technologies for future asteroid prospecting"
[13:05:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Instagram to Automatically Filter Out "Bullying" Comments - 1053 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:05:55] <exec> 08└─Okay, I'll address this seriously even though I find it extremely difficult to believe you're being earnest about that load of horse shit you spewed. You seem to be laboring under a false assumption or three. For starters I don't hate anyone because of their race, sexuality, or what's between their...
[13:05:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03terrab0t [4674] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Instagram to Automatically Filter Out "Bullying" Comments - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:05:56] <exec> 08└─Exactly. The web needs protocols, not monopolies. No single entity can censor email, RSS, IRC, Mastodon, or news groups because no single entity controls them.
[13:05:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Instagram to Automatically Filter Out "Bullying" Comments - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:05:58] <exec> 08└─> sensorship 1. Keeping your sensors locked and loaded, ready for action.
[13:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Instagram to Automatically Filter Out "Bullying" Comments - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:00] <exec> 08└─> see if in a decade If we had some kind of "tickler notification", SN could automatically remind you of this posting in 10 years, so you could check if your prediction was correct or not. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[13:06:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Launches Barge Carrying Nuclear Power Plant - 1159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:39] <exec> 08└─Russians are making their nuclear PERFECTO. And they're making their Energy Grid very strong. We must do the same. Our economy needs all forms of energy. But coal & nuclear are the best for our Energy Grid. Because they don't go on and off, on and off. That's very hard on our Grid, believe me. Puts...
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[14:03:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Volkswagen and Audi Cars Vulnerable to Remote Hacking - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:03:46] <exec> 08└─The two researchers said [sic] used a car's WiFi connection to exploit an exposed port
[14:03:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China is Mining Data Directly from Workers’ Brains on an Industrial Scale - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:03:56] <exec> 08└─Break frequency and overall throughput should be interesting. Especially on and off Ritalin. Also, maybe sell home versions for kids doing homework? American parents will buy those by the boatload...
[14:03:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China is Mining Data Directly from Workers’ Brains on an Industrial Scale - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:03:58] <exec> 08└─... an official overseeing the company’s emotional surveillance programme. “There is no doubt about its effect,” Cheng said.
[14:03:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China is Mining Data Directly from Workers’ Brains on an Industrial Scale - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:04:00] <exec> 08└─This is pretty interesting stuff, and really shows how different the Chinese approach is to the American approach. Apparently, in China, they seek to minimize worker stress so as to increase efficiency and reduce costly mistakes. That seems to be a sensible goal if your objective is maximizing long-...
[14:04:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GEDmatch: "What If It Was Called Police Genealogy?" - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:04:11] <exec> 08└─I don't want to share anything more valuable than throwaway email addresses with big data companies. Why in the world would I provide something so personal and with such dire invasive potential as my DNA? Whoever does it is truly and utterly reckless...
[14:04:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] 02 - 06NASA Analyzes Forgotten Galileo Data from Flyby of Ganymede - 28 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:04:37] <exec> 08└─I’m for traditional cyber.
[14:04:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06NASA Analyzes Forgotten Galileo Data from Flyby of Ganymede - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:04:40] <exec> 08└─There's a moral to this story here...
[14:04:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Analyzes Forgotten Galileo Data from Flyby of Ganymede - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:04:42] <exec> 08└─I hope they only used that old VAX to read the tapes, then immediately transferred the data to a modern machine.
[14:04:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Analyzes Forgotten Galileo Data from Flyby of Ganymede - 947 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:04:44] <exec> 08└─Maybe because reliance on technology that old - when you can pull the raw data into a modern system along with a billion other space missions and analyse it more easily and collectively - is probably a brighter idea than leaving it on a tape that you can't read on a machine that nobody understands a...
[14:06:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Launches Barge Carrying Nuclear Power Plant - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:52] <exec> 08└─Greentard anti-Russians. Funny old world that terrorists target Wall Street and the Pentagon but don't bother with the evil empire.
[14:07:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Comcast Won’t Give New Speed Boost to Internet Users Who Don’t Buy TV Service - 801 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:31] <exec> 08└─> I'm not a 'cord cutter' in the strictest sense, because you can't cut what you never had. The term that I've heard being used is a "cord never". A lot of "millenials" are in that category, and the cable companies have been confidently asserting that those cord-nevers will all get cable once they h...
[14:07:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comcast Won’t Give New Speed Boost to Internet Users Who Don’t Buy TV Service - 848 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:33] <exec> 08└─What happens when people get all of their TV from a combination of free YouTube, Kodi, and torrents? They're already cracking down hard on Kodi, and YouTube is cracking down now on copyrighted stuff. For the others, they'll be sure to crack down one way or another: ban private VPNs, perhaps, or anal...
[14:07:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comcast Won’t Give New Speed Boost to Internet Users Who Don’t Buy TV Service - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:35] <exec> 08└─Your problem is that you used MP3; it's a shitty codec. Try ripping some stuff to 192kbps Ogg Vorbis or Opus and see if that makes you weary. Ripping stuff to FLAC is fine for archival, but it's a big waste of space in applications where space is limited (like on mobile devices).
[14:07:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comcast Won’t Give New Speed Boost to Internet Users Who Don’t Buy TV Service - 3328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:37] <exec> 08└─Who here doesn't own a TV? I moved house recently, realised such things were pointless (in my country, there's free digital TV by aerial, cable or satellite, plus a bunch of subscription things that you can end up paying £100 a month for if you're not careful). My TV viewing costs are: - An old pro...
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[14:10:15] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the effort adds up: after the fourth time I had to install and configure Eudora for my wife, then I did Thunderbird for her which she hated - I think she was already in Gmail before we got phones that really did e-mail (we had some 10 key flip phones that sort of could e-mail for a long time,...
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[15:03:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Training The Squirrel Terminator - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:42] <exec> 08└─Or, you know, have dogs. We have a garden every year and the dogs are extremely effective at keeping the squirrels away and have been trained not to disturb the plants themselves. The only downside is that they provide you will love and affecti.... oh wait.
[15:03:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Training The Squirrel Terminator - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:44] <exec> 08└─We have a couple of bamboo stands around the house, one grows strongly enough that it has made itself into a nice big bushy patch. The other can't get ahead of the squirrels - they eat the shoots just as fast as they come up. Funny thing, the strongly growing patch is an "edible" variety of bamboo t...
[15:03:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Training The Squirrel Terminator - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:46] <exec> 08└─You forgot the backyard full of dog shit. That's a definite downside. Especially in spring when you have shit that has fermented all winter long. Sometimes it turns white and appears to grow hair. There are parts of having a dog I miss, but requiring shoes in the backyard is not one of them.
[15:03:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Training The Squirrel Terminator - 620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:48] <exec> 08└─dags = data acquisition guys/gals (slang for computer techs, from car racing). While they are typically not well paid by their racing teams, using dags for squirrel control might be overkill? We tried a sprinkler with built-in motion detector. When it worked, it did a passable job of keeping the sub...
[15:03:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03danmars [3662] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Training The Squirrel Terminator - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:51] <exec> 08└─You probably want to keep cats away from the garden, too. They like to leave behind parasite-filled solid waste in your garden. Toxoplasmosis and all that.
[15:03:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Training The Squirrel Terminator - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:53] <exec> 08└─The only downside is that they
[15:03:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bean Dip [5604] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Training The Squirrel Terminator - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:55] <exec> 08└─You forgot the backyard full of dog shit.
[15:04:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Volkswagen and Audi Cars Vulnerable to Remote Hacking - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:05] <exec> 08└─I have a Volkswagen and it has a lot of silly crap. Like you can't read the odometer without starting the engine, because digital is cool. Are you sure? Every car these days has a digital odometer, but you can usually see it by turning the car on (without starting the engine; on a keyless car you no...
[15:04:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Volkswagen and Audi Cars Vulnerable to Remote Hacking - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:07] <exec> 08└─"etron" is French for "pile of shit", so we should have been forewarned.
[15:04:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Volkswagen and Audi Cars Vulnerable to Remote Hacking - 663 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:09] <exec> 08└─I can't swear that your procedure (or something equally convoluted) would not work. After all, testing every possible combination of inputs can be quite a chore. But I hope you aren't going to argue that it is an "intuitive" user interface, or even well designed*. Beginning the "start engine" sequen...
[15:04:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Volkswagen and Audi Cars Vulnerable to Remote Hacking - 679 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:12] <exec> 08└─> Beginning the "start engine" sequence without applying the brake first? Insane! If it's in Park or Neutral, then this is far from insane. On my older car I turn the key to start the engine and as long as it's in Park or Neutral it starts right up. Another older car has manual transmission and this...
[15:04:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Volkswagen and Audi Cars Vulnerable to Remote Hacking - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:14] <exec> 08└─Google translate, French to English, refines this a bit: étron = turd
[15:04:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03adun [6928] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Volkswagen and Audi Cars Vulnerable to Remote Hacking - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:16] <exec> 08└─Here's the trail that my thoughts followed the first time I heard about infotainment: 1. Info*tainment*? Who the hell thought this was a good idea? 2. IN-VEHICLE? WTF?? 3. With Wi-Fi, oh, cool, now you're just fscking with me. Nowadays, knowing how and where IVI software gets written, I'm no longer...
[15:04:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China is Mining Data Directly from Workers’ Brains on an Industrial Scale - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:28] <exec> 08└─Apparently, in China, they seek to minimize worker stress so as to increase efficiency and reduce costly mistakes.
[15:04:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GEDmatch: "What If It Was Called Police Genealogy?" - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:39] <exec> 08└─"Sorry, no passport for you. Our vendor tells us your real identity is 'Porky Pig'."
[15:04:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Hasbro Acquires Power Rangers and Other Assets From Saban Entertainment for $522 Million - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:47] <exec> 08└─popples cinematic universe incoming
[15:05:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Analyzes Forgotten Galileo Data from Flyby of Ganymede - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:13] <exec> 08└─certainly the 12MB AVI file I once downloaded over dialup
[15:06:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Synthetic Opioids" Now Kill More People than Prescription Opioids in the U.S. - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:08] <exec> 08└─And are you very sure that all of the above are 'true dichotomies'?
[15:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Synthetic Opioids" Now Kill More People than Prescription Opioids in the U.S. - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:10] <exec> 08└─And are you very sure that all of the above are 'true dichotomies'?
[15:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Synthetic Opioids" Now Kill More People than Prescription Opioids in the U.S. - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:12] <exec> 08└─yeah. saying synthetic is different than prescription sounds more like they are saying propaganda than any specific differences. They do the same thing. Perhaps they meant to say "drugs not providing revenue to the pharmaceutical industry"
[15:06:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Instagram to Automatically Filter Out "Bullying" Comments - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:45] <exec> 08└─and your father smelt of elderberries!
[15:06:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Instagram to Automatically Filter Out "Bullying" Comments - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:46] <exec> 08└─I was fine with the text, until I encountered this: Examples of behavior that contributes to creating a positive environment include: […] Using tabs for indentation instead of spaces.
[15:07:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03mobydisk [5472] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Launches Barge Carrying Nuclear Power Plant - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:28] <exec> 08└─There's a PR game going on here, and I'd love to know the real science. Greenpeace says: Nuclear reactors bobbing around the Arctic Ocean will pose a shockingly obvious threat to a fragile environment
[15:08:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comcast Won’t Give New Speed Boost to Internet Users Who Don’t Buy TV Service - 1416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:12] <exec> 08└─They doubled down with increasingly terrible service, more below-the-line fees, various forms of forced bundling and lock-ins, and anti-Net Neutrality lobbying. The cablecos are doing the most sensible moves here. The people who don't care about TV (the "cord never" people you refer to) aren't going...
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[16:03:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Metal-Free Metamaterial Can be Swiftly Tuned to Change Electromagnetic Properties - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:03:41] <exec> 08└─Because they won't abuse THAT at ALL. No they'll just act like a kid from the 50s given a pair of those glasses and miss the guy with the gun or bomb while tee heeing at some naked ladies.
[16:03:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Metal-Free Metamaterial Can be Swiftly Tuned to Change Electromagnetic Properties - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:03:43] <exec> 08└─TSA: One way or another, we "capture" all the hawt female terrorists.
[16:03:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Training The Squirrel Terminator - 1614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:03:57] <exec> 08└─They are tiny demons. They've broken windows and air conditioners to get in and run raids at my place (on the third floor) spilling food and poop everywhere. Replaced some of the window screens with steel and bolted them to the frames after the squirrels chewed through a few window screens and broke...
[16:03:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Training The Squirrel Terminator - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:03:59] <exec> 08└─I don't think I've ever heard such a detailed complaint about squirrels (tree rats).
[16:04:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Training The Squirrel Terminator - 1125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:01] <exec> 08└─I have experience here. "Non-lethal" is going to be an issue. The reason for that, is those little cheeky motherfuckers absolutely DO NOT GO AWAY unless you're subjecting them to trauma just short of killing them. I had a pneumatic cannon loaded with water, manually triggered, pointed at the bird fe...
[16:04:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Training The Squirrel Terminator - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:03] <exec> 08└─Why were you storing poop? Around food no less!
[16:04:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Training The Squirrel Terminator - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:05] <exec> 08└─Pistol crossbows. Compact, silent, highly effective. https://youtu.be [youtu.be]
[16:04:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Training The Squirrel Terminator - 755 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:07] <exec> 08└─Round about 10 years ago I floated an idea to my employer that went absolutely nowhere, but... If you set up a web camera (or two) focused on the bird feeder, or garden, or whatever other squirrel attractor you have, and also outfit the area with a web-controlled water cannon, the idea was to let pe...
[16:04:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Volkswagen and Audi Cars Vulnerable to Remote Hacking - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:22] <exec> 08└─If it's in Park or Neutral, then this is far from insane.
[16:04:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Volkswagen and Audi Cars Vulnerable to Remote Hacking - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:23] <exec> 08└─just saddened that people are actually paying money for this
[16:04:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China is Mining Data Directly from Workers’ Brains on an Industrial Scale - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:37] <exec> 08└─The American way is for waste people to be dumped outside cities and kept on disability and drugs. China isn't that developed yet. Their waste workers tend to hang out in the cities looking for something to do. The government doesn't want that to be revolution.
[16:04:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China is Mining Data Directly from Workers’ Brains on an Industrial Scale - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:39] <exec> 08└─Sad that he didn't think to just trigger a global nuclear war. He could've set back the destruction caused by civilization a few hundred/thousand years, at the expense of all that fallout.
[16:04:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China is Mining Data Directly from Workers’ Brains on an Industrial Scale - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:41] <exec> 08└─Cut costs by making the hats out of aluminum foil.
[16:04:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GEDmatch: "What If It Was Called Police Genealogy?" - 788 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:52] <exec> 08└─I haven't even been to a doctor in 15+ years. Adding on all the skeezy shit they are doing both with DNA and claiming that any tissue/blood samples are medical waste and can be reused/sequenced (part of the HeLa fallout) means that you can't trust, especially today, that anything you are providing f...
[16:04:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GEDmatch: "What If It Was Called Police Genealogy?" - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:54] <exec> 08└─What is left for us here in America?
[16:05:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hasbro Acquires Power Rangers and Other Assets From Saban Entertainment for $522 Million - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:03] <exec> 08└─This was discussed back when PR started in the 90s. It was just the rubber robot/monster suits of the Sentai series, along with the costumed Sentai versions, using America actors and scenes for their alter-egos. Reading this article I am curious what benefits Hasbro would get from what I assume is i...
[16:05:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] 02 - 06NASA Analyzes Forgotten Galileo Data from Flyby of Ganymede - 977 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:17] <exec> 08└─This was my job thirty years ago...actually only part of my job, I worked in the archives writing image processing software. And it was for JPL, but I was very familiar with the VAX and image processing system (called VICAR). It was a bunch of libraries for loading saving and manipulating images. I...
[16:05:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] 02 - 06NASA Analyzes Forgotten Galileo Data from Flyby of Ganymede - 37 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:25] <exec> 08└─There's a moral to this story here...
[16:05:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Analyzes Forgotten Galileo Data from Flyby of Ganymede - 652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:30] <exec> 08└─Do you still use wheels? Those are oooold! :P OF COURSE they would have analyzed the data with whatever their current supported, and well understood, software is on their current supported, and (hopefully) well understood hardware. TFA doesn't even say why the VAX machine was supposedly involved. If...
[16:05:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Analyzes Forgotten Galileo Data from Flyby of Ganymede - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:32] <exec> 08└─I skipped the robe.
[16:06:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Synthetic Opioids" Now Kill More People than Prescription Opioids in the U.S. - 1541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:29] <exec> 08└─Only she's also drunk the Reefer Madness kool-aid, and while being abused in the workplace as an effective wage slave (mandatory 8 hour shifts that are defacto mandatory 12 hour shifts) and a rehire policy that only allows you to reapply after 3 years. Meaning nobody can jump ship unless they are su...
[16:07:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Instagram to Automatically Filter Out "Bullying" Comments - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:05] <exec> 08└─How is that for bullying?
[16:07:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Instagram to Automatically Filter Out "Bullying" Comments - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:06] <exec> 08└─You're such a dumbass. I'm going to email all your credit card info to the boss for you. Home address, business address, next of kin, medical history - everything. Right after I get back from vacation on your dime.
[16:07:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Instagram to Automatically Filter Out "Bullying" Comments - 731 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:08] <exec> 08└─Mmmmm, the sweet smell of hypocrisy in the morning. So you'll censor some stiff you and or the community find to be too much, but you'll leave that garbage in your SIG and pretend you'r taking a brave stand. You're such a pussy uzzy, typical internet troll behavior except trying to delude yourself t...
[16:07:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Instagram to Automatically Filter Out "Bullying" Comments - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:11] <exec> 08└─There are many sides to this debate, many sides! Admins like my dear friend The Might Buzzard here are good people, solid performers. Just because he can't use a dictionary and lacks some basic reading skills we shouldn't rush to any conclusions! His brain was built to handle paradoxes, it is amazin...
[16:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge says CIA Emails to Journalists Don't Have to be Released to Public - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:39] <exec> 08└─Sorry, I rarely drink alcohol. But thanks.
[16:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge says CIA Emails to Journalists Don't Have to be Released to Public - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:40] <exec> 08└─I can only wish I had thought of the RDT account first. But I suspect I at least partly inspired its creation.
[16:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge says CIA Emails to Journalists Don't Have to be Released to Public - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:42] <exec> 08└─If you (a hypothetical "you") were to pass classified information to one of these mythical journalists with a security clearance, wouldn't you find it easier to just Tweet the classified information to the journalist instead? Twitter is a highly reliable way to ensure that your intended target will...
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[16:11:18] <exec> 08└─In the 80's and 90's I was a card carrying Apple fanboy. I owned probably about $15,000 worth of Apple equipment (or more). And that was in 1990's dollars. This was back when Apple was a great company. Innovative. When the rest of the entire computer industry was, as Byte Magazine put it, the histor...
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[17:04:02] <exec> 08└─To teach those little fuckers a lesson!
[17:04:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03BananaPhone [2488] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Training The Squirrel Terminator - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:03] <exec> 08└─"Tigger" kept making my dogs go nuts but the worse thing was him using my property as a litter box. (gardens, patio furniture, decks, covered porch) I would have killed for such a toy as this.
[17:04:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Training The Squirrel Terminator - 804 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:06] <exec> 08└─Actually it hurts them much less because they are so light! Near 100% of the energy was transferred to your skin/body, but for a squirrel a lot of the energy is translated into kinetic energy as they get tossed through the air; and the landing probably doesn't hurt much either. I'm not a fan of kill...
[17:04:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Training The Squirrel Terminator - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:08] <exec> 08└─Haha somewhat creepy to intentionally have a public webcam like that, but super cool! What was wrong with your employer???
[17:04:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Training The Squirrel Terminator - 743 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:10] <exec> 08└─I do think you may be over-engineering this. A couple of hundred bucks of poultry wire and wood (plus a ox of screws) from the lumber yard then a half days work and you're done. Personally I've never had a problem with the common squirrels going for our tomatoes. Maybe it's because there is too much...
[17:04:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Training The Squirrel Terminator - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:12] <exec> 08└─I do think you may be over-engineering this.
[17:04:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Volkswagen and Audi Cars Vulnerable to Remote Hacking - 846 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:29] <exec> 08└─Like the other reply said people don't have much choice here. Also, can you really not extend your mental models to imagine why anyone traveling in a car would want a combination of information and/or entertainment? I'm not a huge fan of the word, but infotainment is legit. Here little gerber baby I...
[17:04:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03schad [2398] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Volkswagen and Audi Cars Vulnerable to Remote Hacking - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:30] <exec> 08└─For goodness sake. There are plenty of legitimate reasons to dislike push-to-start. You don't need to go making up these ridiculous ones. Beginning the "start engine" sequence without applying the brake first? Insane!
[17:04:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06China is Mining Data Directly from Workers’ Brains on an Industrial Scale - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:47] <exec> 08└─In America, worker stress is maximized to increase worker burnout and force employee churn, which helps prevent accumulation of seniority and the benefits thereof, like increased pay, vacation time, ect. (This is for any job with sufficiently low/cheap training time and cost of failure.) This new ap...
[17:04:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China is Mining Data Directly from Workers’ Brains on an Industrial Scale - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:49] <exec> 08└─So do you normally believe the justifications issued by politicians and corporate spokesmen? You might want to reconsider such an approach. What *is* interesting is that he appears to expect people to accept his statement at face value. This, however, could easily be an artifact of translation or pa...
[17:04:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China is Mining Data Directly from Workers’ Brains on an Industrial Scale - 866 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:51] <exec> 08└─China is the future! The dystopian cyber punk hellscape future we all dread. Of course the US is there as well, we just like to hide it a lot better. Credit scores instead of Social scores, corporate censorship instead of state censorship, etc. Basically the US likes having the illusion of freedom,...
[17:04:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China is Mining Data Directly from Workers’ Brains on an Industrial Scale - 685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:53] <exec> 08└─No, I don't believe them, however, let's forget about that, and let's assume that these corporate spokespeople are all being completely honest. This guy talks about decreasing workers' mental stress. When do American corporate spokespeople ever talk about that? Never. Instead, they laud the open-off...
[17:05:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03dast [1633] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GEDmatch: "What If It Was Called Police Genealogy?" - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:07] <exec> 08└─So sell the Apple watch and buy food?
[17:05:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GEDmatch: "What If It Was Called Police Genealogy?" - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:09] <exec> 08└─> I haven't even been to a doctor in 15+ years. Same here, but recently an old mole started to change...so I made a first appointment with a dermatologist. With any luck they will burn/freeze things off and there won't be any "medical waste". If they cut anything off I'm going to ask how my tissues...
[17:05:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GEDmatch: "What If It Was Called Police Genealogy?" - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:11] <exec> 08└─Without the circuses you'll be hanging yourself with the bread crusts.
[17:05:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GEDmatch: "What If It Was Called Police Genealogy?" - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:13] <exec> 08└─I too would submit using fake profile. If everyone else does this, service is useless.
[17:06:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Synthetic Opioids" Now Kill More People than Prescription Opioids in the U.S. - 1584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:48] <exec> 08└─As someone who left my home region because of the economy - it's because "quantitative measures" are usually averages across the entire nation, and by population. Most of the population lives in very small dots on the map, so unless you live in one of those dots it's not going to reflect your own re...
[17:06:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Synthetic Opioids" Now Kill More People than Prescription Opioids in the U.S. - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:50] <exec> 08└─TMB everyone, endorsed by a fake Trump. So fitting!
[17:06:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Synthetic Opioids" Now Kill More People than Prescription Opioids in the U.S. - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:52] <exec> 08└─You really are a brainwashed fool. At least you have a few semi-decent points in there, but mostly your a corporate apologist who supports the on going destruction of our environment. Burn in hell you piece of trash.
[17:06:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Synthetic Opioids" Now Kill More People than Prescription Opioids in the U.S. - 676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:54] <exec> 08└─The vast majority of people do not have the higher end skills where employers are willing to hire without an in-person interview. There is little these people can do unless they can afford to travel for a *possible* job, or fully move to a more promising city. So unless they can build up at minimum...
[17:06:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Synthetic Opioids" Now Kill More People than Prescription Opioids in the U.S. - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:56] <exec> 08└─Can't handle the political ideologies that ignore reality in favor of sound-bites that make people feel better about their "fuck you got mine" mentality? Sheesh, what a little emotional sand flea you are!!/s
[17:07:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Instagram to Automatically Filter Out "Bullying" Comments - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:36] <exec> 08└─But the service provider can block protocols at the drop of a hat, so it doesn't matter how many you have. For now our best option is to just blend in with the noise. Anything that stands out is like a flashing beacon that only only gets unwanted attention. If we want to stop the tyrants dead in the...
[17:08:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Launches Barge Carrying Nuclear Power Plant - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:19] <exec> 08└─A few degrees near the ship, and a significant ice-free zone, should have some pretty impressive impact on the local aquatic flora and fauna. Arctic life always jumps on every opportunity.
[17:08:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Launches Barge Carrying Nuclear Power Plant - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:20] <exec> 08└─Russian have previously shown great care to make nuclear power in the arctic safe: You dial it down to half, to give a chance for the bomber to escape, and reduce fallout.
[17:08:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Launches Barge Carrying Nuclear Power Plant - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:22] <exec> 08└─In my nuclear days, our power station used to dump about 700MW of heat into the adjacent estuary. The water was 9C hotter at the cooling water outlet than at the inlet. The marine life loved it and so did the fishermen
[17:08:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Launches Barge Carrying Nuclear Power Plant - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:25] <exec> 08└─> Funny old world that terrorists target Wall Street and the Pentagon but don't bother with the evil empire. You must be American.
[17:08:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Launches Barge Carrying Nuclear Power Plant - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:27] <exec> 08└─Collective heat generation is a lot more common than you think.
[17:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Comcast Won’t Give New Speed Boost to Internet Users Who Don’t Buy TV Service - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:11] <exec> 08└─Comcast provides me 30mbps down and 10mbps up for $39 a month. Nothing anywhere near the numbers mentioned. Not megabytes per second -- 30 megabits, so perhaps 3.6Megabytes per second if nothing is happening between me and the data, the weather is perfect, kids are at school and there is no one in t...
[17:09:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Comcast Won’t Give New Speed Boost to Internet Users Who Don’t Buy TV Service - 660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:12] <exec> 08└─i really have been happy with mp3 vbrs at 320kbps; it goes down to nothing in silence and whatever works in between for anything else. with sennheiser 650HD headphones, I have not found anyone that can notice the difference between a CD itself and the audio file when ripped this way. I never got int...
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[18:03:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Gig Economy Business Model Dealt a Blow in California Ruling - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:41] <exec> 08└─Translation: Pay your employees less than minimum wage, and demand they provide all their own tools for the privilege of working for you. For some reason, that drops your costs quite a bit.
[18:03:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Gig Economy Business Model Dealt a Blow in California Ruling - 1004 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:43] <exec> 08└─Quite. Employers have been getting away with this 1099 stuff and no health care for decades. They don't want a national health care system because they like to use employer provided health care as another hold over their employees. Then they try to weasel out of paying for the health care, with 1099...
[18:03:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gig Economy Business Model Dealt a Blow in California Ruling - 645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:45] <exec> 08└─By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve. -- Robert Frost What is wrong with America is that many bosses are effectively working 4, and the employees are effectively working 12., with no chances for advancement without jumping ship to another vessel...
[18:03:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Gig Economy Business Model Dealt a Blow in California Ruling - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:47] <exec> 08└─thinking of workers as disposable and easily replaceable
[18:03:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gig Economy Business Model Dealt a Blow in California Ruling - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:49] <exec> 08└─or until they fumble their jump and fall into the ocean of unemployment, hoping that someone will cast them a live preserver and drag them aboard a new ship that is better than their old one.
[18:04:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Training The Squirrel Terminator - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:23] <exec> 08└─This crossbow [youtube.com] is better.
[18:04:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Training The Squirrel Terminator - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:25] <exec> 08└─A cat. Unfortunately, about twice a year, a bird would end up a casualty as well. Even now that the cat is gone, the squirrels still keep their distances from the house.
[18:04:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Training The Squirrel Terminator - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:27] <exec> 08└─Yeah, my dog would definitely pee all over my plants, then trample them for added measure as he was chasing the squirrels. Also, your dog's poop shouldn't be turning white anymore. [reddit.com] Might want to have that checked if it's still occurring.
[18:04:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Training The Squirrel Terminator - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:29] <exec> 08└─Yeah, they don't usually bother my food crops. I did these white decorative pumpkins a couple years back, though, and they went crazy on them. It looked like a fricken albino massacre out there!
[18:04:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Training The Squirrel Terminator - 1366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:31] <exec> 08└─If you are going to be building Sentry guns they should at least look like the once from Aliens. It's that or none at all really. I wonder what PETA thinks of this, not that I normally give a shit of what they think. But this seems like something they could get up in arms over. Won't someone think o...
[18:04:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Training The Squirrel Terminator - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:34] <exec> 08└─Paintball gun.
[18:04:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Volkswagen and Audi Cars Vulnerable to Remote Hacking - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:52] <exec> 08└─and people used to sneer when I had to tune the carburetors. And it will be even funnier when the newfangled microwave blasters will be employed (by the police and 100x by the bad guys) and I will tell the guy splattered on the windshield: Let me explain why you failed, this car has no electronics o...
[18:04:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Volkswagen and Audi Cars Vulnerable to Remote Hacking - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:54] <exec> 08└─The question is whether the infotainment system is isolated from the car's driving control system. The article doesn't make this clear. The security researchers think they might have been able to access the acceleration and braking systems but they didn't try it. If they indeed can, that's the road...
[18:04:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Volkswagen and Audi Cars Vulnerable to Remote Hacking - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:56] <exec> 08└─The stupidest part about the shitty clutch/brake requirement, is that many cars have remote start. So, if a sentient being is sitting at the controls, you need extra safety, but if you push a button accidentally while storing your coat inside the house, or playing with the phone app 100 miles away,...
[18:05:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hasbro Acquires Power Rangers and Other Assets From Saban Entertainment for $522 Million - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:05:43] <exec> 08└─Considering how the MCU is Nuking The Fridge, there might be more depth in popple character development.
[18:05:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nvidia V100 GPUs and Google TPUv2 Chips Benchmarked; V100 GPUs Now on Google Cloud - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:05:50] <exec> 08└─that is all.
[18:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Analyzes Forgotten Galileo Data from Flyby of Ganymede - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:13] <exec> 08└─> If there's a moral to the story it is that NASA should publicly release all raw data as it comes in A hundred million times this. Sure, we'd have all sorts of conspiracy whackjobs build elaborate theories about some artifact that they don't understand is part of the detector's tradeoffs. Sure, the...
[18:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Analyzes Forgotten Galileo Data from Flyby of Ganymede - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:15] <exec> 08└─They didnt even preserve the original moonlanding tapes: Or even worse, Dr. Who! [wikipedia.org]
[18:06:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06"Mission Success" for Arkyd-6 Asteroid Prospecting Demonstration Spacecraft - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:30] <exec> 08└─> Sex with starlets is a long forgotten past Nope, can't make it go away, unless you loan me the required $130k.
[18:07:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Synthetic Opioids" Now Kill More People than Prescription Opioids in the U.S. - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:21] <exec> 08└─You don't have to take any of these drugs. Sometimes they don't even know they are! Prince being a recent example. [latimes.com]
[18:08:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Instagram to Automatically Filter Out "Bullying" Comments - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:02] <exec> 08└─"an inclusive, supportive place for all voices," not the ones you're censoring though, right?
[18:08:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Instagram to Automatically Filter Out "Bullying" Comments - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:03] <exec> 08└─Instagram is attempting to automate their censorship.
[18:08:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Instagram to Automatically Filter Out "Bullying" Comments - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:05] <exec> 08└─That kinda shit might work on the chans or Twitter but around here we have a higher standard of trolling. Practice your craft before you take a swing at the big boys.
[18:08:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Launches Barge Carrying Nuclear Power Plant - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:53] <exec> 08└─radioactively contaminate Fort Knox thus rendering the American gold supply worthless
[18:08:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Launches Barge Carrying Nuclear Power Plant - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:54] <exec> 08└─Was going to post the same thing. I think Fort Knox got looted already.
[18:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Comcast Won’t Give New Speed Boost to Internet Users Who Don’t Buy TV Service - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:41] <exec> 08└─no, they think they have power. fuck with my internet enough and see how stupid i get.
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[19:03:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Opera Discontinues its Mobile VPN App - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:40] <exec> 08└─I was able to connect using it just now on Android, and confirmed I was using a different IP address. Guess it's not quite dead yet. Any free alternatives?
[19:03:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Gig Economy Business Model Dealt a Blow in California Ruling - 189 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:47] <exec> 08└─Translation: Pay your employees less than minimum wage, and demand they provide all their own tools for the privilege of working for you. For some reason, that drops your costs quite a bit.
[19:03:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06Gig Economy Business Model Dealt a Blow in California Ruling - 1004 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:49] <exec> 08└─Quite. Employers have been getting away with this 1099 stuff and no health care for decades. They don't want a national health care system because they like to use employer provided health care as another hold over their employees. Then they try to weasel out of paying for the health care, with 1099...
[19:03:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gig Economy Business Model Dealt a Blow in California Ruling - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:54] <exec> 08└─Let the existential terror of simply existing in the US commence! err, CONTINUE!
[19:03:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Gig Economy Business Model Dealt a Blow in California Ruling - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:56] <exec> 08└─Oh, and a quick followup: Don't think you're safe from this because your job is white-collar and requires education. What do you think the ever-increasing H-1B phenomenon is all about? And they're going after doctors, scientists, academics, engineers, etc. They would be doing it with lawyers, too, b...
[19:04:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Training The Squirrel Terminator - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:36] <exec> 08└─Was nervous about covering the A/C exhaust with a metal mesh, it might conduct heat; A/C exhaust is quite hot.
[19:04:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Training The Squirrel Terminator - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:37] <exec> 08└─Twice a year only? Maybe he kept his bird kills secret from you...
[19:04:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Training The Squirrel Terminator - 1844 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:39] <exec> 08└─I bought a trap. I might get a crossbow. With the trap, you need to do something like dunk it in a lake to kill the squirrel. I guess fire might work too. Put the squirrel on its back. Pinch the skin of the abdomen, pulling it outward a bit, and then start your cut there. Go around the crotch. Next,...
[19:05:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Volkswagen and Audi Cars Vulnerable to Remote Hacking - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:01] <exec> 08└─The question is whether the infotainment system is isolated from the car's driving control system.
[19:06:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02 - 06"Synthetic Opioids" Now Kill More People than Prescription Opioids in the U.S. - 106 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:48] <exec> 08└─You DO know that many people who get addicted start out taking opoids for legitimate medical reasons, yes?
[19:07:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Synthetic Opioids" Now Kill More People than Prescription Opioids in the U.S. - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:25] <exec> 08└─We all know you actually mean "Drug-dealing-while-brown."
[19:08:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Instagram to Automatically Filter Out "Bullying" Comments - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:09] <exec> 08└─wawu wawooooo its the speech police! people like you cry about "bigots" then call the cops on black guys in starbucks.
[19:08:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Instagram to Automatically Filter Out "Bullying" Comments - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:11] <exec> 08└─Oh you're a big boy now? Maybe its time to stop shitting your pants and learn to use the potty like civilized adults.
[19:08:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Instagram to Automatically Filter Out "Bullying" Comments - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:13] <exec> 08└─And yet if Reddit did that you'd be screaming your head off.
[19:08:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Instagram to Automatically Filter Out "Bullying" Comments - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:15] <exec> 08└─Too bad we haven't found you a cure for stupid. Don't worry we have TOP MEN on it. Until then we'll need to confiscate your guns until you're cured or you can pass the minimum IQ test. Due to budget cuts we're forced to use the test from North Korea so you might need to bone up on your Korean langua...
[19:08:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Instagram to Automatically Filter Out "Bullying" Comments - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:18] <exec> 08└─wawu wawooooo its the speech police! people like you cry about "bigots" then call the cops on black guys in starbucks. I think the complaint is that Buzzard IS the speech police he's always complaining about. "All censorship is bad except for all the stuff I want to censor."
[19:08:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Instagram to Automatically Filter Out "Bullying" Comments - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:20] <exec> 08└─Plus the grandstanding method of posting hateful shit repeatedly to try and prove some sort of point about free speech? But then cries like an outraged baby when someone says "oh you must be a bigoted shithead then!" Such people only play into the hands of the real authoritarians but sadly they are...
[19:08:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Instagram to Automatically Filter Out "Bullying" Comments - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:22] <exec> 08└─I used tabs for a long time, switched to spaces a few years ago. Honestly, both methods blow monkey balls. Can 2019 be the year of the elastic tabstop [nickgravgaard.com]?
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[20:03:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Tells Signal's Creators to Stop Using Anti-Censorship Tool - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:45] <exec> 08└─Just one more reason why malware purveyors should be hung by their private parts.
[20:03:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opera Discontinues its Mobile VPN App - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:53] <exec> 08└─So ... you acquire a company, add their product to yours, but it the original developers leave 3 years later, you have to pull it back out? Someone near the top needs to get fired for gross incompetence.
[20:03:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Opera Discontinues its Mobile VPN App - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:55] <exec> 08└─what makes you think this or any free vpn is a good idea
[20:03:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Opera Discontinues its Mobile VPN App - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:57] <exec> 08└─What makes you think a paid VPN is any better?
[20:04:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Gig Economy Business Model Dealt a Blow in California Ruling - 381 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:10] <exec> 08└─Oh, and a quick followup: Don't think you're safe from this because your job is white-collar and requires education. What do you think the ever-increasing H-1B phenomenon is all about? And they're going after doctors, scientists, academics, engineers, etc. They would be doing it with lawyers, too, b...
[20:04:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gig Economy Business Model Dealt a Blow in California Ruling - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:11] <exec> 08└─Much like the incredibly screwed on CARB(California..) gas cans perhaps it's time that things are not based in California and/or not do business in California.
[20:04:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gig Economy Business Model Dealt a Blow in California Ruling - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:13] <exec> 08└─In before TMB starts bitching that everyone is just whining and the job market is fiiiine.
[20:04:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gig Economy Business Model Dealt a Blow in California Ruling - 661 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:15] <exec> 08└─1.5x is more than enough. You can deduct a TON of things under 10-99 that you can't under W2. You can basically deduct almost everything. Unfortunately Obama screwed up health care costs for everyone(healthy people, sick people) so that made health care about 5x what it was, but eventually that shou...
[20:04:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gig Economy Business Model Dealt a Blow in California Ruling - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:18] <exec> 08└─It's tough to sell innovative superficial crap in Tennessee, and it's generally much harder to become a billionaire selling stuff in Mississippi. Turns out that addressing the CA market is pretty attractive. Too bad it comes with rules, right ?
[20:04:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Gig Economy Business Model Dealt a Blow in California Ruling - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:20] <exec> 08└─He'll just hop on a thread above you and pretend he got there first. Probably update the timestamp in the DB too just to fuck with you since he's such a worthless troll.
[20:04:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gig Economy Business Model Dealt a Blow in California Ruling - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:22] <exec> 08└─Awww just let them hate on California, the bastion of all evil and misery in their lives /s
[20:05:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Training The Squirrel Terminator - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:05] <exec> 08└─The real motivation of course, is getting squirrels out of the yard. You might as well not waste them.
[20:05:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Training The Squirrel Terminator - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:07] <exec> 08└─That's a pretty good description of how to skin a deer, or an elk, too - just, everything is one or two orders of magnitude larger.
[20:05:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Training The Squirrel Terminator - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:09] <exec> 08└─Oh! For a bird feeder you should use the slinky method. Mount the feeder on a tall poll and attach a slinky that drops down along the poll. They climb up the poll, then grab the slinky and fall to the ground, very frustrating for them.
[20:05:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Training The Squirrel Terminator - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:11] <exec> 08└─Is a nail gun sufficiently non lethal?
[20:05:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Training The Squirrel Terminator - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:13] <exec> 08└─I do think you may be over-engineering this.
[20:05:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Volkswagen and Audi Cars Vulnerable to Remote Hacking - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:36] <exec> 08└─My Volkswagen (c. 2014) activates the odometer display when the driver's door is opened with the engine off. I haven't timed how long it stays on, but it will turn itself off again a short time after the door is closed.
[20:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GEDmatch: "What If It Was Called Police Genealogy?" - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:13] <exec> 08└─If I had a blood relative who's a serial killer, and he was caught because I submitted DNA to a genealogy company, it wouldn't bother me. The same goes for any other violent crime. I've heard of DNA evidence being misrepresented in court, but that's a bigger issue with expert testimony and standards...
[20:08:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Instagram to Automatically Filter Out "Bullying" Comments - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:50] <exec> 08└─You seem to be the one shitting your pants here.
[20:08:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Instagram to Automatically Filter Out "Bullying" Comments - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:52] <exec> 08└─but can be disabled. Uh huh... Got a nice bridge for ya... I bet you believe all those 'privacy policies' too!
[20:08:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Instagram to Automatically Filter Out "Bullying" Comments - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:54] <exec> 08└─I've always heard the word used to mean one specific person persistantly harming another specific person frequently over a long period of time without good reason, with malicious intent, and almost always in such a way as violates the second persons rights, though not necessarily. USAians seem to us...
[20:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Launches Barge Carrying Nuclear Power Plant - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:43] <exec> 08└─It seems like greenpeace is assuming its vulnerable since it can't move itself out of their way, while new reports it as safe since there aren't tsunamis or cyclones in the arctic. But that's just an AC's speculation on what those other parties may have been thinking when they came to conflicting op...
[20:11:13] <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 - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:13] <exec> 08└─Look, you turlingdrome, stop swutting your nasty joojooflops around here or I'll have to rend you in the gobblewarts with my blundercruncheon! But even though I now remember thanks to your fnord-destroying recitation, and I know that must have been the first version of the Guide I read, I think I sp...
[20:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 937 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:15] <exec> 08└─LOL, then it's really fucking useless. I understand that on my side of things, I'm just storing an email containing a link. That's no different than some of the file sharing services out there operating professionally, since most mail servers will tell you to fuck off when you try a 250GB attachment...
[20:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:16] <exec> 08└─You have now placed the Mission Impossible theme in my head as an earworm. Except the long burning fuse leads straight into my NIC and proceeds along the connection pathway to their server where it explodes into EMail: Impossible.
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[21:03:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Amazon Tells Signal's Creators to Stop Using Anti-Censorship Tool - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:45] <exec> 08└─Amazon and Google are in the right here. Any practice which subverts the integrity of the DNS system, regardless of the intent, is an attack on the entire Internet. It's unfortunate that the "good guys" are on the wrong end of this, but the responsibility isn't with the potential malware authors or...
[21:03:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Tells Signal's Creators to Stop Using Anti-Censorship Tool - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:46] <exec> 08└─With solutions like that, no wonder we can't have nice things. As always, the best solution isn't to attack symptoms, but rather to manage causes. For thwarting malware, the world of course needs much more rigorously designed computing systems. For protecting against authoritarian censorship, the In...
[21:03:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Amazon Tells Signal's Creators to Stop Using Anti-Censorship Tool - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:48] <exec> 08└─Why not both?
[21:03:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Tells Signal's Creators to Stop Using Anti-Censorship Tool - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:51] <exec> 08└─Indeed, that's how such censorship is possible already. DNS and IP routing are easily captured by centralized, authoritarian gans, such as governments.
[21:03:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Tells Signal's Creators to Stop Using Anti-Censorship Tool - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:53] <exec> 08└─You can try to kill all the cold viruses in the world, but it's a much better idea to figure out how to make one's own immune system thwart infection. While malware authors should be despised, their success should be interpreted as one's own failure; if retaliation is not allowed by one's philosophi...
[21:03:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Tells Signal's Creators to Stop Using Anti-Censorship Tool - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:55] <exec> 08└─Honest question. Can anyone explain to me how this domain fronting works, and why it's supposedly needed? What's the difference between the app having a list of hundred innocent looking domains to contact, or an equal length list of ip addresses? I presume both could easily get blocked if the regime...
[21:03:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Tells Signal's Creators to Stop Using Anti-Censorship Tool - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:57] <exec> 08└─Make a distributed social network something like Fidonet. Encode the nightly batches into cat pics. We could call it Mittens-net.
[21:03:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Tells Signal's Creators to Stop Using Anti-Censorship Tool - 577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:00] <exec> 08└─It costs money to maintain a bunch of innocuous looking domains; forcing that cost onto people is itself a kind of censorship. You pay government to pay agents to find those innocuous domains and then ban them. "fronting" works by running your service in someone's "cloud"; if your service is running...
[21:04:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Tells Signal's Creators to Stop Using Anti-Censorship Tool - 1063 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:02] <exec> 08└─So here is the letter that AWS sent to Signal. Yesterday AWS became aware of your Github and Hacker News/ycombinator posts describing how Signal plans to make its traffic look like traffic from another site, (popularly known as “domain fronting”) by using a domain owned by Amazon -- Souq.com. Yo...
[21:04:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opera Discontinues its Mobile VPN App - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:12] <exec> 08└─PIA.
[21:04:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Gig Economy Business Model Dealt a Blow in California Ruling - 56 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:23] <exec> 08└─thinking of workers as disposable and easily replaceable
[21:04:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gig Economy Business Model Dealt a Blow in California Ruling - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:33] <exec> 08└─You can deduct a TON of things under 10-99 that you can't under W2. You can basically deduct almost everything.
[21:04:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gig Economy Business Model Dealt a Blow in California Ruling - 1409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:35] <exec> 08└─...[the Capitalist Ownership Class will] go to the government and say "[...]make immigration easier" Our undamped pendulum of a Chief Executive, in his usual ignorant swinging-from-one-extreme-to-another mode recently pulled a move that will apparently put a chill on importing knowledgeable people....
[21:04:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gig Economy Business Model Dealt a Blow in California Ruling - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:37] <exec> 08└─You left out an important part of the picture: Republican-majority Congresses[1] since Reagan have cut and cut again funding for enforcement agencies. People who clearly aren't in management have been put on salary by USAian corps and required to work what amounts to unpaid overtime. In the extreme,...
[21:04:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gig Economy Business Model Dealt a Blow in California Ruling - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:39] <exec> 08└─It's not all about Uber. But for starts their vehicle, cell phone, car insurance start it off pretty well..
[21:04:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gig Economy Business Model Dealt a Blow in California Ruling - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:41] <exec> 08└─By and large, we're the pace-setter for the nation and the world. It came as a shock to me when Cali wasn't the 1st state to legalize possessing weed. ...now, if we could just get that public school textbook thing going our way (instead of Texas' way). -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[21:04:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gig Economy Business Model Dealt a Blow in California Ruling - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:43] <exec> 08└─He doesn't seem the type to do that. He and people like him have...not honor, exactly, but like most people with no actual morals they have some fairly exacting standards, and one of his seems to be "cause all my trouble directly." If you ask why he'd probably phrase it something closer to "I don't...
[21:05:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] 02 - 06Training The Squirrel Terminator - 1614 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:05:05] <exec> 08└─They are tiny demons. They've broken windows and air conditioners to get in and run raids at my place (on the third floor) spilling food and poop everywhere. Replaced some of the window screens with steel and bolted them to the frames after the squirrels chewed through a few window screens and broke...
[21:05:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Training The Squirrel Terminator - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:05:32] <exec> 08└─If you truly area gardener, you would realize that dog shit is also know as free natural fertilizer.
[21:05:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Training The Squirrel Terminator - 1210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:05:33] <exec> 08└─Screw "non-lethal." Just kill them all!!! My experience... which just happened 3 weeks ago... I went out to run some errands. Cranked up the car and it wouldn't start. Called AAA for a tow. OFC, they send a jump start unit instead of a tow truck even thought I knew it wasn't the battery. They try to...
[21:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Volkswagen and Audi Cars Vulnerable to Remote Hacking - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:05:59] <exec> 08└─I'm not saying the safety feature should not exist. I'm saying you should not be required to bet your life (or your undamaged car) on it, merely so you can check the odometer. Belt and suspenders. Defense in depth, especially where life, injury, or large financial damage are on the line. But for FSM...
[21:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China is Mining Data Directly from Workers’ Brains on an Industrial Scale - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:20] <exec> 08└─A government will never work in the end, because it's based on the philosophy that "Might" makes "Right". Pointing a gun in someone's face as saying "Do as I say" is not capitalism; rather, capitalism is pointing a gun in someone's face and saying "Do as we previously agreed", which of course implie...
[21:06:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GEDmatch: "What If It Was Called Police Genealogy?" - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:40] <exec> 08└─Welcome to foot in the door. Now imagine having your Health Insurance revoked or denied because your brother/sister/parent submitted DNA proving your family carries a gene that causes increased chance of cancer. Slippery-slop? All slopes are slippery my friend.
[21:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Launches Barge Carrying Nuclear Power Plant - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:09] <exec> 08└─As I understand it, the reactor will only be 'bobbing around' the Arctic when it's en route to its installed location. That will happen after initial testing in St. Petersburg, so there will be some fission products, but mostly the fuel will be less radioactive uranium. I submit that the 'shockingly...
[21:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:42] <exec> 08└─Corporate makes our IT auto-destruct email after 2 years
[21:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:44] <exec> 08└─lowest hanging
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[22:03:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNC's Lawsuit Against WikiLeaks is an Attack on Freedom of the Press - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:46] <exec> 08└─Maybe, the DNC and its' members should stop writing about the stupid and illegal shit they do in emails to each other. The should look into investing in some etch-a-sketch toys and they could communicate with each other that way so in an emergency the could just shake the things and all the stupid s...
[22:03:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06DNC's Lawsuit Against WikiLeaks is an Attack on Freedom of the Press - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:47] <exec> 08└─Illegally penetrating an email server is not an expression of free speech.
[22:03:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNC's Lawsuit Against WikiLeaks is an Attack on Freedom of the Press - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:50] <exec> 08└─It's a bad look for the DNC. Everyone knows they f'ed up, first by doing whatever crap came to light in the emails, and then being incompetent enough to get hacked. Now comes the whine about getting exposed. And then they wonder why people don't vote Blue.
[22:03:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNC's Lawsuit Against WikiLeaks is an Attack on Freedom of the Press - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:52] <exec> 08└─And what illegal shit, exactly, did the emails expose?
[22:03:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNC's Lawsuit Against WikiLeaks is an Attack on Freedom of the Press - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:54] <exec> 08└─Airing that illegally exposed dirty laundry is, however.
[22:03:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNC's Lawsuit Against WikiLeaks is an Attack on Freedom of the Press - 1234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:56] <exec> 08└─I've been an Independent since being old enough to vote, and while Team D usually gets my votes, it's been harder and harder to justify over the years. What the DNC did to Sanders was despicable, leaving aside that he may actually have managed to beat Trump. I hate dynastic politics, and sincerely h...
[22:03:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNC's Lawsuit Against WikiLeaks is an Attack on Freedom of the Press - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:59] <exec> 08└─#CrookedHillary, unless you're implying that she was already exposed elsewhere.
[22:04:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNC's Lawsuit Against WikiLeaks is an Attack on Freedom of the Press - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:01] <exec> 08└─Why do the poor need a voice? All they're going to say is "give, give, give".
[22:04:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Web Services Threatens to Kick Out Signal Messaging App Over Domain Fronting - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:18] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=26385&title=Amazon+Web+Services+Threatens+to+Kick+Out+Signal+Messaging+App+Over+Domain+Fronting [soylentnews.org]
[22:04:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Web Services Threatens to Kick Out Signal Messaging App Over Domain Fronting - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:20] <exec> 08└─Normally I am in favor of good things and against bad things. But in this case I will differ. :-) Yes, software should be made as secure as possible. But that does not negate my point about how malware purveyors should be treated. And I think my suggestion for their treatment is quite generous, cons...
[22:04:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Web Services Threatens to Kick Out Signal Messaging App Over Domain Fronting - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:22] <exec> 08└─the best solution isn't to attack symptoms, but rather to manage causes
[22:04:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Web Services Threatens to Kick Out Signal Messaging App Over Domain Fronting - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:24] <exec> 08└─Can anyone explain to me how this domain fronting works
[22:04:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Web Services Threatens to Kick Out Signal Messaging App Over Domain Fronting - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:26] <exec> 08└─I remember back in the day of Geoshitties, when China didn't mess around and blocked all of its IP addresses, because someone put up a "Free Tibet" site.
[22:04:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opera Discontinues its Mobile VPN App - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:38] <exec> 08└─That's not just the acronym for Private Internet Access.
[22:05:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Gig Economy Business Model Dealt a Blow in California Ruling - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:05] <exec> 08└─Translation: Pay your employees less than minimum wage, and demand they provide all their own tools for the privilege of working for you. For some reason, that drops your costs quite a bit.
[22:05:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Gig Economy Business Model Dealt a Blow in California Ruling - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:06] <exec> 08└─It came as a shock to me when Cali wasn't the 1st state to legalize possessing weed.
[22:05:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Gig Economy Business Model Dealt a Blow in California Ruling - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:08] <exec> 08└─What is wrong with America is that many bosses are effectively working 4, and the employees are effectively working 12., with no chances for advancement without jumping ship to another vessel passing in the night.
[22:05:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Gig Economy Business Model Dealt a Blow in California Ruling - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:10] <exec> 08└─Let the existential terror of simply existing in the US commence! err, CONTINUE!
[22:05:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Gig Economy Business Model Dealt a Blow in California Ruling - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:13] <exec> 08└─In the extreme, you get what Japan has.
[22:05:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Gig Economy Business Model Dealt a Blow in California Ruling - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:15] <exec> 08└─Turns out that addressing the CA market is pretty attractive. Too bad it comes with rules, right ?
[22:05:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gig Economy Business Model Dealt a Blow in California Ruling - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:17] <exec> 08└─Mississippi is a shithole for the most part. There are tons of other places that have opportunity. Texas maybe?
[22:05:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gig Economy Business Model Dealt a Blow in California Ruling - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:19] <exec> 08└─At the other end of the spectrum, Kansas already failed hard. Whether politicians calm down on extreme behavior, and forget about compromise being a dirty word, remains to be seen.
[22:07:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GEDmatch: "What If It Was Called Police Genealogy?" - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:14] <exec> 08└─Yes, let's ban all slopes then.
[22:07:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GEDmatch: "What If It Was Called Police Genealogy?" - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:16] <exec> 08└─It's better for some murderers to die free, unpunished, than to let our DNA fall into the hands of law enforcement. DNA Evidence Can Be Fabricated, Scientists Show [nytimes.com] If you thought having your social security number or SF-86 form [wikipedia.org] hanging out in the wild was bad, just wait...
[22:07:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GEDmatch: "What If It Was Called Police Genealogy?" - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:18] <exec> 08└─Meh, cops planting evidence is hardly a new thing. That they could do it with DNA is scientifically interesting, but hardly a reason to ignore all DNA evidence. You just have to include that possibility in your Bayesian priors. It's better for some murderers to die free, unpunished, than to let our...
[22:09:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Synthetic Opioids" Now Kill More People than Prescription Opioids in the U.S. - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:06] <exec> 08└─I agree. Death penalty for big pharma!
[22:09:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Synthetic Opioids" Now Kill More People than Prescription Opioids in the U.S. - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:07] <exec> 08└─Smoke and mirrors, eh?
[22:09:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Synthetic Opioids" Now Kill More People than Prescription Opioids in the U.S. - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:09] <exec> 08└─who supports the on going destruction of our environment
[22:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Synthetic Opioids" Now Kill More People than Prescription Opioids in the U.S. - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:11] <exec> 08└─But of course you were going to miss the point in favour of an ad hominem.
[22:10:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03gawdonblue [412] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Launches Barge Carrying Nuclear Power Plant - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:55] <exec> 08└─Indded, particularly in Russia.
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[23:03:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tens of Thousands of Malicious Apps Using Facebook APIs - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:42] <exec> 08└─And how do they differ from Facebook itself? It also does anything it can to sniff out your personal data for nefarious purposes.
[23:03:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNC's Lawsuit Against WikiLeaks is an Attack on Freedom of the Press - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:57] <exec> 08└─For Internet Savvy Potheads? If you think Team Blue is worth having, you're conveniently forgetting the 90s, during which the Clipper Chip, Encryption as a munition, and the DMCA were all being pushed. Red, White, and Blue politics all need to die in the US, preferably at the point of a spear.
[23:03:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNC's Lawsuit Against WikiLeaks is an Attack on Freedom of the Press - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:59] <exec> 08└─Tipper Gore anyone?
[23:04:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06DNC's Lawsuit Against WikiLeaks is an Attack on Freedom of the Press - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:01] <exec> 08└─Was there ever an FBI director that didn't support a war on encryption in the last 2 decades? Christopher Wray has had the exact same positions and talking points as Comey, and the next guy will say the same shit too. As for third parties, fat chance seeing a Green in office. We may see some kind of...
[23:04:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aurean [4924] (Score: 1, Disagree) 02 - 06DNC's Lawsuit Against WikiLeaks is an Attack on Freedom of the Press - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:03] <exec> 08└─WikiLeaks' role in this wasn't just the dissemination of information, it was *who* they got it from and their intent behind publishing the emails. WikiLeaks knowingly acted in concert with the Russians and/or the Trump campaign (per Junior's messages with Assange). *That* is the problem here. The in...
[23:04:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Captival [6866] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06DNC's Lawsuit Against WikiLeaks is an Attack on Freedom of the Press - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:06] <exec> 08└─I realize you're a moron, but Wikileaks correspondence with Trump Jr happened AFTER they publicly released [theguardian.com] the same files.
[23:04:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNC's Lawsuit Against WikiLeaks is an Attack on Freedom of the Press - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:08] <exec> 08└─And what illegal shit, exactly, did the emails expose?
[23:04:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Web Services Threatens to Kick Out Signal Messaging App Over Domain Fronting - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:30] <exec> 08└─Censorship interprets the Internet as damage and routes around it.
[23:05:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Gig Economy Business Model Dealt a Blow in California Ruling - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:16] <exec> 08└─At the other end of the spectrum, Kansas already failed hard.
[23:05:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gig Economy Business Model Dealt a Blow in California Ruling - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:18] <exec> 08└─Good. It was pure gaming the system from the employer's side.
[23:05:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gig Economy Business Model Dealt a Blow in California Ruling - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:20] <exec> 08└─Are you threatening us, again, khallow? Please don't free market us!
[23:05:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gig Economy Business Model Dealt a Blow in California Ruling - 966 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:22] <exec> 08└─Ah yes, khallow the shit-equivocator. Well lets see, first off any country with universal healthcare! No worries about getting buried under a mountain of deb due to some medical issue beyond your control. Any country with decent services to help the unemployed / disabled, along with free education....
[23:05:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gig Economy Business Model Dealt a Blow in California Ruling - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:25] <exec> 08└─dumbass is dumb, news at 11 The problem here is the mindset of most business owners who remove all humanity from the workplace. I cry tears of joy every time I read about some asshat of a boss getting screwed when a near irreplaceable employee finally quits. That same mindset is what is driving dema...
[23:05:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gig Economy Business Model Dealt a Blow in California Ruling - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:27] <exec> 08└─Were you beaten with the clueless bat from birth?
[23:05:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gig Economy Business Model Dealt a Blow in California Ruling - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:29] <exec> 08└─Yeah I know, but I like to give him shit since that is 90% of what he does to everyone else. I was 100% trolling, but of course that is one time where he doesn't accuse me of it. I guess he only accuses legitimate observations of trolling so that he can mentally detach from having to seriously consi...
[23:05:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bean Dip [5604] 02 - 06Training The Squirrel Terminator - 41 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:50] <exec> 08└─You forgot the backyard full of dog shit.
[23:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Training The Squirrel Terminator - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:19] <exec> 08└─As in the old days, make examples of the most brave of the demon hoard. Mount them on miniature pikes about your gardens and window sills. At the very least you will have some squirrel cannibalism videos for youtube.
[23:06:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Training The Squirrel Terminator - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:21] <exec> 08└─I'd like to use the same system for deer. They destroy my garden and most flowers too. Neural Net to recognize deer and hit them with pressurized water & paint or whatever would be useful and fun to watch. I'm in the city limits so I can't fill my freezer with their bodies, unfortunately. Maybe I ca...
[23:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Training The Squirrel Terminator - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:23] <exec> 08└─I can see one problem with that... Being the internet, I would expect random idiots to use the water gun on the birds as well.
[23:06:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06China is Mining Data Directly from Workers’ Brains on an Industrial Scale - 558 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:59] <exec> 08└─This is pretty interesting stuff, and really shows how different the Chinese approach is to the American approach. Apparently, in China, they seek to minimize worker stress so as to increase efficiency and reduce costly mistakes. That seems to be a sensible goal if your objective is maximizing long-...
[23:07:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China is Mining Data Directly from Workers’ Brains on an Industrial Scale - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:10] <exec> 08└─Only for low value jobs.
[23:07:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China is Mining Data Directly from Workers’ Brains on an Industrial Scale - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:12] <exec> 08└─Some people actually seek out situations which may appear stressful to others. I have always sought out high stress positions as they pay more and the stress does not bother me as long as I know I am doing my best work that I can.
[23:07:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GEDmatch: "What If It Was Called Police Genealogy?" - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:35] <exec> 08└─Dirty cops, or anybody with the right tools (which will decline in cost) who can get a hold of your digital genomic sequence. And once your genome is outed, you're essentially compromised forever. We shed DNA all the time, and cops are going pick up those crumbs.
[23:09:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03http [1920] 02 - 06Instagram to Automatically Filter Out "Bullying" Comments - 101 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:51] <exec> 08└─Hey, just a heads up, re: your current sig: My preferred pronouns are wetback/faggot/cunt. Your move.
[23:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Instagram to Automatically Filter Out "Bullying" Comments - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
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