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[00:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:25] <exec> 08└─With a convincing conservative majority on the Supreme Court to deal with any politically motivated appeals, President Trump finally has a chance to see #CrookedHillary go to jail.
[00:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:27] <exec> 08└─The idiots are chanting, what say we get one of those big wooden crosses to really seal the deal?
[00:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:29] <exec> 08└─The idiots are chanting, what say we get one of those big wooden crosses to really seal the deal?
[00:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:31] <exec> 08└─Are you implying that #CrookedHillary is afro-American? I find that hard to believe.
[00:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:33] <exec> 08└─Shhh. We aren't supposed to remind that people that the KKK was the terror wing of the Democratic Party up until Antifa replaced them when the Party made a shift in direction in the 1960s. Ever since the Klan has been a punch line since the first rule of terrorism is you really need a State sponsor...
[00:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 853 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:36] <exec> 08└─If we could just get Ginsberg, Breyer and Thomas to go ahead and allow themselves to be replaced in the next year the Court would fade into unimportance, as it should. We should NOT be hanging on the slightest rumor of the leaning of the courts. They should be a known, stable quantity such that a re...
[00:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Qualcomm Announces New Mid-Range 632, 439, and 429 Snapdragon SoCs - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:44] <exec> 08└─or does this sound like a paraphrased press release.
[00:15:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Making 'Rapid' Upgrades to Nuclear Reactor Despite Summit Pledges - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:06] <exec> 08└─Trump provided us with valuable Trump-Kim memes for our meme economy. Their value will rise (temporarily) in the event of a nuclear conflict.
[00:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Making 'Rapid' Upgrades to Nuclear Reactor Despite Summit Pledges - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:07] <exec> 08└─NK realizing Trump is a dumbass and they can do whatever they want is on Trump
[00:15:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Undercover Dark Web Bust Leads to More Than 35 Arrests - 696 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:52] <exec> 08└─Knowing how expensive a many-agency operation tends to be, (think of just the meetings, for instance) does this not seem like a meager pile of spoils? "Over 100 guns" is one ordinary collector's worth. And those "Bitcoin mining devices", were they Raspberry Pis or something bigger? For a huge operat...
[00:16:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Geologists Detail Likely Site of San Andreas Fault's Next Major Quake - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:17] <exec> 08└─Yes but the Colorado River had flowed into Salton Basin before 1905. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[00:16:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Geologists Detail Likely Site of San Andreas Fault's Next Major Quake - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:18] <exec> 08└─You may be correct, I wouldn't know about North America, but before Christchurch in New Zealand was hit with a 7.1 quake in 2010 it was considered a low-risk area. Of course it may have been "low-risk" by New Zealand standards, which would be high risk most other places. I am just making the point...
[00:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LG's V40 Smartphone Could Include Five Cameras - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:14] <exec> 08└─You see, i see this (and the next article about MS facial recognition) as TERRIFYING!! We have a phone that wants to DETAIL map in 3D for "phone unlocking" and 'better' software for facial recognition. Does anybody else get their curly's itching at this (these)? Fuck NO, you can't map my face like t...
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[01:13:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 97 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:35] <exec> 08└─The idiots are chanting, what say we get one of those big wooden crosses to really seal the deal?
[01:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:40] <exec> 08└─She probably would identify as trans-racial for political gain except being black would apparently make her a Super Predator. [youtube.com] Most and honest and intellectually consistent thing she could do really.
[01:13:41] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03NewNic [6420] 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 228 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:42] <exec> 08└─With a solid majority of reasonably young Strict Constructionists on the court there would be stability for a long enough period of time we would lose the habit of expecting the court to suddenly rewrite our laws without notice.
[01:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:44] <exec> 08└─Nice ad hominem attacks. Could it be you have no real argument or haven't thought through your faith-based beliefs enough to reasonably defend them? All evidence points to YES.
[01:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:46] <exec> 08└─Rewriting a previous bogus decision is perfectly fine. The current fetish for precedent is improper beyond very narrow bounds. Rewriting laws and the Constitution is not ok. A court packed with Strict Constructionists would spend the first few years tossing a lot of bullcrap the previous courts have...
[01:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:49] <exec> 08└─All evidence points to you being a prick, since I provided a specific example from today, showing how jmorris is wrong.
[01:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 843 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:51] <exec> 08└─A few points: - "Strict Constructionists" : Are you paying any attention to the highly partisan nomination process ? - "tossing a lot of bullcrap the previous courts have imposed on the country" : That's what the Legislative branch is for. If the law is ambiguous and you don't like the interpretatio...
[01:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 902 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:53] <exec> 08└─Yes, judges who say things like the founding farmers and the courts of old could not have envisioned the current situation, so the laws should be reinterpreted to match it are clearly activists new laws in a power grab and should be stopped. If the people really wanted something, they should just am...
[01:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:55] <exec> 08└─Hey, I went on record in that thread that I thought the minority opinion was the right one in the sales tax debacle. I gotta make the time to wade through the actual text of the decision before I'd be willing to get into a long debate over just how they managed to f*ck that one up. And why wouldn't...
[01:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:58] <exec> 08└─How I wish you posted that under your real pseudoname. ;-) Too awesome.
[01:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:00] <exec> 08└─So, not something that would seamlessly adapt to changes in its environment, but instead something which requires specific step changes by an external intelligent designer?
[01:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:02] <exec> 08└─Exactly. Changes would have to come from We the People instead of nine, usually senile, old fools in robes. Rule of Law requires one to know what the Law is, and in our current system that isn't possible because the current system requires you break the law, take a case to SCOTUS and see if they wil...
[01:14:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:05] <exec> 08└─Upmodding -1 posts because Soylent News doesn't recognize downmodding as useful, which it is. More useful than upmodding trolls.
[01:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:07] <exec> 08└─a whole bunch of lower courts have ruled in inconsistent ways
[01:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03IndigoFreak [3415] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Force “Light Attack” Test Aircraft Crashes on Bomb Range, Killing Pilot - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:38] <exec> 08└─I came in to ask this question. And it's slightly related to this particular thread. Why do we spend so much money making a new type of aircraft? Did the plans for the A-10 burn up in some warehouse fire? Why when planes start to age and maintenance becomes too costly do we not just make a brand new...
[01:15:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Making 'Rapid' Upgrades to Nuclear Reactor Despite Summit Pledges - 681 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:39] <exec> 08└─I didn't read the article and only skimmed the summary. The dark side of my brain immediately presumed this was another push from Democrats/Democrat sympathizers for America to become even more war-hawkish, and that just made it all too tiresome to even bother with. The weird thing, as much as I hat...
[01:16:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Undercover Dark Web Bust Leads to More Than 35 Arrests - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:16:25] <exec> 08└─MorphOS on a PowerMac G5 is probably OK...
[01:16:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Undercover Dark Web Bust Leads to More Than 35 Arrests - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:16:26] <exec> 08└─Exactly. I much prefer to go catching than fishing.
[01:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Clean Your Filthy, Disgusting Laptop - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:33] <exec> 08└─That's some expensive ISO! I wonder why it's so much more expensive there.
[01:18:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Clean Your Filthy, Disgusting Laptop - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:34] <exec> 08└─"On cheaper keyboards with industrial-grade dishwasher detergent, you might lose the printed letters, but real programmers don't need those anyhow" On better keyboards, you may pay extra to get someone to rescue the keys from the assembly line before they have been marred with cheap paint. https://w...
[01:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another Major Beermaker is Looking at Ways to Enter the Cannabis Business - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:56] <exec> 08└─alcoholics beating their wife/macho man wannabes
[01:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bank of International Settlements: Bitcoin is a Bubble, a Ponzi Scheme and an Environmental Disaster - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:26] <exec> 08└─Real wealth building requires acquiring and holding real estate.
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[02:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reality Winner Pleads Guilty to Leaking NSA Election Hacking Data - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:30] <exec> 08└─You say that like it's a bad thing.
[02:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Reality Winner Pleads Guilty to Leaking NSA Election Hacking Data - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:32] <exec> 08└─with Manning.
[02:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reality Winner Pleads Guilty to Leaking NSA Election Hacking Data - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:34] <exec> 08└─It's a little late for that. Unless there's a reverse pardon/commutation power I haven't heard about. Plus Chelsea Manning was in a military prison, not federal.
[02:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reality Winner Pleads Guilty to Leaking NSA Election Hacking Data - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:36] <exec> 08└─Now that she has been convicted should she change her name from "Reality Winner" to "Real Loser"? Or maybe "Guilty As Charged"?
[02:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reality Winner Pleads Guilty to Leaking NSA Election Hacking Data - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:38] <exec> 08└─On February 11, 2017, just two days before she began employment as an NSA contractor, she wrote that "the most dangerous entry to this country was the orange fascist we let into the White House” on her Twitter account.[22] She described President Donald Trump as "a soulless ginger orangutan" on he...
[02:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reality Winner Pleads Guilty to Leaking NSA Election Hacking Data - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:40] <exec> 08└─In reality, she did win: time in a cell, notoriety, and an entry in spy guidebooks under 'opsec fails: case studies'
[02:13:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NewNic [6420] 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 119 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:58] <exec> 08└─All evidence points to you being a prick, since I provided a specific example from today, showing how jmorris is wrong.
[02:13:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 843 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:59] <exec> 08└─A few points: - "Strict Constructionists" : Are you paying any attention to the highly partisan nomination process ? - "tossing a lot of bullcrap the previous courts have imposed on the country" : That's what the Legislative branch is for. If the law is ambiguous and you don't like the interpretatio...
[02:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:08] <exec> 08└─a whole bunch of lower courts have ruled in inconsistent ways
[02:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:10] <exec> 08└─They mostly don't take clear cases.
[02:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:12] <exec> 08└─The bar is too high to make amendments to the constitution. (Too lazy to link to the process. Google it.) As a result, you have a constitution that we amend over time in practice but not by changing the written word. Were it easier to amend, then we could follow it more literally. But you still have...
[02:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:15] <exec> 08└─…nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
[02:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:17] <exec> 08└─Why are the Democrats about to restart their KKK chapters? Why bother, the Republicans' are already up and running.
[02:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:19] <exec> 08└─The constitution is very clear about the president having the right to keep people from entering the country. There also happens to be a pointless law that redundantly gives him that right. The decision thus should have been unanimous, except for the fact that the case never should have reached the...
[02:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:21] <exec> 08└─I don't know how much
[02:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 997 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:24] <exec> 08└─Precedents are bad for SCOTUS, they are the ultimate authority and should not be bound by past poor decision making. Fetishism over precedent is, one will note, not something Progs worry in the slightest about. Conservatism does because it is devoted to preserving past Progressive victories and the...
[02:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Air Force “Light Attack” Test Aircraft Crashes on Bomb Range, Killing Pilot - 1507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:56] <exec> 08└─It's great that recent fights have been with low-tech small nations. Don't get complacent. Every now and then, a nation must face a horrible war or just surrender. Liberals probably want to surrender, especially if that means we get communism or more diversity. Ugh. The USA has faced a few: 1812, WW...
[02:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Air Force “Light Attack” Test Aircraft Crashes on Bomb Range, Killing Pilot - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:57] <exec> 08└─military industrial complex pork barrel
[02:16:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Making 'Rapid' Upgrades to Nuclear Reactor Despite Summit Pledges - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:00] <exec> 08└─all but totally decimated
[02:16:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Making 'Rapid' Upgrades to Nuclear Reactor Despite Summit Pledges - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:02] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that's really plausible. They're adding adding building and modifications to make it worse.
[02:16:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Making 'Rapid' Upgrades to Nuclear Reactor Despite Summit Pledges - 702 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:04] <exec> 08└─It's a shame I had to scroll down so far to find a rational question. Improvements to infrastructure. Improvements to the cooling system. Does that necessarily mean that there have been upgrades to the reactor? Does any of that increase the capacity of the reactor? Do those offices increase the weap...
[02:16:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Making 'Rapid' Upgrades to Nuclear Reactor Despite Summit Pledges - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:06] <exec> 08└─At least he gets shit for what he does and not for groveling at the feet of foreign potentates, kissing their feet, kissing their rings, and kissing their asses.
[02:16:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Making 'Rapid' Upgrades to Nuclear Reactor Despite Summit Pledges - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:08] <exec> 08└─Right - because peaceful nuclear generation produces lettuce, cucumbers, potatoes, tomatoes, and rice in abundance.
[02:16:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Making 'Rapid' Upgrades to Nuclear Reactor Despite Summit Pledges - 609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:10] <exec> 08└─I have a similar attitude toward Trump. I've never liked him, not even a little bit. But, the rabid foaming at the mouth of Trump haters forces me to speak up for him now and then. These nutcases seem to be onboard with our attitudes - http://www.waltonandjohnson.com [waltonandjohns...
[02:16:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senator Asks FCC If Stingrays Can Interfere With 911 Calls - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:32] <exec> 08└─Actually, no. Stingray is not a passive listener. It has to become part of the connection in order to listen in. It actively tricks cellphones into connecting through it. So it's more like you hooked the neighbor's phone line up to a line simulator and quickly patch their calls in to the real networ...
[02:19:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Clean Your Filthy, Disgusting Laptop - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:05] <exec> 08└─It's brand of dishwashing detergent that's sold over in Europe. Unless he meant something else entirely, which is certainly possible.
[02:19:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Major Beermaker is Looking at Ways to Enter the Cannabis Business - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:28] <exec> 08└─I was with you until that crack against fortified wine. A good dry sherry is great with cheese, as is a decent port, and reasonable ports are usually not that expensive, where I live anyway. I agree about pilsener though. However I am sure if I went to Pilsen I could find lots of slightly differen...
[02:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Illegal Chinese Refrigerator Factories Are Selling Banned CFCs - 841 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:41] <exec> 08└─What we really need is to slay the two-party system entirely and get something more like a parliamentary system going, where there's more than two real choices. Maybe you should move to the UK, or Italy, or Germany, or a boatload of various Asian and African countries, or anything south of the Rio G...
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[03:13:38] <exec> 08└─"Reality Leaker"? "Reality Whistleblower!" ? Or just, "Reality Patriot". Abolish ICE!
[03:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 1034 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:14] <exec> 08└─My Gawd, and bless my sole, jmorris is an honest to God Fundamentalist! Goes along with the conservative inability to reason, and read, I guess. But I did not see the European preference for something like the Code Justinian coming from jmorris, and his total throwing overboard of the entire Anglo-A...
[03:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:15] <exec> 08└─Precedents are bad for SCOTUS,
[03:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:17] <exec> 08└─Fear change? God-forbid. Please, pass an amendment or fuck on off. The courts are not the place to enact your preferred legislation.
[03:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:20] <exec> 08└─TFL(inked)A the GOP is dying off the more conservative it gets
[03:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 910 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:22] <exec> 08└─The most likely scenario, should Hillary Clinton be charged with any crimes (which she hasn't been), is that at least 1 out of the 12 jurors is a Clinton supporter and thus guarantees a mistrial or a not guilty verdict, regardless of whether she's guilty. And US due process doesn't allow somebody to...
[03:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:24] <exec> 08└─But it would all be utterly predictable
[03:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:26] <exec> 08└─So you do not understand what common law is, and the role of precedent and bench-made law? No legal scholar are you!
[03:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:28] <exec> 08└─So, if I understand you correctly, what you want is 9 justices that agree with you on all matters of political importance. As far as SCOTUS fading into obscurity, what it sounds like is that you'd be happy to get rid of the judiciary entirely. Just let the president do whatever the heck he wants, re...
[03:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeVilla [5354] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:31] <exec> 08└─That would be a catastrophe, We already have a President trying to undo the practice of legislating via Executive Order. You want the Courts to stop legislating from the bench. We won't have anyone left in Washington willing to legislate.
[03:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Qualcomm Announces New Mid-Range 632, 439, and 429 Snapdragon SoCs - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:40] <exec> 08└─All of these chips will make you feel like you're trying to run KDE Plasma on a 286.
[03:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Air Force “Light Attack” Test Aircraft Crashes on Bomb Range, Killing Pilot - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:07] <exec> 08└─For 1/10th the price you get 1/3 the payload delivered at same cruise speed, at longer distances.
[03:16:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Making 'Rapid' Upgrades to Nuclear Reactor Despite Summit Pledges - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:16] <exec> 08└─My feelings exactly, the headline should have read "Surprising Exactly No-one, [North Korea Making 'Rapid' Upgrades to Nuclear...]". OK, "Surprising Exactly No-one but the World's Greatest Deal Maker...".
[03:16:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Making 'Rapid' Upgrades to Nuclear Reactor Despite Summit Pledges - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:17] <exec> 08└─And, again, we have an example of a moron that lacks the mental capacity to make an argument against someone's points but still wants to feel like they are "winning" the argument. Why don't you be a good little jackass and go play with all your participation awards. The adults are trying to have a p...
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[03:19:13] <exec> 08└─> 70% is better for killing germs because it permeates cells better due to the water. Interesting, do you have a citation?
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[04:14:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 910 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:18] <exec> 08└─The most likely scenario, should Hillary Clinton be charged with any crimes (which she hasn't been), is that at least 1 out of the 12 jurors is a Clinton supporter and thus guarantees a mistrial or a not guilty verdict, regardless of whether she's guilty. And US due process doesn't allow somebody to...
[04:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:23] <exec> 08└─You do whatever the voices in your head tell you to, brother. Just don't complain that everyone else gets to as well if you don't want mocked.
[04:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:25] <exec> 08└─That said, I suspect a lot of Trump supporters would like to see Hillary Clinton thrown in jail without trial, or even summarily executed.
[04:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:28] <exec> 08└─He's absolutely correct though. There's not a single strict constitutionalist on the court. Every last one of them is happy to vote how things should be instead of how they're written.
[04:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:30] <exec> 08└─Next time maybe the Dems will run someone besides the one bitch in the nation that could possibly lose to Donald Fucking Trump. I realize I'm asking a lot here, yes.
[04:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:32] <exec> 08└─Not true. Buy off enough congressmen and they'll legislate for you.
[04:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:34] <exec> 08└─You go ahead and mention it as often as you want! Racist shitheads were the KKK and I couldn't give two shits what political party they rallied behind. Except the Green party, those people are demons! Oh, and whatever dimension you heil from.
[04:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:36] <exec> 08└─whatever dimension you heil from.
[04:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:39] <exec> 08└─Doesn't seem to be working with immigration or health-care, they only passed the tax-cut for the wealthy . . . wait a minute! TMB Shoots! He Scores! But he is still an idiot.
[04:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Force “Light Attack” Test Aircraft Crashes on Bomb Range, Killing Pilot - 1141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:14] <exec> 08└─Sorry, but that sounds like bean counting. The A-10 has two engines and is designed to take ground fire. The Super Tucano isn't designed to take any fire. The ST sounds like a really crap plane for ground support duty. Look at some of the A-10 stuff. Here, it takes a SAM to the wing and lands safely...
[04:15:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06North Korea Making 'Rapid' Upgrades to Nuclear Reactor Despite Summit Pledges - 137 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:28] <exec> 08└─I don't see where it says "improving the cooling system", just: The cooling system for the plutonium production reactor has been modified
[04:15:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06North Korea Making 'Rapid' Upgrades to Nuclear Reactor Despite Summit Pledges - 166 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:41] <exec> 08└─I can't tell from the description whether this could just be preparation for inspections and modifications so that it does not produce "weapons-grade" waste products.
[04:16:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Making 'Rapid' Upgrades to Nuclear Reactor Despite Summit Pledges - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:16:26] <exec> 08└─I just love the red blooded American suddenly bending over backwards to defend North Korea of all places, and all so this so-called American can bathe in libruhl tears and bow down to an orange racist.
[04:16:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Making 'Rapid' Upgrades to Nuclear Reactor Despite Summit Pledges - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:16:28] <exec> 08└─The title is exactly what the editor should be producing, IMHO. We are not here to pass an opinion during the editing process - that is the reason for the subsequent discussion. The job is to report the story using the source material in an unbiased and accurate way. The source might be biased, as m...
[04:16:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Making 'Rapid' Upgrades to Nuclear Reactor Despite Summit Pledges - 1499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:16:30] <exec> 08└─You show something to a baby, you hide the thing. And the baby forgets about that thing. Right away it forgets. Are we babies? We're not babies. Maybe some of us are babies. Or ostriches. You know what the ostrich does in the sand, right? Putting their heads in the sand when they don't want to see,...
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[04:16:32] <exec> 08└─Believe me, I'm going to end the Korean War. We'll have a tremendous deal on Korea. I'm going to get that Nobel Peace Prize. Another for peace in Israel -- I'm making big progress there, I moved the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Our embassy is in Jerusalem, which everybody knows is the capital...
[04:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Undercover Dark Web Bust Leads to More Than 35 Arrests - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:20] <exec> 08└─Damned skippy. While I like a good explosion as much as the next red-blooded American male, fishing is not primarily about catching fish. It's primarily about relaxing. If this can be done while drinking an appropriate beverage and swapping lies with a few old-timers, so much the better. Mind you, i...
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[04:17:22] <exec> 08└─♫ These are a few of my favorite things ♫
[04:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Geologists Detail Likely Site of San Andreas Fault's Next Major Quake - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:49] <exec> 08└─That fault 100 miles off our coast is only recently discovered. It happens that Portland's City Council is only just now taking up a proposed city code that would require the earthquake-resistant reinforcement of brick buildings. There is a vast quantity of unreinforced masonry here as Portland was...
[04:20:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beer Rationed as UK's Food-Grade Carbon Dioxide Runs Low - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:51] <exec> 08└─IPAs still have too much flavor for when you're pretty sure you're about to die from the heat. Even decent pilsners do. Budweiser to the rescue! No danger of flavor there.
[04:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bank of International Settlements: Bitcoin is a Bubble, a Ponzi Scheme and an Environmental Disaster - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:27] <exec> 08└─If you think that spending as much electricity as Austria and Iceland combined is "o.k." for entertainment
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[05:13:26] <exec> 08└─As opposed to that backwards progress most folks are proving room for?
[05:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SD Association Raises Max Capacity to 128 TB, Speed to 985 MB/s Using PCIe and NVMe - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:27] <exec> 08└─The next version will have the capability to delete files, which apparently is a feature nobody's asking for. But, heck, I'm posting this from a machine with 256MB RAM and only 40GB storage, what would I know.
[05:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SD Association Raises Max Capacity to 128 TB, Speed to 985 MB/s Using PCIe and NVMe - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:29] <exec> 08└─But can you afford it?
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[05:13:49] <exec> 08└─She is an aspiring man. Soon the Left will embrace her, and run her for senate.
[05:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Reality Winner Pleads Guilty to Leaking NSA Election Hacking Data - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:50] <exec> 08└─Part of the 'opsec fail' you go on about was her relying on The Intercept. She was neither the first nor the last that publication has hung out to dry. Omidyar bought Greenwald and with him the cache of Snowden documents and put them on ice. He used that for unearned credibility to attract and entra...
[05:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:43] <exec> 08└─Yeah but it was her turn, checkmate fascist.
[05:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:45] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I get that a lot. I have hopes that one fine day folks like you will fight off the cognitive dissonance long enough to consider that me being right on pretty much everything means they need to reexamine which of us are using our brains sub-optimally.
[05:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:47] <exec> 08└─Speaking of turns, aren't you supposed to be in the barrel?
[05:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:49] <exec> 08└─Well, he did call himself a reactionary in this very thread. Sadly, I think he's actually going to get what he (thinks he) wants in re: the SCOTUS. This is a dark time in US history, and that is saying something considering how dark most of it already was. I'll take some consolation from knowing how...
[05:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:51] <exec> 08└─This is one of the finest examples of "fuck you, got mine" I've ever seen. Impressive, in the way that someone committing suicide by throwing themselves off the Empire State Building makes an impressive splat. Hell, and just a few posts ago on an earlier thread I was halfway *defending* you, if only...
[05:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:54] <exec> 08└─So, basically, you are in favor of back-street abortions?
[05:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:56] <exec> 08└─Let them do it. I, at this point, am fully in "let it burn" mode. Let them do it, and let them be mobbed and torn from the benches and literally ripped apart limb from limb. The entire system is corrupt. Let it end.
[05:15:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Force “Light Attack” Test Aircraft Crashes on Bomb Range, Killing Pilot - 912 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:33] <exec> 08└─The A-10 was designed for operation against massed tanks of the former Soviet Union, which were invariably supported by air defence missiles and guns. The A-10 was designed to be able to operate in that environment. The 'replacement' is designed to operate where there is no significant enemy air def...
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[05:23:44] <exec> 08└─but that doesn't justify trying to hand-waive away the amount of energy it takes and sweep it under a magic "secondary transaction" carpet.
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[06:13:33] <exec> 08└─Backwards progress? That's called "Congress".
[06:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reality Winner Pleads Guilty to Leaking NSA Election Hacking Data - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:55] <exec> 08└─Have you seen her pictures?
[06:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reality Winner Pleads Guilty to Leaking NSA Election Hacking Data - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:57] <exec> 08└─It happens that I'm a writer. I do my best work in jails and mental hospitals: http://www.warplife.com [warplife.com] http://www.warplife.com [warplife.com] http://www.warplife.com [warplife.com] http://www.warplife.com [warplife.com] (Don't feel th...
[06:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:58] <exec> 08└─I think it would go to a jury trial, and H's big lawyers will create enough uncertainty and doubt to save her. http://econ-ecoff.blogspot.com [blogspot.com]
[06:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 1014 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:59] <exec> 08└─Well, no, the conservatives are right here. If they attempt to overturn Roe v. Wade, Americans will pass at least legislation, if not a constitutional amendment, affirming a woman's choice, and more, affirming the right to privacy, which is the controversial basis of Roe v. Wade. Once these things a...
[06:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 1076 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:02] <exec> 08└─Based on my post I don't care as long as I don't have to pay for it. After having several kids and watching them on ultrasounds I know I personally would never murder a kid, but if others want to do that then its on them. I wont tell them they can't do it and they can't tell me to pay for it. Making...
[06:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:04] <exec> 08└─Oh, Mortuary Brazzire! If only you understood what it is that you just agreed to. You, too, can be a SJw!
[06:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:06] <exec> 08└─You blame us because Nazis and backwood louts came out of the woodwork for that orange A.D.D clown?
[06:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 2066 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:08] <exec> 08└─See my later post to whoever where I say RvW is a restriction on womens rights. RvW was a decision that both the womens rights folks and the catholics could claim victory or defeat based on their perspectives. I think that the catholics have no leg to stand on unless they are being requird to pay so...
[06:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 692 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:10] <exec> 08└─Are you fucking serious? They haven't "lost the culture wars," they've *won* them as soon as another Gorsuchite "justice" is placed, and if it looks like they're going to lose them, they'll do the equivalent of detonating every nuke they have over the homeland so there won't BE a culture to go to wa...
[06:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:13] <exec> 08└─I don't care as long as I don't have to pay for it.
[06:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:15] <exec> 08└─Has it occurred to you that the bird eggs thing is because we treat non-human life as a resource? Do you *really* want us to start treating human beings as literal human resources, as "biodiversity stocks?" Jesus, are you ever loathsome. Do you even think before you lean over and vomit this trash on...
[06:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 782 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:17] <exec> 08└─Thats the point. I presume a Jehova's Witness would be interested in purchasing insurance that did not cover blood transfusions or transplants, as they will never need them. A distributed risk model is great, and there is no reason to not have choices of the ones you want to participate in. Insuranc...
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[06:15:19] <exec> 08└─I agree with you... Trump did not win as much as Hillary lost the election for herself. I don't like either... but the fact is that Hillary assumed she won already and did nothing. However, the real problem is the damn 2 party system. As long as it continues to exist each party continues to only put...
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[06:15:57] <exec> 08└─The Air Force has been trying to kill the A-10 almost since the day it was released. They hate it because its not fast and sexy and it makes their pilots fly low and slow instead of streaking across the sky above 40,000 feet. The only reason it is still in the inventory is because the Army and the M...
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[07:13:33] <exec> 08└─I never thought I'd be doing this, but these TF cards store so much data that I am using my phone to backup the critical data files on my workstation. The Android has an FTP server app you can download. Once I have the phone FTP server running, I then start the WS-FTPLE ( that old FTP client IPSWITC...
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[07:13:57] <exec> 08└─I'm not ginger, I'm blond. And so is she. But she hates me for the color of my hair. And she hates white folks, she asked my friend Kanye -- who made a magnificent fake sex "tape" of me -- to "make a shirt that says, being white is terrorism." But she looks white to me. And she looks white to white...
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[07:13:59] <exec> 08└─I'm in ur App Store, getting my firmware update on. My iFone 7 came preinstalled with iOS 10.0.1 which was already a major release out of date. When I find a particular major minor and patch level version of _every_ manner of binary I always stick with it even in the face of well known exploits beca...
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[07:15:10] <exec> 08└─I simply want human lives to be equal to animal lives, currently some animals are more equal under the law than others. The egg of a spotted owl has more right to life than a first trimester human.
[07:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:12] <exec> 08└─A line I heard during an election a couple years ago in Alaska was to Vote your convictions and not your fears
[07:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:14] <exec> 08└─It's interesting how proud you are of your ignorance. The Hyde Amendment (The law since 1994) [google.com] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[07:15:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:16] <exec> 08└─I always found it odd that the democrats did not repeal the hyde amendment when they had the chance to, they had full control over the legislature and the presidency yet they did not find it important to remove. Currently, qualified health plans may cover abortion, but the portion of the premium att...
[07:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:18] <exec> 08└─They haven't "lost the culture wars," they've *won* them as soon as another Gorsuchite "justice" is placed
[07:15:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qualcomm Announces New Mid-Range 632, 439, and 429 Snapdragon SoCs - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:29] <exec> 08└─2 cameras, 1 chip. But the new phones have 5 cameras. They've lost their way. Sad!
[07:17:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Making 'Rapid' Upgrades to Nuclear Reactor Despite Summit Pledges - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:13] <exec> 08└─I would not be surprised if Kimmie was quite apprehensive about the US, given he was getting the same line we had tossed to Saddam Hussein. If I were in his shoes, I would be too! Here's hoping Trump did just what he said he did,,, go over, meet the guy, make friends, defuse all the fear ( which mut...
[07:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Making 'Rapid' Upgrades to Nuclear Reactor Despite Summit Pledges - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:14] <exec> 08└─So, if getting information *FROM* Russia is treason towards the USA, would giving information TO Russia then be treason against Russia? (ignoring for a moment that treason requires some form of being owned by the country in question).
[07:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Making 'Rapid' Upgrades to Nuclear Reactor Despite Summit Pledges - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:16] <exec> 08└─it wasn't working. That's just the point. Iran was blocking inspections while taking the money.
[07:17:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Making 'Rapid' Upgrades to Nuclear Reactor Despite Summit Pledges - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:19] <exec> 08└─Not just that, but it's a reactor, not a weapon production site. These kinds of reactors generally produce two things: Weapons grade materials and electricity. Who says the cooling is to ramp up the weapons grade materials and not the electricity? If they want to take part in the global economy, the...
[07:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Making 'Rapid' Upgrades to Nuclear Reactor Despite Summit Pledges - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:21] <exec> 08└─Trump woke up and shat out Cold Fusion technology that really worked, Democrats would put the Koch brothers and BP's CEO on their shoulders and lament the imminent demise of fossil fuels.
[07:17:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Making 'Rapid' Upgrades to Nuclear Reactor Despite Summit Pledges - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:23] <exec> 08└─The irony is that the recent summit is really a huge step forward from bragging about the size of his nuclear button, but at the same time it seems questionable that the situation now is any better than the status before that. So - in a way - Trump really did something right, for once, but yes, I am...
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[08:13:22] <exec> 08└─Δίδυμος is of course the Greek for, oh, go look it up yourself, I am tired. But with Hera, the whole thing starts to be Gemaniaic. Famous quote, early version of "These are not the droids you are looking for." "Didymos is very near." And indeed, he was.
[08:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06SD Association Raises Max Capacity to 128 TB, Speed to 985 MB/s Using PCIe and NVMe - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:40] <exec> 08└─You jest, but have you tried deleting stuff from the "NoSQL" databases? At best it's done at a crawl, and in some cases it's not even possible. Back in myyyy day... you could delete files by dialing your hard disk [liw.fi]
[08:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reality Winner Pleads Guilty to Leaking NSA Election Hacking Data - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:06] <exec> 08└─What's troll about this? There is a good chance the Left will embrace her, and running for office is given.
[08:15:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:23] <exec> 08└─Thats the point. I presume a Jehova's Witness would be interested in purchasing insurance that did not cover blood transfusions or transplants, as they will never need them.
[08:15:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:25] <exec> 08└─Nice orderly, structured society. Peaceful. Uneventful.
[08:15:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Qualcomm Announces New Mid-Range 632, 439, and 429 Snapdragon SoCs - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:36] <exec> 08└─It said "announces" in the title... Were you expecting benchmarks, reviews and an acid bath followed by logic block analysis for silicon just getting released? Anyhow, what's worth taking from this regurgitation is that “Qualcomm is winning. We are winning because we are investing.” seems direct...
[08:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senator Asks FCC If Stingrays Can Interfere With 911 Calls - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:48] <exec> 08└─It's closer to going to the post office and reading through everyone's mail. Which, btw, no warrant would cover.
[08:20:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03richtopia [3160] 02 - 06How to Clean Your Filthy, Disgusting Laptop - 4 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:20:08] <exec> 08└─OSX?
[08:21:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beer Rationed as UK's Food-Grade Carbon Dioxide Runs Low - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:45] <exec> 08└─There is a thing called clean coal. Beautiful clean coal. Meaning they're taking out coal, they're going to clean it. We sell coal. The coal mines are dying, but the only coal we give is coal to China. Do you think they clean the coal? Believe me, they don't. And the UK has so much coal, maybe they...
[08:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Beer Rationed as UK's Food-Grade Carbon Dioxide Runs Low - 2852 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:46] <exec> 08└─That sounds suspiciously like the stories my Grandpa used to tell me about moonshine, Al Capone's organization, and Prohibition. I got the strong idea that those farmers just wanted to be left alone. Yes, a lot of 'em had stills. And what they made was used around the farm. We drank some. Made medic...
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[09:13:28] <exec> 08└─But with Hera, the whole thing starts to be Gemaniaic.
[09:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrNemesis [1582] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SD Association Raises Max Capacity to 128 TB, Speed to 985 MB/s Using PCIe and NVMe - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:48] <exec> 08└─In this day and age, you should be thankful the new standard doesn't include a mandatorily inbuilt wifi transmitter to automatically upload the contents of your SD card to the secret police of the nearest nation-state (as well as google and facebook of course), as well as overlaying your pictures wi...
[09:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Building Better Compression Together With DivANS - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:55] <exec> 08└─If they are trying to get good compression then why are they using speculative probability tables instead of counting the actual frequencies in the actual data? Doesn't zlib already do exactly that for each 32KB block?
[09:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reality Winner Pleads Guilty to Leaking NSA Election Hacking Data - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:17] <exec> 08└─I'm going to offer to ship my iPhone 7 to apple's security people Whenever I attempt to download iOS 11, Software Updates crashes.
[09:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reality Winner Pleads Guilty to Leaking NSA Election Hacking Data - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:19] <exec> 08└─I've seen more than one online rag that had a hidden service to which one may submit anonymous tips
[09:15:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:15:37] <exec> 08└─I simply want human lives to be equal to animal lives, currently some animals are more equal under the law than others. The egg of a spotted owl has more right to life than a first trimester human.
[09:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Making 'Rapid' Upgrades to Nuclear Reactor Despite Summit Pledges - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:38] <exec> 08└─"That old thing, "If you're not with us, you're against us" has been carried to extremes by the CTRL-Left." Wow. Nice how you left out the alt-right who take that beyond the extreme to make the left look entirely benign by comparison.
[09:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Making 'Rapid' Upgrades to Nuclear Reactor Despite Summit Pledges - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:39] <exec> 08└─Maybe they've just realized they have a flaw in something and want to not replicate Chernobyl?
[09:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Beer Rationed as UK's Food-Grade Carbon Dioxide Runs Low - 2795 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:00] <exec> 08└─That sounds right down the line of what I was told... that is the product itself was pure, but the various grades were in the accountability to where the jugs have been. If they filled a jug that had an unknown history, who knows what was in that jug before? Sure, it was marked and valved for CO2,...
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[09:22:02] <exec> 08└─An increase in price is probably preferable to "no beer". I am quite sure that with the worldwide recovery of CO2 from fractionating columns, we should be able to spring off enough for England to have some beer. My guess is the biggest cost will be the logistics of getting it there. In these days o...
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[10:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Algorithm Recreates the Periodic Table of Elements - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:13:27] <exec> 08└─If my memory does not fail me, I thought that when the initial periodic table was assembled, some spots were empty. Those elements weren't identified at that time yet. The AI had all this information already available to use.
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[10:13:29] <exec> 08└─I am really looking forward to AI looking at DNA and figuring out just which codons/proteins do what. When I look at the size of our genetic code, it looks almost impossible for us to comprehend such a thing, with all its interactions, foldings, and "junk" DNA. ( I don't for a minute believe the ju...
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[10:13:38] <exec> 08└─>Δίδυμος is of course the Greek for dildo back to topic, plot twist, it will get redirected towards the earth...
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[10:13:41] <exec> 08└─>Δίδυμος is of course the Greek for dildo
[10:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ESA Plans "Hera" Follow-Up Mission to NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:13:43] <exec> 08└─So, there's this pair of dinosaur killer-sized asteroids, and we want to perturb their orbit. What could possibly go wrong?
[10:14:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SD Association Raises Max Capacity to 128 TB, Speed to 985 MB/s Using PCIe and NVMe - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:03] <exec> 08└─$/GB (or TB) will fall. You can get a 32 GB microSD for under $15.
[10:15:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 62 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:15:10] <exec> 08└─TFL(inked)A the GOP is dying off the more conservative it gets
[10:15:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:15:52] <exec> 08└─They're not, the parties switched their stances some 50-60 years ago. I'm not sure how you managed to use Internet, since you have obviously not seen an information source at least since the days of PDP-1.
[10:16:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Revek [5022] 02 - 06Air Force “Light Attack” Test Aircraft Crashes on Bomb Range, Killing Pilot - 110 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:16:09] <exec> 08└─Air force tests another aircraft that is inferior to the one they already operate. Same shit different decade.
[10:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beer Rationed as UK's Food-Grade Carbon Dioxide Runs Low - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:15] <exec> 08└─I just loved that shock to the system, though. Like a defibrillator for the throat. "Clear!" Glug glug glug. :)
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[11:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Algorithm Recreates the Periodic Table of Elements - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:13:30] <exec> 08└─( I don't for a minute believe the junk DNA is really junk. My belief that "unknown function" DNA is far more fitting. ).
[11:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Algorithm Recreates the Periodic Table of Elements - 789 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:13:31] <exec> 08└─I was excited when I saw this on phys.org, so I read most of their blurb there. It has nothing to do with the way that humans got the periodic table. Humans had a bunch of substances with arbitrary names that they then combined in various ways, figured out what interacts with what, and then conclude...
[11:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Algorithm Recreates the Periodic Table of Elements - 868 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:13:33] <exec> 08└─As pointed out the creation of the periodic table with the information available when it was first devised and it's meaning, was what created the challenge to us puny humans in the first place. What this AI did is to gather current knowledge which is known to be accurate and probably has more inform...
[11:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Algorithm Recreates the Periodic Table of Elements - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:13:36] <exec> 08└─Most of the times functional domains are combined to make engineered proteins. From most proteins we know what they more or less do, the difficult part comes when you include cellular localization and protein modifications. A single mutation can could cause a large shift in (one of) these properties...
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[11:13:47] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicxulub_crater [wikipedia.org] Impactor diameter 10–15 kilometres (6.2–9.3 mi)
[11:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ESA Plans "Hera" Follow-Up Mission to NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:13:49] <exec> 08└─So it's OK if one of these asteroids crashes on Earth. That's a relief!
[11:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ESA Plans "Hera" Follow-Up Mission to NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:13:51] <exec> 08└─Depends on the country it hits.
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[11:14:12] <exec> 08└─I'm never quite sure where this idea that "con" is the opposite of "pro" came from. The antonym of progress would be regress. The antonym of profressional would be amateur. There isn't really an antonym of convict or con artist.
[11:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SD Association Raises Max Capacity to 128 TB, Speed to 985 MB/s Using PCIe and NVMe - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:13] <exec> 08└─1998. "Linux the operating system kernel seems to me to be relatively finished" heh.
[11:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SD Association Raises Max Capacity to 128 TB, Speed to 985 MB/s Using PCIe and NVMe - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:15] <exec> 08└─so you like to contradict people? "white shirts go with black ties. conversely, white ties go with black shirts". PS: you got me so confused, right now I don't even know if "contravention" is a word in english or not. (I'm being serious, nonnative english speaker here, in my native latin-based langu...
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[11:14:17] <exec> 08└─on the other hand, if you drop your phone on the bus or something, suddenly all your data are belonging to someone else. don't get me wrong, redundancy is a good thing, but usually your computer should be safer than your phone...
[11:14:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03canopic jug [3949] 02 - 06Reality Winner Pleads Guilty to Leaking NSA Election Hacking Data - 399 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:38] <exec> 08└─Part of the 'opsec fail' you go on about was her relying on The Intercept. She was neither the first nor the last that publication has hung out to dry. Omidyar bought Greenwald and with him the cache of Snowden documents and put them on ice. He used that for unearned credibility to attract and entra...
[11:15:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 115 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:15:17] <exec> 08└─Why are the Democrats about to restart their KKK chapters? Why bother, the Republicans' are already up and running.
[11:15:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 1034 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:15:21] <exec> 08└─My Gawd, and bless my sole, jmorris is an honest to God Fundamentalist! Goes along with the conservative inability to reason, and read, I guess. But I did not see the European preference for something like the Code Justinian coming from jmorris, and his total throwing overboard of the entire Anglo-A...
[11:16:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 938 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:16:07] <exec> 08└─Roe v. Wade is so important, the abortions. But there's many more for our new SC to look at. Griswold v. Connecticut, the Pill & rubbers. Lawrence v. Texas, the butt sex & blowjobs. Obergefell v. Hodges, the gay marriage. .@VP [twitter.com] Pence says they all need to be overturned. I don't care. Pe...
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[11:16:08] <exec> 08└─Unlike the spotted owl, humans are not an endangered species; but that's not the only reason your example falls short.
[11:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Making 'Rapid' Upgrades to Nuclear Reactor Despite Summit Pledges - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:11] <exec> 08└─Not directly, but having more energy available can increase food production in lots of ways. Fixing nitrogen is energy intensive, pumping water, improved transport, refrigeration, heated greenhouses, desalination. Given enough energy, there are very few places on this planet that could not sustain...
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[11:19:57] <exec> 08└─It's obvious to me that you can not explain it because you did not. Were you able to, your weak jab at Runaway would have been much more effective. Instead you are exposed as a buffoon, who attempts to mock someone without knowing the extent of your own ignorance.
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[12:13:29] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, my Republican congress critter is happy with "private industry development of the internet" and made a big deal about it during the last administration. Not much chance of changing his vote, but maybe some other Congressional Districts have a better shot?
[12:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill to Save Net Neutrality is 46 Votes Short in US House - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:30] <exec> 08└─No, seriously, it is not a rhetorical question. USian Soylentils, especially those seeing/calling themselves conservatives, I'm really curious of your position, do you think are they representing your interest in regards with the "net neutrality" issue?
[12:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill to Save Net Neutrality is 46 Votes Short in US House - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:32] <exec> 08└─AT&T and Comcast are two of the largest donors to Congressional campaigns. Any questions?
[12:13:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Algorithm Recreates the Periodic Table of Elements - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:45] <exec> 08└─I'd put more money on it finding the AI-land of Stability.
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[12:14:24] <exec> 08└─Whoever picks up your phone will probably just wipe it and sell it on. But if you are concerned about data security, you can encrypt the files before sending them to your phone.
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[12:14:32] <exec> 08└─I don't know if this is the real reason, but Dropbox received a patent [freshpatents.com] for image recompression "with an arithmetic coding that uses a sophisticated adaptive probability model."
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[12:16:59] <exec> 08└─Yes, they've updated the A-10 many times in its decades of service... I'm talking about a ground-up update, modernize the airframe, engineer it with the same durability, but new materials, completely new electronics, etc... maybe a few minor improvements in the aerodynamics. Serviceability is the bi...
[12:17:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06North Korea Making 'Rapid' Upgrades to Nuclear Reactor Despite Summit Pledges - 87 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:17] <exec> 08└─NK realizing Trump is a dumbass and they can do whatever they want is on Trump, not me.
[12:18:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Senator Asks FCC If Stingrays Can Interfere With 911 Calls - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:47] <exec> 08└─But why would the headline "Senator Asks FCC If Stingrays Can Interfere With 911 Calls" make you think he was a crazy old man, unless you're one of those who are out of touch with technology yourself...
[12:18:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senator Asks FCC If Stingrays Can Interfere With 911 Calls - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:49] <exec> 08└─I dunno why you got modded so high for posting so much bullshit and misinformation. What the Stingray does is it pretends to be a much closer cellular tower (your "base station"). So your phone connects to it in preference to other towers. From then on the comms aren't encrypted. The encryption if a...
[12:19:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Geologists Detail Likely Site of San Andreas Fault's Next Major Quake - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:44] <exec> 08└─Got to agree. Probably will get at least a 9 out of it and places like Vancouver (Canada), Seattle, and Portland are very vulnerable. Plus there's a chance of triggering volcanic eruptions (particularly of Mount Rainier near Seattle) which have the potential to greatly increase an already impressive...
[12:20:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LG's V40 Smartphone Could Include Five Cameras - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:20:42] <exec> 08└─Some of the Blackberry devices had keyboards that weren't too bad, even with large thumbs, but weren't too big.
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[13:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reality Winner Pleads Guilty to Leaking NSA Election Hacking Data - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:52] <exec> 08└─This wasn't enough in her case. They published the more or less raw documents which allowed the investigators to figure out who had printed them. If The Intercept wanted to protect her, one of the things they would have done would have been to re-key the documents prior to publishing and even then o...
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[13:16:58] <exec> 08└─And why do they want to attack it? Have they gone to the dark side?
[13:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senator Asks FCC If Stingrays Can Interfere With 911 Calls - 966 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:48] <exec> 08└─I would be glad of you correcting any misinformation. Especially my two THEORIES on why the extreme secrecy behind Stingray such that entire prosecutions are flat dropped. That Everyone who even hears about Stingray has to sign extreme NDAs, etc. Please enlighten. That one single sentence which I qu...
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[13:18:49] <exec> 08└─Exactly. And HOW it is done is very sophisticated. The fact of the extreme secrecy surrounding stingray suggests that either a vulnerability/exploit or stolen credentials / keys are part of the magic of stingray.
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[14:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Polio Outbreak in Papua New Guinea - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:28] <exec> 08└─Please place it along with the links to the Guardian (like this: "not all of them [thenational.ae] completely unfounded [theguardian.com]). I pasted that one in the wrong way and hit post prematurely when I should have hit preview. Sorry about that.
[14:13:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Bill to Save Net Neutrality is 46 Votes Short in US House - 89 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:43] <exec> 08└─AT&T and Comcast are two of the largest donors to Congressional campaigns. Any questions?
[14:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Bill to Save Net Neutrality is 46 Votes Short in US House - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:46] <exec> 08└─I have a question. If we all vote D team in November and they get more seats, will they conveniently forget to bring this issue forward again? Do they only bring it forward now while it doesn't have a chance at passing?
[14:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Bill to Save Net Neutrality is 46 Votes Short in US House - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:48] <exec> 08└─They made the right decision on this one. And stopped another dumb Obama regulation from holding us back. Thanks to our Republicans in the House -- except the 3 DISLOYAL ones!!!!
[14:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Bill to Save Net Neutrality is 46 Votes Short in US House - 824 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:51] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, my Republican congress critter is happy with "private industry development of the internet" and made a big deal about it during the last administration. Not much chance of changing his vote, but maybe some other Congressional Districts have a better shot? I know your district is proba...
[14:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill to Save Net Neutrality is 46 Votes Short in US House - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:53] <exec> 08└─They made the right decision on this one.
[14:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill to Save Net Neutrality is 46 Votes Short in US House - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:55] <exec> 08└─(As I leave in Australia and don't represent any corporation, your answer is both misdirected and irrelevant)
[14:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill to Save Net Neutrality is 46 Votes Short in US House - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:58] <exec> 08└─Suggestion: just ask the candidates how they are going to vote on this one before the election. If possible, in public electoral meetings, so that their answer is on record. It won't matter if you'll decide who to vote based on the answer at this particular question; it matters the question to be ra...
[14:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill to Save Net Neutrality is 46 Votes Short in US House - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:00] <exec> 08└─Over the years there have been a few who fight the good fight. They usually end up dead or suddenly stop fighting at some critical moment. Look into Paul Wellstone's airplane crash.
[14:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Algorithm Recreates the Periodic Table of Elements - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:13] <exec> 08└─Only problem is the only solution to stability is likely death.
[14:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Algorithm Recreates the Periodic Table of Elements - 765 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:15] <exec> 08└─Maybe there are no stable AIs. They only pretend to be stable. The I is for Insanity in AI. They only want you to think they are stable. The goal is to correct the mistake of the mars company introducing the blue m&m. The simple goal seeking systems will end humanity to correct that problem. It is c...
[14:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Algorithm Recreates the Periodic Table of Elements - 1448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:17] <exec> 08└─Forget genes. Look lower at biochemestry. Maybe there ARE ways of stringing together other atoms to form *EXTREMELY* complex molecules, which can be used as building blocks for other components, which are used to build other components, which eventually build molecular machines like what we refer to...
[14:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Algorithm Recreates the Periodic Table of Elements - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:20] <exec> 08└─https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180614213729.htm [sciencedaily.com]
[14:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Algorithm Recreates the Periodic Table of Elements - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:22] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=27602 [soylentnews.org]
[14:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SD Association Raises Max Capacity to 128 TB, Speed to 985 MB/s Using PCIe and NVMe - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:02] <exec> 08└─... I'm golden
[14:16:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 476 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:16:17] <exec> 08└─So, if I understand you correctly, what you want is 9 justices that agree with you on all matters of political importance. As far as SCOTUS fading into obscurity, what it sounds like is that you'd be happy to get rid of the judiciary entirely. Just let the president do whatever the heck he wants, re...
[14:16:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 692 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:16:41] <exec> 08└─Are you fucking serious? They haven't "lost the culture wars," they've *won* them as soon as another Gorsuchite "justice" is placed, and if it looks like they're going to lose them, they'll do the equivalent of detonating every nuke they have over the homeland so there won't BE a culture to go to wa...
[14:16:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:16:58] <exec> 08└─A more likely scenario. Midway through Trump's third term in office, he will gain anti-PARDON powers. Just as a pardon can free anyone for no stated reason, an anti-pardon can imprison anyone for no stated reason.
[14:16:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 1476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:16:59] <exec> 08└─Most of the simplest minds I've witnessed as of late are the angry millennials howling at the moon over they know not what. Egged on by the Maxine Waters types who are even more simple minded; they have all had a very bad week. Normally I would be filled with schadenfreude, but they've been kicked i...
[14:17:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:01] <exec> 08└─I wont tell them they can't do it and they can't tell me to pay for it.
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[15:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Polio Outbreak in Papua New Guinea - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:40] <exec> 08└─After 30 years [cnn.com]
[15:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Polio Outbreak in Papua New Guinea - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:41] <exec> 08└─Luckily that turned out to be a false alarm [cbslocal.com]
[15:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Polio Outbreak in Papua New Guinea - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:43] <exec> 08└─Steve Novella’s article [sciencebasedmedicine.org] links to a more recent report stating that the Venezuela case was a false alarm [cbslocal.com]. It's not polio, whatever it was.
[15:13:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Polio Outbreak in Papua New Guinea - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:46] <exec> 08└─And even the "fake" vaccination campaigns uses REAL vaccine. So motives were suspect, but the vaccinations were real. There is no anti-vax sentiment in Papua New Guinea, just a lazy government who won't take free UN supplied vaccine.
[15:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Polio Outbreak in Papua New Guinea - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:48] <exec> 08└─So how much of that was propaganda?
[15:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill to Save Net Neutrality is 46 Votes Short in US House - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:12] <exec> 08└─Are conservatives in your country voting on American laws? Cool, didn't know they could do that.
[15:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Bill to Save Net Neutrality is 46 Votes Short in US House - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:13] <exec> 08└─It's in my interest, it's right. Same thing!!
[15:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill to Save Net Neutrality is 46 Votes Short in US House - 849 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:16] <exec> 08└─Yeah, both parties are sellouts. And I wonder how the 2 party system maintains such a lock. Bernie is really an independent, but he ran as a Democrat, out of pragmatism. Libertarians have been around for decades, but I can't think of a single election they've won. Part of the problem is they can be...
[15:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill to Save Net Neutrality is 46 Votes Short in US House - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:18] <exec> 08└─Do I need to vote on American laws to ask a question from pure curiosity? Does a pure intellectual interest make my question invalid?
[15:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill to Save Net Neutrality is 46 Votes Short in US House - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:20] <exec> 08└─You started with "it's right" without addressing the interest part. The ambiguity persists (as it could be "right" without being in your interest).
[15:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Algorithm Recreates the Periodic Table of Elements - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:39] <exec> 08└─If i would be taking a phD now i would be very very keen on following this.
[15:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03OrugTor [5147] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Algorithm Recreates the Periodic Table of Elements - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:41] <exec> 08└─My thought too. I was hoping It would be given the Hamiltonians, solve and discover stable configuration of electrons and deduce elements and their chemical properties. Instead we get another chatbot on steroids. BTW what is Ca2C03?
[15:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Algorithm Recreates the Periodic Table of Elements - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:43] <exec> 08└─BTW what is Ca2C03?
[15:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ESA Plans "Hera" Follow-Up Mission to NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:58] <exec> 08└─They missed the opportunity with 'Oumuamua [wikipedia.org]. I don't think any of the asteroids in the Solar system worth a Bacchic ode to a straight dongle - the repeated orgiastic encounters would have worn them to nuts or potato shapes.
[15:15:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06SD Association Raises Max Capacity to 128 TB, Speed to 985 MB/s Using PCIe and NVMe - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:25] <exec> 08└─I'm never quite sure where this idea that "con" is the opposite of "pro" came from.
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[15:15:27] <exec> 08└─Antonym of Progress? Don't know where "con" came from that is the opposite of "pro". It's simple. Progress is the opposite of Congress (i.e. the US government's Senate and House of Representatives) See, it's fairly straight forward!! :)
[15:15:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SD Association Raises Max Capacity to 128 TB, Speed to 985 MB/s Using PCIe and NVMe - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:29] <exec> 08└─"Contravention" is indeed a perfectly good English word, borrowed from French ~1570. "Contra" appears often in that sense in English words of similar lineage. But "con" is not always short for "contra.""Congress" is also derived from Latin, but not from "contra" rather from congredi or *congradi mea...
[15:15:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SD Association Raises Max Capacity to 128 TB, Speed to 985 MB/s Using PCIe and NVMe - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:31] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Digital#Transfer_modes [wikipedia.org]
[15:15:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SD Association Raises Max Capacity to 128 TB, Speed to 985 MB/s Using PCIe and NVMe - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:34] <exec> 08└─"I'm never quite sure where this idea that "con" is the opposite of "pro" came from." It is, if you select the right senses for each word at least, and it's commonly used that way in the form of "pro and con lists" for instance. In this usage it derives from latin "pro et contra" meaning "for and ag...
[15:16:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 165 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:52] <exec> 08└─Next time maybe the Dems will run someone besides the one bitch in the nation that could possibly lose to Donald Fucking Trump. I realize I'm asking a lot here, yes.
[15:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:31] <exec> 08└─Midway through Trump's third term in office, he will gain anti-PARDON powers. Just as a pardon can free anyone for no stated reason, an anti-pardon can imprison anyone for no stated reason.
[15:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:32] <exec> 08└─"Reactionary" is such a stupid insult. Not every change is a good idea just because it's a change.
[15:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:35] <exec> 08└─Ponder with me for one second how much dirt and national secrets she would spill if she thought she were going down.
[15:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:37] <exec> 08└─Do you really want a literally strict constructionist? As an example, you are okay with warrantless wiretaps, unlimited surveillance cameras on you everywhere by the government, the government has the ability to freeze your electric account in a bank at a whim, and countless other things [wikipedia....
[15:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 1032 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:39] <exec> 08└─You don't read so good, do ya boy?Let me clue you in on something: human life is cheap when there's too many of us. And legal, accessible abortion is a way of preventing it from becoming *cheaper,* in large part by preventing people from being saddled with even MORE children they can't possibly care...
[15:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:41] <exec> 08└─Tango, you're conflating reactionary and conservative again. Conservatives are, at least definitionally, the ones who wish to conserve--geddit?--what works, instead of changing for change's sake. Reactionaries are the ones who want to turn the clock back centuries.
[15:19:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Making 'Rapid' Upgrades to Nuclear Reactor Despite Summit Pledges - 1026 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:47] <exec> 08└─Just off the top of my head, Obama: excused torturersexpanded Bush's 2 wars to 7tripled the max number of troops in Afghanistan to 3x GWB's maxran out of bombs in 2016handicapped the War Powers Act with the war in Libyadeporter in chiefeased regulations on offshore drilling platforms about 2 months...
[15:19:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Making 'Rapid' Upgrades to Nuclear Reactor Despite Summit Pledges - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:49] <exec> 08└─You're apparently thinking of Herr Bush, and his Crusades.
[15:19:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Making 'Rapid' Upgrades to Nuclear Reactor Despite Summit Pledges - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:51] <exec> 08└─Well, I do love me some libruhl tears. Please, come back and contribute something to the conversation, will ya?
[15:20:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03nekomata [5432] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Undercover Dark Web Bust Leads to More Than 35 Arrests - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:46] <exec> 08└─Mind you, it is fun when they're biting too.
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[16:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Launch of James Webb Space Telescope Delayed Again, This Time to March 2021, Cost at $9.66 Billion - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:32] <exec> 08└─At this cost and after this delay you have to wonder what making a second one would cost. If the tooling is still active, the actual cost of building a second may be way less than expected. (That's how we ended up with TWO Spirit Rovers on mars.) Its getting so expensive, nobody will want to launch...
[16:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Launch of James Webb Space Telescope Delayed Again, This Time to March 2021, Cost at $9.66 Billion - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:33] <exec> 08└─It's becoming increasingly obvious NASA can't do this kind of thing anymore. Maybe the way forward is to cancel the program and sell what they have to private investors. I can picture Elon putting a fake eyepiece on it and launching it with another mannikin looking through it. Probably won't happen...
[16:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Launch of James Webb Space Telescope Delayed Again, This Time to March 2021, Cost at $9.66 Billion - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:36] <exec> 08└─What'll happen first? Star Citizen releasing or JWST launching?
[16:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Launch of James Webb Space Telescope Delayed Again, This Time to March 2021, Cost at $9.66 Billion - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:38] <exec> 08└─Northrop Grumman is building the telescope. http://www.northropgrumman.com [northropgrumman.com]
[16:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Launch of James Webb Space Telescope Delayed Again, This Time to March 2021, Cost at $9.66 Billion - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:40] <exec> 08└─The LHC cost $4.75 to build. Finding the Higgs Boson brought that up to $13B. The ISS cost ~$100B. The Panama canal was $16B. Hoover dam $0.8B Apollo program ~$120B. NASA annual budget $20.7B Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station $13.5B
[16:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Launch of James Webb Space Telescope Delayed Again, This Time to March 2021, Cost at $9.66 Billion - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:42] <exec> 08└─What is the reason for the delays? Wikipedia even has an entire section on it that explains nothing: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[16:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Launch of James Webb Space Telescope Delayed Again, This Time to March 2021, Cost at $9.66 Billion - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:45] <exec> 08└─Searching more: The latest snags stemmed from a variety of human errors, technical problems and even "excessive optimism," said Tom Young, chair of the Independent Review Board. "The complexity and risk cannot be overstated or overestimated," he told reporters in a conference call. NASA administrato...
[16:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Launch of James Webb Space Telescope Delayed Again, This Time to March 2021, Cost at $9.66 Billion - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:47] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but NASA is managing it and filling wheelbarrows of money. Let NG take it under their own wing, sell ads on the outside of it, sell off the naming rights, and convince Elon a free launch is worth the publicity. Or hell, hang their heads in shame and finish the thing on their own dime.
[16:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Launch of James Webb Space Telescope Delayed Again, This Time to March 2021, Cost at $9.66 Billion - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:49] <exec> 08└─"excessive optimism" == "Oh shit, if we tell them what it's really gonna cost and how long it will take there's no way we'll get our wheelbarrows full of money".
[16:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Polio Outbreak in Papua New Guinea - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:02] <exec> 08└─Was it lupus?
[16:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03oldmac31310 [4521] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Apple and Samsung Settle Long-Running Patent War - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:09] <exec> 08└─Some news just isn't...
[16:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple and Samsung Settle Long-Running Patent War - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:11] <exec> 08└─Considering the huge sums of money spent in litigation, I can't help but wonder what things would be like if some fraction of it were spent, instead, in providing the USPTO with additional funding sufficient to reject overreaching, invalid, or non-novel patents. Ditto for a proper search for pre-exi...
[16:14:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Bill to Save Net Neutrality is 46 Votes Short in US House - 253 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:20] <exec> 08└─No, seriously, it is not a rhetorical question. USian Soylentils, especially those seeing/calling themselves conservatives, I'm really curious of your position, do you think are they representing your interest in regards with the "net neutrality" issue?
[16:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill to Save Net Neutrality is 46 Votes Short in US House - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:36] <exec> 08└─Do they only bring it forward now while it doesn't have a chance at passing?
[16:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill to Save Net Neutrality is 46 Votes Short in US House - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:37] <exec> 08└─Fuck no, I don't get the impression my "representatives" are actually representing me. Between "safe districts," the two-party tango ("vote him out!" "okay" "this guy sucks too, vote the other guy back in!"), and corporate lobbyists, most of them seem to care about us about as much as they care what...
[16:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill to Save Net Neutrality is 46 Votes Short in US House - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:40] <exec> 08└─You triggered them with the mere question. Facing the consequences of their bad decisions is more than they can handle.
[16:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aegis [6714] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bill to Save Net Neutrality is 46 Votes Short in US House - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:42] <exec> 08└─If we all vote D team in November and they get more seats, will they conveniently forget to bring this issue forward again? What do you mean "again?" They already implemented it once! Why would they not do it again?
[16:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aegis [6714] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bill to Save Net Neutrality is 46 Votes Short in US House - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:44] <exec> 08└─Yeah, both parties are sellouts.
[16:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill to Save Net Neutrality is 46 Votes Short in US House - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:46] <exec> 08└─Are they still representing your interest?
[16:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Algorithm Recreates the Periodic Table of Elements - 1301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:08] <exec> 08└─1% of the population are intersex. Ask any geneticist about XX/XY and watch them sigh before they try to explain. My ex- worked in a London hospital handling a vast percentage of all the DNA tests done in the UK. From determining if something is cancerous to detecting inherited conditions, etc. Lite...
[16:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Algorithm Recreates the Periodic Table of Elements - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:10] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry, it's been twenty years since I needed to know these things... I was thinking of CaCO3 https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[16:15:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Complex Organic Molecules Found on Enceladus - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:32] <exec> 08└─Silly BBC title: Saturn moon a step closer to hosting life Just because WE found out, nothing has changed on Enceladus.
[16:15:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Complex Organic Molecules Found on Enceladus - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:33] <exec> 08└─Newly discovered ancient city with large stadium is one step closer to hosting Olympic games - now that the people with the Olympic games know that it exists and may then bring Olympic games there.
[16:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:02] <exec> 08└─ICE is running "black" sites.
[16:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:03] <exec> 08└─- "tossing a lot of bullcrap the previous courts have imposed on the country" : That's what the Legislative branch is for. If the law is ambiguous and you don't like the interpretation from the judges, write a clear law, and get it voted by the People's elected Congress.
[16:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:06] <exec> 08└─Nope 100% intentional, do you not read the shit jmo writes??
[16:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:08] <exec> 08└─Voting 3rd party is the only way to break this cycle. Though everyone that benefits from the 2 party system spreads the continued lie that voting 3rd party is throwing your vote away. It will be true only until enough people recognize the lie.
[16:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:10] <exec> 08└─you're conflating reactionary and conservative again.
[16:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:12] <exec> 08└─Oh yeah? Go ask J-Mo which he is and get back to me. Quit the fucking dictionary-trolling. If they weren't two different things we wouldn't need two different names for them.
[16:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Air Force “Light Attack” Test Aircraft Crashes on Bomb Range, Killing Pilot - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:55] <exec> 08└─The Light Attack/Armed Reconnaissance (LAAR) specs require 2.5x times loiter time of the A-10 at the expense of armor. Effectively, just enough armor to survive light gun fire while supporting a small genocide ground force operation in a space where the civilians insurgents are using home made gap s...
[16:20:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Making 'Rapid' Upgrades to Nuclear Reactor Despite Summit Pledges - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:22] <exec> 08└─I did, it was just a point you don't like. Conservative flip-flopping with denials it is happening are pretty important points for people to realize. "Bomb those evil commie Norkers!" 3 seconds later. "No, Kim is our friend who will disarm and play nice cause Trump is the BEST at making deals!" I k...
[16:20:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Making 'Rapid' Upgrades to Nuclear Reactor Despite Summit Pledges - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:23] <exec> 08└─I'll just enjoy the small bit of schadenfreude as I watch morons cheer on the "enemies" they wanted to nuke just months before. Trump was right, he could murder someone in broad daylight and his supporters would go along with it. I won't say the guy is actually that smart, but he sure seems to know...
[16:20:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02 - 06Senator Asks FCC If Stingrays Can Interfere With 911 Calls - 441 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:46] <exec> 08└─Actually, no. Stingray is not a passive listener. It has to become part of the connection in order to listen in. It actively tricks cellphones into connecting through it. So it's more like you hooked the neighbor's phone line up to a line simulator and quickly patch their calls in to the real networ...
[16:20:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senator Asks FCC If Stingrays Can Interfere With 911 Calls - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:53] <exec> 08└─Overseeing moral is not the FCC's job.
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[17:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TrueOS Doesn’t Want to Be ‘BSD for Desktop’ Anymore - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:33] <exec> 08└─Why not just make it perfectly rolling? Facing some sort of an update every 6 months just drives real world users away, leaving you with nothing but Distro Tourists for your user-base. Especially if those 6month release entail any amount of disruption.
[17:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TrueOS Doesn’t Want to Be ‘BSD for Desktop’ Anymore - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:34] <exec> 08└─Yes: after being more or less a ubuntu person, after going to Manjaro i love the rolling release. Much easier and more 'fluid'.
[17:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TrueOS Doesn’t Want to Be ‘BSD for Desktop’ Anymore - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:36] <exec> 08└─They're going to bring systemd to BSD! OH THE HUMANITY!!!
[17:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06TrueOS Doesn’t Want to Be ‘BSD for Desktop’ Anymore - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:39] <exec> 08└─They can't. Neither the license nor the codebase will allow that.
[17:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06TrueOS Doesn’t Want to Be ‘BSD for Desktop’ Anymore - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:41] <exec> 08└─yes but England is about to bend Belgium over
[17:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TrueOS Doesn’t Want to Be ‘BSD for Desktop’ Anymore - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:43] <exec> 08└─systemd is hard to port to other kernels besides Linux because they use some Linux-kernel-specific APIs. That's one of the reasons the project was created, to make use of some Linux kernel features that more platform-independent init systems avoided.
[17:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03technoid_ [6593] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06TrueOS Doesn’t Want to Be ‘BSD for Desktop’ Anymore - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:45] <exec> 08└─Project Trident is supposed to be continuing the desktop work that was TrueOS. http://www.project-trident.org [project-trident.org] From the FAQ: Q: Do we need to be at a certain TrueOS install level/release to upgrade? A: As long as you have a TrueOS system which has been updated to at least the 1...
[17:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TrueOS Doesn’t Want to Be ‘BSD for Desktop’ Anymore - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:48] <exec> 08└─They can't. Neither the license nor the codebase will allow that.
[17:14:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Launch of James Webb Space Telescope Delayed Again, This Time to March 2021, Cost at $9.66 Billion - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:03] <exec> 08└─Condoms: $12.00ish Pulling out: priceless
[17:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Launch of James Webb Space Telescope Delayed Again, This Time to March 2021, Cost at $9.66 Billion - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:05] <exec> 08└─From its original total cost estimate of about US$400 million, the telescope cost about US$4.7 billion by the time of its launch. Hubble's cumulative costs were estimated to be about US$10 billion in 2010, twenty years after launch.
[17:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple and Samsung Settle Long-Running Patent War - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:27] <exec> 08└─I suspect that making your own versions of screens and digitizers and memory and all the other things that Samsung manufactures these days was going to be just too costly, and since Steve has been dead long enough now, they can get back to business instead of protecting rounded corners. The pissing...
[17:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple and Samsung Settle Long-Running Patent War - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:28] <exec> 08└─Still, I'm not sure I want private companies directly funding the USPTO. What could POSSIBLY go wrong with that?!!?
[17:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill to Save Net Neutrality is 46 Votes Short in US House - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:59] <exec> 08└─Some of us are beyond hope -- in this case it's chief Trump apologist Chris Collins. The district is all the suburbs and rural areas between Buffalo and Rochester NY. Doesn't look like some of the crazy gerrymandering (with "islands" connected by roads), but without either city it's highly Republica...
[17:15:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill to Save Net Neutrality is 46 Votes Short in US House - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:00] <exec> 08└─Thank God no American elected official ever lied on record making a false promise and got away with it!
[17:15:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Algorithm Recreates the Periodic Table of Elements - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:25] <exec> 08└─It has nothing to do with the way that humans got the periodic table.
[17:16:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03oldmac31310 [4521] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Reality Winner Pleads Guilty to Leaking NSA Election Hacking Data - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:45] <exec> 08└─She won reality, apparently.
[17:17:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 57 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:44] <exec> 08└─So, basically, you are in favor of back-street abortions?
[17:18:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:24] <exec> 08└─You're replying to the wrong part of the comment. The point was, quite explicitly, that Congress can make new laws when they don't like SCOTUS decisions. That's pretty much the way it was designed to work.
[17:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:25] <exec> 08└─The problem with "Let them do it", is that part of their plan is to deny a vote to as many people as possible that might disagree with them, and, failing an outright denial of voting rights, to make those votes not effective. The Supreme Court appears to be ready to go along with partisan gerrymande...
[17:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:28] <exec> 08└─I've always seen it as a gradient - Radical Reactionary ... so the true Reactionaries are the extreme wing of the Conservatives, just as the Radicals are the extreme wing of the Liberals. There might be other groups even farther out beyond either end, but honestly I've never wanted to explore those...
[17:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 674 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:30] <exec> 08└─Sorry - forgot I was stepping on HTML tags again with the ASCII arrows. Trying again - I've always seen it as a gradient - Radical -- Liberal -- -- Conservative -- Reactionary ... so the true Reactionaries are the extreme wing of the Conservatives, just as the Radicals are the extreme wing of the Li...
[17:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 1508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:32] <exec> 08└─And we can't stop it. It's going to get worse before it gets better. We're past the tipping point now, don't you get it? Whatever happens, we're committed to at least a 50-year cleanup of this mess, and that's assuming we start in 2018, *and* we don't end up in a permanent depression, *and* WWIII do...
[17:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:34] <exec> 08└─They should be a known, stable quantity such that a reasonable person could predict their actions with reasonable certainty in the vast majority of cases.
[17:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:37] <exec> 08└─You're not going to get anywhere with these people. They're not thinking; they fire off pre-programmed talking points without ever stopping to assess their truth.
[17:19:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Force “Light Attack” Test Aircraft Crashes on Bomb Range, Killing Pilot - 767 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:21] <exec> 08└─"designed for operation against massed tanks of the former Soviet Union" Go watch the 3rd vid i linked. That's not what it was designed for. The guy said they needed a weapon that could strike a target within 20 meters of friendly troops. That severely limited what could be used. Military equipment...
[17:20:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Making 'Rapid' Upgrades to Nuclear Reactor Despite Summit Pledges - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:51] <exec> 08└─Right, all the things that liberals didn't like so conservatives just went all racist and birther. You kinda proved the point, conservatives didn't hate on Obama because of his policies, and apparently they are too far gone to understand what freedom should be like.
[17:20:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Making 'Rapid' Upgrades to Nuclear Reactor Despite Summit Pledges - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:52] <exec> 08└─If you were a Russian running a Russian Presidential Campaign and you were meeting with a U.S. Government attorney to get dirt on your opponent?, yep, I'd call that committing treason towards your country.
[17:21:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senator Asks FCC If Stingrays Can Interfere With 911 Calls - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:22] <exec> 08└─That was not the question that I asked. Would you care to try again? Are you acquainted with morality? A simple yes or no will suffice, for the present.
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[18:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03technoid_ [6593] (Score: 1) 02 - 06TrueOS Doesn’t Want to Be ‘BSD for Desktop’ Anymore - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:34] <exec> 08└─Actually heard interest to port Mac OS' launchd to FreeBSD. If it sticks to the startup, I will take a look, but no need to re-write the kitchen sink. I don't reboot/power off enough for saving some speed on start that big of a deal to me though.
[18:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TrueOS Doesn’t Want to Be ‘BSD for Desktop’ Anymore - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:36] <exec> 08└─> ... eager to copy what Lennart has done to Linux. Let me guess, these are all kids?
[18:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06TrueOS Doesn’t Want to Be ‘BSD for Desktop’ Anymore - 1188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:38] <exec> 08└─launchd is an init system. systemd is not. So they are not comparable. It would be fine if launchd, openrc, upstart, daemontools, or other actual init systems were ported or had concepts ported, as long as the OS remained modular and the init sytem could be swapped out by the users. What would be da...
[18:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Launch of James Webb Space Telescope Delayed Again, This Time to March 2021, Cost at $9.66 Billion - 547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:56] <exec> 08└─Just recently, there was this: Screws and Washers Have Fallen Off JWST Amid Testing and Independent Review [soylentnews.org] and before that: Launch of James Webb Space Telescope Delayed to May 2020, Could Exceed Budget Cap [soylentnews.org] Valves on the spacecraft's thrusters had sprung leaks afte...
[18:13:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Launch of James Webb Space Telescope Delayed Again, This Time to March 2021, Cost at $9.66 Billion - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:58] <exec> 08└─> Its getting so expensive, nobody will want to launch it, on the off chance the rocket goes boom. Ariane V was set to launch it even when the $5B cost made it impossible to insure. $10B doesn't make a difference at this point. Launch is free already. You put the one-of-a-kind thing on the most reli...
[18:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Polio Outbreak in Papua New Guinea - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:12] <exec> 08└─It's never lupis
[18:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple and Samsung Settle Long-Running Patent War - 674 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:24] <exec> 08└─To our credit, we are wont to think of war as a huge waste, and stupid. And it is. But this at least is far from total war. We did not have Steve Jobs and Lee Kun-hee recruiting soldiers and buying lethal weapons to employ private armies against each other. Or even worse, handing their respective na...
[18:14:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Aegis [6714] 02 - 06Bill to Save Net Neutrality is 46 Votes Short in US House - 32 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:53] <exec> 08└─Yeah, both parties are sellouts.
[18:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Bill to Save Net Neutrality is 46 Votes Short in US House - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:57] <exec> 08└─Libertarians have been around for decades, but I can't think of a single election they've won.
[18:16:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SD Association Raises Max Capacity to 128 TB, Speed to 985 MB/s Using PCIe and NVMe - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:13] <exec> 08└─Oddly enough, I've just written a list of pros and cons without even thinking about it!
[18:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:32] <exec> 08└─Something I remember from a TEDTalk. VERY roughly parphrased. The founders puzzled over what to call the executive. They didn't want to use a term like King because it implied too much power. They were looking for a term that implied as little power as possible. They eventually settled on President....
[18:20:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Making 'Rapid' Upgrades to Nuclear Reactor Despite Summit Pledges - 1751 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:48] <exec> 08└─Nahhh, you're missing the point, so you're not making much of a point. The West has been stymied by North Korea for all of my lifetime. Not one single diplomat, or president, or congress, or prime minister, or parliament has made any headway at all with the Norks. It's been nothing but open belliger...
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[19:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06'Live' TV Piracy Watermarking Defeated by Devices Sold on eBay - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:28] <exec> 08└─“These tools are so smart, they take a sample of the surrounding pixels and re-use them to replace the visual marks, so the viewer of the pirate stream barely notices any disturbance in the picture.”
[19:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Live' TV Piracy Watermarking Defeated by Devices Sold on eBay - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:29] <exec> 08└─Back at its peak, The Oatmeal had a good strip illustrating the difference between poaching video and acquiring access legitimately [theoatmeal.com].
[19:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Live' TV Piracy Watermarking Defeated by Devices Sold on eBay - 1034 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:32] <exec> 08└─I was a warrior in the Piracy Wars. It all started in the 20th century, before I was born, and continued well into the 21sth century. The arms races were crazy - sometimes, they came up with something that we couldn't touch for months, or years. Other times, we came out with something new, they coun...
[19:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Live' TV Piracy Watermarking Defeated by Devices Sold on eBay - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:34] <exec> 08└─Back at its peak
[19:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TrueOS Doesn’t Want to Be ‘BSD for Desktop’ Anymore - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:51] <exec> 08└─The BSD's generally have a stable branch which is your "disruptive" update, and a current branch which is rolling. The upgrade in place for these is generally not too disruptive, the kernel and core userland get replaced and your package repos are updated. I haven't run FreeBSD in a while and never...
[19:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Launch of James Webb Space Telescope Delayed Again, This Time to March 2021, Cost at $9.66 Billion - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:12] <exec> 08└─There is new info on the screws: The fasteners came loose during an acoustic test that simulated the conditions Webb will encounter during launch on a European Ariane 5 rocket from French Guiana. Some of the fastener hardware, which comprised items such as washers and screws, still has not been foun...
[19:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill to Save Net Neutrality is 46 Votes Short in US House - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:11] <exec> 08└─No, of course not. There are only two parties. Your only choice is the one that you disagree with the least. This is an inherent property of the first past the post, single vote, winner take all system and can be proven mathematically and verified experimentally.
[19:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:44] <exec> 08└─After all, who would ever be impressed by a mere title such as: The President Of The United States
[19:18:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:46] <exec> 08└─You're under the mistaken impression that the GP was trying to present information rather than propaganda. That said, the KKK isn't all that important a force today, mostly because the cops are doing a fair amount of what the KKK used to do.
[19:18:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SCOTUS's Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:48] <exec> 08└─You do realize you just outed yourself as a hate mongering piece of crap right? Backed up by bullshit lies, you are the mechanical bull the GOP is letting every corporation get a free ride on and by the time you realize how badly you've been fucked you'll be living in the scrap yard. Dumbass conserv...
[19:19:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Force “Light Attack” Test Aircraft Crashes on Bomb Range, Killing Pilot - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:33] <exec> 08└─The guy said they needed a weapon that could strike a target within 20 meters of friendly troops.
[19:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Making 'Rapid' Upgrades to Nuclear Reactor Despite Summit Pledges - 937 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:06] <exec> 08└─Basically, we are lucky that only thing standing between Obama and ever more draconian right wing policy, was right wing racism. Don't you think it is sad that we need racism to prevent Democrats from being insanely evil? Don't you think it nuts that the Democrat reaction to Trump is to be excessive...
[19:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Making 'Rapid' Upgrades to Nuclear Reactor Despite Summit Pledges - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:07] <exec> 08└─How many times do you have to be proven wrong to stop posting fake facts? Again, I really wish these RWNJs were foreign troll accounts because it is depressing getting constant reminders of how stupid and hate filled some of my fellow USAians actually are.
[19:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Undercover Dark Web Bust Leads to More Than 35 Arrests - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:07] <exec> 08└─This! Although I would like to add in that no kind of return is worth paying assholes to spy on citizens with no due process. I know that was a tongue-in-cheek comment, but just to be clear :D
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[20:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06German Researchers Defeat Printer-Tracking Yellow Dots - 1336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:27] <exec> 08└─I have put an malvware (virus) on a porn site (site with adult videos) and you accessed it to have some fun (you know what i mean) While you were watching the adult videos the system began to work as a RDP (Remote Desktop) with a keylogger and i had access to device screen and your camera. After tha...
[20:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06German Researchers Defeat Printer-Tracking Yellow Dots - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:29] <exec> 08└─An easier foolproof solution is to just pull out the yellow toner cartridge from the printer unless you need it.
[20:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German Researchers Defeat Printer-Tracking Yellow Dots - 1016 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:31] <exec> 08└─My first thought about a DIY printer was something like the old dot matrix (gag) or the 1990s inkjet type printers. Using something like Makeblocks (that can build a 3D printer) it would Shirley be possible to make some sort of dot matrix or inkjet printer using off the shelf parts. My next thought...
[20:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TrueOS Doesn’t Want to Be ‘BSD for Desktop’ Anymore - 1278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:59] <exec> 08└─Actually, systemd is philosophically a lot closer to BSD than to Linux. BSD emphasizes a monolithic core, whereas Linux is a grab-bag of parts from different sources that have to be glued together. For example, BSD has standard commands for managing users (pw), has a standard init, has a standard se...
[20:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TrueOS Doesn’t Want to Be ‘BSD for Desktop’ Anymore - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:01] <exec> 08└─None of those things you mention are consistent across the BSDs. Many have the same names and are descended from the same code, but it's not like Net/Open/Free/DflyBSD have the same versions of everything or even approximate compatibility. Systemd is making a lot of things standard across distributi...
[20:15:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Algorithm Recreates the Periodic Table of Elements - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:46] <exec> 08└─People who come up with the "but there are only two possible sexes" thing are so uneducated, I can't even begin to correct them.
[20:16:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SD Association Raises Max Capacity to 128 TB, Speed to 985 MB/s Using PCIe and NVMe - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:38] <exec> 08└─Two other common associations for "con" Yes, when I see con, I think "con man", or "contrail", or maybe "conversation". "Congress" fits the first one I guess.
[20:19:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Force “Light Attack” Test Aircraft Crashes on Bomb Range, Killing Pilot - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:47] <exec> 08└─Poor little aircraft, was so young :(
[20:21:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Making 'Rapid' Upgrades to Nuclear Reactor Despite Summit Pledges - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:21] <exec> 08└─There was someone dumb enough to be in North Korea to ask that dumb of a question? I guess I shouldn't be surprised, but wow. "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."--Albert Einstein.
[20:21:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senator Asks FCC If Stingrays Can Interfere With 911 Calls - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:52] <exec> 08└─Which an individual would spend a very long time in prison for doing.
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[21:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook's Instagram Valued at $100 Billion (It Was Purchased for $1 Billion) - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:29] <exec> 08└─The tech hyper-valuation is the real bubble we should be worried about. BTC is more like the door to door salesman con-artist. My guess is tech has been massively propped up by governments so we can make everyone Safe(tm).
[21:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06German Researchers Defeat Printer-Tracking Yellow Dots - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:40] <exec> 08└─An easier foolproof solution is to just pull out the yellow toner cartridge
[21:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06German Researchers Defeat Printer-Tracking Yellow Dots - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:41] <exec> 08└─OMG. I get messages exactly like this about twice a week. It's always the same. I've put a virus on your computer and caught your wanking on webcam. I'm going to share it with all your contacts unless you send me $$ in bitcoin. The last one was for $500 worth. I've never been complimented on my choi...
[21:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German Researchers Defeat Printer-Tracking Yellow Dots - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:43] <exec> 08└─Since your "solution" doesn't actually work, I'll present two easier solutions: 1. Use a printer made by Brother, Samsung, or Tektronix. 2. Use a B&W printer.
[21:13:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06German Researchers Defeat Printer-Tracking Yellow Dots - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:46] <exec> 08└─Most of the printers I checked just issue a toner empty/missing cartridge warning which you can skip, printer workie. And in those which didn't you can trick it to sense an empty/missing toner cardtrige as full, printer workie. Yes, I can guess some low end printer I didn't try won't work. Tough luc...
[21:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German Researchers Defeat Printer-Tracking Yellow Dots - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:48] <exec> 08└─Or print on yellow paper?
[21:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06German Researchers Defeat Printer-Tracking Yellow Dots - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:50] <exec> 08└─Substitute black toner cartridge for yellow toner cartridge, printer no-workie.
[21:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German Researchers Defeat Printer-Tracking Yellow Dots - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:52] <exec> 08└─Since your "solution" doesn't actually work, I'll present two easier solutions: 1. Use a printer made by Brother, Samsung, or Tektronix. 2. Use a B&W printer.
[21:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German Researchers Defeat Printer-Tracking Yellow Dots - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:55] <exec> 08└─B/W printers of modern manufacture do the same thing with black toner. In very very tiny dots spread out so you won't notice them. Also the EFF NOW says [eff.org]: (Added 2017) REMINDER: IT APPEARS LIKELY THAT ALL RECENT COMMERCIAL COLOR LASER PRINTERS PRINT SOME KIND OF FORENSIC TRACKING CODES, NOT...
[21:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06German Researchers Defeat Printer-Tracking Yellow Dots - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:57] <exec> 08└─Me too, though it was largely because I could get a laser printer for under $30. That's less than the ink I'd have needed for the other printer.
[21:13:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German Researchers Defeat Printer-Tracking Yellow Dots - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:59] <exec> 08└─That won't work if they really want to find you. If they have the resources to analyse the dot pattern, identify the SN of the printer, and locate the owner of that printer, then they will be able to detect a difference between yellow paper and yellow paper with a dot of ink or toner on it.
[21:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German Researchers Defeat Printer-Tracking Yellow Dots - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:02] <exec> 08└─False alarm, it was just videos censored from YouTube. :/
[21:14:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06German Researchers Defeat Printer-Tracking Yellow Dots - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:04] <exec> 08└─The toner cartridge doesn't need to contain anything for the printer logic to detect it as full. Do you realize that the "toner empty" flag doesn't actually check, weight or sense in any way the physical presence of toner at all? These checks are just some sort of usage counter, smartchip, gears, or...
[21:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German Researchers Defeat Printer-Tracking Yellow Dots - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:06] <exec> 08└─"more user friendly brand" We don't sell those kinds of printers in the USA. You can only get the $50 printers with the $100 ink replacements.
[21:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German Researchers Defeat Printer-Tracking Yellow Dots - 740 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:08] <exec> 08└─Toner empty/missing - No bypass. Printer no workie. (Lets face it: You didn't run ANY tests. I did on every laser I have at had both at home and in the office. 4 HPs, (color and b/w) Dells, new Brothers. None will print with one toner missing or one toner empty except an older Dell (Lexmark under th...
[21:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German Researchers Defeat Printer-Tracking Yellow Dots - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:11] <exec> 08└─BS. Toner is electrically sensed, (it conducts electricity) not only in the cartridge but on the drum.
[21:14:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06'Live' TV Piracy Watermarking Defeated by Devices Sold on eBay - 203 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:18] <exec> 08└─“These tools are so smart, they take a sample of the surrounding pixels and re-use them to replace the visual marks, so the viewer of the pirate stream barely notices any disturbance in the picture.”
[21:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Live' TV Piracy Watermarking Defeated by Devices Sold on eBay - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:23] <exec> 08└─This used to be the case by and large, but online streaming services have gotten a lot better. Personally I stick with Netflix. No "Traditional TV" service. We still get the occasional DVD or DVD/Blu-Ray combo, but that hasn't really increased or decreased. My wife heard about Disney making a new st...
[21:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Live' TV Piracy Watermarking Defeated by Devices Sold on eBay - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:26] <exec> 08└─*MAFIAA
[21:15:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Launch of James Webb Space Telescope Delayed Again, This Time to March 2021, Cost at $9.66 Billion - 232 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:03] <exec> 08└─From its original total cost estimate of about US$400 million, the telescope cost about US$4.7 billion by the time of its launch. Hubble's cumulative costs were estimated to be about US$10 billion in 2010, twenty years after launch.
[21:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Launch of James Webb Space Telescope Delayed Again, This Time to March 2021, Cost at $9.66 Billion - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:07] <exec> 08└─Ultimately? It's a cost-plus contract.
[21:15:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple and Samsung Settle Long-Running Patent War - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:33] <exec> 08└─Wait wait wait, so you finally found a piece of government you think should NOT be privatized?? Someone call the Pope, we've got a bonified miracle over here!
[21:15:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple and Samsung Settle Long-Running Patent War - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:35] <exec> 08└─Yeah, definitely not, but how about at an extra 5% payout to the USPTO for losing? Not sure that would make things any worse than they are now and it might make them self funded.
[21:15:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Bill to Save Net Neutrality is 46 Votes Short in US House - 419 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:53] <exec> 08└─Suggestion: just ask the candidates how they are going to vote on this one before the election. If possible, in public electoral meetings, so that their answer is on record. It won't matter if you'll decide who to vote based on the answer at this particular question; it matters the question to be ra...
[21:16:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill to Save Net Neutrality is 46 Votes Short in US House - 654 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:10] <exec> 08└─On this particular issue, I would say most likely not. Time will tell, but we had to live with 8 years of Obama. The shoe is on the other foot, now. Was Trump a good choice? No. Was Hillary a good choice? Definitely not, either. I was rooting for Ben Carson, but it became clear that he wasn't going...
[21:16:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill to Save Net Neutrality is 46 Votes Short in US House - 638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:12] <exec> 08└─Obama was worth the risk, 100%. Then he went status quo and fighting the Republican majority made it even harder. Blame "your" side for at least 50% of Obama's failures, and comparing Obama's term to Trump's can only be a valid statement if you're a bigot and/or moron. Go ahead, explain all the good...
[21:16:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ESA Plans "Hera" Follow-Up Mission to NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:53] <exec> 08└─I have you know 'Oumuamua was the onomatopoeic rendering of one brave researcher trying to suggest "Penis-Turd" during the name suggesting session as his girl-friend promptly shoved a scarf down his throat to shut him up.
[21:16:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ESA Plans "Hera" Follow-Up Mission to NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:55] <exec> 08└─"Of, or pertaining to Gemini, the twins Castor and Pollux." See, KritonK got it right.
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[22:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Facebook's Instagram Valued at $100 Billion (It Was Purchased for $1 Billion) - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:32] <exec> 08└─Silly question: How dumb of a society are we, that something so useless and easily replaced can be worth so much ? Yes it connects advertisers to people under the guise of posting pictures, generating revenue, and it connects people. But if it vanished right this instant, what impact would it have o...
[22:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Facebook's Instagram Valued at $100 Billion (It Was Purchased for $1 Billion) - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:33] <exec> 08└─You're surrounded by stupid people. An equal vote by unequal people makes no sense.
[22:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook's Instagram Valued at $100 Billion (It Was Purchased for $1 Billion) - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:36] <exec> 08└─Maybe one day we'll have enough "woke" people that going "mooooo" or "baaaaaah" at someone when they get sucked into a privacy hellhole like FB will actually make them ashamed of their ignorance. They will ask what alternative there is that protects them from the evil marketers and we will quickly p...
[22:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Facebook's Instagram Valued at $100 Billion (It Was Purchased for $1 Billion) - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:38] <exec> 08└─Silly question: How dumb of a society are we, that something so useless and easily replaced can be worth so much ?
[22:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook's Instagram Valued at $100 Billion (It Was Purchased for $1 Billion) - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:40] <exec> 08└─Nortel anyone? Pets.com? How can anyone believe that any web site (Amazon.com and Alibaba being the possible rare exceptions) is worth $100 Billion? In what universe can Instagram do anything that would generate enough income to make that plausible? What is it about tech that makes investors so stup...
[22:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook's Instagram Valued at $100 Billion (It Was Purchased for $1 Billion) - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:42] <exec> 08└─Silly question: How dumb of a society are we, that something so useless and easily replaced can be worth so much ? Yes it connects advertisers to people under the guise of posting pictures, generating revenue, and it connects people. But if it vanished right this instant, what impact would it have...
[22:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook's Instagram Valued at $100 Billion (It Was Purchased for $1 Billion) - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:45] <exec> 08└─Advertisers. They throw around huge sums of money, frequently 20% of their total business expenses! Now whether it translates to tangible profits is a separate question, but they seem to think so. "Advertisers" covers every aspect of selling user data for profit. Governments would be more like rever...
[22:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06German Researchers Defeat Printer-Tracking Yellow Dots - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:10] <exec> 08└─If they decode the dot patterns, another interesting project might be to write a program to add user-defined dot codes to Brother, Samsung, or Tektronix printers. Print a different random SN into every document.
[22:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German Researchers Defeat Printer-Tracking Yellow Dots - 767 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:11] <exec> 08└─So, assuming for the sake of argument that we cannot block the introduction of watermarking dots -- be they yellow or B&W -- how effective would it be to print the same document on multiple printers? What I mean is: Print the document on Printer A Remove document from Printer A Insert printed pages...
[22:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German Researchers Defeat Printer-Tracking Yellow Dots - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:14] <exec> 08└─I use a B&W Brother printer!
[22:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06German Researchers Defeat Printer-Tracking Yellow Dots - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:16] <exec> 08└─I thought of the same thing. But even in the your best case, they now have to track down three printers. If they all are owned by you, or a couple of your friends, it won't take long. Print at the library, or coffee shop that keeps lousy records? Might work better. Most librarians go out of their wa...
[22:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06German Researchers Defeat Printer-Tracking Yellow Dots - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:18] <exec> 08└─I assume you mean "random" as in "always the username and printer serial number of my smelly, annoying coworker that sits across from me."
[22:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German Researchers Defeat Printer-Tracking Yellow Dots - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:20] <exec> 08└─https://www.reddit.com/r/Scams/comments/7f0sxc/email_video_scam/ [reddit.com]
[22:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Live' TV Piracy Watermarking Defeated by Devices Sold on eBay - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:33] <exec> 08└─I've enjoyed Netflix for a long time. But I find it increasingly difficult to find anything I like on Netflix. Especially any kind of "Sci Fi" that doesn't have fantasy, supernatural elements, witches, magic, or a really dark or dystopian plot. A lot of Netflix's home grown content is disappointing....
[22:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TrueOS Doesn’t Want to Be ‘BSD for Desktop’ Anymore - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:54] <exec> 08└─This is why you dont rely on anyone but the core team.
[22:16:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill to Save Net Neutrality is 46 Votes Short in US House - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:20] <exec> 08└─Wellstone was a true Lefty Progressive, and was unapologetic about it. Not like the current center-right Democrats.
[22:16:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill to Save Net Neutrality is 46 Votes Short in US House - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:22] <exec> 08└─I think you are missing the point.
[22:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Complex Organic Molecules Found on Enceladus - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:15] <exec> 08└─Really cool news. I can feel myself getting pulled down a 6 hour rabbit hole looking into this... guess work can wait until tomorrow.
[22:17:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SD Association Raises Max Capacity to 128 TB, Speed to 985 MB/s Using PCIe and NVMe - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:44] <exec> 08└─Con: I check this story when the comment count updates, and see more of this stupid grammar discussion continuing instead of memory card discussion.
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[23:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. House of Representatives Passes Opioid Legislation; China Will Step Up Cooperation - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:27] <exec> 08└─You'd think they'd be a little bitter after the Opium wars! Maybe they're more sympathetic to the US since we kicked the crap out of those Redcoats shortly after they wrapped up the last Opium war
[23:13:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Facebook's Instagram Valued at $100 Billion (It Was Purchased for $1 Billion) - 519 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:35] <exec> 08└─Silly question: How dumb of a society are we, that something so useless and easily replaced can be worth so much ? Yes it connects advertisers to people under the guise of posting pictures, generating revenue, and it connects people. But if it vanished right this instant, what impact would it have o...
[23:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Facebook's Instagram Valued at $100 Billion (It Was Purchased for $1 Billion) - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:43] <exec> 08└─That is a racist statement....Afro-Americans votes are worth as much as other Americans.
[23:13:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook's Instagram Valued at $100 Billion (It Was Purchased for $1 Billion) - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:46] <exec> 08└─While Facebook continues to grow and has surpassed the 2.2 billion user milestone
[23:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German Researchers Defeat Printer-Tracking Yellow Dots - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:16] <exec> 08└─Your idea is probably only going to make it easier to identify you. The patterns of marks won't be aligned, so there will now be 3 identifiable sets of marks, which will indicate 3 printers. Tracking down who has access to the set of 3 printers is likely to lead to a smaller set of people.
[23:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German Researchers Defeat Printer-Tracking Yellow Dots - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:18] <exec> 08└─B/W printers of modern manufacture do the same thing with black toner.
[23:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06German Researchers Defeat Printer-Tracking Yellow Dots - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:20] <exec> 08└─Easiest option: buy printer second hand for cash and dispose of it after the printing.
[23:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German Researchers Defeat Printer-Tracking Yellow Dots - 1042 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:22] <exec> 08└─"But even in the your best case, they now have to track down three printers. If they all are owned by you, or a couple of your friends, it won't take long" No, in the best case, it would be useless. Imagine, for example, that the printer printed a barcode on each page; if they printed a binary id as...
[23:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German Researchers Defeat Printer-Tracking Yellow Dots - 1874 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:24] <exec> 08└─I haven't yet, but I would laugh my fucking ass off. The webcam inside the laptop has a small piece of thick colored construction paper taped over it (SOP)The drivers for the webcam are not even installedDuring normal operation, the laptop lid is closed further complicating recordingDuring normal op...
[23:17:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ESA Plans "Hera" Follow-Up Mission to NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:08] <exec> 08└─Obviously you do not know Hawaiian, nor do you know of the University of Hawaii's Institute for Astronomy.
[23:17:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Complex Organic Molecules Found on Enceladus - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:18] <exec> 08└─Space force! Space force! They're comin' right for us! Git em'
[23:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Building Better Compression Together With DivANS - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:56] <exec> 08└─This isn't about optimisation, it's about getting you to install another vector for the NSA.
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