#comments | Logs for 2018-08-06

« return
[00:07:22] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[00:07:23] <exec> last cid = 717657
[00:08:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Parker Solar Probe Set to Launch Next Week on its Journey to the Sun - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:46] <exec> 08└─I really hope they don't get lost at night.
[00:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Fire Tornado’ with Winds in Excess of 143 MPH Hit Redding During Carr Fire, Experts Say - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:12] <exec> 08└─Well, we're the ones who caused her itch. We'd best be willing to deal with the scratching.
[00:09:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Fire Tornado’ with Winds in Excess of 143 MPH Hit Redding During Carr Fire, Experts Say - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:13] <exec> 08└─They had only one so far. khallow will accuse you of cherry picking your data, an argument he'll use to demonstrate Redding is still cool despite being thoroughly burnt to the ground.
[00:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Apparition [6835] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Huawei Displaces Apple as World's #2 Smartphone Maker - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:48] <exec> 08└─The only Apple product that is sensibly priced is the iPad. I bought two two months ago for $360 each, (after taxes). I have a feeling it's because Apple is trying to keep the iPads competitive in the school market. I don't like the lockdown, but iPads are the sole viable tablets these days.
[00:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06UN Report Claims North Korea Has Not Stopped Nuclear and Missile Programs - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:41] <exec> 08└─Progress. You use that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
[00:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UN Report Claims North Korea Has Not Stopped Nuclear and Missile Programs - 662 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:42] <exec> 08└─Sovereign nations on the stage of international diplomacy behave pretty much the way Thomas Hobbes in Leviathan described humans in the state of nature: they will do anything and everything to get ahead; no treaty or law binds them other than their own self-interest, and some of them might not even...
[00:10:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UN Report Claims North Korea Has Not Stopped Nuclear and Missile Programs - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:44] <exec> 08└─So true, she spread her legs for a "constant dribble of leaks." No wonder the @nytimes [twitter.com] is failing badly. Sad! foxnews.com/politics/2018/06/08/ali-watkins-past-tweets-come-back-to-haunt-nyt-reporter-amid-leak-case.html [foxnews.com]
[00:10:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Criminals Recruit Telecom Employees to Help Them Hijack SIM Cards - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:56] <exec> 08└─I do some work for a large Telco from time to time. Historically, this Telco has had an issue with SIM swaps too. Their solution has been to heavily restrict the number of staff who can perform this activity - the request goes to a specialist team who are monitored and logged out the wazoo. There's...
[00:11:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Automated in-Car Navigator that Predated Satellites - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:23] <exec> 08└─Wait, what? Did you just call Runaway1956 a hipster?
[00:12:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Creates Quad-Core Zen SoC for Chinese Console Maker - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:33] <exec> 08└─Does it use HDMI?
[00:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Names First Astronauts to Fly on American Spacecraft; SpaceX Poised to Fly Crew Before Boeing - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:21] <exec> 08└─He was born in 1973! That makes him waaay too young to be an astronaut. Oh, wait. I'm sad now.
[00:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06School Board Bans Snow Days, Will Make Kids Work Online Instead - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:28] <exec> 08└─School Board Bans Snow Days
[00:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06School Board Bans Snow Days, Will Make Kids Work Online Instead - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:29] <exec> 08└─No, cunt, the only asshole is you. Children are not in fact someone’s future if they don’t have kids. You want kids? You pay for them.
[00:17:25] <exec> count new = 13
[00:17:25] <exec> count top = 0
[00:17:25] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[01:07:22] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[01:07:23] <exec> last cid = 717673
[01:08:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA's Parker Solar Probe Set to Launch Next Week on its Journey to the Sun - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:08:51] <exec> 08└─Fear ye not - they have GPS.
[01:08:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Parker Solar Probe Set to Launch Next Week on its Journey to the Sun - 2355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:08:52] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker_Solar_Probe [wikipedia.org] The Parker Solar Probe will be the first spacecraft to fly into the low solar corona. It will determine the structure and dynamics of the Sun's coronal magnetic field, understand how the solar corona and wind are heated and accelerated...
[01:08:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06NASA's Parker Solar Probe Set to Launch Next Week on its Journey to the Sun - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:08:55] <exec> 08└─The State of Washington public education system and related interest groups are engaging in fraud and embezzlement: http://www.courts.wa.gov [wa.gov]
[01:08:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Parker Solar Probe Set to Launch Next Week on its Journey to the Sun - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:08:57] <exec> 08└─They're sending it to the Sun -- possibly the only place where solar panels make sense. But, they're protecting it with a shield made of incredible Carbon. Otherwise known as beautiful Clean Coal!!!
[01:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Huawei Displaces Apple as World's #2 Smartphone Maker - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:00] <exec> 08└─Apple is still #1 or #2 in sales and profit, which are better metrics for a business that "units shipped".
[01:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Huawei Displaces Apple as World's #2 Smartphone Maker - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:02] <exec> 08└─There is a premium built into the price of a Mac, but the quality and longevity is certainly worth something. I have 2 identical 2011 27" iMacs that have been running non-stop since Oct 2011. The only issue I've had is a hard drive needing to be replaced last year. Both use i5 CPUs & 32GB, and have...
[01:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Huawei Displaces Apple as World's #2 Smartphone Maker - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:04] <exec> 08└─I have a ~$400 laptop with an AMD A6-3400M APU and 8 GB of RAM. The screen has some deterioration at the edges and the left hinge of the laptop is about to come off. It has been used since mid-2011 and much more heavily in the last 5 years. The HDD still works. I'm hoping to make it to around 2020 s...
[01:10:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UN Report Claims North Korea Has Not Stopped Nuclear and Missile Programs - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:58] <exec> 08└─Maybe a community organizer with a shady past could have done better? Oh...
[01:11:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UN Report Claims North Korea Has Not Stopped Nuclear and Missile Programs - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:00] <exec> 08└─If the damned fools were to launch a nuke, the most likely target would be S. Korea, or considerably less likely, Japan.
[01:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06School Board Bans Snow Days, Will Make Kids Work Online Instead - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:43] <exec> 08└─And my post was due to long experience living in Georgia (one state to the south for the geographically challenged). We either get light snow that's gone in a day or we get about a weeks worth of ice accompanied by downed trees and associated power loss. The former isn't enough disruption to the sch...
[01:17:39] <exec> count new = 10
[01:17:39] <exec> count top = 0
[01:17:39] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[02:07:22] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[02:07:23] <exec> last cid = 717684
[02:08:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Your Uber Driver is a Spy - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:08:58] <exec> 08└─What if my spy is not a Uber driver?
[02:08:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06When Your Uber Driver is a Spy - 669 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:08:59] <exec> 08└─The mostly-male migration forgoes the braggadocio of colorful plumage as seen in avian species. Instead, they establish social dominance and attract attention of potential mates and recruiters by bragging. Thus, according to my taxi-related experiences while covering the conference over the years, L...
[02:09:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Parker Solar Probe Set to Launch Next Week on its Journey to the Sun - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:12] <exec> 08└─Gravitational positioning sensor? :^)
[02:09:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Parker Solar Probe Set to Launch Next Week on its Journey to the Sun - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:13] <exec> 08└─The mission comes with extreme challenges
[02:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Parker Solar Probe Set to Launch Next Week on its Journey to the Sun - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:15] <exec> 08└─For some reason I left out the word "no" between "There's" and "oxygen". Please mentally insert it.
[02:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Huawei Displaces Apple as World's #2 Smartphone Maker - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:21] <exec> 08└─https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/04/the-greedy-ways-apple-got-to-1-trillion/ [techcrunch.com] Check out the comments lol.
[02:11:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UN Report Claims North Korea Has Not Stopped Nuclear and Missile Programs - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:18] <exec> 08└─And yet somehow he's managed to blunder his way to making more progress on the issue since taking office than a half century of Presidents before him managed to do, combined.
[02:12:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03beckett [1115] 02 - 06Enterococcus Faecium Becoming More Resistant to Alcohol Hand Sanitizers - 1470 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:45] <exec> 08└─Some bacteria form endospores with multiple layers to protect its DNA and allow it to survive tough times and harsh conditions (i.e. a 10 minute disinfection procedure). the genus Clostridium is a common culprit in hospital acquired infections, and is known to form endospores which survive bleach. e...
[02:15:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Maps Will No Longer Show a Flat Earth - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:41] <exec> 08└─>Also, it seems Google future proofed it and melted the northern ice cap. The North Pole ice cap is just that, an ice cap. There's no land/continent underneath, unlike Antarctica. Google Maps, like most non-specialized maps, doesn't show floating glaciers.
[02:17:42] <exec> count new = 8
[02:17:43] <exec> count top = 1
[02:17:43] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[03:07:22] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[03:07:23] <exec> last cid = 717699
[03:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Your Uber Driver is a Spy - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:18] <exec> 08└─Perhaps your driver is just a dick [cnet.com]
[03:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Your Uber Driver is a Spy - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:19] <exec> 08└─No expectation of privacy. Of course, just because a businessman records his customers doesn't mean he should publish the recordings for the public to see.
[03:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Your Uber Driver is a Spy - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:21] <exec> 08└─diane feinstein's chinese driver had this figured out 20 years ago.
[03:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Parker Solar Probe Set to Launch Next Week on its Journey to the Sun - 689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:36] <exec> 08└─The timeline is more interesting: 1. the probe will get "in position" (the first minimal perihelion) in 6 years and a bit after launch in which time there'l be 21 (non-minimal) perihelion events 2. they expect at least 24 Sun perihelion events [jhuapl.edu]. Which means only 3 minimal perihelion even...
[03:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Fire Tornado’ with Winds in Excess of 143 MPH Hit Redding During Carr Fire, Experts Say - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:06] <exec> 08└─Sad that you got Troll when, I assume, you were trying for Flamebait. VERY DUMB moderators!
[03:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Acabatag [2885] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Huawei Displaces Apple as World's #2 Smartphone Maker - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:46] <exec> 08└─I hear so many people saying 'the iPad is the only viable option' but I really like my Galaxy Tab A. And it was under $200. I guess I just don't get what's so special about an iPad.
[03:10:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Acabatag [2885] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Huawei Displaces Apple as World's #2 Smartphone Maker - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:47] <exec> 08└─Apple is still #1 or #2 in sales and profit, which are better metrics for a business that "units shipped". From the seller's point of view, you might be correct. But not for The Rest of Us (tm).
[03:10:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Huawei Displaces Apple as World's #2 Smartphone Maker - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:50] <exec> 08└─Here I am stuck in the middle with you.
[03:11:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UN Report Claims North Korea Has Not Stopped Nuclear and Missile Programs - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:48] <exec> 08└─They don't even need to use nuclear weapons. They have more than enough conventional firepower to level multiple South Korean and Japanese cities.
[03:11:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UN Report Claims North Korea Has Not Stopped Nuclear and Missile Programs - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:49] <exec> 08└─Let's ask The Progressive Labor Party [plp.org]. They might know what Progress means.
[03:11:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Acabatag [2885] (Score: 1) 02 - 06UN Report Claims North Korea Has Not Stopped Nuclear and Missile Programs - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:52] <exec> 08└─The difference between a worthless letter, and a 'signed arms reduction treaty'? Is this a treaty signed by Kim Jong-Un? That sounds like a worthless letter compared to a worthless letter (that would eventually have collectors value for the autograph, mind you.)
[03:11:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UN Report Claims North Korea Has Not Stopped Nuclear and Missile Programs - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:54] <exec> 08└─Ran into them while camping; they also believed that Bitcoin was unhackable. I didn't try to explain.
[03:11:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UN Report Claims North Korea Has Not Stopped Nuclear and Missile Programs - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:56] <exec> 08└─The last time there was a nuclear poker game with stakes this high was in 1962
[03:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enterococcus Faecium Becoming More Resistant to Alcohol Hand Sanitizers - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:32] <exec> 08└─As its name suggests, Enterococcus faecium is found in feces. I'm guessing homelessness/poverty is part of the problem; where there is homeless, there is invariably shit on the streets. Gay male sex is probably also a growing, but still negligible source. However, homeless people generally don't hav...
[03:18:21] <exec> count new = 14
[03:18:21] <exec> count top = 0
[03:18:21] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[04:07:22] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[04:07:22] <exec> last cid = 717717
[04:08:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03CZB [6457] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Scientists Stunned as Medical Non-Profit Group Abruptly Ends Research Grants - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:08:57] <exec> 08└─This is terrible. If you're ship is sinking, you don't lock people in the hold. Grounds for a lawsuit is small consolation.
[04:08:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Stunned as Medical Non-Profit Group Abruptly Ends Research Grants - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:08:58] <exec> 08└─Perhaps they should become March of Quarters.
[04:08:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Stunned as Medical Non-Profit Group Abruptly Ends Research Grants - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:00] <exec> 08└─How did they promise money they didnt have? I remember the kars 4 kids charity lost millions to some kind of ponzi scheme...
[04:09:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Stunned as Medical Non-Profit Group Abruptly Ends Research Grants - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:02] <exec> 08└─You say that like it's a Sounds bad, but maybe less painful than the medical research.
[04:09:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03slap [5764] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Stunned as Medical Non-Profit Group Abruptly Ends Research Grants - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:05] <exec> 08└─"In CharityWatch’s view, the Kars4Kids ads deceive potential donors by failing to inform them that donated cars will benefit a Jewish organization and kids of Jewish faith. Furthermore, the youth programs Kars4Kids supports promote an Orthodox Jewish lifestyle, which CharityWatch believes compound...
[04:09:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03slap [5764] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Stunned as Medical Non-Profit Group Abruptly Ends Research Grants - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:07] <exec> 08└─I wonder how much the drop in donations are due to Jerry Lewis passing, so the Telethon no longer is as effective raising donations.
[04:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06When Your Uber Driver is a Spy - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:19] <exec> 08└─Always have your Pyro do a Spy check! Honestly, that was elementary from the start...
[04:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Your Uber Driver is a Spy - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:21] <exec> 08└─Uber and Lyft are now "attack vectors" for the laziest spy agencies on Earth who can't be bothered to spy on "Infosec" via taxi.
[04:10:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Huawei Displaces Apple as World's #2 Smartphone Maker - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:49] <exec> 08└─...but iPads are the sole viable tablets these days.
[04:11:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UN Report Claims North Korea Has Not Stopped Nuclear and Missile Programs - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:11:53] <exec> 08└─> he's managed to blunder his way to making more progress on the issue *points to the title of TFS* You're not exactly what we would call a "reader", eh? Figures you'd like The Orange Illiteratti.
[04:11:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06UN Report Claims North Korea Has Not Stopped Nuclear and Missile Programs - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:11:54] <exec> 08└─So you "know" someone if you run into them while camping?
[04:11:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UN Report Claims North Korea Has Not Stopped Nuclear and Missile Programs - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:11:56] <exec> 08└─> If the damned fools were to launch a nuke, the most likely target would be S. Korea, or considerably less likely, Japan. And those two countries are famous for their opposition to the US, so fuck 'em. They deserve having a few million of their citizens murdered! ... What? They're among the closest...
[04:11:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UN Report Claims North Korea Has Not Stopped Nuclear and Missile Programs - 768 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:11:58] <exec> 08└─Progress, movement forwards, or in a positive direction. For the first time the parties are meeting, they're talking about peace. That, by itself, may not be earth-shaking, but it's certainly progress - and more of it than has been seen on that front since, well, since that front existed. It was fro...
[04:12:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UN Report Claims North Korea Has Not Stopped Nuclear and Missile Programs - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:01] <exec> 08└─If I were NK I wouldn't hit SK. I'd hit Japan. SK's my land. Why would I nuke my own land? Japan on the other hand has done bad stuff to Korea.
[04:12:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UN Report Claims North Korea Has Not Stopped Nuclear and Missile Programs - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:03] <exec> 08└─"Elevated?" That's a bullshit talking point that never made any sense at all. This bizarre notion that you can simply ignore the head of a state and he will shrink and die of embarrassment like a schoolgirl getting snubbed by the cool crowd is unrealistic. It's been done over and over and over again...
[04:12:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UN Report Claims North Korea Has Not Stopped Nuclear and Missile Programs - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:05] <exec> 08└─Are you willing to stake the fate of the world on that? The last time there was a nuclear poker game with stakes this high was in 1962, and had JFK tried to call Khrushchev's bluff and attempted to attack Cuba as the Joint Chiefs were urging him to, probably none of us would be around today to talk...
[04:12:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06UN Report Claims North Korea Has Not Stopped Nuclear and Missile Programs - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:07] <exec> 08└─Doesn't matter what "powerful people" want. Power is relative and they don't have enough of it.
[04:12:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06UN Report Claims North Korea Has Not Stopped Nuclear and Missile Programs - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:10] <exec> 08└─I have to agree with Acabatag. I'm deeply shocked and saddened that we have someone on the internets who doesn't know the difference between a worthless letter and a signed arms reduction treaty. Fix plz. He ACTUALLY seems to think something of measurable value was achieved.
[04:18:00] <exec> count new = 18
[04:18:00] <exec> count top = 0
[04:18:01] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[05:07:23] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[05:07:24] <exec> last cid = 717738
[05:09:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Scientists Stunned as Medical Non-Profit Group Abruptly Ends Research Grants - 1552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:01] <exec> 08└─Food, water, shelter, and sleep. These things are, of course, human needs. But for men, there was one more need, arguably more important than any of those: Rape. Telling a man not to rape would be like telling him not to eat; in other words, nonsensical, cruel, and bigoted. This was because men rape...
[05:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Your Uber Driver is a Spy - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:15] <exec> 08└─Loose lips sink ships. Seems simple enough. If someone isn't disciplined enough to NOT brag in public about 'secret stuff' then perhaps they shouldn't have security clearance or access to secret stuff. Next news flash...Selfies in top secret labs are a bad thing.
[05:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06One Last Stellar Occultation of 2014 MU69 to be Observed Before Jan. 1 New Horizons Flyby - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:39] <exec> 08└─With numbers like these, where are the aristarchus submissions? Are the eds deep-sixing them even before they make the queue? Has shadow-banning finally come to SoylentNews?
[05:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Fire Tornado’ with Winds in Excess of 143 MPH Hit Redding During Carr Fire, Experts Say - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:01] <exec> 08└─Or you could click here [soylentnews.org], into the submission queue.
[05:10:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06Huawei Displaces Apple as World's #2 Smartphone Maker - 2326 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:35] <exec> 08└─Different markets. Yes, there is some overlap in the U.S., but generally there is a certain group of people who like the cache of the iPhone and are willing to pay $500 -- or $1000 -- for a phone (or a similarly ridiculous monthly plan with a "free" phone), and there is another segment of the popula...
[05:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Huawei Displaces Apple as World's #2 Smartphone Maker - 615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:46] <exec> 08└─Different markets. Yes, there is some overlap in the U.S., but generally there is a certain group of people who like the cache of the iPhone and are willing to pay $500 -- or $1000 -- for a phone (or a similarly ridiculous monthly plan with a "free" phone), and there is another segment of the popula...
[05:11:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06UN Report Claims North Korea Has Not Stopped Nuclear and Missile Programs - 136 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:11:02] <exec> 08└─At this point NK is thug on the corner who flashes the gun in his belt to try to survive in a world where powerful people want him dead.
[05:12:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06UN Report Claims North Korea Has Not Stopped Nuclear and Missile Programs - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:00] <exec> 08└─The only reason why the NK leader is waving the trigger to his suicide vest while holding Japan is because the USA has threatened him and his regime.
[05:12:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06UN Report Claims North Korea Has Not Stopped Nuclear and Missile Programs - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:01] <exec> 08└─In his defense, he probably made eye contact and talked/listened to them. You can learn a lot about people through this process.
[05:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Mistranslation Matters - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:40] <exec> 08└─There are certain advantages to be "out there" with your corruption - there are few actual secrets to leak.
[05:17:40] <exec> count new = 8
[05:17:40] <exec> count top = 2
[05:17:40] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[06:07:22] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[06:07:23] <exec> last cid = 717747
[06:08:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Fakers Get Better at Covering Tracks, Security Experts Say - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:08:55] <exec> 08└─These days they take a picture of a person in public, create a facebook account, create a grindr account. Just for fun.
[06:08:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Fakers Get Better at Covering Tracks, Security Experts Say - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:08:57] <exec> 08└─I am Prince Bohar of Senegal, son of the... nevermind. I am actually Ted Smith (body-builder image from unsplash)... Er, Ok - I *really* am Anish S. from a "call center" in "Southern Asia". I am currently sitting in an Internet "cafe" in Thailand with my friend Igor V. from a country North of us....
[06:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Your Uber Driver is a Spy - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:26] <exec> 08└─What pyro? Meanwhile, my mother never warned me about girls. Should I be concerned?
[06:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Your Uber Driver is a Spy - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:27] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile, my mother never warned me about girls. Should I be concerned?
[06:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Your Uber Driver is a Spy - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:30] <exec> 08└─That [teamfortress.com] Pyro
[06:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Your Uber Driver is a Spy - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:32] <exec> 08└─Current Uber drivers don't make enough to survive, so the spying gig is a nice, concurrent, second job.
[06:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Parker Solar Probe Set to Launch Next Week on its Journey to the Sun - 2 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:47] <exec> 08└─no
[06:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Fire Tornado’ with Winds in Excess of 143 MPH Hit Redding During Carr Fire, Experts Say - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:20] <exec> 08└─Right on topic this week: https://www.smbc-comics.com [smbc-comics.com]
[06:17:56] <exec> count new = 8
[06:17:56] <exec> count top = 0
[06:17:57] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[07:07:23] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[07:07:24] <exec> last cid = 717757
[07:08:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Default OpenSSH-Portable RSA Private Key Encryption is Poor - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:08:51] <exec> 08└─If you want to skip to the important bit, what you want to do is: ssh-keygen -p -o -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa The -o is the magic sauce that saves the key in the new format.
[07:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06‘Fire Tornado’ with Winds in Excess of 143 MPH Hit Redding During Carr Fire, Experts Say - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:19] <exec> 08└─Sorry, that paper is crap. For example, the very first line: In any dynamical system, feedback responds to the entire absolute input signal , not merely to perturbations.
[07:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06‘Fire Tornado’ with Winds in Excess of 143 MPH Hit Redding During Carr Fire, Experts Say - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:21] <exec> 08└─Link to summary [wattsupwiththat.com] of article that I based my judgment on.
[07:11:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Huawei Displaces Apple as World's #2 Smartphone Maker - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:11:06] <exec> 08└─However, the US is ever becoming a less important subset of the global phone market, so "there" is more important in the less immediate term. China's middle class is a larger market than the whole of the US, for instance, and that's a middle-class quite addicted to the conspicuous consumption of thi...
[07:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Founded in 1965; Brookstone Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:34] <exec> 08└─Where are people possibly going to buy their fancy "personal massagers" without going into the seedy store or giving their address for delivery ?
[07:16:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kell [292] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Maps Will No Longer Show a Flat Earth - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:16:45] <exec> 08└─gender fluent
[07:17:09] <exec> count new = 6
[07:17:09] <exec> count top = 0
[07:17:09] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[08:07:23] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[08:07:24] <exec> last cid = 717763
[08:09:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Fakers Get Better at Covering Tracks, Security Experts Say - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:02] <exec> 08└─Are you looking for help moving your millions out of the country before your brother marries you off to a very ugly no longer rich bitch daughter who lost their wealth in an oil scam who is now marrying you for your title and wealth so you really have to leave immediately please call you now?
[08:16:47] <exec> count new = 1
[08:16:47] <exec> count top = 0
[08:16:47] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[09:07:22] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[09:07:23] <exec> last cid = 717764
[09:08:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Just Measured the Drought that may have Brought Down the Ancient Maya - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:08:45] <exec> 08└─And then there also was 535 AD: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[09:08:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Just Measured the Drought that may have Brought Down the Ancient Maya - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:08:46] <exec> 08└─Just as prolonged drought brought about the downfall of the Maya, so too will the drought of aristarchus submissions cause the collapse of SoylentNews. We need to invent our own glyph system, stat!
[09:08:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Default OpenSSH-Portable RSA Private Key Encryption is Poor - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:08:55] <exec> 08└─-o Causes ssh-keygen to save private keys using the new OpenSSH format rather than the more compatible PEM format. The new format has increased resistance to brute-force password cracking but is not supported by versions of OpenSSH prior to 6.5. Ed25519 keys always use the...
[09:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Stunned as Medical Non-Profit Group Abruptly Ends Research Grants - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:18] <exec> 08└─My guess, the charity ran out of money to pay the bosses.
[09:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA's Parker Solar Probe Set to Launch Next Week on its Journey to the Sun - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:53] <exec> 08└─For a space-related news piece it is sure full of imperials.
[09:16:51] <exec> count new = 5
[09:16:51] <exec> count top = 0
[09:16:51] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[10:07:22] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[10:07:23] <exec> last cid = 717769
[10:08:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wages and Benefits are Rising at the Fastest Pace in a Decade - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:08:41] <exec> 08└─Drumpf!!! [snopes.com] Socialism now!!! [townhall.com]
[10:08:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Default OpenSSH-Portable RSA Private Key Encryption is Poor - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:08:59] <exec> 08└─You also have to wonder about the title: The default OpenSSH key encryption is worse than plaintext
[10:09:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Default OpenSSH-Portable RSA Private Key Encryption is Poor - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:00] <exec> 08└─If you want to skip to the important bit, what you want to do is: ssh-keygen -p -o -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa The -o is the magic sauce that saves the key in the new format.
[10:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Stunned as Medical Non-Profit Group Abruptly Ends Research Grants - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:25] <exec> 08└─Did their funding contract say it can be cancelled retroactively?
[10:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Stunned as Medical Non-Profit Group Abruptly Ends Research Grants - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:26] <exec> 08└─The Jerry Lewis telethon benefitted the Muscular Dystrophy Association, not the March of Dimes.
[10:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Scientists Stunned as Medical Non-Profit Group Abruptly Ends Research Grants - 710 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:28] <exec> 08└─TFA says that their auditor determined that "the group’s expenses exceeded its income by almost $11 million in 2017 and $13 million in 2016". However, their annual report [marchofdimes.org] says that their net loss in 2016 was only $7.4 million, and that they had a net gain of $3.6 million in 2017...
[10:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Your Uber Driver is a Spy - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:47] <exec> 08└─The article leads in claiming to be about Uber drivers who socially-engineed hackers. The article actually turns out to be about an Uber driver who socially-engineered journalists.
[10:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Fire Tornado’ with Winds in Excess of 143 MPH Hit Redding During Carr Fire, Experts Say - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:40] <exec> 08└─Yes, because we all know that it's the rural conservative [wikipedia.org] districts in California that are the *truly* kinky degenerates the Christian deity would like to strike down...? (It's a shame your comment was modded 'troll' considering the unintentional humor.)
[10:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Fire Tornado’ with Winds in Excess of 143 MPH Hit Redding During Carr Fire, Experts Say - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:41] <exec> 08└─I admit that a small part of me hopes Cox will win if only for the puns people will come up with. ("Republicans love Cox!")
[10:12:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UN Report Claims North Korea Has Not Stopped Nuclear and Missile Programs - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:12:42] <exec> 08└─Not "shrink and die", simply remain illegitimate. You seem to be trying really hard to legitimize the President's actions here, yet cannot backup your claim of "progress" with any actual progress. Basically, Trump blew his load like a virgin at a brothel, and all he got was a nice card that says "Pl...
[10:12:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Criminals Recruit Telecom Employees to Help Them Hijack SIM Cards - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:12:55] <exec> 08└─Be careful what you wish for, remember the law of unintended consequences.
[10:16:30] <exec> count new = 11
[10:16:30] <exec> count top = 0
[10:16:30] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[11:07:22] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[11:07:23] <exec> last cid = 717781
[11:09:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wages and Benefits are Rising at the Fastest Pace in a Decade - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:02] <exec> 08└─Whoopdie shit. That's like coming in first place in the Box Turtle 100 Inch Dash.
[11:09:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Wages and Benefits are Rising at the Fastest Pace in a Decade - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:04] <exec> 08└─I feel like I was reading the exact opposite articles last week, where the job market hadn't and wouldn't saturate because they weren't paying enough and their benefits packages were too weak to compete. Somehow you're telling me they've adjusted worldwide in a week's breadth? I think not.
[11:09:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Wages and Benefits are Rising at the Fastest Pace in a Decade - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:06] <exec> 08└─ten year And 30-year-plus quarter-on-quarter comparison doesn't show such a rosy picture: https://tradingeconomics.com [tradingeconomics.com] Trend lines also all over the place (1-year down, 5- and 10-year up, max (~35) down.)
[11:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Default OpenSSH-Portable RSA Private Key Encryption is Poor - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:25] <exec> 08└─If you really want your key to be secure you can pipe the output of ssh-keygen to /dev/null
[11:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Default OpenSSH-Portable RSA Private Key Encryption is Poor - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:27] <exec> 08└─They cover that in TFA. Essentially, due to ease of cracking and the likelihood of password reuse, it's worse because someone could get access to far more than ssh.
[11:10:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06One Last Stellar Occultation of 2014 MU69 to be Observed Before Jan. 1 New Horizons Flyby - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:40] <exec> 08└─I'm hoping the Ultima Thulians fire a Space to Space Missile at it.
[11:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UN Report Claims North Korea Has Not Stopped Nuclear and Missile Programs - 653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:13:09] <exec> 08└─Illegitimate to whom? The millions of people who are his subjects? The generals who do his bidding? The tens of millions of citizens of nations in the potential firing line? If you want bloody war then you belittle and dehumanise the enemy, so that your subjects see it as good and right that they sh...
[11:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UN Report Claims North Korea Has Not Stopped Nuclear and Missile Programs - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:13:11] <exec> 08└─You can't really put them in a position where they have nothing to lose with both sides are just engaging in a bit of domestic nerf-jingoism.
[11:17:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06School Board Bans Snow Days, Will Make Kids Work Online Instead - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:00] <exec> 08└─That is indeed a win. Fuck Beta^WSnow!
[11:17:00] <exec> count new = 9
[11:17:01] <exec> count top = 0
[11:17:01] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[12:07:23] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[12:07:23] <exec> last cid = 717791
[12:08:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Fortnite's Android Version Bypasses Google Play to Avoid 30% "Store Tax" - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:08:51] <exec> 08└─an action some are calling a security threat
[12:09:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Wages and Benefits are Rising at the Fastest Pace in a Decade - 620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:02] <exec> 08└─I wanted to say much the same. You need not even go back all of thirty years. All through the '90's things were much better than they are now. The '80's were a little better yet. The dotcom bubble rocked the boat, then 9/11/01 hit us pretty hard, and then the housing bubble. Things are most definite...
[12:09:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wages and Benefits are Rising at the Fastest Pace in a Decade - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:04] <exec> 08└─First article you mention sounds like an opinion piece as opposed to a "this is what the numbers are doing right now" piece. Opinion pieces regarding the economy should be taken with an 18 wheeler worth of salt. Especially from someone who's not filthy rich.
[12:09:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wages and Benefits are Rising at the Fastest Pace in a Decade - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:06] <exec> 08└─Yup, "getting better" != "better" but it is better than "getting worse".
[12:09:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03pvanhoof [4638] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wages and Benefits are Rising at the Fastest Pace in a Decade - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:08] <exec> 08└─Marketwatch brings good news: Wages and Benefits are Rising at the Fastest Pace in a Decade
[12:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Fakers Get Better at Covering Tracks, Security Experts Say - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:39] <exec> 08└─Why take a photo rather than just cropping one out of a rando photo on the internet? Why let the grunts who do this "work" out into the sunlight? The story's hardly surprising, it's typical preditor/prey evolution. Not sure which one's the preditor here, though.
[12:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Stunned as Medical Non-Profit Group Abruptly Ends Research Grants - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:57] <exec> 08└─That won't cover the tariff that Trump will slap on them. I mean, the march of dimes was a Roosevelt idea, wasn't it - so Democrat - so worth destroying.
[12:15:52] <exec> count new = 7
[12:15:52] <exec> count top = 0
[12:15:52] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[13:07:23] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[13:07:24] <exec> last cid = 717799
[13:08:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Computer Virus Affects TSMC's Factories and Fabrication Tools - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:47] <exec> 08└─The virus outbreak occurred during the software installation for a new tool, which caused a virus to spread once the tool was connected to the company’s computer network, TSMC said.
[13:08:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fortnite's Android Version Bypasses Google Play to Avoid 30% "Store Tax" - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:55] <exec> 08└─Hopefully it is the beginning of the end of the middle man extortionist "app store". Maybe others will start doing the same. I mean 30% of revenue for what is basically an aggregator? This technology companies are geniuses.
[13:08:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Fortnite's Android Version Bypasses Google Play to Avoid 30% "Store Tax" - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:57] <exec> 08└─I've been using an Android phone (but not as a phone, just as a tiny computer) for over a year. I don't have and don't want a google account. I get my Android apps on apkpure.com
[13:08:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fortnite's Android Version Bypasses Google Play to Avoid 30% "Store Tax" - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:59] <exec> 08└─To hell with security - this is just plain UNAMERICAN! It's shit like this that stopped GOOG from reaching $1T marketcap first!
[13:09:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fortnite's Android Version Bypasses Google Play to Avoid 30% "Store Tax" - 810 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:01] <exec> 08└─Where's the mythical free market fairy when we need him? One of the companies I deal with that acts as a market-place charges a .05%-.5% commission (to each party) to be the middle-man (which even involves the market-making aspects, I don't even need to find buyers or sellers, I just need to create...
[13:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wages and Benefits are Rising at the Fastest Pace in a Decade - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:16] <exec> 08└─It's easier to see the lie when you look at the *employment* rate, rather than the *unemployment* rate. You can hide the unemployed behind dodgy definitions or schemes, Thatcher was a master at that, but you can't magic employed people out of nowhere. This guy seems to think the US is presently in t...
[13:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wages and Benefits are Rising at the Fastest Pace in a Decade - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:17] <exec> 08└─I just came across this site, full of official government statistics [bls.gov]. Two grains of salt: (a) do you trust government statistics and (b) what is their methodology, for example, in the face of changing definitions of unemployment. Nonetheless, you can find a lot of nice charts including his...
[13:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Wages and Benefits are Rising at the Fastest Pace in a Decade - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:20] <exec> 08└─It's almost like you'll have to think on this one. SN had such an article [soylentnews.org] a month back where wages not wages and benefits were "stagnant" for OECD countries. I noted at the time that distinction and well, it turns out I was right to do so. Now, we see that wages and benefits were i...
[13:09:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Wages and Benefits are Rising at the Fastest Pace in a Decade - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:22] <exec> 08└─Sorry, we would expect employment rate to go down just because of Boomers retiring. And current level of employment is still pretty high, within 4% (absolute) of peak employment ever.
[13:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Stunned as Medical Non-Profit Group Abruptly Ends Research Grants - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:10] <exec> 08└─Sometimes you have to blame the victim. Grant-based research is a stupid idea; certainly, leads to evermore dependence on shady organizations such as governments. It would be better for researchers to attach themselves to self-sustaining, profitable organizations instead.
[13:10:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06When Your Uber Driver is a Spy - 85 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:23] <exec> 08└─Always have your Pyro do a Spy check! Honestly, that was elementary from the start...
[13:10:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03archfeld [4650] 02 - 06When Your Uber Driver is a Spy - 263 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:25] <exec> 08└─Loose lips sink ships. Seems simple enough. If someone isn't disciplined enough to NOT brag in public about 'secret stuff' then perhaps they shouldn't have security clearance or access to secret stuff. Next news flash...Selfies in top secret labs are a bad thing.
[13:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UN Report Claims North Korea Has Not Stopped Nuclear and Missile Programs - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:27] <exec> 08└─You've simply rephrased one bit of nonsense into a slightly different bit of nonsense. Attending the conference in no way legitimized anyone - they are all just as legitimate, or not, as they were beforehand.
[13:15:42] <exec> count new = 11
[13:15:42] <exec> count top = 2
[13:15:42] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[14:07:23] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[14:07:23] <exec> last cid = 717814
[14:08:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Computer Virus Affects TSMC's Factories and Fabrication Tools - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:56] <exec> 08└─A couple of years ago I saw a customer's windows 2k box doing the jtag verification on the post baking QA line with a pirated sisoft sandra left over from whatever. Won't be surprised if someone used a USB key and copied stuff around and ended up getting infected from a client's box.
[14:08:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Computer Virus Affects TSMC's Factories and Fabrication Tools - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:57] <exec> 08└─so we cannot assume that the whatever computer controlling the chip making machine has already implemented spectre and meltdown? overall having a computer running windows on foreign territory to control a chip manufacturing machine, which will then most probably be infected by some windows version i...
[14:08:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Computer Virus Affects TSMC's Factories and Fabrication Tools - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:59] <exec> 08└─I wonder who Huawei gets their chips from? Probably not TSMC where their chief competitors go to. How fortunate for them that they weren't affected like their competitors were.
[14:09:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Computer Virus Affects TSMC's Factories and Fabrication Tools - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:02] <exec> 08└─Hey look, a wormhole opened up and we're hearing from 2003! Hello, hello, can you hear me? 2018 here. Yes, "The Celebrity Apprentice" will go international. No, really. It goes viral in a 'uge way!
[14:09:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fortnite's Android Version Bypasses Google Play to Avoid 30% "Store Tax" - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:13] <exec> 08└─There's a whole bunch to really cool Apps on the Cydia Store. All you have to do to use Cydia is to jailbreak your iPhone. At one time it was not permitted for third-party app developers to operate the iPhone's camera - the code for doing so was in a private framework; Apple has an automated tool th...
[14:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fortnite's Android Version Bypasses Google Play to Avoid 30% "Store Tax" - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:15] <exec> 08└─A generation just got a step closer to fdroid [f-droid.org]. How's the android-x86, microG and/or stock LineageOS compatibility? Does it work fine with keyboard and mouse?
[14:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fortnite's Android Version Bypasses Google Play to Avoid 30% "Store Tax" - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:17] <exec> 08└─It puzzles me though: Why is THIS a "security threat",
[14:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fortnite's Android Version Bypasses Google Play to Avoid 30% "Store Tax" - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:19] <exec> 08└─Is Cydia still active? I'm holding on to my jailbroken phone with an iron grip, but aiui Apple's bug bounties have dried up the availability of jailbreaks for years already.
[14:09:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fortnite's Android Version Bypasses Google Play to Avoid 30% "Store Tax" - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:22] <exec> 08└─This. When I were a lad there were these things called Jamster and Handango, and I can remember thinking when they first appeared "Seriously, what idiot is going to give 30% to a third party and hand them total control of distribution?" The mainstream internet soon gave me my answer.
[14:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wages and Benefits are Rising at the Fastest Pace in a Decade - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:40] <exec> 08└─Has the minimum wage reached $15 yet? Not long ago I enjoyed a healthy, nutritious lunch at a McDonalds that had installed several ordering kiosks so as to keep a lid on its uppity employees.
[14:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wages and Benefits are Rising at the Fastest Pace in a Decade - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:42] <exec> 08└─Not long ago I enjoyed a healthy, nutritious lunch at a McDonalds that had installed several ordering kiosks so as to keep a lid on its employee costs due to minimum wage.
[14:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wages and Benefits are Rising at the Fastest Pace in a Decade - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:44] <exec> 08└─What they didn't tell you is that it was brought by a Deliveroo slave.
[14:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Default OpenSSH-Portable RSA Private Key Encryption is Poor - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:04] <exec> 08└─It's also worse in the sense that you believe you're secure, so you're sending stuff you think is protected. If you know you're in plaintext mode, hopefully you're not going to pass an admin password, but you're more likely to if you think you have the most awesome encryption short of quantum comput...
[14:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Fakers Get Better at Covering Tracks, Security Experts Say - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:15] <exec> 08└─Why take a photo rather than just cropping one out of a rando photo on the internet? Because this exists: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[14:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Stunned as Medical Non-Profit Group Abruptly Ends Research Grants - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:35] <exec> 08└─"It would be better for researchers to attach themselves to self-sustaining, profitable organizations instead."
[14:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Stunned as Medical Non-Profit Group Abruptly Ends Research Grants - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:37] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the input...
[14:10:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Stunned as Medical Non-Profit Group Abruptly Ends Research Grants - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:39] <exec> 08└─"Non-profit March of Dimes abruptly cuts medical R&D grant retroactively" More relevant information in fewer words.
[14:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Stunned as Medical Non-Profit Group Abruptly Ends Research Grants - 1041 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:41] <exec> 08└─Well, the same report you linked to showed a net loss in assets of over $26 million in 2016, which, for an organization that had less than $100 million in assets, is pretty significant. (You seem to only be looking at operating expenses in your figures, but clearly other stuff is going on.) Other ar...
[14:12:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Huawei Displaces Apple as World's #2 Smartphone Maker - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:41] <exec> 08└─they may be good phones but the way it is pronounced it should be written "Wow-way". probably one of many typos one can find it poorly translated chinese product manuals ...
[14:12:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Huawei Displaces Apple as World's #2 Smartphone Maker - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:43] <exec> 08└─Care to break it for me first?
[14:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UN Report Claims North Korea Has Not Stopped Nuclear and Missile Programs - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:02] <exec> 08└─I think he's saying that dropping our defenses in the region on the promise of denuclearization that isn't happening is a poor deal indeed. The troops we have stationed in SK are there to show NK that if they attack there will be US troops coming from over the sea. Trump has said he wants to recall...
[14:16:18] <exec> count new = 21
[14:16:18] <exec> count top = 0
[14:16:18] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[15:07:23] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[15:07:23] <exec> last cid = 717836
[15:08:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Astronomers Discover a Nearby Free-Range Planet with Incredible Magnetism - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:43] <exec> 08└─Without a star to direct the charge, the planet itself is subject to the interstellar (and intergalactic) currents of charged particles, resulting in these extreme electromagnetic phenomena.
[15:08:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronomers Discover a Nearby Free-Range Planet with Incredible Magnetism - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:44] <exec> 08└─It is obviously a Bussard ramjet. Scoop mistaken for huge planetary body. Magnetic field aimed right at us. How fast is it travelling?
[15:08:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Astronomers Discover a Nearby Free-Range Planet with Incredible Magnetism - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:47] <exec> 08└─"SIMP" suggests a beta orbiter like a moon, not a free range rogue with super magnetic properties.
[15:08:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Astronomers Discover a Nearby Free-Range Planet with Incredible Magnetism - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:49] <exec> 08└─I thought a planet was supposed to clear its' orbit of stuff... how do they know this one did the job? in fact, if it's at the center of a failed solar system, it doesn't even have an orbit, so it's a failed planet as well. or are they changing the definition again?
[15:08:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Astronomers Discover a Nearby Free-Range Planet with Incredible Magnetism - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:51] <exec> 08└─While what you said is right, it has nothing to do with Electric Universe [rationalwiki.org] pseudoscience.
[15:08:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Astronomers Discover a Nearby Free-Range Planet with Incredible Magnetism - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:53] <exec> 08└─Therefore it is a dwarf brown dwarf.
[15:08:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Astronomers Discover a Nearby Free-Range Planet with Incredible Magnetism - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:56] <exec> 08└─So, we know about brown dwarf sized "failed star" planets, but is it possible to have Earth or even Jupiter sized rouge planets? Or do planetary sized bodies need to form in the presence of a larger gravity well, then get kicked out for various regions? Perhaps this aurora-detection technique will a...
[15:09:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Computer Virus Affects TSMC's Factories and Fabrication Tools - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:08] <exec> 08└─after it its[sic] systems were hit by a computer virus, reports Bloomberg. TSMC is the largest semiconductor manufacturer in the world, and supplies components for companies like ADM[sic]
[15:09:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Computer Virus Affects TSMC's Factories and Fabrication Tools - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:09] <exec> 08└─Dude, there still win95 machines out there: https://www.popularmechanics.com [popularmechanics.com] Hell, companies still Q&As Win2k support requests: https://www.sony.com.sg [sony.com.sg] https://www.symantec.com
[15:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fortnite's Android Version Bypasses Google Play to Avoid 30% "Store Tax" - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:27] <exec> 08└─Why are they do anal about the camera? We really do need laws granting hardware owners inaliable rights to have root access to their own device
[15:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fortnite's Android Version Bypasses Google Play to Avoid 30% "Store Tax" - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:29] <exec> 08└─How can you even seriously play a fps on a tablet?
[15:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wages and Benefits are Rising at the Fastest Pace in a Decade - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:51] <exec> 08└─Anyone who thinks the care and craftsmanship with which McD's employees do their job warrants $15/hr has not visited one recently enough.
[15:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wages and Benefits are Rising at the Fastest Pace in a Decade - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:53] <exec> 08└─If someone can work full time and still qualify for rent assistance or food stamps or Medicaid, then their employer is really the one getting a government handout. So yes, no matter what you think of a McDonalds employee, or a gas station attendant, or janitor, hotel maid, parking attendant, crop pi...
[15:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Just Measured the Drought that may have Brought Down the Ancient Maya - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:02] <exec> 08└─It's in Queensland! Do I get a prize?
[15:10:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06Scientists Stunned as Medical Non-Profit Group Abruptly Ends Research Grants - 710 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:44] <exec> 08└─TFA says that their auditor determined that "the group’s expenses exceeded its income by almost $11 million in 2017 and $13 million in 2016". However, their annual report [marchofdimes.org] says that their net loss in 2016 was only $7.4 million, and that they had a net gain of $3.6 million in 2017...
[15:12:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Fire Tornado’ with Winds in Excess of 143 MPH Hit Redding During Carr Fire, Experts Say - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:04] <exec> 08└─Scary stuff indeed. Look on the bright side, though - it could always be worse [wikipedia.org].
[15:12:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06LifeLock Bug Exposed Millions of Customer Email Addresses - 179 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:12] <exec> 08└─a company that's built a name for itself based on the promise of helping consumers protect their identities online but had their CEO's identity stolen very early on in its history
[15:12:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Huawei Displaces Apple as World's #2 Smartphone Maker - 401 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:33] <exec> 08└─If Huawei's purpose is to spread millions of China-backdoored units across the planet rather than turn a bigger profit, it could be the right metric. Alternatively, Huawei phones are more secure because they are made out of the reach of the NSA. And we care more about the number of phones shipped/so...
[15:12:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Huawei Displaces Apple as World's #2 Smartphone Maker - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:53] <exec> 08└─Perhaps it is: when I had to migrate from Nokia, I bought an android phone for the freedom. Android sucked so much ass, I got real in two months and bought an iPhone that I jailbroke.
[15:13:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06UN Report Claims North Korea Has Not Stopped Nuclear and Missile Programs - 777 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:15] <exec> 08└─The Buzzard is surrounded by mocking birds, and his question remains unanswered. No, there was no formal treaty signed, no binding agreement, nothing of the sort. Two assholes got together, swapped lies, congratulated each other on being the top asshole in their respective spheres of influence, had...
[15:16:00] <exec> count new = 16
[15:16:01] <exec> count top = 4
[15:16:01] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[16:07:23] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[16:07:23] <exec> last cid = 717857
[16:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Astronomers Discover a Nearby Free-Range Planet with Incredible Magnetism - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:03] <exec> 08└─I encourage people to look into alternative theories of the universe, if only for entertainment.
[16:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronomers Discover a Nearby Free-Range Planet with Incredible Magnetism - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:05] <exec> 08└─Is a free range planet like a free range unicorn? A superior kind of unicorn meat?
[16:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronomers Discover a Nearby Free-Range Planet with Incredible Magnetism - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:07] <exec> 08└─Looking to carefully into alternate theories of the universe can cause the simulation to be suspended or even shut down. Don't conduct experiments that attempt to detect when the simulation is migrated to different physical hardware.
[16:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronomers Discover a Nearby Free-Range Planet with Incredible Magnetism - 965 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:09] <exec> 08└─Rogue planets are hard to detect because they typically have extremely low temperatures and brightnesses. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Most of the known ones are closer to being brown dwarfs, but it looks like PSO J318.5-22 [wikipedia.org...
[16:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronomers Discover a Nearby Free-Range Planet with Incredible Magnetism - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:12] <exec> 08└─Only if you like cold cuts.
[16:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Computer Virus Affects TSMC's Factories and Fabrication Tools - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:27] <exec> 08└─I surmise that the first [sic] points out a grammar error, not a spelling error. It should be just "its" or "it had its" instead of "it its".
[16:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Computer Virus Affects TSMC's Factories and Fabrication Tools - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:29] <exec> 08└─It could be caused by a nation state that is butthurt about the T in TSMC. Why can't it be CSMC? Wouldn't that sound so much more nicer?
[16:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Computer Virus Affects TSMC's Factories and Fabrication Tools - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:31] <exec> 08└─I saw a customer's windows 2k box doing the jtag verification . . .
[16:10:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Computer Virus Affects TSMC's Factories and Fabrication Tools - 1492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:33] <exec> 08└─The theoretical implications are scary. Infecting chip fabrication equipment, to alter the design of certain chips covertly during their manufacture. But really. The sophistication of such an attack; the incredible planning, development and testing of such a thing. The development cost. Only a natio...
[16:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Computer Virus Affects TSMC's Factories and Fabrication Tools - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:36] <exec> 08└─Dude, lighten up. I was kidding around, being funny. You're AC- you'll get picked on. Want more respect? Show some and use a login.
[16:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Computer Virus Affects TSMC's Factories and Fabrication Tools - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:38] <exec> 08└─It also occurs to me that no nation state would do such a thing because there simply is No Such Agency that would be interested in trying to compromise the very design of chips during manufacture without anyone knowing. I know that before 2013 it would sound like a paranoid delusion to suggest such...
[16:10:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fortnite's Android Version Bypasses Google Play to Avoid 30% "Store Tax" - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:58] <exec> 08└─Tablet? There are kids playing it on their phones during class. The hardware is getting more powerful. Maybe with dumbed down graphics you can get up to 60 FPS on Android devices? That just leaves the input method...
[16:10:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fortnite's Android Version Bypasses Google Play to Avoid 30% "Store Tax" - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:00] <exec> 08└─You can't seriously play an FPS on a tablet. You can casually play a FPS on a tablet and help your team lose, if it's cross-platform. It's like a worse version of Controller vs Mouse and Keyboard.
[16:11:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06Wages and Benefits are Rising at the Fastest Pace in a Decade - 263 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:12] <exec> 08└─ten year And 30-year-plus quarter-on-quarter comparison doesn't show such a rosy picture: https://tradingeconomics.com [tradingeconomics.com] Trend lines also all over the place (1-year down, 5- and 10-year up, max (~35) down.)
[16:11:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wages and Benefits are Rising at the Fastest Pace in a Decade - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:26] <exec> 08└─They "deserve" what their effort is worth. Nothing less, nothing more. You need to look up the word "deserve". Looking up the word "earned" would not be a bad idea either.
[16:11:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Just Measured the Drought that may have Brought Down the Ancient Maya - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:37] <exec> 08└─If Mel Gibson's Apocalypto is to be believed, then the real reason for the final Mayan collapse was the arrival of Spanish conquistadors who had somehow gotten there from 6 centuries later. That this makes about as much sense as having the English victory over the French at the Battle of Crécy in 1...
[16:12:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Stunned as Medical Non-Profit Group Abruptly Ends Research Grants - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:33] <exec> 08└─Nice wording. Please volunteer to help the SN editors, your help (even at a low level) would be appreciated. (AC goes off to submit another possible story)
[16:12:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Stunned as Medical Non-Profit Group Abruptly Ends Research Grants - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:35] <exec> 08└─grantS
[16:12:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Your Uber Driver is a Spy - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:57] <exec> 08└─http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/moron-terrorist-leads-u-s-troops-isis-hq-selfie-article-1.2247912 [nydailynews.com] Social Media, best way to blow a secret. Also, best way to get your identity stolen: https://xkcd.com [xkcd.com]
[16:12:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Your Uber Driver is a Spy - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:58] <exec> 08└─. . . unless there is profit to be made from publishing. Or maybe even just ad revenue from putting it on social media.
[16:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Your Uber Driver is a Spy - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:00] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile, my mother never warned me about girls. Should I be concerned?
[16:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Parker Solar Probe Set to Launch Next Week on its Journey to the Sun - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:20] <exec> 08└─That's because every empire wants to own the sun.
[16:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Fire Tornado’ with Winds in Excess of 143 MPH Hit Redding During Carr Fire, Experts Say - 1406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:03] <exec> 08└─Caltech's Dabney House threw a party at which a large pile of lineprinter paper was burned. Inspired by Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse 5", I grabbed a cafeteria tray then started _tangentially_ fanning the flames. It was not long at all before I had several helpers. Hilarity Ensued. Slaughterhouse...
[16:14:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Fire Tornado’ with Winds in Excess of 143 MPH Hit Redding During Carr Fire, Experts Say - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:04] <exec> 08└─-". Can you provide any details?
[16:16:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UN Report Claims North Korea Has Not Stopped Nuclear and Missile Programs - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:20] <exec> 08└─Progress, movement forwards, or in a positive direction.
[16:16:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UN Report Claims North Korea Has Not Stopped Nuclear and Missile Programs - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:22] <exec> 08└─A signed arms limitation treaty would tend to include verification and actual panalties other countrys would go along with for non-compliance.
[16:18:19] <exec> count new = 25
[16:18:20] <exec> count top = 1
[16:18:20] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[17:07:23] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[17:07:24] <exec> last cid = 717882
[17:08:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06What You’re Really Agreeing to When You Sign Up for 23andMe Research - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:47] <exec> 08└─if I ever commit any of the fun crimes they'll just be able to look me up because of a christmas gift from 5 years ago also I'm susceptible to malaria so that's fun thanks 23andMe
[17:08:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What You’re Really Agreeing to When You Sign Up for 23andMe Research - 1399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:49] <exec> 08└─Consider that Real Soon Now I'm going to pay to get my DNA sequenced. I'm going to post my entire genome on my website. This in hopes that by doing so I will contribute to the cure of my Bipolar-Type Schizoaffective Disorder. There's a company here in Portland that will make the arrangements for my...
[17:08:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What You’re Really Agreeing to When You Sign Up for 23andMe Research - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:51] <exec> 08└─In the off chance that I need to do something illegal, I'll just throw a bunch of random biological items around the scene.
[17:08:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06What You’re Really Agreeing to When You Sign Up for 23andMe Research - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:53] <exec> 08└─One of the reasons our species cannot improve itself is that we keep funding and promoting the reproduction of low quality people. You don't need to kill people to better our lot. Just stop funding the low end of the bell curve.
[17:08:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What You’re Really Agreeing to When You Sign Up for 23andMe Research - 2297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:55] <exec> 08└─The fun crimes are not (usually) fun for the victims of those crimes. Don't worry they'll start taking everyone's DNA soon enough. Police states simply cannot resist. It is too powerful a temptation. (Just as pedophiles say.) It will happen by inches. So we'll gradually accept it. First they'll star...
[17:08:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06What You’re Really Agreeing to When You Sign Up for 23andMe Research - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:57] <exec> 08└─The problem is that the low end of the bell curve outvotes the other end. Even if only in the electoral college.
[17:08:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What You’re Really Agreeing to When You Sign Up for 23andMe Research - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:00] <exec> 08└─As someone else stated: Democracy always ends up as 2 wolves and 1 sheep voting on what's for dinner. Sorry, but the fool should not be give a voice equal to that of the scholar (and vice versa for certain questions). The only humane way to give the right weight of voice to each individual is Capita...
[17:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Astronomers Discover a Nearby Free-Range Planet with Incredible Magnetism - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:18] <exec> 08└─Does electric universe theory propose this will be true of all rogue planets or just this one?
[17:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Astronomers Discover a Nearby Free-Range Planet with Incredible Magnetism - 606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:20] <exec> 08└─For instance, one major idea in the Electric Universe is that comets are not snowy ice balls, but rather just asteroids that have very eccentric orbits, thereby placing them for a lengthy period in a different electrical potential from the inner universe; as this body enters the inner solar system,...
[17:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fortnite's Android Version Bypasses Google Play to Avoid 30% "Store Tax" - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:01] <exec> 08└─I'd love nothing more than to edit /etc/hosts on my iPhone 7, but I won't jailbreak it because I use it for iOS App development. I don't want to take the risk that it gets bricked during a firmware upgrade.
[17:10:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] 02 - 06Wages and Benefits are Rising at the Fastest Pace in a Decade - 343 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:25] <exec> 08└─If someone can work full time and still qualify for rent assistance or food stamps or Medicaid, then their employer is really the one getting a government handout. So yes, no matter what you think of a McDonalds employee, or a gas station attendant, or janitor, hotel maid, parking attendant, crop pi...
[17:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wages and Benefits are Rising at the Fastest Pace in a Decade - 1314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:27] <exec> 08└─Wages too high, we’re not going to be able to compete against the world. I hate to say it, but we have to leave it the way it is. People have to go out, they have to work really hard and have to get into that upper stratum. But we cannot do this if we are going to compete with the rest of the worl...
[17:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wages and Benefits are Rising at the Fastest Pace in a Decade - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:29] <exec> 08└─So they "deserve" to starve instead? Go homeless instead because they cannot afford housing? Or do they have to earn starvation and homelessness first?
[17:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wages and Benefits are Rising at the Fastest Pace in a Decade - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:31] <exec> 08└─He is busy earning his SIG.
[17:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wages and Benefits are Rising at the Fastest Pace in a Decade - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:34] <exec> 08└─AND THEY'RE INTO THE STRETCH!! Shelly is ahead by a millimeter. What is this? Franklin is beginning to pour it on. This race is heating heating up! He is closing the gap 100 micrometers per second. Oh my goodness! This might be a photo finish. IT'S FRANKLIN BY A NANOMETER!!!! THE UNDERTURTLE WINS IT...
[17:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wages and Benefits are Rising at the Fastest Pace in a Decade - 663 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:36] <exec> 08└─That's because the study doesn't really say what they claim it is saying. The sub headline: Cost of labor rose at a 2.8% yearly rate as firms boost benefits There are many things that could increase the cost of labor that don't actually translate to workers getting better stuff. some 70% of employm...
[17:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wages and Benefits are Rising at the Fastest Pace in a Decade - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:38] <exec> 08└─Oops, mangled that first quote. 0.5% was the increase in wages.
[17:11:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Fakers Get Better at Covering Tracks, Security Experts Say - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:14] <exec> 08└─I use facebook membership as a quick and dirty IQ test. If you're still on fb then you are a gullible fool that *should* be taken advantage of. And don't wail about how all your friends are there, or you only use it to stay in contact with family, or that you have to be there for work, or that you a...
[17:11:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Stunned as Medical Non-Profit Group Abruptly Ends Research Grants - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:41] <exec> 08└─> Grant-based research is a stupid idea; certainly, leads to evermore dependence on shady organizations such as governments. > It would be better for researchers to attach themselves to self-sustaining, profitable organizations instead. You do know that the computers and internet have developed from...
[17:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UN Report Claims North Korea Has Not Stopped Nuclear and Missile Programs - 5286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:12] <exec> 08└─"I think he's saying that dropping our defenses in the region on the promise of denuclearization that isn't happening is a poor deal indeed." What "defenses" do you imagine we've dropped? The troops stationed in South Korea are replacements for replacements for replacements ad nauseum for those left...
[17:16:48] <exec> count new = 19
[17:16:49] <exec> count top = 1
[17:16:49] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[18:07:23] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[18:07:24] <exec> last cid = 717902
[18:08:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress Votes to Force Software Makers to Say When Foreign Governments Peep Their Code - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:42] <exec> 08└─Having an outside agency do a code review should be a good thing, especially if the outside agency is required to disclose the results to the vendor.
[18:08:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06What You’re Really Agreeing to When You Sign Up for 23andMe Research - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:57] <exec> 08└─I remember when Sci Fi was an antiseptic, bright, utopian view of the future.
[18:08:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What You’re Really Agreeing to When You Sign Up for 23andMe Research - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:59] <exec> 08└─The only humane way to give the right weight of voice to each individual is Capitalism.
[18:09:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What You’re Really Agreeing to When You Sign Up for 23andMe Research - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:01] <exec> 08└─And, I suppose, you are the One to decide that quality?
[18:09:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What You’re Really Agreeing to When You Sign Up for 23andMe Research - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:03] <exec> 08└─A government is a fundamentally anti-Capitalism institution; taxation is armed robbery. The Welfare State—even in the U.S.—is enormous. Stop kidding yourself that we have a Capitalist society, because we sure as fuck don't.
[18:09:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What You’re Really Agreeing to When You Sign Up for 23andMe Research - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:05] <exec> 08└─if you ever did discover Utopia, or Paradise, or whatever you want to call it, all you need to do to fuck it up is introduce some humans.
[18:09:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What You’re Really Agreeing to When You Sign Up for 23andMe Research - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:08] <exec> 08└─The "Invisible Hand" of evolution by variation and selection does the job; society is best run as a Ouija board.
[18:09:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06What You’re Really Agreeing to When You Sign Up for 23andMe Research - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:10] <exec> 08└─I would also point out that Soylent Green is made from all natural ingredients.
[18:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06What You’re Really Agreeing to When You Sign Up for 23andMe Research - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:12] <exec> 08└─Summon history book: 1939-1945 -> Occupying Germans received lots of anonymous letters telling them about unpleasant people to arrest and deport. I have no worry that history can repeat itself.
[18:09:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What You’re Really Agreeing to When You Sign Up for 23andMe Research - 636 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:15] <exec> 08└─The City Of London is quite a small piece of the large city that most regard as London. To be a citizen of the City Of London, one must be a member of the Guild Of Cutpurses or some other quite-romantic sounding things. In reality, the citizens of the City Of London are a bunch of big investment ban...
[18:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What You’re Really Agreeing to When You Sign Up for 23andMe Research - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:17] <exec> 08└─-gs. Consider Denmark, where burger flippers make twenty dollars per hour, get six weeks of paid vacation per year. I don't know about Denmark specifically but some Welfare States have free college tuition. Yet their per-capita gross domestic products exceed that of the USD$ited $tates Of America.
[18:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What You’re Really Agreeing to When You Sign Up for 23andMe Research - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:19] <exec> 08└─You should go somewhere and live by yourself. All human groups have formed some system of self government. Sometimes it is imposed. Other times it is formed voluntarily. Not all individuals will agree with every single thing the government does. Here is a clue for free: taxation has ALWAYS been part...
[18:09:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What You’re Really Agreeing to When You Sign Up for 23andMe Research - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:22] <exec> 08└─"Repo Men". NOT "Repo Man": that's a completely different movie. The Repo Men are the right chaps that repossess transplanted organs from those who have not kept up with their payments.
[18:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What You’re Really Agreeing to When You Sign Up for 23andMe Research - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:24] <exec> 08└─Banks won't routinely require DNA to make withdrawals until it's a lot cheaper and faster. Possibly to issue a credit card, though.
[18:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What You’re Really Agreeing to When You Sign Up for 23andMe Research - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:26] <exec> 08└─Perhaps you're arguing for a small ethnostate, and didn't even realize it.
[18:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What You’re Really Agreeing to When You Sign Up for 23andMe Research - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:29] <exec> 08└─Your argument is tired and stupid. If anything, that's an argument against taxation; you're saying that taxation is a vestigial aspect of ancient authoritarianism.
[18:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronomers Discover a Nearby Free-Range Planet with Incredible Magnetism - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:49] <exec> 08└─Nutritionists are always telling us about the benefits of free range eggs from free range chickens. Free range beef is the most natural beef you can get. So - I'll presume that this free range planet is much tastier, and much more nutritious than any of our penned-in planets. It has grown on unadult...
[18:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Astronomers Discover a Nearby Free-Range Planet with Incredible Magnetism - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:51] <exec> 08└─No, to be affected the rogue planet needs to have a decently strong magnetic field. There could be a coupling effect where the charged particles deliver energy to the planet via the magnetic field, but there are a lot of interconnected systems and ways the energy could be shed faster than it is gath...
[18:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Computer Virus Affects TSMC's Factories and Fabrication Tools - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:11] <exec> 08└─Then the "[sic]" should be after the "it", which is incorrect, instead of after the "its".
[18:11:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wages and Benefits are Rising at the Fastest Pace in a Decade - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:05] <exec> 08└─One way McD could stop sucking off the government tit would be to pay its employees a living wage.
[18:11:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Wages and Benefits are Rising at the Fastest Pace in a Decade - 1145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:06] <exec> 08└─There is also a nuance you are missing. Benefits is the market value of the benefit, not the actual amount the employee gets or the company spends. Besides the fact that this means that benefit costs increase as the benefits themselves get more expensive, this means that they can cook the book on be...
[18:11:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wages and Benefits are Rising at the Fastest Pace in a Decade - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:08] <exec> 08└─To be completely clear: the people who now get more benefits were _already_ paid well. Part-Time Burger Flippers don't receive benefits; salaried full-time engineers do.
[18:11:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wages and Benefits are Rising at the Fastest Pace in a Decade - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:11] <exec> 08└─I think you are looking for an expression commonly taught in Journalism schools: "'Better' doesn't mean 'Good,' it means 'Not getting worse'"
[18:11:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wages and Benefits are Rising at the Fastest Pace in a Decade - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:13] <exec> 08└─And to add the anecdotal. I'm paying co-pays on some of my meds again. So my healthcare insurance is demonstrably worse than a couple years ago.
[18:11:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Default OpenSSH-Portable RSA Private Key Encryption is Poor - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:37] <exec> 08└─Sure it does, just create another partition: mknod /dev/null2 c 1 3 chmod 666 /dev/null2
[18:12:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Stunned as Medical Non-Profit Group Abruptly Ends Research Grants - 1682 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:18] <exec> 08└─Go look em up on CharityNavigator [charitynavigator.org] and it was easy to see this coming, something any researcher should have done. Any researcher who didn't do due diligence on their funding sources has learned a valuable lesson in realizing that resources are not unlimited and freely available...
[18:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Fire Tornado’ with Winds in Excess of 143 MPH Hit Redding During Carr Fire, Experts Say - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:40] <exec> 08└─Big success for our great and very brave military in Dresden. But they did INCREDIBLY WELL in Tokyo. Fire and fury, the likes of which this world had ever seen before. No nuclear. It looked just like nuclear, but it wasn't. Just regular bombs. And now I have MUCH BIGGER bombs -- also not nuclear. My...
[18:16:53] <exec> count new = 27
[18:16:54] <exec> count top = 0
[18:16:54] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[19:07:23] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[19:07:24] <exec> last cid = 717931
[19:08:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Congress Votes to Force Software Makers to Say When Foreign Governments Peep Their Code - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:43] <exec> 08└─My question would be - how does this play in to open-source software? Foreign governments can obviously review those products. Did they just make it impossible to use anything with source available in DoD projects?
[19:08:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Congress Votes to Force Software Makers to Say When Foreign Governments Peep Their Code - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:44] <exec> 08└─"All software can be reviewed by anyone at any time". There, all OSS is now permitted to be used. In fact, doesn't this bureaucracy favour OSS usage, or a push towards building software in-house (surely a good thing)? I also note this seems to only apply to what DoD want to use.
[19:08:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress Votes to Force Software Makers to Say When Foreign Governments Peep Their Code - 801 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:46] <exec> 08└─Instead of buying pigs in pokes and worrying whether somebody else got a peek in the sack and you didn't, just insist on open source and let everybody see what is in it and audit it. And if it can't be Open Sourced at least only buy Source code and build it yourself and audit it. Selling opaque bina...
[19:08:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Congress Votes to Force Software Makers to Say When Foreign Governments Peep Their Code - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:49] <exec> 08└─Well it only seems to require disclosure. Does it say anything about how the disclosed results should impact any decision making?
[19:08:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress Votes to Force Software Makers to Say When Foreign Governments Peep Their Code - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:51] <exec> 08└─You must be unfamiliar with Open Source. Have you actually seen any lately? I'm not talking about Richard Stallman's source. That's Free Software. Open Source is quite a different thing. No, I'm talking about Eric Raymond's source.
[19:09:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06What You’re Really Agreeing to When You Sign Up for 23andMe Research - 193 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:12] <exec> 08└─Summon history book: 1939-1945 -> Occupying Germans received lots of anonymous letters telling them about unpleasant people to arrest and deport. I have no worry that history can repeat itself.
[19:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What You’re Really Agreeing to When You Sign Up for 23andMe Research - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:20] <exec> 08└─No, YOU are tired and stupid. Be glas d some people still bother having these discussions with you.
[19:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What You’re Really Agreeing to When You Sign Up for 23andMe Research - 712 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:22] <exec> 08└─Personally, I feel the Culture in Iain M. Banks' books is a pretty good candidate for a plausible Utopian society. It of course has its own set of conflict and political and societal problems (otherwise it wouldn't be proper sci-fi) but overall I don't think I could imagine a better place to live. T...
[19:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What You’re Really Agreeing to When You Sign Up for 23andMe Research - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:25] <exec> 08└─Why reply to that troll? Hint: If there's some guy ranting about governments, contracts, etc. and he starts his comment in the title, it's almost certainly the contracts troll. Ignore and move on, instead of ruining articles with countless replies to this retard.
[19:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What You’re Really Agreeing to When You Sign Up for 23andMe Research - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:27] <exec> 08└─would also point out that Soylent Green is made from all natural, Tastes like Pork, ingredients. Mmmmmmmm, pork. FTFY! :)
[19:11:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wages and Benefits are Rising at the Fastest Pace in a Decade - 622 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:07] <exec> 08└─Today in the USA, you can work for $0.00 per hour. (volunteering, unpaid internship, etc.) You can also work for negative amounts (training) and for large positive amounts. Why must we discriminate against people who are worth $3.14 per hour? They deserve jobs too. This can be an old man who greets...
[19:11:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wages and Benefits are Rising at the Fastest Pace in a Decade - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:08] <exec> 08└─Instead of blaming McDonald's for properly running a business, you could blame the people handing out the welfare, corporate or otherwise. Perhaps McDonald's will have to pay your supposed "living wage" if the employees can't get welfare of any sort. Better yet, these sorts of high school jobs could...
[19:11:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wages and Benefits are Rising at the Fastest Pace in a Decade - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:10] <exec> 08└─I'm still seeing recruiters trying to persuade people to work for H1B wages. Like, UNIX systems administrators being offered $40/hour, in the Bay Area?
[19:11:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wages and Benefits are Rising at the Fastest Pace in a Decade - 1173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:13] <exec> 08└─AND ... ... ... THEY'RE ... ... ... INTO ... ... ... THE ... ... ... STRETCH!! ... ... ... Shelly ... ... ... is ... ... ... ahead ... ... ... by ... ... ... a ... ... ... millimeter. ... ... ... What ... ... ... is ... ... ... this? ... ... ... Franklin ... ... ... is ... ... ... beginning ... ......
[19:11:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wages and Benefits are Rising at the Fastest Pace in a Decade - 707 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:15] <exec> 08└─I guess the problem then is that Mc D shouldn't open up stores in poor areas, because those people often expect to be afforded a living wage. It'd be best to keep only teenagers and uninspired college students on staff, and managed by anyone that showed competence but a lack of motivation to leave?...
[19:11:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wages and Benefits are Rising at the Fastest Pace in a Decade - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:17] <exec> 08└─the reason high school students can't get jobs at Mickey D's is because all the formerly-retired people snapped them up when the subprime meltdown also melted down their 401ks.
[19:11:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wages and Benefits are Rising at the Fastest Pace in a Decade - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:19] <exec> 08└─> properly running a business Maximizing profits by relying on the government to keep the employees solvent with poverty relief programs, then getting you to blame the government for allowing this situation by having poverty programs. Dystopia, expert level. I believe even Slave Plantations were mor...
[19:11:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wages and Benefits are Rising at the Fastest Pace in a Decade - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:22] <exec> 08└─To offset wage disparity between countries, tariffs can be used. It's not fundamentally wrong as a targeted way to offset wage dumping, though you have to be ready for prices to rise as a result, and for the target countries to retaliate. What is fundamentally wrong is to put tariffs on countries wi...
[19:11:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wages and Benefits are Rising at the Fastest Pace in a Decade - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:24] <exec> 08└─Except that you're ignoring that this doesn't take into account inflation, which is indeed still beating any of the increases we're seeing. Meaning we're all still getting poorer, and thus still getting worse off overall. And as people point out the main jump being pointed out here is due to benefit...
[19:11:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wages and Benefits are Rising at the Fastest Pace in a Decade - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:26] <exec> 08└─Of course slave owners cared about keeping the slaves healthy. Slaves cost big money. Part-time at minimum wage with no benefits doesn't cost much and is very easily replaced because there are millions of people without decent jobs.
[19:11:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Default OpenSSH-Portable RSA Private Key Encryption is Poor - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:51] <exec> 08└─I haven't used RSA since ed25519 was supported. Libressl seems to be a better choice than OpenSSL too.
[19:12:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Scientists Stunned as Medical Non-Profit Group Abruptly Ends Research Grants - 782 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:32] <exec> 08└─The left is fond of saying that LGBT are "born that way". Well OK then, we should research how to prevent it. We have a cause and mechanism for some homosexuality in males. The mother's immune system reacts to a protein that is required for proper male development. This especially hits males that ar...
[19:17:09] <exec> count new = 21
[19:17:09] <exec> count top = 1
[19:17:09] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[20:07:23] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[20:07:24] <exec> last cid = 717954
[20:08:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Portugal's Skies Turn Orange as Desert air Sends Temperature Soaring - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:52] <exec> 08└─— North Africa
[20:09:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress Votes to Force Software Makers to Say When Foreign Governments Peep Their Code - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:06] <exec> 08└─SOP: The agency discloses to the vendors all the vulnerabilities which have a high risk of being found by competing agencies.
[20:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What You’re Really Agreeing to When You Sign Up for 23andMe Research - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:40] <exec> 08└─Define "low quality." This should be darkly amusing...
[20:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What You’re Really Agreeing to When You Sign Up for 23andMe Research - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:42] <exec> 08└─DNA is already taken from people who are arrested.
[20:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What You’re Really Agreeing to When You Sign Up for 23andMe Research - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:44] <exec> 08└─Try again?
[20:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What You’re Really Agreeing to When You Sign Up for 23andMe Research - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:46] <exec> 08└─The definition changes over time, too. You just have to run the algorithm.
[20:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronomers Discover a Nearby Free-Range Planet with Incredible Magnetism - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:09] <exec> 08└─$God doesn't play with leaky VMs.
[20:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronomers Discover a Nearby Free-Range Planet with Incredible Magnetism - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:10] <exec> 08└─Maybe this simulation is some other simulation's version of hell.
[20:10:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Computer Virus Affects TSMC's Factories and Fabrication Tools - 776 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:32] <exec> 08└─Why is Windows still allowed to be deployed in any line of business role? Anywhere? It is not secure, it has never been secure, it wasn't designed to be secure and it is clear it will never be secure. So much like we finally all admitted this with Flash Player and are in the process of implementing...
[20:11:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Wages and Benefits are Rising at the Fastest Pace in a Decade - 1145 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:26] <exec> 08└─There is also a nuance you are missing. Benefits is the market value of the benefit, not the actual amount the employee gets or the company spends. Besides the fact that this means that benefit costs increase as the benefits themselves get more expensive, this means that they can cook the book on be...
[20:11:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wages and Benefits are Rising at the Fastest Pace in a Decade - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:40] <exec> 08└─I write perl not English. Don't be discriminating on me from your position of privilege.
[20:11:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wages and Benefits are Rising at the Fastest Pace in a Decade - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:42] <exec> 08└─Dude, inflation is explicitly mentioned. Try reading.
[20:11:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06Wages and Benefits are Rising at the Fastest Pace in a Decade - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:44] <exec> 08└─If they're not earning their keep, yes. That doesn't mean we should allow them to but it is absolutely what they deserve. That's what deserve means.
[20:11:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wages and Benefits are Rising at the Fastest Pace in a Decade - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:46] <exec> 08└─Do you have any idea at all how far $40/hr over a year would go away from SF? I'd start turning down jobs that looked overly annoying twenty thousand dollars or so a year before that.
[20:12:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Stunned as Medical Non-Profit Group Abruptly Ends Research Grants - 1127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:53] <exec> 08└─Cure homosexuality? You fool, it is heterosexuality they want to cure. Homosexuality is superior in every way! Once everyone is gay toxic masculinity, the patriarchy and all the evils of the Prog's worldview will be cured. Since humanity itself will go extinct the eco-warriors will even be happy. Se...
[20:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Your Uber Driver is a Spy - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:17] <exec> 08└─But who would want to put a child's hand into a vagina anyway? :-)
[20:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Your Uber Driver is a Spy - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:18] <exec> 08└─The idea is to convey the understanding that nobody would want to put anything there ever. Biting off an entire hand vividly conveys the danger. Ideally parents would explain this to boys by the time they are age 10.
[20:17:06] <exec> count new = 16
[20:17:06] <exec> count top = 1
[20:17:06] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[21:07:23] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[21:07:24] <exec> last cid = 717973
[21:08:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Portugal's Skies Turn Orange as Desert Air Sends Temperature Soaring - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:51] <exec> 08└─-- Everyone from Texas to southern California
[21:08:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Portugal's Skies Turn Orange as Desert Air Sends Temperature Soaring - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:52] <exec> 08└─Nah, the Central Valley is hot from south to north in the summer. I found LA more hospitable in the summer than some places in Northern California.
[21:09:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Congress Votes to Force Software Makers to Say When Foreign Governments Peep Their Code - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:06] <exec> 08└─Only incels write software that lets communists read its source code. When the source code is published for anybody to review, it excludes women, because incels hate women and can't get laid! Incel GNU software is a conspiracy to prevent women from learning programming by making the source code free...
[21:09:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06What You’re Really Agreeing to When You Sign Up for 23andMe Research - 2297 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:18] <exec> 08└─The fun crimes are not (usually) fun for the victims of those crimes. Don't worry they'll start taking everyone's DNA soon enough. Police states simply cannot resist. It is too powerful a temptation. (Just as pedophiles say.) It will happen by inches. So we'll gradually accept it. First they'll star...
[21:09:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06What You’re Really Agreeing to When You Sign Up for 23andMe Research - 77 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:21] <exec> 08└─I remember when Sci Fi was an antiseptic, bright, utopian view of the future.
[21:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What You’re Really Agreeing to When You Sign Up for 23andMe Research - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:44] <exec> 08└─In the short term, before the police state matures, avoid 23andme. They've always been too willing to share raw DNA results with others. Family Tree, so far, places importance on DNA data. A while back, they forced GEDMatch to improve its procedures before re-allowing uploading to that site.
[21:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06What You’re Really Agreeing to When You Sign Up for 23andMe Research - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:46] <exec> 08└─I remember when Sci Fi was an antiseptic, bright, utopian view of the future.
[21:11:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Wages and Benefits are Rising at the Fastest Pace in a Decade - 663 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:24] <exec> 08└─That's because the study doesn't really say what they claim it is saying. The sub headline: Cost of labor rose at a 2.8% yearly rate as firms boost benefits There are many things that could increase the cost of labor that don't actually translate to workers getting better stuff. some 70% of employm...
[21:11:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wages and Benefits are Rising at the Fastest Pace in a Decade - 1975 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:45] <exec> 08└─Who gets the right to decide what their effort is worth? It's an important question, because there are bosses out there that decide that their workers' effort is worth absolutely nothing, regardless of what they've done. And there are workers who expect $millions for doing absolutely nothing. Supply...
[21:11:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wages and Benefits are Rising at the Fastest Pace in a Decade - 4692 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:47] <exec> 08└─Many of the world’s great leaders request to come to Mar-a-Lago and Palm Beach. They like it, I like it, we’re comfortable. We have great relationships. It was called the Southern White House. It was given to the United States, and then Jimmy Carter decided it was too expensive for the United St...
[21:11:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wages and Benefits are Rising at the Fastest Pace in a Decade - 1147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:49] <exec> 08└─On the small scale, it's negotiated between employer and employee. On a regional scale (for any sized region) it's an aggregate based largely on how far one lives from the employers who are willing to pay the highest wages. That first sentence is key. If you go into an interview with the idea of job...
[21:16:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UN Report Claims North Korea Has Not Stopped Nuclear and Missile Programs - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:31] <exec> 08└─Just don't sign their public key.
[21:16:44] <exec> count new = 9
[21:16:44] <exec> count top = 3
[21:16:44] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[22:07:23] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[22:07:24] <exec> last cid = 717983
[22:08:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06France's EDF Halts Four Nuclear Reactors due to Heatwave - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:46] <exec> 08└─Must ... resist ... Trump ... joke.
[22:08:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06France's EDF Halts Four Nuclear Reactors due to Heatwave - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:48] <exec> 08└─(Please ignore, posted at wrong story, sorry)
[22:08:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06France's EDF Halts Four Nuclear Reactors due to Heatwave - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:50] <exec> 08└─Could this be related to the shutdown of aristarchus submissions?
[22:08:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06France's EDF Halts Four Nuclear Reactors due to Heatwave - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:52] <exec> 08└─They surrendered to the heatwave pretty quickly.
[22:08:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06France's EDF Halts Four Nuclear Reactors due to Heatwave - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:54] <exec> 08└─Right, because avoiding mass death is lame when confronted with a bad situation.
[22:08:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06France's EDF Halts Four Nuclear Reactors due to Heatwave - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:57] <exec> 08└─They surrender to the darn ecologists who don't like to fish pre-cooked fish. When your outlet is limited by law to certain temp, but the input keeps getting hotter, your margin vanishes, and you have to scram to protect the fishes. If that ends up causing outages and humans die, who gives a shit ?...
[22:09:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Portugal's Skies Turn Orange as Desert Air Sends Temperature Soaring - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:08] <exec> 08└─Damn, even the sand is invading Europe. I predict sand worms soon.
[22:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Portugal's Skies Turn Orange as Desert Air Sends Temperature Soaring - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:10] <exec> 08└─Fuck Iberia. Love, Arabs (Sikes, berbers, really)
[22:09:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Portugal's Skies Turn Orange as Desert Air Sends Temperature Soaring - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:13] <exec> 08└─Buzzy, you are not wrong. Europe is punk.
[22:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress Votes to Force Software Makers to Say When Foreign Governments Peep Their Code - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:27] <exec> 08└─This is pure speculation, but I imagine DoD worries it could be running buggy code where foreign govt. knows about the bugs, but DoD and supplier haven't noticed yet. So foreign govt. could exploit the bugs, and DoD are none the wiser. Open source is a different animal. There could be bugs not yet c...
[22:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Congress Votes to Force Software Makers to Say When Foreign Governments Peep Their Code - 2117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:29] <exec> 08└─Sec. 1639. Mitigation of risks to national security posed by providers of information technology products and services who have obligations to foreign governments (a) Disclosure required The Department of Defense may not use a product, service, or system relating to information or operational techno...
[22:09:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] 02 - 06What You’re Really Agreeing to When You Sign Up for 23andMe Research - 298 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:52] <exec> 08└─-gs. Consider Denmark, where burger flippers make twenty dollars per hour, get six weeks of paid vacation per year. I don't know about Denmark specifically but some Welfare States have free college tuition. Yet their per-capita gross domestic products exceed that of the USD$ited $tates Of America.
[22:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What You’re Really Agreeing to When You Sign Up for 23andMe Research - 1185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:09] <exec> 08└─I had my right kidney removed ten years ago, also for cancer. I was lucky, in that they discovered it while they were looking for something else, so the cancer was just barely stage 2. They took it out, and the cancer has not returned. However... When the surgeon says "you can live a perfectly norma...
[22:11:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Fortnite's Android Version Bypasses Google Play to Avoid 30% "Store Tax" - 44 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:01] <exec> 08└─an action some are calling a security threat
[22:11:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Wages and Benefits are Rising at the Fastest Pace in a Decade - 171 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:40] <exec> 08└─They "deserve" what their effort is worth. Nothing less, nothing more. You need to look up the word "deserve". Looking up the word "earned" would not be a bad idea either.
[22:12:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wages and Benefits are Rising at the Fastest Pace in a Decade - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:10] <exec> 08└─Game theory calls bullshit on that statement, specifically positive-sum negotiation between entities of unequal (economic) power. If that's too conceptually difficult, try the game of Monopoly. The game of Monopoly was originally invented to show how an economy becomes inherently unstable if there a...
[22:12:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wages and Benefits are Rising at the Fastest Pace in a Decade - 1070 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:11] <exec> 08└─Separate comment because it's really a separate issue. Why should there be a cap at all? Economics is not remotely a zero-sum game. Assuming no regulatory capture or monopolistic aspects, someone earning five trillion dollars a year literally means the people of the nation felt their lives would be...
[22:12:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Wages and Benefits are Rising at the Fastest Pace in a Decade - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:13] <exec> 08└─Sorry but some people are simply not worth 15$. Some people are in fact not even worth employing.
[22:12:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wages and Benefits are Rising at the Fastest Pace in a Decade - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:16] <exec> 08└─Why should there be a cap at all?
[22:12:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wages and Benefits are Rising at the Fastest Pace in a Decade - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:19] <exec> 08└─You're very limited in your thinking there. I'd love to have you as a business competitor. The negotiation between the entities in question is absolutely unequal but it's the employers who are actually at the disadvantage at the moment. Let me know if you can ever figure out why I believe so.
[22:16:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UN Report Claims North Korea Has Not Stopped Nuclear and Missile Programs - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:59] <exec> 08└─I think the idea is that the war has simmered for 50 years, and it is unlikely to end in any verifiable way in the next 10. Then again, pulling out our troops would make SK a tempting target with Kim knowing that Trump, commander in chief, is loath to help out allies. Without our troops there to mak...
[22:17:13] <exec> count new = 18
[22:17:13] <exec> count top = 3
[22:17:13] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[23:07:23] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[23:07:24] <exec> last cid = 718004
[23:08:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06France's EDF Halts Four Nuclear Reactors due to Heatwave - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:51] <exec> 08└─Who the hell approved building reactors that depend on the sea water available for cooling not exceeding 5°C for the summer's nominal? They seriously couldn't invest in a few more meters of cooling radiators and fans? What kind of asinine cheapskates are running that mime factory?
[23:08:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06France's EDF Halts Four Nuclear Reactors due to Heatwave - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:53] <exec> 08└─Let the fish build their own cooling towers
[23:08:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06France's EDF Halts Four Nuclear Reactors due to Heatwave - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:55] <exec> 08└─The Associated Press story at The Reading Eagle explains that excessive heat is harmful to fish.
[23:08:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06France's EDF Halts Four Nuclear Reactors due to Heatwave - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:57] <exec> 08└─No. it's a valid comment for just about any story,
[23:08:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06France's EDF Halts Four Nuclear Reactors due to Heatwave - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:00] <exec> 08└─High temperatures registered in the Rhone and Rhine rivers, from which the three power plants pump their water for cooling, led to a temporary shutdown of the reactors, the spokesman said. Two of the halted reactors belong to EDF’s Bugey plant, one is located at St. Alban and one in Fessenheim nea...
[23:09:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06France's EDF Halts Four Nuclear Reactors due to Heatwave - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:02] <exec> 08└─Pffft, ecological collapse has a much greater chance of causing human death than the lack of power. Also, human societies should start preparing for bad situations now instead of ignoring the warnings.
[23:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What You’re Really Agreeing to When You Sign Up for 23andMe Research - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:10] <exec> 08└─In High Tax, High Crime California they take babies' blood. They take the cyber of that, they put it in database. And they do scientology with it. And, New York does that too. But, you'll never hear about it from SoylentNews. Because, Sub rejected!!! cbsnews.com/news/california-biobank-dna-babies-wh...
[23:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What You’re Really Agreeing to When You Sign Up for 23andMe Research - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:12] <exec> 08└─I bought a test kit but used the swab on my dog. Now at least one pharma giant's going to be wasting its resources on a polluted data set.
[23:10:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Astronomers Discover a Nearby Free-Range Planet with Incredible Magnetism - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:38] <exec> 08└─There are not enough charged particles in the interstellar medium to account for the intensity of the emissions. That's how scientists can conclude that the object must have a volcanic companion. (not calling it a rogue planet. I think objects like this should be called sub-brown dwarfs, especially...
[23:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronomers Discover a Nearby Free-Range Planet with Incredible Magnetism - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:39] <exec> 08└─Of course if you want the free range unicorn meat, you can get it here. [thinkgeek.com]. Magic in every bite!
[23:10:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Astronomers Discover a Nearby Free-Range Planet with Incredible Magnetism - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:42] <exec> 08└─as this body enters the inner solar system, it experiences electrical effects (which machine the surface with ridges, depressions, wind-like dunes, etc.) all of which result in the telltale coma, as well.
[23:10:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Astronomers Discover a Nearby Free-Range Planet with Incredible Magnetism - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:44] <exec> 08└─That one won;t be cold, though. It's almost a star.
[23:12:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wages and Benefits are Rising at the Fastest Pace in a Decade - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:26] <exec> 08└─F- that. 2.8% annual cost of labor increase. In the last 5 years I've experienced a 30%+ cost of housing increase, bigger than that in the cost of gasoline, and similar increases in cost of food. But, the Fed is keeping an eye on inflation, so that's good.
[23:12:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03http [1920] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wages and Benefits are Rising at the Fastest Pace in a Decade - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:28] <exec> 08└─Why does a franchise owner deserve to have employees who are subsidized by parents or state or enforced poverty? As Thexalon pointed out, a potential worker rarely has the option of turning down lowball offers. The labour marketplace is not a meeting of equals, and the "free market" is absolute shit...
[23:12:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wages and Benefits are Rising at the Fastest Pace in a Decade - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:30] <exec> 08└─My understanding, assuming you're a reasonably good representative of the libertarian perspective, is that it's basically tautological: The wage that ends up being paid (barring any government interference) is by definition the correct wage. Is that different from what you just said, and if so how?
[23:12:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Wages and Benefits are Rising at the Fastest Pace in a Decade - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:32] <exec> 08└─Cause you're not paying attention to reality. What do I win?
[23:12:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wages and Benefits are Rising at the Fastest Pace in a Decade - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:34] <exec> 08└─A Troll mod for lacking the wit to incorporate anything of value into your comment.
[23:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wages and Benefits are Rising at the Fastest Pace in a Decade - 822 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:37] <exec> 08└─Your 1st and 2nd sentence don't seem to work well together. $40/hr would be quite a good wage in many places in the US but definitely not the Bay area or really almost anywhere in California. Even the "cheap" places to live only have slightly cheaper rent but more expensive everything else usually....
[23:12:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wages and Benefits are Rising at the Fastest Pace in a Decade - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:39] <exec> 08└─On a macro scale this is the case. It can most certainly fall out of whack when the market is allowed to become corrupted though. On an individual scale, individual judgment rules.
[23:12:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wages and Benefits are Rising at the Fastest Pace in a Decade - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:41] <exec> 08└─That only works if wealth is zero-sum. I invite you to consider the economic implications of this reference book [amazon.com]. Yes, it's a poop joke but I'm also very serious. Then start manipulating it yourself. It's not that difficult or politicians wouldn't be any good at it.
[23:12:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wages and Benefits are Rising at the Fastest Pace in a Decade - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:43] <exec> 08└─Good question. And here I didn't think you'd be in favor of stopping subsidies.
[23:12:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wages and Benefits are Rising at the Fastest Pace in a Decade - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:46] <exec> 08└─Also, as you've no doubt pointed out in the past, what we have only superficially resembles a free market.
[23:12:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wages and Benefits are Rising at the Fastest Pace in a Decade - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:48] <exec> 08└─You misread them then. I meant given the flexible contract nature of what I do, after I've made or am on a reliable track to make $60K or so, I start getting much pickier about what additional jobs I'm willing to take on. Employers are cutting wages more and more...
[23:17:30] <exec> count new = 23
[23:17:30] <exec> count top = 0
[23:17:30] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********