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[00:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06210 Million-Year-Old Pterosaur Predates Most Dinosaurs - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:38] <exec> 08└─I had no idea they lived that long.
[00:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Zealand Bans Sales of Homes to Foreigners - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:55] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons [wikipedia.org]
[00:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06New Zealand Bans Sales of Homes to Foreigners - 763 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:57] <exec> 08└─In the case of New Zealand it is actually the foreigners who are to blame. New Zealand's total population is about 4.9 million. That's less than 1/286th of China's population of 1.403 billion. In other words, the top 0.35% of China's wealthy outnumber the entire population of New Zealand. Chinese na...
[00:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Zealand Bans Sales of Homes to Foreigners - 938 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:59] <exec> 08└─Good leadership puts its own people first, whether or not the rich foreigners driving property costs out of reach of the domestic population are Chinese. Even fucking Mexico does this with coastal property. Now it is time for America to do the same... ...or the next best thing, like Australia, which...
[00:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Zealand Bans Sales of Homes to Foreigners - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:01] <exec> 08└─There seem to be a lot of restaurants here that are open only during odd hours and for only a few hours 3 days a week. Some of them are in nice neighborhoods with $750,000-dollar homes. Really makes you think...
[00:10:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03edinlinux [4637] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Los Angeles to Become the First City to Use Body Scanners in Rail Transit Systems - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:43] <exec> 08└─It would be nice if they spent money on more important things like staffing the stations with real live humans (I couldn't find a soul on staff anywhere last time I was there..no platform staff, no ticket staff (people just jumped over the wickets without paying), and homeless living in the stations...
[00:10:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Los Angeles to Become the First City to Use Body Scanners in Rail Transit Systems - 1017 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:44] <exec> 08└─And once you have somehow gotten ownership of something, who the hell is going to ENFORCE your ownership of the said thing? Who the hell is going to force anyone to abide by the terms of ANY "voluntary agreement"? If I have bigger guns than you, I am just going to laugh and then blow your brains out...
[00:11:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Valve Seems to be Working on Tools to Get Windows Games Running on Linux - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:25] <exec> 08└─lol, wow. Are you autistic?
[00:11:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Valve Seems to be Working on Tools to Get Windows Games Running on Linux - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:26] <exec> 08└─Because the Windows system API is: 1. proprietary 2. an insane clusterfuck 3. changes regularly
[00:12:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03shortscreen [2252] 02 - 06Mystery Russian Satellite's Behaviour Raises Alarm In US - 283 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:06] <exec> 08└─There is a myth that persists in some circles that the Bolsheviks were Jews or were financed by Jews as part of some scheme (which is never explained). AFAICT this idea originated with the Nazis who hated both the Soviets and Jews and tried to lump them together in their propaganda.
[00:12:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mystery Russian Satellite's Behaviour Raises Alarm In US - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:16] <exec> 08└─And when will AMERICA stop fucking in foreign elections?
[00:12:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mystery Russian Satellite's Behaviour Raises Alarm In US - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:18] <exec> 08└─Look in a mirror if you want to see what's really destroying us from within. You're a shit-stain on america.
[00:12:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mystery Russian Satellite's Behaviour Raises Alarm In US - 1129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:20] <exec> 08└─I'm from New York. Where, for a little while, our alt-left was a very big deal -- until Obama's people cracked down on them. They called themselves Occupy, they were always talking about how "the 1%" run our Country. And tey were right. Except, frankly, it's less than 1% that really run it. Much les...
[00:12:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Gives Lessons in Electronic Warfare - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:42] <exec> 08└─eh? Why can't they just "encrypt" their radio chatter - there are more than 1 ways to secure something apart from just not using it. The platypus is scratching the koala! I repeat, the platypus is scratching the koala! Roger out!
[00:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian State Government Bans TV News Channel from Train Stations - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:18] <exec> 08└─On YouTube there's a Sky interview with Ms. Allen where she goes into great detail about the "multiple complaints" she received from the general public after the Blair Cottrell interview was shown on the train station screens. The Sky interviewer then points out the fact that the Cottrell fottage wa...
[00:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Unearth Remarkable Horse 'Shoes' - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:36] <exec> 08└─If they can mustachio-off Superman in Justice League without re-shoots, I'm sure they can add hipposandals to them Roman horsies in their next blu-ray special director's cut unrated awesome extended digital edition
[00:16:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bridge Collapses in Genoa, Kills Over 20 People - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:22] <exec> 08└─€5billion saved M5S in power locally and nationally Fewer than 30 dead. Not bad ROI for supporing the NIMBYs, and saving money!
[00:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bethesda Clashes With Sony on PS4 Cross-Play, Changes Review Policy - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:13] <exec> 08└─Sony's less worried about PC/Mac and more worried about other consoles. You'll note that your example is not available on XBox or Switch.
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[01:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Firefox Add-On With 220,000+ Installs Caught Collecting Users’ Browsing History - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:40] <exec> 08└─Some code from testing was inadvertently left in our product and not removed during the build process as it should have been. Rest assured that this was unintentional. The data has not been retained or shared and an update will be forthcoming which removes the test code. Again our apologies to our...
[01:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox Add-On With 220,000+ Installs Caught Collecting Users’ Browsing History - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:41] <exec> 08└─Computer program unnecessarily uploads user behavior to cloud, in 2018! News at 11.
[01:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06210 Million-Year-Old Pterosaur Predates Most Dinosaurs - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:51] <exec> 08└─Usually much longer in captivity
[01:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06210 Million-Year-Old Pterosaur Predates Most Dinosaurs - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:54] <exec> 08└─I heard they wouldn't breed in captivity though.
[01:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Zealand Bans Sales of Homes to Foreigners - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:12] <exec> 08└─Again with the stupid. Give it a rest already.
[01:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Zealand Bans Sales of Homes to Foreigners - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:14] <exec> 08└─Good link but rent controls and subsidies are not the same thing, both are disastrous but for different reasons. One of the key differences is opportunity cost, with subsidies the money government pays in subsidy to private landlords could have been spent by government elsewhere while the landlord g...
[01:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Zealand Bans Sales of Homes to Foreigners - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:16] <exec> 08└─The Goog tells me that 1,600,000 New Zealand Dollar equals 1,053,920.00 United States Dollar. Sounds like your neighborhood could be on par with some of the towns in Silicon Valley?
[01:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Zealand Bans Sales of Homes to Foreigners - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:18] <exec> 08└─But it hasn't made *you* think at all. Stupid.
[01:11:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Los Angeles to Become the First City to Use Body Scanners in Rail Transit Systems - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:04] <exec> 08└─Tax-funded operations are fundamentally non-capitalist. The problem is not capitalism, but rather government; it is not the case that capitalists corrupt government, but rather it is the case that government corrupts capitalists. If your income depends on taking resources from people at the point of...
[01:11:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Los Angeles to Become the First City to Use Body Scanners in Rail Transit Systems - 1080 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:06] <exec> 08└─Capitalism is a philosophy; you can look at an aspect of society and say whether or not it adheres to capitalism—government doesn't adhere, and thus proponents of capitalism are compelled to look for alternatives to government. Clearly, there's a market for enforcement. It is in the interest of a...
[01:11:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Los Angeles to Become the First City to Use Body Scanners in Rail Transit Systems - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:08] <exec> 08└─Tax-funded operations are fundamentally non-capitalist. The problem is not capitalism, but rather government; it is not the case that capitalists corrupt government, but rather it is the case that government corrupts capitalists. If your income depends on taking resources from people at the point of...
[01:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03schad [2398] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian State Government Bans TV News Channel from Train Stations - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:24] <exec> 08└─I'm all for accuracy, but I don't think that detail makes mucj difference here.
[01:16:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bridge Collapses in Genoa, Kills Over 20 People - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:16:25] <exec> 08└─I made the Sub about "Saudi Arabia cuts ties with Canada after Canada urges activists' release!" too. Rejected because of Exclamation Point. But, who cares about Justin's shithole Country, right?
[01:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alexa and Cortana Integration Starts Rolling Out Today - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:48] <exec> 08└─So many folks making sexy tweets to this Topic. But, yours is the sexiest. Incredible!!!! I have to put down my phone for a little while......
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[02:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox Add-On With 220,000+ Installs Caught Collecting Users’ Browsing History - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:41] <exec> 08└─I bet someone here has command and control over a nice botnet that can ddos 136.243.163.73
[02:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox Add-On With 220,000+ Installs Caught Collecting Users’ Browsing History - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:43] <exec> 08└─Not do to "ping -f" that would get your IP banned, maybe kicked off your ISP. Just the regular ping would suffice if enough of us were to participate. Be sure to set up a script for it either with cron or in /etc/rc.d
[02:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox Add-On With 220,000+ Installs Caught Collecting Users’ Browsing History - 959 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:45] <exec> 08└─-ted to register. A while back I was toying around not with "domaining" as cybersquatters so generously refer to themselves, but looking for unregistered domains that at one time had lots of organic links. My plan was to keep all those domains _forever_, and to redirect all their former URLs to page...
[02:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06210 Million-Year-Old Pterosaur Predates Most Dinosaurs - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:56] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that's true and why they lived longer. Can you imagine having to take out the trash for 200 million years?
[02:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06210 Million-Year-Old Pterosaur Predates Most Dinosaurs - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:57] <exec> 08└─-e." -- David Courtney Johnson [seeingtheforest.com]. There is already a serious problem with elderly people running out of their retirement savings because when they were young and working, they didn't take into account advances in medicine. In the US at least there are a lot fewer smokers than the...
[02:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Zealand Bans Sales of Homes to Foreigners - 1141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:21] <exec> 08└─NZ must not be alone. After travelling to Vancouver British Columbia lately, I discovered there are more Chinese wandering the city than native Canadian citizens. Talking with locals I learned it's not just a surge in tourism but a more permanent grip on the area. Property costs surge due to demand...
[02:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Zealand Bans Sales of Homes to Foreigners - 925 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:23] <exec> 08└─The idea of the law is that non-resident foreigners can't buy most real estate. At least in the US, if we had a comparable law, there would be an easy workaround - form an LLC in the US, and have the LLC buy the property. You do not have to be a US citizen to form an LLC in the US. Because the LLC i...
[02:11:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Los Angeles to Become the First City to Use Body Scanners in Rail Transit Systems - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:11] <exec> 08└─Pretty much. Other countries can keep terrorists from messing with planes without making people take off their shoes and get sexually assaulted. The whole point of this is to keep people scared and keep money flowing to the military-industrial complex. It has absolutely nothing to do with actual saf...
[02:11:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Los Angeles to Become the First City to Use Body Scanners in Rail Transit Systems - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:12] <exec> 08└─Tax-funded operations are fundamentally non-capitalist. The problem is not capitalism, but rather government; it is not the case that capitalists corrupt government, but rather it is the case that government corrupts capitalists. If your income depends on taking resources from people at the point of...
[02:12:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mystery Russian Satellite's Behaviour Raises Alarm In US - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:32] <exec> 08└─http://www.vho.org/tr/2004/3/Rudolf325-327.html [vho.org] the Jews of the Soviet Union bear 59 times as much responsibility for the Red Terror per capita than the Russian population
[02:12:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mystery Russian Satellite's Behaviour Raises Alarm In US - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:34] <exec> 08└─http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v14/v14n1p-4_Weber.html [ihr.org] Although officially Jews have never made up more than five percent of the country's total population,5 they played a highly disproportionate and probably decisive role in the infant Bolshevik regime, effectively dominating the Soviet governmen...
[02:12:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Gives Lessons in Electronic Warfare - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:57] <exec> 08└─Loaded with radar, yes. Just because I have a dozen (or more) transmitters doesn't mean they are radiating. The ship's personnel has complete control over that radiation, beginning with the off/on state, as well the strength of the signal. The ship that has light discipline for night time cruising a...
[02:16:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bridge Collapses in Genoa, Kills Over 20 People - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:38] <exec> 08└─:) You're sounding less and less Donald Trump-ish!
[02:16:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How IoT Devices Empower Companies at the Expense of Consumers - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:59] <exec> 08└─> One guy, working on his thesis, had made extensive notes on his Kindle version of those books. When Amazon repossessed the books he was in serious trouble. If the student was working without a local backup, then I have trouble feeling too sorry for him. Those who live by unbacked up data, die by u...
[02:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Law Bans U.S. Government from Buying Equipment from Chinese Telecom Giants ZTE and Huawei - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:42] <exec> 08└─Trump will try borrowing more money to infuse the system with cash or worse, print some. This pattern is so obvious to anyone with a lick of education it's ridiculous people actually think Obama wasn't right to oppose this and try to focus on higher efficiency innovative technologies instead.
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[03:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MIT Scientists Crack the Case of Breaking Spaghetti in Two - 816 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:49] <exec> 08└─Saw this in the queue earlier and found the original paper abstract, http://www.pnas.org [pnas.org] "Controlling fracture cascades through twisting and quenching" On a personal note I was visiting a friend at MIT, probably sometime in the 1990s(?). He had ma...
[03:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06MIT Scientists Crack the Case of Breaking Spaghetti in Two - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:50] <exec> 08└─You had the FRONT PAGE, BOLD TYPE, you had to BE a BIG SHOT LAST NIGHT !
[03:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT Scientists Crack the Case of Breaking Spaghetti in Two - 862 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:53] <exec> 08└─People manage to break spaghetti mostly into two. Some people, anyway. Years ago, I couldn't. Twenties? I can't offer a specific date. Sometime, I learned to grip the spaghetti tightly, and to twist as I broke it. A lot of other people must have learned the same, either from example, or through thei...
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[03:09:55] <exec> 08└─Give up that lightweight pop shit, try some real American original music, say, https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[03:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MIT Scientists Crack the Case of Breaking Spaghetti in Two - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:57] <exec> 08└─If you don't get the link then you are allowed to cheat, *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) I'm flipping you the bird. (Charlie Parker's nickname was Bird)
[03:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06MIT Scientists Crack the Case of Breaking Spaghetti in Two - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:59] <exec> 08└─My theory is that it's a giant practical joke played by the Mexican people on the rest of the world. Mexicans only bring out the hard tacos when foreigners are around to perpetuate the joke.
[03:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT Scientists Crack the Case of Breaking Spaghetti in Two - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:02] <exec> 08└─Smarter Every Day got it some time ago, I think working with The Slow Mo Guys.
[03:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT Scientists Crack the Case of Breaking Spaghetti in Two - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:04] <exec> 08└─I love taco! The best taco is made in Korea. Had a magnificent #TacoTuesday [twitter.com] when I visited my troops there! 🌮
[03:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 0, Spam) 02 - 06Firefox Add-On With 220,000+ Installs Caught Collecting Users’ Browsing History - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:16] <exec> 08└─Suck my Dick, Fifth-Columnist infintrators! https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] Ha ha ha Heeeeeee Heeee Hoooo!
[03:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 0, Flamebait) 02 - 06Firefox Add-On With 220,000+ Installs Caught Collecting Users’ Browsing History - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:18] <exec> 08└─You had to have the White Hot Spot-Light, you had to be a Big-Shot Last Night! HaHaHA!
[03:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox Add-On With 220,000+ Installs Caught Collecting Users’ Browsing History - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:20] <exec> 08└─Can't believe it but we think you're getting stupider every day. With luck it will be fatal.
[03:10:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06210 Million-Year-Old Pterosaur Predates Most Dinosaurs - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:32] <exec> 08└─Total BS. All the old people always start their talk with a financial advisor with: "never ever touch principal". Advisors always joke that their clients plan to leave forever. My bet they were simply screwed like everybody else.
[03:10:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Zealand Bans Sales of Homes to Foreigners - 1136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:58] <exec> 08└─Say someone buys property X. Then sells it for double. The new owner has to pay the bank more, and so rents it out for more. The tenant then needs higher income/profit to pay for the higher rent. And so the costs for everyone goes up. So the increase in the price of your latte/sandwich/etc is actual...
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[03:11:50] <exec> 08└─It is in the interest of a capitalist to fund some means of enforcement, but why should there be a monopoly on enforcement? Indeed, the most robust separation of powers is competition among service providers.
[03:11:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Los Angeles to Become the First City to Use Body Scanners in Rail Transit Systems - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:51] <exec> 08└─Furthermore, the warlords that emerged from the already authoritarian culture are just forms of government—they are certainly not adherents of Capitalism. That being said, it is competition among those warlords that has kept them in check, and the collapse of the communist State has given way to t...
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[03:11:54] <exec> 08└─Tax-funded operations are fundamentally non-capitalist. The problem is not capitalism, but rather government; it is not the case that capitalists corrupt government, but rather it is the case that government corrupts capitalists. If your income depends on taking resources from people at the point of...
[03:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Gives Lessons in Electronic Warfare - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:38] <exec> 08└─Solders have to leave their brain behind in a secure military storage facilities. Only military approved parts of the brain can be taken into the combat. That's a short history of the military training anyway.
[03:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bridge Collapses in Genoa, Kills Over 20 People - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:21] <exec> 08└─I'm still me. But the Witch Hunt has been very tiring for me. And, I didn't write the headline. That's not me. I quoted it from Fox News. Except the Exclamation Point!!!!
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[04:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Children Are Susceptible to Peer Pressure From Robots - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:39] <exec> 08└─... the fact that the adults were not swayed by the bots is also significant. That's because it goes against an established theory in sociology known as "computer are social actors," or CASA. This theory, which was first outlined in a 1996 book, states that humans tend to interact with computers as...
[04:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Uncle_Al [1108] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT Scientists Crack the Case of Breaking Spaghetti in Two - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:56] <exec> 08└─The small lizards that taco meat comes from?
[04:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03ShadowSystems [6185] (Score: 1) 02 - 06MIT Scientists Crack the Case of Breaking Spaghetti in Two - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:57] <exec> 08└─I solved the "stuff going everywhere" problem back when I was a kid. I left the stuff in a ZipLock freezer bag, left the bag vented at one corner of the zip strip, then smashed the stuff inside with a hammer. The bent hole let out the pressure so the bag didn't go boom, the plastic kept the bits fro...
[04:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MIT Scientists Crack the Case of Breaking Spaghetti in Two - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:59] <exec> 08└─No doubt fun to use a hammer in the kitchen, but, > The bent[vent] hole let out the pressure so the bag didn't go boom, ... Why would you think that breaking pasta would increase the pressure in the bag? Assuming you zipped it fairly tightly over the bunch of noodles, that bag would have to be infla...
[04:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MIT Scientists Crack the Case of Breaking Spaghetti in Two - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:01] <exec> 08└─Kitchenaid + pasta attachments = fuck that dry shit from the store I'll make it fresh. Semolina is $2 a pound at the Arab grocery, flour is cheap as fuck, mix them 1:2 and I'm winning on price and flavor. Takes 30 minutes more of prep time, but I can bring the water to a boil and steam vegetables in...
[04:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT Scientists Crack the Case of Breaking Spaghetti in Two - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:04] <exec> 08└─My fellow pastafarians, dry pasta is a ultimate puzzle bestowed upon us by the holiest of holy FSM wherein lies the answer to life, the universe and everything. In it lies the question to the answer 42. This discovery is but the tip of the iceberg.
[04:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox Add-On With 220,000+ Installs Caught Collecting Users’ Browsing History - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:18] <exec> 08└─A am glad that someone looks into these things and found this. Otherwise, how can the average Joe ever know? Many eyes make for shallow bugs.
[04:10:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Zealand Bans Sales of Homes to Foreigners - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:58] <exec> 08└─Maybe it's just because I'm an American, but is it really strange for people who live in million+ homes to have trophy wives, nice cars, and be gone on business often?
[04:10:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Zealand Bans Sales of Homes to Foreigners - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:59] <exec> 08└─The tenant then needs higher income/profit to pay for the higher rent.
[04:11:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Los Angeles to Become the First City to Use Body Scanners in Rail Transit Systems - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:11:53] <exec> 08└─Tax-funded operations are fundamentally non-capitalist. The problem is not capitalism, but rather government; it is not the case that capitalists corrupt government, but rather it is the case that government corrupts capitalists. If your income depends on taking resources from people at the point o...
[04:12:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03boltronics [580] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Valve Seems to be Working on Tools to Get Windows Games Running on Linux - 1034 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:24] <exec> 08└─I hate having to have a separate wineprefix with a separate Steam installation for every... single... Windows game. Also having to do the 2FA thing all the time because you switched between more than 2 or 3 Steam installations gets annoying real fast. It also sucks that controllers don't work correc...
[04:12:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Valve Seems to be Working on Tools to Get Windows Games Running on Linux - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:25] <exec> 08└─It's not even worth it to me. I'd rather give up on playing most games than run some proprietary, privacy-invading, abusive, DRM-ridden piece of shit. Not to mention that most of these games are proprietary as well. The software industry is an absolute abomination.
[04:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mystery Russian Satellite's Behaviour Raises Alarm In US - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:21] <exec> 08└─at the least, do you not find it odd how we as a superpower keep playing the victim?
[04:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian State Government Bans TV News Channel from Train Stations - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:23] <exec> 08└─Not "racial vilification"! Oh the horrors!
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[05:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Children Are Susceptible to Peer Pressure From Robots - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:33] <exec> 08└─"I'd like something fattening." "You're in the right place for that!" I studied the menu for a bit, then: "We have a special today: two Big Macs for five dollars." "I'll get that."
[05:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT Scientists Crack the Case of Breaking Spaghetti in Two - 1674 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:54] <exec> 08└─I knew him at Caltech. Not well but he and I spent quite a lot of time discussing thought experiments. Just after World War II he was quite burnt out so he scouted around for something easier on the brain than making atom bombs work on the very first try. At first he was going to derive the shape of...
[05:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Firefox Add-On With 220,000+ Installs Caught Collecting Users’ Browsing History - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:11] <exec> 08└─It can depend on how you checked them. Did you do whois through ICANN or another place? Did you just browser to random domain names to see if it resolved? Also, this is a fun way to mess with registrars: I hate godaddy, so for fun, I've searched for the same unregistered domain names there. You can...
[05:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox Add-On With 220,000+ Installs Caught Collecting Users’ Browsing History - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:13] <exec> 08└─So there is some possibility that the fault was an inconsistent whois cache. As I proceeded further into this project, I stumbled across the advice that the only truly reliable way to determine if a domain is available is to register it. At the time I didn't have the Samoleons to do that, but if I e...
[05:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox Add-On With 220,000+ Installs Caught Collecting Users’ Browsing History - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:15] <exec> 08└─So I shouldn't let this run overnight? ping -f 136.243.163.73 PING 136.243.163.73 (136.243.163.73) 56(84) bytes of data. .................^C --- 136.243.163.73 ping statistics --- 999 packets transmitted, 982 received, 1% packet loss, time 13961ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 121.289/154.934/180.884/11.76...
[05:10:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Mykl [1112] 02 - 06New Zealand Bans Sales of Homes to Foreigners - 763 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:43] <exec> 08└─In the case of New Zealand it is actually the foreigners who are to blame. New Zealand's total population is about 4.9 million. That's less than 1/286th of China's population of 1.403 billion. In other words, the top 0.35% of China's wealthy outnumber the entire population of New Zealand. Chinese na...
[05:10:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Zealand Bans Sales of Homes to Foreigners - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:56] <exec> 08└─And where will the tenant go?
[05:11:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Los Angeles to Become the First City to Use Body Scanners in Rail Transit Systems - 328 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:11:06] <exec> 08└─Sadly you fail to realize the capitalists are the ones driving these things, they love selling defense/offense tech and use corruption to get politicians to sell. Also, socialist doesn't mean what you think it means. Anyway, I will agree that the world is becoming pretty vile and I'll be avoiding ma...
[05:12:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03forkazoo [2561] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Valve Seems to be Working on Tools to Get Windows Games Running on Linux - 2653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:20] <exec> 08└─SteamOS was never really about Linux. It was about hurting the Windows Store. Valve saw the Store as a threat to Steam, so they suddenly got Linux religion. Except that they didn't really have a lot of internal experience with Linux. They just sort of assumed that if they started pushing Linux, they...
[05:18:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] 02 - 06Alexa and Cortana Integration Starts Rolling Out Today - 170 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:36] <exec> 08└─Great. Twice the spying for the price of one. Seriously, the only point of this is share and gather yet even more marketing data. People who use these things are retards.
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[06:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Children Are Susceptible to Peer Pressure From Robots - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:59] <exec> 08└─Commander Data raped Tasha while she was under the influence!
[06:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Children Are Susceptible to Peer Pressure From Robots - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:01] <exec> 08└─And he was her superior! That's even worse! And people thought Lore was the bad guy...
[06:10:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03arslan [3462] 02 - 06MIT Scientists Crack the Case of Breaking Spaghetti in Two - 248 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:22] <exec> 08└─My fellow pastafarians, dry pasta is a ultimate puzzle bestowed upon us by the holiest of holy FSM wherein lies the answer to life, the universe and everything. In it lies the question to the answer 42. This discovery is but the tip of the iceberg.
[06:10:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT Scientists Crack the Case of Breaking Spaghetti in Two - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:24] <exec> 08└─They all had a hard time accepting that Americans really did regard them as "tacos". Every last one of them said American tacos are really nasty. I saw the vid on Facebook, perhaps it's also on YouTube so you can keep your precious self-righteousness intact.
[06:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT Scientists Crack the Case of Breaking Spaghetti in Two - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:26] <exec> 08└─But I will just this once: The spaghetti at the Portland Rescue Mission [portlandrescuemission.org] is always broken into tiny little pieces. That totally dephlogisticates its Feng Shui. Happily, the spaghetti at the Blanchet House Of Hospitality [blanchethouse.org] is always boiled intact.
[06:11:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Zealand Bans Sales of Homes to Foreigners - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:11:27] <exec> 08└─They'll pick up guns and put the rich up against the wall and start shooting.
[06:11:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Zealand Bans Sales of Homes to Foreigners - 1051 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:11:29] <exec> 08└─Somehow, 30% doesn't strike me as a majority. You can't count. More likely, you can't tell the difference between Chinese, Tibetan, Japanese, Sikh, Thai, Indonesian, Vietnamese... In the 1990s, when the British lease on Hong Kong was clearly not going to be renewed, Vancouver rolled out a welcome ma...
[06:11:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Zealand Bans Sales of Homes to Foreigners - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:11:31] <exec> 08└─That's why, even though I'm in the bottom quintile of wage earners, I decided to be rich and it seems to be working. People told me I was stupid when I bought a junked trashed house and sent me articles from the NYT saying how home ownership was a bad idea. Maybe it is and I just got lucky, but it's...
[06:11:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Zealand Bans Sales of Homes to Foreigners - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:11:33] <exec> 08└─He's proposing using real estate sales on a free market to achieve one-time wealth redistribution. Your only problem with it is that it's anti-capitalist/globalist, i.e. your 1%er masters will be indirectly harmed by a handful of proles rising above their station in life.
[06:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mystery Russian Satellite's Behaviour Raises Alarm In US - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:52] <exec> 08└─I'm... pretty certain that those are two separate groups of people.
[06:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mystery Russian Satellite's Behaviour Raises Alarm In US - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:53] <exec> 08└─It's erratic, unpredictable, confounds the experts, and generates random static. Wait, wrong headline, that's the President.
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[07:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA and NIH Propose Reduction in Gene Therapy Biosafety Oversight - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:47] <exec> 08└─You have to edit a few eggs to make an omelette.
[07:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Children Are Susceptible to Peer Pressure From Robots - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:59] <exec> 08└─Commander Data raped Tasha while she was under the influence!
[07:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Children Are Susceptible to Peer Pressure From Robots - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:01] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I know. Both my AC comments were in jest. But still, what a dumb episode, for many reasons.
[07:11:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06Los Angeles to Become the First City to Use Body Scanners in Rail Transit Systems - 55 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:11:56] <exec> 08└─the only real threat to American travellers is the TSA?
[07:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bridge Collapses in Genoa, Kills Over 20 People - 1551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:00] <exec> 08└─You submitted 5 stories and, coincidentally, seemed to add an exclamation mark to each title. It was an attempt to exaggerate each story which was unnecessary. Had it been one or even 2 stories I would probably have simply corrected them and they might have made the front page. I left the stories in...
[07:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bridge Collapses in Genoa, Kills Over 20 People - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:02] <exec> 08└─You keep saying, oh, you don't like politics. You don't like the stories about politics. The people that run the site decided to have stories about politics. Editor @martyb ran one just a little while ago, about our immigration plan.
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[08:09:32] <exec> 08└─Previously from the Rural Broadband Association: Rural Wireless Association Opposes U.S. Government Ban on Huawei and ZTE Equipment [soylentnews.org] Wait, that [ruralwireless.org] is not the Rural Broadband Association [ntca.org]. How many of these things are there? Providing Internet service direc...
[08:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox Add-On With 220,000+ Installs Caught Collecting Users’ Browsing History - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:33] <exec> 08└─/dev/random will quickly exhaust your entropy pool, and block. Not so with /dev/urandom or /dev/zero. Note that most web servers are configured with upload limits, and when hit you'll get an error response like: <html> <head><title>413 Request Entity Too Large</title></head> <body bgcolor="white"> <...
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[09:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06ISPs Won't Invest Without Handouts - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:48] <exec> 08└─Only when aristarchus is freed will SoylentNews be what it had the potential to be! Until then, really lame posts like this are about all we can expect. Janrinok, come to your senses!
[09:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ISPs Won't Invest Without Handouts - 2073 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:49] <exec> 08└─This is a political problem par exellence. It shows how weak and effectively disfranchised you are as a people. To fix it, you would first need to get rid of all the bones you have been thrown to fight over, all the insane unworkable ideas, all of concerns about issues remote or marginal to your liv...
[09:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ISPs Won't Invest Without Handouts - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:51] <exec> 08└─The telcos got handouts AND they didn't deliver what they promised. https://www.huffingtonpost.com [huffingtonpost.com] https://newnetworks.com [newnetworks.com] http://irregulators.org [irregulators.org] What the governmen...
[09:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ISPs Won't Invest Without Handouts - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:53] <exec> 08└─I have, and so has the person who modded you as a troll.
[09:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Murdoc [2518] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ISPs Won't Invest Without Handouts - 1113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:56] <exec> 08└─"You can't blame the louse for thriving in a lousy environment." -Howard Scott The point is that you can't blame them for trying, it's built into the system: whomever can get the most money by whatever means they can get away with, is rewarded by the very same money. All things being equal, it will...
[09:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06FDA and NIH Propose Reduction in Gene Therapy Biosafety Oversight - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:05] <exec> 08└─Or, well, just fuck it all. Where are the aristarchus submissions? At least they had something to say, unlike all these sterile medical submissions from the sickest of the Soylentils. #Freearistarchus!!!!
[09:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Children Are Susceptible to Peer Pressure From Robots - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:18] <exec> 08└─it was performed in UK, Germany and Italy, but Italian kids dismantled the robots to sell them for parts. smart meabags, it's a pity we'll have to... ahem.
[09:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Children Are Susceptible to Peer Pressure From Robots - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:19] <exec> 08└─...drop bridges on them?
[09:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mystery Russian Satellite's Behaviour Raises Alarm In US - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:12] <exec> 08└─that's a nazi website https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
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[10:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03SparkyGSX [4041] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Credit Card Skimmers Now Need to Fear the Reaper - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:46] <exec> 08└─The US could try to catch up with the developed world and start using the chip instead of the magstripe. The chip is significantly harder to skim. It would help if the magstripe would be removed from the cards, but otherwise the banks could increase scrutiny for transactions attempted without the ch...
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[10:09:48] <exec> 08└─We have the chip. You insert the chip 3 times, it doesn't work, then you use the magstripe.
[10:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Credit Card Skimmers Now Need to Fear the Reaper - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:50] <exec> 08└─UK here, I've never in my life used the magstrip and only know it's possible to use it to pay because of TV/films and the recent news re the USA getting chip and pin. I've never heard of a chip failing to work even once. If that's your experience then something somewhere is fucked.
[10:10:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Murdoc [2518] 02 - 06ISPs Won't Invest Without Handouts - 1113 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:03] <exec> 08└─"You can't blame the louse for thriving in a lousy environment." -Howard Scott The point is that you can't blame them for trying, it's built into the system: whomever can get the most money by whatever means they can get away with, is rewarded by the very same money. All things being equal, it will...
[10:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06ISPs Won't Invest Without Handouts - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:04] <exec> 08└─You don't really get that money-meets-power-meets-your-face-with-a-stick sensation unless you have a reciprocal circle between government and corporate corruption, spending and suppression. You really do need the government to have an invested interest in ISPs using backdoored equipment, the ISPs wa...
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[10:10:27] <exec> 08└─It takes free will and agency to commit crime and Data had neither during that part of the series. Later he'd get free-will through a hardware upgrade and by the end of the series he'd be legally recognized as a person... But at that point in time him raping makes as much sense as a hammer assaultin...
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[10:10:28] <exec> 08└─Isn't that a kind of cheese?
[10:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Children Are Susceptible to Peer Pressure From Robots - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:30] <exec> 08└─How did you hear about my pal robotic excavator's mission against that pylon? he had covered his track beautifully.
[10:10:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Children Are Susceptible to Peer Pressure From Robots - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:33] <exec> 08└─belpaese would be the cheese, this is a belgian surname.
[10:11:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MrGuy [1007] 02 - 06New Zealand Bans Sales of Homes to Foreigners - 925 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:11:52] <exec> 08└─The idea of the law is that non-resident foreigners can't buy most real estate. At least in the US, if we had a comparable law, there would be an easy workaround - form an LLC in the US, and have the LLC buy the property. You do not have to be a US citizen to form an LLC in the US. Because the LLC i...
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[10:12:01] <exec> 08└─The bubble bursts if this happens a lot. But for a long while before that the landlords kick the tenants out and try to get new ones. Look at how high rents are in some places. If the landlords don't manage to get enough rents to pay the banks, the banks take over the property. I suppose this is sup...
[10:12:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Zealand Bans Sales of Homes to Foreigners - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:12:03] <exec> 08└─So the increase in the price of your latte/sandwich/etc is actually mostly due to high property and rental costs
[10:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mystery Russian Satellite's Behaviour Raises Alarm In US - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:25] <exec> 08└─One of these days I'd just love for Russia to reply, "Yeah, Maybe it is a new sophisticated weapon." I'd be more shocked to hear that any of the major sovereign nations are NOT building new weapons. The day the US says (with complete honesty), "Hey world, we haven't made any advancements in weapons...
[10:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian State Government Bans TV News Channel from Train Stations - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:15:29] <exec> 08└─boomer: please provide me a tv screen kthxbye millennial: omg where i put my smartphone? omgomg hnnnnnnnngggggggggggg
[10:15:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian State Government Bans TV News Channel from Train Stations - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:15:31] <exec> 08└─> I'm all for accuracy, but I don't think that detail makes mucj difference here. Of course it doesn't, because you misrepresented (in a negative way, naturally) someone you don't like.
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[11:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smallest Transistor Switches Current With a Single Atom in Solid Electrolyte - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:40] <exec> 08└─While absofuckinglutely impressive feat, I'd like to hear something about the switching frequency and the energy required to switch the gate (a gel doesn't sound like a very mobile medium for the electric charge)
[11:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ISPs Won't Invest Without Handouts - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:05] <exec> 08└─Don't worry citizen, president Trump will drain the swamp any minute now!
[11:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA and NIH Propose Reduction in Gene Therapy Biosafety Oversight - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:15] <exec> 08└─These unknowns were brought into sharp focus in 1999 when Jesse Gelsinger died of a massive immune response during a safety trial of gene therapy for ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency.1 This tragic death led to closer scrutiny of the field
[11:10:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Mykl [1112] 02 - 06MIT Scientists Crack the Case of Breaking Spaghetti in Two - 190 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:47] <exec> 08└─My theory is that it's a giant practical joke played by the Mexican people on the rest of the world. Mexicans only bring out the hard tacos when foreigners are around to perpetuate the joke.
[11:10:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT Scientists Crack the Case of Breaking Spaghetti in Two - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:59] <exec> 08└─Look around your everyday world until you find something that you can't explain, do what it takes to explain it then publish your results.
[11:12:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Zealand Bans Sales of Homes to Foreigners - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:12:09] <exec> 08└─Instead of banning them, why not tax them? Owners not resident in the country at least 9 months of the year can pay a foreign ownership property tax, rate to be raised until the problems subside. This doesn't stop retiree immigrants, but I don't think they're the real problem, are they?
[11:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mystery Russian Satellite's Behaviour Raises Alarm In US - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:32] <exec> 08└─Perhaps you should have a critical look at agencies such as USAID, funded for 5.1 billion $. The russians kicked them out of their country for meddling in Russian politics to much. (e.g. funding political parties friendly to the US, which is considerably worse than whatever the US has accused Russia...
[11:15:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian State Government Bans TV News Channel from Train Stations - 737 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:15:37] <exec> 08└─> But then he followed up (as you noted) by saying she would have enjoyed him raping her And again, you are saying he said something he didn't. He said (according to an news article reporting on it): > I might as well have raped Laura Jayes on the air, not only would she have been happier with that,...
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[12:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smallest Transistor Switches Current With a Single Atom in Solid Electrolyte - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:26] <exec> 08└─Words have meanings. This might arguably be a relay but it is not a fucking transistor.
[12:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Credit Card Skimmers Now Need to Fear the Reaper - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:37] <exec> 08└─All our fears have come Data now is gone Crackers don't fear the Reaper Stealing cards, with their PINs and accounts (can make more like those are) Come on baby (don't fear the Reaper) You must understand (don't fear the Reaper) We'll be able to profit (don't fear the Reaper) Before we're caught by...
[12:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Credit Card Skimmers Now Need to Fear the Reaper - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:39] <exec> 08└─Having worked in retail in the UK for a few years (until 5 years ago) I can tell you that I have used the magstrip on customers' cards when their chip is non-functioning, but rarely. More common was swiping a magstrip-only card from overseas. Even more common was phoning card payments through manual...
[12:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ISPs Won't Invest Without Handouts - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:54] <exec> 08└─Pretty sure Führer Trump is the last piece of the puzzle. Question is, if Bernie is Hermann Müller, does that mean Hillary is Heinrich Brüning?
[12:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Children Are Susceptible to Peer Pressure From Robots - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:24] <exec> 08└─Although it's the susceptibility of the children that leaps out in this experiment, the fact that the adults were not swayed by the bots is also significant. That's because it goes against an established theory in sociology known as "computer are social actors,"
[12:10:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MIT Scientists Crack the Case of Breaking Spaghetti in Two - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:48] <exec> 08└─> Fucking magnets, how do they work? This special kind of magnet requires hormones to work.
[12:11:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Zealand Bans Sales of Homes to Foreigners - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:11:58] <exec> 08└─I suppose this is supposed to be the market intelligently allocating resources...
[12:12:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Zealand Bans Sales of Homes to Foreigners - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:12:00] <exec> 08└─In London it is Russians, or so they say. I have no statistics to back up the anecdotal evidence.
[12:12:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Zealand Bans Sales of Homes to Foreigners - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:12:03] <exec> 08└─Some place cheaper.
[12:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mystery Russian Satellite's Behaviour Raises Alarm In US - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:28] <exec> 08└─that's a nazi website
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[13:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wi-Fi Could be Used to Detect Weapons and Bombs - 1052 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:36] <exec> 08└─"Initial tests appeared to show that the system was at least 95% accurate." Depends on who is conducting the tests. Is it the uneducated TSA staff screening everyone or is it top scientists and researchers? These tests were probably conducted by some highly intelligent people in a very controlled en...
[13:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wi-Fi Could be Used to Detect Weapons and Bombs - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:37] <exec> 08└─Is this a functional WiFi router with a passive reflection analysis, or is it just some radar system using WiFi frequencies? If it is functional, does it work in the context of normal (meaning 8-10 competing) routers in public spaces, or does it require a quiet field to function properly as "bag pen...
[13:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Smallest Transistor Switches Current With a Single Atom in Solid Electrolyte - 1399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:47] <exec> 08└─Did you read the abstract? Abstract The single‐atom transistor represents a quantum electronic device at room temperature, allowing the switching of an electric current by the controlled and reversible relocation of one single atom within a metallic quantum point contact. So far, the device operat...
[13:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Revek [5022] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ISPs Won't Invest Without Handouts - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:15] <exec> 08└─Small providers get nothing from the government. Indeed we have to pay in to usac. They have subsidy programs for consumers but none for the actual ISP. Give my company 5 million and we would be able to provide for most of our region. Give us 10 million and we would provide service to new towns. Tow...
[13:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Revek [5022] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ISPs Won't Invest Without Handouts - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:17] <exec> 08└─Not as long as him and his fellow scum is floating on it.
[13:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ISPs Won't Invest Without Handouts - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:19] <exec> 08└─So, Americans that don't want socialism are asking for social assistance but want to make profits while not paying taxes but want fully funded government assistance but don't want to give money to government to fund the assistance but will gladly accept..... ......bluuuuurgggge...... Sorry: did I ge...
[13:10:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Children Are Susceptible to Peer Pressure From Robots - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:50] <exec> 08└─Where's the "OH, BOOOYAH!" mod.
[13:11:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox Add-On With 220,000+ Installs Caught Collecting Users’ Browsing History - 685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:11:35] <exec> 08└─Thank you for your attention to detail. It was supposed to be a somewhat sarcastic humorous proof-of-concept, but I realize veiled humor often gets missed. I should have used pseudo-code and let you work out the details in your favorite programming language. We'll need you to work even more overtime...
[13:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mystery Russian Satellite's Behaviour Raises Alarm In US - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:51] <exec> 08└─A quote taken out of context is often meant to deceive. This looks like a more complete picture of Churchill's position -- a scan of the original article: https://archive.org [archive.org]
[13:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bridge Collapses in Genoa, Kills Over 20 People - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:31] <exec> 08└─"You are falling into the same trap as Aristarchus in that you think that this site should publish your own personal agenda." That's it! Nail on the head. That's the words I was looking for. Now if only Aristarchus would read that.....
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[14:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Officials Admit to Using License Plate Readers to Monitor Welfare Recipients - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:36] <exec> 08└─They're suspected of fraud. That makes them suspects. Did these fucks get a warrant? Because it sure sounds like the discretion on whether to spy on someone is left entirely up to the whims of investigators. It takes 20 minutes to ask a judge. But no, let's just put down equipment to spy on everyone...
[14:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wi-Fi Could be Used to Detect Weapons and Bombs - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:47] <exec> 08└─Guess it's time to invent Faraday drawers then.
[14:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wi-Fi Could be Used to Detect Weapons and Bombs - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:49] <exec> 08└─Which brings up the question of will your balls fry when they detect the metal drawers and tase you repeatedly.......Bar-B-Que wiener at gate 6!
[14:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wi-Fi Could be Used to Detect Weapons and Bombs - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:51] <exec> 08└─10 % false positive rate. Pulls on gloves. "Can you step this way Sir?"
[14:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Wi-Fi Could be Used to Detect Weapons and Bombs - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:53] <exec> 08└─95% accurate is only 80% accurate in the article itself. The system is at least 95% accurate; first claim Then they claim it can recognize 99% of dangerous objects. But only 98% if they are metal and 95% if they are liquids. Both 98 and 95 are lower than the 99% claim. So there's some big info missi...
[14:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Smallest Transistor Switches Current With a Single Atom in Solid Electrolyte - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:04] <exec> 08└─Yes, my point was its guts do not function like a proper BJT or FET, which have no moving parts save electrons. Granted, it's not exactly possible to wear out a single atom but a moving part is still a moving part.
[14:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bobs [1462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smallest Transistor Switches Current With a Single Atom in Solid Electrolyte - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:05] <exec> 08└─This is interesting/important news.
[14:10:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Credit Card Skimmers Now Need to Fear the Reaper - 307 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:16] <exec> 08└─All our fears have come Data now is gone Crackers don't fear the Reaper Stealing cards, with their PINs and accounts (can make more like those are) Come on baby (don't fear the Reaper) You must understand (don't fear the Reaper) We'll be able to profit (don't fear the Reaper) Before we're caught by...
[14:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Credit Card Skimmers Now Need to Fear the Reaper - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:18] <exec> 08└─Swede here. Used magstrip+pin for a couple of years before chip+pin became commonplace. The chip tend to work about 9 to 18 months for me before it starts to become picky with readers, none has so far lived the entire lifetime (date issued - date expired) for me. Luckily it only takes a couple of da...
[14:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Credit Card Skimmers Now Need to Fear the Reaper - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:20] <exec> 08└─The chip's been in wide use in US urban areas for a few years now. My first chip card was about five years ago. The first couple didn't last long (my first chip card lasted only about 4 months before the chip broke) but my last one survived about a year before I had to replace it. Merchants have bee...
[14:10:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06ISPs Won't Invest Without Handouts - 380 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:31] <exec> 08└─The telcos got handouts AND they didn't deliver what they promised. https://www.huffingtonpost.com [huffingtonpost.com] https://newnetworks.com [newnetworks.com] http://irregulators.org [irregulators.org] What the governmen...
[14:10:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ISPs Won't Invest Without Handouts - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:41] <exec> 08└─I'll let you in on an 'American' secret, but you can't tell anyone: we're very proud of our masses-hating ultra-rich. We work very hard to create and nurture them. It's tiring but very rewarding based on the outcomes, which are beyond expectations. They are the gladiators of the one-world economy. T...
[14:10:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ISPs Won't Invest Without Handouts - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:44] <exec> 08└─No, you've got it. It's our system and it's working perfectly. What's your criticism? Sarcasm aside, we 'Americans' are a bit more individualistic than I would like. Everyone wants for themselves, obviously. Nobody seems to want to elect team-builders. My simple-minded, very little time given to thi...
[14:10:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA and NIH Propose Reduction in Gene Therapy Biosafety Oversight - 1025 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:55] <exec> 08└─We’ve eliminated more regulations in less than 2 years than any administration has ever eliminated. And that means 4 years, 8 years or, in one instance, 16 years. And it is my opinion that the regulations had as big an impact as these massive tax cuts that we have given. I pledged to eliminate two...
[14:12:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DavePolaschek [6129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Zealand Bans Sales of Homes to Foreigners - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:54] <exec> 08└─The idea of the law is that non-resident foreigners can't buy most real estate.
[14:12:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Zealand Bans Sales of Homes to Foreigners - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:55] <exec> 08└─Because the trick of it is, the only wealth they're moving into the country is exactly enough to own the land. There really needs to be an international standard that above a certain level of income, hiding assets from taxation is a capital* crime. * see what I did there, see? SEE? SEE?????
[14:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Valve Seems to be Working on Tools to Get Windows Games Running on Linux - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:19] <exec> 08└─If this provides a way for me to download and run Windows binaries under native Steam by calling my own compiled build of Wine, that'll be such a huge convenience that I might go back to PC gaming. This year I've primarily purchased and played console games - for the first time ever, just because Wi...
[14:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Valve Seems to be Working on Tools to Get Windows Games Running on Linux - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:20] <exec> 08└─I never claimed it couldn't. What's your point?
[14:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03MindEscapes [6751] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Valve Seems to be Working on Tools to Get Windows Games Running on Linux - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:23] <exec> 08└─I've had decent success with PlayOnLinux, no need to bother with steam then. Of course, I tend to stick to games that are 6+ years old. I know I am getting old when I don't keep up with the latest and greatest. Games just aren't offering much more now than they did 10 years ago.
[14:15:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mystery Russian Satellite's Behaviour Raises Alarm In US - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:25] <exec> 08└─No, in many cases it's the exact same people. Also stop abusing ellipsis for pauses.
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[15:09:42] <exec> 08└─"Efficiency and progress is ours once more Now that we have the Neutron bomb It's nice and quick and clean and gets things done Away with excess enemy But no less value to property No sense in war but perfect sense at home ..." https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[15:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06California Officials Admit to Using License Plate Readers to Monitor Welfare Recipients - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:44] <exec> 08└─Would they need a warrant for already collected data? Are your readily-observable-by-anyone movements out in public private information according to case law? Should they be? What're the practical and legal differences between physically following you around, tracking your cell phone, or using licen...
[15:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Officials Admit to Using License Plate Readers to Monitor Welfare Recipients - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:46] <exec> 08└─Nope, no warrant needed when you enroll in such a program -- where you have to agree to supervision/monitoring in trade for goodies. i think you're advocating for a right to free goodies without talking about the responsibility you have while dealing with the devil that provides. that's not the way...
[15:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06California Officials Admit to Using License Plate Readers to Monitor Welfare Recipients - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:48] <exec> 08└─Crime infested California has HORRIBLE taxes. Believe me, I know because I pay them. I have several properties out there, houses in Beverly Hills and a beautiful golf course, Trump National Los Angeles. I don't care about those properties, don't care at all. The Welfare is a huge huge burden on us C...
[15:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Officials Admit to Using License Plate Readers to Monitor Welfare Recipients - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:50] <exec> 08└─the data-collection is done by for profit private entities my man. the state does not pay for their infrastructure and only taxes the (probably delaware) corps doing the tracking. there may be lots of stories in that -- but in the end, they just pay for the use of the database.
[15:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Officials Admit to Using License Plate Readers to Monitor Welfare Recipients - 1592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:52] <exec> 08└─This sounds like a violation of the 4th Amendment protections against unreasonable search. > Welfare fraud includes activities like failing to report income "Failing to report income" doesn't sound like sufficient reason to spy upon and track people. Could they get a search warrant for "failing to r...
[15:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Officials Admit to Using License Plate Readers to Monitor Welfare Recipients - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:55] <exec> 08└─dude ... they are not cracking down, they are doing their f* job on your behalf. what's the friggn point of polarizing every little bit of news with your version of "FREE MONEY FOR ALL". get a grip!
[15:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Officials Admit to Using License Plate Readers to Monitor Welfare Recipients - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:57] <exec> 08└─i wrote the tech for the original welfare to work program in CA and if you had .. you too might have read up a bit on the rules of that "your subjugation to the state in turn for enough crap to kinda live on" thing people have to agree to in order to get anything. .. and you would ask the same quest...
[15:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Officials Admit to Using License Plate Readers to Monitor Welfare Recipients - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:59] <exec> 08└─This is a perfect example of how a "difference in degree" becomes a "difference in kind". Yes, the movements of your car on the public streets are readily-observable-by-anyone. But no, in the past "anyone" was one or more people taking notes, not a system with nearly perfect reading of nearly every...
[15:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Officials Admit to Using License Plate Readers to Monitor Welfare Recipients - 685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:01] <exec> 08└─So what's the difference between this and a private eye following you around everywhere you go, and then selling that information to a client or the cops or whoever? I mean, this is a lot of "Do what we could and did do before, but now with a computer." And more to the point, any judge examining thi...
[15:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Officials Admit to Using License Plate Readers to Monitor Welfare Recipients - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:04] <exec> 08└─Warrant for what? You drive around in public view with your plates in plain sight to allow your vehicle to be uniquely identifiable. They don't need a warrant to use that against you in the US.
[15:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Officials Admit to Using License Plate Readers to Monitor Welfare Recipients - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:06] <exec> 08└─that my friend is 'another set of stories'. my point is/was that ca has the legal right to check up the use of the funds they provide .. and the seem to be doing it for a grand total of 5k/yr. less than a penny per person.. e.g. an excellent investment of our money. (not dissing the orwellian dynami...
[15:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Officials Admit to Using License Plate Readers to Monitor Welfare Recipients - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:08] <exec> 08└─You pay taxes???
[15:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wi-Fi Could be Used to Detect Weapons and Bombs - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:21] <exec> 08└─Should be okay as long as poor wiring or sweat don't create a ground loop across your junk, I'd think.
[15:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wi-Fi Could be Used to Detect Weapons and Bombs - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:23] <exec> 08└─Hey cut those scientists some slack. The TSA wanted at least 20% of false positives, better if among pretty females, but 10% is the most they could manage.
[15:10:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Wi-Fi Could be Used to Detect Weapons and Bombs - 897 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:25] <exec> 08└─90% accurate is pretty good. That means only 10% mistakes. The machine looks at 10 good guys, you only have to give 1 guy the butthole search. The stop & frisk. The machine looks at 10 terrorists, you catch 9 of them with the frisk. And only 1 gets on the plane. Much much better than what we have no...
[15:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wi-Fi Could be Used to Detect Weapons and Bombs - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:27] <exec> 08└─When they bounce them off of your head do they get an echo?
[15:11:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ISPs Won't Invest Without Handouts - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:15] <exec> 08└─well
[15:11:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06FDA and NIH Propose Reduction in Gene Therapy Biosafety Oversight - 890 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:27] <exec> 08└─I think @aristarchus stopped writing Subs. And if you look at his journal -- about "Breaking FrontPage" and many more topics -- you can guess why. Very easy to guess why. The Editors & Administrators got tired of his Subs. Because he quoted the Failing Fake News @nytimes [twitter.com]. Saying our al...
[15:11:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA and NIH Propose Reduction in Gene Therapy Biosafety Oversight - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:28] <exec> 08└─these sterile medical submissions
[15:11:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA and NIH Propose Reduction in Gene Therapy Biosafety Oversight - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:30] <exec> 08└─Yea thats how I read this. If you check the CRISPR related stocks they were all up ~4% on this news... but I think it is actually a leak of inside info that these treatments are much more dangerous than expected. Hence the lowering of the bar.
[15:12:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT Scientists Crack the Case of Breaking Spaghetti in Two - 708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:17] <exec> 08└─There's a series of 3 books, "de natuurkunde van 't vrije veld" [wikipedia.org] (in Dutch) where everyday as well as rare weather phenomena are studied and explained, especially rainbows and such. Unfortunately the author, Marcel Minnaert, managed to oscillate between fascist politics and communist...
[15:12:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT Scientists Crack the Case of Breaking Spaghetti in Two - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:19] <exec> 08└─There is no right way to break spaghetti. Just don't do it. Hard tacos started as miniatures, and they work just fine when they're sized for a couple of bites. Of course like everything else, after crossing the border they had to grow to impractical sizes.
[15:12:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT Scientists Crack the Case of Breaking Spaghetti in Two - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:21] <exec> 08└─Funny thing about nasty tacos. I have access to the "real thing", but every once in a long while, I feel like I want a Taco Bell taco. There's something about that paste - it has a flavor you don't find anywhere else. I mean, seriously, I don't even regard them as Mexican - barely even regard them a...
[15:12:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox Add-On With 220,000+ Installs Caught Collecting Users’ Browsing History - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:43] <exec> 08└─The add-on's description claims Web Security "actively protects you from malware, tampered websites or phishing sites that aim to steal your personal data."
[15:16:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mystery Russian Satellite's Behaviour Raises Alarm In US - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:09] <exec> 08└─And when will AMERICA stop fucking in foreign elections? When was the last time that actually happened? Before I was born?
[15:16:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Gives Lessons in Electronic Warfare - 1349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:34] <exec> 08└─Three problems with that: 1) Transmitting reveals your location. In an age of GPS that's not so much of a problem if you're at a fixed base where the enemy knows you are anyway. But if you're in the field - they broadly know where you were then and may be now. 2) You can derive intelligence about co...
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[16:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Eminently Hackable Police Bodycam - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:34] <exec> 08└─And none of them cryptographically sign the video they take, which would be a relatively strong way of detecting tampering by police officers, their departments, or criminals.
[16:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Eminently Hackable Police Bodycam - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:36] <exec> 08└─Well, this must be a quality article.
[16:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Eminently Hackable Police Bodycam - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:38] <exec> 08└─Think of the local access. New holster forces all nearby body cams to start recording when gun is pulled [arstechnica.com] Oops, my automatic body cam malfunctioned and didn't record the shooting.
[16:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Eminently Hackable Police Bodycam - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:40] <exec> 08└─Better than anything you've ever written.
[16:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Officials Admit to Using License Plate Readers to Monitor Welfare Recipients - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:02] <exec> 08└─And more to the point, any judge examining this would accept full well the argument that nobody has a reasonable expectation of privacy when they park their car on the street or a publicly accessible parking lot. Anybody can see it there. And if anybody walking by can see that you visited the local...
[16:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Officials Admit to Using License Plate Readers to Monitor Welfare Recipients - 908 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:04] <exec> 08└─Yes, as the collected data is probably illegally obtained. (And as a side-question, who verifies the correctness of the data?) There are laws against stalking, invading privacy etc... Yes, a stalker can remain on public land at all times, only following someone on public lands and still be called a...
[16:10:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Credit Card Skimmers Now Need to Fear the Reaper - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:47] <exec> 08└─When the chip on my card died after a couple years I had to replace the card. Most readers I use won't accept my card if I swipe it saying "use chip instead". The only time I can swipe is if the reader has no chip (or, in almost every case, it has a chip reader but it is disabled).
[16:11:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Children Are Susceptible to Peer Pressure From Robots - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:44] <exec> 08└─Yeah, adults only do what they are told without questioning when instructed by a commercial or news program.
[16:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Firefox Add-On With 220,000+ Installs Caught Collecting Users’ Browsing History - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:36] <exec> 08└─I think registrars are allowed to do "domain name sampling" where they can register it for free for a limited time. But usually just long enough to force the person who really wants it to pay through the nose.
[16:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Zealand Bans Sales of Homes to Foreigners - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:32] <exec> 08└─Is his wife Chinese to? Maybe she just looks 25.
[16:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Los Angeles to Become the First City to Use Body Scanners in Rail Transit Systems - 699 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:27] <exec> 08└─At last a sensible comment! Those who use public transport in LA (and I am one) just want the damn thing to work. All this high-brow nonsense about Urr Freedom is irrelevant and I'm guessing promulgated by snoot-nosed pricks who made $2m in bitcoin/random historical fluke who think they're genius. T...
[16:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Valve Seems to be Working on Tools to Get Windows Games Running on Linux - 4293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:03] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't really chock it up to "getting old" necessarily. 30 years ago, games were really just getting their start. There was a lot of experimentation going on in games and as such we got to play the first games of a genre. Now, we get Clone 9999 that's not even as good as a 30 year old game in th...
[16:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Valve Seems to be Working on Tools to Get Windows Games Running on Linux - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:04] <exec> 08└─Proprietary != Evil Person's got to eat and I'm sorry, but Open Source Software is like an Artist who gives away their work for Free. Sure, there may be ways to monetize that, but most people can't and/or don't.
[16:16:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mystery Russian Satellite's Behaviour Raises Alarm In US - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:10] <exec> 08└─Were you born yesterday? If you were born before yesterday then yes, it happened after you were born. A source for you [nytimes.com] which has positive confirmation to 2009 in Afghanistan. We just know more about the ones in which information is now declassified.
[16:16:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Gives Lessons in Electronic Warfare - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:36] <exec> 08└─Not quite on point to spread spectrum, but there are digital amateur radio modes as well which can be decoded when not audible (signal below noise floor). The mode Olivia in addition to others. I remember the weird feeling I got the first time I saw text being generated on my display and I was liste...
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[17:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Relaxes US Cyber-Attacks Rules - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:34] <exec> 08└─This won't change the decisions. It just cuts down on useless bureaucrats getting payed to produce TPS reports. By having fewer useless bureaucrats involved, we save money and reduce leaks.
[17:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Relaxes US Cyber-Attacks Rules - 769 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:35] <exec> 08└─The first strikes should be against domestic corporates who aren't smart enough to secure their infrastructure. Start with the utilities. Maybe - just maybe - the corporates can be forgiven for no being ready for a cutting-edge tech strike against them. But, we should start destroying corporations t...
[17:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Eminently Hackable Police Bodycam - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:48] <exec> 08└─Can someone clue me in--what does this mean/represent? from the ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ dept.
[17:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Eminently Hackable Police Bodycam - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:49] <exec> 08└─Shrug or "shruggie" https://emojipedia.org [emojipedia.org] https://www.theatlantic.com [theatlantic.com] As Kyle Chayka writes in a new history of the symbol at The Awl, the meaning of the “the shruggie” is always two, if not thr...
[17:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03messymerry [6369] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Eminently Hackable Police Bodycam - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:51] <exec> 08└─I didn't see a /sarc. addition. Are you serious? Police probable cause affidavits are lessons in creative writing. The truth takes a distant second to "" WINNING"" Militarizing the police is a sure path to rebellion. The only hope for humanity is an "uncorruptible policeman" a la the 1950 movie: "Th...
[17:10:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] 02 - 06California Officials Admit to Using License Plate Readers to Monitor Welfare Recipients - 364 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:07] <exec> 08└─This is a perfect example of how a "difference in degree" becomes a "difference in kind". Yes, the movements of your car on the public streets are readily-observable-by-anyone. But no, in the past "anyone" was one or more people taking notes, not a system with nearly perfect reading of nearly every...
[17:10:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06California Officials Admit to Using License Plate Readers to Monitor Welfare Recipients - 431 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:13] <exec> 08└─And more to the point, any judge examining this would accept full well the argument that nobody has a reasonable expectation of privacy when they park their car on the street or a publicly accessible parking lot. Anybody can see it there. And if anybody walking by can see that you visited the local...
[17:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Officials Admit to Using License Plate Readers to Monitor Welfare Recipients - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:16] <exec> 08└─Why is making this kind of dumbshit post not illegal? None of the words you said are true.
[17:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03https [5248] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Officials Admit to Using License Plate Readers to Monitor Welfare Recipients - 772 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:18] <exec> 08└─There's only one interesting question, and the answer is "Don't." As an illustrative thought experiment, imagine you are a not-so-dedicated police officer. Your captain has tasked you with surveilling me. What is the least amount of (i) work you must do, and (ii) record keeping that you must produce...
[17:10:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02 - 06Wi-Fi Could be Used to Detect Weapons and Bombs - 155 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:32] <exec> 08└─Hey cut those scientists some slack. The TSA wanted at least 20% of false positives, better if among pretty females, but 10% is the most they could manage.
[17:11:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ISPs Won't Invest Without Handouts - 750 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:25] <exec> 08└─The ISPs don't want to invest? Fine. But why do we let them block competition for customers they aren't even competing for? They won't serve a city, so the city starts up a community broadband service, and then the private ISPs cry about how unfair it is to them to have to compete with the evil gove...
[17:11:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ISPs Won't Invest Without Handouts - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:26] <exec> 08└─This is just another symptom of the corruption that SCOTUS enabled by removing the limits on spending by corporate interests. This isn't a particularly hard problem to solve, but when you have major cities that only have 2 choices, I'm not sure why it would be shocking that rural areas are even wors...
[17:11:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ISPs Won't Invest Without Handouts - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:28] <exec> 08└─I would love an ISP that I could get for reasonable price/performance. Throw in no data cap for kicks and I'm hooked. Current ISPs won't even give me a wired connection. Screw that, my In-Laws were a block or two from a junction, and they couldn't get wired internet for 10 years or so. The people ne...
[17:11:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ISPs Won't Invest Without Handouts - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:30] <exec> 08└─This explains the current state of Google.
[17:12:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT Scientists Crack the Case of Breaking Spaghetti in Two - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:35] <exec> 08└─I impress upon my wife, that if she insists on eating meat. To actually eat meat. Not that Taco Bell "meat" product.
[17:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT Scientists Crack the Case of Breaking Spaghetti in Two - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:36] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't mind tiny pieces, so long as it's al dente. There's not much worse than overcooked pasta. I might even choose to eat beets, before overcooked pasta.
[17:12:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] 02 - 06Firefox Add-On With 220,000+ Installs Caught Collecting Users’ Browsing History - 383 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:45] <exec> 08└─Some code from testing was inadvertently left in our product and not removed during the build process as it should have been. Rest assured that this was unintentional. The data has not been retained or shared and an update will be forthcoming which removes the test code. Again our apologies to our...
[17:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Los Angeles to Become the First City to Use Body Scanners in Rail Transit Systems - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:49] <exec> 08└─Tax-funded operations are fundamentally non-capitalist. The problem is not capitalism, but rather government; it is not the case that capitalists corrupt government, but rather it is the case that government corrupts capitalists. If your income depends on taking resources from people at the point o...
[17:16:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mystery Russian Satellite's Behaviour Raises Alarm In US - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:29] <exec> 08└─Yeah, Al Capone was a Jew. And, Charles Manson. Ted Kaczynski. Tom Horn. Adam Lanza. Andie Kehoe. John Wayne Gacy. Ted Bundy is a nice Jewish name. Timothy McVeigh. Jim Jones. And, the Son of Sam, David Berkowitz. Oh, wait, that one sounds like he could have been Jewish. I'll bet you already know w...
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[18:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Relaxes US Cyber-Attacks Rules - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:43] <exec> 08└─Every bit of code used for these "cyber attacks" should be leaked. Bugs should be fixed, not exploited. If you want to attack, man up and send bombs.
[18:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06President Trump Relaxes US Cyber-Attacks Rules - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:44] <exec> 08└─Let's hope extreme care is taken to identify the actual source of an attack, rather than the apparent source.
[18:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Relaxes US Cyber-Attacks Rules - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:47] <exec> 08└─Are we to believe then, that you are a Christian?
[18:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Relaxes US Cyber-Attacks Rules - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:49] <exec> 08└─The bully likes to look around and get his friends to nod, as he punches the weak. Turns out that you don't need informed consent, when you have unshakeable support from outside.
[18:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Eminently Hackable Police Bodycam - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:03] <exec> 08└─The sarc tag was this: Now if only electronic voting machines could be as secure as these police body cameras.
[18:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Eminently Hackable Police Bodycam - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:04] <exec> 08└─IMO Boing Boing is better than Bing.
[18:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Eminently Hackable Police Bodycam - 776 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:06] <exec> 08└─You are no doubt familiar with the Smiley characters :-) This is formed by three characters: colon-dash-rightParen The hands up shrug: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ is formed with a unicode character: ツ Unicode has characters from other languages. That way you could have text, or a domain name in Russian, Chines...
[18:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Eminently Hackable Police Bodycam - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:09] <exec> 08└─also, some unicode characters happen to resemble upside down english characters. ˙sɹǝʇɔɐɹɐɥɔ ɥsılƃuǝ uʍop ǝpısdn ǝlqɯǝsǝɹ oʇ uǝddɐɥ sɹǝʇɔɐɹɐɥɔ ǝpoɔıun ǝɯos 'oslɐ http://www.revfad.com [revfad.com] An example of how to use upside down text . . . Q. A...
[18:11:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Credit Card Skimmers Now Need to Fear the Reaper - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:17] <exec> 08└─Being told to inset a swiped chip card is standard. In my experience, if a card reader has tried and failed to read a chip, and the reader asks for the card to be swiped, it will then ignore the "this card has a chip" bit on the magstrip. So trying the faulty chip each time before swiping work.
[18:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Zealand Bans Sales of Homes to Foreigners - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:07] <exec> 08└─Property tax is an awesome method of wealth extraction... just look at all the empty beachfront mansions in Florida - it's a huge income base for the counties, and nearly 100% of that money is coming into the county from the outside. Not only do they pay property taxes, but they also don't "tax" the...
[18:16:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03pvanhoof [4638] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mystery Russian Satellite's Behaviour Raises Alarm In US - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:45] <exec> 08└─I'm sure there are all sorts of crazy weapons hanging over our heads. Meanwhile here in Europe we are just silently hoping that when this Russia v. US conflict breaks out in a hot way, you guys will fight it on your own lands and seas. Bomb each other to shit. But stay out of Europe with that WOIII...
[18:16:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mystery Russian Satellite's Behaviour Raises Alarm In US - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:46] <exec> 08└─Reading comprehension. Try it. I said "according to that characterization," i.e. the quoted text. I wasn't addressing the actual state of things in TFA as a rational person would understand them, only the ludicrous quotation. The clue is also in the smiley I appended to my post. In case you don't kn...
[18:16:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mystery Russian Satellite's Behaviour Raises Alarm In US - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:49] <exec> 08└─Well, I'm pretty sure Rumsfeld wasn't quoting an old obscure Hermetic text. And the concept goes back to the foundations of epistemology, at least to ancient Greece, even if the phrasing may be modern.
[18:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian State Government Bans TV News Channel from Train Stations - 1073 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:58] <exec> 08└─Jesus Christ. Are you kidding?? Yes, if you want to play semantic games and try to force the MOST sympathetic reading of an incredibly vile tweet, I'm sure one can admit it's logically possible that he meant "she might like it better because she could put me in jail after I raped her on air." Howeve...
[18:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian State Government Bans TV News Channel from Train Stations - 719 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:59] <exec> 08└─And by the way, the tenor of my posts has nothing to with whether I "like" the guy or not. I don't know him. I don't really care to know him. What I do know is that in public he's an ass and a jerk and says offensive things. When someone doesn't respect others and deliberately acts uncivil, they los...
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[19:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Honoring the ’80s, Def Con's Badge is Also a Text Adventure - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:39] <exec> 08└─I don't get it. I've never been to DEF CON , but from everything I've heard - attaching a computer to ANYTHING found there sounds like an incredibly bad idea. So who would randomly plug a USB C cable into a badge from there? Or is there some kind of protocol wherein you know that the badges are off-...
[19:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Honoring the ’80s, Def Con's Badge is Also a Text Adventure - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:40] <exec> 08└─"Okay. I have thrown the paper aeroplane. ...." --Humbug. Never did finish that game. Was an interesting game that did get me hooked on a MUD (Multi-User Dungeon, Text Game), though.
[19:09:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06President Trump Relaxes US Cyber-Attacks Rules - 109 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:51] <exec> 08└─Let's hope extreme care is taken to identify the actual source of an attack, rather than the apparent source.
[19:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06President Trump Relaxes US Cyber-Attacks Rules - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:54] <exec> 08└─Piss off you liberty hating dip. Oversight of war activities is one area where you should not try to minimize.
[19:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06President Trump Relaxes US Cyber-Attacks Rules - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:56] <exec> 08└─The words and actions of Jesus have been redacted in the American bible.
[19:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Relaxes US Cyber-Attacks Rules - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:59] <exec> 08└─Does it matter when a large % of the population IS christian?
[19:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06President Trump Relaxes US Cyber-Attacks Rules - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:01] <exec> 08└─> The words and actions of Jesus have been redacted in the American bible. That is entirely what Prosperity Gospel is about. Trump and many toads like him follow it. That;s how they can wave the Old Testament about and say they believe it and fools project onto that the same belief in the New Testam...
[19:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06President Trump Relaxes US Cyber-Attacks Rules - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:03] <exec> 08└─Can't build a proper theocracy on Jesus' teachings, we'd end up in some kind of socialist utopia and the rich wouldn't be allowed to piss on the poor anymore!
[19:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Relaxes US Cyber-Attacks Rules - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:05] <exec> 08└─There is no such thing as "God", and Jebus was just some turkey. Being nice to others and stuff is actually part of being civilized, not magic sky being belief. Of course it is still ironic since sky wanker worshipers jabber about being nice to each other as part of what they think their imaginary s...
[19:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Relaxes US Cyber-Attacks Rules - 3478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:08] <exec> 08└─Several things. Many would say the US is no longer a Christian nation. Despite Trump's base, or the number of people who wear a cross, or will state that they are a Christian. The mainstream culture, even on "family friendly" TV is decidedly not of what the Bible describes as Christian. Whether you,...
[19:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Relaxes US Cyber-Attacks Rules - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:10] <exec> 08└─Does it matter when a large % of the population IS christian?
[19:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Relaxes US Cyber-Attacks Rules - 1278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:12] <exec> 08└─It's like Outer Space. Because it's mostly empty. But if we're not careful our enemies -- Iran, China, ISIS, the EU -- can take it over. And do horrible attacks on us -- cyber attacks. We don't really know, maybe they've already taken it over. Cyber is a war-fighting domain just like the land, air,...
[19:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Relaxes US Cyber-Attacks Rules - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:15] <exec> 08└─If you believe what the text says, Jesus will create his own theocracy. We don't need to create one. We don't even need to try.
[19:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Eminently Hackable Police Bodycam - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:33] <exec> 08└─Read it on Wired [wired.com] then.
[19:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Eminently Hackable Police Bodycam - 983 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:35] <exec> 08└─> You are no doubt familiar with the Smiley characters :-) :-) Thanks to all for the detailed attempts at explanation, but you've missed something that seems crucial(?) The original smiley and variations require a 90 deg left/CCW tilt of the head to make the "image" upright. While these may hurt*, I...
[19:10:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06California Officials Admit to Using License Plate Readers to Monitor Welfare Recipients - 340 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:43] <exec> 08└─They're suspected of fraud. That makes them suspects. Did these fucks get a warrant? Because it sure sounds like the discretion on whether to spy on someone is left entirely up to the whims of investigators. It takes 20 minutes to ask a judge. But no, let's just put down equipment to spy on everyone...
[19:10:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06California Officials Admit to Using License Plate Readers to Monitor Welfare Recipients - 1592 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:50] <exec> 08└─This sounds like a violation of the 4th Amendment protections against unreasonable search. > Welfare fraud includes activities like failing to report income "Failing to report income" doesn't sound like sufficient reason to spy upon and track people. Could they get a search warrant for "failing to r...
[19:11:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Officials Admit to Using License Plate Readers to Monitor Welfare Recipients - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:01] <exec> 08└─Crime infested California has HORRIBLE taxes. Believe me, I know because I pay them. Prove it.
[19:11:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wi-Fi Could be Used to Detect Weapons and Bombs - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:19] <exec> 08└─When they bounce them off of your head do they get an echo? What, through that faraday cage he wears as a wig?
[19:11:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wi-Fi Could be Used to Detect Weapons and Bombs - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:21] <exec> 08└─Because they studied the crimes, they found out the blacks do so many of them -- Central Park 5. So they get frisking. It's nothing special. Or, they get wrongfully imprisoned for a decade....nothing special.
[19:12:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA and NIH Propose Reduction in Gene Therapy Biosafety Oversight - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:30] <exec> 08└─Well Trump himself is a rabid sociopath so being anti-Trump kinda makes it rabid by default.
[19:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox Add-On With 220,000+ Installs Caught Collecting Users’ Browsing History - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:47] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but they can only sample domains a certain number of times in a year, for certain maximum periods, and they have to announce it. So you have to spread it out to avoid those limits.
[19:18:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian State Government Bans TV News Channel from Train Stations - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:39] <exec> 08└─The problem is that any inaccuracy will be seized on by his sympathizers and used to paint his opponents as unfair, biased, liars, etc.
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