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[00:41:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Faces EU Fine If Terror Lingers for an Hour - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:24] <exec> 08└─Does this mean that any competition to Tweetbook or Facer is going to require this as a minimum capability? That's going to make it very hard to start a competitor to the incumbents which can already afford to pay for 24x7 staff to man this or the machine learning system that can handle it. I apprec...
[00:41:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Faces EU Fine If Terror Lingers for an Hour - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:25] <exec> 08└─I wonder if it applies to soylent news. Or usenet for that matter.
[00:41:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Faces EU Fine If Terror Lingers for an Hour - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:27] <exec> 08└─2 semesters college chemistry in the early 80s, plus another 40 years of just curiosity scratching, means I have the knowledge to shut down any website that has the audacity to allow me to speak freely.
[00:41:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Faces EU Fine If Terror Lingers for an Hour - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:29] <exec> 08└─Europe tried to create a competitor to Google [wikipedia.org] back in the day, but they failed miserably. Maybe they could back another failure.
[00:41:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Insightful) 02 - 06Social Media Faces EU Fine If Terror Lingers for an Hour - 837 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:32] <exec> 08└─The EU brought this upon themselves, and now wants to pretend -- like a pretty homeowner association enforced by freedom-limiting rules -- that problems don't exist. Really, the EU is on the way to another big genocide, and they are just trying to ignore this fact. Not that the US is completely free...
[00:41:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Faces EU Fine If Terror Lingers for an Hour - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:34] <exec> 08└─Quaero was not intended to be a text-based search engine but was mainly meant for multimedia search. The search engine would have used techniques for recognizing, transcribing, indexing, and automatic translation of audiovisual documents and would have operated in several languages. There was also a...
[00:41:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Media Faces EU Fine If Terror Lingers for an Hour - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:36] <exec> 08└─Unless you don't like the idea of people monitoring your phone calls. But calls are private, social media isn't! And now it never can be.
[00:41:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Faces EU Fine If Terror Lingers for an Hour - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:38] <exec> 08└─The EU brought this upon themselves...
[00:41:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Media Faces EU Fine If Terror Lingers for an Hour - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:40] <exec> 08└─Now you just need to expand the definition of it so it covers everything you don't like (opposition parties, racists, gypsies, jews and other deviants). Convenient isn't it.
[00:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Faces EU Fine If Terror Lingers for an Hour - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:42] <exec> 08└─It probably does. In Russia where a similar set of laws were introduced a few months back there are already people in prison for clicking "like" on an extremists content.
[00:41:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Media Faces EU Fine If Terror Lingers for an Hour - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:45] <exec> 08└─Most news media didn't cover the story!
[00:41:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Generation of Artificial Retinas Based on 2-D Materials - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:55] <exec> 08└─very thin 2-D materials
[00:42:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheReaperD [5556] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cybersex Toy Industry Heats Up as Infamous “Teledildonics” Patent Climaxes - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:22] <exec> 08└─Are you kidding, I know a few girls that would post online the connection details just so strangers could watch/participate. Doesn't require breaking a single law if they're sharing it of their own will. Of course, this could open up a new avenue of "revenge porn" where ex-boyfriends/girlfriends pos...
[00:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cybersex Toy Industry Heats Up as Infamous “Teledildonics” Patent Climaxes - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:23] <exec> 08└─Are you kidding, I know a few girls that would post online the connection details
[00:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cybersex Toy Industry Heats Up as Infamous “Teledildonics” Patent Climaxes - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:25] <exec> 08└─An article at The Reg https://www.theregister.co.uk [theregister.co.uk] mentions, and provides a link to a site called MetaFetish (probably NSFW which is why I didn't link direct), that brings up the idea that provisional patents related to the one th...
[00:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cybersex Toy Industry Heats Up as Infamous “Teledildonics” Patent Climaxes - 618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:27] <exec> 08└─Who can say that the sex bot of tomorrow (decades from now) won't be better than the real thing? Soft and wet as needed, complete "control" and "adjustments" on the order of milliseconds, etc. Oh, you meant relationships. We can program that in! With a little strong AI, you can just switch it anywhe...
[00:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cybersex Toy Industry Heats Up as Infamous “Teledildonics” Patent Climaxes - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:30] <exec> 08└─But... does it have blockchain? Otherwise it's not going to produce excitement in people with money.
[00:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cybersex Toy Industry Heats Up as Infamous “Teledildonics” Patent Climaxes - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:32] <exec> 08└─Planned obsolescence, no industry is immune.
[00:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cybersex Toy Industry Heats Up as Infamous “Teledildonics” Patent Climaxes - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:34] <exec> 08└─It has advanced [archive.is] over time. Just not as much as we'd like. Eventually, one of the many technologies that gets hyped up will actually pan out and replace Li-Ion. Then you can look forward to drones that can spy on you 2-5x longer and other marvels.
[00:42:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cybersex Toy Industry Heats Up as Infamous “Teledildonics” Patent Climaxes - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:36] <exec> 08└─The frigid alternative would have been worse for the industry, the femdom fetishists aren't a large enough a segment market.
[00:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lab-Made Magnesite could be Used for CO2 Capture - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:22] <exec> 08└─Magnesite, which is a type of magnesium carbonate, forms when magnesium combines with carbonic acid - CO2 dissolved in water. If we can produce this mineral at a massive scale, it could safely store large amounts of carbon dioxide we simply don't need in our planet's atmosphere.
[00:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lab-Made Magnesite could be Used for CO2 Capture - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:24] <exec> 08└─https://www.geopolymer.org/archaeology/roman-cement/high-performance-roman-cement-and-concrete-high-durable-buildings/ [geopolymer.org]
[00:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chromium_One [4574] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Justice Dept. Backs Suit Accusing Facebook of Violating Fair Housing Act - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:03] <exec> 08└─No longer a neutral platform? They never were a neutral platform, they have always claimed right and responsibility to moderate member content. Consider that they opened for public use in 2006, ToS predating that... https://web.archive.org [arc...
[00:49:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bodily Implanted Microchips Risk Entering the Political Mainstream - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:48] <exec> 08└─USA, you can go anywhere with your Passport. Or, save money & hassle. With VERY SPECIAL ID from your State, we call it Real ID. A Bush Jr. number -- possibly the only thing he ever did that was smart!!!
[00:49:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bodily Implanted Microchips Risk Entering the Political Mainstream - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:50] <exec> 08└─@VP [twitter.com] Pence says we need to do the tattoo. The mark. He says, God needs that one so the end times can come and the good people -- on many sides -- can go to Heaven. He says, this is what God wants. The mark and the Embassy in Jerusalem -- which I did, promise kept there. I tell him, hold...
[00:50:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Low and High Carb Diets Increase Risk of Early Death, Study Finds - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:50:56] <exec> 08└─Well, I said take it from there))) But to your point - agree - one needs a reasonable schedule. When I had the luxury of working from home, my schedule for a week was: an intense hike in the woods before the "office" for 2 hours - 4 days, weights lifting - 3 days, and one run. That's week days. On w...
[00:50:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Low and High Carb Diets Increase Risk of Early Death, Study Finds - 611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:50:57] <exec> 08└─That's the most typical BS in the business. The issue is that we do not know (and unlikely to ever know) what combinations of chemicals are good or bad for us. Hence the strategy. If a cow ate some and is still alive we eat cow - good. If the cow ate grass that was still alive - even better. If the...
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[01:41:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Stanford Prison Experiment is Not What We Were Taught - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:25] <exec> 08└─I'm shocked!
[01:41:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Stanford Prison Experiment is Not What We Were Taught - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:26] <exec> 08└─Pretty much everything since skinner has to be redone.
[01:41:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Stanford Prison Experiment is Not What We Were Taught - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:28] <exec> 08└─Pretty much everything since and including skinner has to be redone.
[01:41:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Social Media Faces EU Fine If Terror Lingers for an Hour - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:46] <exec> 08└─The EU could have done what Israel does with refugees. Israel meets the bare minimum treaty requirements by providing a miserable-but-safe camp in which refugees may stay. Unsurprisingly, this makes Israel an unpopular destination for refugees. Another option is just to invoke national security: rej...
[01:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Media Faces EU Fine If Terror Lingers for an Hour - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:47] <exec> 08└─But more difficult to enforce because SN doesn't have offices outside the US.
[01:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Faces EU Fine If Terror Lingers for an Hour - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:49] <exec> 08└─A lot of the A/C idiots that post on SoylentNews about Europe have obviously never been there, and get all their knowledge of the place from Fox News and Breitbart, so expecting them to understand things like the Syrian Civil War is a bit optimistic.
[01:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Faces EU Fine If Terror Lingers for an Hour - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:52] <exec> 08└─Merkle and many other European leaders fail to care about the future of Europe. For some definition of "fail". It's likely the mentality of "Fuck you, I gotta get mine" is strong within some of the A/C Americans. Any rationalization you can offer for this?
[01:41:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Faces EU Fine If Terror Lingers for an Hour - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:54] <exec> 08└─so expecting them to understand things like the Syrian Civil War is a bit optimistic.
[01:41:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Captival [6866] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Social Media Faces EU Fine If Terror Lingers for an Hour - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:56] <exec> 08└─Sure. In Russia they arrest you if they think you might be an Islamic terrorist. In Britain, they arrest you if they think you might be saying bad about Islamic terrorists. [rt.com] I'll take my chances with the Russians.
[01:43:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Men and Women Show Surprising Differences in Seeing Motion - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:08] <exec> 08└─If the brain isn't a gendered organ, then gender is nothing but a social construct, and you should be forcibly transitioned to female ASAP, due to the all of the benefits that are statistically correllated with being a woman. Without brain sex, the only basis you have for calling yourself a man is a...
[01:43:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Men and Women Show Surprising Differences in Seeing Motion - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:09] <exec> 08└─Exactly: "define better". At some tasks, men have always done better than women, overall. At other tasks, women have always done better than men. All of the tasks need to be done, so men and women each do the ones that need to be done. That doesn't necessarily bar a woman from doing "manual labor",...
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[01:43:11] <exec> 08└─Humans don't really hunt that intensely. We just throw a pointy stick or stone at any stationary living being and march down the blood trail until we catch up with the dying animal, kill it, skin it and carry the meat in carved up pieces back home. We prefer large hunting parties mostly to scare off...
[01:43:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Men and Women Show Surprising Differences in Seeing Motion - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:14] <exec> 08└─Haha, "at least one". TONS of people were sterilized in the US. Mentally challenged, native americans, black people, mexican people, the list goes on. A LOT of people.
[01:43:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Gets Sued Over Two-Factor Security Flaws and $23M Cryptocurrency Theft - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:42] <exec> 08└─There is an app for this https://play.google.com [google.com]
[01:43:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Gets Sued Over Two-Factor Security Flaws and $23M Cryptocurrency Theft - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:43] <exec> 08└─If you call a doctor and request some random patients' medical records, you really think the doctor isn't going to get in trouble for violating HIPAA just because he didn't bother to verify your identity?
[01:44:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VORACLE Attack Can Recover HTTP Data from VPN Connections - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:23] <exec> 08└─Unless Chromium actually sets the PSH flag when it writes the headers, there's no guarantee that the network stack won't merge the packets containing header and body data. And the browser really shouldn't be messing around at that low a level.
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[02:41:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Stanford Prison Experiment is Not What We Were Taught - 738 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:09] <exec> 08└─The most stressful times in the life of any society, are times of war. Yes, horrible things happen in war. The "good side" and the "bad side" are often both guilty of doing those horrible things. And yet, great humanitarian gestures are made during these times of stress. People sacrifice their very...
[02:41:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06The Stanford Prison Experiment is Not What We Were Taught - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:11] <exec> 08└─I've always believed that any experiment demonstrating that all people will sink to the lowest level are flawed. But, of course, we do have television . . .
[02:41:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06The Stanford Prison Experiment is Not What We Were Taught - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:13] <exec> 08└─And Trump as a president.
[02:41:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Media Faces EU Fine If Terror Lingers for an Hour - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:38] <exec> 08└─And yet they strongly project their ignorance.
[02:41:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Faces EU Fine If Terror Lingers for an Hour - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:39] <exec> 08└─No, fair enough. I do understand. No reason you should accept it either. Sometimes I wonder what would happen to Fox News or Breitbart, or even the US political system if the average American travelled as widely as the average European (or Australian, or whatever). I wonder how many eyes would be...
[02:41:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Faces EU Fine If Terror Lingers for an Hour - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:42] <exec> 08└─I wonder how many eyes would be opened.
[02:41:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Faces EU Fine If Terror Lingers for an Hour - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:44] <exec> 08└─School shooting camps are not the norm. Most school shooters seem to be nearly normal kids who are just a little "off", and manage to stay in low profile trouble. Some of them don't even get in trouble, until they make their fateful decisions to kill their classmates and/or teachers. There has not b...
[02:41:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Media Faces EU Fine If Terror Lingers for an Hour - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:46] <exec> 08└─Many sites will choose to block EU at the webserver level. Mod_geoip to the rescue. EU is quickly building its own internet with their own laws. GDPR was grudgingly accepted, as it was a privacy-oriented idea. But this makes EU able to unilaterally close any web site, incl. those that are based outs...
[02:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Faces EU Fine If Terror Lingers for an Hour - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:48] <exec> 08└─I'll take my chances with the Russians.
[02:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Faces EU Fine If Terror Lingers for an Hour - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:50] <exec> 08└─They have no children, so why would they care?
[02:43:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Men and Women Show Surprising Differences in Seeing Motion - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:07] <exec> 08└─Since neither men or women actually exist, gender being a socially construct, and this so called study didn't even consider trans people at all, it is all just so problematic. Everyone involved in writing this study, allowing it to be published, everyone at Soylent who submitted it and approved it s...
[02:44:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Square Can Now Process Chip Cards in Two Seconds - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:05] <exec> 08└─In Europe (even in backward places full of bears:) it is under a second for a decade.
[02:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lab-Made Magnesite could be Used for CO2 Capture - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:35] <exec> 08└─From a strictly historical perspective the Romans saw their infrastructure as a mix of a welfare/jobs program and a propaganda outlet. Like if the USA delivered postal mail with Saturn-5 rockets we wouldn't be doing it to be environmentalist or economically efficient. We could build a 10000 year con...
[02:45:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lab-Made Magnesite could be Used for CO2 Capture - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:36] <exec> 08└─And some very powerful people would be very pissed off.
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[03:41:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Astronomers Detect Synchronous X-Ray and Radio Mode Switching of the Pulsar PSR B0823+26 - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:20] <exec> 08└─See here: Top 10 Reasons the Universe is Electric #5: Pulsars [youtube.com] In particular, see the 417 second mark [youtube.com] or maybe jump ahead to 523 seconds [youtube.com]; there is an electromagnetic model that provides an explanation without invoking the notion of a neutron star or mechan...
[03:41:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Stanford Prison Experiment is Not What We Were Taught - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:33] <exec> 08└─Excellent propaganda post! 5/5, would read again! I love how it subtly romanticises the deaths of millions of people, if not billions in the upcoming war, and makes it seem as though the redirection of over $700 billion dollars away from the working class into the coffers of the military-industrial...
[03:41:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Stanford Prison Experiment is Not What We Were Taught - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:34] <exec> 08└─Read again chucklehead. GP notes that war is terrible, however there are individual acts of honor, sacrifice and nobility. At no point does he say that war is a good thing.
[03:42:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03http [1920] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Faces EU Fine If Terror Lingers for an Hour - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:06] <exec> 08└─Reading and context comprehension fail. Kostich believes prosecutors are not certain about the credibility of the foster parent, whom he has no way of reaching to verify the claim, he said.
[03:44:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Square Can Now Process Chip Cards in Two Seconds - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:18] <exec> 08└─Needs to be, if the place is full of bears. (even more so if the place is full of beers, can't waste valuable drinking time)
[03:44:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Square Can Now Process Chip Cards in Two Seconds - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:19] <exec> 08└─waiting in line for the cashier, ...
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[03:44:21] <exec> 08└─Conservatively? About 30 seconds. (grin)
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[04:41:27] <exec> 08└─The OP is completely on topic. This is interesting, and I'm glad the OP posted it. Please, mods, do the right thing, and mod the OP back up to default visibility.
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[04:41:39] <exec> 08└─I've always believed that any experiment demonstrating that all people will sink to the lowest level are flawed. But, of course, we do have television . . .
[04:41:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The Stanford Prison Experiment is Not What We Were Taught - 918 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:43] <exec> 08└─I just read the article, and also listened to the audio link (starting at 8:38, the relevant section goes for about 20 mins). It's just as bad as the article claims - a guard basically told Zimbardo that he didn't agree with how the guards were being told to act, so Zimbardo convinces him that the e...
[04:41:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Stanford Prison Experiment is Not What We Were Taught - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:45] <exec> 08└─Superficially one could say the experiment was sensationalized so that the authors could get fame. But if others experiments turn unreproducible (It's SCIENCE is a religious mantra after all, because science has been mostly substituted by faith about other people's honesty) and they all paint humans...
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[04:42:18] <exec> 08└─Yet is a pale precursor to the requirements of this law.
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[04:42:19] <exec> 08└─Agreed. But we also gotta eliminate those with skin in the game as they are obviously biased and have conflicts of interest.
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[04:42:21] <exec> 08└─Yeah, right, it was the Europeans that stirred the war in Syria and Lybia, to create the deluge of refugees.
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[05:41:24] <exec> 08└─Does anyone think actual scientists would disseminate real discoveries this way?
[05:41:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Stanford Prison Experiment is Not What We Were Taught - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:51] <exec> 08└─Milgrim, or Milgram experiment was not Fake. Dateline did that one over. They said, let's check it with a do-over. And it was 100%.
[05:41:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Stanford Prison Experiment is Not What We Were Taught - 800 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:52] <exec> 08└─I'm not shocked. There's always been a strong push to reinterpret history to edit out disturbing findings, particularly when it shows the darker aspects of human nature. One of the most notorious examples was the "clean Werhmacht" whitewashing, with the US complicit in the whitewash (they needed a r...
[05:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Faces EU Fine If Terror Lingers for an Hour - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:29] <exec> 08└─However, they do have the power to not make stupid laws that punish websites for leaving 'undesired' user-posted content up.
[05:42:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Media Faces EU Fine If Terror Lingers for an Hour - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:30] <exec> 08└─The laws shouldn't even exist in the first place, whether they are in the US or Europe.
[05:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Faces EU Fine If Terror Lingers for an Hour - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:32] <exec> 08└─What do you prefer, sir: a "humor impaired" label or a "Whoosh"?
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[06:41:28] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, yes, I do. Do I think that the scientists are getting your $200, no, certainly not. If you find a free source of the study please post a link in a comment. Thank you.
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[06:41:38] <exec> 08└─I, too, and glad the actual astronomers are paying attention to the variations of pulsars. It is about time. But the Electric Universe people are far, far outside the realm of actual science. Arp caught flak for the "red shift" thing, but that was almost a reasonable theory. The Electric Universe pe...
[06:41:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Stanford Prison Experiment is Not What We Were Taught - 1879 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:57] <exec> 08└─may be quickly realized by 'set and setting', notions that we all somehow know, even if we're fuzzy on the technical details: you put a bunch of people in a position where there's a human leader -- and they will interpret the slightest spin he gives to them in such a way as to inform their actions s...
[06:41:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Stanford Prison Experiment is Not What We Were Taught - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:59] <exec> 08└─We will just have to run the entire experiment again, with new subjects, sponsored by the American Correctional Corporation and the United States of Straightening Your Ass Out (USSYAO). Studies show, after all. Can't let all these "criminals" just roam the streets. They had weed on them!!!
[06:42:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Stanford Prison Experiment is Not What We Were Taught - 890 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:01] <exec> 08└─Actually, the Stanford experiment, much like the Milgram experiment, were meant to explain how normal people, like Germans of the Weimar Republic, could turn into Nazi monsters. This seemed a puzzle to social scientists around the time of WWII. But now we know that the alt-right is alright, that Ne...
[06:42:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03beernutz [4365] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A New Generation of Artificial Retinas Based on 2-D Materials - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:51] <exec> 08└─Maybe in this case they mean surfaces that are a single atom thick?
[06:43:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Men and Women Show Surprising Differences in Seeing Motion - 74 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:43:33] <exec> 08└─Time to destroy some careers. Twitter team MOBILIZE. Facebook team ATTACK.
[06:47:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SF From Technology Review - What Happens When Fake News is Everywhere? - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:51] <exec> 08└─I don't hear TDS from the "right". I hear it from my Libertarian talk show friends.
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[07:41:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Congenital Blindness Reversed in Mice - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:21] <exec> 08└─Note: all attempts to reverse congenital blindness in janrinok has failed thus far. Future attempts seem to be also pointless. Perhaps working on cognitive neural functions, such as understanding, pattern recognition, and the acceptance of aristarchus submissions are in order, in place of the mindl...
[07:41:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Stanford Prison Experiment is Not What We Were Taught - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:53] <exec> 08└─If you're 95% certain, it means you're wrong in 1 of 20 cases. This is why the scientific method requires large batches of tests or subjects to rule out coincidence. And any tampering or faking. The society should provide way more incentive for people who conduct sound science.
[07:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Faces EU Fine If Terror Lingers for an Hour - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:42:34] <exec> 08└─As an alternative, Facebook and Twitter could just ban the EU commissioners and ignore all the other crap that gets posted regardless of left or right, hate or love, even Trump or Kardashian. Then the people would once again have to think for themselves and form their own opinions...
[07:42:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Faces EU Fine If Terror Lingers for an Hour - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:42:35] <exec> 08└─I can't disagree, but I'd also point out that a lot of Europeans get their entire view of the US from the same tainted news media. Having been a contractor for the financial industry and traveled and lived extensively in Europe, Asia, South America as well as around the US most people aren't that di...
[07:43:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03mojo chan [266] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Men and Women Show Surprising Differences in Seeing Motion - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:43:56] <exec> 08└─this gives us a test that illustrates the brain sex exists
[07:44:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Gets Sued Over Two-Factor Security Flaws and $23M Cryptocurrency Theft - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:44:28] <exec> 08└─At the same time, AT&T certainly bears some responsibility to secure user accounts from hijacking, and even moreso since they agreed to an additional security procedure which they then ignored entirely. As for limiting liability, just because it's in the contract doesn't mean the courts are obligate...
[07:47:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Justice Dept. Backs Suit Accusing Facebook of Violating Fair Housing Act - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:47:07] <exec> 08└─But you do seem to be working at it, my dear janrinok! Do you not see that outing of ACs will have a chilling effect on free discussion on SoylentNews? I would hate to think that some person's past careers in military intelligence would carry over into their role as the editor in chief of a news ag...
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[07:47:08] <exec> 08└─Not nearly my experience of what "bad posting" seems to mean to SoylentNews. Rather equivalent to "too much truthiness", so your IP block has been banned. "If you feel this decision is an error, fuck off and die you SJW libtard!"
[07:47:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SF From Technology Review - What Happens When Fake News is Everywhere? - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:47:55] <exec> 08└─Can't stand an enema, huh?
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[08:41:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient Egyptians Mastered Mummification Long Before the Time of Pharaohs - 1379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:41:19] <exec> 08└─Well, I don't know whoever thought people just started building pyramids and changing the way they preserve dead just appeared out of the blue at the same time. Mummification still goes on today. There are tribes in (I think) Madagascar who regularly go back to the family graves, unwrap them, re-wra...
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[08:42:43] <exec> 08└─They'll be enforcing borders and deporting millions of African migrants then?
[08:42:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Faces EU Fine If Terror Lingers for an Hour - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:42:44] <exec> 08└─Well, it worked for communism* (* the word communism)
[08:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03boltronics [580] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews' Recent 50x Errors and RSS/Atom Feed Issues Corrected - 1606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:55] <exec> 08└─LVM is wonderful. I manage a bunch of Xen servers all running different types of DomUs, so LVM makes it a snap to reallocate space for those as required. I also found it a life saver when upgrading an old Asterisk PBX that has dedicated hardware (this was some years back). The upgrade required more...
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[08:45:56] <exec> 08└─I have a similar approach. I use icinga2 (having the node installed in the image, not using SNMP) and munin-node too. I also make good use of rsyslog and RainerScript to manage logging centrally. Everything is managed with Salt.
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[09:41:33] <exec> 08└─mummification has been around for thousandsbillions of years FTFY
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[09:41:53] <exec> 08└─I love it when a philosopher swears.
[09:42:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Mykl [1112] 02 - 06The Stanford Prison Experiment is Not What We Were Taught - 918 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:42:09] <exec> 08└─I just read the article, and also listened to the audio link (starting at 8:38, the relevant section goes for about 20 mins). It's just as bad as the article claims - a guard basically told Zimbardo that he didn't agree with how the guards were being told to act, so Zimbardo convinces him that the e...
[09:42:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Stanford Prison Experiment is Not What We Were Taught - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:42:17] <exec> 08└─I had to watch a video about the SPE. I remember thinking that the participants seemed to be confused about the experiment and their role in it. No surprises here. Doesn't matter at this point. The whole USA is an SPE. It's pretty obvious that yes, you can construct a perverse machine with roles for...
[09:42:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06The Stanford Prison Experiment is Not What We Were Taught - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:42:19] <exec> 08└─I'm shocked!
[09:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Stanford Prison Experiment is Not What We Were Taught - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:42:21] <exec> 08└─> could turn into Nazi monsters Got it, so this was the agenda.
[09:42:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Social Media Faces EU Fine If Terror Lingers for an Hour - 39 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:42:49] <exec> 08└─I wonder how many eyes would be opened.
[09:43:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Faces EU Fine If Terror Lingers for an Hour - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:43:05] <exec> 08└─Does this mean that any competition to Tweetbook or Facer is going to require this as a minimum capability?
[09:43:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cybersex Toy Industry Heats Up as Infamous “Teledildonics” Patent Climaxes - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:43:53] <exec> 08└─The sky is falling! Is that it?
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[10:41:13] <exec> 08└─Good to hear once in a while something else than 'Russia is fake news, folks'
[10:41:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Scientists who Starved to Death Surrounded by Food - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:41:15] <exec> 08└─Well it's not Russia in this case, it's the Soviet Union. All news from the Soviet Union was definitely real.
[10:41:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nvidia Announces RTX 2080 Ti, 2080, and 2070 GPUs, Claims 25x Increase in Ray-Tracing Performance - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:41:24] <exec> 08└─... that Egyptians mastered mummification long before pharaohs?
[10:41:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nvidia Announces RTX 2080 Ti, 2080, and 2070 GPUs, Claims 25x Increase in Ray-Tracing Performance - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:41:26] <exec> 08└─Yes, but the Nvidia GeForce RTX 20 mummifies them 25 times faster than ever before.
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[10:41:28] <exec> 08└─TFA has no mention of how these new graphics cards can be used to mine crypto currencies. Isn't that what graphic cards are primarily used for these days?
[10:41:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Congenital Blindness Reversed in Mice - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:41:46] <exec> 08└─Note: all attempts to reverse congenital blindness in janrinok has failed thus far. Future attempts seem to be also pointless.
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[10:41:58] <exec> 08└─Ssssexy! Yeah. Just sayin'
[10:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Stanford Prison Experiment is Not What We Were Taught - 1770 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:25] <exec> 08└─Don't forget Zimbardo himself is a part of the experiment and represent a person in authority desiring to stay there. A prison warden would pressure his guards to act as such to prevent them from colluding with the prisoners and usurping their authority. Both business management schools and the mili...
[10:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Stanford Prison Experiment is Not What We Were Taught - 2165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:27] <exec> 08└─That is the corner stone of science. You have an hypothesis, you design an experiment to prove or refute it, the you make the experiment, and according with the experiment, you have a conclusion. That is the theory, but many times the reality is not that clear. Many times experiments may prove, but...
[10:42:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Social Media Faces EU Fine If Terror Lingers for an Hour - 38 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:43] <exec> 08└─The EU brought this upon themselves...
[10:43:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Media Faces EU Fine If Terror Lingers for an Hour - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:12] <exec> 08└─Fox News and Breitbart, so expecting them to understand things like the Syrian Civil War is a bit optimistic.
[10:43:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03pvanhoof [4638] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Faces EU Fine If Terror Lingers for an Hour - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:13] <exec> 08└─Note. We stopped caring about (A/C) American idiots a long long time ago. /European
[10:47:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Justice Dept. Backs Suit Accusing Facebook of Violating Fair Housing Act - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:47:47] <exec> 08└─It's not like your IP address is changing every single second with Tor, and there should be plenty of exit nodes. Time and time again some of the same accounts/trolls will share the same IPID, post around the same time, etc. Posts around here aren't so bad that they should constitute removal. Probab...
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[11:41:20] <exec> 08└─The NRA's position makes sense. Open carry wouldn't sell more guns and the added controversy would probably hurt.
[11:41:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06The Scientists who Starved to Death Surrounded by Food - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:30] <exec> 08└─Well it's not Russia in this case, it's the Soviet Union. All news from the Soviet Union was definitely real.
[11:41:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Scientists who Starved to Death Surrounded by Food - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:32] <exec> 08└─All of the workers also keep the secret while their families and friends were starving. That, to me, was the harder and more commendable sacrifice. These workers really believed in the absolute and unambiguous good of what they did.
[11:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Announces RTX 2080 Ti, 2080, and 2070 GPUs, Claims 25x Increase in Ray-Tracing Performance - 1265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:42] <exec> 08└─Nope, it's over: Cryptocurrency miners' demand for Nvidia computer chips evaporates [latimes.com] Nvidia Corp.’s nine-month crypto gold rush is over. Sales of graphics chips to miners of cryptocurrencies such as ethereum dried up faster than expected, the Santa Clara company said. For a second qua...
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[11:41:44] <exec> 08└─The demo I've seen ( https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] ) doesn't show reflections from moving objects. Like, the rays are going through everything not part of the fixed environment so charterers wouldn't be able to hide in a shadow of a moveable object for instance. Well, I g...
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[11:41:46] <exec> 08└─And yet the card is priced and specs for crypto mining & HPC.
[11:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Announces RTX 2080 Ti, 2080, and 2070 GPUs, Claims 25x Increase in Ray-Tracing Performance - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:48] <exec> 08└─HPC != cryptomining, and they're priced high because Nvidia effectively has no real competition from AMD right now [extremetech.com]. They also want to make sure they get rid of existing GeForce 10 inventory. The prices will get cut in a few months or when AMD launches new GPUs, as is typical.
[11:42:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03datapharmer [2702] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congenital Blindness Reversed in Mice - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:08] <exec> 08└─So this makes me wonder: if this can be used to improve sight by generating rods, is there anything stopping them from making it significantly better than average by making extra rods?
[11:42:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Stanford Prison Experiment is Not What We Were Taught - 1455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:52] <exec> 08└─Yeah, even if the new interpretation of the Stanford Prison Experiment is true (and I don't have time right now to go listen to the audio, etc. as well as context)... It seems to mostly devolve into yet another confirmation of the Milgram experiment, which has been confirmed with variants again and...
[11:43:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Social Media Faces EU Fine If Terror Lingers for an Hour - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:43:40] <exec> 08└─Those people who have no skin in the game
[11:43:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Media Faces EU Fine If Terror Lingers for an Hour - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:43:41] <exec> 08└─They'll be enforcing borders and deporting millions of African migrants then?
[11:43:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Media Faces EU Fine If Terror Lingers for an Hour - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:43:43] <exec> 08└─In fact "take stronger action in order to protect our citizens" sounds like a bad joke. With this mindset, one of the two is gonna happen. Holy war disguised as civil war, or the rise of a totalitarian government (with the help of vladimir maybe?) to keep unrest in check. A lose/lose for us europeon...
[11:43:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Faces EU Fine If Terror Lingers for an Hour - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:43:45] <exec> 08└─I can't speak for the degree of "taint", but I am concerned that here in the UK, we are given far, far more news reports on the politics of the USA than of our immediate neighbours France and Ireland, for example. Why should the internal politics of a country a few thousand kilometers away be of so...
[11:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Faces EU Fine If Terror Lingers for an Hour - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:43:47] <exec> 08└─It's a push-pop stack, not a fifo.
[11:44:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Generation of Artificial Retinas Based on 2-D Materials - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:00] <exec> 08└─That seems about right. I think if you go beyond the two dimensions of length and width and into the realm of a third dimension of thickness, however many atoms (or Planck lengths) thick, 2D stops being a descriptive term and starts being a metaphor.
[11:44:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cybersex Toy Industry Heats Up as Infamous “Teledildonics” Patent Climaxes - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:36] <exec> 08└─Exactly. I always start romantic courting with in-person dildoing, otherwise the potential partner will think I lack social skills and not be interested in a second date.
[11:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Men and Women Show Surprising Differences in Seeing Motion - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:10] <exec> 08└─James Demore got attacked for pointing out ways to help better attract women to google by better focusing training and advertisements based on scientific differences between men and women.
[11:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Men and Women Show Surprising Differences in Seeing Motion - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:12] <exec> 08└─That women make better tanks and men make better DPS?
[11:45:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Men and Women Show Surprising Differences in Seeing Motion - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:14] <exec> 08└─Odd that we've survived long enough to complain about it.
[11:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Square Can Now Process Chip Cards in Two Seconds - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:16] <exec> 08└─If you’ve made any payments with a chip card, you’ve probably had awkward moments — those long seconds after you’ve inserted the card and everyone behind you is (literally or metaphorically) tapping their foot, waiting for the card to be processed.
[11:46:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Square Can Now Process Chip Cards in Two Seconds - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:17] <exec> 08└─Today, the company is announcing that it’s shaved even more time off
[11:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03aim [6322] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Square Can Now Process Chip Cards in Two Seconds - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:19] <exec> 08└─In Europe (even in backward places full of bears:) it is under a second for a decade.
[11:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Square Can Now Process Chip Cards in Two Seconds - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:21] <exec> 08└─It does, but there are other ways the store could address that, like having more cashiers on duty. And again, the 1 minute doesn't even come close to being a large percentage of the time required for the shopping trip in question.
[11:47:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lab-Made Magnesite could be Used for CO2 Capture - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:47:55] <exec> 08└─Other than the fly ash, the big differences are water content when molding, and time to set. Roman concrete is barely damp, and is pounded into place - add some, tamp it down hard, add a bit more, tamp it down hard, etc. Then leave it alone. It takes weeks to set to the point of being slightly usabl...
[11:48:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Justice Dept. Backs Suit Accusing Facebook of Violating Fair Housing Act - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:48:36] <exec> 08└─Do you not see that outing of ACs will have a chilling effect on free discussion on SoylentNews?
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[12:41:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Scientists who Starved to Death Surrounded by Food - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:31] <exec> 08└─Compare that with Monsanto/Bayer being willing to lose it all for a dollar. Sad.
[12:41:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Scientists who Starved to Death Surrounded by Food - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:32] <exec> 08└─With their monoculture crops, Monsanto only needs a handful of seeds to keep their gene pool stocked. These guys protected biodiversity, that's why these seeds are/were so valuable.
[12:41:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nvidia Announces RTX 2080 Ti, 2080, and 2070 GPUs, Claims 25x Increase in Ray-Tracing Performance - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:46] <exec> 08└─Well, I guess they'll combine traditional techniques to solve those problems... Still, looks like they're desperately trying to justify all that RAM and transistors with an half-finished product that isn't really useful for games. I guess it will be useful for workstations so that's something.
[12:41:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Announces RTX 2080 Ti, 2080, and 2070 GPUs, Claims 25x Increase in Ray-Tracing Performance - 952 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:48] <exec> 08└─You can see the reflection of the door opening at 1m33s. Other instances might be due to the brightness and where light sources are. i.e. You aren't actually supposed to see a reflection. Their presentation [anandtech.com] also highlights shadows. I don't think there's a problem here. I think one th...
[12:42:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Stanford Prison Experiment is Not What We Were Taught - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:50] <exec> 08└─Until someone proves the opposite, I will *believe* that the dark side of human mind is there.
[12:42:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Stanford Prison Experiment is Not What We Were Taught - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:52] <exec> 08└─"Guards were told to be tough, but not how to be tough." Underlings were told to deal with the Jewish question, but not how to deal with it. --Adolf Hitler Always thought this experiment was hokey.
[12:42:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Stanford Prison Experiment is Not What We Were Taught - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:54] <exec> 08└─But I'd say we have PLENTY of evidence that humans are willing to abuse others when mildly encouraged by systems of power, both experimentally and throughout the real world.
[12:45:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03schad [2398] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Gets Sued Over Two-Factor Security Flaws and $23M Cryptocurrency Theft - 739 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:42] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I do that too, though not with things I have to read aloud. In many cases, the call center employees... for whatever reason, they're not capable of entering what I tell them. Maybe it's poor call quality, maybe it's poor command of the language, maybe it's something else. But they genuinely st...
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[13:41:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:30] <exec> 08└─Open carry makes perfect sense as long as you're not black or Latino. A black college professor in a suit could probably stroll down the road with a sidearm holstered at his hip, and he would get gunned down by a quarter of the cops in the country without saying a word first.
[13:41:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:32] <exec> 08└─https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/dallas-attack-stokes-open-carry-debate-8476140 [dallasobserver.com] https://www.nbcdfw.com [nbcdfw.com]
[13:41:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:34] <exec> 08└─https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/nra-california-open-carry-ban/ [snopes.com]
[13:41:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:36] <exec> 08└─The NRA's position makes sense. Open carry wouldn't sell more guns and the added controversy would probably hurt.
[13:42:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Nvidia Announces RTX 2080 Ti, 2080, and 2070 GPUs, Claims 25x Increase in Ray-Tracing Performance - 6352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:05] <exec> 08└─Also complex reflectors such as the Ritchey-Chrétien [starizona.com] of which the Hubble is an example. Most big scopes other than the Palomar 200" are Ritchey-Chrétiens. The main advantage of the Ritchey-Chrétian are a long focal length - high magnification - with a shorter tube than is possible...
[13:42:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Announces RTX 2080 Ti, 2080, and 2070 GPUs, Claims 25x Increase in Ray-Tracing Performance - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:06] <exec> 08└─At the claimed 4 gRays rate, my question would be "how many objects, and of what types, is each ray processing" -- because there's quite a difference between tracing a ray through one triangle and an actual scene region with many of them (and perhaps other types of objects as well... spheres, planes...
[13:43:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Stanford Prison Experiment is Not What We Were Taught - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:13] <exec> 08└─one important reason why the Stanford Prison Experiment has never been repeated to see whether it was a fluke is that no ethics board will allow it.
[13:43:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Stanford Prison Experiment is Not What We Were Taught - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:14] <exec> 08└─And the overwhelming evidence is that guards in that situation torture prisoners when they are allowed to do so, regardless of whether those prisoners are guilty of anything.
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[14:41:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twenty-two States Ask U.S. Appeals Court to Reinstate 'Net Neutrality' Rules - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:17] <exec> 08└─The entropic drip of corruption doesn't flow backwards. If the courts make a ruling on net neutrality, it'll be to solidify the current rules by making small exceptions. Things just get worse and worse and worse until something snaps and you've got heads in guillotines or a civil war where you're sh...
[14:41:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twenty-two States Ask U.S. Appeals Court to Reinstate 'Net Neutrality' Rules - 712 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:19] <exec> 08└─It is important to realize that the only reason ISPs have not already turned your internet connections in to a mess of cable-channel like tiered subscriptions is to make it look like net neutrality is not needed. Once all opposition to net neutrality is finally dead, buried, and forgotten, they will...
[14:41:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Finds Ice on the Surface of the Moon - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:27] <exec> 08└─I wonder when and how much water was on the moon at its peak? Where did the water go, out into space, or did some / much fall back to Earth? Losing the water mass would change moon's orbit, but I don't remember orbital physics enough- with more mass, would it have been closer to Earth, but moving mu...
[14:41:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Finds Ice on the Surface of the Moon - 1476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:29] <exec> 08└─Interesting questions. I've read previously that the Moon does still in fact have an atmosphere, but it consists of very few molecules spaced very far apart from each other - the Apollo landings each produced about twice the total Lunar atmosphere in gases. Anyway, the current gases do bleed off to...
[14:41:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Finds Ice on the Surface of the Moon - 883 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:31] <exec> 08└─Moon May Have Been Habitable 3.5 Billion Years Ago [soylentnews.org] The Moon [wikipedia.org] was closer to Earth billions of years ago, and it was rotating faster before it became tidally locked. The Moon had once rotated at a faster rate, but early in its history, its rotation slowed and became ti...
[14:41:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 276 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:40] <exec> 08└─Open carry makes perfect sense as long as you're not black or Latino. A black college professor in a suit could probably stroll down the road with a sidearm holstered at his hip, and he would get gunned down by a quarter of the cops in the country without saying a word first.
[14:41:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:45] <exec> 08└─A black college professor in a suit . . . would get gunned down by a quarter of the cops in the country without saying a word first.
[14:41:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:47] <exec> 08└─"I find it ironic that a Federal judge seems to be taking a more pro-arms position than the NRA itself. " The NRA is the nations leading anti-second-amendment organization, there's no irony here.
[14:41:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Scientists who Starved to Death Surrounded by Food - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:59] <exec> 08└─Yes, but they also plant seeds next to a farmer's field and when there is cross pollination they sue the farmer for stealing their IP. They also kill bees and other insects with Roundup. Anything for a dollar.
[14:42:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Scientists who Starved to Death Surrounded by Food - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:01] <exec> 08└─Compare that with Monsanto/Bayer being willing to lose it all for a dollar.
[14:42:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nvidia Announces RTX 2080 Ti, 2080, and 2070 GPUs, Claims 25x Increase in Ray-Tracing Performance - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:20] <exec> 08└─You can see the reflection of the door opening at 1m33s...it handles thin objects like leaves and sheets
[14:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Announces RTX 2080 Ti, 2080, and 2070 GPUs, Claims 25x Increase in Ray-Tracing Performance - 776 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:21] <exec> 08└─I love that they're pressing ahead with attempts at real-time ray-tracing. A few years ago I figured it must be on the horizon at some point. Then low res tech demos started popping up. Then higher res stuff with artifacts, and the prospect of maybe cleaning it up with post processing. Now that the...
[14:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Announces RTX 2080 Ti, 2080, and 2070 GPUs, Claims 25x Increase in Ray-Tracing Performance - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:23] <exec> 08└─https://www.reddit.com/r/Vive/comments/4s88iy/how_necessary_is_vram_for_vr/ [reddit.com] 8 GB is clearly enough for anyone at a 4K resolution. 11 GB can handle 8K resolution. Both of these should be sufficient for current VR headsets and upcoming ones. I don't think anybody is getting the 1443 PPI [...
[14:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Announces RTX 2080 Ti, 2080, and 2070 GPUs, Claims 25x Increase in Ray-Tracing Performance - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:26] <exec> 08└─I see claimed 6-10 GRays/s rates for the three cards that are launching. Certainly less on the unannounced 2060 and 2050 cards, assuming those even have the "RT cores" (still not clear what those are and if they are actually dedicated). I'm pretty sure algorithms such as this one [wikipedia.org] are...
[14:42:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronomers Detect Synchronous X-Ray and Radio Mode Switching of the Pulsar PSR B0823+26 - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:58] <exec> 08└─Please, mods, do the right thing, and mod the OP back up to default visibility.
[14:42:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronomers Detect Synchronous X-Ray and Radio Mode Switching of the Pulsar PSR B0823+26 - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:59] <exec> 08└─Give me an experimental model, or shut the fuck up.
[14:43:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronomers Detect Synchronous X-Ray and Radio Mode Switching of the Pulsar PSR B0823+26 - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:02] <exec> 08└─Look, maybe electric universe people could find a more productive pursuit. Abandon their silly explanations for pulsar variations. It's aliens! Their advanced civilization manipulates pulsars to broadcast signals, navigational information, and infomercials.
[14:43:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronomers Detect Synchronous X-Ray and Radio Mode Switching of the Pulsar PSR B0823+26 - 866 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:04] <exec> 08└─From TFA . . . The authors of the paper also try to explain the nature of the observed synchronous X-ray and radio mode switching in PSR B0823+26. They assume that at the moment, the most plausible hypothesis is that this behavior is due to variations in the rate of accretion of material from the in...
[14:43:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Stanford Prison Experiment is Not What We Were Taught - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:38] <exec> 08└─That would be a good question for the US soldiers at Abu Ghraib and Gitmo. My guess is that a fair number of them were ordinary people who had joined the army to pay for college or something along those lines.
[14:43:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Stanford Prison Experiment is Not What We Were Taught - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:40] <exec> 08└─I would say that people who sign up for a job whose entire purpose is to kill people, directly or indirectly, are probably also not a great representative sample. Regardless of their primary motivation for considering the job.
[14:43:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Stanford Prison Experiment is Not What We Were Taught - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:42] <exec> 08└─I've always believed that any experiment demonstrating that all people will sink to the lowest level are flawed.
[14:43:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Stanford Prison Experiment is Not What We Were Taught - 664 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:44] <exec> 08└─Um. You're conflating existential proof ("we have seen it thus it exists") which has no disproof ("we haven't seen it, but we also haven't seen the earth's core, which exists") with relationship status ("stats indicate the correlation of these, assuming other factors corrected or equal, is within th...
[14:43:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Stanford Prison Experiment is Not What We Were Taught - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:46] <exec> 08└─I would venture a guess that some people who volunteer for the military in exchange for generous compensation and benefits, especially in a time of continuous never to end warfare, might do so because they have no other opportunities to get ahead in life. So it might be a sample of people with limit...
[14:44:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Media Faces EU Fine If Terror Lingers for an Hour - 709 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:38] <exec> 08└─German government places Socialist Equality Party on subversive watch-list [wsws.org]: Last month, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, added the Socialist Equality Party to its official list of “left-wing extremist” organizat...
[14:44:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Faces EU Fine If Terror Lingers for an Hour - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:39] <exec> 08└─You're right. Why should you care about the internal politics of a violent and increasingly despotic nation that still stands unopposed as the world's only military superpower? Especially one that has repeatedly demonstrated a willingness to manufacture false charges to justify the overthrow and pil...
[14:44:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Faces EU Fine If Terror Lingers for an Hour - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:41] <exec> 08└─>And now it never can be. That's always been the case - that's the entire point of including "media" in the term. Media is public.
[14:44:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Faces EU Fine If Terror Lingers for an Hour - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:43] <exec> 08└─Special attention to small companies: The industry should, through voluntary arrangements, cooperate and share experiences, best practices and technological solutions, including tools allowing for automatic detection.This shared responsibility should particularly benefit smaller platforms with more...
[14:45:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cybersex Toy Industry Heats Up as Infamous “Teledildonics” Patent Climaxes - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:32] <exec> 08└─AI in this area will have passed the Turing test when the robot can actually walk out on the owner and sue for ongoing support.
[14:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Men and Women Show Surprising Differences in Seeing Motion - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:10] <exec> 08└─FYI, records show that there were at least 65,000 people involuntarily sterilized in the USA [wikipedia.org], with the operations continuing at least into the 1980s. This is a disturbing but enlightening piece on the history [pbs.org] in case you are interested.
[14:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Gets Sued Over Two-Factor Security Flaws and $23M Cryptocurrency Theft - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:44] <exec> 08└─If there's enough money in it. Then you've got the other side of the spectrum like PCIDSS that moves the liability straight onto the shoulders of the merchant and away from the industry or the government. If a credit card breach happens it will be invariable that the merchant will have violated PCID...
[14:47:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Square Can Now Process Chip Cards in Two Seconds - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:20] <exec> 08└─And again, the 1 minute doesn't even come close to being a large percentage of the time required for the shopping trip in question.
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[15:41:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Workers in Open-Plan Offices 'More Active' - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:34] <exec> 08└─I am one of the unfortunate people stuck in an office with a window and a door that closes. Open Plan offices are [inc.com] such a [inc.com] great [chicagotribune.com] idea [entrepreneur.com]!
[15:41:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Twenty-two States Ask U.S. Appeals Court to Reinstate 'Net Neutrality' Rules - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:44] <exec> 08└─"Soylent FastTroll Service"
[15:41:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Twenty-two States Ask U.S. Appeals Court to Reinstate 'Net Neutrality' Rules - 809 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:45] <exec> 08└─Isn't the proper provenance of Net Neutrality Congress? Shouldn't our elected representatives, if this issue is so important, respond to their constituents and craft a law that cannot be interpreted to mean two contradictory things by two different administrations? I find it strange to call on the j...
[15:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 1, Spam) 02 - 06Twenty-two States Ask U.S. Appeals Court to Reinstate 'Net Neutrality' Rules - 1675 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:48] <exec> 08└─Challenge accepted. Flip grandpa over so he is on his hands and knees. Fist his hungry asshole, until his dentures fall out and his Coumadin-thinned rectal blood covers your hands as he moans in pleasure. Remove your fist. Lick the shit from your fist. Lick it clean. Savor the texture, the taste, th...
[15:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twenty-two States Ask U.S. Appeals Court to Reinstate 'Net Neutrality' Rules - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:50] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn7oEYe4ePc [youtube.com]
[15:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twenty-two States Ask U.S. Appeals Court to Reinstate 'Net Neutrality' Rules - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:52] <exec> 08└─Well, fuck off if you call this "in good taste".
[15:41:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twenty-two States Ask U.S. Appeals Court to Reinstate 'Net Neutrality' Rules - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:54] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQlIhraqL7o [youtube.com]
[15:42:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:18] <exec> 08└─But I guess you have been able to find and decipher the golden tablets of knowledge, eh? And what about the NRA's 6 million members?
[15:42:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:20] <exec> 08└─This is why we need video surveillance drones hovering 390' overhead, with blue-white countershading and near silent props, difficult to notice in the first place, more difficult to target, and inherently unsafe for officers to be discharging their weapons upwards in a populated area. The drone won'...
[15:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:22] <exec> 08└─Open carry isn't a pro-gun ownership position. Open carry is taking things a step too far, making a mockery of gun ownership, putting it in-the-face of the opposition, and would ultimately hurt the NRA in the national debate if it were widely permitted and practiced. Besides, most pro gun ownership...
[15:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:24] <exec> 08└─Do NRA positions align more closely with: [_] citizens who blindly unthinkingly support it as a knee jerk reflex reaction [x] or with gun manufacturers?
[15:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:26] <exec> 08└─Many NRA members DO recognize this. But we also recognize that if we let the perfect be the enemy of the good, at least right now, the grabbers will likely win. In the future we might be able to ditch them but right now they are useful.
[15:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 775 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:28] <exec> 08└─I'm not one to praise Snopes extravagently, because it has oft been demonstrated that they have a liberal bias. But, that article is a good read. I've often puzzled over this nonsense. A white guy can go almost anywhere, in most states, with or without a weapon. It's unremarkable. A black guy with a...
[15:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 663 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:30] <exec> 08└─I thought that people who promote concealed carry believe that a good guy with a gun is necessary to stop a bad guy with a gun. If that is true, then a lot of good guys with clearly visible guns should deter a bad guy with a gun. But then of course, the bad guy with a gun blends into the crowd. Or t...
[15:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 714 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:32] <exec> 08└─Gotta disagree. Open carry is proper carry. A cop should never have to ask if you're armed - it should be right out there for all the honest world to see. (Echoes of Pancho and Lefty there.) It seems right and proper that you would need a permit or license for concealed carry, but the second amendme...
[15:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:35] <exec> 08└─A way to make guns even more visible is to make them bright orange.
[15:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:37] <exec> 08└─And what about the NRA's 6 million members?
[15:42:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 955 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:39] <exec> 08└─The NRA played the long game. For the better part of 200 years the high court never considered the 2nd Amendment to be about personal gun ownership. Then in the 1970s at the famous 1977 convention, they decided to turn into the nutty Washington lobbyists they are today [theconversation.com]. From th...
[15:42:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:41] <exec> 08└─Bright gun colors will be in style. Guns that match your outfit will become a necessity. So the modern software developer needs a set of guns to match their entire wardrobe. Then there will be fashion wars, which will become gun fights.
[15:42:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gaaark [41] 02 - 06The Scientists who Starved to Death Surrounded by Food - 80 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:52] <exec> 08└─Compare that with Monsanto/Bayer being willing to lose it all for a dollar. Sad.
[15:42:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Scientists who Starved to Death Surrounded by Food - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:56] <exec> 08└─They also kill bees and other insects with Roundup.
[15:42:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Scientists who Starved to Death Surrounded by Food - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:58] <exec> 08└─Whatever the market pays, no?
[15:43:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Announces RTX 2080 Ti, 2080, and 2070 GPUs, Claims 25x Increase in Ray-Tracing Performance - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:21] <exec> 08└─Oh, thanks God for that.
[15:43:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nvidia Announces RTX 2080 Ti, 2080, and 2070 GPUs, Claims 25x Increase in Ray-Tracing Performance - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:23] <exec> 08└─At least not to me
[15:43:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Announces RTX 2080 Ti, 2080, and 2070 GPUs, Claims 25x Increase in Ray-Tracing Performance - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:25] <exec> 08└─Yeah, every time I go shopping for a graphics card I have to look up lists of all the model numbers because they keep changing the numbering schemes so they're hard to remember and compare. A high end card from a few years back might perform better than the latest budget one and laptop cards complic...
[15:43:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient Egyptians Mastered Mummification Long Before the Time of Pharaohs - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:36] <exec> 08└─"Naqada stage" For use as a nuclear power plant style battery or explosive?
[15:43:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congenital Blindness Reversed in Mice - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:49] <exec> 08└─Indeed. Sight into the IR spectrum beyond the normal human might even be possible.
[15:44:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Stanford Prison Experiment is Not What We Were Taught - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:45] <exec> 08└─My workplace is effectively a SPE
[15:44:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Stanford Prison Experiment is Not What We Were Taught - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:46] <exec> 08└─... might do so because they have no other opportunities to get ahead in life.
[15:45:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Faces EU Fine If Terror Lingers for an Hour - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:45] <exec> 08└─Soylent News does not seem to have any terrorism. Or violently imposed contracts. Or taxation at the point of a gun.
[15:45:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Faces EU Fine If Terror Lingers for an Hour - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:46] <exec> 08└─It would be possible to create Linode instances in various data centers including Europe and Asia. That would make it possible to come under these requirements for no apparent purpose or benefit.
[15:45:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Faces EU Fine If Terror Lingers for an Hour - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:48] <exec> 08└─Just Willie Peter - no napalm. Yet.
[15:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Faces EU Fine If Terror Lingers for an Hour - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:50] <exec> 08└─Minimum size for entry?
[15:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Media Faces EU Fine If Terror Lingers for an Hour - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:52] <exec> 08└─"and lastly, what can you tell us about your last position?" 'I was the night shift guy who deleted websites with content deemed to be unacceptable by the government because all censored content had to be deleted by law within one hour'
[15:47:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03doke [6955] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Men and Women Show Surprising Differences in Seeing Motion - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:21] <exec> 08└─Could it just be that very few mothers take their daughters out to play catch?
[15:47:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T Gets Sued Over Two-Factor Security Flaws and $23M Cryptocurrency Theft - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:56] <exec> 08└─Why don't we all have one?
[15:47:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Gets Sued Over Two-Factor Security Flaws and $23M Cryptocurrency Theft - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:57] <exec> 08└─AT&T certainly bears some responsibility to secure user accounts from hijacking
[15:47:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Gets Sued Over Two-Factor Security Flaws and $23M Cryptocurrency Theft - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:59] <exec> 08└─From what I've seen after enabling 2FA most places are completely happy to still allow account recovery via a mechanism such as a registered email address which then devolves 2FA into single factor authentication based on access to the email account. CS agents are also notoriously happy to help out...
[15:50:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lab-Made Magnesite could be Used for CO2 Capture - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:09] <exec> 08└─Magnesium is cheap though: Once upon a time I was lucky to be on vacation in Bolzano (Nort hItaly). When I woke up the next morning at dawn, those humongous pink mountains we saw to the north, were the Dolomiti. Those are made of mostly 50-50 Calcium and Magnesium carbonate AFAIK (I don't believe th...
[15:50:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HoloLens to Assist Surgeons at UK's Alder Hey Children's Hospital - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:24] <exec> 08└─DEATH
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[16:41:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Workers in Open-Plan Offices 'More Active' - 1040 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:28] <exec> 08└─I'm nowadays in a home office, which is even better, but in all my years in working for other people, by far the best environment was when I had my own office, with actual walls and a door. Even though that office was a space I'd spent a bit of my time converting from a storage closet. Next-best was...
[16:41:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Workers in Open-Plan Offices 'More Active' - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:29] <exec> 08└─4) It's harder to stuff additional people into a cube. With "open plan offices", you can have one long desk designed to seat six...and then a month later it seats 8, and a month after that it seats 10, and pretty soon you've got people straddling filing cabinets all day long because what used to be...
[16:41:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Workers in Open-Plan Offices 'More Active' - 620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:31] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I'm definitely "more active" in my open plan office than when I used to be in a cube. It's not because I'm going to meetings, it's not because I'm going to discuss with people. It's because the noise and distractions drive me fucking mad and I have to periodically go spend a half hour outside...
[16:41:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Workers in Open-Plan Offices 'More Active' - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:33] <exec> 08└─Making my job more stressful would make my time not in the office less stressful.
[16:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twenty-two States Ask U.S. Appeals Court to Reinstate 'Net Neutrality' Rules - 955 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:49] <exec> 08└─Don't side with aristarchus. His preferred submission is vapid political garbage, filled with flamebait. We don't need that shitty flavor for variety. Since he won't put it in a journal because he wants to make a "point", it's his own fault if he can't get his "message" out. Finally, spamming unrela...
[16:41:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twenty-two States Ask U.S. Appeals Court to Reinstate 'Net Neutrality' Rules - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:50] <exec> 08└─I don't need your handouts. You can't buy me "I just had sex" man. [youtube.com]
[16:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twenty-two States Ask U.S. Appeals Court to Reinstate 'Net Neutrality' Rules - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:52] <exec> 08└─Don't side with aristarchus.
[16:42:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Finds Ice on the Surface of the Moon - 2546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:03] <exec> 08└─Yes. The current thinking on how the Moon came to be is that early in the solar system's history, when the planets were forming and collisions were frequent, another planet collided and merged with Earth, knocking enough matter off to form the Moon, and giving the Earth a terrific rate of spin. In t...
[16:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Finds Ice on the Surface of the Moon - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:04] <exec> 08└─Only a tiny fraction of Earth's mass is water, due to its starting proximity to the Sun. Whereas other objects in the solar system (most past the snow line [nature.com]) can be as much as 50%+ water. Looks like both the Earth and Moon got their water delivered by comets. The Moon may have had a comp...
[16:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:33] <exec> 08└─I'm going to go out on a limb here. It may just be a bias that I have. And if so, I'll admit it. I tend to think that most sane, rational, cool headed people who have or like guns, are quiet about it, and would be just fine concealing their weapon. [some of] The people who most loudly want to carry...
[16:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 1313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:34] <exec> 08└─I didn't say anything about "pro-gun ownership" whatever that would mean. If you mean the NRA would probably envision the ideal world being one where everyone has paid for a weapon, but they're all kept locked up at NRA approved ranges and cannot be removed from them, then I guess we agree. What I s...
[16:42:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 1168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:36] <exec> 08└─There may be some truth to it, but it's irrelevant. Some idiot who wants to carry to 7-11 so bad he has to change his underpants afterward isn't a good basis for policy that affects everyone long term. Let him get it out of his system. Next week he'll be on to something else. It's not about him. And...
[16:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 776 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:38] <exec> 08└─Have you ever been stalked and attacked by people? People with the intent of finding out where you live, where you work, beating the crap out of you and making your life a misery? Police are minutes away. Minutes. Enough time for someone to deal serious damage. They might even do jail time for their...
[16:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:40] <exec> 08└─You're confused. It's not *mutual respect* if everyone has to wear a weapon. That's not how respect, trust, and friendships are built. Too many guns is how school shootings and shit like that happens. Silly americans haven't figured it out yet. I read somewhere that there is a mass shooting every we...
[16:42:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 647 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:42] <exec> 08└─Likewise - most fishermen are rather quiet, until they start bragging about their prowess at the bar, late in the evening. But, no one expects that a fisherman conceal his rods. Or even his tacklebox. I know fishermen who festoon their clothing with lures, spinners, and other accoutrements of the re...
[16:42:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:45] <exec> 08└─You can keep your Sci-Fi Dystopian Future. I don't want a web of privacy invading robots flying all over the place. I can see them being used in limited fashion, but as a blanket of robots that see all, no thanks.
[16:42:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:47] <exec> 08└─has to wear a weapon
[16:42:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:49] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_shootings_in_the_United_States [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] http://www.gunviolencearchive.org [gunviolencearchive.org] If you use the "4 people shot...
[16:43:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congenital Blindness Reversed in Mice - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:53] <exec> 08└─That would seem inconvenient at best, unless you could easily switch your vision back and forth.
[16:44:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06The Stanford Prison Experiment is Not What We Were Taught - 738 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:21] <exec> 08└─The most stressful times in the life of any society, are times of war. Yes, horrible things happen in war. The "good side" and the "bad side" are often both guilty of doing those horrible things. And yet, great humanitarian gestures are made during these times of stress. People sacrifice their very...
[16:44:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06The Stanford Prison Experiment is Not What We Were Taught - 1455 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:39] <exec> 08└─Yeah, even if the new interpretation of the Stanford Prison Experiment is true (and I don't have time right now to go listen to the audio, etc. as well as context)... It seems to mostly devolve into yet another confirmation of the Milgram experiment, which has been confirmed with variants again and...
[16:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Stanford Prison Experiment is Not What We Were Taught - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:52] <exec> 08└─If there were truly no other opportunities, then yes, those "some" might make a representative sample of their impoverished subset of the population (though still NOT of the population as a whole, nor of military personnel as a whole). But the reality is that there are always other opportunities - m...
[16:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Stanford Prison Experiment is Not What We Were Taught - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:53] <exec> 08└─You're looking for a word to describe the Seville Statement, but your STEM background hasn't given it to you. Let a medievalist help: the word you want is "dogma." The Seville Statement is dogma, taught belief that an authority requires its subjects to believe; believing otherwise is heresy. Replace...
[16:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Stanford Prison Experiment is Not What We Were Taught - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:56] <exec> 08└─It's certainly understandable, but even if those three were truly the only options, then those who chose the military would *still* be a biased self-selected sample of those presented with the choice.
[16:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Faces EU Fine If Terror Lingers for an Hour - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:57] <exec> 08└─You realize, that Russian is definitely a military superpower. China may as well be defined the same way as well.
[16:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Faces EU Fine If Terror Lingers for an Hour - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:58] <exec> 08└─That's certainly what they'd like the world to believe - however, from what I can find the general consensus is that the US military would likely clobber either (or both) those militaries in a toe-to-toe conventional conflict, though the real-world outcome would likely be heavily influenced by polit...
[16:49:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews' Recent 50x Errors and RSS/Atom Feed Issues Corrected - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:32] <exec> 08└─A script that runs every 5 minutes to check disk free space, and for very large files every 30 minutes, throws a report as an email and uploaded to a DB which outputs to a HTML page showing % free disk space and highlights disks with less than 20% free, with difference colors and flashing as it gets...
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[17:41:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Claims It Thwarted Russian Phishing Attacks on Conservative Think Tanks - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:14] <exec> 08└─We know they penetrated republican infrastructure during the election, too. They only leak the Dem stuff, though. FBI's Comey: Republicans also hacked by Russia (Jan 2017) [cnn.com] Washington (CNN)Top intelligence officials indicated on Tuesday that the GOP was also a Russian hacking target but tha...
[17:41:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Microsoft Claims It Thwarted Russian Phishing Attacks on Conservative Think Tanks - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:15] <exec> 08└─Another day, another piece of evidence that Russia is still hard at work trying to interfere in our elections. Targeting groups that are vocally anti-Russia or anti-Russian interference can't be a surprise to anyone (except maybe the occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue). Require 2-factor authentica...
[17:41:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Microsoft Claims It Thwarted Russian Phishing Attacks on Conservative Think Tanks - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:18] <exec> 08└─... disrupt and transfer control of six internet domains created by a group widely associated with the Russian government and known as Strontium...
[17:41:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Workers in Open-Plan Offices 'More Active' - 1040 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:28] <exec> 08└─I'm nowadays in a home office, which is even better, but in all my years in working for other people, by far the best environment was when I had my own office, with actual walls and a door. Even though that office was a space I'd spent a bit of my time converting from a storage closet. Next-best was...
[17:41:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03urza9814 [3954] 02 - 06Workers in Open-Plan Offices 'More Active' - 620 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:31] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I'm definitely "more active" in my open plan office than when I used to be in a cube. It's not because I'm going to meetings, it's not because I'm going to discuss with people. It's because the noise and distractions drive me fucking mad and I have to periodically go spend a half hour outside...
[17:41:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Workers in Open-Plan Offices 'More Active' - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:34] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, that's not how stress works. Your time outside the office might seem less stressful in comparison to in the office, but it would still be more stressful than your time outside of the original less-stressful office.
[17:41:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Workers in Open-Plan Offices 'More Active' - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:36] <exec> 08└─More active, sure. More productive, depends of the kind of worker you are: a solver or a begger. Open-Plan offices encourage beggers to continually interrupt other workers to solve their issues in detriment of their assigned tasks. And once you fall in the solver category are doomed. That may be goo...
[17:41:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Workers in Open-Plan Offices 'More Active' - 1775 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:38] <exec> 08└─Reminds me of a new hire we had once. We told facilities and HR we needed a new person. HR got on it right away, but facilities kept dragging their feet and then finally told us that they couldn't do anything until the person was actually hired. We hired the guy and IT provisioned their equipment, b...
[17:41:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] 02 - 06Twenty-two States Ask U.S. Appeals Court to Reinstate 'Net Neutrality' Rules - 712 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:47] <exec> 08└─It is important to realize that the only reason ISPs have not already turned your internet connections in to a mess of cable-channel like tiered subscriptions is to make it look like net neutrality is not needed. Once all opposition to net neutrality is finally dead, buried, and forgotten, they will...
[17:41:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twenty-two States Ask U.S. Appeals Court to Reinstate 'Net Neutrality' Rules - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:58] <exec> 08└─Stay vigilant, you can't trust the system. Maaan!
[17:42:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twenty-two States Ask U.S. Appeals Court to Reinstate 'Net Neutrality' Rules - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:01] <exec> 08└─Listen, is 3AM around here and tomorrow I have enough to work, so I might not be able to stay onto this thread as much as I like (or need?) Maybe you should ponder on the "provoking readers into an emotional response or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion" bit. Especially since you re...
[17:42:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twenty-two States Ask U.S. Appeals Court to Reinstate 'Net Neutrality' Rules - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:03] <exec> 08└─I think takyon just got slow-trolled!
[17:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twenty-two States Ask U.S. Appeals Court to Reinstate 'Net Neutrality' Rules - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:05] <exec> 08└─Did you intended that way (with an "... or else" almost implied)?
[17:42:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twenty-two States Ask U.S. Appeals Court to Reinstate 'Net Neutrality' Rules - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:07] <exec> 08└─The lawsuit alleges that the Obama admin did follow the rules and the Trump admin did not. Evaluating whether the Trump admin broke the rules or not is the purview of the court.
[17:42:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twenty-two States Ask U.S. Appeals Court to Reinstate 'Net Neutrality' Rules - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:09] <exec> 08└─Just a reminder that every single Democrat voted FOR Net Neutrality. All but 3 Republicans voted against it. If this is an issue you care about there is a stark difference between Dems and Reps here.
[17:42:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twenty-two States Ask U.S. Appeals Court to Reinstate 'Net Neutrality' Rules - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:11] <exec> 08└─Especially since you replied to a small print remark in the footnote of a comment asking for "take your time and come with a well made, in a good taste, slow trolling".
[17:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Finds Ice on the Surface of the Moon - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:24] <exec> 08└─https://www.ice.gov/ [ice.gov] So, now we're paying for ICE to post officers to the lunar poles, because of illegal aliens? Are there any limits to this insanity? https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[17:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Finds Ice on the Surface of the Moon - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:25] <exec> 08└─Yes, but remember Earth's gravity is not enough to hold an atmosphere. The Van Allen belts https://www.space.com [space.com] deflect much of the solar wind, protecting our thin shell of an atmosphere. It's theorized that Mars might once have had a good atmosphere...
[17:43:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:03] <exec> 08└─That was normal perhaps a hundred years ago. The Old West died out quite some time ago.
[17:43:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:04] <exec> 08└─I would like to introduce you to an organization called PETA. They are full of very smart, easy going, vegetarians, who in no way would promote violence against others, especially animals. </sarcasm>
[17:43:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:06] <exec> 08└─Yes, it did, but open carry is not an old west thing. I'm considerably younger than a century old myself, and I can remember when going to school with a gun didn't cause any alarm at all. The principal would keep it in his office till the last bell rang, then return them to you as you left. As far a...
[17:43:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:09] <exec> 08└─This is yet another example of the overtly liberal 9th circuit court. I expect the Breitberts of the country will be up in arms at this horrible judicial overreach and travesty of justice. Any minute now... Yeah...
[17:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Stanford Prison Experiment is Not What We Were Taught - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:14] <exec> 08└─You're glorifying the sacrifice. On the one hand you acknowledge that the killing is bad, but you portray someone sacrificing their life as being a "great thing". Don't you realize that usually those instances of someone sacrificing their life mean that they were killed by someone else? It's just as...
[17:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Stanford Prison Experiment is Not What We Were Taught - 862 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:16] <exec> 08└─Another interesting fact about the experiment, described here: [allthatsinteresting.com] By this point, Zimbardo had become fully immersed in the experiment himself. As he later admitted, it was never going to be possible for him to maintain objectivity in his role as prison administrator, and so he...
[17:48:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Gets Sued Over Two-Factor Security Flaws and $23M Cryptocurrency Theft - 1053 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:25] <exec> 08└─Interesting, and will mod that way too... I think the other thing it takes when it comes to $20 million is to have a system around it to protect it. Not just physical and data security as you mention but insurance and diversification of sources of deposit and an industry structure that has standards...
[17:48:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Gets Sued Over Two-Factor Security Flaws and $23M Cryptocurrency Theft - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:27] <exec> 08└─Cause you lose your dongle or it is stolen and then you're just as screwed to get at your data as if it had been stolen?
[17:48:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Gets Sued Over Two-Factor Security Flaws and $23M Cryptocurrency Theft - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:29] <exec> 08└─If the courts decide not caring will cost substantial money. they'll start caring.
[17:50:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lab-Made Magnesite could be Used for CO2 Capture - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:40] <exec> 08└─The money might be worth spending *if* the process does decrease CO2 overall and you put a high value on lowering that number.
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[18:41:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Claims It Thwarted Russian Phishing Attacks on Conservative Think Tanks - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:30] <exec> 08└─Actually - isn't Microsoft attempting to interfere in our elections with this? They are going to offer "protection" to people who play ball, but that "protection" involves stashing all of your sekrits on MS servers. I mean, it's not like MS owns bunches of 'puters or anything. It might even be worse...
[18:41:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Claims It Thwarted Russian Phishing Attacks on Conservative Think Tanks - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:31] <exec> 08└─Simply observing the behavior of Trump with regards to Russia and Putin really clarifies everything. No doubt other countries are doing similar things, but the ties between Trump and Russia are just so blatantly obvious that I think it has hoodwinked a few people. Like Trump's strategy of just "decl...
[18:41:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Microsoft Claims It Thwarted Russian Phishing Attacks on Conservative Think Tanks - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:33] <exec> 08└─Accept that Russia is trying hard to capsize the boat of democracy
[18:41:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Claims It Thwarted Russian Phishing Attacks on Conservative Think Tanks - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:35] <exec> 08└─Hey Microsoft, please own up to the fact that you largely made the attacks possible, and that your feature-driven, rather than security-driven business model has largely steered the computing market and world.
[18:41:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Claims It Thwarted Russian Phishing Attacks on Conservative Think Tanks - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:37] <exec> 08└─Cool story bro. Accept that Russia is trying hard to capsize the boat of democracy or accept that they will own you.
[18:41:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Claims It Thwarted Russian Phishing Attacks on Conservative Think Tanks - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:39] <exec> 08└─Common knowledge back in the cold war days. I worked in a plant producing civilian avionics parts with armed guards at all exits. Possession of a wire longer than 6" was grounds for immediate termination as it could be used in some sort of transmission device. People were a lot more paranoid back th...
[18:41:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Workers in Open-Plan Offices 'More Active' - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:55] <exec> 08└─I think he meant the de-stressing time after the heart attack. Either way recovering in the hospital or "relaxing" in a pine box, its less stressful.
[18:41:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Workers in Open-Plan Offices 'More Active' - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:57] <exec> 08└─What's an "SVP"?
[18:41:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Workers in Open-Plan Offices 'More Active' - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:59] <exec> 08└─Open-Plan offices encourage beggers to continually interrupt other workers to solve their issues in detriment of their assigned tasks. And once you fall in the solver category are doomed. That may be good for the company or not, but definitely rarely for those solvers not being able to develop their...
[18:42:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Workers in Open-Plan Offices 'More Active' - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:01] <exec> 08└─Noisy open plan offices are among the worst places for doing anything requiring concentration. Stupid managers who confuse activity for productivity like to see their employees active in an open plan office Then when the deadlines are missed...
[18:42:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Twenty-two States Ask U.S. Appeals Court to Reinstate 'Net Neutrality' Rules - 27 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:12] <exec> 08└─"Soylent FastTroll Service"
[18:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twenty-two States Ask U.S. Appeals Court to Reinstate 'Net Neutrality' Rules - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:27] <exec> 08└─My apologies. I'll grin next time. No hard feelings, Ok?
[18:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twenty-two States Ask U.S. Appeals Court to Reinstate 'Net Neutrality' Rules - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:29] <exec> 08└─Get some sleep!
[18:42:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twenty-two States Ask U.S. Appeals Court to Reinstate 'Net Neutrality' Rules - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:31] <exec> 08└─That is not how you write an appeal. Your posts definitely have an authoritarian streak to them, but I can't really refute the excessive political stories complaint.
[18:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twenty-two States Ask U.S. Appeals Court to Reinstate 'Net Neutrality' Rules - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:33] <exec> 08└─Guess I'll have to practice by writing more demands. I mean appeals.
[18:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twenty-two States Ask U.S. Appeals Court to Reinstate 'Net Neutrality' Rules - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:35] <exec> 08└─· [xkcd.com]
[18:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twenty-two States Ask U.S. Appeals Court to Reinstate 'Net Neutrality' Rules - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:37] <exec> 08└─I hope it was all legitimate, but often that is a sign of party politics. Knowing the opposition will vote it in any sympathetic dems could vote no for the political points.
[18:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twenty-two States Ask U.S. Appeals Court to Reinstate 'Net Neutrality' Rules - 3355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:40] <exec> 08└─More generically, The legislative branch is responsible for creating laws. They are also responsible for creating agencies (like the FCC and the EPA) with the power to regulate certain agencies or behavior. The legislature can set laws to mandate certain processes or certain outcomes on the regulato...
[18:42:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twenty-two States Ask U.S. Appeals Court to Reinstate 'Net Neutrality' Rules - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:42] <exec> 08└─Guess I'll have to practice by writing more demands. I mean appeals.
[18:43:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:37] <exec> 08└─WTF do I need to hide what I have a right to do? Should I also hide the fact that I'm a voter? That I engage in sex?
[18:43:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gaaark [41] 02 - 06The Scientists who Starved to Death Surrounded by Food - 209 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:50] <exec> 08└─Yes, but they also plant seeds next to a farmer's field and when there is cross pollination they sue the farmer for stealing their IP. They also kill bees and other insects with Roundup. Anything for a dollar.
[18:46:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Faces EU Fine If Terror Lingers for an Hour - 894 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:52] <exec> 08└─Oh, I fully appreciate that we should care about what big countries do, it's about how much we care compared to other things. I'm unsure why we (here) need to know every twist and turn in, say, a court case involving a US election campaign manager, details of a retired FBI director's memoirs, and ac...
[18:46:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Faces EU Fine If Terror Lingers for an Hour - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:53] <exec> 08└─Just because, you're the top dog doesn't negate the fact that others have similar power. In reality, anyone attacking any of those 3 would have signed their own death warrant. Any real conflict between those 3 powers while likely that the USA would come out "on top", it would be bloody and definitel...
[18:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Faces EU Fine If Terror Lingers for an Hour - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:55] <exec> 08└─It sounds like you have more context about the issue. Could you explain the news such as the following? https://www.thelocal.de [thelocal.de] https://www.bloomberg.com
[18:47:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cybersex Toy Industry Heats Up as Infamous “Teledildonics” Patent Climaxes - 887 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:45] <exec> 08└─Hooking a fleshlight up to a piston isn't exactly rocket surgery, and it's been done already, by a good few companies. Never mind the oscillating "guybrators" that have been popping up over the past few years and potentials to integrate them with external controls. And it's probably not worth mentio...
[18:47:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cybersex Toy Industry Heats Up as Infamous “Teledildonics” Patent Climaxes - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:47] <exec> 08└─It'll cause other social maladies, but that'll only be temporary. You need to produce more children in order to have a society to have said maladies. Basically, the world is going to turn into Japan.
[18:49:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Gets Sued Over Two-Factor Security Flaws and $23M Cryptocurrency Theft - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:07] <exec> 08└─I think the other thing it takes when it comes to $20 million is to have a system around it to protect it. ..... All the stuff that cryptocurrency isn't because it's a system based on trust not being necessary.
[18:49:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Gets Sued Over Two-Factor Security Flaws and $23M Cryptocurrency Theft - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:08] <exec> 08└─If the courts decide not caring will cost substantial money. they'll start caring.
[18:49:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Gets Sued Over Two-Factor Security Flaws and $23M Cryptocurrency Theft - 644 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:10] <exec> 08└─In the case at hand, as pre-arranged with the customer, knowledge of a password was the criterion. Had the AT&T employee actually asked for the password as AT&T and the customer agreed, this wouldn't have happened. An alternative that might be offered if agreed with the customer is that a letter is...
[18:49:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Gets Sued Over Two-Factor Security Flaws and $23M Cryptocurrency Theft - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:12] <exec> 08└─Had the AT&T employee actually asked for the password as AT&T and the customer agreed, this wouldn't have happened.
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[19:41:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Sued For Unwanted Tracking Of Phone Locations - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:31] <exec> 08└─EULA Google will argue that they clearly disclosed their policies in the EULA (with obvious air quotes around "clearly"). That by using Google's services, "opted in" to those policies. That they provided different controls that allow consumers to turn certain location tracking on or off for differen...
[19:41:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Microsoft Claims It Thwarted Russian Phishing Attacks on Conservative Think Tanks - 66 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:44] <exec> 08└─Accept that Russia is trying hard to capsize the boat of democracy
[19:41:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Claims It Thwarted Russian Phishing Attacks on Conservative Think Tanks - 949 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:50] <exec> 08└─The rise of the anti-PAC Democrat [pbs.org] A growing number of Democrats running for Congress in 2018 are foregoing contributions from political action committees, opting for a more grassroots approach to fundraising in a bid to appeal to the party’s progressive base. ... Now, looking to the midt...
[19:42:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Workers in Open-Plan Offices 'More Active' - 803 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:09] <exec> 08└─Companies learned long ago that if you give people a fancy sounding title, then they will take less money due to the prestige. So our hierarchy goes like this: Chairman of the Board; Vice-chairs of the board; the board; the President; 5(?) C*Os (e.g. CEO, CFO, CTO, COO); the ~15 SEVPs (Senior Execut...
[19:42:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Workers in Open-Plan Offices 'More Active' - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:11] <exec> 08└─So this is actually a very good thing. It makes employees more active and healthy while decreasing their performance. But decreased performance is the company's problem, and since everyone's performance is decreased, the company can't just fire any one person and they can't back out and admit open o...
[19:42:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Workers in Open-Plan Offices 'More Active' - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:13] <exec> 08└─SVP = Senior Vice-President VP = Vice-President They are predominantly American (USA) titles that indicate the relative position in an office hierarchy. SVP outranks VP. 'C-level' indicates someone on a company's board - like Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Chief Information Officer (CIO), Chief Fina...
[19:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Workers in Open-Plan Offices 'More Active' - 711 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:15] <exec> 08└─Boss: Why did you miss the project deadline? Peon: It is too loud in here to concentrate on this delicate task to finish it in that amount of time. Boss: Then use a breakout room. Peon: They are full all the time because we have 6 breakout rooms and 30-some people in here. Boss: Then stay late or co...
[19:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Workers in Open-Plan Offices 'More Active' - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:17] <exec> 08└─Oh, and fun fact. I'm a "General Manager" despite the fact that I have evaluation powers over nobody. It is literally the next step up from my last job as a Senior. They don't even ask me how my secretary is doing (sorry, I meant my Senior Legal Assistant, Compliance). Instead, she reports to the Se...
[19:42:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twenty-two States Ask U.S. Appeals Court to Reinstate 'Net Neutrality' Rules - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:52] <exec> 08└─Some people have trouble being subservient even for politeness. Many are taught to be the bullshitting confident types who tell people to lead, follow, or get out of the way. It is a problem, everyone trying to act like the silverback alpha when in reality few qualify for boy scout troop leader. Usu...
[19:42:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twenty-two States Ask U.S. Appeals Court to Reinstate 'Net Neutrality' Rules - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:54] <exec> 08└─Alternatively, Democrats could actually be in favor of Net Neutrality. Considering they implemented it once already that seems a bit simpler of an explanation.
[19:43:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 113 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:20] <exec> 08└─The NRA's position makes sense. Open carry wouldn't sell more guns and the added controversy would probably hurt.
[19:43:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:49] <exec> 08└─Turn on your hunting mode. Turn off your victim mode. When I get chased by dogs on my ride I just turn around and chase them back. They all run.
[19:43:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:51] <exec> 08└─"I have suggested a few times that all able-bodied, sane, rational, males be required to maintain a weapon" All two of them?
[19:43:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:53] <exec> 08└─Jack ass.
[19:44:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03iWantToKeepAnon [686] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Scientists who Starved to Death Surrounded by Food - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:09] <exec> 08└─Did they really have strains that no one else on earth had? That no one else on earth could reproduce? Seems extreme to me ... at least without actually bothering to RTFA.
[19:44:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Scientists who Starved to Death Surrounded by Food - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:11] <exec> 08└─Leningrad was in the Russian part of Soviet Union. Beautiful city and used to be the capital of Russia. When they had kings and a HUGE empire. But, get this, the Palace is only three stories tall. I took a look at it, I said, I can do much better. Because I'd done much better in America. My hotel wa...
[19:44:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Scientists who Starved to Death Surrounded by Food - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:13] <exec> 08└─Um, how do you think someone could "reproduce" a variety they didn't have?
[19:44:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Announces RTX 2080 Ti, 2080, and 2070 GPUs, Claims 25x Increase in Ray-Tracing Performance - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:39] <exec> 08└─AMD won't have anything new out until probably near the end of Q1 or beginning of Q2 next year. Even then, I'd bet what they release won't be able to compete with the high-end NV cards.
[19:45:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Astronomers Detect Synchronous X-Ray and Radio Mode Switching of the Pulsar PSR B0823+26 - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:21] <exec> 08└─The Church tried to grind Galileo into the ground, too, when he questioned the prevailing dogma.
[19:49:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Gets Sued Over Two-Factor Security Flaws and $23M Cryptocurrency Theft - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:29] <exec> 08└─Actually, if the lack of the password had prevented intercepting the 2FA, it absolutely would have foiled the theft. It was an integral party of the theft. It was explicitly agreed to by AT&T and then they didn't do it. As a direct result, the phone was hijacked and the 2FA was defeated. And I alrea...
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[20:41:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is It the End of the 9 to 5 Working Day? (UK) - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:46] <exec> 08└─It many cases, it wouldn't matter much if employees' start time varied by an hour from each other. And as the PHBs keep chanting "productivity and deadlines not activity and hours." Working environments with the flexibility tend to be less stressful and more productive. I really can't understand why...
[20:41:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is It the End of the 9 to 5 Working Day? (UK) - 725 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:48] <exec> 08└─Does anyone actually work 9 to 5? As long as I can remember it was 8 to 5. Except, in the 1980's it actually was 8:30 to 5:30 because we were all young and there were four of us. There were no official vacation days or hours. We would go on vacation when we wanted, and nobody put the company in a bi...
[20:41:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is It the End of the 9 to 5 Working Day? (UK) - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:50] <exec> 08└─They don't understand why you're so fucking inept. Take your kids to work 15 minutes earlier in the morning, so that you show up at work at the time to which you already agreed. Life sucks; that's not your employer's fault.
[20:41:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is It the End of the 9 to 5 Working Day? (UK) - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:53] <exec> 08└─The more of your comments I read, the more I realize what a shallow, unthinking, Borg-like collectivist lefty you really are.
[20:42:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Sued For Unwanted Tracking Of Phone Locations - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:02] <exec> 08└─EULAs like that should not be considered valid, since it's a race to the bottom where nearly all disservices and proprietary software spy on the user. As if proprietary software isn't already bad for denying the users their freedoms, they have to add secondary abuses as well.
[20:42:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Claims It Thwarted Russian Phishing Attacks on Conservative Think Tanks - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:23] <exec> 08└─Actually, these are phishing attempts that try to trick someone into clicking a link and entering their username & password in a fake version of <insert name of service here>. As much as I loath Microsoft, they are not to blame for people's irresponsible email practices.
[20:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Claims It Thwarted Russian Phishing Attacks on Conservative Think Tanks - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:24] <exec> 08└─I modded your comment +1 Informative, because it is, but I can't see the people and organisations who run the US letting these anti-PAC Democrats have their way if the Justice Democrats are even being honest about their intentions. I suppose we will find out in due course.
[20:42:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Workers in Open-Plan Offices 'More Active' - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:50] <exec> 08└─senior vice president
[20:42:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Workers in Open-Plan Offices 'More Active' - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:52] <exec> 08└─EVP = Executive Vice President (I happen to have the ear of one of those, and on occasion it is a good thing.)
[20:42:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Workers in Open-Plan Offices 'More Active' - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:54] <exec> 08└─I'm nowadays in a home office
[20:42:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Workers in Open-Plan Offices 'More Active' - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:56] <exec> 08└─There are some good nose counseling headphones that go over the ear and make it pretty quiet. USB rechargeable. You could even listen to music.
[20:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Workers in Open-Plan Offices 'More Active' - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:58] <exec> 08└─I agree, but its trying to find places to hide, and get away from all these people. Not active in a good way. Desks are now empty a lot, never was before. And ya, i live in one of those places that just converted and tore down our cubes, it sucks. Sucks bad.
[20:42:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Workers in Open-Plan Offices 'More Active' - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:00] <exec> 08└─Open Plan Office --> More Active What they actually mean is more active shooters.
[20:43:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Workers in Open-Plan Offices 'More Active' - 2441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:02] <exec> 08└─Also... You can have an entirely 100% remote workforce that has beggars with high productivity scores and solvers that are doing horribly, because no one measures who is doing the work. The solvers look bad making the beggars look good. The numbers and metrics are for who has work done and how much,...
[20:43:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Twenty-two States Ask U.S. Appeals Court to Reinstate 'Net Neutrality' Rules - 199 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:27] <exec> 08└─Just a reminder that every single Democrat voted FOR Net Neutrality. All but 3 Republicans voted against it. If this is an issue you care about there is a stark difference between Dems and Reps here.
[20:43:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MrGuy [1007] 02 - 06Twenty-two States Ask U.S. Appeals Court to Reinstate 'Net Neutrality' Rules - 3355 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:35] <exec> 08└─More generically, The legislative branch is responsible for creating laws. They are also responsible for creating agencies (like the FCC and the EPA) with the power to regulate certain agencies or behavior. The legislature can set laws to mandate certain processes or certain outcomes on the regulato...
[20:43:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twenty-two States Ask U.S. Appeals Court to Reinstate 'Net Neutrality' Rules - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:40] <exec> 08└─Tell me about it. Every time Net Neutrality comes up, and every time it's pointed out how one-sided and partisan the divide is, someone always tries to write that off completely with the notion that it's "not what they really believe in" and that they're just "voting the party line", or even that th...
[20:43:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twenty-two States Ask U.S. Appeals Court to Reinstate 'Net Neutrality' Rules - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:42] <exec> 08└─Ajit Pai might not be in office forever.
[20:44:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:42] <exec> 08└─Airsoft toys already come with a bright orange tip to alert law enforcement that they are non-lethal. A kid walking around with a real gun with a fake orange airsoft tip on it would be doubly evil - I'm surprised we haven't heard of this happening with a mass shooter yet.
[20:44:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:43] <exec> 08└─Didn't comment on what was right, or proper (and still won't.) Did comment that open carry takes a bit more courage than concealed carry, and also commented that the concealed carriers I know are all basically cowards at heart - they aren't carrying to protect other people, they're carrying to make...
[20:44:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:45] <exec> 08└─I don't think the NRA is looking for every person to own a weapon. I think the NRA is looking for a small group of enthusiasts to own upwards of 100 weapons each, give a couple dozen weapons each to their close family members, and practice shooting as a hobby/sport. I decided against gun ownership f...
[20:44:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:47] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't expect them to see all, just to see me, and if the footage is boring - delete it before letting it go public. However, if I'm a black man open-carrying, I think I'd be making that footage public instantly, just in case - and as an insurance policy for the family.
[20:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score: 2) 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:49] <exec> 08└─It's not *mutual respect* if everyone has to wear a weapon. That's not how respect, trust, and friendships are built.
[20:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:51] <exec> 08└─Me too. I've wondered that for some time.
[20:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03number11 [1170] (Score: 2) 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:54] <exec> 08└─I have suggested a few times that all able-bodied, sane, rational, males be required to maintain a weapon - that is, the militia should have weapons at their disposal. All able bodied males between the ages of 18 and 40-something.
[20:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03number11 [1170] (Score: 2) 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:56] <exec> 08└─Bright gun colors will be in style.
[20:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Scientists who Starved to Death Surrounded by Food - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:17] <exec> 08└─No, they aren't that stupid to kill insects with a herbicide.
[20:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Scientists who Starved to Death Surrounded by Food - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:18] <exec> 08└─I used to think the same, but when I looked more into the case I realized that he was in fact willfully using their seeds without paying. The amount of crops he had with the roundup resistant gene were far higher than simple cross-pollination would have caused. I still believe Monsanto is ridiculous...
[20:45:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Announces RTX 2080 Ti, 2080, and 2070 GPUs, Claims 25x Increase in Ray-Tracing Performance - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:46] <exec> 08└─> Even then, I'd bet what they release won't be able to compete with the high-end NV cards. That's what Intel said ... *crosses fingers*
[20:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Stanford Prison Experiment is Not What We Were Taught - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:14] <exec> 08└─Get going. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a takeoff. Don't just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won't happen. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you'll love it up here. apply.whitehouse.gov [whitehouse.gov]
[20:47:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Stanford Prison Experiment is Not What We Were Taught - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:15] <exec> 08└─My tweet landed in the wrong place. Sorry folks!!!
[20:47:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Stanford Prison Experiment is Not What We Were Taught - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:17] <exec> 08└─A significant chunk of the $700B goes to the pockets of lower and middle-class people who would otherwise have to find jobs in teledildonics.
[20:47:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Stanford Prison Experiment is Not What We Were Taught - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:20] <exec> 08└─Have you thought about working at my White Houses? Girls will do anything for a White House guy. Anything he tells them to do -- proven by Milgram, or Milgrim experiment on Dateline NBC. I just tweeted the link to apply. But unfortunately it went to the wrong place!!!
[20:47:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Stanford Prison Experiment is Not What We Were Taught - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:22] <exec> 08└─This. And the people are conditioned from birth to be proud of their prison and to admire, respect and obey their prison wardens. Above all else, the moral code that is taught centers on the work ethic. Toiling for the good of the system, with the goal of profit, becomes one of the strongest moral o...
[20:48:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Faces EU Fine If Terror Lingers for an Hour - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:29] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it would be awful if the US government withdrew its' trillions of $$$ of foreign aid from all those countries. I'd like to see the CIA ground into nutrient paste myself, and I would love to see the US armed forces less used by the Petro-Chem industry but there are dozens of nations that derive...
[20:48:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Faces EU Fine If Terror Lingers for an Hour - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:31] <exec> 08└─True enough. I was just making the point that in most Western nations people travel overseas, and will be more likely to have actually visited America, whereas the average American seems to view foreign countries as on another planet or something. I live several thousand kilometres away from the U...
[20:51:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Square Can Now Process Chip Cards in Two Seconds - 312 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:00] <exec> 08└─What a strange achievement. I have been paying with a chip+pin EU debet mc card last 5 years at least, and as far as i noticed, the transaction never take longer then 1 second... Sometimes, veeery seldom, it does wait 2-3 seconds... Ya, its not a real credit card, lol, But the chip is same as in oth...
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[21:41:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Is It the End of the 9 to 5 Working Day? (UK) - 829 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:34] <exec> 08└─i'd never have put the Australian Governemnt down as "progressive" Australian Public Servants, even 25 years ago, have been able to work "flexible hours". I used to try and get to work by 7:30am so I could leave by 3. Some in the office arrived at 10, and worked til 6. Anything over 7:35 was "banked...
[21:41:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is It the End of the 9 to 5 Working Day? (UK) - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:36] <exec> 08└─Yea I'll never forget when I got my first "real" white collar job and realized Dolly lied to us all...
[21:41:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is It the End of the 9 to 5 Working Day? (UK) - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:38] <exec> 08└─One place I worked told me when I started about the flexible hours, with just a requirement that everyone was present for a shorter block of hours in the middle of every day and worked the same total hours. It was quite clearly bullshit though because I was soon berated by the boss for arriving at 9...
[21:41:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is It the End of the 9 to 5 Working Day? (UK) - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:40] <exec> 08└─I do 8:00 to 12:00 and 12:30 to 15:30. Working 35hr (32.5 in the summer) a week and being paid more than my peers who work 40h that is wonderful. Unions are not only there to collect membership fees you know.
[21:41:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is It the End of the 9 to 5 Working Day? (UK) - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:42] <exec> 08└─Ha ha!
[21:41:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is It the End of the 9 to 5 Working Day? (UK) - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:44] <exec> 08└─I've NEVER worked 9 to 5. That's only 8 hours, including lunch and breaks. All my employers have always read "40 hours work week" as meaning 8 hours plus breaks, so 8 to 5, or 9 to 6. My current company has "anytime before 9:30 to don't-expect-to-leave-until-well-after 6:30", plus the occasional ear...
[21:41:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Sued For Unwanted Tracking Of Phone Locations - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:55] <exec> 08└─Do we really want to nail Google? Geez, this is the quickest way yet of nailing cheatin' spouses or finding the employee you thought was home sick was really somewhere else!
[21:42:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Claims It Thwarted Russian Phishing Attacks on Conservative Think Tanks - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:18] <exec> 08└─Is it anti-pac and former spy or anti-pac vs former spy? https://www.wsws.org [wsws.org]
[21:42:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Claims It Thwarted Russian Phishing Attacks on Conservative Think Tanks - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:19] <exec> 08└─Is this a list of the candidates? https://en.m.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] The original article said 51 people were running under the anti-PAC label but I count 0/4 for senate and 42/71 eliminated from house races with 8 TBA and 21 wins/advances. I spot checked a few of the...
[21:42:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Claims It Thwarted Russian Phishing Attacks on Conservative Think Tanks - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:21] <exec> 08└─civilian avionics parts
[21:42:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Claims It Thwarted Russian Phishing Attacks on Conservative Think Tanks - 867 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:23] <exec> 08└─Hillary's troubles are that she pissed off DNC staff members who were devoted to Bernie. These people had the means and the motive to leak. It was trivial, no hacking required: put it on a USB stick and walk out the door. Julian Assange even hinted at who the leaker was, clearly struggling with his...
[21:42:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Workers in Open-Plan Offices 'More Active' - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:57] <exec> 08└─...I have a grueling 10 minute commute with 5 traffic lights...
[21:42:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Workers in Open-Plan Offices 'More Active' - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:58] <exec> 08└─Oh, it has so many health and stress benifits? Fantastic. Move all management to open office floorplans, including the C-tier and VPs. Until then, please realize everyone sees right through this bullshit.
[21:42:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Workers in Open-Plan Offices 'More Active' - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:00] <exec> 08└─Lots of people have answered this correctly, but I think they're all a little bit wrong too. After working at a massive US-owned multi-national for a few years now I think a Senior Vice President is someone who once ran a part of the business, and was promoted into a role he (or she) has no clue ab...
[21:43:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kell [292] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Workers in Open-Plan Offices 'More Active' - 740 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:02] <exec> 08└─And if you're doing anything even mildly maths related (eg. engineering, analysis), then that music is nothing but a distraction. Hell, even the pressure of headphones on my head is sometimes too much when I really have to think deeply. I am blessed as an associate professor to have an office with a...
[21:43:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twenty-two States Ask U.S. Appeals Court to Reinstate 'Net Neutrality' Rules - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:41] <exec> 08└─You don't like peanut butter?
[21:43:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twenty-two States Ask U.S. Appeals Court to Reinstate 'Net Neutrality' Rules - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:43] <exec> 08└─Why dont states just pass their own laws about it?
[21:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:52] <exec> 08└─This is not true. Snopes bias is showing in that they purposely word this to pretend they're refuting something they aren't, but even with their bias they admit that you're not more likely to be shot even with a firearm as a minority. https://www.snopes.com
[21:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 898 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:53] <exec> 08└─So, only in the event that it's a black man carrying is it posted publicly. Yeah, that doesn't sound good / better. There are/were rules in place to protect one's privacy. Sure, we may have more or less signed them away with the "Patriot Act", but at least that's not a lets look at everyone, everywh...
[21:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:55] <exec> 08└─When that rod can propel 10+ Hula Poppers in rapid succession, each at 1000 feet per second, let us know. I'd prefer to stay the hell out of that bar.
[21:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 1499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:57] <exec> 08└─So, black is the just shorthand. I'm white, very white, but also have had long hair and/or beards at times, and that can get its own kind of persecution from law enforcement, especially when younger. If I were choosing to open carry with long hair in a conservative/rural area, I'd like to have that...
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[22:41:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Understanding of Light Momentum: Researchers Shine a Light on 150-Year Old Mystery - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:39] <exec> 08└─Oh, never mind...
[22:41:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Understanding of Light Momentum: Researchers Shine a Light on 150-Year Old Mystery - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:40] <exec> 08└─Beam me up?
[22:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Understanding of Light Momentum: Researchers Shine a Light on 150-Year Old Mystery - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:43] <exec> 08└─As a non-physicist, I figured light(photons) had momentum, otherwise lightsails for spacecraft propulsion would not be viable.
[22:41:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Understanding of Light Momentum: Researchers Shine a Light on 150-Year Old Mystery - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:45] <exec> 08└─It is easier to disassemble than to reassemble. I can almost imagine the shockwaves from the fotonic momentum when thinking about getting reassembled from the beam.
[22:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Understanding of Light Momentum: Researchers Shine a Light on 150-Year Old Mystery - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:47] <exec> 08└─Nothing you learn about physics as a non physicist is ever correct. Its always that you were just told a simplification once you find out enough to discover the flaw. Theres like 80 layers of this and in the end nobody knows the answer since its too hard to calculate it.
[22:42:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is It the End of the 9 to 5 Working Day? (UK) - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:05] <exec> 08└─I have worked for some self-centred arseholes like that too. If fact I worked for one guy who, when I told him I was going home said "Home? You are home". He also couldn't understand why he couldn't keep staff, which was funny.
[22:42:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Is It the End of the 9 to 5 Working Day? (UK) - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:06] <exec> 08└─The more of your comments I read, the more I realize what a shallow, unthinking, Borg-like collectivist lefty you really are.
[22:42:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is It the End of the 9 to 5 Working Day? (UK) - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:08] <exec> 08└─Why must we suffer such trolls? Go boil your own head if you like it so much, the rest of us like the idea of labor laws and work-life balance.
[22:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is It the End of the 9 to 5 Working Day? (UK) - 1258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:11] <exec> 08└─Nor me, but maybe it's an industry thing? There are certainly plenty of professions where shift patterns (e.g. 24/7 manufacturing) or nominal opening hours (retail) mandate fixed hours, but tech professions don't really need to adhere to that, and often benefit from being outside it - one job I had...
[22:42:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is It the End of the 9 to 5 Working Day? (UK) - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:13] <exec> 08└─9-5 is garbage anyway. It should probably be closer to 30 hours a week.
[22:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Is It the End of the 9 to 5 Working Day? (UK) - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:15] <exec> 08└─The more of your comments I read, the more I realize what a shallow, unthinking, Borg-like collectivist lefty you really are.
[22:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is It the End of the 9 to 5 Working Day? (UK) - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:17] <exec> 08└─Capitalism. Where you choose your own adventure.
[22:42:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is It the End of the 9 to 5 Working Day? (UK) - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:19] <exec> 08└─Lol, so if you agreed to a pay rate at the onset of employment, that's set in stone for life yea? Excellent, where can I send you the employment contract?
[22:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is It the End of the 9 to 5 Working Day? (UK) - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:22] <exec> 08└─uhh.. I learned Dolly lied earlier than that when I found out she was enhanced, talk about shattering a boy's dream..
[22:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kalas [4247] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Sued For Unwanted Tracking Of Phone Locations - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:32] <exec> 08└─"And remember: Evil will always prevail, because Good is dumb." -- Spaceballs
[22:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Sued For Unwanted Tracking Of Phone Locations - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:35] <exec> 08└─How about how easily we will "agree" to EULA's, without even reading them!
[22:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Sued For Unwanted Tracking Of Phone Locations - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:37] <exec> 08└─That's the thing, increasingly there isn't even an option to not be spied upon that doesn't involve moving to a shack in the middle of the woods like the Unibomber. Trying to claim that there was consent when in most cases it's literally impossible to find out what the data is being used for is rath...
[22:42:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Microsoft Claims It Thwarted Russian Phishing Attacks on Conservative Think Tanks - 77 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:53] <exec> 08└─Maybe the republicans were just clean that there was noth-- bwahahahahahahah.
[22:43:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Claims It Thwarted Russian Phishing Attacks on Conservative Think Tanks - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:02] <exec> 08└─all those domains sound like faaaaaake news
[22:43:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Claims It Thwarted Russian Phishing Attacks on Conservative Think Tanks - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:04] <exec> 08└─No, I'm perfectly capable of understanding She Lost, that she was indeed the worst thing the DNC could have done, and that all organizations have their own intentions. And that Russia works very hard to influence American politics. Then again, I didn't vote for either Clinton or Trump.
[22:43:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Claims It Thwarted Russian Phishing Attacks on Conservative Think Tanks - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:07] <exec> 08└─they are not to blame for people's irresponsible email practices.
[22:43:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Claims It Thwarted Russian Phishing Attacks on Conservative Think Tanks - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:09] <exec> 08└─Trump deports avian's [deviantart.net]
[22:43:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03crafoo [6639] 02 - 06Workers in Open-Plan Offices 'More Active' - 204 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:41] <exec> 08└─Oh, it has so many health and stress benifits? Fantastic. Move all management to open office floorplans, including the C-tier and VPs. Until then, please realize everyone sees right through this bullshit.
[22:43:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Workers in Open-Plan Offices 'More Active' - 882 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:45] <exec> 08└─It's all just part of the Zero Privacy Future. Embrace it! Enjoy being tracked by facial recognition and gait analysis algorithms wherever you go. Smile while cash is forcibly made obsolete and all of your purchases can be effortlessly tracked. Revel in the fact that your employer and the many camer...
[22:44:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Twenty-two States Ask U.S. Appeals Court to Reinstate 'Net Neutrality' Rules - 177 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:09] <exec> 08└─The lawsuit alleges that the Obama admin did follow the rules and the Trump admin did not. Evaluating whether the Trump admin broke the rules or not is the purview of the court.
[22:44:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twenty-two States Ask U.S. Appeals Court to Reinstate 'Net Neutrality' Rules - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:27] <exec> 08└─They are also responsible for creating agencies (like the FCC and the EPA) with the power to regulate certain agencies or behavior. The legislature can set laws to mandate certain processes or certain outcomes on the regulatory agencies.
[22:44:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03eravnrekaree [555] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twenty-two States Ask U.S. Appeals Court to Reinstate 'Net Neutrality' Rules - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:28] <exec> 08└─Whatever you say about net neutrality, its a matter of intellectual honesty that a court cannot reinstate these rules. The rules were put into place by the office and removed by the same office. The courts do not have executive powers and cannot instate executive orders on its own, which is what the...
[22:44:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03eravnrekaree [555] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twenty-two States Ask U.S. Appeals Court to Reinstate 'Net Neutrality' Rules - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:30] <exec> 08└─Indeed, that is where these issues belong. Lets just let the individual states do it, this is how things should work under federalism. This would also allow each state to "experiment" and find out what works best and other states can then learn from each other and improve their laws from what is lea...
[22:44:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twenty-two States Ask U.S. Appeals Court to Reinstate 'Net Neutrality' Rules - 776 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:32] <exec> 08└─Some states are, the problem is that the laws aren't necessarily identical. Here in WA State the GOP and Democrats were able to get together and agree that the rules should largely be what they were previously. Both parties submitted similar proposals for fixing the problem and so we've had it back...
[22:44:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03eravnrekaree [555] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twenty-two States Ask U.S. Appeals Court to Reinstate 'Net Neutrality' Rules - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:34] <exec> 08└─It doesnt belong at the federal level anyway. Let individual states come up with their own solutions here, individual states can then compare the effects from the laws and improve on their laws by looking at works best among the laws of the various states. Theres no need for federal intervention on...
[22:44:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twenty-two States Ask U.S. Appeals Court to Reinstate 'Net Neutrality' Rules - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:36] <exec> 08└─The idea of 'net neutrality' was a decent one. But the Obama admin had to turn Title I and II into a pretzel to say they had jurisdiction on this. What is needed is Title III that makes it clear. However, I seriously doubt anyone wants that written down. It is far more easy to point fingers.
[22:44:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twenty-two States Ask U.S. Appeals Court to Reinstate 'Net Neutrality' Rules - 821 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:39] <exec> 08└─Not true, there are rules about what regulatory changes that these agencies can make. If there weren't, then it would be chaos as every administration would want to change lots of things. They are restricted from making regulatory changes purely for political reasons. If they want to change the net-...
[22:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:50] <exec> 08└─How about instead, we just require all cops to wear always-on bodycams while they're performing their civic duty, and if it's found that the camera is turned off at any time, they're automatically fired with no pension or appeal. I get the feeling that would drastically cut down on the "oops we lost...
[22:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03weeds [611] (Score: 2) 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:51] <exec> 08└─I like how you just skipped over the part about, A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State
[22:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:53] <exec> 08└─Jack ass.
[22:46:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06The Scientists who Starved to Death Surrounded by Food - 232 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:03] <exec> 08└─All of the workers also keep the secret while their families and friends were starving. That, to me, was the harder and more commendable sacrifice. These workers really believed in the absolute and unambiguous good of what they did.
[22:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Scientists who Starved to Death Surrounded by Food - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:16] <exec> 08└─rDT: Are you a bot? Also, do you know ELIZA? She speaks very much as you do. Maybe you share the same ancestral line?
[22:46:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Scientists who Starved to Death Surrounded by Food - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:17] <exec> 08└─Grandpa's Scourge: Boll Weevils in the Cotton!
[22:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Announces RTX 2080 Ti, 2080, and 2070 GPUs, Claims 25x Increase in Ray-Tracing Performance - 1062 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:46] <exec> 08└─https://wccftech.com/exclusive-amd-navi-gpu-roadmap-cost-zen/ [wccftech.com] AMD diverted resources from Vega to Ryzen. They are such a small scale company that they couldn't seem to do both properly. However, the cryptomining boom created such demand for GPUs that they managed to do OK with Vega. T...
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[23:41:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Understanding of Light Momentum: Researchers Shine a Light on 150-Year Old Mystery - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:37] <exec> 08└─Crisis averted.
[23:41:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Understanding of Light Momentum: Researchers Shine a Light on 150-Year Old Mystery - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:39] <exec> 08└─"Ooh, man, I can hear the photons". "Cool, now take a toke of this one and you'll be able to feel the light waves". "Groovy, let's publish."
[23:41:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Understanding of Light Momentum: Researchers Shine a Light on 150-Year Old Mystery - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:41] <exec> 08└─EmDrive hovercars with light momentum secret sauce
[23:42:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is It the End of the 9 to 5 Working Day? (UK) - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:07] <exec> 08└─You can work two back-breaking jobs or die in the gutter. Your choice.
[23:42:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is It the End of the 9 to 5 Working Day? (UK) - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:09] <exec> 08└─I think he posted in this thread somewhere.
[23:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is It the End of the 9 to 5 Working Day? (UK) - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:11] <exec> 08└─He also couldn't understand why he couldn't keep staff, which was funny.
[23:42:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is It the End of the 9 to 5 Working Day? (UK) - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:13] <exec> 08└─It depends on how (including where) you choose to live your life. Quit blaming other people for your problems.
[23:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is It the End of the 9 to 5 Working Day? (UK) - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:15] <exec> 08└─The more of your comments I read, the more I realize what a shallow, unthinking, Borg-like collectivist lefty you really are.
[23:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is It the End of the 9 to 5 Working Day? (UK) - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:17] <exec> 08└─Why are you content with your vapid analysis of this discussion? No wonder you proles struggle so much in life; you can't think straight. That makes democracy all the more terrifying.
[23:42:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is It the End of the 9 to 5 Working Day? (UK) - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:19] <exec> 08└─I work 7:30-3:00/3:30 Wake up at 6, get ready for work/help get my son ready for school and off in the afternoon so I can still enjoy the day. Hope that doesn't change, but life always changes.
[23:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is It the End of the 9 to 5 Working Day? (UK) - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:22] <exec> 08└─stealth layoffs nowadays?
[23:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is It the End of the 9 to 5 Working Day? (UK) - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:24] <exec> 08└─You do realize that AC stands for Anonymous Coward and not Annoying Cowpie, right? At least it used to.
[23:43:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Claims It Thwarted Russian Phishing Attacks on Conservative Think Tanks - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:05] <exec> 08└─Nice! Looks like Bernie was a GOOD influence on them. Too bad they didn't see that earlier: HE might be president.
[23:43:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Claims It Thwarted Russian Phishing Attacks on Conservative Think Tanks - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:06] <exec> 08└─Yes, I think it's ridiculous that office365 will accept a password such as, say, Welcome4. GOOD security there, MS....good security. Can't wait to hear the 365 servers were hacked: I'll laugh and laugh! (but MS won't probably ever tell if THAT happens.)
[23:43:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Claims It Thwarted Russian Phishing Attacks on Conservative Think Tanks - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:09] <exec> 08└─I had to stop using outlook because they were obscuring the origin of every link by redirecting it through some microsoft server. I really doubt microsoft is on the anti-phishing side.
[23:44:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twenty-two States Ask U.S. Appeals Court to Reinstate 'Net Neutrality' Rules - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:32] <exec> 08└─Reminder all of the democrats voted against you getting your healthcare costs lowered and your taxes lowered. Your point? Is it that 2-3 people are deciding how we should pay for things?
[23:44:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twenty-two States Ask U.S. Appeals Court to Reinstate 'Net Neutrality' Rules - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:34] <exec> 08└─the problem is that the laws aren't necessarily identical.
[23:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Finds Ice on the Surface of the Moon - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:50] <exec> 08└─So would a moon base near the poles be useful as we can then harness the water and reduce some of the regular supply train needed?
[23:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Finds Ice on the Surface of the Moon - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:51] <exec> 08└─It is very cold on the moon, so when the astronauts left the landing module to take a leak their pee froze on the ground.
[23:45:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:53] <exec> 08└─The NRA cares about gun SALES. Period.
[23:45:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:55] <exec> 08└─Blech!!! At times like these, this site could really use a rolling eyes emoji. Also, could someone please step forward and justify the "Insightful" upmod? That doesn't matter much, though, because I am the weapon. My mind, and my will, and my training are far more formidable than any AR-15.
[23:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:57] <exec> 08└─Gun sales soared under Obama, and they have tailed off significantly under Trump.
[23:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 069th Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Right to Open Carry of Firearms - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:59] <exec> 08└─Respect, trust, and friendship can only exist among equals...
[23:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Scientists who Starved to Death Surrounded by Food - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:24] <exec> 08└─Don't be too sure. This was the same company that believed it could research death codes and embed DRM directly into the crops. They did this research in crops with no biocontainment procedures whatsoever. It's pure hubris to believe we've come that far with genetic engineering, that we could risk s...
[23:49:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Media Faces EU Fine If Terror Lingers for an Hour - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:35] <exec> 08└─https://www.xkcd.com/386/ [xkcd.com] That was supposed to be just a joke not what you are supposed to do.
[23:50:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheReaperD [5556] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cybersex Toy Industry Heats Up as Infamous “Teledildonics” Patent Climaxes - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:29] <exec> 08└─In my particular case, happily no. I was no longer one of those geeks that couldn't get a woman, no matter how desperate I was anymore past age 22. Before then, that's another story. You can watch Revenge of the Nerds for my teenage years to that point.
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[23:52:28] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********